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Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed “Lunar Lobster,” on Jan. 25, 2024, officially reached its end of life. Consequently, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or any updated packages for Lunar Lobster.
Ubuntu 23.10, codenamed “Mantic Minotaur,” was released on Oct. 12, 2023, so it is still receiving security updates, bug fixes, and software updates and will do so through to July 2024.
Luckily, upgrading from Ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10 is a relatively painless process.
Why Upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10?
Whether using Ubuntu on a home computer or for mission-critical business projects, security updates are the most important reason to keep the OS updated. These updates offer superior protection against zero-day exploits, which exploit the common human tendency to delay updates until they become absolutely necessary.
Ubuntu 23.10 also contains many optimizations and performance improvements. You can read more about these in the release notes, which are displayed during the upgrade process. Follow these steps to keep the OS streamlined and safe.
How It Works
Although you can technically accomplish everything via the command line (see instructions below), the software updater can easily handle Ubuntu version upgrades.
You can use Ubuntu’s software updater to ensure you’re running the most recent version of Ubuntu 23.04, then rerun the software updater to launch the upgrade process.
Ubuntu will then connect to the necessary software channels and download the applicable packages to action the upgrade. It will also give you the option to remove any obsolete packages.
Once the upgrade is complete, you can re-enable any third-party repositories that the process disabled and check that your system is up to date.
Step 1. Prepare Your System
Though the upgrade process is quite simple, before making a major change to your OS, take these basic steps to prepare.
- Save and close any open files.
- If you’re using a portable device, make sure it’s plugged in to avoid the system powering down during the upgrade.
- Make sure to run a full system backup using your favorite utility.
Now, make sure your current version of Ubuntu 23.04 is up to date. The easiest way to do this is:
- Click “Activities,” then enter “update” in the search box.
- Click the “Software Updater” icon to launch the utility.
After a few moments, the software updater will display any available updates. Click “Install Now” and enter your admin password to continue. If the system prompts you to restart to apply any updates, click “Restart Now.”
If you prefer using the command line to update Ubuntu 23.04, just open Terminal and run:
sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
Hit “Y” to proceed with system updates.
Step 2. Get Ready To Upgrade to 23.10
Once logged back into the Ubuntu desktop, rerun the software updater by launching via “Activities.”
You should now see a notification stating that software updates are no longer available for Ubuntu 23.04. Click “Upgrade” to proceed.
If you don’t see this message, open Terminal and run:
sudo update-manager -c
Whichever method you use, you’ll need to enter your admin password to continue.
Step 3. Start the Upgrade
Upon the first launch, the upgrade wizard will display the release notes for Ubuntu 23.10. Take the time to read through these and click the link provided to discover what’s new in Mantic Minotaur. After reviewing, click “Upgrade” to download the release upgrade tool.
Next, a prompt will appear asking if you want to initiate the upgrade. This prompt will display essential information, including the number of packages to be removed, installed, and upgraded, the total data size for download, and an estimated time for completion.
Click “Start Upgrade” to begin. Ubuntu will disable your lock screen during the upgrade process. This prevents the system from locking or entering sleep mode to avoid any potential disruptions to the update.
Step 4. Install the Upgrades
The release upgrade tool will now set new software channels and begin downloading required packages. Once complete, the upgrades will continue to be installed. This process is done automatically, though you can click “Terminal” to view the upgrade process in real time via the command line if you like.
You’ll notice that the Ubuntu desktop will switch to the default Mantic wallpaper during installation.
Step 5. Cleaning Up
This step is optional but recommended. When the release upgrade tool reaches the cleaning-up stage, it will open a window prompting you to remove obsolete packages.
Click “Details” to see a list of all redundant packages, then click “Keep” or “Remove” as you see fit.
Step 6. Confirm Your Upgrade
Once you’ve dealt with any obsolete packages, Ubuntu will prompt you to restart the machine. Click “Restart Now.”
On your next login, aside from the new labyrinthine wallpaper, you can be sure you’re running Ubuntu 23.10 from the stylish new workspace switcher icon, which has replaced the old “Activities” in Lobster.
Select this and enter “About” in the search box to view system information, including details of the current version of Ubuntu.
You can also check the current Ubuntu version by opening Terminal and running:
lsb_release -a
Step 7. Re-Enable PPAs and Repos
During the upgrade process, by default, all third-party repositories and PPAs are disabled. The easiest way to re-enable these is via the command line.
- Launch Terminal and run sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
- If any 3rd party repos or PPAs you need are commented out, simply remove the “#” at the start of the line.
- Use “Ctrl + X” then “Y” to quit and save changes.
Stay Up to Date
Even post-upgrade, it’s always advisable to check if any further updates are available. To do this, you can launch the software updater via the new workspace icon at the top left of the desktop.
Alternatively, fire up Terminal and run:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Using the Terminal to run an update is also an excellent way to verify that the latest version of Ubuntu supports any third-party repositories you have enabled.
Upgrading via the Command Line
If you’re not a fan of Ubuntu’s flashy desktop utilities, you can manage the upgrade entirely via the command line.
Make sure to follow the steps to Prepare Your System outlined above. Next, open Terminal and run:
sudo do-release-upgrade
This command will specifically check for a new version of Ubuntu and begin the upgrade, provided there’s one available.
We hope you find this step-by-step guide helpful for upgrading from Ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10, enabling your system to benefit from the latest security updates, performance improvements, and new features.
Editor’s Note: The Ubuntu images and screenshots featured in this article are credited to Canonical.
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Biogen is discontinuing its Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, which was approved in 2021 but became snarled in efficacy concerns and payers' refusals to cover the medication.
The company said it sought partners or more financing for the drug's continued development and research, including a phase 4 confirmatory trial required by the FDA, but Biogen failed to find extra resources to make up the time and investment.
It will cost $60 million to shutter the Aduhelm program, Biogen said Jan. 31.
After Aduhelm's approval in summer 2021, the 25 biggest insurance companies in the U.S. refused to cover the medicine because none of them considered it "medically necessary." About a year later, a federal investigation blamed the FDA and Biogen for Aduhelm's "unjustifiably high price" and lack of clinical data.
The drugmaker is redirecting efforts to Leqembi (lecanemab-irmb), an Alzheimer's drug co-developed by Biogen and Eisai, which the FDA approved in January 2023.
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| 2024-01-31T23:48:54Z
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Should Jaguars re-sign WR Calvin Ridley after inconsistent season?
While there will be plenty of offseason chatter revolving around the contract negotiations for Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who's eligible for an extension this spring, the uncertain future of one of his top targets is consequential as well.
Veteran wide receiver Calvin Ridley, who just wrapped up his first season with Jacksonville, is also eligible for a second contract, after playing 2023 on his fifth-year option. What makes Ridley's case unique is that the Jags would owe the Falcons their 2024 second-round pick for extending him, due to the parameters of their trade with Atlanta for the former first-round pick in 2022. Ridley is also older than your typical player looking for his second contract. He'll turn 30 next season.
Would general manager Trent Baalke and coach Doug Pederson be willing to swallow that pill?
"Obviously, [he's] a player that we've all liked on offense, and he's got a lot of talent," Pederson said at his end-of-season press conference. "He made us better as a team and you hope that things potentially work out, [but] you never know how things go. It's a crazy business, but Calvin was definitely a bright spot for us offensively."
Of the Jaguars top three wide receivers (Christian Kirk and Zay Jones are the others), Ridley was the only one to play all 17 games. He had a team-high 1,016 receiving yards and eight touchdowns on 76 catches.
After stepping away from the NFL in 2001 to focus on his mental health and then being suspended for all of 2022 for violating the league's gambling policy, Ridley was playing organized football this past season for the first time in nearly two years. Yet he didn't miss a practice, let alone a game. In fact, he was never even on the injury report. To do that and be the leading receiver on a new team with a different scheme, quarterback and playcaller is an impressive feat, considering Ridley's circumstances.
He was also one of the league's best at drawing defensive pass interference penalties, a testament to how difficult he is to cover. Seven DPIs were accepted when he was thrown to in 2023, tied for a league high, according to nflpenalties.com. Those penalties gave the Jaguars 129 yards, the most yardage attributed to any player through DPIs this past regular season.
"When you bring somebody in that hasn't been a part of football for over a year and a half, you've got to knock the rust off," Baalke said. "He did that and at times, he showed exactly who he was, who he can be."
Ridley had lulls throughout the season, though. He had stretches of inconsistency. There were costly drops. He disappeared at times. Despite being the Jaguars' leading receiver, he had fewer than 55 receiving yards in 10 of his 17 games. There were several occasions when he and Lawrence appeared out of sync and where Ridley may have run a wrong route.
That's not to say the Jaguars shouldn't extend him.
In fact, it appears to be the most sensible move. Ridley showed plenty of potential in Year 1 in Jacksonville. It's reasonable to believe he can take a massive jump in 2024 with the rust knocked off and more time with Lawrence, Pederson and the rest of the offense, even at his age.
After missing more than a season and a half of football, Ridley has less wear and tear on his body than other 29-year-old receivers.
"I feel young," he said. "I can run fast still, I'll tell you that."
One must also consider that the Jaguars are trying to maximize their window of opportunity with Lawrence, who remains relatively cheap for a franchise quarterback. His 2024 cap hit will be $11.7 million, which ranks outside the top 20 for signal-callers, according to Spotrac.
And after the late-season collapse of 2023, Baalke — and Pederson — undoubtedly feel pressure from owner Shad Khan to quickly bring the team back into contention in a rising AFC South, now led by C.J. Stroud and the Texans, and in an AFC conference that has the lion's share of the league's elite quarterback talent. Their job security post-2024 may depend on it. Extending Ridley would be an indication of a commitment to building a championship-caliber roster.
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Letting Ridley walk to preserve a second-round pick could be a risk that Baalke and Pederson don't have the luxury to take. There are no guarantees that the Jags could get the kind of contributor they need. Since Baalke became general manager in 2021, Jacksonville has drafted three players in the second round: cornerback Tyson Campbell (2021), offensive lineman Walker Little (2021) and tight end Brenton Strange (2023). Only Campbell was a starter as a rookie.
What may complicate efforts to re-sign Ridley, however, is that the Jaguars are already paying Kirk $18 million per year. Do they have the bandwidth to give another wideout top dollar?
Just one team is paying two wide receivers at least $18 million per year: the Chargers (Mike Williams, Keenan Allen).
"We would love to have Calvin back, and we're going to work toward that," Baalke said. "What that means? I don't know right now."
Ben Arthur is the AFC South reporter for FOX Sports. He previously worked for The Tennessean/USA TODAY Network, where he was the Titans beat writer for a year and a half. He covered the Seattle Seahawks for SeattlePI.com for three seasons (2018-20) prior to moving to Tennessee. You can follow Ben on Twitter at @benyarthur.
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| 2024-01-31T23:48:55Z
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Klopp unearths another gem as Bradley, 20, enjoys ‘dream’ game in Liverpool’s 4-1 win over Chelsea
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Jurgen Klopp seems to have unearthed another gem in his final season at Liverpool after 20-year-old right back Conor Bradley scored one goal and set up two more in a 4-1 win over Chelsea in the Premier League. Bradley is an academy product who has been filling in for Trent Alexander-Arnold during the England international’s recent injury layoff. He did his best impression of Liverpool’s first-choice right back in the way he took his goal and assisted on others for Diogo Jota and Dominik Szoboszlai at Anfield. Luis Diaz grabbed Liverpool’s fourth goal in a dominant display by the hosts. Liverpool maintained its five-point lead over Manchester City.
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| 2024-01-31T23:48:56Z
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As part of its new cell and gene therapy access tool, HHS' first focus is improving access to sickle cell disease therapies, which can cost millions of dollars for a one-time dose.
Sickle cell disease is an extremely painful condition that affects more than 100,000 Americans and disproportionately affects Black patients, HHS said in a Jan. 31 news release. Historically, there were limited therapies available for sickle cell patients, but recent approvals have broadened their options.
The list prices for some of these new drugs, such as Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel) and Lyfgenia (lovotibeglogene autotemcel), respectively cost $2.2 million and $3.1 million, though. At least nine hospitals are authorized to administer Casgevy, and some Blue Cross Blue Shield companies cover both of them.
HHS' cell and gene therapy access model will negotiate with the manufacturers of sickle cell drugs for outcomes-based agreements. The negotiations are scheduled for 2024 with the goal of increasing access in 2025.
The access model aims to lower drug costs and reduce health disparities and access barriers, according to an HHS fact sheet.
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Vitor Roque scores first European goal to give Barcelona 1-0 win over Osasuna
With coach Xavi Hernández still in charge, Barcelona got back on track with a 1-0 win over Osasuna in the Spanish league on Wednesday.
Young Brazil forward Vitor Roque scored his first goal since joining the club in Barcelona's first match since Xavi announced he will leave at the end of the season.
Xavi had made the announcement after a 5-3 home loss to Villarreal at home on Saturday, three days after Barcelona had been eliminated 4-2 by Athletic Bilbao in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey. He had hoped his announcement would lower the stress and tension surrounding both the team and himself.
But Barcelona still struggled at home against an opponent that played with 10 men from the 67th minute after defender Unai Garcia was sent off with a second yellow card for a foul on Vitor Roque, who scored in the 63rd. The 18-year-old forward, who arrived from Brazil's Atletico Paranaense this season, headed in a cross by João Cancelo about a minute after coming off the bench.
The match was postponed from earlier this month because of the teams' participation in the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia, where Real Madrid beat Barcelona 4-1 in the final.
The victory moved Barcelona back within eight points of Spanish league leader Girona. Barcelona sits seven points behind Madrid, which can retake the lead if it wins at Getafe on Thursday in its postponed game because of the Super Cup.
Atletico Madrid hosts Rayo Vallecano later Wednesday.
Osasuna, which qualified for the Super Cup as the runner-up finisher in the Copa del Rey last season, had won two of its last three league games. It stayed 12th in the standings.
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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| 2024-01-31T23:49:01Z
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NFL players steadily have used more mental health resources since the pandemic, league and union say
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Former NFL offensive lineman T.J. Lang said no one discussed mental health 15 years ago at the start of his career.
“When you’re a big, burly athlete there’s part of you that takes pride in keeping things to yourself and looking like you’re put together,” said Lang, who played in Green Bay for eight seasons and wrapped up his career after the 2018 season following a two-year stint with the Detroit Lions. “It’s a different world now. I think it’s good that the NFL and teams are trying to help out, and make sure their players are in the right head space.
“There’s ultimate pressure in this sport. Sometimes people fail, and sometimes people need help. The more that teams encourage and normalize it, the better.”
The NFL and NFL Players Association in 2019 agreed to make it a requirement to have a licensed behavioral health clinician on the staff of each team in an effort to increase mental health resources.
“It was pivotal in terms of setting a standard,” said Amber Cargill, director of wellness at the NFLPA.
The Kansas City Chiefs, who will face the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl on Feb. 11, are one of several teams in the league with a full-time professional dedicated to mental health.
The Niners have a licensed behavioral health clinician at their training facilities for 20 to 30 hours a week, much more than the eight to 12 hours mandated in the collective bargaining agreement.
The Ravens, whom the Chiefs beat in the AFC title game, hired someone before it was an obligation, adding team clinician Tricia Bent-Goodley to their staff in 2015.
“I believe we have a culture that has supported my work from its inception really and that starts from the top,” she said.
The league and union may not agree on a lot, but they seem to be like-minded in making mental health a priority and ensuring services are readily available.
There has been a steadily increasing number of players taking advantage of the opportunity to talk with mental health professionals ever since the COVID-19 pandemic started, the league and union say.
“Post-pandemic, we’ve seen an uptick in the willingness to have conversations about getting help and a normalizing of challenges like anxiety and depression,” Nyaka NiiLampti, the NFL’s vice president of clinical and wellness services, said in a recent telephone interview. “There’s also an increase in the recognition that you can’t have optimal physical performance if you’re not optimizing mental performance.”
Lions quarterback Hendon Hooker tried to keep his mind right during his rookie season this past year while coming back from a knee injury that ended his college career at Tennessee and coping with the death of loved ones. Hooker said he spoke with Michelle Garvin, a clinical psychologist who works with the Lions along with co-directors of player engagement, to develop strategies such as learning how to sleep better.
Garvin was hired by Lions general manager Brad Holmes three years ago and is part of a wellness team that includes Sean Pugh and Jessica Gray, whose offices are just steps outside the players’ locker room.
Linebacker Alex Anzalone had an issue of his own that he wanted to talk to someone about to try to get over the trauma triggered by the sound of his son’s leg breaking while they went down a slide together.
“When I came into work a couple days later I said: ‘Hey, Dr. Garvin. I got to talk to you,’” Anzalone recalled. “I could not get the sound of his leg cracking out of my head.
“We see her around all the time. She has open office hours, and Brad does a good job to emphasize that we should see her throughout the year.”
Lions coach Dan Campbell said Garvin has become an “unbelievable” part of the team, cultivating relationships with players over time to build trust.
“I do think our players, every year, they’re using it more and I do think it’s helping in all regards,” Campbell said. “You’re dealing with time management. You’re dealing with family issues. You’re dealing with anxiety issues.
“And she always pokes her head up there, too, with the coaches,” Campbell added. “She’ll come around once a week, once every couple of weeks and she wants to make sure that we’re being smart, getting rest.”
Buffalo Bills edge rusher Von Miller put it simply.
“There’s a stigma but heck, it’s help,” he said. “If you’ve got a hamstring pull, you go to the doctor. If you’ve got a mental something, you go to the doctor.
“Sometimes you can’t control what happens physically. Like the body’s going to do it what the body’s going to do it. But if you’re solid mentally, all the other stuff works.”
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AP Sports Writer John Wawrow in Buffalo, New York, contributed to this report.
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| 2024-01-31T23:49:02Z
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After laying off 5% of its corporate workforce in November, Walgreens will lay off 145 more workers, most of whom are corporate employees, the company confirmed to Becker's.
The news, first reported by Crain's Crain's Chicago Business on Jan. 30, also follows 504 Walgreens corporate layoffs in May.
A spokesperson for the company, which is reportedly working to sell its $4 billion specialty pharmacy business partnered with dozens of health systems, told Becker's the layoffs are to reduce costs.
The decision was "difficult but necessary," the spokesperson said, as Walgreens has "significant cost savings and growth goals to deliver."
No WARN notices have been filed and Walgreens declined to clarify where the roles are located, so it is unclear which states will be affected.
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| 2024-01-31T23:49:06Z
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Nuggets center Nikola Jokic ruled out for game at Oklahoma City due to lower back pain
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Denver Nuggets have ruled out two-time NBA MVP center Nikola Jokic for their game at Oklahoma City on Wednesday night due to lower back pain. It will be the second game Jokic has missed this season. He also was sidelined on Nov. 27 with a lower back ailment in a game the Nuggets won over the Clippers in Los Angeles. Jokic is coming off a game against Milwaukee in which he recorded his 119th career regular season triple-double. He finished with 25 points, 16 rebounds and 12 assists. Denver is 1-2 against the Thunder this season.
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| 2024-01-31T23:49:08Z
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Physician shortages are a recognized challenge in the U.S. healthcare system. The scarcity of anesthesiologists, specifically, carries major implications.
Mismatched supply-demand for anesthesia dates back to the early 2000s. In a 2002 survey commissioned by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, 47% of hospital administrators reported a restriction on operating room numbers and hours due to a lack of availability of anesthesia providers, research shows.
Anesthesiologist shortages not only strain healthcare delivery and access but can also risk patient safety and surgical outcomes. Increasing overlapping coverage by anesthesiologists is associated with increased surgical patient morbidity and mortality, according to a 2022 study in JAMA Surgery.
The aging population will require more procedures with monitored sedation, spiking demand for anesthesia. Rising demand for surgeons and surgeries will need to be matched with an increase to the supply of anesthesia services; it has been previously been suggested that the number of anesthesiologists needed is 50% of the total number of surgeons, with the remaining need met by CRNAs, according to the Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Public Health.
While rapid growth in the number of CRNAs has eased some of the unmet demand for anesthesia, this category of anesthesia providers still requires supervision by a board-certified anesthesiologist in many states with a capped ratio of physician to CRNAs.
Below are 30 states and Washington, D.C., ranked by active anesthesiologists as a percentage of their overall active physicians (including surgeons). The 15 states with the highest proportion of anesthesiologists to physicians and 15 with lowest proportion are reflected. Data, from September 2023, is sourced from KFF and includes active allopathic and osteopathic physicians.
Highest densities
Indiana: 13.12%
1,211 anesthesiologists
9,227 physicians
Montana: 12.38%
142 anesthesiologists
1,147 physicians
Nevada: 11.87%
417 anesthesiologists
3,514 physicians
Utah: 11.63%
479 anesthesiologists
4,118 physicians
Washington: 11.60%
1,359 anesthesiologists
11,713 physicians
Wyoming: 11.44%
61 anesthesiologists
533 physicians
Iowa: 11.29%
518 anesthesiologists
4,590 physicians
Colorado: 11.12%
840 anesthesiologists
7,551 physicians
Nebraska: 10.93%
323 anesthesiologists
2,955 physicians
Wisconsin: 10.85%
1,063 anesthesiologists
9,795 physicians
Oregon: 10.77%
703 anesthesiologists
6,529 physicians
Kansas: 10.63%
430 anesthesiologists
4,046 physicians
Oklahoma: 10.60%
549 anesthesiologists
5,181 physicians
Texas: 10.39%
3,987 anesthesiologists
38,357 physicians
Arizona: 10.29%
1,091 anesthesiologists
10,601 physicians
Lowest densities
Rhode Island: 4.79%
143 anesthesiologists
2,987 physicians
South Dakota: 6.52%
68 anesthesiologists
1,043 physicians
Delaware: 6.75%
116 anesthesiologists
1,718 physicians
District of Columbia: 6.81%
333 anesthesiologists
4,890 physicians
Michigan: 7.15%
1,692 anesthesiologists
23,666 physicians
North Carolina: 7.30%
1,212 anesthesiologists
16,612 physicians
North Dakota: 7.31%
72 anesthesiologists
985 physicians
Idaho: 7.34%
106 anesthesiologists
1,445 physicians
Minnesota: 7.46%
757 anesthesiologists
10,149 physicians
Connecticut: 7.73%
742 anesthesiologists
9,605 physicians
Mississippi: 7.97%
298 anesthesiologists
3,741 physicians
West Virginia: 8.04%
222 anesthesiologists
2,761 physicians
Pennsylvania: 8.09%
2,428 anesthesiologists
30,011 physicians
Louisiana: 8.19%
653 anesthesiologists
7,975 physicians
Massachusetts: 8.23%
1,900 anesthesiologists
23,075 physicians
New York: 8.27%
4,680 anesthesiologists
56,592 physicians
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Panthers hire Chiefs lead contract negotiator Brandt Tilis as executive VP of football operations
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Panthers have added to their front office, hiring former Kansas City Chiefs contract negotiator Brandt Tilis as their new executive vice president of football operations. Tilis will serve under new general manager and president of football operations Dan Morgan, who’ll lead the executive management team. Tilis has spent 14 years with the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs, including the past three as vice president of football operations.
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Battery breakthrough that could slash price of electric cars
The US is aiming for at least half of new vehicle sales to be electric by 2030
The recent Arctic blasts across the United States left some electric vehicle (EV) owners in a jam.
Fast-draining batteries, slow charging, long queues, and cars being towed after running out of power were reported from Illinois and Michigan to Texas.
Sub-zero temperatures aren’t great for EV battery life - neither, of course, are they for gasoline-powered cars which more frequently break down in freezing conditions. New research from a Norwegian breakdown service revealed that electric cars fail less in extreme cold than fossil fuel-powered vehicles.
Nevertheless, concerns about the range and longevity of EV lithium-ion batteries remain a sticking point for sales.
An Ipsos study last year found that along with the cost, the barrier for many people in buying an EV was concern about the lack of charging stations and battery life.
The findings signal a spanner in the works of US climate plans. More than a quarter of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation and to that end, the Biden administration is aiming for at least half of new vehicle sales to be electric by 2030. EVs currently make up about 9 per cent of new US vehicle sales, according to industry tracker EV Hub.
But a recent breakthrough by a team of scientists at Harvard University could help overcome these hurdles. Researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) reported earlier this month that they have developed a new “solid-state” battery that can be charged in the time that it takes to fill up a tank of gas - and repeated at least 6,000 times.
At the moment, EVs, laptops and other electronics that need energy storage, typically use lithium-ion batteries in a flat, compact “pouch cell” design.
But the power of lithium-ion batteries, as demonstrated, can only take larger machines so far. There has also been evidence of these types of batteries catching fire.
Last June, four people died after a lithium-ion battery caught fire in an e-bike store in New York and spread to apartments above. In December, a fire broke out on a cargo ship carrying nearly 2,000 tons of lithium-ion batteries off Alaska’s coast.
The race to develop solid-state batteries has ramped up in the past few years as the technology is widely considered essential to spurring a nationwide switch from gas-powered cars to electric. Companies including Volkswagen and Toyota have been working on their own solid-state batteries, aiming to get them into vehicles by the end of the decade.
Dr Xin Li, associate professor of materials science at Harvard, described solid-state batteries as “the holy grail”.
While they look similar to lithium-ion models on the outside, solid-state batteries replace the liquid, organic electrolyte with a material like a high-tech ceramic.
“This conducts better than liquid, and it’s non-flammable so it’s safer,” Dr Xin Li told The Independent.
The Harvard team’s postage stamp-sized battery retained 80 per cent capacity after 6,000 cycles, and showed good performance at low temperatures.
It outperforms other solid-state batteries on the market today, the scientists said, after they discovered a new way to make it with a lithium metal anode, which has ten times the capacity of the typical, commercial graphite anodes.
With their new multilayer, multi-material design, the Harvard scientists were able to overcome the major challenge of “dendrites”- root-like structures which grow from the surface of the anode into the electrolyte and can pierce the barrier separating the opposing cathode, leading the battery to short, or worse, catch fire.
The long battery lifetime - equivalent to 30 years - could dramatically reduce the cost of an EV.
“If the consumer spends less money to buy an EV that will really drive global electrification,” Dr Li said.
The ability to charge the battery in a matter of minutes also means that it has very high power density, increasing the possibilities for its use.
“It’s not just electrical vehicles, it could be electric planes which need a lot of power to take off,” he added.
Dr Li began working on solid-state batteries in earnest when he started at Harvard in 2015 after stints at MIT, Cal Tech, Penn State, and Nanjing University in China. “I had several dozen projects in parallel but after a couple of years, I realized the potential of solid-state battery, and I focused more on it,” he said.
In 2021, he and Harvard colleagues created a company, Adden Energy, to license and scale up the technology. A US car company has already tested their solid-state battery and found it to have the same positive results as in their internal testing, Dr Li said.
“A few other car companies are in the pipeline to test our batteries,” he added.
The US government’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has dedicated $6bn to building out the domestic industry in battery materials, manufacturing and storage as the world rapidly shifts from fossil fuels to electrification.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 31, 2024 /CNW/ - (TSX: AOI) (Nasdaq-Stockholm: AOI) – Africa Oil Corp. ("Africa Oil", or the "Company") reports the following share capital and voting rights update in accordance with the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. View PDF version
As a result of the cancellation of shares repurchased by Africa Oil under the Company's previously announced share repurchase program, Africa Oil now has 460,924,187 common shares issued and outstanding with voting rights as at January 31, 2024.
Africa Oil Corp. is a Canadian oil and gas company with producing and development assets in deepwater Nigeria and an exploration/appraisal portfolio in west and south of Africa, as well as Guyana. The Company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and on Nasdaq Stockholm under the symbol "AOI".
This information is information that Africa Oil is obliged to make public pursuant to the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out above, at 6:00 p.m. ET on January 31, 2024.
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Michelle Obama odds crashing fast
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Neither Trump or Biden is secure
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Speculation always drives election gambles
Both primaries look foregone conclusions and the narrative is set. 2024 will be a rematch of 2020 - Biden v Trump II. But while the betting does indeed signal that match- up in November, there is enough of a gap in the odds to leave room for doubt.
Obama now clear third favourite
Indeed, the big gamble during January wasn't for either Trump or Biden, but somebody who isn't in the race and has consistently said she has no intention of running for office. Michelle Obama's odds have more than halved in recent weeks, standing at 12.5 today, equivalent to an 8% chance.
This follows a similar gamble on California Governor Gavin Newsom into single figures, but now back out to 38.037/1. Simply, bettors are looking for an alternative to Biden. Somebody who could be crowned by the Democratic National Committee in an open convention, following Biden's withdrawal. Or perhaps later, if the 81 year-old is forced out by health issues.
This theory is given extra traction by players on the Republican side. Vivek Ramaswamy repeatedly claimed Obama or somebody else would be shoe-horned in. Bill Mitchell - former Trump influencer turned despairing Ron DeSantis cheerleader - reckons the Democrat process is a sham, designed to lure Republicans into picking their least electable candidate (Trump), and that a superior candidate such as Obama will be selected when it is too late for Republicans to change.
Of course there are also very legitimate reasons to doubt Trump will make it to November. We await a decision from the Supreme Court regarding whether states can remove him from the ballot. He will go on trial for 91 criminal indictments in four cases - the first of which could well be settled before the Republican National Convention in July. Polls show a convicted Trump losing badly. Whilst he is likely to thrash Nikki Haley at the ballot box, in theory the party could think again.
US elections usually produce wild gambles
I find it hard to believe either theory will come off but that doesn't negate trading possibilities. In 2020, Hillary Clinton was gambled down to around 20.019/1 despite never entering the race. Mike Pence hit around 40.039/1 when Trump contracted Covid. In 2016, both Biden and Bernie Sanders traded at single figures very late, after the general election ballots had been sent out, when Clinton collapsed at a 9/11 memorial in the extreme Manhattan heat, and again after the email scandal resurfaced.
Bettors who took huge odds in those cases were able to cash out with substantial profits when speculation reached fever pitch. There are plenty more examples from US elections where 1000.0999/1 chances have fallen to the low hundreds. The nature of this marathon, with an anarchic news cycle, means trading opportunities galore.
So, rather than backing Obama long after the rumour, it makes more sense to look for would-be candidates at much bigger odds. Then if the speculation does mount, trade out at half or maybe a much lower fraction of the odds. Here's my idea of the three best such opportunities.
Kamala Harris @ 85.084/1
I don't buy for a second that there is a process in place to remove Biden, but it isn't an eventuality to be ruled out, given his age and stubbornly dire approvals. But if it happens, I think the Democrats would be plunged into an emergency process, for which they are not prepared.
We could speculate about countless alternatives but, in the absence of a process, the serving Vice President will be in pole position and very hard to dislodge. I can't envisage Obama being keen to usurp a better qualified black woman. In any case, hypothetical polls among Democrat primary voters always show Harris ahead. For my money, in this theoretical scenario, she's heavily odds-on to be the nominee.
Therefore, odds of 85.084/1 could very well shorten up considerably before November. If she is confirmed as the running mate at the convention, her name is on the ballot. The party would not remove her. All it takes is Biden to have a fall, get ill, or merely a conspiracy theory to go viral and those Harris odds would crash, just like the aforementioned examples in the last two elections.
Tucker Carlson @ 800.0799/1
I am definitely open to the idea of Trump being hit by a catastrophe. A conviction and jail sentence is not out of the question. But the market looks completely wrong in regarding Nikki Haley as the default alternative. All signals point to her being trounced in the next few primaries, and Trump's wing of the party spew out bile at her constantly. Were the party to try and impose her later, Haley would lack all legitimacy.
Rather, in such an extreme scenario, the candidate would require Trump's endorsement. The likes of Ramaswamy and Tim Scott are enthusiastically surrogating for Trump in hope of that, or being selected as VP. They are plausible, but I'd rather go for somebody closer to Trump's famous outsider profile, with the potential to become the new MAGA darling.
Just as Trump is Vladimir Putin's most reliable advocate in US politics, Tucker Carlson fills the same role in media. Since hosting his show in Budapest, home to Putin's number one ally in Europe, 'Tucker' has been constantly hyped and quoted on Russian state media.
The parallels with their hyping of Trump before he ran for office are unmistakeable and the idea has been touted by usual suspects like Seb Gorka. Nobody smears Zelensky and undermines support for Ukraine with such enthusiasm. I'm convinced he's their reserve and note that Trump spoke positively about his potential to be his Vice President.
Jamie Dimon @ 410.0409/1
Were the Republican nomination to suddenly become vacant, all sorts of possibilities come into play. As they proved with Trump, the GOP base is very open to backing businessmen with no political experience. It is in fact a positive. My fellow political bettor Adrian Smith (@lovejoyantiques on Twitter) has convinced me that one or more billionaires will jump in. Then I saw JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon blatantly pandering to MAGA.
I can't see another reason for those remarks other than preparing the ground for a run, should an opportunity arise. Dimon used to be regarded as a high-cultured friend of Barack Obama and was even tipped to serve in his Cabinet. He does not see the world like Trump.
Would I give Dimon a prayer of becoming President? No. Can I see his odds shortening up dramatically? Yes. In 2020, Michael Bloomberg traded as 5.04/1 second favourite to Trump, before failing to win a single delegate. The market would be spooked by Dimon's connections and spending power.
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On Jan. 31, Fortune released its World's Most Admired Companies list, which included healthcare companies.
The list, a partnership between Fortune and global management consulting firm Korn Ferry, follows an examination of about 1,500 candidates: the 1,000 largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue, along with non-U.S. companies in Fortune's Global 500 database that have revenues of $10 billion or more. Candidates were then narrowed to the highest-revenue companies in each industry, for a total of 660 in 29 countries. The top-rated companies were chosen from among the 660 companies.
For the list, executives who work at the 660 companies, as well as directors and analysts, rated enterprises in their respective industry on nine criteria ranging from investment value to ability to attract talent. Companies that ranked in the top half of their industry survey were listed.
Fortune also published a Top 50 All-Star list of companies most highly regarded across industries. For this list, Korn Ferry asked 3,720 executives, directors and securities analysts who had responded to the industry surveys to choose the 10 companies they most admired. The list they picked from had companies that ranked in the top 25% in last year's surveys, plus those that finished in the top 20% of their industry. Respondents could vote for any company in any industry. More information about the methodology is available here.
These healthcare companies were ranked among the 50 All-Stars across industries:
Note: Companies are listed with their all-star rank.
41. Danaher
50. CVS Health
Additionally, these healthcare companies are among the Most Admired Companies in their industries:
Note: Companies are listed under their respective industries and with their industry ranks.
Healthcare: Medical facilities
1. HCA Healthcare (Nashville, Tenn.)
2. DaVita (Denver)
3. Encompass Health (Birmingham, Ala.)
4. Universal Health Services (King of Prussia, Pa.)
5. Select Medical Holdings
Healthcare: Insurance and managed care
1. UnitedHealth Group
2. Elevance Health
3. Humana
4. Centene
5. Molina Healthcare
Healthcare: Pharmacy and other services
1. IQVIA
2. CVS Health
3. Quest diagnostics
4. Labcorp
5. Charles River Laboratories International
Medical products and equipment
1. Abbott Laboratories
2. Danaher
3. Boston Scientific
4. Stryker
5. Thermo Fisher Scientific
6. Medtronic
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Premier League powers Liverpool and Man City flash deep squads in big wins to fire up title race
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool and Manchester City look primed and ready for another heavyweight clash for the Premier League title. Liverpool routed Chelsea 4-1 to restore a five-point lead for Jürgen Klopp’s team atop the table. Liverpool visits third-placed Arsenal on Sunday. City eased to a 3-1 win over Burnley and moved up again to second, ahead of Arsenal on goal difference. City has played a game fewer than its two rivals. Liverpool and City got their fourth straight wins with deep squads, fast-improving young stars and, for City, the tentative return of feared forward Erling Haaland from injury.
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Ruling moves University of Idaho closer toward controversial bid to acquire University of Phoenix
The University of Idaho says a judge's ruling helps it move closer to acquiring the for-profit University of Phoenix for nearly $700 million
The University of Idaho said Wednesday it would move forward with its planned acquisition of the for-profit University of Phoenix for nearly $700 million after a judge dismissed the state attorney general's lawsuit alleging the deal was done in violation of an open meetings law.
Attorney General Raúl Labrador failed to prove the Board of Regents violated Idaho’s Open Meetings Law when considering the transaction, an Idaho judge ruled Tuesday in dismissing Labrador's lawsuit.
The university hailed the decision as a victory for both the board's executive session practices and for access to higher education in Idaho. The lawsuit has been one of the biggest impediments to closing the deal.
“We look forward to completing our affiliation with the University of Phoenix in the coming months and bringing this unique opportunity to the citizens of Idaho,” said a statement from university spokesperson Jodi Walker. “Higher education has never been more important than now as we work to meet the workforce needs of our state.”
The deal is the latest attempt by troubled for-profit schools to cleanse their reputations after investigations into deceptive practices and face less regulation as nonprofits, said David Halperin, a Washington, D.C., attorney and longtime critic of the for-profit college industry.
“Why Idaho wants to buy is a little harder to understand,” he said.
During a meeting open to the public last year, the board unanimously voted to approve the creation of a not-for-profit entity that will acquire the operations of the University of Phoenix. In other, closed-door discussions, the board “reasonably believed” it was in competition with one or more public agencies in other states to acquire the University of Phoenix, which allowed for an executive session, District Judge Jason Scott's ruling said.
The ruling “will lead to far less government transparency and accountability,” Labrador said in a statement Wednesday. "That is bad for Idaho citizens, and it defies the entire purpose of the law. We are looking closely at all appellate options to ensure Idaho’s Open Meetings Law remains a bulwark for openness and government accountability.”
Labrador complained the board kept details of the deal secret until the last moment and decided to purchase the University of Phoenix despite fines for deceptive and unfair practices.
The University of Phoenix was among the for-profit schools involved in a 2022 settlement to cancel federal student debt for former students who applied for debt cancellation because of alleged misconduct by the schools.
In 2019, the University of Phoenix reached a record $191 million settlement to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges that the institution used deceptive advertisements that falsely touted its relationships and job opportunities with companies such as AT&T, Microsoft and the American Red Cross.
The University of Idaho has hailed the deal as expanding educational access to adult learners who seek online programs: “University of Phoenix serves primarily working adults. U of I will remain Idaho’s land-grant, residential university serving primarily traditional learners.”
The two will retain a separate operational structure. Each will have its own president and leadership team, the University of Idaho said.
Representatives for the University of Phoenix didn't immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment Wednesday.
A deputy attorney general advising the board had approved the executive sessions as compliant with Idaho’s Open Meeting Law, the judge's ruling noted.
State Board President Linda Clark said they will seek payment of legal fees by the attorney general's office.
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Canada Energy Regulator issues reasons for approving revised Trans Mountain pipeline variance application Français
CALGARY, AB, Jan. 31, 2024 /CNW/ - Today, the Commission of the Canada Energy Regulator issued its reasons for approving Trans Mountain's variance application for the Mountain 3 horizontal directional drill (HDD) crossing, a 2.3-kilometre section between Hope Station and the Burnaby Tank Terminal. The Commission issued its decision with conditions on January 12, 2024.
Based on Trans Mountain's new in-line inspection (ILI) commitments and demonstration of effective quality management processes in relation to the materials Trans Mountain purchased to build the HDD crossing, the Commission found that approving the December application with four conditions is in the public interest. The decision allows Trans Mountain to install a 30-inch diameter pipe instead of the previously planned 36-inch diameter pipe for the 2.3-kilometre HDD section of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP).
Trans Mountain has committed to installing permanent trap facilities on the north and south ends of the Mountain 3 HDD before the TMEP in-service date. The proposed trap facilities will enable full ILI capability for the pipeline section between Hope Station and Burnaby Tank Terminal. Condition 2 requires Trans Mountain to confirm that this commitment has been fulfilled.
The Commission also determined that the additional information provided in the December variance application about material quality, quality management, and testing aligns with the Quality Management Plan standards for the entire TMEP. The Commission requires Trans Mountain to file a letter confirming that chemical and mechanical pipe testing has been completed and that materials conform to TMEP specifications. The Commission is satisfied that with this approach, Trans Mountain can ensure the material quality for the variance will be equivalent to the rest of the TMEP.
On January 29, 2024, Trans Mountain reported technical construction challenges during pipeline pullback activities for the Mountain 3 HDD. The CER has inspection officers and IAMC Indigenous monitors currently on site as part of standard compliance verification activities. No safety or environmental concerns have been noted, and we will continue to monitor the situation.
- Trans Mountain filed its original variance application on October 31, 2023.
- The Commission issued its reasons for denying the application on December 20, 2023, citing concerns about material quality, inability to conduct in-line inspections, pipeline integrity and environmental protection.
- On December 14, 2023, Trans Mountain filed a new variance application for the same pipeline section. The oral hearing was held on January 12, 2024, in Calgary, Alberta.
- The Commission issues reasons for approving the application on January 31, 2024.
The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) works to keep energy moving safely across the country. We review energy development projects and share energy information, all while enforcing some of the strictest safety and environmental standards in the world. To find out how the CER is working for you, visit us online or connect on social media.
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In an exuberant celebration, the champions of the 2023 Bethpage Best of the City competition were honored at the winners’ party held on Jan. 24 at El Rio Grande in Midtown.
Business owners, dedicated employees, representatives from the naming sponsor Bethpage Federal Credit Union, and members of the Best of the City team gathered to revel in the success of being voted the best in their respective categories.
Joshua Schneps, CEO of Schneps Media, the parent company of the Best of the City competition, and Robert Suarez, assistant vice president of community development for Bethpage Federal Credit Union, were present to extend their congratulations and recognize the remarkable achievements of the winners.
“We want to thank you all and congratulate you all for being here,” Schneps told the winners in attendance. “We appreciate you being a part of this program, and it’s not possible without the support of Bethpage Federal Credit Union. You know, they’ve been so supportive of small businesses around New York City and Long Island.”
“We’re talking about you guys here tonight, the many industries being recognized for Best of the City,” Suarez added. “This is truly an opportunity for us this evening to connect, and have the opportunity to work with you in your future endeavors and create some synergies. It’s really about how we can build new relationships with you.”
The festivities included a night filled with delectable cuisine and entertainment, featuring a captivating performance by the New York Studio of Irish Step Dance, the proud winners of the Best Dance School for Adults category. Attendees also had the opportunity to network and receive swag bags filled with diverse gifts.
The 2023 Bethpage Best of the City contest garnered an impressive 31,000 votes, spotlighting the finest businesses Manhattan has to offer.
Winners not only bask in the glory of victory but also gain exclusive rights to showcase the prestigious “Bethpage Best of the City” logo across various platforms, including plaques, banners, print and digital advertisements, social media, outdoor advertising and email signatures.
Aside from the tangible benefits, the accolade instills a profound sense of pride in the winning businesses. Looking ahead, nominations for the 2024 Bethpage Best of the City are now open, inviting everyone to participate in recognizing their favorite Manhattan businesses at bestofnewyorkcity.com.
A comprehensive list of this year’s and past years’ winners is available on the website for those eager to explore the best that Manhattan has to offer.
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The Kano State government has assured the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) of maximum cooperation in fighting and preventing corruption in Nigeria, and in Kano State in particular.
By Chimezie Godfrey
The Kano State government has assured the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) of maximum cooperation in fighting and preventing corruption in Nigeria, and in Kano State in particular.
This assurance was given on Wednesday by the Governor of the State, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, represented by the Deputy Governor, Comrade Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo, when the ICPC Chairman, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN led the management team of the Commission to pay a courtesy call to the governor.
Welcoming the Chairman and his team, the Kano State governor expressed his delight that Kano State was the first one visited by the Chairman since his assumption of office, and commended his appointment by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a testament of his pedigree and undiluted commitment to the Nigerian project,
The governor further commended the government for putting mechanisms such as ICPC and EFCC in place noting that these have helped curb impunity in the system.
“It may interest the ICPC management to know that my administration’s zero tolerance on corruption and related tendencies remain sacrosanct, thus in ensuring the successful implementation of this government’s anti-corruption policies, I prioritized a preventive approach without compromising the existing curative mechanisms in the State’s Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC)”, he added.
Earlier, the ICPC Chairman had thanked the Executive Governor for granting the Commission audience, explaining that the Commission had held a Management Retreat in the state, and it was only proper to pay a courtesy call.
The Chairman recalled the previous partnership of ICPC with the Kano State PCACC in the areas of training and sought a continued partnership with the agency in the fight against corruption.
The courtesy call featured goodwill messages from the Chairman of the Kano State PCACC and the Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice of the State.
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Jan 30, 2024
Car crash kills two people in Wright County
By Zac Chapman / Assistant News Director
Two people are dead after a car rolled into a ditch along 109th Street in Southside Township.
Wright County police say the car left the road and appeared to have hit several trees.
Police identified 25-year-old James Nystrom Mancini of Kimball as the driver. The crash ejected Mancini from the car, and he died immediately.
Police also found 24-year-old Samantha Benoit of Champlin inside the car. Police say Benoit died at the scene.
The crash happened Saturday at around 11:20 p.m.
Police are still investigating the details of the crash.
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Senior Bowl and NFL draft class loaded with transfers from Penix to Nix to Schrader
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The Senior Bowl is loaded with players who transferred at least once in their college careers. That includes five of the game’s seven quarterbacks, a group led by Washington’s Michael Penix Jr. and Oregon’s Bo Nix. Missouri running back Cody Schrader became an All-American after transferring from Division II to the Southeastern Conference. Penix was the Heisman Trophy runner up and led Washington to the national championship game. Each of his four seasons at Indiana ended with injuries. He and Nix both returned to last season improve their draft stock.
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Massachusetts turns recreational plex into shelter for homeless families, including migrants
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu toured a recreational complex Wednesday hours ahead of its opening as a temporary shelter site for families experiencing homelessness, including migrants
Massachusetts turns recreational plex into shelter for homeless families, including migrants
Show all 17Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu toured a recreational complex Wednesday hours ahead of its planned opening as a temporary shelter site for families experiencing homelessness, including migrants.
Healey said about 75 individuals were expected to arrive at the Cass Recreational Complex, located in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood, before the end of the day. The complex can provide temporary shelter for up to 400 people, or about 100-125 families, as the state continues to grapple with an influx of homeless migrants.
“We're here today because we really don't have a choice,” she said. “Families continue to come into this country, continue to come to Massachusetts, and we have over the last several months opened up locations throughout the state.”
There are currently three larger state-operated overflow family shelter sites. The location in Roxbury, one of the city’s traditionally Black neighborhoods, will be the fourth.
The others are located in Revere (150 rooms), Quincy (57 rooms) and Cambridge, which can accommodate 200 people or about 57 families.
There are also smaller emergency shelter sites in about 90 communities.
Those using the overflow sites are among 656 families currently on a wait list hoping to get into the state's emergency family shelter program. Healey last year capped the number of people in the shelter program at 7,500 and created the wait list.
Healey and Wu, both Democrats. have called on the Biden administration for more help in dealing with the influx of migrants.
Boston isn't alone, Wu said.
“I hear from mayors all around the country on a regular basis. I just had two conversations in the last couple of days around the stresses and the challenges that this crisis of migrant families needing services and shelter and homes are presenting at every level of government," she said.
“The federal machinery needs a lot of fixing,” she added. ”It needs action and it has needed that for decades."
Healey said the Roxbury site is temporary and families will be out before June. She said programs that were scheduled to take place at the center will be moved to other nearby locations and that renovations will be made to the complex. She also said the state will rely on local businesses to provide some of the services needed to run the shelter site.
“I am grateful to the community of Roxbury," Healey said.
People in the neighborhood had mixed reactions to the new shelter.
Clifton A. Braithwaite, 56, a city council candidate and community activist, said he’s concerned about seniors and others who rely on programs at the center as a place to meet and exercise.
“I don’t know if the plan they have is going to work either for the immigrants or Boston citizens,” he said. “But one thing I know, to close a functional building down for three months that services the people of this community is a tragedy, because where are they going to go?”
Audra White, 41, who lives around the corner from the recreational complex, said she was troubled when she returned from a vacation in September and saw homeless migrants and their children sleeping on the floor at Logan International Airport.
"Logan airport is not an appropriate place to have people living in hallways," she said. “At the Cass, there are showers, there are bathrooms. People can actually wash," she said, referring to the Cass Recreational Complex.
“If the options are Logan or the Cass, I think the Cass is the better option," she said.
In Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson has announced the city will again extend its 60-day limit on shelter stays for asylum seekers, just days ahead of a deadline that could have evicted nearly 2,000 migrants.
Johnson said Monday the idea is to give people more time to resettle and find work. The policy change adds 30 to 60 more days for roughly 14,000 migrants already living in the city’s 28 shelters, which include warehouses and park district buildings.
As many as 800 asylum seekers have lived temporarily at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, sleeping on the floor and on cots at a shuttle bus center. Some stay there for weeks at a time while they await beds at one of the city’s 28 shelters or can make other arrangements. Chicago’s daily migrant dashboard showed 128 living at O’Hare as of Wednesday.
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Fiera Capital Announces December 31, 2023, Preliminary Assets Under Management and Q4 2023 Financial Results Date Français
MONTREAL, Jan. 31, 2024 /CNW/ - Fiera Capital Corporation (TSX: FSZ) ("Fiera Capital" or the "Company"), a leading independent asset management firm, today announced its preliminary estimate of assets under management ("AUM") of approximately C$161.7 billion as at December 31, 2023, compared to C$155.3 billion as at September 30, 2023.
Totals may not reconcile due to rounding.
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AUM increased 4.1% to $161.7 billion in the quarter and was up 2.0% year-over-year due to strong equity and fixed income market performance in the last quarter of 2023. Public markets, excluding AUM sub-advised by PineStone, was the greatest contributor to growth increasing 6.9% in the quarter and 7.6% in 2023. AUM sub-advised by PineStone was essentially flat on the quarter and down $4.0 billion on the year due to outflows, the largest relating to financial intermediaries` mandates. Private markets AUM was up 1.3% on the year after accounting for income distributions and return of capital totaling close to $1.0 billion in 2023.
The Company will issue its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2023 on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, before markets open. A conference call will follow at 10:00 a.m. (ET) the same day.
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Fiera Capital is a leading independent asset management firm with a growing global presence. The Company delivers customized and multi-asset solutions across public and private market asset classes to institutional, financial intermediary and private wealth clients across North America, Europe and key markets in Asia. Fiera Capital's depth of expertise, diversified investment platform and commitment to delivering outstanding service are core to our mission of being at the forefront of investment management science to create sustainable wealth for clients. Fiera Capital trades under the ticker FSZ on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Headquartered in Montreal, Fiera Capital, with its affiliates in various jurisdictions, has offices in over a dozen cities around the world, including New York (U.S.), London (UK), and Hong Kong (SAR).
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A new report has highlighted a disturbing uptick in homicides among intimate partners, showing the number of people killed in incidents of domestic violence increased by a shocking 29.2% in the one-year period between 2021 and 2022.
The report, released by the Urban Resource Institute, uses the most recent data available, and shows that there were 31 people killed by their partners in 2022, compared with 24 the prior year. That uptick in domestic violence-related killings comes even as the number of homicides in the city remained relatively stable between the two years.
Between 2010 and 2022, there were 793 intimate partner homicides — representing 16.7% of all murders during that time frame (854 of 5,125), according to the report.
In 2022, Black women made up 41% of the victims killed by their partners, despite representing just 21% of the population.
Hispanic women were also disproportionately affected, according to the report, which shows that 36% of victims were Hispanic, despite comprising only 28% of Big Apple residents.
When releasing the NYPD statistics for 2022, Cecile Noel, the commissioner of the Mayor’s Office to End Domestic Violence, noted the disproportionate harm domestic violence has done to minority women.
“The disproportionate burden of domestic and intimate partner homicides on Black women is inexorably linked to institutional policies, practices, and procedures that reinforce to prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against minority or marginalized groups based on race, ethnicity, sex, immigration status, or social or economic status,” she said.
Aside from race, the report details the asymmetric number of victims in certain boroughs.
In Brooklyn, intimate partner homicides escalated by 225%. Similarly, the Bronx also saw a 57% uptick during the same period.
Researchers with the URI, along with their report, critiqued Mayor Eric Adams for his proposals that would cut the budget for preventing and penalizing incidents of domestic violence.
“Every single life lost, every future derailed as a result of gender based violence is a policy failure that could have been prevented,” said Nathaniel Fields, the CEO of URI.
Instead of slashing those budgets, the organization has advocated for a public awareness campaign to speak out against intimate partner violence, with a focus on communities of color and young New Yorkers.
“Safety is non-negotiable, regardless of race, socio-economic status or gender identity. New York must implement a targeted and ongoing public education and awareness campaign with a focus on communities of color, designed to empower community members to identify the signs of abuse and where they can go to get help,” Fields said in a statement. “The campaign should also include messaging that will reach people who have caused harm, so they know where they can access trauma-informed accountability programming.”
In addition, URI leadership has called for greater levels of funding for homeless shelters — as victims often stay in abusive relationships due to their housing situations.
“We have the tools, the knowledge, and the will to put an end to domestic violence and homelessness. There are no excuses left for an increase in domestic violence homicides when we possess the means to eradicate this crisis,” Fields said.
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Jan 31, 2024
Ferguson Shines in 71-67 Win Over Sartell
By Carl Goenner/ Assistant Sports Director/ @carl_goenner/ St. Cloud Minn
-On January 2024, the St. Cloud Tech Tiger boys basketball team faced off with the Sartell Sartell Sabers and came away with a 71-67 win. The Tigers were led by Tameron Ferguson who finished the game with 33 points.
After the Sabers got out to an early 6-0 lead, the Tigers came storming back and took the lead with a couple of steals that led to 4 fast break points. Moulid Abdi then hit back to back three pointers with nearly 4 minutes remaining. Tameron Ferguson followed that up with 2 more layups to help the Tigers take a 32-31 lead into half time.
The second half was very close and Ferguson continued to shoot the ball well. St. Cloud and Sartell continued to swap leads until St. Cloud Finally pulled away late. Tameron Ferguson sunk all his free throws in the last minute and the Tigers moved on to a 71-67 win.
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The Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Motion Picture Practitioners Association of Nigeria, MOPPAN, has announced the appointment of Mallam Habibu Barde, the Vice President, North Central, of the Association as the interim National President of the Association with immediate effect.
According to a statement signed by Makama Sani Mu’azu, Chairman, Board of Trustees, “This follows the formal resignation of Dr. Ahmad Sarari as the President of the Association.”
The BoT expressed its profound appreciation to Dr Ahmad Sarari for his dedication, commitment and selfless service to the growth and development of the Association in various capacities for about two decades.
During his tenure as the National President, Dr Sarari brought to bear a high level of responsibility, integrity and respect for the Association nationally and beyond, Mu’azu said.
Photo above: Outgoing President of MOPPAN, Dr Ahmad Sarari (R), with incoming President, Malam Habibu Barde
MOPPAN is one of the leading sectoral registered independent umbrella organisations in the Motion Picture industry for Nigeria with membership in several guilds and associations that forms branches affiliated to it at the State levels.
MOPPAN remains committed to the development of the Motion Picture industry in Nigeria and the Entertainment industry at large, the statement said.
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Tottenham hits bullseye with 3 goals in 8 minutes to beat Brentford 3-2. Maddison and Maupay in feud
LONDON (AP) — Tottenham scored three goals in a frantic eight-minute spell early in the second half to fight back for a 3-2 win over Brentford that lifted the team into fourth place in the Premier League. Neal Maupay’s early goal gave Brentford the lead and the French striker celebrated by gesturing the throw of a dart. It appeared to mock the goal celebration of Tottenham playmaker James Maddison, who confronted Maupay about it. That fired up Tottenham’s players because they did the same celebration after goals by Destiny Udogie in the 48th, Brennan Johnson in the 49th and Richarlison in the 56th. Ivan Toney pulled a goal back for Brentford in the 67th.
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Mississippi eyes quicker Medicaid coverage in pregnancy to try to reduce deaths of moms and babies
Mississippi could start providing Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy in a bid to improve health outcomes for moms and babies
Mississippi eyes quicker Medicaid coverage in pregnancy to try to reduce deaths of moms and babies
Show all 2Mississippi could allow Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy in an effort to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies in a poor state with the nation's worst rate of infant mortality.
With wide bipartisan support, the state House passed a bill Wednesday to allow up to 60 days of “presumptive eligibility” for Medicaid, starting July 1. This means a pregnant woman's outpatient medical care would be paid by Medicaid as her application for coverage by the government insurance program is being considered.
Processing Medicaid applications can take weeks, and physicians say early prenatal care is important.
House Medicaid Committee Chairwoman Missy McGee of Hattiesburg pointed out that Mississippi has high rates of fetal mortality, infant mortality and maternal mortality.
“I think this will go a long way in helping moms and babies be healthy ... and give babies the best shot for a healthy life," McGee said.
Mississippi ranks worst in the U.S. for infant mortality, with Black infants nearly twice as likely as white ones to die over the past decade, according to a report unveiled Jan. 18 by the state Department of Health.
Presumptive Medicaid eligibility during pregnancy would be based on questions about income, asked by health care providers such as employees of county health departments. If a woman's Medicaid application is ultimately rejected because her income is too high, Medicaid would still pay health care providers for services they provided during the time of presumptive eligibility.
McGee said presumptive eligibility could cost the Medicaid program just under $600,000 a year.
Medicaid is funded by federal and state governments, with the federal government paying at least 50% of costs in all states and a higher share in poorer states. The federal government pays for nearly 77% of Medicaid expenses in Mississippi.
In Mississippi, Medicaid coverage for pregnant women 19 and older is based on income. A woman who is in that age category and has no dependents can earn up to about $29,000 and qualify for Medicaid during pregnancy. A pregnant woman in that age category who has three dependents can earn up to $59,700 and qualify.
Mississippi Medicaid coverage is available to all income levels for those who are pregnant and younger than 19.
Democratic Rep. John Hines Sr. of Greenville said earlier eligibility for Medicaid coverage during pregnancy could help the state in recruiting OB-GYNs.
“Where we are right now is that we are last in everything," Hines said. "This is a step toward making Mississippi a better place.”
The bill passed the House 117-5. It moves to the Senate for more work in coming weeks. Republicans control both chambers.
About 41% of births in the U.S. and 57% in Mississippi were financed by Medicaid in 2022, according to the health policy research group KFF. Only Louisiana had a larger share of births covered by Medicaid that year, at 61%.
In 2023, Mississippi extended postpartum Medicaid coverage from two months to a full year, with Republican Gov. Tate Reeves saying the change was part of a “new pro-life agenda” to help mothers in a state where abortion is tightly restricted.
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G2S2 CAPITAL INC. ANNOUNCES INCREASED INVESTMENT IN KNIGHT THERAPEUTICS INC.
HALIFAX, NS, Jan. 31, 2024 /CNW/ - G2S2 Capital Inc. ("G2S2") announces that its wholly owned subsidiary has acquired an additional 147,000 common shares of Knight Therapeutics Inc. ("Knight"), representing approximately 0.14% of the outstanding common shares of Knight. G2S2's wholly owned subsidiary, Armco Alberta Inc., acquired the common shares on January 31st, 2024, through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange at a price of $5.35 per share (the "Acquisition").
Prior to the Acquisition, G2S2 beneficially owned and exercised control over an aggregate of 12,118,600 common shares of Knight, representing approximately 11.98% of the outstanding shares. Immediately after the Acquisition, G2S2 beneficially owns and exercises control over an aggregate of 12,265,600 common shares of Knight, representing approximately 12.12% of the outstanding shares.
The shares were acquired for investment purposes. G2S2 may, from time to time, depending on market and other conditions, increase or decrease its beneficial ownership, control or direction over common shares of Knight through market transactions, private agreements, or otherwise.
In accordance with National Instrument 62-103 – The Early Warning System and Related Take-Over Bid and Insider Reporting Issues, G2S2 has filed an early warning report regarding this transaction under Knight's profile on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca). Knight's head office is located at 3400 De Maisonneuve W., Suite 1055, Montreal, Quebec, H3Z 3B8.
G2S2 Capital Inc. is a privately held investment holding company focused on creating value across a variety of businesses with a long term horizon. G2S2 is incorporated under the laws of Canada. G2S2 is controlled
by George & Simé Armoyan.
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A reckless driver in Harlem caused chaos on Wednesday when the motorist crashed their car trying to flee cops and wound up crashing into another vehicle — injuring two people in the process, authorities and eyewitnesses said.
According to sources with knowledge of the incident, the driver double parked his black BMW on 110th Street and Amsterdam Avenue at around 12 p.m. on Jan. 31 and apparently spotted cops preparing to give him a ticket. Police report the 28-year-old male motorist sped away from the officers.
However, he only made it a few blocks when he crashed into a mini-truck on 114th Street and Broadway.
“The light turns red and he cuts the light on the southbound side. He curves around a car that’s coming and he bumps into a white security truck on the northbound side of Broadway,” 20-year-old eyewitness Jaden Michael told amNewYork Metro.
According to Michael, the driver managed to crawl from the wreckage just as police were arriving at the scene.
“We saw him just jetting down the block but there were four police officers after him with tasers,” Michael added.
Police sources say that cops on the scene were able to swiftly apprehend the driver. However, a 50-year-old man and a 63-year-old man who were inside the Columbia University minivan had to be hospitalized at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. They are expected to survive.
“It was very scary, but the people in the white car looked okay,” 20-year-old Juliet Guerard said, who says she saw the whole thing happen. “The guy in the black car got out and started running while being chased by police.”
Charges against the driver are still pending.
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Jan 31, 2024
“Playing For Her” Highlights the Voices of Women Student-Athletes on SCSU Campus
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A new event on the St. Cloud State University campus uplifts the voices of women student-athletes. SCSU Women’s Center hosted the first “Playing for Her” event from 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Atwood Glacier Room. The event featured a diverse panel of SCSU women student-athletes and highlighted the importance of equality, equity and justice within women’s sports. According to event facilitator Kara Cowell, they created the event to bring women athletes together and give them a platform to share their experiences. One woman from each sports team was represented, except from basketball due to a scheduling conflict. The student-athletes answered questions about leadership and what advice they’d give to their younger selves. Cowell says they “look forward to having new voices and new faces in the future” for this event.
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By Maya Geving / News Reporter
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (KVSC) — On Tuesday, Jan. 30, St. Cloud State University Women’s Center hosted “Playing for Her” on campus, an event that showcased SCSU student-athletes and their experiences as women in sports.
“We planned this event to tie all of the women’s athletics team members together,” said Kara Cowell, facilitator of the event. “We wanted to make sure that we gave those athletes a platform to share their experiences.”
Cowell is a member of the SCSU Swim & Dive team and a staff member at the Women’s Center.
During the program, she and SCSU Women’s Center Director Dr. Heather Brown addressed the sexualization and sexual harassment that women athletes face. They also called attention to the Title IX Act for its tremendous impact through women’s access to sports, an impact that’s given women strength and cultivated a generation of leaders.
The diverse panel of student-athlete speakers were chosen from each women’s sports team by SCSU Athletics Department staff.
The panelists were Molly Arenson (Swim & Dive), Erica Conrad (Cross Country), Paola Berna (Track & Field), Emma Gentry (Hockey), Gracie Parsons (Soccer), Lydia Krueger (Softball), Maria Molitor (Tennis) and Sam Zimmerman (Volleyball).
Cowell said the student-athlete from women’s basketball had a scheduling conflict.
As student-athletes, balancing classes, homework and practice can lead to burnout.
Gentry recommended talking to a sports psychologist and opening up to someone to avoid it; Arenson stressed the importance of finding something outside of sports that brings you joy; and Krueger highlighted keeping perspective and viewing the ability to play your sport as a privilege.
When asked about what they’ve learned about leadership, Molitor said, “I’ve learned that you can lead anywhere despite your athletic ability.”
For Conrad, she said, “It’s important to speak up and advocate for yourself.”
And the biggest piece of advice they’ve learned from their mentors?
“Just have fun and enjoy the process,” said Berna.
The athletes were also asked about what advice they would give to a younger version of themselves or a little girl wanting to get involved in sports.
“Fall in love with the things you get to do every day. Remember why you’re there,” said Conrad.
“Don’t be embarrassed for liking sports,” said Arenson.
“Don’t compare yourself to your teammates,” said Parsons.
“People are gonna tell you you can’t. Use that as motivation,” said Zimmerman.
According to Cowell, they received a lot of great feedback from the panelists and “look forward to having new voices and new faces in the future.”
The SCSU Women’s Center is already organizing more events centered around women in sports, too.
The next event hosted by them will be “All Women’s Sports, All the Time” on Feb. 21. That event will feature guest speaker Jillian Hiscock, the founder of the first bar in Minn. that shows exclusively women’s sports.
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Alec Baldwin pleads not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charge in fatal film-set shooting
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Alec Baldwin has pleaded not guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico.
Court documents filed Wednesday show Baldwin entered the plea in state district court in Santa Fe, waiving an arraignment Thursday that was scheduled to take place remotely by video conference.
Baldwin, the lead actor and a co-producer on the Western movie “Rust,” was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal outside Santa Fe in October 2021 when the gun went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza.
Baldwin says that he pulled back the hammer, but not the trigger, and the gun fired.
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Delays at Dover under new EU system could be worse than 14 hours, MPs told
The Kent port and the surrounding area could be hit by major disruption when the Entry-Exit System launches.
Warnings of 14-hour delays at Kent border controls could understate the impact of a new EU scheme, MPs were told.
The Port of Dover and the surrounding area could be hit by major disruption when the EU Entry-Exit System (EES) launches, the Commons’ European Scrutiny Committee heard.
The system is expected to involve travellers from non-EU countries such as the UK having their fingerprints scanned and a photograph taken to register them on a database the first time they enter a member state.
There are concerns this will cause long queues for train and ferry passengers travelling from Dover as border checks for people entering the EU are carried out there before they embark on cross-Channel journeys.
There has been speculation the EES will come into force this autumn following several delays.
Giving evidence to the committee, Kent County Council leader Roger Gough said Ashford Borough Council’s suggestion that wait times could reach 14 hours “does not seem to us unrealistic”.
He went on: “If you had extra aggravating pressures, weather or whatever, (the situation) could be worse.”
Mr Gough explained that “it takes very little” for disruption to cause a major build-up of traffic in Kent.
He added: “It starts usually in and around the town of Dover. It rapidly moves to other parts of the county and has that effect very, very quickly.”
The Port of Dover and surrounding roads have seen multiple episodes of gridlocked traffic over the past few years, with post-Brexit checks adding to waiting times.
Deirdre Wells, chief executive at tourism organisation Visit Kent, told the committee that “media coverage of Kent being a car park” during previous incidents “impacts our reputation” and affects local businesses.
She said: “We need to sort something that will alleviate the bottleneck at our ports to ensure that whether you’re coming to the county for business purposes or domestic purposes, you can access the county easily, but actually that the experience of inbound and outbound travel… is professional, welcoming and speedy.”
A Government spokesperson said: “The EES is an EU programme overseen by the European Commission, with EU member states responsible for implementing it at border crossing points.
“We are working closely with the Kent Resilience Forum as well as with port authorities, ferry operators and industry to develop robust contingency plans to minimise the impact of delays when these new checks are introduced.”
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An orphan has no father, no mother and, at times, no sibblings. Governor Alex Otti, unarguably, passes as the metarphor of an orphan in power. He is the only surviving Labour Party Governor and Abia State the only state flagging the flag of the Labour Party (LP).
An orphan, by the circumstances of his life, is the only continuation of the bloodline of his ancestry. Today, Governor Alex Otti is the only orphan transmitting the gene of the movement for the rebirth of a nation; for Labour Party was more a spiritual revival than a political party. Peter Obi, the presidential flagbearer, transformed into a godling of power and transmitted a hurricane that shook the foundations of Nigeria. The ideological hurricane broke all barriers, conquered both ethnic and religious divide and caused a re-awakening that was unprecedented in recent times.
Governor Alex Otti, as an orphan in power, is the only residue of the gene and personality of the Labour Party. He is the only Governor-carrier of the blood of the heritage of the LP. He embodies the sperm and the procreative elements for the survival of the LP specimen. Abia State, therefore, stands as the brand display of the composition, attributes and characteristics of the great product of ideas of the possibility of a new Nigeria. Governor Otti is the fossil dinosaur of that great product of ideas. He is the only orphan transmitting the ideology, flaunting the values and running the experiential activation of that construct of change and rebirth.
Is Governor Otti walking the talk? Is he impressively representing the family values of the LP? Is he a responsible orphan that we can trust for the transmutation of the gene of the family line? The loud ovation on the streets is an answer in the affirmative. The applause speaks of approval. As the Governor inspects the work of the giant construction company, Julius Berger, on Port Harcourt Road, Aba and inspects further the reconstruction work at Omuma Road, Ndoki Road, Old Court Road and the rest, the mass jubiliation on his trail is a vindication of good stewardship. The jubiliation also reinforces the feedback of acceptance and satisfaction.
Governor Otti with his mantra of a NEW ABIA is a loud statement that the LP cannot go into extinction. The emergency intervention declared on Abia and which is being decisively driven by the Orphan is a trait of the bloodline of LP. The tales from the civil servants of receiving their salaries regularly without any discrimination is an outstanding record for the Orphan .The rebranding of the Mayors and the new orientation of service are the exact resemblance of the family. The big picture for Abia which necessitated the constitution of the Advisory Council is the footprint of that great product of ideas that is LP. The mobilization of the security network that has ensured freedom of movement is a strategy from the product of ideas.
The overhauling of the procedures and processess in the public service architecture of Abia is a measure in driving a new Abia. One lesson Abians have leanrt in the strides of the Orphan-Governor is the merit of change, the benefit of trying the alternative.
An orphan must know his history and the very peculiar circumstances of his life. Governor Otti, undoubtedly, is intentoonal in his strides and recognises the very circumstances of his political birth.
The spotlight is on Otti as the world wants to see what an orphan can do with power. He should, therefore, surprise the spectators. He should raise the bar so very high that even the heavens shall join to say: Yes, an Orphan was here!
Adindu is a Media/PR Consultant.
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Government of Canada announces the Inclusive Workplaces campaign to encourage employers to hire persons with disabilities Français
GATINEAU, QC, Jan. 31, 2024 /CNW/ - Canada's greatest resource is its people. Businesses and organizations benefit from having a diverse and inclusive workforce where all Canadians, including persons with disabilities, get the opportunity to put their talents to use and reach their full potential. That is why the Government is making significant and targeted investments in Canada's workforce development—supporting Canadians in preparing for, obtaining and keeping good jobs, advancing in their careers or becoming self-employed.
Today, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages Randy Boissonnault announced the Inclusive Workplaces advertising campaign that runs until March 2024. The goal of this campaign is to raise awareness among employers that persons with disabilities are an important source of talent who can bring a broader range of experiences and skills in the workplace. By tapping into this labour pool, employers can address their employment needs and bring value to their workplaces.
The campaign is reaching small and medium-sized businesses through advertising on social media, the web, podcasts and radio, highlighting Canada.ca/right-here—a repository of information, tools and resources about how to hire persons with disabilities and how to create inclusive workplaces. These include:
- the Enabling Accessibility Fund for projects that make Canadian communities and workplaces more accessible;
- the Student Work Placement Program, which supports employers to hire post-secondary students and create work-integrated learning experiences;
- the Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program, which funds sectoral projects that help employers attract and retain a skilled workforce that includes members of equity-deserving groups, including persons with disabilities;
- the Canada Summer Jobs program, part of the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy, which provides funding for not-for-profit organizations, public sector employers and businesses with 50 or fewer full-time employees to create summer job opportunities for youth;
- the Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy that aims to support a skilled, certified and inclusive trades workforce. Equity-deserving groups, including persons with disabilities, get the support they need to enter and succeed in the trades; and
- the Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities, which supports projects that help employers to hire and retain employees with disabilities and create more inclusive and accessible workplaces.
This campaign supports the efforts of the Government of Canada in helping all Canadians access the necessary resources to overcome barriers to employment and gain valuable work skills and experience to be ready for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
"Workers with disabilities make innovative and unique contributions to workplaces across Canada. They are key to helping us grow our economy and making communities more resilient. That's why our government is working with employers to create a barrier-free Canada to build workplaces that are fair and free of physical, societal and attitudinal obstacles. Together, we are paving the way for economic growth that empowers all persons with disabilities to succeed as we build an economy that works for everyone."
- Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, Randy Boissonnault
"When workplaces become more accessible, we all win. By continuing the Inclusive Workplaces campaign, our government is taking another step in making our country and its workplaces more inclusive for persons with disabilities. I encourage all Canadians to join me in raising awareness about accessibility and disability inclusion in their own communities and workplaces. I also encourage employers to learn more about the support and resources available for creating more accessible workplaces and enhancing the hiring and retention of employees with disabilities."
– Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities, Kamal Khera
- The Inclusive Workplaces campaign supports the employment pillar of the Government of Canada's Disability Inclusion Action Plan and contributes to ongoing government action to create an inclusive Canadian workforce.
- The 2022 Canada Survey on Disability found that 27% of Canadians aged 15 and over—or about 8 million persons—report having a disability that limits them in their daily activities. An estimated 30.4% of persons with a disability are not in the labour force.
- Persons with disabilities are often excluded from education, employment and social networks, contributing to an increased likelihood of living in poverty. Approximately 645,000 Canadians with disabilities are not employed, not in school and have the potential to work.
- Hire persons with disabilities
- Canada's Disability Inclusion Action Plan
- Summary of the Accessible Canada Act
- Canada.ca/skilled-trades
- Canada.ca/develop-your-skills
SOURCE Employment and Social Development Canada
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Police in East Harlem are looking for the gunslingers who shot and wounded a man in a hail of bullets on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
According to police sources, the incident unfolded in the courtyard of the Jefferson Houses public housing complex, located at 2201 1st Ave., just after 1 p.m. on Jan. 31.
Law enforcement sources said four suspects apparently approached a 30-year-old man and opened fire. The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the left hand before the group fled along 1st Avenue.
EMS rushed the wounded man to Harlem Hospital where he is expected to survive.
Officers from the 23rd Precinct sealed off the area while seeking clues related to the shooting; they were observed marking at least three shell casings left behind following the fuselage of gunfire. Police were also seen looking through nearby trash cans for discarded weapons.
No arrests have been made and the investigation remains ongoing.
Anyone with information regarding their whereabouts can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X (the site formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.
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Chicago becomes latest US city to call for cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s City Council narrowly approved a resolution Wednesday calling for a permanent cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas, with Mayor Brandon Johnson casting the tiebreaking vote.
The symbolic declaration in the nation’s third-largest city follows weeks of rowdy public meetings with disruptions from demonstrators, including on Wednesday when things became so boisterous the first-term mayor had to temporarily clear the council chambers. The resolution, approved 24-23, includes a call for humanitarian aid and the the release of all hostages. Supporters in the chambers included the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Chicago is latest U.S. city to approve such a non-binding resolution, following Atlanta, Detroit and San Francisco in recent months.
“Do I believe that the words that we speak today, how we vote today influences directly international policy? I don’t. I don’t have those illusions,” said Alderman Daniel La Spata, one of the resolution’s sponsors. “But we vote with hope. We vote with solidarity. We vote to help people feel heard in a world of silence.”
The ordinance remained largely unchanged over the past few months despite urging from the council’s sole Jewish member, Alderwoman Debra Silverstein, who sought more support of Israel and criticism of Hamas.
“We all want an end to the bloodshed and an end to the war. But it is vital to understand what caused the conflict, and we should pass a resolution that addresses the issue responsibly,” she said during the meeting. “We should not pass a resolution unless it makes clear that Hamas cannot and should not attack again.”
The war began with Hamas attacking Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 26,000 Palestinians and displaced nearly 2 million others from their homes.
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Jan 31, 2024
Rep. Wolgamott to hold “Donuts with Dan”
By Zac Chapman / Assistant News Director
Anyone interested in talking with St. Cloud’s State Representative can do so next Tuesday.
Dan Wolgamott will hold a “Donuts with Dan” open office event in the Great River Regional Library.
Wolgamott is asking anyone interested to RSVP with a time and a topic to discuss the issues important to them before he heads back to the Capitol.
The event is scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m. Open office hours will be on the second floor in room 268.
Email christopher.olendorf@house.mn.gov with “Donuts with Dan” in the subject line to RSVP.
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Labour is ‘party of business’, Starmer to tell company chiefs
The Labour leader and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves will seek to woo senior company executives and investors at event in London.
Sir Keir Starmer is set to pitch Labour as the party to reverse the UK’s slagging growth rates with a major address to hundreds of business leaders.
The Labour leader and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves will seek to woo senior company executives and investors at an event in London, with around 400 people scheduled to attend the launch of the party’s plan for business.
Sir Keir, whose party has made considerable strides in reassuring and winning over company bosses and City investors in recent years, promises Labour will “roll up our sleeves and get under the bonnet to fix an unprecedented stagnation in British productivity growth”.
The party is strongly favoured to win the next general election, expected to be held in the second half of the year.
Sir Keir, who will call Labour the “party of businesses”, will set out he expects his party to work with the private sector to grow the UK economy.
“The depth of the changes we’ve made to transform the Labour Party’s relationship with business is something I take immense pride in. Your presence here is a testament to the changes we have made over the past four years,” the Opposition leader will say.
“So, all the hard work that has taken us to this point is a vindication and a recognition of that guiding belief. Not just that Labour could be the party of business, but that Labour should be the party of business, and that now, four years on, Labour is the party of business.
The event in central London will be attended be FTSE 100 chief executives as well as international investors and ambassadors. Tickets for the event sold out in four hours, with hundreds said to be on the waiting list to attend.
Sir Keir will say: “You can’t overstate what the British people have been through in the past 14 years. It’s not just the permanent cycle of crisis, there is something much more fundamentally broken in the way this country creates wealth.
“Fifteen years of lost wage growth and an economy with weak foundations that, even in the calmer moments, can’t provide the security working people need to look forward doesn’t just hold back our potential but also rips up the contract and values that keep a country together.
“It undermines the sense that if you work hard and play by the rules, you will have a chance in Britain and the future will be better for your children.”
Among those expected to be at the gathering of politicians and top executives will be Iceland’s executive chairman Richard Walker, a former Conservative backer and donor who this week switched his support to Labour.
The Tories accused Sir Keir of flip-flopping on the economy, with Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott saying: “Keir Starmer’s record of making promises and then dropping them when they become inconvenient shows Labour will not provide businesses with the stability and certainty they need to invest.”
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In a bid to fulfill his promise of delivering a multimodal transportation system for the populace, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday departed Lagos for Beijing, the Capital of China.
While in China, Governor Sanwo-Olu will visit the headquarters of China Civil Engineering Construction Company, CCECC for trade and investment discussions with the top officials of the company.
He will inspect the headquarters of the Chinese construction giants and some ongoing projects undertaken around Beijing.
The Governor is scheduled to inspect the Signaling System (CBTC etc.) and Metro projects, being undertaken by CCECC around Beijing.
Governor Sanwo-Olu will depart Beijing for Dalian later in the week for a visit to the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation headquarters and CRRC Lvshun base.
The Governor during his visit to China is scheduled to hold a high-level official meeting with the Head of China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation, CRRC Dalian.
There would also be a Technical Discussion on the DMUs for the Red Line and EMUs for Blue Line between the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority ( LAMATA) , CCECC and CRRC Dalian.
Governor Sanwo-Olu is accompanied on the trip by the Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Seun Osiyemi; Chairman, House Committee on Transportation, Hon. Temitope Adewale; Chairman, House Committee on Environment parastatals, Hon. Rasheed Shabi, Managing Director of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, (LAMATA) Mrs. Abimbola Akinajo and Director, Rail Transport, Mr. Olasunkanmi Okusaga, among other officials.
The Governor and the entourage are billed to return to Lagos next week.
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Report provides data, analysis of Canadian mutual fund and ETF assets and sales, and investor trends
TORONTO, Jan. 31, 2024 /CNW/ - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released its 2023 Investment Funds Report, which provides data and analysis of mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) sales and assets under management.
"IFIC's robust data collection and reporting allow us to better understand how economic factors and the investment funds industry interact," said Andy Mitchell, IFIC's President and CEO.
At the end of 2023, mutual fund assets were up by seven per cent from 2022, despite total net redemptions. ETF assets were up by 22 per cent from 2022, reaching their highest total ever at the end of the year.
"There are many reasons for changes in investor behaviour, but we know that mutual fund sales in 2023 were affected by market volatility, economic uncertainty and rising inflation and interest rates," said Mitchell. "Many Canadians had to make tough financial decisions in order to put groceries on the table and pay the mortgage."
- At the end of 2023, Canadian mutual fund assets were $1.936 trillion and ETF assets were $382 billion.
- Mutual fund net redemptions were $57.1 billion and ETF net sales were $37.6 billion.
- High-interest savings mutual fund assets totalled $14.8 billion. High-interest ETF assets totalled $22.5 billion. Net sales into these funds accounted for 47 per cent of all money market mutual fund sales and 83 per cent of all money market ETF sales.
- Responsible investment (RI) mutual fund assets were $40 billion and RI ETF assets were16.3 billion. In 2023, RI net sales were $538 million for mutual funds and $4.8 billion for ETFs.
Watch our short video summarizing the key trends.
- With ongoing inflation and higher interest rates, many Canadians were forced to pull back on saving and investing.
- Many investors felt uncertain because of market volatility, resulting in a flight to safety toward more conservative investments, such as money market funds and guaranteed products.
- There were bright spots, including positive sales of responsible investment mutual fund and alternative assets.
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada is the voice of Canada's investment funds industry. IFIC brings together approximately 150 organizations, including fund managers, dealers, professional and back-office service providers, to strengthen the integrity of the investment funds industry, foster public confidence in investment funds, and enable investors to achieve good outcomes. By connecting savers to Canada's economy, our industry contributes significantly to Canadian economic growth and job creation. IFIC website
SOURCE The Investment Funds Institute of Canada
For further information: Christine Harminc, Senior Manager, Communications and Public Affairs, [email protected], 416-309-2313
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Police Commissioner Edward Caban said Wednesday that he remains hopeful changes will be made before the summer enactment of the How Many Stops Act, the police reporting bill that became law Tuesday when the City Council overrode Mayor Eric Adams’ veto.
Caban and other police brass spoke upon the controversial legislation on Jan. 31 less than 24 hours after the City Council approved the override. The new law requires officers to log nearly every interaction with the public while investigating a crime or a missing persons case.
Despite insistence from How Many Stops Act proponents and criminal justice advocates, including former NYPD members, that it won’t impact how officers do their job, police brass echoed Mayor Adams’ concerns in recent weeks that the requirements would bog down cops in filling out paper or online forms. The main issue for cops are “Level 1 inquiries” in which officers will need to report any individual they speak to regarding an ongoing investigation, including those who have no helpful information to provide.
The How Many Stops Act takes effect in July, and Caban said he hopes there will be time to try and amend the bill so officers are not overwhelmed with paperwork, and potentially slowing down 911 response times.
“We are still working on the language. We are still hopeful that we can still come to the table before July,” Caban said during a press briefing following his State of the NYPD address on Jan. 31.
Police say they are not concerned about level 2 and 3 stops, since they are more in-depth investigations and could rightly require more in-depth documentation and subsequent paperwork. However, they feel level 1 stops could pose a significant threat to department resources, in part, due to the high volume of 911 calls received each day.
“I will tell you that the New York City Police Department had about 8.5 million 911 calls last year alone. But as I said, hopefully we can come to the table and talk about it,” Caban said.
Some elected officials, such as Councilmember Gale Brewer have suggested that the forms cops are asked to fill out be displayed on their cell phones in hopes of making the process easier and faster. But Chief of Patrol John Chell feels even modern technology won’t make the workload any easier.
“To the police commissioner’s point, 8.5 million jobs. If that’s one person per job, which we know it’s not, that’s a lot of thumbing on a phone. So, it’s going to take time,” Chief Chell said.
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First of back-to-back atmospheric rivers pushes into California. Officials urge storm preparations
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first of two back-to-back atmospheric rivers slowly pushed into California on Wednesday, triggering statewide storm preparations and calls for people to get ready for potential flooding, heavy snow and damaging winds.
Known as a “Pineapple Express” because its long plume of moisture stretched back across the Pacific to near Hawaii, the storm rolled into the far north first and was expected to move down the coast through Thursday. Forecasters expect an even more powerful storm to follow it Sunday.
The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services activated its operations center and positioned personnel and equipment in areas most at risk from the weather.
Brian Ferguson, Cal OES deputy director of crisis communications, characterized the situation as “a significant threat to the safety of Californians” with concerns for impact over 10 to 14 days from the Oregon line to San Diego and from the coast up into the mountains.
“This really is a broad sweep of California that’s going to see threats over the coming week,” Ferguson said.
Much of the first storm’s heaviest rain and mountain snow was expected to arrive late Wednesday and overnight into Thursday.
“The main impact is going to be runoff from heavy rainfall that is probably going to result in flooding of some waterways,” said Robert Hart, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s western region.
Last winter, California was battered by numerous drought-busting atmospheric rivers that unleashed extensive flooding, big waves that hammered shoreline communities and extraordinary snowfall that crushed buildings. More than 20 people died.
The memory was in mind in Capitola, along Monterey Bay, as Joshua Whitby brought in sandbags and considered boarding up the restaurant Zelda’s on the Beach, where he is kitchen manager.
“There’s absolutely always a little bit of PTSD going on with this just because of how much damage we did take last year,” Whitby said.
The second storm in the series has the potential to be much stronger, said Daniel Swain a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Models suggest it could intensify as it approaches the coast of California, a process called bombogenesis in which a spinning low-pressure system rapidly deepens, Swain said in an online briefing Tuesday. The process is popularly called a “cyclone bomb.”
That scenario would create the potential for a major windstorm for the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of Northern California as well as heavy but brief rain, Swain said.
Southern California, meanwhile, would get less wind but potentially two to three times as much rain as the north because of a deep tap of Pacific moisture extending to the tropics, Swain said.
“This is well south of Hawaii, so not just a Pineapple Express,'” he said.
The new storms come halfway through a winter very different than a year ago.
Despite storms like a Jan. 22 deluge that spawned damaging flash floods in San Diego, the overall trend has been drier. The Sierra Nevada snowpack that normally supplies about 30% of California’s water is only about half of its average to date, state officials said Tuesday.
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Nic Coury contributed to this report from Capitola, California.
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| 2024-01-31T23:49:50Z
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Tory minister to step down at election as threats to personal safety ‘too much’
Justice minister Mike Freer joins the ranks of Conservative MPs who have decided not to seek re-election.
A Government minister has said he will stand down at the next general election after a series of death threats and an arson attack on his constituency office.
Conservative justice minister Mike Freer said that “by the skin of my teeth I avoided being murdered” by Ali Harbi Ali, who went on to kill Southend West MP Sir David Amess.
“There comes a point when the threats to your personal safety become too much,” he said in an interview with the Daily Mail.
Mr Freer, who has served as the MP for London’s Finchley and Golders Green seat since 2010, said it was time to “say enough” as he could no longer put his family through the anxiety for his safety.
In a letter to his local Conservative association, Mr Freer wrote that it “will be an enormous wrench to step down”, but that the attacks “have weighed heavily on me and my husband, Angelo”.
The MP and his staff have decided to wear stab vests when attending scheduled public events in his constituency after learning that Ali had watched his Finchley office before going on to knife Sir David to death during a constituency surgery in 2021.
Mr Freer told the newspaper: “I was very lucky that actually on the day I was due to be in Finchley, I happened to change my plans and came into Whitehall.
“Otherwise who knows whether I would have been attacked or survived an attack. He said he came to Finchley to attack me.”
He said MPs tend to try to “make light” of threats, but that it remained at the back of his mind that he could have been killed.
Mr Freer said he had also received threats from the group Muslims Against Crusades “about coming to stab me” and found “mock Molotov cocktails on the office steps”.
The arson attack on his north London constituency office in December was “the final straw,” he said.
Mr Freer, who has pro-Israel views and represents a heavily Jewish constituency, said “I don’t think we can divorce” antisemitism from the intimidation.
He won his seat by around 6,600 votes at the last general election in 2019, seeing off a Liberal Democrat challenger.
Mr Freer joins a series of MPs who have announced their intention not to contest the next election, which is expected later this year.
Labour’s candidate in Finchley and Golders Green Sarah Sackman said she was “shocked” by the news, adding: “We should have been able to face each other in the polls based on our ideas and merits.
“Instead, politics is now so often skewed by violent language, hate and the dangers of social media.”
Tory former minister Sir Conor Burns tweeted: “Totally understandable decision. The drip drip of hate (not exclusively from people on the other side) and remorseless cynicism will drive more people out of politics.”
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Jan 30, 2024
“Swatting” incident occurs at Rep. Emmer’s Delano home, U.S. Capitol Police investigate
By Grace Jacobson / News Director
An incident at the home of a Minnesota Rep. is the latest to join the list of similar incidents under investigation by U.S. Capitol Police.
It happened around 6 p.m. Saturday in Wright County. Deputies responded to a report of a possible homicide/hostage situation at the Delano home of Rep. Tom Emmer.
At the scene, deputies quickly determined the report to be unfounded after checking the residence. They also made contact with Rep. Emmer and his security detail.
The incident is under active investigation and believed to be of “swatting.”
Rep. Emmer currently holds office for Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District and serves as House Majority Whip.
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OTTAWA, ON, Jan. 31, 2024 /CNW/ - Leonovus Inc. (TSXV: LTV) (the "Company" or "Leonovus") announces that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent ("LOI") to sell substantially all its software and patent assets to Cylentium Research Ltd. ("CRL"), a Delaware corporation, for $2,500,000 in an all-cash transaction (the "Transaction").
The Company and CRL expect closing of the Transaction to be before the end of June 2024. The Transaction is subject to the requirement that the Company and CRL enter into a definitive purchase and sale agreement (the "Definitive Agreement"). Upon execution of the Definitive Agreement, the Purchaser shall pay the Vendor a non-refundable deposit of CDN$125,000, representing 5% of the purchase price (the "Deposit"). Upon completion of the Transaction, the Deposit shall be applied to the purchase price.
Because the Company is selling substantially all its assets, the Transaction will require all necessary approvals including, but not limited to, approval by not less than 66 2/3% of the votes cast by the Company's shareholders in accordance with the Business Corporations Act (Ontario), and regulatory approvals including approval of the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV"). Closing of the Transaction will also be subject to customary conditions and third-party consents for the transfer of the assets subject to the Transaction, where applicable.
"Our historical quarterly Management Discussion and Analysis noted the Company's need to find a strategic solution such as merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. We are pleased that our technology has found a needed home to benefit individuals, companies and governments looking for better ways to protect and manage digital assets," said Michael Gaffney, Chair and CEO.
"The transaction will result in Leonovus having a significant amount of cash, a clean balance sheet, and a public listing, positioning the Company well to identify and complete an acquisition of assets or a reverse takeover," said Gaffney.
"Cylentium is an Access Control and Communication platform built on an enhanced version of the MACsec standard (802.1ae). Through this Cylentium can offer rapid deployment of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) for all IT and IoT edge devices as it resides at Layer 2. Cylentium ensures privacy across all communications and authenticity of the data being sent. With the acquisition of Leonovus we will now be able to extend this privacy to our customers data storage needs," said Wayne Ronhaar, CEO of Cylentium.
The Transaction constitutes a Reviewable Disposition as defined in Policy 5.3 – Acquisitions and Dispositions of Non-Cash Assets ("Policy 5.3") of the TSXV and the Company will apply for approval of the Transaction, which approval will be a condition precedent in the Definitive Agreement. The trading of the Company's shares has been halted and shall remain halted pending receipt of satisfactory documentation by the TSXV. Further updates will be announced on the status of the trading halt, the Definitive Agreement, and the Transaction, as appropriate, and further details of the Transaction, and the risks and procedures associated therewith, will be disclosed in greater detail in the information circular of the Company for the shareholder meeting held with respect to the Transaction (the "Meeting"). The Company and CRL are not "Non-Arm's Length Parties" within the meaning of applicable TSXV polices, and the purchase price for the Transactions were arrived at through arm's-length negotiations.
The Company expects that it will be subject to migration to the NEX Board of the TSXV following completion of the Transaction unless it can demonstrate to the TSXV that it will meet "Continued Listing Requirements" within the meaning of such term under applicable TSXV policies. While the Company currently plans to use the proceeds from the Transaction to acquire or develop a business that will meet Continued Listing Requirements, at this time the Company has not yet acquired or developed any such business and there can be no assurances that it will be able to do so before its listing is migrated from Tier 2 to NEX, or at all.
The Company also announces that it proposes to settle $193,000 of debt (the "Debt"), including amounts accrued through services provided to the Company, by issuing 3,860,000 common shares in the capital of the Company (the "Common Shares") at a deemed price of $0.05 per Common Share (the "Debt Settlement"), or such other price acceptable to the TSXV.
Insiders of the Company will be participating in the Debt Settlement and are related parties of the Company pursuant to Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"). Related party involvement in the Debt Settlement constitutes a "related party transaction". The Company expects to rely on the exemptions from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 pursuant to Sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a) respectively, as neither the fair market value of the subject matter of, nor the fair market value of the consideration for, the Debt Settlement, insofar as it involves interested parties, exceeds 25 per cent of the Company's market capitalization.
All Common Shares issued in connection with the Debt Settlement are subject to a statutory hold period of four months plus a day from the date of issuance of the Debt Shares in accordance with applicable securities legislation and the policies of the TSXV.
The Company expects to complete the debt settlement following completion of the Transaction. Notwithstanding that the Company expects it will have cash on hand to pay the Debt, the Company proposes completing the Debt Settlement in order to preserve the cash that it expects to obtain in the Transaction. The Debt Settlement is subject to TSXV approval.
The Company further announced that it has amended the terms of the loan agreement entered into with two directors of Leonovus (the "Lenders"), previously announced on February 3, 2023. Pursuant to the amendments, the Lenders will receive a bonus of 2,000,000 common share purchase warrant instead of 2,500,000 under the previous agreement (the "Warrants"), and each Warrant will have an exercise price of $0.05 per common share. The expiry date of the Warrants will be the maturity date of the loan, being August 3, 2024. The amendment is a related party transaction under MI 61-101. The Company has relied on the exemption under 5.5(a) of MI 61-101 for the requirement to obtain a formal valuation for the Warrants issuable to the Insiders, and the exemption under Section 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101 for the requirement to obtain minority approval as the total value of the bridge loan, and the value of the Warrants, are not equal to or greater than 25% of the market capitalization of the Company, whether considered separately or together. The amendment remains subject to TSXV approval.
CAUTIONARY AND FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities. The securities described herein have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the securities laws of any state and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to or for the benefit or account of U.S. persons, absent such registration or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements.
Completion of the Transaction is subject to a number of conditions, including execution of the Definitive Agreement, TSXV acceptance and shareholder approval. The Transaction cannot close until the required approvals are obtained. There can be no assurance that the Transaction will be completed as proposed or at all.
Investors are cautioned that, except as disclosed in the management information circular to be prepared in connection with the Proposed Transaction, any information released or received with respect to the Transaction may not be accurate or complete and should not be relied upon. Trading in the securities of Leonovus should be considered highly speculative.
This news release contains forward-looking information and statements ("forward-looking information") within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, that are not based on historical fact, including, without limitation, statements using the words "believes", "anticipates", "plans", "intends", "will", "should", "expects", "continue", "estimate", "forecasts" and other similar expressions. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Actual results and developments may differ materially from those contemplated by these statements depending on, among other things, the risks that the parties may not proceed with the LOI and the Transaction; that the ultimate terms of the LOI and the Transaction will differ from those that are currently contemplated; the LOI and the Transaction will not be successfully completed for any reason; and the Debt Settlement will not be approved or completed. The terms and conditions of the Transaction may change based on the Company's or CRL's due diligence. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable, such forward looking information has been based on expectations, factors and assumptions concerning future events which may prove to be inaccurate and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond the Company's control. The forward-looking information contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement and are made as of the date hereof. The Company disclaims any intention had has no obligation or responsibility, except as required by law, to update or revise any forward–looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the content of this news release.
SOURCE Leonovus Inc.
For further information: Please contact: Michael Gaffney, Chief Executive Officer and Chair, at +1.613.797.6744, [email protected]
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The Minister of Works, Sen. Engr. Nweze David Umahi, CON, has allayed the fear of road users in Lagos about the integrity of the Third Mainland bridge, Eko and Carter bridges, saying “there is no need to worry.”
Explaining the work to be done , he said “Some of the elements which are defective are going to be fixed. But there’s nothing to worry about. We are going to reinstate those defective slabs with the new the design.”
Speaking to journalists Wednesday after the joint assessment tour of the three bridges in company of the Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, the Minister explained that “over the years, after the construction of the bridge, there was no serious maintenance,” He therefore assured that the failure of the bridge would be addressed. “So, we are working on the problems about the bridges.”
On the state of the Lagos shoreline, Sen. Umahi stressed that the shore protection on the marina needs urgent attention, noting that the Lagos railway project, the blue line might be threatened if nothing is done to address the matter.
At the end of the exercise in Lagos, the Ministers who agreed there was need for rehabilitation work to be carried out, noting that the impact created by the current of water under the bridges and on the shoreline need intervention.
On the ongoing rehabilitation of the third mainland bridges, the Minister revealed that some comprehensive works would be done especially in area of provision of street lights on and under the bridge and installation of CCTV. While praising the work being done by the Contractor, he assured that the bridge would be opened to road users soon.
On his part, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun commended the Minister of Works and his team of officials for their efforts at rehabilitating the roads and bridges as he described them as very important for economic development.
While answering questions from reporters, the Minister disclosed that the Federal Government was looking to raise revenue to finance infrastructure, pointing out that “what we are targeting and working towards is a 77% increase in internally generated revenue for the Federal Government. So that is where the funding particularly is going to come from”, he submitted.
Meanwhile, during the inspection tour, the Works Minister upon citing those cooking under the Carter bridge, ordered that security be mobilised to stop the menace, adding that they be relocated immediately to avoid any serious damage to the health of the bridge.
In continuation of the inspection of Federal road projects in Lagos, the two Ministers also visited the Lagos – Calabar coastal highway and met with the contractor to review progress work on the project. The project when completed is expected to go through the shoreline linking Lagos with Calabar .
In the inspection were senior government officials from the Ministry, officials of Julius Berger and some journalists.
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When the City Council overrode Mayor Eric Adams’ veto of the “How Many Stops Act” police transparency legislation on Tuesday, it did so with several more votes than the measure originally passed by late last year, despite a fierce lobbying campaign by the mayor.
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams gained seven council members voting in favor of the override who in December went against the measure, abstained or were absent from the proceedings. The shift yielded 42 members voting in favor of the override on Tuesday, up from 35 who went for the two-bill package when it originally passed in December and the 34 votes needed to override a mayoral veto.
Only the council’s bipartisan, nine-member Common Sense Caucus stood together against it.
The council members who added their votes to the “yes” column this time around included Erik Bottcher (D-Manhattan — the only member to flip from voting against the now-laws in December); Mercedes Narcisse (D-Brooklyn), Linda Lee (D-Queens), and Francisco Moya (D-Queens) — who all abstained late last year; and James Gennaro (D-Queens), Sandra Ung (D-Queens) and Darlene Mealy — who were absent from the previous vote.
The How Many Stops Act is aimed at curbing police misconduct by requiring NYPD officers to report on the demographics of lower-level civilian encounters — known as “Level 1” and “Level 2” stops. The mayor vetoed the legislation on the grounds that it would put an undue burden on police officers, piling on hours of additional paperwork, and ultimately make the city less safe — arguments the council has casted as “misinformation.”
Mayor Adams made a concerted and very public effort to lambast the laws and flip votes through videos released by his office, public events, media appearances and inviting council members to an NYPD ride along this past weekend. Although none of those efforts worked in flipping members, Adams maintained before Tuesday’s vote that if many unnamed members were free to vote “with their hearts” they would not have supported the override.
Making a statement
A council source told amNewYork Metro there were a couple of key reasons why seven more members voted for the measure on Tuesday than in December.
First, the source said, those who did not vote in favor of the laws last month took time to familiarize themselves with the contents of the legislation and weigh that against City Hall’s casting of what it would do. And second, overriding a veto is about standing up for the council as a co-equal branch of government.
“It was the overwhelming policy merit of what this bill was set up to do that struck a balance,” they said. “And the institution and independent branch of government needs to exercise its powers and confirm that what the institution has passed before remains true and we are fighting to maintain the decision that the body has made.”
Narcisse, in an interview, said she changed her mind because she had a chance to “go deeper” on the contents of the legislation and sift through what she characterized as the “misguided information” being pushed by the administration. She said she learned that much of what the law calls for in terms of recording low-level encounters is already being done — appearing to refer to demographic data collected for higher level stops and on officers’ body-worn cameras.
“At the time of the vote there was a lot of misguided information,” Narcisse said. “I had a chance to go deeper and dive into the bill and try to understand that it’s already pre-existing, most of the things that we’re talking about.”
Bottcher’s chief of staff did not provide a comment by publication time, while Moya’s spokesperson said he was “not available” to talk Wednesday, and Lee did not answer a reporter’s call or text message.
Narcisse was also one of several members who spoke about the need for “transparency” in implementing the legislation. Mayor Adams, who has called for amending the laws during the implementation period, predicted some members would make such remarks while casting their votes earlier Tuesday.
“Some council members that I spoke with stated that as they explained their votes, they want to be talking about, ‘how do we get the results we’re looking for?’” Adams said.
Did Salaam stop make a difference?
Some posited other reasons for the council members’ change of heart.
Basil Smikle, a veteran political consultant and head of Hunter College’s Public Policy Program, said some members may have also been swayed by their colleague Yusef Salaam getting pulled over by cops on Friday. Salaam said he was stopped without being given an explanation, which appeared to be corroborated in audio reported by the New York Times. But the NYPD later said Salaam was stopped for driving windows tinted beyond the legal limit and temporary Georgia license plates.
According to Salaam, the stop showed why they needed to have How Many Stops to bring transparency to police stops happening in the shadows.
“It’s possible that some of the conversation around Yusef Salaam’s stop, being pulled over by the police, and the conversation that kind of took place around that gave members an opportunity to see the potential value of this bill, in real time,” Smikle said.
Furthermore, Smikle said, the mayor’s railing against the legislation after it passed may have done the opposite of its intended purpose and pushed more members to support for the override. That included many times when Adams suggested council members did not fully understand the impact of the legislation they approved.
“I think in many ways he came across as being dismissive of the council’s concerns,” Smikle said. “And I don’t think he appropriately laid out how this bill would keep police officers from doing their day-to-day jobs … His response was ‘do a ride along’ and I just felt that that was insufficient and doesn’t really appropriately get to the point.”
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Georgia governor signs bill that would define antisemitism in state law
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday signed a law defining antisemitism in state law, proclaiming support for Jewish residents despite concerns the measure would hamper people opposing the actions of Israel.
The Republican governor said by enacting the law, he was “reaffirming our commitment to a Georgia where all people can live, learn and prosper safely, because there’s no place for hate in this great state.”
Kemp likened it to when he signed a measure in 2020 that allows additional penalties to be imposed for crimes motivated by a victim’s race, religion, sexual orientation or other factors. That hate crimes law was spurred by the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man pursued and fatally shot while running near Brunswick, Georgia.
The antisemitism definition measure had stalled in 2023, but was pushed with fresh urgency this year amid the Israel-Hamas war and a reported surge in antisemitic incidents in Georgia. Sponsors say adopting the 2016 definition put forward by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance will help prosecutors and other officials identify hate crimes and illegal discrimination targeting Jewish people. That could lead to higher penalties under the 2020 hate crimes law.
The definition, which is only referred to in the bill, describes antisemitism as “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
Kenneth Stern, the author of IHRA’s definition, told The Associated Press that using such language in law is problematic, because an increasing number of Jews have adopted an antizionist position in opposition to Israeli actions.
Lawmakers in more than a half-dozen additional U.S. states are pushing laws to define antisemitism.
Opponents of the Georgia law warned it would be used to censor free speech rights with criticism of Israel equated to hatred of Jewish people. A coalition of organizations, including Jewish Voice for Peace and CAIR, issued a joint statement saying that the Georgia bill “falsely equates critiques of Israel and Zionism with discrimination against Jewish people.”
But supporters say the definition will only come into play after someone has committed a crime. State Rep. John Carson, a Marietta Republican who was one of the bill’s sponsors, said he believed the measure would be challenged in court the first time it is used, but predicted it would be upheld.
“I’m very confident this will stand up, like it has in other states,” Carson said.
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Woman and two children in hospital after ‘corrosive substance attack’
Police responded to the incident near Clapham Common, south London, at around 7.25pm on Wednesday.
A woman and her two young children have been taken to hospital after a man threw a suspected corrosive substance at them in south London.
Police responded to the incident in Lessar Avenue near Clapham Common at around 7.25pm on Wednesday.
Three other members of the public were also taken to hospital after the incident.
Their injuries are thought to have been suffered as they came to the aid of the woman and her children.
The Metropolitan Police said three officers who responded to the incident were also injured.
Detective Superintendent Alexander Castle said the officers’ injuries were “minor”.
“While tests are ongoing to determine what the substance is, at this stage we believe it to be a corrosive substance,” he said.
“A man was seen fleeing the scene. We are drawing on resources from across the Met to apprehend this individual and work is ongoing to determine what has led to this awful incident.”
No arrest has been made and police said they will give an update on the conditions of the injured people as soon as they can.
Marina Ahmad, Labour’s London Assembly member for Lambeth & Southwark, posted on X: “There has been a traffic collision with a man assaulting occupants in a car and throwing acid. Victims include children.”
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Taylor Drift top winner in MnDOT’s Name a Snowplow contest 2024
By Grace Jacobson / News Director
The votes are in!
Over 32,000 people voted for this year’s class of MnDOT’s Name a Snowplow contest.
People were able to vote for up to eight names from the list of 49 finalists.
And the winners are…
- Taylor Drift – District 2
- Clark W. Blizzwald – District 3
- Dolly Plowton – District 1
- Waipahinte (Dakota word for “snowplow”) – District 8
- Beyonsleigh – District 4
- You’re Killin’ Me Squalls – District 6
- Fast and Flurrious – District 7
- Barbie’s Dream Plow – Metro District
A few other names that didn’t quite make the cut were Oh, For Sleet’s Sake, L’Plow du Nord and Aaron Brrrr, Sir.
To see the full ranking of votes, visit the Department of Transportation website.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 31, 2024 /CNW/ - (TSX: LUN) (Nasdaq Stockholm: LUMI) Lundin Mining Corporation ("Lundin Mining" or the "Company") reports the following updated share capital and voting rights, in accordance with the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act:
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APEX, N.C. (WTVD) -- Coco Lavielle just wanted to play some football. The sophomore from Apex High School had played flag football throughout her time in middle school and wanted to continue as she transitioned into high school. But Apex -- and greater Wake County -- didn't offer flag as a sanctioned or intramural high school sport.
"They didn't offer that at Apex, so I suggested that she go ask to start a club," said Thayer Lavielle, Coco's mom.
Coco and her mom would meet with Apex High School Athletic Director Rob Weidenburner multiple times to continue to push for the initiative.
"They were persistent and didn't take no for an answer," said Weidenburner. "(And) it was never a no for an answer, we wanted to be strategic, Deran Coe (Wake County Public Schools System Director of Athletics) was instrumental in this. The conversations turned to not only making this a club but doing it right."
Coming out here and seeing all these girls really want to play just gets me so riled up and I just get so super excited.- Coco Lavielle, Apex sophomore
After getting support from the county, the Lavielles sought out help from the NFL's Carolina Panthers.
"We knew that the NFL was really investing in girls flag football globally," Lavielle explained. "Their head of community relations, Riley Fields, immediately responded, and said we want to do everything we can to help to get this going in Wake County."
The Panthers provided funding, equipment, and resources to the startup, while Wake County garnered more and more interest. On Jan. 11, WCPSS held a girls flag football kickoff event at Millbrook High School, announcing the participation of 20 schools.
The league held its first round of games 16 days later, an experience that Coco won't soon forget.
"My coach pulls me aside and says, 'Can you just take a step back and see what you all have been working for?'" Coco said. "It's honestly empowering, it's so inspiring. Coming out here and seeing all these girls really want to play just gets me so riled up and I just get so super excited."
Her mom couldn't be prouder.
"She's so gracious and humble about it, which is fantastic, but she really pushed and continued to push," Lavielle said. "And just when it felt like it wasn't going to go anywhere, we just leaned back in."
The teams have two more competition weekends before meeting in the Sup-HER Bowl on Feb. 10 at Athens Drive High School.
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Some New York City train stations could find themselves regularly underwater even on sunny days in the coming decades, the MTA said on Wednesday.
The stakes of climate change for North America’s largest transit system are high, particularly for certain segments of the system like Metro-North’s Hudson Line, which runs immediately adjacent to the namesake river. Last year, the line was subject to shutdowns twice owing to extreme weather, first during “thousand-year” flooding over the summer and later due to a mudslide following a storm in the fall.
Over the coming decades, the Hudson Line could frequently find itself underwater, and not just during big storms. During monthly high tides, even on sunny days, the Spuyten Duyvil station on the Hudson Line — at the confluence of the Hudson and Harlem rivers — could be entirely underwater, if sea levels rise by 30 inches as tentatively predicted by the New York City Panel on Climate Change.
“During monthly high tide, sunny days, we can anticipate, without mitigations, high tides that cover the majority of the right of way,” said Eric Wilson, the MTA’s vice president of climate resilience and sustainability planning, during a presentation to the MTA Board Wednesday. “Not quite coming to the top of the third rail.”
“Just to emphasize, this is monthly,” chimed in Jamie Torres-Springer, the head of the MTA’s Construction & Development division. “This is the monthly high tide.”
A total of 64 miles of commuter rail track are expected to be subject to monthly tidal flooding by the 2050s, a figure that would increase to 175 miles by the 2080s.
New Yorkers have known for years that the transit system is vulnerable to climate change, and since Superstorm Sandy in 2012 the MTA has endeavored to make its system more resilient. The agency will release a full climate resiliency plan in March and intends to fund climate resiliency projects in its upcoming five-year capital plan.
By the 2050s, forecasters estimate the city will see a threefold increase in severe coastal flooding and twice the number of days with torrential rainfall. That means water will flood the subway system, as it does today when the city’s decades-old sewer lines are overburdened during heavy storms.
The subway system is also vulnerable to extreme heat. Any rider knows waiting on an underground platform during the summer can be a searingly miserable experience.
It will only become more common in the coming decades, with thrice the number of extreme heat days over 90 degrees Fahrenheit expected by the 2050s; not only would that mean more unbearable time waiting on platforms, but it could also have an impact on the functionality of vital equipment.
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Judge: Florida official overstepped authority in DeSantis effort to stop pro-Palestinian group
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge refused to take action against Florida on Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging an order to deactivate pro-Palestinian student groups, essentially because nothing has been done to follow through with the directive.
State university Board of Governors Chancellor Ray Rodrigues wrote to university presidents in October at Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ urging, directing them to disband chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine. He said the groups are supporting a terrorist organization based on the national group’s declaration that “Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement.”
The American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of the University of Florida Students for Justice in Palestine chapter to prevent deactivation, but Judge Mark Warner denied an injunction because the group is still active. He wrote that Rodrigues overstepped his authority.
“Neither the Governor, nor the Chancellor, nor the BOG (Board of Governors) have the formal power to punish student organizations,” Warner said.
Individual university boards of trustees, which have that power, haven’t taken any steps to disband the groups, and Walker said Rodrigues has acknowledged that the student chapters aren’t under the control of the national organization.
Walker acknowledged the groups had a reason to feel anxious, especially after DeSantis called them terrorists and falsely proclaimed while campaigning for president that he deactivated the groups. DeSantis has since dropped out of the race.
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A court rejected Elon Musk's $55.8B pay package. What is he worth to Tesla?
A Delaware judge has invalidated Elon Musk's $55.8 billion Tesla pay package, saying it is too big and that Musk basically set the terms with a compliant board
Even when compared with other CEOs, who routinely get paid roughly 200 times more than their typical employees, Elon Musk’s pay package was eye-opening.
A judge in Delaware on Tuesday struck down the package that Tesla established for Musk in 2018, ruling that the process was “flawed” and the price “unfair.” Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick called the package “the largest potential compensation opportunity ever observed in public markets by multiple orders of magnitude.”
So, if Musk isn’t worth the maximum $55.8 billion value of the package, how much is he worth? It’s a thorny question without an easy answer in the notoriously complex world of executive compensation.
McCormick’s ruling bumped Musk out of the top spot on the Forbes list of wealthiest people. The magazine on Wednesday lopped $25 billion off his net worth, reducing it to $185.3 billion, putting him behind fashion and cosmetics magnate Bernard Arnault and family.
Critics have argued for years that CEO pay packages are exorbitant. The median compensation for a CEO of an S&P 500 company was valued at $14.8 million, according to the latest AP CEO pay survey for 2022 conducted with the executive compensation research firm Equilar. It would take the typical worker at one of those companies more than 185 years to earn what their chief executive reaped in just 12 months.
In 2018, Tesla estimated the value of Musk’s compensation package at $2.28 billion, topping the previous highest package of $1.39 billion given to Blackstone’s Steven Schwarzman 10 years earlier, according to Equilar. The value of Musk’s package has grown as Tesla’s stock price increased. By comparison, in 2022 the median worker at Tesla made $34,084.
Under Musk’s pay plan, he received a chunk of stock options each time Tesla’s market value rose by $50 billion. Ultimately, he would have the chance to buy nearly 304 million shares for $23.34 each. Tesla has met each of the performance hurdles since the package was awarded. Its stock is trading at roughly $191 compared with $21 at the start of 2018.
The judge determined that Tesla’s board lacked independence from Musk. His lawyers said the package needed to be rich to give Musk an incentive not to leave — a line of reasoning the judge shot down.
“Swept up by the rhetoric of ‘all upside,’ or perhaps starry eyed by Musk’s superstar appeal, the board never asked the $55.8 billion question: ‘Was the plan even necessary for Tesla to retain Musk and achieve its goals?’” McCormick wrote.
Musk’s fans would argue that he shouldn’t be paid like other CEOs because he isn’t like other CEOs. He and Tesla are practically inseparable, so keeping him as CEO is key to the company’s growth. He built the company from an idea to the most valuable automaker in the world, last year selling more electric vehicles than any other company. His star power gets free publicity, so the company spends little on advertising. And he has forced the rest of the auto industry to accelerate plans for electric vehicles to counter Tesla’s phenomenal growth.
To figure out how much to pay their CEO, corporate boards often start by looking at how much their rivals are paying theirs: They need to pay enough to attract and keep the talent.
General Motors, for example, considers executive salaries at 3M, Boeing, Ford, IBM and other huge companies, and uses complex formulas to determine CEO compensation. For GM CEO Mary Barra, part of that depends on how GM’s stock return compares to its peers and how much progress the company makes on electric vehicles.
In 2022, Barra earned total compensation that GM valued at $29 million. That included $2.1 million in salary. Ford CEO Jim Farley's compensation was valued at $22 million that year.
Even though Tesla makes automobiles, investors often lump its stock in with Big Tech stocks. They’re the companies disrupting industries and people’s ways of life.
Plus, Musk is closely identified with Tesla the way Meta Platforms’ Mark Zuckerberg or Apple’s Tim Cook are with their companies. Pay packages at Big Tech companies are among the largest in the U.S.
Cook’s compensation was valued at $63.2 million for 2023, mainly due to stock awards valued at nearly $47 million. A year earlier, he earned total compensation valued at roughly $99 million.
In the nuanced world of executive compensation, these numbers don’t indicate how much a CEO actually takes home, they’re just an estimate of the compensation package's value. The final value may exceed or fall far below those figures because it is tied to stock.
Corporate law experts say any new compensation package for Musk will likely be challenged in court unless Tesla's board either resigns en masse or follows a meticulous process to protect shareholders by passing a substantially smaller package.
“This is just a mess for them,” said Charles Elson, a retired corporate law professor and founder of the corporate governance center at the University of Delaware. “They kowtowed to this apparent superstar with poor results.”
Elson, who has followed the court for more than three decades, said this is the first time he can remember a judge invalidating an executive compensation plan at a public company.
Lawyers for Musk and the directors had countered that the plan was fairly negotiated by a compensation committee whose members were independent, and that it was blessed by a shareholder vote.
Shareholders who approved Musk’s deal, Elson said, were unaware that Musk essentially was negotiating with himself. “If the shareholders were aware of that, they may well have not approved it.”
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Today, Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress and the subject (at least in part) was child sexual abuse material being promoted on Facebook and Instagram. Senator Cruz had beat on Zuckerberg, metaphorically, here:
.@SenTedCruz confronts Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over Instagram users being allowed to click to view images that may contain child pornography:
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) January 31, 2024
"Mr. Zuckerberg, what the hell were you thinking? pic.twitter.com/vBQ3GQ6iBA
And that led to an exchange where Senator Hawley invited Zuckerberg to apologize … and then he did:
Hawley just called on Zuckerberg to apologize directly to the the families in the audience of victims who were impacted by child sexual exploitation on Meta platforms.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 31, 2024
Zuck then gets up and does it. pic.twitter.com/YJWCcZDAC7
First, you should know by now how this game is played. Very often members of Congress force people in charge of media companies to appear before them to basically chew them out for what they think is bad behavior. It might be a movie company, a newspaper or website, or, in this case, the head of a social networking company. Sometimes what they think is bad behavior is genuinely bad. Certainly, Instagram helping pedophiles find child abuse material qualifies. And sometimes it really isn’t, like if a Democratic politician tries to pressure Twitter/X to suspend a popular conservative account.
Second, we are going to have to disagree with Ted Cruz on the issue of people clicking on the material anyway. One of this author’s best friends, the late John Hoge (@wjjhoge) had a problem for a while on Twitter/X. In his day job, he worked for NASA, so it shouldn’t surprise you that he liked astronomy. So, on his blog (Hogewash), he ran a regular feature called ‘Star Porn’ where he would post various astronomy-related pictures and he would promote them via Twitter/X. Here’s an example of one of these posts:
#StarPorn A Star and a Nebula @ZillaStevenson http://t.co/pnMB8f6zdp pic.twitter.com/Vc1ot2hjaS
— The WJJ Hoge (@wjjhoge) August 22, 2015
Harmless, right? Well, except that for a while, Twitter/X started attaching sensitive content warnings, which made you have to click through to see them. It got bad enough that he ended up having to send a Cease and Desist Letter to their legal department to get them to stop—and they did eventually stop. But as the result of this and other behavior we have seen, this author doesn’t trust these kinds of content warnings and we don’t know why anyone should. So, we don’t think a person clicking on the media anyway really means very much, contrary to what Senator Cruz thinks. We think the only thing it proves is that you don’t trust these warnings.
Finally, we think there was a real dilemma Zuckerberg faced when deciding whether to apologize. Very often the moment someone apologizes, a scandal kicks into high gear. For instance, Conservatives had been complaining for years about political discrimination at the hands of the IRS in terms of getting charities designated as such by the IRS during the Obama adminstration. But that scandal didn’t explode until Lois Lerner apologized for doing it, because the apology was also simultaneously an admission there was something to complain about (it wasn’t just in our imagination) and because it was an admission that their conduct was wrong. So, Zuckerberg risks kicking the scandal on this issue into high gear by what he said.
But at the same time, if he didn’t even apologize after damning presentations like that given by Senator Cruz, he would arguably look like an unfeeling monster. As another Twitchy writer, Coucy wrote to us via direct message: ‘for a guy who’s popularly viewed as being an inhuman robot having a relatively human moment of getting up to apologize when it’s suggested is probably good from a PR standpoint[.]’ We tend to think that is right and, even if was a totally calculated move on Zuckerberg’s part, it’s a smart move.
It's certainly not the clear self-own that Mark Cuban had the other day. Heh.
Of course there were also reactions. We will start with reactions to the apology:
Good for him... https://t.co/MowIxfIVyb
— @amuse (@amuse) January 31, 2024
Facebook Is complicit in so much more. How many people died because they pushed the remdesivir and vent narrative and blocked all chatter against it? https://t.co/BIGPMQoa4e
— AmyLouWho (@perseverare1776) January 31, 2024
They did nothing but embarrass him. Nothing. He isn't being held responsible for anything. https://t.co/XvRfte6J7u
— LadyPatriot (@Marechtare_) January 31, 2024
These platforms colluded with the U.S. government to censor Americans, but when it came to tackling child p-rn/s*x trafficking, they turned a blind eye.
— ZNO 🇺🇸 (@therealZNO) January 31, 2024
They could have done something; they chose not to.
The CEOs are complicit.
They need to be charged accordingly. https://t.co/zQSqyj6DHz
It raises a good point. While we now know how much pressure was being put on social media companies by the government to censor people speaking out against vaccines and bringing up Hunter Biden’s laptop, the same people didn’t seem nearly as interested in stopping the flow of child abuse material.
This is what happens when you elect republicans whose balls have actually dropped. Way to go Josh Hawley!! https://t.co/WN0JRLbDBx
— Tiffany 𝕏 (@tiffanylloree) January 31, 2024
We are not going to attempt to verify that claim about their testicles.
Good…it’s a start.
— Kris (@BrincoBrinco) January 31, 2024
A small start but it’s something. https://t.co/MhfQkxfxV0
Hawley went scorched earth on Zuckerberg, he was speechless, he then shamed him into apologizing to the parents in the room. Bravo @HawleyMO !
— LynyrdsMom (@Lynyrds_Mom) January 31, 2024
This is a public relations stunt. Facebook is dying and he’s trying to save it. He really doesn’t care about who is harmed by his platform.
— NAPWP (@NAPWP587902) January 31, 2024
Shame is a great motivator. Hawley owned Zuckerberg in front of the world.
— Savannah (@BasedSavannah) January 31, 2024
I think Mark Zuckerberg is an evil person. That being said, do not give your children unfettered Internet access. In the 1980s would your parents have allowed you to become penpals or phone buddies with complete strangers? Obviously not.
— Cooking With Sal Minella (@SalMinellaUtube) January 31, 2024
That was like a young child being forced to apologize bc mom is holding him by the ear
— Joe (@joe23454321) January 31, 2024
How CNN spun the story pic.twitter.com/5CQTMR7Hl2
— Punta (@PuntaKill_) January 31, 2024
words are only meaningful if they're followed by concrete action, but Zuckerberg's gesture does signal a willingness to acknowledge the pain caused by the tech industry and to work towards making things better.
— Sonam Murarkar (@murarkar_sonam) January 31, 2024
And, of course, Senator Cruz’s questioning got reactions, too:
Ted may a total nimby in real life sometimes, but he ain't wrong here. https://t.co/mUuLCMmJNd
— Steven Mallett (@Steven_Mallett) January 31, 2024
Did you know Ted was born in Calgary, Alberta Canada in 1970. How is he able to run for office. ??
— B_Fraser 🇨🇦🇺🇦 (@BFraser75116038) January 31, 2024
Well, first, he is probably technically a naturally born American citizen by statute. We haven’t looked into it, but that would be our guess. Second, you don’t have to be a natural born citizen to hold most offices in American politics, including Senator. The only two offices you have to be a natural born American citizen to hold is President and Vice President.
And it is weird to lodge that complaint when he is trying to reduce access to child sexual abuse material.
They don't care about you or your kids. Hi Bob 👋 pic.twitter.com/rCZmFEDbhN
— Branos (@thesonofbran) January 31, 2024
Don’t forget who these people are👇💯 pic.twitter.com/UqEdXQ99kh
— Liberacrat Media™️ (@Liberacrat_) January 31, 2024
At what point are these CEOs complicit? They had no issue effectively censoring COVID “misinformation”… but we can’t get child porn off the platform?
— Caroline (@carolinecwilder) January 31, 2024
This is not a capability problem.
This is a care problem.
Ted Cruz really took the gloves off.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) January 31, 2024
It was nice to watch.
These social media companies, especially Meta and TikTok are devils.
Too bad Apple and Google weren’t there to similarly get reprimanded.
Well done Cruz!
Yeah, it’s funny about that. We are old enough to remember that Parler wasn’t allowed to have its application in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store because they didn’t do enough to censor people. But for some reason, Instagram actually promoted child sexual abuse material, and was never suspended? What a telling set of priorities we keep seeing.
Mark Zuckerberg has profited immensely off of C.P. and child sex trafficking.
— American #185376980 (@NewYoekTines) January 31, 2024
He is a disgusting rat and should be tried for reason for his interference in the 2020 election by censoring real news. His money and properties should be split up into organizations fixing his sins. https://t.co/yGIO3Fnk7j
Finally, to shift gears a little, some of you might not have known that this author’s friend, John Hoge, had passed on, as we mentioned above. We announced it on Twitter/X the day of and it got some reach, but we still run into people who just missed it somehow, which is perfectly normal. If you missed it, here’s where we announced his passing:
I want to take a moment to announce that my best friend, John Hoge (@wjjhoge) has passed on. His son, William Hoge IV, called me this morning to share the terrible news. Earlier today, he was driving as normal when he had a heart attack. What little chance he had of surviving was…
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) December 15, 2023
The full text reads:
I want to take a moment to announce that my best friend, John Hoge (@wjjhoge) has passed on. His son, William Hoge IV, called me this morning to share the terrible news. Earlier today, he was driving as normal when he had a heart attack. What little chance he had of surviving was foreclosed when he struck the side railing on the road. I am told that no other persons were hurt in that accident. I have no doubt that John would be glad to hear that no one else was harmed.
A few years ago, his beloved wife, Connie Hoge had also passed on. I don’t think he ever fully got over losing her and I think everyone who knows him would be comforted by the thought that they are together again in heaven. Maybe doing some slow dancing. Maybe just enjoying each other’s company.
Will is still working through the details, such as when he will be memorialized. I am sure Will would appreciate any thoughts and prayers for John and everyone who cared for him. And I am sure John would want well-wishers to donate to Connie’s Fund, here: https://hogewash.com/connies-fund/
(But you might also save your money possibly to help Will with final expenses.)
I know many people online and offline will be mourning him. I will not be able to name them all, and I won’t try. But of particular mention is @PatriarchTree, @GrizzlyJoeShow, @RonColeman, @yidwithlid and @kagsundaram. I am sure I am leaving out ppl who don’t deserve it. I apologize in advance to those ppl.
We lost a good one today, folks.
We have no doubt that his loved ones would appreciate any prayers you wished to offer.
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Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Feather” is floating up the Billboard chart like a … well, you know.
Having just climbed from #56 to #37, the song has become the singer and actress’ first top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Her previous high was #48, which she hit with “Skin” in 2021.
On Billboard‘s Pop Airplay chart, “Feather” is doing even better: It’s currently #15.
“Feather” is from the deluxe edition of Sabrina’s album Emails I Can’t Send, which came out in March. The original came out in July 2022.
Sabrina will return to Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour in February, when she opens for her in Australia and Singapore. She’s also playing Coachella on April 12 and Governors Ball on June 8.
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ThoughtSpot update adds feedback loop to help train GenAI
The vendor continues to focus on generative AI, updating its conversational interface with more in-depth analysis capabilities and adding new methods of improving LLM accuracy.
Highlighted by a new human-generated feedback loop aimed at improving the accuracy of Sage, the vendor's generative AI-powered natural language interface, ThoughtSpot on Wednesday unveiled its latest analytics platform update.
ThoughtSpot first introduced Sage in March 2023 following an integration with OpenAI's GPT-3. Two months later, the vendor moved Sage into public preview, where it remains as ThoughtSpot works to continue improving Sage's accuracy and trustworthiness.
In addition to the feedback loop, ThoughtSpot introduced Conversational BI, an addition to Sage that enables deep data exploration using natural language.
Meanwhile, beyond Sage, ThoughtSpot's platform update includes an AI assistant to help generate code in Mode, a code-first analytics platform that ThoughtSpot acquired in June 2023. The update also adds generative AI (GenAI) features that surface insights in dashboards and help monitor KPIs.
Together, the new capabilities represent a significant update, given that they aim to augment humans with generative AI but don't remove responsibility for generative AI from humans, according to Kevin Petrie, an analyst at Eckerson Group.
"The right way to frame the GenAI renaissance [is that] creative humans are assisted by GenAI," he said. "Humans must remain in charge to mitigate risk. This is a good step forward for the application of language models to business intelligence."
Kevin PetrieAnalyst, Eckerson Group
Based in Mountain View, Calif., ThoughtSpot is an analytics vendor whose search-based platform enables customers to explore and analyze data using natural language.
Like peers including Qlik and Tableau, the vendor has made generative AI a primary focus of product development since OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 was a substantial improvement in large language model (LLM) capabilities.
Sage
Unlike many analytics vendors whose platforms required customers to use code to query and analyze data, ThoughtSpot's platform was designed from its start to enable customers to use natural language processing (NLP) to work with data.
Analytics use within enterprises has stagnated at around a quarter of all employees for about two decades. By reducing the need to use code, ThoughtSpot and other vendors that developed NLP capabilities and tools aimed to simplify the use of BI platforms so that more people could work with data.
ThoughtSpot's platform, however, had a limited vocabulary, as did the NLP tools other vendors introduced to complement their code-first capabilities. As a result, customers couldn't use true natural language, and platforms such as ThoughtSpot still required at least some level of data literacy training.
LLMs eliminate the limitations of a finite vocabulary. They are trained on all available public data and have the vocabularies of a dictionary. In addition, they are trained to infer intent, reducing the need for business analysts to phrase queries in highly specific ways.
Sage is an integration of ThoughtSpot's existing search and analytics capabilities with LLM technology to enable true natural language interactions with data. Its new capabilities, meanwhile, are designed to enable deeper data exploration within ThoughtSpot than previously possible using natural language, as well as to help Sage learn a specific business so that it can answer questions unique to a given enterprise.
Conversational BI is a new capability in Sage that lets customers ask follow-up questions as they work with data, enabling deeper analysis. The feedback loop overseen by humans, meanwhile, trains Sage to learn an organization's unique characteristics by enabling users to verify whether the mappings between natural language and ThoughtSpot's technology are correct.
LLMs are good at understanding language and being able to answer questions about anything in the public realm. They are not, however, privy to the proprietary data organizations need to make decisions specific to their business.
Combining LLMs with proprietary data is thus key to helping enterprises derive value from generative AI, according to Sumeet Arora, ThoughtSpot's chief development officer.
"What people can do is teach the system," Arora said. "They can reinforce the correct behaviors and remove the incorrect behaviors."
That means of training Sage with human feedback is significant, according to David Menninger, an analyst at ISG's Ventana Research.
He noted that tools such as Sage are finally making conversational analytics a reality after traditional NLP tools failed to help analytics reach a broad audience. However, users need to be able to trust the results generated by Sage and other LLM-powered analytics tools. Generative AI is subject to hallucinations -- including false, misleading and offensive results -- so making sure the models are properly trained is essential.
Having a feedback loop that includes people to train Sage therefore can help lead to trusted data.
"By employing GenAI, Sage is much more powerful than earlier search-based capabilities ThoughtSpot offered," Menninger said. "They are ... aware of some of the pitfalls [of conversational interfaces] and have addressed issues such as trust and having a human in the loop."
In addition to the new feedback loop, Petrie noted that the improved conversational BI capabilities in Sage are also significant for ThoughtSpot users.
In the eight months since first being released in public preview, Sage has been able to respond to queries and searches in the same natural language customers use to ask questions and initiate searches. However, Sage was not able to have a true conversation with follow-up questions and suggestions. That level of analysis required more complex skills on the part of the user.
Now, Sage can carry on a complete conversation, enabling customers to engage in deep analytics to derive insights that can lead to decisions and actions.
"Data teams can explore, organize and interpret data faster than before by conversing with the platform rather than configuring or coding SQL commands from scratch," Petrie said. "This improves productivity, enabling data analysts and developers to complete projects in less time and thereby take on more work."
More new capabilities
Beyond the new features in Sage, ThoughtSpot's platform update includes six more new tools. Among them, Ask Docs is the most significant, according to Menninger.
Ask Docs is a feature that lets developers ask coding questions using natural language and receive generative AI-assisted recommendations -- including code -- so that they can document their work and build data applications faster and easier.
Menninger noted that while natural language search and query represent an important way generative AI can help analytics consumers, code recommendations and code generation represent another.
"Ask Docs is a great way to apply GenAI beyond conversational analytics," he said. "There are so many ways GenAI can enhance the user experience. Having a conversational experience with the documentation is so much more productive than searching for the right information."
In addition to the new features in Sage and Ask Docs, ThoughtSpot's platform update includes the following:
- AI Assist, a tool in Mode aimed at helping users generate SQL code to develop and refine code-first data queries.
- AI Highlights on Liveboards, a feature that automatically surfaces changes to interactive dashboards and explains the drivers behind the changes.
- KPI Monitor, an automated tool that observes metrics for changes and alerts users when changes occur, including AI-generated analyses that explain the reasons behind changing KPIs.
- ThoughtSpot Sage Embed, a tool that enables customers to embed Sage into all of their data products and applications.
- AI Center and Model Interoperability, features that are designed for data administrators to set privacy and security controls on all of ThoughtSpot's AI capabilities.
In sum, the new capabilities included in ThoughtSpot's update represent progress for the vendor, according to Menninger. In particular, it demonstrates generative AI being put to actual use.
"To the extent you consider GenAI and conversational computing significant, this release is significant," Menninger said. "ThoughtSpot has put GenAI features in market earlier than many other analytics vendors and has introduced early releases of some of its future capabilities."
Arora, meanwhile, noted that the release represents ThoughtSpot's continuing effort to remove data from dashboards and use AI to deliver analytics to users within their workflows. Sage Embed is one tool that epitomizes that evolution. KPI Monitor is another.
"We are moving people from that world of dashboard drudgery to a world of business outcomes for everyone, delivered by AI-powered insights from data," he said. "The only way it happens is if we leverage AI to find insights that are relevant and powerful, and make them easy to [consume]."
Future plans
Looking ahead, Arora said ThoughtSpot is making a push to help customers expand their deployments with Sage and other generative AI tools that have the potential to help more employees within organizations work with data.
In addition, ongoing efforts include continuing to improve the accuracy of generative AI-powered insights so that users can trust their results and enabling customers to choose the LLMs they want to use with their proprietary data, Arora continued.
"This is the year GenAI goes from all the hype to actual use," he said.
Key to ThoughtSpot's work toward improving generative AI accuracy will be the continued involvement of reinforcement learning from human feedback, according to Petrie.
He noted that the introduction of the feedback loop in the vendor's latest update is just the beginning, and there will be fine-tuning that needs to be done over time.
"Human experts must oversee, inspect and correct both inputs and outputs when using GenAI, given governance risks such as hallucinations, bias and privacy breaches," Petrie said. "ThoughtSpot's advanced feedback loop is a good step toward mitigating [risks] and making language models more trustworthy. It's a long-term process, and we're in early days."
Menninger, meanwhile, is an advocate of planning tools that help organizations explore and prepare for various potential scenarios. He said he'd like Sage and similar generative AI tools from other analytics vendors to do more forward-looking analyses.
In addition, he suggested that the application of generative AI to data pipelines represents an opportunity for ThoughtSpot and its peers to expand.
"It will be interesting to see how far analytics vendors go to address data pipelines with GenAI," Menninger said. "Since that is the most time-consuming part of analytics, it could significantly improve productivity of data and analytics teams."
Eric Avidon is a senior news writer for TechTarget Editorial and a journalist with more than 25 years of experience. He covers analytics and data management.
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The tripartite wage committee is expected to consider another daily minimum wage increase in April, with the new rates likely to rise to 400 baht in some provinces.
This comes as Labour Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said that Pairoj Chotikasathien, permanent secretary for labour, who serves as the committee's chairman, has appointed a subcommittee to review a minimum wage calculation formula and study the possibility of increasing rates for some provinces and career types.
"The study's results will be presented to the committee," Mr Phiphat said on Tuesday. "I am confident there will be good news in April. Some provinces and career types will likely see a daily wage increase of 400 baht."
Mr Pairoj said that the subpanel will study economic and social circumstances, the current wage rates, standards of living and employee expenses to produce a new formula for calculating the daily minimum wage.
He said the subpanel will hold its first meeting this week before presenting the findings to the main committee by the end of this month.
The 17-member subpanel is chaired by the deputy permanent secretary for labour, and it comprises five employer and five employee representatives plus seven government officials.
The daily minimum wage for Thai workers nationwide rose on Jan 1, with the new rates varying between provinces, ranging from 330 to 370 baht, according to the tripartite wage committee.
Before Jan 1, the rates were between 328 and 354 baht. The increases range from 2 to 16 baht, or an average of 2.37%.
Mr Phiphat previously said a wage review is typically based on the economic growth rate, inflation, and the cost of living over the past five years.
However, he noted the wage rate calculation was unfair to workers because it included the low economic growth rate during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020-2021. He said the economic situation during the outbreak should not be used in the calculation.
Kiriya Kulkolkarn, a lecturer at Thammasat University's economics faculty, echoed this view.
She said the calculation should have been based on inflation from July 2022 until September 2023, with an average increase of 3.2%. She said this formula could be applied to every province.
The current rate falls short of the 400 baht which the Pheu Thai Party promised during its election campaign earlier this year, and which rattled businesses which feared a rate that high could make the country less competitive.
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin previously said he would seek a revision of the committee's decision to raise the minimum wage by 2 to 16 baht across the country, calling the increases too low.
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TORONTO, Jan. 31, 2024 /CNW/ - Mason Resources Inc. ("Mason") (TSXV: LLG) (OTCQX: MGPHF) is pleased to announce that it closed today the sale of the Lac Guéret Property, targeted for the development of the Uatnan Mining Project, pursuant to the previously announced asset purchase agreement dated January 21, 2024 (the "APA") with Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc. ("NMG") (NYSE: NMG) (TSXV: NOU).
In consideration for the sale of the Lac Guéret Property, Mason received 6,208,210 common shares of NMG, representing approximately 9.25% of the issued and outstanding common shares of NMG.
A copy of the APA is available under Mason's profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.
Mason Resources Inc. is a Canadian corporation focused on seeking investment opportunities. Mason is the largest shareholder of Black Swan Graphene Inc. ("Black Swan") (TSX.V: SWAN) (OTCQB: BSWGF) focusing on the large-scale production of patented high-performance and low-cost graphene products aimed at several industrial sectors, including concrete and polymers, which are expected to require large volumes of graphene and, in turn, large volumes of graphite. Black Swan aims at leveraging Québec's emerging graphite industry to establish an integrated supply chain. In 2023, Black Swan, Nationwide Engineering Research & Development Ltd., and Arup Group Ltd. announced strategic partnerships and, in 2024, Black Swan announced a commercial agreement with Hubron International Ltd. Black Swan's graphene processing technology was developed over the span of a decade by Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd., a United Kingdom-based global chemicals manufacturer, with a century-long track record.
For more information: www.masonresourcesinc.com and www.blackswangraphene.com.
Nouveau Monde Graphite is striving to become a key contributor to the sustainable energy revolution. The Company is working towards developing a fully integrated source of carbon-neutral battery anode material in Québec, Canada, for the growing lithium-ion and fuel cell markets. With enviable ESG standards, NMG aspires to become a strategic supplier to the world's leading battery and automobile manufacturers, providing high-performing and reliable advanced materials while promoting sustainability and supply chain traceability.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Wednesday, Wake County Judge Eric Chasse started his afternoon court session with Edward Nolasco first on the docket.
"Edward Nolasco," asked Judge Chasse.
The 25-year-old Knightdale resident was seated in court with two presumed family members.
During the proceeding that lasted less than five minutes, Nolasco nodded in agreement a couple of times. However, he did not say anything.
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Nolasco was arrested on Tuesday by North Carolina Highway Patrol (NCSHP) troopers after they said he was speeding on his motorcycle on Interstate 540 and got away from them.
If convicted on his felony charges, which date back to October 2023, Judge Chasse said Nolasco could face more than three years behind bars.
When asked about the allegations, following court, Nolasco repeatedly answered "No comment" multiple times.
At one point Nolasco responded, "I'm sorry. I apologize...I'm just trying to get home," before he and his family exited the courthouse.
Nolasco's charges include:
Nolasco is scheduled to reappear in Wake County Court on February 21.
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Kentucky House committee passes bill requiring moment of silence in schools
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky House overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday instructing public schools to set aside time for a moment of silence at the start of each school day.
The measure easily cleared the House on a 79-17 vote and moves on to the Senate. Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers.
Under the bill, the moment of silence would last one to two minutes at the start of the first class each day in public schools across the Bluegrass State. Students would decide how to use that time, and school personnel would be prohibited from instructing them on their silent reflection. Parents would be notified of the policy and encouraged to offer guidance to their children on how to spend that time.
Every student would be expected to remain seated and silent during that time.
During the House debate, Democratic Rep. Tina Bojanowski said she sees the bill as “a way to push prayer into public schools,” adding that it raises constitutional concerns.
Public schools were barred from leading students in classroom prayer following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling decades ago that said it violated a First Amendment clause forbidding the establishment of a government religion.
Another critic of the bill, Democratic Rep. Josie Raymond, said: “This is something that belongs in the home realm for families to discuss with their children.”
In praising the bill, Republican Rep. Tom Smith said what has been lacking in schools is taking the “time to thank God for our day. And I think that’s what’s going to watch over our education and our kids.”
The bill’s lead sponsor is Republican Rep. Daniel Fister.
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The legislation is House Bill 96.
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Republicans have voted to advance Mayorkas impeachment. What happens now?
Alejandro Mayorkas called the allegations against him “false” in a letter to the Homeland Security Committee Chairman
Karine Jean-Pierre calls impeachment trial against Mayorkas “political symbolism”
Republican members of the Homeland Security Committee voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday morning.
The decision, opposed by House Democrats, comes after articles of impeachment accused Mr Mayorkas of “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” by allowing the release of migrants awaiting legal proceedings and breached “public trust” when he told lawmakers the US-Mexico border was secure.
Committee Republicans voted in favour of moving forward with impeachment, while Democrats voted against it in an 18-15 decision. A vote in the House of Representatives is next, and it could happen as early as next week.
If the articles pass the House, the Senate will hold an impeachment trial and would require a two-thirds majority to convict.
“We cannot allow this man to remain in office any longer,” Representative Mark Green, committee chairman and a Republican from Tennessee, said.
In a letter to Mr Green on Tuesday, Mr Mayorkas called the allegations that he has failed to enforce immigration laws “false.”
“We have provided Congress and your Committee hours of testimony, thousands of documents, hundreds of briefings, and much more information that demonstrates quite clearly how we are enforcing the law,” the letter provided by the DHS reads.
Meanwhile, Democrats argue that Mr Mayorkas is acting under his legal authority as Secretary and that the criticisms against him do not rise to the level of impeachment.
“This is a terrible day for the committee, the United States, the Constitution and our great country,” Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, said.
More than just Congressional Democrats have spoken out against the impeachment. As The New York Times reports, US Constitution scholars, previous secretaries of homeland security and some former legal advisers to former president Donald Trump have all condemned the articles, arguing Mr Mayorkas has not hit the bar of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that impeachment requires.
If the House votes in favour of the articles, Mr Mayorkas will become the second cabinet member in US history to face impeachment. The last cabinet member impeached was Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876.
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As Twitchy noted earlier today, Biden is -- a year later -- finally going to East Palestine, OH, the site of a train derailment that left the small town in a state of upheaval.
For a long time, critics have called out the President for failing to visit, even though he'd promised to a while ago. He even went so far as to say there's 'a lot going on', so those poor folks in deep red Ohio will just have to wait.
And, just so we're clear, Trump made a visit to East Palestine back in February 2023.
At least someone gets it.
Meanwhile, the reaction to Biden's decision indicates it may not help him garner favor with voters. Quite the opposite, in fact.
We'll start with his presumptive challenger in the November election, former President Trump.
Trump knocks Biden for going to East Palestine one year after train derailment https://t.co/fmgZ1dXgzN pic.twitter.com/QXqQySk1Fl
— The Hill (@thehill) January 31, 2024
Former President Trump knocked President Biden, his likely general election rival, for going to East Palestine, Ohio, roughly one year after a major train derailment.
In a social media post, Trump hit Biden for “finally” visiting East Palestine after the White House announced Wednesday the president would travel there next month to meet with residents impacted by the Feb. 3, 2023, Norfolk Southern train derailment.
Karine Jean-Pierre struggles to explain why Joe Biden has taken so long to visit East Palestine, Ohio.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 31, 2024
Biden has spent almost 130 days on vacation since the derailment. pic.twitter.com/9Pb0T58Kfo
This made is cringe.
While the shift for Trump in polling wouldn’t happen for another month I wrote in my reporter’s notebook that day if he is able to resurrect the magic of 2016, understanding the forgotten man, it started here, the day he showed up & Biden refused. https://t.co/7AOnQA74ql
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) January 24, 2024
The sleet and rain were unforgiving here on Feb. 22, 2023, the day former President Donald Trump came to this small Columbiana County village. Despite the weather and concerns about what was in the air or what kind of chemical was lurking in the pools of mud they were walking in, folks by the hundreds lined up along Main Street as Trump’s motorcade filled with state and local law enforcement sirened its way into town.
Men and women, young and old, children, teenagers, and a couple of dozen Amish families all waited in the icy rain along the designated route in anticipation of Trump showing up to their town, just under a month after a 38-car Norfolk Southern train dumped poisonous residue into the air. First, there had been the fiery derailment, whose immediate effects went on for two days, followed by a controlled burn that released hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the air and water.
If you had lived within a mile from here, you had been evacuated two days after the derailment when a temperature change in one of the derailed train cars caused officials to fear a violent shrapnel-laced explosion with the potential of a mass catastrophe. They were also deeply concerned about one of the valves in a tank car carrying vinyl chloride, a known carcinogen, that they noticed had malfunctioned.
If you had visited here for weeks — as I had, reporting about the disaster — you understood, more than anything else, that the people here wanted to know that those in power would help them. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), just weeks post swearing-in, was here multiple times. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) also came. However, the person with the most power, President Joe Biden, had not come, nor would he ever.
Vance told me that Trump did a great service to the residents of East Palestine by forcing the political class to care about them.
People begged Biden to show up.
NEW: Amid pressure to visit, Biden to head to East Palestine, Ohio one year after train derailment.
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) January 31, 2024
While East Palestine residents were begging for help Biden took a surprise visit to Ukraine to deliver more funds and support. pic.twitter.com/5G2dbQQw65
Just heartbreaking.
Haven't the people in East Palestine suffered enough? First, the train derailment. Then Israel bombs them. And now, worst of all, Biden is going to visit. https://t.co/Gwn5L8rvcb
— Dr Strangetweet Or How I Learned To Love The RT (@lone_rides) January 31, 2024
We all knew people were going to go there.
Happy that Biden is FINALLY going to visit East Palestine. Sad that he thinks HAMAS lives there.
— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) January 31, 2024
Might be worth watching his remarks just to see if he does confuse the two.
A lot of people dunking on this, but I get it. His son died in that train crash. https://t.co/SnyzMXdPHS
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) January 31, 2024
Or to see if he says someone he loved died in this crash.
Well, well, well... the Biden regime has announced that everyone's favorite worst president, & @JoeBiden will visit East Palestine, a year after the train derailment. When asked about this trip, Joe said he can't wait to see the Garza Strip up close! pic.twitter.com/ScYfjZoqF9
— Ron Milner (@RonMilnerBoodle) January 31, 2024
The jokes just write themselves.
But back to the criticism being heaped on Biden (and rightly so):
Biden visiting East Palestine at this point is pure politics. What is he actually going to do for the people on the ground? That’s what matters, not political stunts. https://t.co/oX1tEHtoZO
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) January 31, 2024
He's not going to do anything. He hasn't for a year. Why start now?
Joe Biden going to visit East Palestine, Ohio now is like giving condoms to a pregnant girl.
— Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) January 31, 2024
It kinda is.
Maybe if his Secretary of Transportation was more concerned about infrastructure and doing his job than racist roads and DEI at the FAA, things would be different.
Joe Biden is finally getting around to going to East Palestine, Ohio but only because it’s an election year.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 31, 2024
If Biden actually cared, he would have gone in the immediate aftermath. https://t.co/ePUgUTzzmF
It wasn't politically advantageous last year.
Who else expects Biden to be resoundingly heckled when he goes to East Palestine? Honestly I have no idea why he's going a year later.
— Styxhexenhammer666 (@Styx666Official) January 31, 2024
This writer has it on good authority from an Ohio friend that Biden is very unpopular in that part of Ohio. Should go swimmingly for him.
WH press sec on whether Biden will drink the water when he visits East Palestine, Ohio:
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 31, 2024
"I'm not going to get into some sort of political stunts about drinking water." pic.twitter.com/zHSojhf1zH
Oh, now they're worried about political stunts.
Too little, too late. https://t.co/2Fr1GCr92j
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) January 31, 2024
Yes, it is.
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Mariah Carey has plenty of Grammys to her name, but the Recording Academy will present her with a special award this year.
Mariah will receive the Recording Academy Global Impact Award at the third annual Recording Academy Honors Presented by the Black Music Collective, a pre-Grammy event taking place in LA on February 1. The award recognizes Black music creators whose “dedication to the art form has greatly influenced the industry.”
The recipients are being honored for the ways in which their “leadership and passion has empowered others to embrace authenticity and contribute to positive change.”
Mariah is one of three honorees this year; Lenny Kravitz, one of her co-stars in the movie Precious, is another one. The third has yet to be announced.
Mariah has won five Grammys in her career; Lenny has won four.
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MONTREAL, Jan. 31, 2024 /CNW/ - Following the Annual General Meeting of shareholders of METRO INC. held on January 30, 2024, METRO INC. is announcing the voting results obtained at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders for the election of its directors.
The 12 nominees proposed by management were elected as directors. According to proxies received and ballots cast, each of the following 12 individuals was elected as directors of METRO INC. until the next annual meeting of shareholders or until such person's successor is elected or appointed, with the following results:
The Corporation congratulates the directors for their election.
With annual sales of more than $20 billion, METRO INC. is a food and pharmacy leader in Québec and Ontario, providing employment to more than 97,000 people. Its purpose is to Nourish the health and well-being of our communities. As a retailer, franchisor, distributor, manufacturer, and provider of eCommerce services, the company operates or services a network of some 980 food stores under several banners including Metro, Metro Plus, Super C and Food Basics, and 640 pharmacies primarily under the Jean Coutu, Brunet, Metro Pharmacy and Food Basics Pharmacy banners. For more details, visit corpo.metro.ca.
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Laser strikes aimed at aircraft, including airline planes, surged 41% last year to a record high, according to federal officials.
The video above is about a laser pointer being aimed at ABC13's helicopter crew while flying above traffic in Houston, Texas.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it received 13,304 reports from pilots about laser strikes last year, erasing a record set in 2021.
"Aiming a laser at an aircraft is a serious safety hazard that puts everyone on the plane and on the ground at risk," FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said in a video posted by the agency.
The FAA said pilots have reported 313 injuries since the agency started keeping records in 2010.
Each of the last five months of 2023 surpassed the previous high month, November 2021. The full-year rise over 2022 numbers easily topped the 28% increase in reported incidents from 2016 to 2022.
Authorities blame the surge in attacks on factors including the widespread sale of inexpensive lasers in stores and online, stronger devices that can hit planes at higher altitudes, and the increased awareness among pilots to report incidents.
The FAA said it can fine violators $11,000 for each violation, up to $30,800, and federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies can file criminal charges.
Laser strikes at aircraft are most common during the first few hours after midnight, according to FAA data.
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Kentucky juvenile facilities have issues with force, staffing, report says
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s juvenile justice system has lingering problems with the use of force and isolation techniques and has done little to implement a 2017 state audit’s suggestions for improvement, according to a report released Wednesday.
The new report from Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball says the state’s juvenile detention centers lack clear policies concerning the use of isolation cells, Tasers and pepper spray, and have significant staffing problems. It also found that Department of Juvenile Justice staffers were using pepper spray at a rate nearly 74 times higher than it is used in adult federal prisons.
A federal lawsuit filed earlier this month alleges that two teen girls were kept in isolation cells for weeks in unsanitary conditions at a youth facility in Adair County in 2022. That same year, the detention center was the site of a riot that began when a juvenile assaulted a staff member. Another federal lawsuit was filed this week by a woman who said that as a 17-year-old, she spent a month in an isolation cell at the Adair facility in 2022.
The auditor’s review was requested last year by state lawmakers.
“The state of the Department of Juvenile Justice has been a concern across the Commonwealth and a legislative priority over the past several years,” Ball said in a statement Wednesday.
Ball blamed Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration for “disorganization across facilities, and as a result, the unacceptably poor treatment of Kentucky youth.” Beshear earlier this month criticized a Kentucky House budget proposal for lacking funding for new female-only juvenile justice centers.
The auditor’s report, labeled a “performance assessment,” found that the Juvenile Justice department’s “practices for isolation are inconsistently defined, applied and in conflict with nationally-recognized best practices.” The department’s use of force policies are also “poorly deployed and defined,” it said.
The report said the findings from the 2017 audit have largely not been addressed, including concerns of overuse of solitary confinement, low medical care standards and the poor quality of the policy manual.
Beshear initiated a new state policy for juvenile offenders last year that places male juveniles charged with serious crimes in a high-security facility. The policy replaced a decades-old regional system that put juveniles in facilities based on where they live.
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Darwin Nunez breaks Premier League record with performance against Chelsea
The Liverpool striker hit the woodwork four times and missed a penalty in the 4-1 win against Chelsea, but also made an assist
Darwin Nunez set a new Premier League record in Liverpool’s 4-1 victory over Chelsea - by hitting the post or crossbar four times.
The Liverpool striker became the first Premier League player since Opta records began in 2002 to strike the woodwork four times in a single match.
Nunez struck the post with a first-half penalty and then the crossbar with a close-range header in the second half while Chelsea goalkeeper Dorde Petrovic also tipped one of his efforts onto the woodwork.
But Nunez was able to register an assist and set up Luis Diaz’s goal, Liverpool’s fourth of the night, as the Reds went five points clear at the top of the table thanks to a thumping win.
The Uruguay striker is the embodiment of chaos in Liverpool’s attack and his performance against Chelsea was pure carnage even by his standards. Nunez has now hit the woodwork more than twice as many times as the next player in the Premier League this season.
The 24-year-old has scored seven times in the top-flight this season and has become a fans’ favourite at Anfield - with the Kop signing his name after setting up Diaz’s final goal.
Before Nunez, four players in Premier League history - Jay-Jay Okocha, Cristiano Ronaldo, Timo Werner and Leandro Trossard - had hit the post or crossbar three times in a single match.
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We touched on the 'success' of Canada's Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) program when we talked about MN legislators looking to pass assisted suicide legislation in the state.
So Nate Erskine-Smith, MP from Beaches-East York, took to Twitter/X to crow about how 'successful' the program is.
The sky hasn’t fallen. The slope isn’t slippery.
— Nate Erskine-Smith (@beynate) January 30, 2024
Medical assistance in dying has been an overwhelming success in Canada.
It has enhanced freedom, reduced suffering, and provided a dignified death to thousands of people in need.
Read more here: https://t.co/pUl16yxudF
Death has 'enhanced freedom'? Are you serious right now?
Let's remind you of some of the 'freedom' that comes from MAID:
Using it for homelessness, drug addiction, and anorexia.
Offering it to Canadian military veterans.
And our personal favorite: A quarter of Canadians think MAID can be used for the poor.
So much success. So much enhanced freedom.
Go broke in Canada, and they'll euthanize you like an animal.
50,000 people murdered. Overwhelming success. Good grief.
— Ginny (@ginkates) January 31, 2024
50,000 people murdered.
Dude, MAID growing at 30% yearly. 2023 it will likely be 3rd biggest cause of death in Canada after cancer & heart.
— Adam Sinai (@Adam_Sinai) January 30, 2024
If success you mean killing Canadians, it’s roaring. pic.twitter.com/KmLqRLi0cw
Third cause of death after cancer and heart disease.
SUCCESS!
Weird. It seems to me that MAID is an easy way to not treat people. Someone I know has chronic pain & depression. He can’t get seen anywhere in a reasonable timeframe, but he’s received lots of govt sponsored ads to off himself via MAID. It’s disgusting.
— Kate (@kateinva) January 31, 2024
It's a money saving program, one that will kill you for perfectly treatable things like pain and depression, or temporary situations like poverty and homelessness.
It's evil.
An MP in the Gov't that jails people for improper speech describes that same Gov't killing the handicapped, the mentally ill - and coming soon, kids as young as 12! as "freedom." This is a moral abyss, this is monstrous, this is evil. https://t.co/1as80z7jqy
— Joanne Mason (@JoanneMason11) January 31, 2024
Monstrous and evil are almost too kind.
And yes, this guy says the government killing people is 'freedom' while jailing people for speech, freezing bank accounts of protesters.
The irony is not lost on us.
That is the sky falling. You next https://t.co/pzFJdgIh6E
— Good Tweetman (@Goodtweet_man) January 31, 2024
The sky is falling.
But we're guessing the good MP prescribes to the 'just enough of me, way too many of you' mentality. MAID is for other people, not him.
“Look, we’ve implemented a state-run murder project that’s already killed a number of people under suspicious circumstances, what’s the big deal???
— Arturo Boremano (definitely NOT “Arthur Boreman”) (@ArthurBoreman) January 31, 2024
The metrics are great by the way., not that you asked.” https://t.co/p678LGiY5c
Watch: they'll brag about reducing poverty, homelessness, mental health and costs of Canada's socialist medicine system. They just won't report that those reductions came from killing the poor and ill.
I’m not against assisted suicide in cases where patients are terminal and suffering. What MAiD is doing goes beyond that. That you can’t see that is precisely the problem. https://t.co/va3wCuFWBL
— Heather B (@BoulwareH2) January 31, 2024
And it always, invariably, goes beyond that.
This is a lie on multiple accounts.
— Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC (@FrMatthewLC) January 31, 2024
1. It was promoted as assisted suicide, but under 1% are assisted suicide: it's usually the doctor killing the patient (euthanasia).
2. It was promoted as just for the very end of life, but now it is being offered for much broader categories,… https://t.co/1zYICnmNqd
All they do is lie.
“THE SLOPE ISN’T SLIPPERY” he says after jumping off a cliff https://t.co/wgTihFobVH
— Elijah the Middleborne (@TheMiddleborne) January 31, 2024
Wheeee!
This feller is enjoying the power of being able to implement this way to much https://t.co/n2WBocd6Qv
— Andrew Donaldson (@four4thefire) January 31, 2024
Yes, he is.
Yes it is an overwhelming success, in that Canada has gotten rid of quite a lot of pesky burdens on the medical system taking up their money through "free" healthcare. https://t.co/LWcmUPfxmJ
— Venom Rach (@SocialNomadRach) January 31, 2024
'Free' healthcare is never free.
If anyone's been wondering if Goebbels had been reincarnated, I've found a good candidate. https://t.co/MuX3osxU95
— ℚ𝕦𝕖𝕫𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕠𝕒𝕥𝕝 (@quetzlovercoatl) January 31, 2024
Gets our vote.
Even Goebbels would probably tell him to tap the brakes, honestly.
"One death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic."
— Michael Hettrick (@HettrickMichael) January 30, 2024
Stalin might never have actually said that, but this tweet just did.#cdnpoli #AssistedSuicide https://t.co/Hw2p3Vic4W
Yes it did. It's bragging about it.
To be clear - the slope isn't slippery because you are at the bottom of the slope.
— Upstate Federalist (@upstatefederlst) January 31, 2024
You are celebrating that suicide is becoming the leading cause of death in the country.
You called it Maid. https://t.co/Lw2cIaIDDk
He'll never fall victim to the policies he forces on others.
Golden boy liberal portrays MAID as an “overwhelming success” and an “enhanced freedom.”
— Robert Stevenson (@FreeWheelinRob) January 31, 2024
Meanwhile 13,000 Canadians were euthanized last year, taken before their time, a 31% increase from 2022. Quite the enhanced freedom you’ve found, Nate. https://t.co/JZuzuxKGYU
It's also an indictment of Canada's healthcare system, honestly, if they can't treat people for cancer and other illnesses. But let's socialize medicine here, too.
Me: “I have the sniffles”
— Deus Vult! (@CM147143) January 31, 2024
My Canadian doctor: https://t.co/BNeuzbKeLX pic.twitter.com/hMLvVg1vSy
Pretty much how it's playing out.
This is all so dark and sad to me. Folks, your life matters. It matters to the One who fashioned you and breathed life into you, and it matters to the world around you. If you were placed here, there's a purpose for your life. You're more than numbers and statistics. Much more. https://t.co/FYzmJbf4Cu
— Jennifer Erin Valent (@JenniferEValent) January 31, 2024
So much more. And life is too fleeting as it is. We don't need MAID to hasten the process.
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Taylor Swift is the most powerful person in the music business. That’s according to Billboard, which has put her on top of its annual Power 100 list.
The publication notes that the most powerful people are usually the behind-the-scenes figures, such as record company or streaming platform CEOs, lawyers and managers. But this year, the publication notes, “The mastermind behind most of the industry’s record-breaking achievements … was an artist herself.”
“Taylor Swift doesn’t refer to herself publicly as an executive, but she designed and executed one of the most ambitious, innovative and successful business plans the music industry has ever seen,” the article continues.
“Sure, she has a team behind her … by all accounts, though, she makes the bets and calls the shots — so there’s no one else we can credit for her brilliant chess moves.”
“The piece of advice I would give to the other executives on this list is that the best ideas are usually ones without industry precedent,” Taylor tells Billboard. “The biggest crossroads moments of my career came down to sticking to my instincts when my ideas were looked at with skepticism.”
“We have to take strategic risks every day in this industry, but every once in a while, you have to really trust your gut and take a flying leap,” she adds. “My rerecordings are my favorite example of this, and I’m extremely grateful to my team and fans for taking that leap with me because it absolutely changed my life.”
Another huge leap Taylor took this year was her unprecedented release of her Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour film: She bypassed movie studios and made a deal directly with AMC Theatres to distribute it, instantly creating a new business model.
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- Mithaq's premium, all-cash takeover bid for Aimia of $3.66 per common share remains the best option for shareholders
- Shareholders should continue to visit www.cashpremiumforaimia.com for the latest updates
TORONTO, Jan. 31, 2024 /CNW/ - Mithaq Capital SPC ("Mithaq"), the largest shareholder of Aimia Inc. (TSX: AIM) ("Aimia"), announced that it has acquired 31,800 common shares of Aimia (the "Purchased Shares") through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange today, at an average price of $3.30 per Purchased Share, for a total purchase price of $104,940. The highest price paid for any Purchased Share was $3.30. As a result, Mithaq has ownership of, or control or direction over, a total of 26,171,100 common shares, representing approximately 27.65% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Aimia (the "Common Shares").
Immediately prior to acquiring the Purchased Shares, Mithaq had ownership of, or exercised control or direction over, a total of 26,139,300 Common Shares, representing approximately 27.62% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares.
Mithaq has acquired the Purchased Shares for investment purposes and in connection with the offer by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Mithaq Canada Inc. (the "Offeror"), to purchase all of the issued and outstanding Common Shares of Aimia not already owned by Mithaq or its affiliates (the "Offer"). Since October 5, 2023, the date that the Offer was commenced (the "Offer Date"), Mithaq has acquired 112,100 Common Shares (including the Purchased Shares) (the "Aggregate Purchased Shares"). The Offer is open for acceptance until 11:59 p.m. (Vancouver time) on February 15, 2024 and Mithaq may make additional purchases of Common Shares until such time, though the number of any such Common Shares purchased, together with the Aggregate Purchased Shares, will not exceed 4,208,230 Common Shares, representing 5% of the Common Shares outstanding as at the Offer Date, pursuant to section 2.2(3) of National Instrument 62-104.
THE PREMIUM, ALL-CASH TAKEOVER OFFER
Mithaq's premium, all-cash takeover bid for Aimia of $3.66 per Common Share remains the best option for shareholders.
The Offeror commenced the Offer and filed a take-over bid circular (the "Mithaq Circular") and related documents with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada on October 5, 2023.
Shareholders are urged to read the Mithaq Circular, the Notice of Variation filed on November 28, 2023 (the "First Notice of Variation"), and the Notice of Extension filed on January 18, 2024 (the "Notice of Extension") as they contain important information, including the terms and conditions of the Offer and the procedures for depositing Common Shares. Additional information about the Offer or copies of the Mithaq Circular, the First Notice of Variation, the Notice of Extension and related documents may be obtained without charge on request from Carson Proxy Advisors at the contact information below. The Mithaq Circular and related documents filed by the Offeror are also available on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.
This press release does not constitute an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell any securities of the Offeror, Mithaq or Aimia.
HOW TO TENDER
Shareholders are encouraged to tender their Common Shares and realize immediate liquidity for their investment. If Common Shares are held by a broker or other financial intermediary, shareholders should contact that intermediary and instruct it to tender their Common Shares. If Common Shares are held in registered form, shareholders should complete the Letter of Transmittal included in the documents mailed to them by the Offeror.
For shareholders whose certificate(s) or direct registration system statement(s) ("DRS Statements") are not immediately available or who cannot deliver the certificate(s) or DRS Statement(s) and all other required documents to Olympia Trust Company prior to the expiry time, they may accept the Offer by properly completing and duly executing a Notice of Guaranteed Delivery and returning it to Olympia Trust Company as specified in the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.
Shareholders with questions or in need of assistance accepting the Offer can contact Carson Proxy Advisors by telephone at 1-800-530-5189 (North American Toll-Free Number) or 416-751-2066 (outside North America) or by email at [email protected].
ABOUT MITHAQ
Mithaq is a segregated portfolio company and affiliate of Mithaq Holding Company, a family office based in Saudi Arabia with investments in public equities, real estate, private equity and income-producing assets in local and international markets.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Mithaq Capital SPC
+966 11 222 22 10
[email protected]
Saudi Arabia, P.O. Box 86611, Riyadh 11632
Shareholders
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Collect Call Outside North America: 416-751-2066
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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
This document contains "forward-looking statements" (as defined under applicable securities laws). These statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect the Offeror and Mithaq's expectations, beliefs, plans, estimates, intentions, and similar statements concerning anticipated future events, results, circumstances, performance or expectations that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Offer and Mithaq's intentions to make additional purchases of Common Shares. Such forward-looking statements reflect the Offeror and Mithaq's current beliefs and are based on information currently available. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may", "will", "should", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "predict", "potential", "continue", "target", "intend", "could" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology.
By their very nature, forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and specific, and a number of factors could cause actual events or results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. In evaluating these statements, readers should specifically consider various factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statement. These factors include, but are not limited to, market and general economic conditions (including slowing economic growth, inflation and rising interest rates) and the dynamic nature of the industry in which Aimia operates.
Although the forward-looking information contained in this document is based upon what the Offeror and Mithaq believe are reasonable assumptions, there can be no assurance that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this document are made as of the date of this document and should not be relied upon as representing views as of any date subsequent to the date of this document. Except as may be required by applicable law, the Offeror and Mithaq do not undertake, and specifically disclaim, any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, further developments or otherwise.
Neither the Offeror, Mithaq, nor any of their subsidiaries, affiliates, associates, officers, partners, employees, representatives and advisers, make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the fairness, truth, fullness, accuracy or completeness of the information contained in this document or otherwise made available, nor as to the reasonableness of any assumption contained herein, and any liability therefore (including in respect of direct, indirect, consequential loss or damage) is expressly disclaimed. Nothing contained herein is, or shall be relied upon as, a promise or representation, whether as to the past or the future and no reliance, in whole or in part, should be placed on the fairness, accuracy, completeness or correctness of the information contained herein.
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For further information: Media, Boyd Erman, FGS Longview, 416-649-8007, [email protected]; Joel Shaffer, FGS Longview, 416-649-8006, [email protected]
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BREAKING Alberta to require parental consent for name, pronoun changes at school
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province will require parental consent for students 15 and under who want to change their names or pronouns at school.
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.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province will require parental consent for students 15 and under who want to change their names or pronouns at school.
The jury from the inquest into one of Canada’s most brutal mass killings is set to deliver its recommendations on Wednesday afternoon.
British police said Wednesday they are hunting for a suspect after several people were injured with a corrosive substance in London.
Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives are touting a record-setting fundraising year — his first full calendar year at the helm of the party — while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals raised less than half of that in donations from Canadians.
A New Brunswick widow is urging Canadians with symptoms of Strep A to get tested or go to the hospital so that other families don’t have to deal with a loss like hers did.
Canada's new limit on visas for international students will cool the high demand for rental units and slow the rate of rent hikes, but it won't necessarily be a big factor in solving the country's housing affordability crisis, observers say.
Worried that it may disappear for good, residents in Cape Ray, N.L. tied up a mysterious shipwreck on Tuesday, anchoring it to the beach in a bid to preserve the wreckage and find some answers about its origins.
A man accused of beheading his father in suburban Philadelphia posted a gruesome video on social media that shows him holding up the severed head and railing against the government, authorities said Wednesday.
A grainy sonar image recorded by a private pilot has reinvigorated interest in one of the past century’s most alluring mysteries: What happened to Amelia Earhart when her plane vanished during her flight around the world in 1937?
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Massachusetts turns recreational plex into shelter for homeless families, including migrants
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu toured a recreational complex Wednesday hours ahead of its planned opening as a temporary shelter site for families experiencing homelessness, including migrants.
Healey said about 75 individuals were expected to arrive at the Cass Recreational Complex, located in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood, before the end of the day. The complex can provide temporary shelter for up to 400 people, or about 100-125 families, as the state continues to grapple with an influx of homeless migrants.
“We’re here today because we really don’t have a choice,” she said. “Families continue to come into this country, continue to come to Massachusetts, and we have over the last several months opened up locations throughout the state.”
There are currently three larger state-operated overflow family shelter sites. The location in Roxbury, one of the city’s traditionally Black neighborhoods, will be the fourth.
The others are located in Revere (150 rooms), Quincy (57 rooms) and Cambridge, which can accommodate 200 people or about 57 families.
There are also smaller emergency shelter sites in about 90 communities.
Those using the overflow sites are among 656 families currently on a wait list hoping to get into the state’s emergency family shelter program. Healey last year capped the number of people in the shelter program at 7,500 and created the wait list.
Healey and Wu, both Democrats. have called on the Biden administration for more help in dealing with the influx of migrants.
Boston isn’t alone, Wu said.
“I hear from mayors all around the country on a regular basis. I just had two conversations in the last couple of days around the stresses and the challenges that this crisis of migrant families needing services and shelter and homes are presenting at every level of government,” she said.
“The federal machinery needs a lot of fixing,” she added. ”It needs action and it has needed that for decades.”
Healey said the Roxbury site is temporary and families will be out before June. She said programs that were scheduled to take place at the center will be moved to other nearby locations and that renovations will be made to the complex. She also said the state will rely on local businesses to provide some of the services needed to run the shelter site.
“I am grateful to the community of Roxbury,” Healey said.
People in the neighborhood had mixed reactions to the new shelter.
Clifton A. Braithwaite, 56, a city council candidate and community activist, said he’s concerned about seniors and others who rely on programs at the center as a place to meet and exercise.
“I don’t know if the plan they have is going to work either for the immigrants or Boston citizens,” he said. “But one thing I know, to close a functional building down for three months that services the people of this community is a tragedy, because where are they going to go?”
Audra White, 41, who lives around the corner from the recreational complex, said she was troubled when she returned from a vacation in September and saw homeless migrants and their children sleeping on the floor at Logan International Airport.
“Logan airport is not an appropriate place to have people living in hallways,” she said. “At the Cass, there are showers, there are bathrooms. People can actually wash,” she said, referring to the Cass Recreational Complex.
“If the options are Logan or the Cass, I think the Cass is the better option,” she said.
In Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson has announced the city will again extend its 60-day limit on shelter stays for asylum seekers, just days ahead of a deadline that could have evicted nearly 2,000 migrants.
Johnson said Monday the idea is to give people more time to resettle and find work. The policy change adds 30 to 60 more days for roughly 14,000 migrants already living in the city’s 28 shelters, which include warehouses and park district buildings.
As many as 800 asylum seekers have lived temporarily at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, sleeping on the floor and on cots at a shuttle bus center. Some stay there for weeks at a time while they await beds at one of the city’s 28 shelters or can make other arrangements. Chicago’s daily migrant dashboard showed 128 living at O’Hare as of Wednesday.
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Associated Press reporter Sophia Tareen contributed to this report from Chicago.
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As Twitchy reported a couple of weeks ago, Walgreens announced it was closing a fourth location in Boston. "The store’s closure comes as retail theft is on the rise in many urban areas," reported the Western Journal. Retailers like Walmart, Aldi, and Walgreens are leaving Chicago, thanks to rising tax rates and upticks in crime. Mayor Brandon Johnson suggested the idea of opening a state-run grocery store. You've seen the videos of Target and CVS locking everything behind plexiglass or simply emptying their shelves before the shoplifters can do it. And all of this seems to be taking place in blue cities like Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, and Boston.
We remember one of the first targets of the George Floyd riots was a Target store that was completely looted. An elderly woman on the news wondered where she was going to get her prescriptions. We're not sure if Target reopened in that location or pulled up stakes and left the smoldering wreckage behind.
Squad member Rep. Ayanna Pressley seems to think Walgreens is obligated to maintain stores in dangerous neighborhoods.
.@Walgreens' closures of pharmacies in Roxbury, Mattapan & Hyde Park are not arbitrary or innocent.
— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) January 31, 2024
They are disruptive, life-threatening acts of racial & economic discrimination.
As a multi-billion-dollar corporation, they must stop divesting from Black & brown communities. pic.twitter.com/iSvhFWw8Bl
Yeah, it sucks when you can't get your prescriptions. Maybe arrest some of the shoplifters and put them in jail.
"Racial discrimination." Yeah, Walgreens is closing stores because it's racist.
They aren't in business to support theft.
— Me (@Keefer1958) January 31, 2024
Keep stealing from them and they will ALL close.
These private companies aren't public services.
— Model Mangler (@MLDataTorturer) January 31, 2024
Congress doesn’t get to tell companies that they cannot close.
— Anthony Amore (@anthonymamore) January 31, 2024
Tell that community to stop divesting Walgreens of merchandise en masse.
— Useless Villager (@Liberty_guy85) January 31, 2024
But didn't you hear her? Walgreens is a multi-billion-dollar corporation. It should just happily absorb the losses due to retail theft.
Stop blaming private companies for your policy failures.
— Story Horse! 🏴☠️ (@bostronix) January 31, 2024
Yeah, let’s have businesses run at a loss to cover for the fact that you’ve all but legalized petty crime. The racist schtick is getting old btw. Change it up because ppl don’t care anymore
— Billy the Kid (@Billythekid108) January 31, 2024
What about when @MassGovernor and @mayorwu have illegal aliens take over the same community’s recreation center.
— Riley (@pathforward327) January 31, 2024
No grandstanding from you here.
You only care when criminals force stores to close because lawlessness has been allowed to ensue???
They get looted? There’s your answer. Stop lying to your own people and stop being a race baiter.
— MrPazuzu (@MisterPazuzu) January 31, 2024
When you defun police, release criminals on a pinky swear and allow criminals to flourish, businesses leave. As well as those who can afford it. This is the world you're helping build.
— Melanie (@takestoolong2) January 31, 2024
Maybe it’s the content of their character? pic.twitter.com/KWgrAV73qP
— Pleasedontinfringe (@noinfringing) January 31, 2024
Didn't fellow Squad member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez assure us they were just stealing bread?
Why are they "divesting"?
— BloomStreetBlues (@grenwuld) January 31, 2024
Tell your constituents to cut out the shoplifting and robbery, and maybe this will stop happening.
— Jean-Luc Canard (@JLCanard) January 31, 2024
No, Pressley tells us the closures are "not arbitrary or innocent" — it's racial and economic discrimination … economic discrimination being expecting people to pay for their purchases before leaving the store.
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Ahead of the highly anticipated Super Bowl 58 halftime performance, during which Usher will take the stage in Las Vegas, the R&B singer has teamed up with the NFL for an exclusive collection of merchandise.
In partnership with popular sports brands, Usher co-designed the collection, which will include Mitchell & Ness jerseys, hoodies, jackets and T-shirts, New Era x Just Don headwear, Riddell helmets and a limited-edition Wilson football.
“I can’t wait to hit the stage at the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show for a 30-year celebration of my music in Las Vegas,” Usher said in a release. “There is no better way to get fans pumped about the performance than with a one-of-a-kind merchandise collaboration with the NFL, with designs that embody my style. I hope to see all my fans decked out in pieces from the collection.”
Though the collection won’t be available to purchase until February 7, the “Good Good” singer did repost the NFL’s preview of the merch on Instagram.
The special items drop just two days before Usher’s new album, Coming Home, and four days ahead of the big game.
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BREAKING Alberta to require parental consent for name, pronoun changes at school
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province will require parental consent for students 15 and under who want to change their names or pronouns at school.
A Provo woman was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison for money laundering in an online romance scam that prosecutors say cost victims more than US$6 million.
Nelly Idowu, 39, is one of four defendants sentenced for the two-year scheme that defrauded dozens of victims out of millions of dollars. A federal jury found her guilty in October of money laundering conspiracy and two counts of money laundering, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Utah.
From 2017 to 2019, Idowu created fake online dating profiles to befriend and romance victims, and along with her co-conspirators, led the victims to believe the fake persona they were interacting with had an urgent financial need, the attorney's office said. Widowed and divorced women over 65 were the main targets of the scam.
Many of the victims suffered significant financial loss and in some cases, lost their entire life savings.
"Idowu and her co-conspirators preyed on unsuspecting and vulnerable victims," said U.S. Attorney for Utah Trina A. Higgins. "The defendants gained their trust and convinced them to send large sums of money, leaving many of the victims in financial despair. My office, along with our law enforcement partners, will continue to prosecute these online scams, and seek justice for the victims."
Shohini Sinha, special agent for the FBI's Salt Lake division, said the FBI is committed to investigating perpetrators and raising awareness of romance scams. Victims of romance scams can file a complaint with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center.
"Scammers like Idowu know exactly how to prey on their victims' vulnerabilities, and sadly, the financial and emotional consequences can be absolutely devastating," Sinha said in a statement. "Think twice before you share personal information online, be wary of online suitors who are quick to establish a relationship and gain your trust, and don't send money to someone you've never met."
Idowu was sentenced to six years in prison with three years of supervised release. She and her co-defendants, Emmanuel Osaigbovo Adesotu, Nnamdi Joel Chukwu, and Julius Omene Fredrick were ordered to pay US$6,444,787.16 in restitution jointly.
Adesotu, Fredrick and Chukwu previously pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and were sentenced to 36 months, 46 months and 12 months' imprisonment respectively.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province will require parental consent for students 15 and under who want to change their names or pronouns at school.
The jury from the inquest into one of Canada’s most brutal mass killings is set to deliver its recommendations on Wednesday afternoon.
British police said Wednesday they are hunting for a suspect after several people were injured with a corrosive substance in London.
Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives are touting a record-setting fundraising year — his first full calendar year at the helm of the party — while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals raised less than half of that in donations from Canadians.
A New Brunswick widow is urging Canadians with symptoms of Strep A to get tested or go to the hospital so that other families don’t have to deal with a loss like hers did.
Canada's new limit on visas for international students will cool the high demand for rental units and slow the rate of rent hikes, but it won't necessarily be a big factor in solving the country's housing affordability crisis, observers say.
Worried that it may disappear for good, residents in Cape Ray, N.L. tied up a mysterious shipwreck on Tuesday, anchoring it to the beach in a bid to preserve the wreckage and find some answers about its origins.
A man accused of beheading his father in suburban Philadelphia posted a gruesome video on social media that shows him holding up the severed head and railing against the government, authorities said Wednesday.
A grainy sonar image recorded by a private pilot has reinvigorated interest in one of the past century’s most alluring mysteries: What happened to Amelia Earhart when her plane vanished during her flight around the world in 1937?
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More than 400,000 Canadian seniors have been approved for dental care under the Canadian Dental Care Plan Français
The CDCP is expanding applications: on February 1st, potentially eligible seniors aged 72 and up will start receiving invitation to apply letters
OTTAWA, ON, Jan. 31, 2024 /CNW/ - Last month, the Government of Canada launched the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP). The CDCP is a new federal dental plan that will help ease financial barriers to accessing oral health care for up to 9 million people who do not currently have private dental insurance.
Since mid-December, Service Canada has approved over 400,000 applications. Each month, Service Canada will contact a new group of seniors, based on age. While applications remain open for those 77 years or older, in February, we are expanding to seniors, aged 72 to 76. That means potentially eligible seniors aged 72 to 76 will start receiving letters inviting them to apply to the CDCP, with instructions on how to validate their eligibility and apply to the plan by phone.
To ensure a smooth experience, the CDCP is being rolled out using a phased approach:
- Since December 2023, Service Canada sent letters to potentially eligible seniors aged 77 and up, inviting them to apply.
- Starting February 1st, Service Canada will send letters to seniors aged 72 to 76, inviting them to apply.
- Starting March 1st, Service Canada will send letters to seniors aged 70 to 71, inviting them to apply.
- In May 2024, applications will shift to an online application process and will be open for eligible seniors aged 65 and older.
- In June 2024, persons with a valid Disability Tax Credit certificate and children under the age of 18 will be able to apply online.
- All remaining eligible Canadian residents between the ages of 18 and 64 will be able to apply online starting in 2025
After someone is approved by Service Canada to be enrolled in the CDCP, their information will be referred to Sun Life. Sun Life will enroll eligible applicants in the CDCP and will send them a welcome package, including information on the CDCP, coverage details, their member card, and the start date of their coverage.
People who qualify for the CDCP can start seeing a dentist or other oral health provider as early as May 2024. An individual's coverage start date, the date at which they can begin to access services, will vary based on when the application is received and when enrolment is completed. Expenses will not be covered prior to the coverage start date.
Oral health care is health care. No one should have to choose between taking care of their teeth and paying their bills. The CDCP is going to help make dental care more affordable for every Canadian.
For more information, visit Canada.ca/dental.
"The Canadian Dental Care Plan is already seeing significant uptake, with more than 400,000 seniors successfully applying for the plan in just the first month, all without any wait time on the phone. Our focus remains on ensuring seniors, and soon, other age groups, have access to necessary oral health services. Eligibility will continue to expand to more age groups in the coming weeks and Service Canada is well-equipped to provide seamless, quality client service."
The Honourable Terry Beech
Minister of Citizens' Services
"Seniors deserve access to dental care. To date, more than 400,000 seniors have successfully applied for the CDCP. They will be able to start seeing an oral health provider as early as May 2024 and more seniors are applying each day. This means that more Canadians residents will be able to access dental care that we know keeps people healthy and gives them the dignity to live a healthy life.
The Honourable Mark Holland
Minister of Health
"Every Canadian should have dental care, especially seniors. The Canadian Dental Care Plan has already got hundreds of thousands of uninsured seniors approved for dental care, and more are joining every day. Because health care isn't just about years, it's about quality of life."
The Honourable Seamus O'Regan
Minister for Seniors
"Oral health care is a crucial part of Canadians' health and well-being. By expanding applications to the Canadian Dental Care Plan, we help ensure seniors have access to the essential dental care services they deserve. This significant progress is the result of our commitment to making life more affordable and help build a healthy future for our country."
The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos
Minister of Public Services and Procurement
"Once fully deployed, the Canadian Dental Care Plan will extend to eligible Canadians of all ages whose adjusted family net income is less than $90,000. To qualify, make sure to file your tax return."
The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau
Minister of National Revenue
- Budget 2023 announced an investment of $13 billion over five years, starting in 2023-24, and $4.4 billion ongoing, to implement the CDCP, making it the biggest government program in generations.
- The CDCP is administered by Health Canada in collaboration with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), through Service Canada, and Sun Life.
- To qualify for the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) you must have an adjusted family net income of less than $90,000, not have access to employer/pension-sponsored or private dental insurance and have filed your tax return in the previous year.
- To improve oral health outcomes, the CDCP will help cover a wide range of oral health care services, on the recommendation of an oral health care provider. Examples of these services include preventive care such as scaling (cleaning), polishing, as well as other services such as exams, x-rays, fillings, removable dentures, and root canal treatments.
- The Canada Dental Benefit will continue to support families with children under the age of 12 until June 30, 2024. Parents and caregivers will be able to apply for the CDCP for children under the age of 18 as of June 2024.
SOURCE Employment and Social Development Canada
For further information: Erik Nosaluk, Director of Communications and Issues Management, Office of the Honourable Terry Beech, Minister of Citizens' Services, 613-790-0373, [email protected]; Media Relations, Employment and Social Development Canada, 819-994-5559, [email protected]
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Michigan school shooter’s mom was worried he might do ‘something dumb,’ friend says
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Hours before a 2021 mass school shooting in Michigan, the mother of a teenager who killed four students said she was worried that he was “going to do something dumb,” a man who had a close relationship with her testified Wednesday.
Brian Meloche said Jennifer Crumbley explained to him that she had to go to Oxford High School after a teacher discovered a violent drawing on Ethan Crumbley’s math assignment the morning of the tragedy.
“Something with Ethan. (She) was worried he was going to do something dumb,” Meloche said.
Meloche, who was having an extramarital affair with Jennifer Crumbley at the time, said he knew through social media posts that the parents had recently purchased a gun for the boy.
“I asked where the firearm was. … If something was going to occur it would produce immediate irreparable damage,” Meloche testified.
Meloche spoke on the fifth day of trial in the involuntary manslaughter case against Jennifer Crumbley. She and husband James Crumbley are accused of ignoring their son’s mental health needs and making a gun accessible at home. Four students were killed Nov. 30, 2021, and more were wounded.
A meeting between school staff and the Crumbleys before the shooting has been a focal point in the case.
The parents were presented with a disturbing drawing their son had scrawled on an assignment. It depicted a gun and bullet and the lines, “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me. The world is dead. My life is useless.”
The school recommended that the couple get him help as soon as possible, but they declined to take him home, saying they needed to return to work, a counselor has testified. Their son stayed in school and later pulled a handgun from his backpack to fire at students.
The Crumbleys are the first parents in the U.S. to be charged in a mass school shooting committed by their child.
Meloche and Jennifer Crumbley repeatedly exchanged messages until her arrest four days later. Pages of their communications were shared with the jury.
Jennifer Crumbley told Meloche she was angry at the school for not checking her son’s backpack for a gun. She claimed the gun had been properly secured at home. She also said she didn’t know how her son’s “brain snapped.”
Her new priorities, according to a message: “Staying out of jail and not going into a financial hole.”
Long before trial, Judge Cheryl Matthews barred prosecutors from disclosing the affair. Jennifer Crumbley dropped her opposition during a lively exchange among attorneys on both sides of the case.
“Her life is more important than her dignity,” Jennifer Crumbley’s attorney, Shannon Smith, said. “She had an affair. Lots of people have affairs. Doesn’t mean you know your kid’s a school shooter. Doesn’t mean you know your child is going to kill people.”
Earlier Wednesday, the jury heard more of the prosecution’s effort to portray Jennifer Crumbley as a cold, thoughtless parent whose gross negligence contributed to the deaths.
Hours after the shooting, she said her son was “going to have to suffer” as a result of what happened, an investigator testified.
“I found that odd,” said Detective Lt. Sam Marzban of the Oakland County sheriff’s office. “She was referring to someone who was her son.”
Marzban was in charge of getting a warrant to search the Crumbley home and collect their phones.
“I told her that there were several dead kids and kids shot in the school. It was on the national news. Even the president had addressed it,” Marzban testified.
Jennifer Crumbley seemed “irritated and frustrated,” he said, especially about giving up her phone.
He said investigators were interested in the phones after seeing text messages from the parents on their son’s phone.
“Ethan don’t do it,” Jennifer Crumbley, 45, wrote about an hour after the shooting started.
Smith said last week that Jennifer Crumbley was referring to her son possibly killing himself.
Seventeen-year-old Ethan Crumbley, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, is serving a life sentence. James Crumbley, 47, faces trial on involuntary manslaughter charges in March.
The jury also learned how the parents, possessing more than $6,000, were captured by police. Roughly 13 hours after charges were announced, they were found on a mattress at an acquaintance’s Detroit art studio, roughly 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of their home.
A sharp-eyed coffee roaster in the building said he spotted their car in the parking lot and called 911.
Smith insists the parents were not on the run. She has said they couldn’t stay at home because they had received threats and that they had planned to voluntarily appear in court.
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Pep Guardiola admits he is spoilt for choice with fully-fit Man City squad
Erling Haaland returned from a foot problem as a second-half substitute.
Pep Guardiola admits he faces a selection headache now that all of his Manchester City stars are back fit as the Premier League title race heats up.
Wednesday’s 3-1 win over Burnley saw Kevin De Bruyne make his first start since the opening day of the season following a hamstring injury, while Erling Haaland returned from a foot problem as a second-half substitute.
But it was again Julian Alvarez who was the star for City, with the Argentinian World Cup winner scoring twice in the first half as City cruised to victory.
The hosts took complete control when Rodri added a third early in the second half before Ameen Al-Dakhil got a late consolation for Vincent Kompany’s men.
Alvarez has enjoyed an extended run in Guardiola’s side this season, in large part thanks to De Bruyne’s absence and his brace took him to 15 goals for the campaign.
“For his age, for the numbers in the Premier League, for what he gives to all the team it is unbelievable,” Guardiola said.
“He’s a world champion playing alongside (Lionel) Messi, (Angel) Di Maria and Enzo Fernandez. If you are not good you cannot play in that team.
“He can play in three different positions and have an incredible sense with the intensity to run. He’s really good.”
That versatility could be key to Alvarez’s hopes of retaining his place in the City starting eleven.
“They can play together,” added. “They are exceptional players. It gives me more of a headache for selection but they need to compete with each other.”
After missing 10 games with a bone injury, Haaland started the night on the bench and came on to replace De Bruyne in the 71st minute. His first attempt at goal was a mis-kick, but Guardiola was pleased with the way he led the line.
Asked if he needed to be eased back in, Guardiola said: “If it was 7-0 at half-time he would have played more minutes. If it was 0-0 maybe he wouldn’t have played a minute.
“I saw him sharp, the feeling that he was there. He didn’t have clear chances but he has three or four, and the moment when Jeremy (Doku) didn’t see him but he can score with his quality.
“It has been really good without him for the last two months but with him we are a better team and we are really pleased that he is back.”
Burnley, without a top-flight win away to Manchester City since 1963, probably knew what to expect from the night, but at least took consolation from Al-Dakhil’s late goal, their first at the Etihad since 2019.
But the loss leaves them still deep in trouble, seven points adrift of safety with only 12 points from 22 games.
“It’s never great when you lose,” former City captain Kompany said. “They’re a great side, we know that. It felt like a lot had to go our way for us to get something.
“In moments we were dangerous. We could’ve avoided the goals. We have to move on against Fulham (on Saturday).
“My job is to give the guys support in these moments and hold them accountable. But we’re playing against a team that exploits every mistake… we’re showing bits that should make us confident.”
Kompany indicated he is still hopeful of some business before Thursday’s transfer deadline, but admitted finding game-changing signings was highly unlikely.
“I hope something will happen tomorrow,” he said. “We have to rely on the boys we have. You can make miracle transfers but they’re very difficult to find.”
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James O'Keefe has another undercover video out, and in this one, he's talking to somebody described as a "cybersecurity policy analyst and Foreign affairs Desk Officer in the Executive Office at the White House" under President Biden.
O'Keefe said the video he posted was the result of putting on a fairly weak disguise and going on a "date" with the WH subject in question:
DOUBLE DARE: What are the odds someone who works in the current White House recognizes me ‘on a date’ if I just spray paint my hair and wear big eyeglasses? 🤔
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) January 29, 2024
Judging by the following video O'Keefe posted, the answer to that was "you'd get the story," because the White House cyber guy wasn't afraid to dish:
BREAKING VIDEO: Top White House Cyber Official tells O’Keefe in Disguise “they can't say it publicly” the White House wants to replace Kamala Harris and Confirms President @JoeBiden mental decline: “Biden is definitely slowing down.”
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) January 31, 2024
“I'm just telling you what I've heard…… pic.twitter.com/75Wdw03DHs
Here's O'Keefe's full post:
BREAKING VIDEO: Top White House Cyber Official tells O’Keefe in Disguise “they can't say it publicly” the White House wants to replace Kamala Harris and Confirms President @JoeBiden mental decline: “Biden is definitely slowing down.”
“I'm just telling you what I've heard… they’re really concerned about it” …“I think they need to get rid of him or her.”
“But no one in modern history has ever said, like, ‘We're not going to renominate the president for a second term.’”
Charlie Kraiger @CharlieKraiger, a Cybersecurity policy analyst and Foreign affairs Desk Officer in the Executive Office at the White House, tells O’Keefe “I had a meeting with Michelle Obama @michelleobama …. Someone asked her, ‘Will you ever run for office?’ And she said, ‘No’ Empathically.” She was like, ‘I've seen all this shit my husband has had to go through and that does not interest me.’ “
@VP @KamalaHarris hemorrhages black staff. She can't keep black staff. They quit on her en masse”
“She will be the vice president nominee. There was a debate about removing her from the ticket, but sadly they didn’t, she's not popular, but you can’t remove the first black lady to be vice president from the Goddamn presidential ticket. Like what kind of message are you going to send to like African-American voters…People would be like, "What the fuck?” Like she's a woman and she's multiracial.”
It's anybody's guess when it comes to how much the guy said to impress and what's really going on, but none of what he said would be surprising considering what we've already seen for these past three years.
He’s so excited to tell you too! 🤭
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 31, 2024
Pro tip: If you are a gay man who works for the White House + your date just cant hear enough about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, you are being James O’Keefe’d
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 31, 2024
It always amazes me how willing these suckers are to talk. You work for the WHITE HOUSE Cyber team & are just spilling… https://t.co/jzcJkTApdd
This is yet another indication that the country is NOT in the best of hands.
Trying to impress James on "date".
— $8 Bartemy (@BartemyS) January 31, 2024
These self important dudes are all alike.
If a dude who works for White House cybersecurity is willing to spill small secrets for free dinner & a drink… what is he willing to disclose for vast sums of money?
— Always Right (@Right_NeverLeft) January 31, 2024
This clown is a national security risk. https://t.co/zAl6VJUfwB
That's certainly a concern worth taking seriously.
I have very good cause to believe that the comments attributed to Michelle Obama are 100% true based on my own solid source on that subject.
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) January 31, 2024
She has no interest in returning to the life they lived from 2009-2016.
We'll find out in the next few months!
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