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“There’s no way this is real”: Boy Scouts share stories of surviving Amtrak derailment
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Thursday we heard from a group of local Boy Scouts who are being hailed as heroes for their efforts to help people after their train crashed and derailed in Missouri Monday.
The scouts were heading back from a wilderness backpacking trip in New Mexico when their Amtrak train hit a dump truck at an uncontrolled crossing. Three passengers and the dump truck driver were killed.
We spoke with scouts at a home on the north side of Appleton. Eleven met with us to share their experience being part of the rescue.
They told us 15 of the 16 scouts who went to New Mexico were on the train. One of the scouts went home from the scouting trip with a parent.
Many described being in complete shock as their train car started to flip over, not knowing exactly what was taking place. However, instincts and training took over moments later and the scouts jumped in to help, breaking windows and lifting passengers out to get them to first responders.
As they gathered with us, they shared personal stories.
“I have a very distinct memory of being in the air right before I hit the ground thinking, there’s no way this is real, there’s no way this is actually happening to me, because this is how people die. I could die right now, and that can’t be happening to me,” Boy Scout Henry Gudzik said.
“Once we got out, we started pulling scouts out. And the windows were pretty high up, so we kind of just put some chairs down, put some cushions down. People climbed up, and we started getting people out, making sure they were OK and safe,” Boy Scout Eli Skrypczak recalled.
Some details were held back out of respect to the families who lost loved ones in the crash.
Two of the adults who accompanied the scouts on the trip were hospitalized. One was released from the hospital Thursday. The other is still recovering; we’re told they are an emergency room doctor who works in the Fox Valley with ThedaCare.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Looking to avoid power blackouts, California may turn to the one energy source it's otherwise desperate to get rid of: fossil fuels.
A sweeping energy proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom's office would put the state in the business of buying power to ensure there's enough to go around during heat waves that strain the grid. But some critics say the method of getting there is at odds with the state's broader climate goals, because it paves the way for the state to tap aging gas-fired power plants and add backup generators fueled by diesel.
The debate highlights the challenge some states are facing as they scramble to address heat waves fueled by climate change without compromising on their pledges to transition to non-fossil fuel energy sources like solar and wind.
California gets most of its energy from renewable sources during the day, but doesn't yet have the storage to dispatch enough solar power after the sun goes down. The bill aims to speed up the building of more renewable energy and storage facilities by removing local governments from permitting decisions. Supply chain issues are also slowing down building.
Newsom is expected to sign the bill Thursday after lawmakers passed it the night before.
“Climate change is causing our energy demands to peak, and so we have to provide increased supply to meet that demand or we’re gonna be facing untenable crisis in our communities. At the same time, we are facing the problems because we are relying too much on fossil fuels. That’s the obvious conundrum that we’re in," said Democratic state Sen. Dave Min, who represents Huntington Beach, a coastal community home to a gas-fired power plant.
The problem isn’t unique to California. In New Mexico, a coal-fired power plant was slated to close its last two units Thursday. But a major utility asked the state to keep one unit open through September to meet demands during hot summer months since solar and battery storage projects that were meant to replace the lost capacity have been delayed.
State energy officials warned earlier this year that the state risks an energy shortfall equivalent to what it takes to power 1.3 million homes on the summer's hottest days. Newsom and lawmakers are desperate to avoid a scenario like August 2020, when hundreds of thousands of people temporarily lost power because there wasn't enough supply to go around.
Newsom's solution centers on creating a “strategic reliability reserve" run by the Department of Water Resources. The water agency has been given that role because it is a major producer and user of power through its dams and operation of the state’s water pumping system. This summer, the department could reimburse utilities if they have to buy extra power and add temporary power generators, including those powered by fossil fuels. Any diesel-powered generators couldn't be used past 2023.
Beyond that, the water department would be able to build new energy storage and zero-emission generating stations. It could also spend state money buying power from coastal gas-fired plants that are set to close in 2023. The plants were first set to close in 2020. Likewise the department could keep buying power from the state's last remaining nuclear plant if it stays open beyond its 2025 closure.
Several Democratic lawmakers said they had been given assurance by Newsom's administration that any fossil fuel resources would be used as a last resort and that the bill does not give the water department the sole authority to extend the life of the gas plants or nuclear facility.
“Those are tough decisions that we're all going to have to wrestle with," said Sen. Henry Stern, a Democrat from Los Angeles County. “What this bill is doing is buying time."
Republican state Sen. Shannon Grove, who represents fossil fuel-rich Bakersfield, said the legislation proves California needs oil and gas.
“If we don’t have these gas-powered plants to fire up when we need them you will not be able to flip the switch and get electricity,” she said.
Environmental groups, meanwhile, said the state wouldn't need to rely on fossil fuels as a backup if it had moved faster to build up renewable resources and expressed concern that the bill doesn't put enough guardrails on the water department's power. The department would not have to comply with California's landmark environmental law to move forward with new projects.
“The state is saying we need to rely on fossil power and they're not fully admitting that it's because of this lack of ambition," said Alexis Sutterman, energy equity manager for the California Environmental Justice Alliance.
Andrew Campbell, executive director of the Energy Institute at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, said the water department’s new authority to buy power is “very expansive and open ended” and something that “really deserves scrutiny.”
California, he said, is likely on the forefront of a challenge that will probably hit other U.S. states as they move away from fossil fuels and boost how much energy is needed from the grid.
“Developing an electrical system that is very clean and doing that reliably is a challenge that hasn’t been solved anywhere,” he said. “And California, because it’s so far along with renewable energy development, is hitting that challenge sooner than some other places.” | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/To-avoid-blackouts-California-may-tap-fossil-17277633.php | 2022-06-30T22:10:59Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/To-avoid-blackouts-California-may-tap-fossil-17277633.php | false |
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Robert Wickens last weekend used hand controls in an IMSA sports car race for his first victory since a 2018 spinal cord injury temporarily ended his racing career.
In England, former IndyCar driver Sam Schmidt completed the hill climb at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in a special McLaren 720S Spider. The car was modified by Arrow Electronics, primary sponsor of the Arrow McLaren SP IndyCar team, so that Schmidt, a quadriplegic since a 2000 crash, could use a straw-like “sip and puff” device to accelerate and brake.
Also at Goodwood, motorcycle racer Wayne Rainey rode the same bike he used while winning his final championship in 1992. Rainey was paralyzed from the chest down in a 1993 crash, and the modifications to his motorcycle include pseudo training wheels that allow him to ride using only his hands.
“It was a great weekend for disability awareness,” Wickens said.
Schmidt and Rainey have been part of previous projects modifying vehicles they can pilot. Wickens' situation is completely different in that he has returned to competition this year after thinking his career was over following his airborne IndyCar crash at Pocono nearly four years ago.
He drives a Hyundai Elantra N-TCR for Bryan Herta Autosport in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge that has been fitted with hand controls. He shares the car with co-driver Mark Wilkins, a fellow Canadian who closed out Saturday's victory at Watkins Glen.
The duo debuted in January with a podium finish at the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
“It’s like riding a bike, but it’s a very different bike, I guess is the best way to describe it,” Wickens said of racing with hand controls. "Racing has been my life since I was 7 years old. It’s something I worked very hard to get to the level I was at when I was racing in IndyCar in 2018.
"And after the accident, I just knew I had to work harder to try get back to that. I didn’t know what it would look like for me. I didn’t know if I could return straight into IndyCar or if I would have to start off in go-karts, like you do as a kid. The whole recovery just was a bit of an unknown.”
Because he needs to be physically carried out of the car during driver changes, he has not been behind the wheel yet to cross the finish line and close out a race. Herta told The Associated Press that could change, as early as Saturday when Wickens races at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
Herta said it's faster for Wickens to start a race because removing him from the car is more efficient than carrying him over the pit wall and getting him into the seat during the driver change.
“Robbie will close races this year, he can do it,” Herta said. “He might even do it this weekend.”
Wickens is simply thrilled to be racing again and, at 33, enjoying one of the greatest times of his life. Herta and Hyundai have him racing again, and Wickens and his wife, Karli, are expecting their first child in the next two weeks.
He is racing in Canada for the first time since 2018, when he finished third on the downtown streets of Toronto. He suffered his spinal cord injury two races later.
“It just feels great. I’ve always been my happiest when I’m behind the wheel of a race car," he said. "It doesn’t matter if it’s a stressful race with a lot of PR and a lot of press around it. The second you put your helmet on and close that door, it’s just peace for me and I can finally just get into the zone and get into the race and it’s been my happy place for most of my life.
"Life’s great, it almost feels like you’re living in a dream sometimes.”
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A Hillsborough County grand jury has returned indictments against four young adults involved in three separate incidents of gun crime in the Manchester area over the last several months.
The most serious involves a Manchester resident -- Christopher Lacerte, 19 -- who faces charges of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault, and reckless conduct in connection with a February shooting of a 19-year-old in Goffstown in February.
The other cases involve a gunpoint robbery of a juvenile and a person firing multiple rounds into an apartment in center-city Manchester.
The indictments were handed up the same month that Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg announced a multi-pronged strategy to address escalating incidents of gun crime in Manchester. While some parts of the strategy involve diversion and steering potential troublemakers away from guns, other aspects involve increased investigations and prosecutions of gun crime.
"Our office has been working together with the Manchester Police Department and our other law enforcement partners in their extensive efforts to push back on gun crime and prosecute gun related offenses to the fullest extent of the law," wrote Shawn Sweeney, the first assistant to Hillsborough County Attorney John Coughlin, in an email.
Lacerte is charged with shooting Kaden Hawley, 23, outside the victim's residence at 61 Tibbetts Hill Road on Feb. 7. According to an arrest affidavit, Lacerte shot Hawley twice and his vertebrae was injured.
Lacerte had driven to the address to speak to a former girlfriend. He was in the driver's seat of his car and Hawley was outside the vehicle when he was shot.
"Someone who punches someone shouldn't get shot," Hawley told police shortly after the shooting. Lacerte has claimed self-defense, and a judge has approved his pretrial release from jail, but with strict conditions.
Meanwhile, two Manchester adults face charges for their roles in a gunpoint robbery. Johaly Maria, 21, faces four felony charges, including accomplice of first-degree assault with a deadly weapon. Jeffrey Reyes, 20, faces three felony charges, including robbery.
According to police, Maria allegedly loaned a handgun to a "crew" that included a 14-year-old, a 15-year-old and Reyes. The three then set up a bogus marijuana deal with the intention to rob a 15-year-old boy. Their prize was a handgun the victim had been showing off on social media.
The robbery took place on Feb. 1 outside the Families in Transition apartment building at 122 Market St. When the victim fled in a car, the crew fired numerous shots, which hit the vehicle. One bullet passed through the right arm of the boy's jacket and lodged in the dashboard, police said.
Reyes was arrested two months later and has been jailed since. A message left with his lawyer, Brian Lee, was not immediately returned.
Maria was arrested in late February, and a judge set bail for him at $500. A message left with his lawyer, Ashley Sheehan, was not immediately returned.
A third gunfire case involves Angel Jamiel Rivera Calderon, 23, of Manchester. He faces 12 counts of felony reckless conduct. He is accused of shooting into an apartment at 178 Cedar St. on March 27.
He was arrested shortly after the shooting and told police a friend of his had shot earlier that night. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/grand-jury-charges-four-manchester-residents-with-gun-related-crimes/article_6b896290-b779-5f58-af8b-3e03c757b7c5.html | 2022-06-30T22:14:24Z | https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/grand-jury-charges-four-manchester-residents-with-gun-related-crimes/article_6b896290-b779-5f58-af8b-3e03c757b7c5.html | true |
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Through Tonight: We can only hold off classic summertime weather so long. Humidity is sloshing back into the region tonight, which helps keep temperatures from dipping too far. Lows are mainly in a near-70 to mid-70s range. Winds are out of the south around five to 10 mph.
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Tomorrow (Friday): Loads of morning sun gives way to increasing midday and afternoon cloudiness. A few late-day storms are possible, especially west and north of the area. Before that, highs head toward the low 90s in most spots, and maybe mid-90s in the city plus spots southward. Heat indexes may rise about five degrees above the actual temperature. Winds blow from the south around 10 mph, with higher gusts.
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Fourth watch: As we approach Independence Day, weather is always on the mind. For now, it’s looking relatively decent, at least as far as weather in this region goes during July. Highs shoot for the mid-80s to around 90 or right around average. Sunshine should dominate, with only a very slight chance of a pop-up storm. It’ll feel like low 90s in the afternoon and probably more like low to mid-80s by fireworks time.
We can thank a cold front moving through this weekend. It passes late Saturday into early Sunday and helps clean out the air mass around here for a bit.
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Yellowstone National Park is reopening its flood-damaged north loop at noon on Saturday, in time for the Fourth of July holiday weekend, park Superintendent Cam Sholly said Thursday.
Allowing access to the north loop means much of the park would be open just weeks after massive flooding forced thousands to flee as water, rocks and mud washed out roads and bridges.
“We’re pleased to reopen the north loop of Yellowstone to the visiting public less than three weeks after this major flood event,” said Superintendent Cam Sholly. “We have attempted to balance major recovery efforts while reopening as much of the park as possible. "
The north loop includes Norris Junction, Mammoth Hot Springs, Tower-Roosevelt and Canyon Junction.
The north and northeast entrance gates at Gardiner and Cooke City remain closed and there will not be access to the Lamar Valley due to damage from flooding that began on June 12.
Services in the north loop will include general stores at Tower and Mammoth Hot Springs with gasoline at both locations.
The alternating license plate entry system also will be suspended, Sholly said.
The backcountry in the northern part of the park will remain closed due to hazardous conditions or damaged trails and bridges. Most of the park’s southern backcountry will be open to overnight use on Friday, officials said.
Visitors are urged to stay informed about park conditions by checking the park's website for updates about access and closures. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/nation-world/yellowstone-park-reopening-its-north-loop-saturday/507-4cdf4d7b-3dbc-4487-afdb-0183f7302f88 | 2022-06-30T22:15:36Z | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/nation-world/yellowstone-park-reopening-its-north-loop-saturday/507-4cdf4d7b-3dbc-4487-afdb-0183f7302f88 | false |
As Thursday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day:
Ukraine won back control over Snake Island, which Russia occupied in February. Ukrainian officials said Russian troops evacuated after Ukraine's overnight bombardment. Russia said it left the island as a "goodwill gesture" for Ukraine's grain exports. The strategic outpost in the Black Sea is where Ukrainian soldiers famously refused to surrender to the Russian warship Moskva.
President Biden said the U.S. would provide $800 million more in security assistance for Ukraine. Speaking at the close of a NATO summit, Biden said the war "will not end with Russia defeating Ukraine" and that allies would support Ukraine "as long as it takes." Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier said his country had no "problem" with Finland and Sweden joining NATO but would have to respond if the alliance built up a military presence along its northern borders.
Amnesty International said the Mariupol theater bombing was a clear war crime. A new report by the human rights organization concluded that the attack "was almost certainly carried out by Russian fighter aircraft." Hundreds of civilians sheltered in the building during the March siege of the southern port city that Russian troops now occupy.
The European Court of Human Rights told Russia to ensure two British captives don't get the death penalty. In early June, a court in a Russian-backed separatist part of Ukraine sentenced Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin to death. Russia's government, which pulled out of the European rights jurisdiction after invading Ukraine, said it no longer complies with the European court's orders.
Ukraine said it broke ties with Syria for recognizing the independence of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk regions at Russia's request. Ukraine's foreign ministry said in recent years it had already ordered the closure of its and Syria's embassies over crimes of the Syrian regime, which is friendly with the Kremlin. Kyiv said it will now also impose a trade embargo and other sanctions against Syria.
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Governor Andy Beshear announces funding to fix some Perry County roads
HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - Thursday, Governor Andy Beshear announced more than $1.8 million in discretionary transportation funding to help four local governments with road repairs and improvements.
“These projects were thoughtfully planned, well-designed and will benefit the people of their communities,” Beshear said. “In addition to new pavement, the work will include repair of road base failures, improved drainage and design changes to help traffic flow more smoothly and safely.”
The Perry County fiscal court was one of the local governments selected.
Perry County was awarded $856,100 toward resurfacing a total of 3.3 miles of two critically important local routes – Coal Fields Industrial Road and Trus Joist Lane. The two roads lead to the county’s industrial park.
“This is very good news for the citizens of Perry County,” said Judge/Executive Scott Alexander. “I’m grateful to Gov. Beshear for recognizing the importance of these two roads and our industrial park.”
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By KIM CHANDLER
Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can prohibit abortion, Alabama has seized on the decision to argue that the state should also be able to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender youth.
The case marks one of the first known instances in which a conservative state has tried to apply the abortion ruling to other realms, just as LGBTQ advocates and others were afraid would happen.
Critics have expressed fear that the legal reasoning behind the high court ruling could lead to a rollback of decisions involving such matters as gay marriage and birth control.
The state is asking a federal appeals court to lift an injunction and let it enforce an Alabama law that would make it a felony to give puberty blockers or hormones to transgender minors to help affirm their gender identity.
In its historic ruling last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court said terminating a pregnancy is not a fundamental constitutional right because abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution and is not “deeply rooted in this nation’s history and tradition.”
In a brief filed Monday, the Alabama attorney general’s office argued similarly that gender transition treatments are not “deeply rooted in our history or traditions,” and thus the state has the authority to ban them. Alabama contends such treatments are dangerous and experimental, a view disputed by medical organizations.
Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said it is the first case he is aware of in which a state cited the abortion ruling on another issue, but added, “It won’t be the last.”
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion that the abortion ruling should not cast “doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” But Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the same legal reasoning should be used to reconsider high court rulings protecting same-sex marriage, gay sex and contraceptives.
“It is no surprise that Alabama and other extremely conservative states are going to take up that invitation as forcefully as they can,” Minter said. “Justice Thomas’ concurrence was a declaration of war on groups already under attack, and we expect the hostility to be escalated.”
He said a rethinking of such constitutional protections could affect things like birth control and parental rights.
“They are not just talking about LGBT people,” Minter said.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall was unavailable for comment Thursday, a spokesman said.
Jeff Walker, who has a 15-year-old transgender daughter, said this spring that it felt as if Alabama were attacking families like his with legislation targeting transgender kids’ medication and dictating their choice of school bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams. He said the state’s argument in this case is worrisome for everyone.
“I think everyone should be concerned by the wording of this appeal. By this logic, any health care the state feels isn’t in line with its morals or beliefs should be banned,” Walker said.
The Alabama case could become be an early test of where judges stand on the scope of the abortion ruling. The appeals court granted the state’s request for an expedited schedule for submitting briefs, and a decision could come as early as this fall.
While Alabama was already appealing the injunction in the transgender medication case, the state quickly incorporated the abortion decision into its filing.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey this spring signed the law making it a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison to dispense certain medication to minors to help with their gender transition.
A federal judge in May issued a preliminary injunction blocking the measure, siding with parents who said the law violates their children’s rights and their own rights to direct their youngsters’ medical care.
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Some candidates who finished way down in Georgia's primaries have said their elections were tainted by fraud, and at least one is fundraising off of that.
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Some candidates who finished way down in Georgia's primaries have said their elections were tainted by fraud, and at least one is fundraising off of that.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with NPR music critic Ann Powers and music scholar Shana Redmond about how old and new protest music reflects political moments, following the Supreme Court overturning Roe.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with NPR music critic Ann Powers and music scholar Shana Redmond about how old and new protest music reflects political moments, following the Supreme Court overturning Roe.
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On Monday, New York’s state Supreme Court has sent New York City’s scheme to allow non-citizens and illegal aliens to vote in elections down in flames.
Republican Minority Leader Joseph Borelli announced on Twitter Monday, “Today we won our non-citizen voting lawsuit. I commend the judge for recognizing this has been illegal all along,” Borelli tweeted.
“Today’s decision validates those of us who can read the plain English words of our state constitution and state statutes; non-citizen voting in New York is illegal, and shame on those who thought they could skirt the law for political gain,” Borelli said.
Borelli added, “Opposition to this measure was bipartisan and cut across countless neighborhood and ethnic lines, yet progressives chose to ignore both our constitution and public sentiment in order to achieve their aims. I commend the court in recognizing reality and reminding New York’s professional protestor class that the rule of law matters.”
Michael Henry, who is running for the state’s Attorney General, reacted to the news:
Henry said, “Today the N.Y. GOP won their lawsuit to Stop New York City’s unconstitutional non-citizen voting plan. I am proud that I stood with Joe Borelli and Nick Langworthy and many others to protect our elections.”
In January, New York City attempted to change its election law to allow over 800,000 non-citizens to vote in local elections.
Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement, “I believe that New Yorkers should have a say in their government, which is why I have and will continue to support this important legislation. I had some concerns about one aspect of the bill, I had a productive dialogue with my colleagues in government that put those concerns at ease.”
Adams added, “I believe allowing the legislation to be enacted is by far the best choice, and look forward to bringing millions more into the democratic process.”
Axios reported on the development, while soft-peddling the fact that Adams had lied during his campaign by posing as a moderate. In their report they said, “Adams initially expressed concern over the legislation, which the City Council approved a month ago, but the Democratic governor ultimately supported the measure and allowed his 30-day time limit to veto the bill to expire, according to AP. If the implementation is not curtailed by a judge, New York City will become the first major city in the country to extend voting rights to non-citizens, per the AP.
It looks like that election policy won’t become law in New York City. This is a big win for election integrity in less than a week full of conservative legal victories.
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About two years ago, the Chicks — the trio of Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily Strayer — released “Gaslighter,” a feisty blend of country storytelling, pop songcraft, and unbothered spirit. The trio’s first full-length in 14 years, it was a triumph, combining poison-pen breakup songs like the sing-along-ready title track with no-nonsense political statements (“March March”), tender-yet-soaring offerings (“For Her”), and simmering slices of wisdom (“Julianna Calm Down”).
“Gaslighter” came out in the early months of the pandemic, and it was a chance for listeners to give their full focus to the talents of the Chicks, whose blend of bluegrass picking and anthemic choruses had made them one of country music’s biggest acts in the ‘90s and ‘00s (when they were known as the Dixie Chicks). In 2003, though, they began a stalemate with the Nashville establishment over their stance on the US military involvement in Iraq; instead of buckling, though, their defiant 2006 album “Taking the Long Way”showed that they weren’t going to back down from their critics, with the steely-eyed protest song “Not Ready to Make Nice” turning into an anthem for people all over the world.
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Things have changed in the years since “Taking the Long Way” and “Not Ready to Make Nice” had burned up the country music establishment, with women all over pop realizing how powerful art would stand the test of time, even if the people making it rankled higher-ups in certain corners.
“Gaslighter” is an ideal fusion of the Chicks’ skilled songcraft and the maximalist production style of Jack Antonoff, whose meticulous attention to detail has turned records by the likes of Lorde, Clairo, Taylor Swift, and his own band Bleachers into completely immersive worlds.
“Jack creates this beast of music,” laughs Maines during a recent interview with the trio ahead of their Tuesday date at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield. That beast-making required taking an in-depth look at each “Gaslighter” track, so they could be re-created on the road.
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“We had him send separate tracks of all the different guitars so that we could assign them to the different guitar players,” notes Maines. “You can hear how much he did that affects the overall sound — even when we went home [from the studio]. He’s just a genius.”
To bolster the band’s sound, the Chicks have brought on two musicians — both close to home. Maines’s son Slade is one of them. “He’s the utility player,” says Strayer. “He can play everything. He can play pop sounds on these synths, and then he’ll go over and play a guitar part. It’s really been great to have someone who can tackle all those strange, strange noises.” Maguire’s daughter (and Strayer’s niece) Eva will also assist on string parts.
The Chicks will feature tracks from “Gaslighter” during their tour, but they also have a catalog that dates back decades. “When you have more songs, you feel like you can just cherry-pick everything you want to do, but then you feel like you’re leaving something out,” explains Strayer. “We started with one set list, and it has morphed and changed over the rehearsals. So we’re going to play this dice game, where we roll the dice, and there’s six songs [on it] — some of the older stuff, even songs like ‘There’s Your Trouble,’ which we have not played for a long time. I was imagining just doing it backstage, [but Natalie asked], ‘Well, why don’t we just do it onstage, and bring the [fans into it]?’ ”
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One song that will definitely be on the set list at Xfinity Center is “March March,” the sardonic-yet-outraged protest song that the Chicks wrote after attending the 2018 March for Our Lives antigun violence demonstration.
“In the [song’s original] video we touched on so many different topics, and so many more topics that we’re emotional about have come to the forefront,” says Maguire. “We just keep adding topics and visuals, and it’s hard to turn around and look at what’s going to be on the screens [behind the stage] because it’s very heart-wrenching, which is what we’re trying to do with that song, just to make people think and feel what’s going on in our world.
“I’m sure there’s going to be some tears in the audience. It’s just such intense times right now, you know? Most of the set is super fun, and a lot of jamming and picking. But that’s one moment that’s pretty heavy.”
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Chris Pine ditches clean-cut image for bushy beard and long hair as he works alongside Danny DeVito on LA set of his directorial debut Poolman
He has become well known for his roles as a heartthrob in several movies released over the past few years.
But Chris Pine appeared to be embracing a radical new look as he rocked a bushy beard and long blonde hair on the Chinatown, Los Angeles set of his directorial debut, Poolman, on Thursday.
The performer flashed a wide smile while working with the cast and crew of the upcoming feature, and his costar Danny DeVito was also pictured enjoying himself during filming.
Something else: Chris Pine appeared to be embracing a radical new look as he rocked a bushy gray beard and long blonde hair on the Chinatown, Los Angeles set of his directorial debut, Poolman, on Thursday
Pine was first spotted while rocking a white tank top and a set of dark yellow shorts above a pair of blue Vans Sk8-hi sneakers.
He later changed into a striped shirt that was tucked into a pair of gray pants, both of which were contrasted with a set of white shoes.
The performer accessorized with a set of sunglasses, a beige hat and a red bandana that was worn around his neck for the duration of his time on set.
DeVito, 77, kept it casual in a brown button-up shirt and khakis, and he added a bit of color to his look with a light blue hat.
Looking back: The Star Trek star had previously carved a name out for himself as a clean-cut heartthrob; he is seen in 2018
Fun in the sun: Pine was first spotted while rocking a white tank top and a set of dark yellow shorts above a pair of blue Vans Sk8-hi sneakers
Pine was initially revealed to have been working on Poolman in an article that was published by Deadline this past February.
The movie will be centered on Darren Barrenman, the caretaker of a pool at an apartment block in Los Angeles.
The character subsequently 'discovers he greatest water heist in LA history' and is forced to deal with various personalities in order to keep his city safe.
The media outlet pointed out that the movie would feature several cameos from other entertainment industry figures.
Starting off strong: Pine was initially revealed to have been working on Poolman in an article that was published by Deadline this past February
Making the most of it: The actor's costar, Danny DeVito, was also pictured enjoying himself during filming
Other performers who are set to appear in the feature are Jennifer Jason Leigh, Annette Bening and Ariana DeBose.
Pine spoke about how Poolman came to fruition during an interview with Deadline, where he noted that the initial idea came out of a dinner with director Patty Jenkins and her husband.
'I was doing a bit just trying to make them laugh or whatever, and we just all started really laughing,' he said.
Messing around: Pine spoke about how Poolman came to fruition during an interview with Deadline, where he noted that the initial idea came out of a dinner with director Patty Jenkins and her husband
He then noted that, after formalizing the idea for the movie, he and his collaborator, Ian Gotler, took inspiration from a classic film and set out its storyline.
'We got the script. We read the script. We broke down the script as if we were writing Chinatown. We did the board with all the note cards,' he recalled.
Pine also stated that, even though he did not intend to take the director's chair, helming the feature felt like the right move.
'Because I'd been thinking about it for so f***ing long, it just seemed like a thing that I would be directing,' he said.
Emulating the approach: He then noted that, after formalizing the idea for the movie, he and his collaborator, Ian Gotler, took inspiration from a classic film and set out its storyline
Trying it out: Pine also stated that, even though he did not intend to take the director's chair, helming the feature felt like the right move
The performer concluded by stating that, although he never saw himself as a director, he was willing to take a chance on the project.
'It may be something, you know, that doesn't appeal to me, but I need to try it. There's at least something in me that's motivating me to try it,' he said.
Poolman's release date has not been revealed to the public as of yet.
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When an anti-LGBTQ bigot tried to disrupt a recent family-friendly drag event at Ohio Pride, he wasn’t expecting the performers’ and crowd’s amazing response.
Drag queen Starlett O’Hara (birth name Robert Dennick Joki) said that when she began announcing the next performer at the Rust Belt Theater’s family-friendly Kids Show at Youngstown Pride this month, a man in his 30s with a megaphone and a video recorder walked through the crowd of 300 people and approached her. The man called her a “pervert” and accused her of “grooming” and “indoctrinating” children — a line oft-repeated by anti-LGBTQ Republicans.
“My first instinct was to tackle him,” she wrote on Facebook. “I did not. My second instinct was to scream back at him. I did not. I have been doing theater for children for over 25 years. As a performer I am always hyper-aware of my audience and what I consider to be APPROPRIATE, especially when it comes to young people.”
Mindful that the young audience members might learn from whatever she did next, Joki instead began singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, Judy Garland‘s iconic song from The Wizard of Oz.
“It’s a song my Nana used to sing to me, probably the first song I ever learned all of the words to,” Joki wrote. “It has always been a source of comfort for me when I needed it, and in that moment it was there for me once again.”
Joki said the man grew more enraged and began to come closer to her, screaming to the crowd of children that she was a “monster.”
” I was terrified, but I was determined not to show it,” Joki said. Then, something amazing happened. One-by-one, her fellow drag performers joined her onstage to link arms and sing the song alongside her. Then, the crowd joined in, singing in unison.
“Together we drowned his message of HATE with our message of HOPE. He had a megaphone, but I had a family,” Joki wrote. She added that he was eventually run off — not by parents, not by security, but by queer and nonbinary teenagers.
“They were wearing pride flags as capes, like the heroes that they are,” she wrote.
Joki then went backstage and cried, composed herself, and later continued on with the show. Though she says she has experienced “brutal” anxiety and nightmares from what happened, the incident showed her just how important drag performances and family-friendly queer events are.
Such events are especially important considering that Republicans have introduced over 300 anti-LGBTQ bills in state legislatures over the last year. While most of these bills have targeted transgender youth and their families, some Republicans have threatened to introduce bills that would criminalize the presence of children at drag events.
This month, Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton announced his intention to file a bill that would ban drag shows in the presence of minors. He has claimed that “drag shows subject underage kids to inappropriate sexual content by adults.” Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon also said he supports “severe criminal penalties for adults who involve children in drag shows.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also implied he is open to prosecuting adults who take their kids to see drag shows. His press secretary, Christina Pushaw, has said that anyone who opposes the state’s law banning LGBTQ content in classrooms is a “groomer.”
While these politicians may just be using children and LGBTQ people to rile up their voting base, their language distorts drag shows and endangers performers, queer people, and allies.
Most drag events attended by children feature lip-sync performances, sing-alongs, and storytelling by performers in colorful costumes and makeup. The performers teach kids about self-acceptance and caring for others who may look or love differently than they do. These events don’t “sexualize children” as conservatives claim.
Right-wingers have called in bombing and death threats to venues that hold family-friendly drag events. Over the last month, Proud Boys and anti-LGBTQ kooks have disrupted family drag events in California, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas. Such protesters sometimes infiltrate the venues, frighten the kids and their families, and threaten to dox any adults recorded at the events.
“By the end of the [“Somewhere Over the Rainbow”],” Joki wrote, “the darkness was gone, banished by the light. By progress. By the future.”
“I was always taught that the only way to fight hate was with love,” Joki told The Buckeye Flame. “That is definitely what we did here. And it worked.” | https://www.queerty.com/drag-queen-shares-inspiring-story-standing-bigot-family-pride-event-20220630 | 2022-06-30T22:39:23Z | https://www.queerty.com/drag-queen-shares-inspiring-story-standing-bigot-family-pride-event-20220630 | true |
The fate of Liberty State Park seemed to move in opposite directions at once Thursday.
On one hand, Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law the Liberty State Park Conservation, Recreation, and Community Inclusion Act.
The bill directs $50 million into investments in the park, but critics have panned it for opening the door to privatization of parts of the park and for proposals to build features like a 7,000-seat concert arena and a 5,000-seat stadium with the money provided.
The bill was fast-tracked through the state Legislature, having been introduced only weeks ago, and many activists saw the influence of billionaire golf club owner Paul Fireman in the legislation’s rapid approval and a seemingly coordinated publicity campaign.
Fireman has attempted in the past to purchase Caven Point, an ecologically important part of the park, for land to expand a golf course.
Long-time park advocates criticized the governor for signing the bill.
“The Governor’s shameless silence on the LSP Protection Act was collusion with billionaire Paul Fireman and now he’s signed a law written by Fireman’s lobbyist and it leaves the door wide open for Fireman’s exclusionary LSP admission-fee commercial venues plans,” said Sam Pesin, president of Friends of Liberty State Park.
The Liberty State Park Protection Act would have protected Caven Point from privatization, but has been held up in the state Legislature for years.
Jeff Tittel, former president of the New Jersey Sierra Club, said Murphy sold out by signing the bill. “He is siding with a billionaire over the millions of people that enjoy and love the park,” Tittel said.
On the other hand, the text was released Thursday for a two-paragraph bill sponsored by Sen. Brian Stack, D-Union City, that would specifically protect Caven Point from development, like the kind that activists fear from Fireman.
“The 21.5-acre Caven Point Peninsula, the estuarine ecosystem for plants and animals, and critical bird breeding habitat … shall be designated, and permanently protected, as natural habitat,” the bill reads.
But Stack was the author of the Conservation, Recreation, and Community Inclusion Act that created the very loophole his new bill is seeking to close, leading some advocates to question why the Caven Point wasn’t protected in the original bill and the sincerity of this new effort.
“Even though I hope this bill passes and we’ll work to support and get it passed, I’m not so sure that the intent is really to make this law,” Tittel said..
Sen. Bob Smith, chair of the Senate Energy and Environment Committee, expressly rejected any amendment to the Liberty State Park Conservation, Recreation and Community Inclusion Act that would have protected Caven Point during a committee hearing on the grounds that a measure like that would be overstepping the Legislature’s authority.
Other advocates for the park were more enthusiastic about the effect of Stack’s new bill.
Assemblyman Raj Mukherji, a longtime proponent of the Liberty State Park Protection Act, said he supports the new bill.
“It is a welcome bill, and I look forward to working with the senator to shepherd it into law,” Mukherji said, adding that he planned to sign on as a cosponsor of the Assembly version.
Pesin said that with the Liberty State Park Protection Act having failed to move out of the Legislature for years, Stack’s bill could be the “essential great milestone law that finally protects this priceless and irreplaceable urban ecological and educational treasure.” | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/06/murphy-signs-liberty-state-park-redevelopment-bill-as-stack-introduces-bill-to-protect-caven-point.html | 2022-06-30T22:39:41Z | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/06/murphy-signs-liberty-state-park-redevelopment-bill-as-stack-introduces-bill-to-protect-caven-point.html | false |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A United Nations rights panel focusing on Ethiopia says it’s alarmed over continued violations and abuses in the East African country.
The Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, created by the U.N. Human Rights Council to investigate abuses and rights violations in Ethiopia, warned the country is experiencing escalating violence and a dire humanitarian crisis.
“The subject matter of our inquiry appears to be perpetrated with impunity even now by various parties to the conflict,” commission chairwoman Betty Murungi said Thursday. “The commission emphasizes the responsibility of the government of Ethiopia to bring to an end such violations on its territory and bring those responsible to justice.”
Murungi noted that “any spread of violence against civilians is an early warning indicator and a precursor for further atrocity crimes.”
The Geneva-based panel has a mandate to investigate allegations of violations of international human rights, humanitarian, and refugee law since deadly war erupted in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in November 2020.
Violence — some of it along ethnic lines — has since spread to other parts of the country, including in the Oromia and Amhara regions.
Witnesses recently told the AP more than 400 ethnic Amharas were killed in Oromia on June 18, shocking Ethiopians and the international community.
On Thursday, a spokeswoman for the Ethiopia’s prime minister said 338 people are now confirmed to have died in an attack earlier in June in Oromia’s West Wellega area. Billene Seyoum blamed the Oromo Liberation Army, or OLA, for the killings, saying the rebel group controls “pockets of Oromia where they are terrorizing civilians.”
But an OLA spokesman denied the allegations and said it was carried out by the government troops and a local militia. It called for an independent investigation.
The U.N. Ethiopia rights commission is expected to deliver a written report to the U.N. General Assembly later this year. | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/un-rights-panel-says-it-is-alarmed-over-ethiopias-abuses/ | 2022-06-30T22:41:25Z | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/un-rights-panel-says-it-is-alarmed-over-ethiopias-abuses/ | true |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will become the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.
It’s part of a $307.9 billion operating budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom was expected to sign Thursday. It pledges to make low-income adults eligible for the state’s Medicaid program by 2024, regardless of their immigration status. It’s a long-sought victory for health care and immigration activists, who have been asking for the change for more than a decade.
Nationwide, federal and state governments join together to give free health care to low-income adults and children through Medicaid. But the federal government won’t pay for people who are living in the country illegally. Some states, including California, have used their own tax dollars to cover a portion of health care expenses for some low-income immigrants.
Now, California wants to be the first to do that for everyone.
About 92% of of Californians currently have some form of health insurance, putting the state in the middle of the pack nationally. But that will change once this budget is fully implemented, as adults living in the country illegally make up one of the largest group of people without insurance in the state.
“This will represent the biggest expansion of coverage in the nation since the start of the Affordable Care Act in 2014,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a statewide consumer health care advocacy group. “In California we recognize (that) everybody benefits when everyone is covered.”
People living in the country illegally made up about 7% of the population nationwide in 2020, or about 22.1 million people, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health care nonprofit. They are not eligible for most public benefit programs, even though many have jobs and pay taxes.
Immigrants have slowly been getting access to some health care programs. Eighteen states now provide prenatal care to people regardless of their immigration status, while the District of Columbia and five states — California, Illinois, New York, Oregon and Washington — cover all children from low-income families regardless of their immigration status. California and Illinois have expanded Medicaid to cover older adult immigrants.
In California, Republicans and conservative groups have opposed expanding health care to immigrants living in the country illegally. Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, said offering free health care will make California “a magnet for those who are not legally authorized to enter the country.”
“I think many of us are very sympathetic to the immigrant community, but we really wish we had better control of who enters this nation and this state,” Coupal said.
California’s expansion of Medicaid won’t be easy. A confluence of events, including the state’s slow rollout of the expansion and the end of some federal pandemic policies, mean about 40,000 low-income immigrants will likely lose their health coverage for up to a year in 2023 before being eligible to get it back — illustrating the difficulty of navigating the government-run health insurance system that is supposed to make it easier for people to get coverage.
Beatriz Hernandez came to the United States in 2007 as a 11-year-old. California taxpayers covered her health care expenses when she was a child. She lost that coverage once she turned 19 because of her immigration status, but it was restored in 2020 when the state began covering low-income immigrants 26 and younger.
Hernandez turned 26 in February. She hasn’t lost her coverage yet because of emergency federal rules during the pandemic. But those rules could expire later this year, making her one of the estimated 40,000 people who will temporarily lose their coverage before California’s new program starts on Jan. 1, 2024, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.
Hernandez lives in Merced in California’s Central Valley and works as an organizer with the California Immigrant Policy Center. She said her mother would benefit the most from the expansion, having never had health insurance since moving to the U.S.
But for Hernandez, she’s worried a gap in her coverage would cause her to lose access to the medication she takes to treat depression. In the meantime, she’s scheduling as many appointments as she can this year — including for the dentist, optometrist and dermatologist — before she loses coverage.
“It’s great that California is taking that step to set that example for other states,” said Hernandez, who said she does not have a work permit or other permission to live in the United States. “I do believe that we can do better by making sure that people like myself and hundreds of others, thousands of others, do not fall out of their health care simply because they turn 26.”
Previous expansions of California’s Medicaid system have taken six months to a year to implement. But the Newsom administration says it needs a year and a half to complete this expansion because it is so much larger than the previous ones.
Health care advocates say the gap in coverage is significant for low-income immigrants living in the country illegally because they don’t have other options. Citizens who lose their Medicaid coverage can purchase coverage from Covered California, the state-run health insurance exchange, and likely qualify for a significant discount.
“But for this population, that’s it. (Medicaid) is the only public program available to them,” said Sarah Dar, director of health and public benefits policy for the California Immigrant Policy Center.
Democrats in the state Legislature say they are working with the Newsom administration on speeding up the process.
“We’re doing all that we can. We’re talking to the administration, talking to the leadership in the (California) Department of Health, to make sure that we do it as fast as possible and that nobody loses it in the meanwhile,” said Democratic Sen. Maria Elena Durazo. “It doesn’t make sense to lose them and then pull them back in.” | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/california-first-to-cover-health-care-for-all-immigrants/ | 2022-06-30T22:42:11Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/california-first-to-cover-health-care-for-all-immigrants/ | false |
Stranger Things season 4 isn't over yet. Set six months after the gang's showdown with the Mind Flayer at season 3's climax, season 4 took the characters and faced the demon Vecna in a battle across four locations, including Russia and California. It was awesome, not least for introducing a new generation to Kate Bush. So when is season 4 part 2 arriving?
It's not just the cast that's spread out. The season itself is too. Stranger Things' fourth season is split into two parts -- similar to Ozark's final season -- with the first seven episodes dropping on May 27 and then the second volume with two episodes, each apparently movie-length, hitting Netflix on Friday, July 1.
Stranger Things episode release schedule
The two volumes of Stranger Things' fourth season drop around a month apart.
- Season 4, Vol. 1 -- all seven episodes available now.
- Season 4, Vol. 2 -- both episodes available Friday, July 1 -- 12 a.m. PT (3 a.m. ET/7 a.m. GMT)
When can you see season 4 in your time zone?
Vol. 2 lands on Netflix at midnight PT on Friday, July 1. Those on the East Coast will be better off waiting till they wake up on Friday because the new episodes hit Netflix at 3 a.m. ET. That's 2 a.m. CT and 1 a.m. MT.
If you're in the UK, Vol. 2 can be watched from 8 a.m. BST. Those in continental Europe will have to wait till the show drops at 9 a.m. CEST in Germany, France, Italy and Spain. If you're in Australia, Stranger Things launches at the perfect time: 5 p.m. AEST.
Here are some other time zones:
Hawaii: 9 p.m. HST on Thursday, June 30
Alaska: 11 p.m. AKDT on Thursday, June 30
Brazil: 4 a.m. BRT on Friday, July 1
Israel: 9 a.m. IDT on Friday, Friday, July 1
South Africa: 9 a.m. SAST on Friday, July 1
Dubai, UAE: 11 a.m. GST on Friday, July 1
India: 12:30 p.m. IST on Friday, July 1
South Korea: 4 p.m. KST on Friday, July 1
Japan: 4 p.m. KST on Friday, July 1
Stranger Things is a show set in 1980s Hawkins, Indiana. It kicked off with the disappearance of local kid Will Byers, which resulted in a whole lot of confusion and conspiracy. It turns out that the nearby Hawkins National Laboratory has, in searching for the perfect weapon to end the Cold War, been messing around with the supernatural. It somehow broke through to a demonic dimension called the Upside Down, which unleashed monsters like demogorgons and, ultimately, the Mind Flayer.
The lab is also experimenting on kids who seem to have special powers. One of them, dubbed Eleven, escapes and joins Will's group of friends -- Mike, Dustin and Lucas -- and helps rescue Will. Eleven gets adopted by town police chief Jim Hawkins. Happy ending? Not quite. Read this if you're not up to date with all the Hawkins happenings leading into season 4. | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/when-are-the-new-stranger-things-season-4-episodes-released-in-your-time-zone/ | 2022-06-30T22:45:23Z | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/when-are-the-new-stranger-things-season-4-episodes-released-in-your-time-zone/ | false |
Wyoming Reports 5 More COVID-19 Deaths
The Wyoming Department of Health on Tuesday reported five more coronavirus-related deaths, bringing the state's death toll to 1,834.
The recently confirmed deaths involved the following people:
- An older adult Lincoln County man died in June. He was hospitalized in another state and had health conditions known to put people at higher risk of severe illness.
- An older adult Albany County woman died in June. She was hospitalized in hospitals both within and outside of Wyoming and had health conditions known to put people at higher risk of severe illness.
- An older adult Natrona County man died in June. He was hospitalized and had health conditions known to put people at higher risk of severe illness.
- An older adult Johnson County woman died in June. She was hospitalized and had health conditions known to put people at higher risk of severe illness.
- An older adult Sheridan County woman died in June. She was hospitalized and was not known to have health conditions known to put people at higher risk of severe illness.
According to the Wyoming COVID-19 Death Dashboard, 85.01% of the state's deaths have been among people 60 and older.
Laramie and Natrona counties have seen the most deaths, 293 and 275, respectively, 12.32% of which have been reported this year. | https://k2radio.com/wyoming-reports-5-more-covid-19-deaths/ | 2022-06-30T22:48:11Z | https://k2radio.com/wyoming-reports-5-more-covid-19-deaths/ | false |
BOSTON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (NYSE: PDT) (the "Fund"), a closed-end fund managed by John Hancock Investment Management LLC and subadvised by Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC, announced today sources of its monthly distribution of $0.0975 per share paid to all shareholders of record as of June 13, 2022, pursuant to the Fund's managed distribution plan. This press release is issued as required by an exemptive order granted to the Fund by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Notification of Sources of Distribution
This notice provides shareholders of the John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (NYSE: PDT) with important information concerning the distribution declared on June 1, 2022, and payable on June 30, 2022. No action is required on your part.
Distribution Period: June 2022
Distribution Amount Per Common Share: $0.0975
The following table sets forth the estimated sources of the current distribution, payable June 30, 2022, and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year to date from the following sources: net investment income; net realized short term capital gains; net realized long term capital gains; and return of capital or other capital source. All amounts are expressed on a per common share basis and as a percentage of the distribution amount.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's managed distribution plan.
The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and net realized capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with "yield" or "income."
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this Notice are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
The Fund has declared the June 2022 distribution pursuant to the Fund's managed distribution plan (the "Plan"). Under the Plan, the Fund makes fixed monthly distributions in the amount of $0.0975 per share, which will continue to be paid monthly until further notice.
If you have questions or need additional information, please contact your financial professional or call the John Hancock Investment Management Closed-End Fund Information Line at 1-800-843-0090, Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time.
Effective October 1, 2021, copies of all notices informing shareholders of distributions made by the fund in excess of accumulated net investment income will be posted on John Hancock Investment Management's public website (jhinvestments.com) and on the Legal Notice System (LENS), a service offering of the Depository Trust Company (DTC) accessible by broker-dealer firms. To the extent required, notice may also be provided via press release. John Hancock Investment Management will continue to distribute paper copies of these notices by mail until March 30, 2022, after which date the notices will be delivered exclusively via the methods described above.
Statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined by the United States securities laws. You should exercise caution in interpreting and relying on forward-looking statements because they are subject to uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Fund's control and could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements.
An investor should consider a Fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing.
About John Hancock Investment Management
A company of Manulife Investment Management, we serve investors through a unique multimanager approach, complementing our extensive in-house capabilities with an unrivaled network of specialized asset managers, backed by some of the most rigorous investment oversight in the industry. The result is a diverse lineup of time-tested investments from a premier asset manager with a heritage of financial stewardship.
About Manulife Investment Management
Manulife Investment Management is the global brand for the global wealth and asset management segment of Manulife Financial Corporation. We draw on more than a century of financial stewardship and the full resources of our parent company to serve individuals, institutions, and retirement plan members worldwide. Headquartered in Toronto, our leading capabilities in public and private markets are strengthened by an investment footprint that spans 18 geographies. We complement these capabilities by providing access to a network of unaffiliated asset managers from around the world. We're committed to investing responsibly across our businesses. We develop innovative global frameworks for sustainable investing, collaboratively engage with companies in our securities portfolios, and maintain a high standard of stewardship where we own and operate assets, and we believe in supporting financial well-being through our workplace retirement plans. Today, plan sponsors around the world rely on our retirement plan administration and investment expertise to help their employees plan for, save for, and live a better retirement. Not all offerings are available in all jurisdictions. For additional information, please visit manulife.com.
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PLACERVILLE, Calif. — Get ready to bring your barbecue pits, footballs and other activities as the El Dorado County Fair hosts its Annual Fourth of July Family Blast.
The Family Blast will be quite the blast, and it will take place at The El Dorado County Fair and Event Center in Placerville on July 4.
The gates open at 3 p.m. and interactive games and sports will go on from 3 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. There will be live music with Dream and the Dreamer from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., and a fireworks spectacular show between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.
In addition to fun games and entertainment, such as a huge inflatable obstacle course, corn hole, face painting, and more, there will also be food and drinks available for purchase.
Tickets are $5 per person and kids under the age of 6 are admitted for free. Tier parking is $10, and there are the options of paying $30 per carload, which includes parking on the grounds as well as admission for up to six people or the $75 RV package, which includes overnight parking on the grounds as well as admitting for up to six people. Cash is only accepted at the door.
In the year of 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the El Dorado County Fair and Event Center could not host the Annual Family Blast. However, in 2021, the attendance doubled from previous years.
This year, they are hoping it will be no different than last year.
"This event is all about the community coming together to celebrate our nation," Kathy Dunkak, CEO of The El Dorado County Fair and Event Center said. "Placerville doesn't have a Fourth of July parade like many communities, so this is the chance to gather and celebrate."
Organizers from the El Dorado County Fair and Event Center mentioned that weather had a bigger impact on their planning than the COVID-19 pandemic and inflation. Thankfully, this year's Fourth of July forecast will only reach up to 85 degrees, so there's even more of a reason to go out and celebrate.
"This 4th of July while you're grilling your burgers, drinking a beer or gnawing an ear of corn, pause for a moment to thank the American farmers and ranchers who made your picnic possible," Dunkak said.
July Fourth fireworks safety
If you choose to celebrate Independence Day at home and bypass the parades and public events, you should read up on any local ordinances in your city or county before buying any fireworks. Fireworks are illegal in certain areas of the state due to serious injuries and millions in property loss from fireworks-sparked wildfires.
California is dealing with dry vegetation from years of drought and a lack of rain, which means dry grass and vegetation could increase threats for fires. According to the Office of the State Fire Marshal, an average of 18,000 fires are started every year by fireworks, both illegal ones and “safe and sane” fireworks” used improperly.
To celebrate the Fourth of July safely, the Office of the State Fire Marshal says you should only use fireworks outdoors, but never near dry gas or other flammable materials. It’s also recommended to keep a bucket of water and a hose nearby when using fireworks.
Regardless of where you go in California, using fireworks that explode, leave the ground or move about the ground uncontrollably is illegal. These fireworks include skyrockets, bottle rockets, and roman candles. Anyone caught with illegal fireworks could face fines or even arrest.
All legal fireworks include the “Safe and Sane” logo from the California State Fire Marshal on them. If you are not sure if your fireworks are legal, you can contact your nearest Cal Fire facility or local fire station. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/eldorado-hills/el-dorado-county-fairgounds-hosts-4th-of-july-event/103-bc77274d-d518-45a5-be5e-312b36639191 | 2022-06-30T22:50:45Z | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/eldorado-hills/el-dorado-county-fairgounds-hosts-4th-of-july-event/103-bc77274d-d518-45a5-be5e-312b36639191 | true |
SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the world's largest and most prestigious spirits competition, announced the winner's of Best of Class and Best in Show at their inaugural awards gala held at the Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco on June 24th. Out of a record-breaking 5,000 entries from over 40 countries, judging panels awarded a total of 760 entries with the prestigious Double Gold medal. Out of those Double Golds, only a 152 advanced to the final round of judging to determine Best of Class and Best in Show.
"We were so excited to present our Best of Class awards at our inaugural gala. 200 people made up of our amazing judging panel and finalists, guests experienced a 5 star event and we all had so much fun coming back together. It was a real celebration of our industry. Some large legacy brands were in attendance to pick up new trophies and cement their status as household names and other brand new companies which started out of the pandemic hit home runs and will soon become household names. We are happy to be able to identify and support these new brands and watch them grow!"
– Amanda Blue President of The Tasting Alliance
The Competition's top sweepstakes winners were Best in Show Un-Aged White Spirit, VĪ Aquavit; Best in Show Aged White Spirit, BACARDÍ 16 Year Gran Reserva Especial Rum; Best in Show Whiskey, Benromach Aged 40 Years Single Malt Scotch; Best in Show Brandy, Boulard XO Double Barrel Finished Calvados; Best in Show Liqueur, ACCOMPANi Mari Gold; Best in Show RTD, LiveWire Rocket Queen by Erin Hayes. Other highlights included Best Gin, Beefeater Monday's Gin; Best Bourbon, Ezra Brooks Old Ezra 7 Year Old Bourbon; Best Vodka, Detroit Vodka 8 Mile; Best Tequila, Black Sheep Tequila Añejo.
The Tasting Alliance Most Awarded Distillery was awarded to Starward, Australia receiving 12 Double Golds and 3 Golds at this year's Competition. The Reserve Bar Spirited Change Award went to Uncle Nearest, USA and The Park Street Innovation Award went to Bespoken Spirits.
Continuing its annual trend, this year's competition experienced a 25% increase in entries over 2021. Some of the most significant growth was seen in the RTD competition categories, which this year brought in 650 plus entries. Winning brands can expect to see a five to ten percent increase in sales within the year.
For a complete list of medals and premium awards, please visit www.thetastingalliance.com.
Founded in 2000, the San Francisco World Spirits Competition® is the world's most respected and influential international spirits competition. Products are evaluated in a blind, consensual procedure ensuring the SFWSC maintains its reputation for the highest level of integrity. Winning participants receive the awards of double gold, gold, silver or bronze, marking their product as one of the highest quality in the world.
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SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Embraer (B3: EMBR3, NYSE: ERJ) signed an agreement with Toyota do Brasil in order to embrace Toyota Production System (TPS) principles and concepts in its industrial operations. The initiative aims to eliminate waste, obtain operational efficiency, and increase value generation for stakeholders.
During the first phase of this joint work, a team of TPS specialists from Toyota Brazil will immerse themselves in Embraer's daily work to evaluate and suggest improvements for the company's main manufacturing area at the Ozires Silva Unit, located in São José dos Campos, São Paulo.
"Bringing Toyota to execute this work reinforces Embraer's commitment to focus on business excellence and sustainable growth," said Francisco Gomes Neto, CEO of Embraer. "It will be an excellent opportunity to exchange knowledge and accelerate the usage of the Lean philosophy in the production systems, while strengthening practices already conducted by the Embraer Enterprise Excellence Program, the P3E."
"TPS is a methodology that can contribute to different scenarios and occasions. More than efficiency and productivity, the TPS can provide solutions that allow industry and other sectors to continuously improve their processes, which is one of Toyota's pillars worldwide. There is still a possibility that we can contribute to the ESG agenda," said Rafael Chang, President of Toyota do Brasil.
Since 2007, Embraer has been following the Lean philosophy as a business strategy that spreads P3E principles, concepts, and practices. This program is responsible for leading transformations in an integrated way, paving the path for the entire company to make big steps in improving its processes. This system of excellence aims at safety first, quality always, and deliveries on time—all at the best cost.
A reference in the concept of Industry 4.0, Embraer has made immense progress at the forefront of manufacturing technologies with digital, integrated, and low environmental impact factories, with continuous improvement of processes and adaptation of technology for people and operations. From 2022, the company's goal is to grow carbon neutral and, by 2024, have 100% of energy coming from renewable sources in Brazilian operations.
About Toyota Production System (TPS)
Developed and refined over decades, since the beginning of the 21st century, TPS is a management philosophy that helps to optimize business results with a focus on safety, logistics and process management, always with quality and at a low cost. It is a system that seeks to expose and solve problems in the most diverse environments and situations, and that can be applied, therefore, to any activity in an organization.
Among the main TPS concepts that will be worked on in partnership with Embraer are just in time - which aims to create a continuous flow of manufacturing and greater partnership with suppliers for the efficient use of parts and resources, avoiding excess of inventories and waste - and the jidoka – which aims to improve the quality and added value of work executed in a factory.
About Embraer
A global aerospace company headquartered in Brazil, Embraer has businesses in Commercial and Executive aviation, Defense & Security and Agricultural Aviation. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets aircraft and systems, providing Services & Support to customers after-sales.
Since it was founded in 1969, Embraer has delivered more than 8,000 aircraft. On average, about every 10 seconds an aircraft manufactured by Embraer takes off somewhere in the world, transporting over 145 million passengers a year.
Embraer is the leading manufacturer of commercial jets up to 150 seats and the main exporter of high value-added goods in Brazil. The company maintains industrial units, offices, service and parts distribution centers, among other activities, across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.
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ATLANTA — Complaints of slow 911 response times have spurred the City of Atlanta into expanding the city’s emergency medical reach.
Following the city's planned investment to improve its 911 call center, Atlanta is now planning to open a new ambulance site to improve response.
Though it's unclear how robust the city intends the expansion to be, it's a good first step, said Michael Martin. He lost his son four weeks ago.
"He was unresponsive before the ambulance was even called," Martin said of his son.
Jonathan Chace Martin was 31, a man who helped his father and other contractors build swimming pools.
"He was a workaholic," Martin said. "Didn’t like even taking a day off."
He was at a job site on June 2 in Buckhead when he collapsed in the heat. His father says Atlanta fire units responded quickly – but an ambulance took more than 30 minutes.
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"I’m not in the business of playing the blame game, but it’s possible if they’d showed up right away, he’d still be alive. I’ll never know," Martin said.
As the number of city residents has grown, so too has the need for public safety services including police, fire and emergency medical services.
The city fire department runs some ambulances but depends on Grady EMS to handle many of its emergency medical calls. Complaints about wait times drove the city to expand its ambulance reach.
Michael Martin, still grief-stricken from the loss of his son Jonathan, says more ambulances in Atlanta can only help.
"Quicker is better. No doubt," he said.
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All eyes on airlines as July Fourth holiday weekend nears
DALLAS (AP) — If you’re flying this holiday weekend, be prepared for crowded airports, full planes, and higher-than-normal chances that your flight will be delayed or even canceled. Airlines have stumbled badly over the last two holiday weekends, and the number of Americans flying over the July Fourth weekend is expected to set records for the pandemic era. Problems have been popping up already, with high numbers of cancellations this week, some of them caused by thunderstorms that snarled air traffic. Tracking service FlightAware says American Airlines canceled 8% of its flights on Tuesday and Wednesday, and United Airlines scrubbed 4% of its schedule on those same days.
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Stocks slump, closing out worst quarter since early 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell again on Wall Street Thursday, closing out the worst quarter for the market since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020. The S&P 500 index lost 0.9%. It’s now down 21% since hitting a record high at the beginning of the year, having entered a bear market earlier in June. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.8% and the Nasdaq fell 1.3%. Tech stocks and retailers and other companies that rely directly on consumer spending posted some of the biggest losses, as they have all year. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 3.01%.
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From stocks to crypto, a punishing six months for investors
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans with stock portfolios or retirement investment plans would likely prefer to forget the last six months. The S&P 500, Wall Street’s broad benchmark for many stock funds, closed the first half of 2022 Thursday with a loss of more than 20% after starting the year at an all-time high. It’s the worst start to a year since 1970, when Apple and Microsoft had yet to be founded. Bonds are on pace for one of their worst performances in history, and cryptocurrencies have tumbled after soaring last year. Financial markets have been roiled as the Federal Reserve has hiked interest rates sharply to tame surging inflation.
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Supreme Court decision may slow transition to cleaner energy
NEW YORK (AP) — The Supreme Court ruling limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants could have far-reaching consequences for the energy sector — and make it harder for the Biden administration to meet its goal of having the U.S. power grid run on clean energy by 2035. The nation has been gradually transitioning away from coal to cleaner sources of electricity such as natural gas, solar energy and wind, often because they are less expensive. The ruling could slow the transition to clean energy in the future because it imposes constraints on what the EPA can do without exceeding its legal authority.
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Key inflation gauge tracked by the Fed remains a high 6.3%
WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of inflation that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.3% in May from a year earlier, unchanged from its level in April. Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department provided the latest evidence that painfully high inflation is pressuring American households and inflicting particular harm on low-income families and people of color. The government’s report also said that consumer spending rose at a sluggish 0.2% rate from April to May. On a month-to-month basis, prices rose 0.6% from April to May, up from the 0.2% increase from March to April.
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OPEC+ oil boost likely not much help to high gasoline prices
NEW YORK (AP) — The OPEC oil cartel and allied producing nations have decided to boost production of crude by an amount that will likely do little to relieve high gasoline prices at the pump and energy-fueled inflation plaguing the global economy. The group agreed Thursday to an increase of 648,000 barrels per day in August, which leaves the world thirsty for oil as it rebounds from the COVID-19 pandemic. It also runs up against the inability of the 23-member OPEC+ alliance to meet its production quotas. Biden, facing political pressure at home, has been urging oil-producing countries to open the taps and help bring down gasoline prices for American drivers.
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Some medical debt is being removed from US credit reports
NEW YORK (AP) — Help is coming for many people struggling with medical debt on credit reports. Starting Friday, the three major U.S. credit reporting companies will stop counting paid medical debt on their reports, which banks and others use to judge creditworthiness. The companies also will start giving patients a year to resolve delinquent medical debt that has been sent to collections before reporting it. That’s up from six months. Next year, the companies also will stop counting unpaid medical debt under $500. Patient advocates cheer these moves, but they want more. They question whether medical debt should remain on credit reports at all.
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Spirit’s delay allows airline bidding war time to play out
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Spirit Airlines are rising after the budget airline postponed a vote on a merger with Frontier for the second time. Spirit announced hours before a shareholder meeting Thursday that the merger vote will be pushed back to July 8. That will give Spirit more time to talk with Frontier and JetBlue Airways, which is also bidding for Spirit. JetBlue’s CEO sees the latest delay as a sign that his airline will eventually win the bidding war.
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Ruling that a new Florida law placing a 15-week limit on abortions violates a privacy clause in the state Constitution, a Leon County circuit judge Thursday said he will issue a temporary injunction to block the law.
Judge John Cooper, however, said his verbal ruling will not be binding until he signs a written order. That written order could come Tuesday morning.
The law (HB 5) is set to take effect Friday. That means it will be in place for at least a few days before Cooper issues the written order. The state also quickly announced it plans to file an appeal, which would automatically freeze Cooper’s order and effectively put the law back into effect.
Cooper drew a distinction between the state constitutional issues in the Florida case and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week that struck down the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling.
“I do think that this order complies with the present state of the law in Florida. And we all know that Roe v. Wade was reversed about a week ago. And the only mention Roe v. Wade should get in this particular case … is that it has indicated the (U.S.) Supreme Court (said) that these decisions are to be made at the state level. That’s what this proceeding is about, is construing a provision of the Florida Constitution,” Cooper said.
The privacy clause has played a key role for more than three decades in bolstering abortion rights in Florida. But Bryan Griffin, deputy press secretary for Gov. Ron DeSantis, said in a statement that the Florida Supreme Court “misinterpreted” the privacy clause.
“While we are disappointed with today’s ruling, we know that the pro-life HB 5 will ultimately withstand all legal challenges. The Florida Supreme Court previously misinterpreted Florida’s right to privacy as including a right to an abortion, and we reject this interpretation. The Florida Constitution does not include — and has never included — a right to kill an innocent unborn child. We will appeal today’s ruling and ask the Florida Supreme Court to reverse its existing precedent regarding Florida’s right to privacy. The struggle for life is not over,” Griffin said.
When the state files an appeal at the 1st District Court of Appeal, it will automatically trigger a stay of Cooper’s order, under court rules. While plaintiffs could ask Cooper to vacate the stay, he said Thursday he does not intend to override it.
Lauren Brenzel, organizing director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, called Cooper’s ruling a “victory.” But Brenzel described uncertainty about whether post-15-week abortions will be available as potentially creating confusion for patients.
“It’s really unfortunate, and this shows us exactly why politicians should not be interfering with access to health care. Imagine being a patient right now and trying to access safe care that should be legal in our state, and you’re having to worry about whether or not they’ll be able to provide it to you on one day or the other,” Brenzel told reporters outside the Leon County courtroom.
The law, one of the most-controversial issues of the 2022 legislative session, would prevent doctors from performing abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with limited exceptions. Abortion clinics across the state and a physician filed the constitutional challenge June 1 and sought a temporary injunction.
Cooper held an all-day hearing Monday that included testimony from witnesses. In siding with the plaintiffs, Cooper said he found a plaintiffs’ witness “more knowledgeable and credible” than witnesses offered by the state.
During closing arguments Thursday, attorneys focused, in part, on whether the plaintiffs had proven that they would be directly harmed by the law.
James Percival, an attorney representing the state, disputed an argument by the plaintiffs that the law would cause harm by interfering with patients’ relationships with their doctors.
“I think the important point here is that this is not some case where some private actor is interfering with a doctor-patient relationship. The state is setting medical standards,” Percival said.
Whitney White, an attorney for the plaintiffs, argued that penalties doctors would face for breaking the law would interfere with services and, as a result, cause harm.
“There’s no dispute that plaintiffs currently offer abortions after 15 weeks and that they would be forced to stop that under coercion of the threatened criminal and licensing penalties that HB 5 carries. HB 5 will thus force plaintiffs to stop providing safe, comprehensive and compassionate health care to their patients, against their medical judgment, and against the needs and best interests of the patients,” White said.
Cooper’s ruling drew reactions from numerous political leaders on both sides of the abortion debate, with many speculating the case will end up in the Florida Supreme Court. While justices in the past have ruled that the privacy clause protected abortion rights, the court since 2019 has become far more conservative — with four DeSantis appointees likely to be on the seven-member court later this year.
“Today’s ruling on pro-life HB 5 is disappointing but not unexpected. This issue will need to be resolved in the (Florida Supreme Court), where I hope to see a correct interpretation of the state's privacy clause & HB 5 implemented statewide to save tens of thousands of innocent babies' lives,” House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor, said in a tweet.
State Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book, D-Plantation, touted Cooper’s ruling and said it “protects abortion access” in Florida.
“Extremist GOP leaders will continue their crusade to strip away women’s rights and freedoms — that much is clear — but make no mistake: advocates for choice and for women to have autonomy over their bodies will be there at every turn, continuing to fight with everything we have until women’s rights are fully restored,” Book said in a prepared statement.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on Thursday denounced a Kentucky law designed to impose a near-total ban on abortions as “extremist,” pointing to the lack of exceptions for rape and incest victims as he pushed back on an issue that Republicans have made a policymaking priority.
Beshear plunged into the debate after a state judge temporarily suspended enforcement of the state's so-called trigger law. The 2019 measure took effect — halting abortions in Kentucky — after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last Friday to end federal constitutional protections for abortions.
The ruling by Jefferson County Circuit Judge Mitch Perry on Thursday allowed abortions to resume in Kentucky. There are two abortion clinics in Kentucky — both in Louisville, the state's largest city.
Beshear, who faces a tough reelection campaign next year, was asked repeatedly about the now-blocked trigger law during his weekly news conference. Several Republicans already running for governor are playing up their opposition to abortion. Beshear supports abortion rights but with “reasonable restrictions,” which he's previously said would apply to late-term abortion procedures.
The governor's criticism of the trigger law was aimed at what's missing from the measure.
“The trigger law is an extremist law that the vast majority of Kentuckians disagree with," he said. "It provides zero exceptions for victims of rape and incest, giving them no options despite the fact that they have been harmed and what they’re going through is ... absolutely zero fault of their own.”
The trigger law was enacted when Beshear was the state's attorney general.
Kentucky's current attorney general, Republican Daniel Cameron, is defending the trigger law in court. He said the ruling temporarily blocking the measure had no basis in the state constitution. Later Thursday, Cameron asked the state Court of Appeals to block the lower court ruling that suspended the trigger law and another Kentucky law that attempted to prevent abortions at six weeks of pregnancy. That measure was previously halted by a federal court.
Cameron is among the Republicans vying to challenge Beshear in the 2023 election.
“We will do everything possible to continue defending this law and to ensure that unborn life is protected in the commonwealth,” Cameron said in a statement.
State GOP spokesperson Sean Southard noted Thursday that some Democrats in the Republican-dominated legislature voted for the trigger law. He asked whether Beshear thinks those Democrats are “so-called extremists.”
Beshear said that during his tenure as attorney general, he encountered rape and incest cases involving girls. Under the trigger law, they would have “zero options and that’s wrong,” he said.
“Right's right and wrong's wrong, no matter who voted what way,” the governor said.
In comments directed at his Republican critics, the governor added: “Do they believe that it’s not extremist to remove every option from rape and incest victims? Will they look them in the eye and tell them that?" | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Beshear-denounces-near-total-abortion-ban-as-17277773.php | 2022-06-30T23:02:28Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Beshear-denounces-near-total-abortion-ban-as-17277773.php | true |
COLUMBUS, Ohio — UCLA and Southern California are planning to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten Conference in a seismic change that could lead to another major realignment of college sports.
A person who has been briefed on the discussions between USC, UCLA and the Big Ten said the schools have taken steps to request an invitation to join the conference. The person spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonymity because the schools' talks with the Big Ten have not been made public.
The move would come as soon as 2024, after the Pac-12’s current media rights contracts with Fox and ESPN expire, and increase the size of the Big Ten to 16 schools.
The decision by the Los Angeles schools — two of the NCAA’s most decorated athletic programs — comes almost a year after Oklahoma and Texas formally accepted invitations to join the Southeastern Conference in July 2025.
The Big Ten would become the first conference to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific and would build on previous expansion into the nation's largest media markets.
Big Ten leadership, including the council of presidents and chancellors, would still have to sign off on extending an invitation to the two schools.
The Big Ten has expanded twice in recent years, with Nebraska joining in 2011 and Maryland and Rutgers in 2014.
USC and UCLA fit the Big Ten’s academic profile. Both schools are among the 65 members of the Association of American Universities, which is made up of top research universities. All Big Ten schools except Nebraska are members.
The move to the Big Ten would greatly enhance USC and UCLA's revenues.
The Pac-12 distributed only $19.8 million per school in fiscal year 2021, by far the least among Power 5 conferences. The Big Ten's per-school distribution was $46.1 million, second only to the Southeastern Conference's $54.6 million.
The Pac-12 has had difficulty getting its conference television network untracked while the Big Ten Network is the most established of the conference networks.
USC and UCLA would be taking a step up in football, both in visibility and competition.
“Pac-12 After Dark” televised games that kick off in the middle to late evenings in most of the country have made it difficult for the conference to get exposure. The Pac-12 has had teams in the College Football Playoff just twice — Oregon (2014 season) and Washington (2016). | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/sports/college-football-usc-ucla-looking-to-leave-pac-12-for-big-ten-in-2024-reports/530-eb8b5049-5e61-4ca8-854a-621dbb4ab539 | 2022-06-30T23:07:02Z | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/sports/college-football-usc-ucla-looking-to-leave-pac-12-for-big-ten-in-2024-reports/530-eb8b5049-5e61-4ca8-854a-621dbb4ab539 | false |
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environment Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions reductions from existing power plants.
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$5 will be donated to Farm Rescue for each flag requested
QUINCY, Ill., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Titan International, Inc. (Titan) is excited to kick off its second annual "Flags Over Harvest" campaign to support American farmers and their commitment to buying American-made Titan and Goodyear® Farm Tires. Building on the success of last year's campaign, Titan will again be giving away a free American flag for farmers to display on their equipment during harvest season. For each flag requested, Titan will donate $5 to Farm Rescue — a nonprofit organization that plants and harvests crops free of charge for family farmers who have suffered a major illness, injury or natural disaster.
"Agriculture is at the heart of who we are at Titan," said Paul Reitz, Titan President and CEO. "As the only farm tire and wheel company headquartered in the U.S., we feel a special connection to farmers and appreciate their decision to buy American-made tires because it supports thousands of U.S. jobs to keep the nation running. By partnering with Farm Rescue again, we look forward to raising more money to assist farmers in need."
Last year, Titan raised $4,500 for Farm Rescue as part of its inaugural "Flags Over Harvest" campaign and has a goal to raise more funds this year. Titan's history with the "Flags Over Harvest" campaign includes donating to Farm Rescue in 2019 to assist farmers affected by major spring floods in the Midwest and in 2020 to help farmers dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. We will also be partnering with them at the Farm Progress Show, Husker Harvest Days and the Iowa State Fair.
"Farm Rescue is honored to be a recipient of the 'Flags Over Harvest' campaign once again this year," said Bill Gross, Founder and President of Farm Rescue. "Last year's funds helped give farm families a chance to continue their livelihood. In 2021, Farm Rescue and its army of volunteers were honored to extend a helping hand to 121 families across our 7-state service territory. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Titan International, Inc. with the goal of helping America's farm families in times of crisis."
Visit titan-intl.com/flags to claim a free American flag; Titan will make a $5 donation to Farm Rescue for each flag requested. Tag Titan on its social channels with the hashtag #FlagsOverHarvest2022.
About Titan International, Inc.
Titan International, Inc. (NYSE: TWI) is a leading global manufacturer of off-highway wheels, tires, assemblies and undercarriage products. Headquartered in Illinois, the company produces a broad range of products to meet the specifications of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and aftermarket customers in the agricultural, earthmoving/construction and consumer markets. In the United States, the company produces two distinct tire brands — Goodyear® Farm Tires and Titan Tires.
About Farm Rescue
Farm Rescue was founded in 2005 and has helped nearly 900 families since its inception. The organization's mission is to help farmers and ranchers who have experienced a major illness, injury, or natural disaster by providing the necessary equipment and volunteer labor to perform time-sensitive services. Applications for assistance are currently being accepted and can be obtained at 701-252-2017 or www.farmrescue.org.
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SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Embraer (B3: EMBR3, NYSE: ERJ) signed an agreement with Toyota do Brasil in order to embrace Toyota Production System (TPS) principles and concepts in its industrial operations. The initiative aims to eliminate waste, obtain operational efficiency, and increase value generation for stakeholders.
During the first phase of this joint work, a team of TPS specialists from Toyota Brazil will immerse themselves in Embraer's daily work to evaluate and suggest improvements for the company's main manufacturing area at the Ozires Silva Unit, located in São José dos Campos, São Paulo.
"Bringing Toyota to execute this work reinforces Embraer's commitment to focus on business excellence and sustainable growth," said Francisco Gomes Neto, CEO of Embraer. "It will be an excellent opportunity to exchange knowledge and accelerate the usage of the Lean philosophy in the production systems, while strengthening practices already conducted by the Embraer Enterprise Excellence Program, the P3E."
"TPS is a methodology that can contribute to different scenarios and occasions. More than efficiency and productivity, the TPS can provide solutions that allow industry and other sectors to continuously improve their processes, which is one of Toyota's pillars worldwide. There is still a possibility that we can contribute to the ESG agenda," said Rafael Chang, President of Toyota do Brasil.
Since 2007, Embraer has been following the Lean philosophy as a business strategy that spreads P3E principles, concepts, and practices. This program is responsible for leading transformations in an integrated way, paving the path for the entire company to make big steps in improving its processes. This system of excellence aims at safety first, quality always, and deliveries on time—all at the best cost.
A reference in the concept of Industry 4.0, Embraer has made immense progress at the forefront of manufacturing technologies with digital, integrated, and low environmental impact factories, with continuous improvement of processes and adaptation of technology for people and operations. From 2022, the company's goal is to grow carbon neutral and, by 2024, have 100% of energy coming from renewable sources in Brazilian operations.
About Toyota Production System (TPS)
Developed and refined over decades, since the beginning of the 21st century, TPS is a management philosophy that helps to optimize business results with a focus on safety, logistics and process management, always with quality and at a low cost. It is a system that seeks to expose and solve problems in the most diverse environments and situations, and that can be applied, therefore, to any activity in an organization.
Among the main TPS concepts that will be worked on in partnership with Embraer are just in time - which aims to create a continuous flow of manufacturing and greater partnership with suppliers for the efficient use of parts and resources, avoiding excess of inventories and waste - and the jidoka – which aims to improve the quality and added value of work executed in a factory.
About Embraer
A global aerospace company headquartered in Brazil, Embraer has businesses in Commercial and Executive aviation, Defense & Security and Agricultural Aviation. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets aircraft and systems, providing Services & Support to customers after-sales.
Since it was founded in 1969, Embraer has delivered more than 8,000 aircraft. On average, about every 10 seconds an aircraft manufactured by Embraer takes off somewhere in the world, transporting over 145 million passengers a year.
Embraer is the leading manufacturer of commercial jets up to 150 seats and the main exporter of high value-added goods in Brazil. The company maintains industrial units, offices, service and parts distribution centers, among other activities, across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.
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Prosecutor: 4 found guilty of trespassing, resisting police during protest at abortion clinic
FLINT TWP., Mich. (WNEM) - Four out of state residents were found guilty by a jury of trespassing and resisting police during a protest at a Flint Township abortion clinic in 2019, according to Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton.
Matthew Connolly, 40, William Goodman, 53, Lauren Handy, 28, and Patrice Woodworth-Crandall, 58, were convicted of trespassing, disturbing the peace, and resisting police on Thursday for their actions at a protest on June 7, 2019.
The four were part of a larger protest taking place outside the building when they entered the building, according to testimony.
The clinic manager asked the four to leave and they refused, according to Leyton.
Police were called and when they arrived the protestors were refusing to leave after the manager asked a second time.
Leyton said the protestors refused to comply and had to be carried out of the building by police.
“I want to thank the jury for focusing on the elements of the crimes charged and not on the
underlying issues of the case,” Leyton said.
Sentencing for the four individuals is scheduled for Sept. 23.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Energy companies bid more than $22 million to secure drilling rights on about 110 square miles (285 square kilometers) of public lands in the western U.S. on Thursday, during the first onshore oil and natural gas lease sales since President Joe Biden took office.
Leases on about 90 square miles (233 square kilometers) went unsold in the U.S. Bureau Land Management online auctions that included parcels of federal lands in seven states.
Oil and gas produced from the leases will be subject to a royalty rate of 18.75%. That's up from 12.5% and the first royalty increase since the 1920s.
About 200 square miles (518 square kilometers) of federal lands had been offered for lease in eight western states. Most of those sold were in Wyoming, where companies paid more than $13 million for parcels totaling about 105 square miles (272 square kilometers).
A planned sale in Utah for a single, 160-acre (65-hectare) parcel did not happen and there was no immediate explanation from federal officials.
The auctions came as federal officials try to balance efforts to fight climate change against pressure to bring down high gas prices.
Biden faces calls from fellow Democrats to do more to curb fossil fuel emissions that are heating the planet, even as he's being pushed by Republicans to expand U.S. crude production.
Critics of the leasing program pointed to unsold parcels in Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and Nevada as further evidence oil companies have enough leases and drilling permits already stockpiled to last them for years.
“It is apparent that the calls from oil and gas CEOs for more drilling on public lands were just a distraction as they aim to maximize their profits,” said Pegah Jalali, an environmental policy analyst at the Colorado Fiscal Institute.
But with several prior lease sales still tied up in court challenges from environmentalists, some companies had concerns going into the sale that they might not be able to drill on leases they acquired, said Ryan McConnaughey, vice president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming. Those worries could have dampened interest in the latest sale, he said.
“They still haven't issued leases from 2020,” McConnaughey said. “They paid upfront and if they can't get to those leases, they can't produce from them. That's a huge tie up of capital resources.”
Oil production increased in the U.S. in recent months, but it’s still well below pre-pandemic levels. Companies have been hesitant to expand drilling too quickly because of uncertainty over how long high prices will continue.
Biden suspended new leasing just a week after taking office in January 2021. A federal judge in Louisiana ordered the sales to resume, saying Interior officials had offered no “rational explanation” for canceling them.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the world's largest and most prestigious spirits competition, announced the winner's of Best of Class and Best in Show at their inaugural awards gala held at the Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco on June 24th. Out of a record-breaking 5,000 entries from over 40 countries, judging panels awarded a total of 760 entries with the prestigious Double Gold medal. Out of those Double Golds, only a 152 advanced to the final round of judging to determine Best of Class and Best in Show.
"We were so excited to present our Best of Class awards at our inaugural gala. 200 people made up of our amazing judging panel and finalists, guests experienced a 5 star event and we all had so much fun coming back together. It was a real celebration of our industry. Some large legacy brands were in attendance to pick up new trophies and cement their status as household names and other brand new companies which started out of the pandemic hit home runs and will soon become household names. We are happy to be able to identify and support these new brands and watch them grow!"
– Amanda Blue President of The Tasting Alliance
The Competition's top sweepstakes winners were Best in Show Un-Aged White Spirit, VĪ Aquavit; Best in Show Aged White Spirit, BACARDÍ 16 Year Gran Reserva Especial Rum; Best in Show Whiskey, Benromach Aged 40 Years Single Malt Scotch; Best in Show Brandy, Boulard XO Double Barrel Finished Calvados; Best in Show Liqueur, ACCOMPANi Mari Gold; Best in Show RTD, LiveWire Rocket Queen by Erin Hayes. Other highlights included Best Gin, Beefeater Monday's Gin; Best Bourbon, Ezra Brooks Old Ezra 7 Year Old Bourbon; Best Vodka, Detroit Vodka 8 Mile; Best Tequila, Black Sheep Tequila Añejo.
The Tasting Alliance Most Awarded Distillery was awarded to Starward, Australia receiving 12 Double Golds and 3 Golds at this year's Competition. The Reserve Bar Spirited Change Award went to Uncle Nearest, USA and The Park Street Innovation Award went to Bespoken Spirits.
Continuing its annual trend, this year's competition experienced a 25% increase in entries over 2021. Some of the most significant growth was seen in the RTD competition categories, which this year brought in 650 plus entries. Winning brands can expect to see a five to ten percent increase in sales within the year.
For a complete list of medals and premium awards, please visit www.thetastingalliance.com.
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ANGOLA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Summer camp Cradle Beach is celebrating 134 years with a new welcome arch, donated by Wegmans, to welcome campers.
The new welcome arch serves as a symbol of Cradle Beach. Wegmans feels it represents the safe and inclusive environment the camp provides to children.
For four years, Wegmans has been partnered in a non-profit arrangement with Cradle Beach, helping maintain the property and providing corporate guidance on sustainability planning.
“The countless hours Wegmans contributed to our campus and our programming is simply invaluable to our organization, said Ann-Marie Orlowski, CEO, Cradle Beach. “They helped us complete tasks that our small, but mighty team cannot always get to. We cannot say thank you enough for all Wegmans has contributed, and for this beautiful gift that will welcome all who come to experience the magic of Cradle Beach.”
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FALLS TWP., Pa. - Flames shot high into the sky as a junkyard burned Thursday afternoon.
Video from WPVI captured the intense fire in Falls Township in Bucks County.
There's no word on what started the fire.
And no word on any injuries.
FALLS TWP., Pa. - Flames shot high into the sky as a junkyard burned Thursday afternoon.
Video from WPVI captured the intense fire in Falls Township in Bucks County.
There's no word on what started the fire.
And no word on any injuries.
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Tasmanian Liberals say younger forests are better at sequestering carbon than old-growth forests. The science says otherwise
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CheckMate July 1, 2022
This week, CheckMate takes an axe to claims about the ability of old-growth forests to store carbon from greenhouse gas emissions.
We also bring you the latest on ivermectin, and round up the week in fact checking over the US Supreme Court decision to overrule its decades-old Roe v Wade judgement.
No, old-growth forests don't emit CO2, and young forests don't store more carbon
Tasmanian Liberals and Greens have faced off in state parliament over the logging of old-growth forests, with one MP arguing the science shows newer forests are superior in their ability to offset carbon emissions.
"They [the Greens] don't understand that old-growth forests are actually net carbon emitters," claimed Liberal MP Felix Ellis.
"They don't understand that the best carbon sequestration comes from a young growing forest," he added, with his Facebook video of the exchange garnering more than 115,000 views and winning the endorsement of the state party and the deputy premier.
However, these claims are incorrect.
Belinda Medlyn, a professor at the University of Western Sydney who studies how forests respond to atmospheric carbon dioxide, told CheckMate she could say "unequivocally" that "old-growth forests are not carbon emitters".
"There is zero evidence to show that forests start to emit [CO2] as they age, and considerable evidence to show that they may continue to take [it] up," she said, adding that when it came to which forests were more effective carbon sinks, people often confused the rate of sequestration with the total amount stored.
While old-growth forests may only store around 1 tonne of carbon per hectare per year, Professor Medlyn explained, they "can hold a lot of carbon in the trees, maybe 500 tonnes per hectare".
By contrast, she said, a newly planted hectare of forest may accumulate, say, 5 tonnes of carbon per year "but it has next to no carbon to begin with" so "will take a long, long time to catch up to the old-growth forest".
Brendan Mackey, director of Griffith University's Climate Action Beacon and a coordinating lead author for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, also rejected Mr Ellis's comments, labelling them "unscientific".
In a statement provided to CheckMate, Professor Mackey and his colleague Dr Heather Keith, an expert in carbon stocks and primary forests, said the two claims were "misconceptions that have been thoroughly disproven by scientific research into forest ecosystems throughout the world".
Critically, they said, "the true mitigation value of native forests resides in their ongoing capacity to sequester and store carbon".
Measuring this requires accounting for the forest's total carbon stock — held in everything from living trees to logs and soil — and the time it remains locked away, which is by definition shorter in areas that have been logged.
Professor Mackey and Dr Keith pointed to a host of studies (e.g. here, here, here and here) which showed that, compared to primary and old-growth forests, "the long-term average carbon stock of regrowth harvested forests is 30-70 per cent lower".
And the evidence shows it is the oldest trees that do much of the heavy lifting — with the largest 1 per cent accounting for half the total carbon stored in above-ground living forest biomass.
In fact, old trees continue to grow, albeit more slowly, and "carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size", the academics said, noting that under natural conditions, trees can live for 200-2,000 years (and store much of their total carbon in the final stretch).
According to a 2014 study published in Nature, large, old trees "actively fix large amounts of carbon compared to smaller trees" and "at the extreme, a single big tree can add the same amount of carbon to the forest within a year as is contained in an entire mid-sized tree".
CheckMate contacted Mr Ellis for the source of his claims but did not receive a response, and was unable to find relevant data in the stories or reports to which his subsequent Facebook posts linked.
Fact checking the overruling of Roe v Wade
Following the US Supreme Court's decision to overruleoverrule its 1973 Roe v Wade decision, which gave American women legally protected access to abortion, fact checkers have been working overtime to ensure facts are at the forefront of the ongoing debate over the ruling.
PolitiFact, for instance, looked at key statements from the new ruling itself, including an allegation that only six countries outside of the US permitted elective abortion-on-demand after 20 weeks of gestation, which it concluded was only partially accurate.
According to the outlet, there are at least a dozen countries that allow abortion after 20 weeks. Furthermore, it said, definitional issues muddied the claim.
Meanwhile, a statement issued by President Joe Biden claiming that the court's decision made the US "an outlier among developed nations in the world" when it came to abortion rights was deemed correct.
The fact checkers also found that a claim made on Twitter suggesting "15 per cent of abortions are the result of coercion" was mostly false.
The figure is based on a UK survey of about 1,000 women. But while 15 per cent of respondents said they had experienced pressure to terminate a pregnancy, "the women did not confirm whether they got an abortion and weren't asked to specify the source of the coercion", PolitiFact reported.
"The UK survey also found that women had been forced to have sex without contraception, had contraception damaged or withheld from them, and were pressured to continue a pregnancy."
Elsewhere, AFP Fact Check debunked a claim made in May — after a draft of the Roe v Wade overturning was leaked — that the state of Tennessee had banned Plan B (also known as the "morning after pill").
"The claim is false," the fact checkers found. "The state's legislation does impose stricter rules on abortion-inducing medication, but it does not mention Plan B, which is a contraceptive."
CoronaCheck: Is the jury finally in on ivermectin?
The anti-parasitic drug ivermectin has made headlines throughout the pandemic, with supporters from former MP George Christensen to US podcaster Joe Rogan swearing by its effectiveness as a COVID-19 treatment and boosting its popularity in conspiracy circles.
Faced with the risk of shortages and a lack of supporting clinical data, Australia's medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has restricted ivermectin's off-label use, giving rise to a black market trade in illegally imported — and potentially counterfeit — products that has seen some people issued with hefty fines.
But does the drug work against COVID-19?
Though evidence may yet come to light, a meta-review published this week by the Cochrane Library bodes poorly for ivermectin's future as a COVID-19 treatment.
The study's review of the existing literature and 11 randomised controlled trials found that, based on "low-to-high certainty evidence", the drug appeared to offer "no beneficial effect" to people with mild or no symptoms.
For patients admitted to hospital with moderate or severe symptoms, the authors found there was "low-certainty evidence that it has no beneficial effect regarding clinical improvement, viral clearance and adverse events".
A lack of quality evidence meant they were "still uncertain whether ivermectin prevents death or worsening of clinical status or increases serious adverse events in inpatients".
The last time Cochrane conducted a systematic review of the available evidence, experts told CheckMate it was the most robust study on the topic to date, with one describing it as "the gold standard in medical research and very trustworthy".
Fact-checker fest sets its sights on YouTube
Fact checkers from around the world have lambasted Brandon Feldman, director of news and civics partnerships at YouTube, accusing the video-sharing platform of failing to tackle "dangerous" disinformation, despite repeated warnings.
The several hundred fact checkers from 65 countries were gathering in Oslo, Norway, for GlobalFact, the annual conference organised by the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).
Following a "fireside chat" with IFCN director Baybars Orsek, Mr Feldman faced fiery questions from fact checkers, including those from the UK, Pakistan and Georgia, who accused YouTube of doing little to address disinformation being shared on the platform.
They said that this was despite concerns outlined in a letter to YouTube signed by 80 fact-checking organisations earlier this year, including RMIT ABC Fact Check.
According to the editor-in-chief of PolitiFact, Angie Drobnic Holan, YouTube had made no effort to "raise accurate, credible information in its algorithms".
"We have had a lot of experience with YouTube making videos of fact-checking content," she put to Mr Feldman.
"It doesn't seem to do very well.
"I think most news organisations are extremely frustrated with your platform."
Mr Feldman said YouTube was taking disinformation seriously and was expecting to take action "very soon".
Nobel Prize-winning fact checker faces ban in the Philippines
In a move condemned by the International Fact-Checking Network, the government of outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered news site Rappler, including its fact-checking division, to shut down.
Headed by Maria Ressa, who was last year awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in safeguarding freedom of expression, Rappler is one of the few independent news organisations in the Philippines and has worked to closely monitor Mr Duterte's violent drugs war.
On Tuesday, the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission issued an order revoking Rappler's business licence, the news site said in a statement.
"The SEC's kill order revoking Rappler's licence to operate is the first of its kind in history — both for the Commission and for Philippine media," Rappler said.
"What this means for you, and for us, is that the Commission is ordering us to close shop, to cease telling you stories, to stop speaking truth to power, and to let go of everything that we have built — and created — with you since 2012."
The organisation has confirmed it will appeal the decision, and will continue to publish in the meantime.
In a tweet, the IFCN said it "strongly condemns the decision to prevent Rappler operating and carrying out journalism".
Edited by Ellen McCutchan and David Campbell
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Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, is expanding its partnership to become a Tier 1 strategic partner with the Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) nonprofit organization. This partnership will help bring more cybersecurity awareness and technical cybersecurity training to WiCyS members.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, is expanding its partnership to become a Tier 1 strategic partner with the Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) nonprofit organization. This partnership will help bring more cybersecurity awareness and technical cybersecurity training to WiCyS members.
Tier 1 is the highest strategic partnership available in WiCyS, which helps recruit and retain women in the cybersecurity field as well as advance them at all levels of their careers through skills development, networking and training with knowledgeable partners around the world. Their partnerships with businesses, companies and groups make a significant impact in growing the community to over 5,000 members in more than 70 countries. Partners support the WiCyS initiatives through annual monetary contributions, which determines if they are Tier 1, 2 or 3.
WiCyS and Fortinet Expand Cyber Certification Programs Available to Members
As part of Fortinet's recent pledge to train 1 million people over the next five years, the company's Fortinet Training Institute works with organizations who are making a tangible contribution to closing the skills gap. In 2021, it joined WiCyS as a Tier 3 strategic partner. The team worked very closely with WiCyS on all partner benefits as well as providing access to training and exams for its Network Security Expert (NSE) certifications. The program quickly gained momentum within WiCyS, and both organizations saw the value in a deeper commitment to the cause.
This summer, Fortinet will launch a dedicated Network Secuity Expert (NSE) 4 Certification "Summer Camp" program for WiCyS members, which includes access to self-paced training, to technical trainer support and online labs, as well as an exam vouchers so that members can receive their NSE 4 certification free of cost. Additionally, five WiCyS scholarships will be granted to a selection of members who qualify to go toward expenses to attend the annual WiCyS Conference. The estimated value for the Fortinet-WiCyS certification program is in excess of $100,000 USD, but offered at no cost to members.
WiCys' Strategic Partnerships Advance the Cyber Workforce Skillsets
A strategic partnership involves year-round engagement and support of the WiCyS organization, particularly driving the inclusion and diversity changes needed within the cybersecurity workforce. Among Fortinet's Tier 1 benefits are a partner executive eligible to participate on the WiCyS Mission Support Team; a leadership role with WiCyS on market research, best practices and other studies and initiatives; sponsorship of a student chapter; co-branded Cybersecurity Awareness Month opportunities; and input in skill development trainings.
Strategic partners at any level can participate in the Leadership Summit and Veterans program; post jobs and access all member resumes through the WiCyS Job Board++; sponsor educational/best practice webinars; access the strategic partner community portal and bi-monthly meetings; and be recognized in WiCyS social media and the newsletter, among many benefits.
"Fortinet is committed to bringing more women into the cybersecurity workforce as part of our dedication to closing the industry's skills gap," shared Sandra Wheatley, SVP at Fortinet. "By expanding our partnership with WiCyS, we are able to extend access to our award-winning cyber training to WiCyS members so they can gain new skills and increase their opportunities for career growth."
For more information on Fortinet, visit https://www.fortinet.com/
About WiCyS:
Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) is a nonprofit organization with international reach dedicated to the recruitment, retention and advancement of women in cybersecurity. Founded by Dr. Ambareen Siraj from Tennessee Tech University through a National Science Foundation grant in 2013, WiCyS offers opportunities, trainings, events, and resources for its members. Strategic partners include Tier 1: Amazon Web Services, Bloomberg, Carnegie Mellon University – Software Engineering Institute, Cisco, Fortinet, Google, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Meta, Microsoft, Optum, Sandia National Laboratories, SentinelOne. Tier 2: Abbvie, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Linkedin, McKesson, Navy Federal Credit Union, Nike, Wayfair, Workday. To partner, visit https://www.wicys.org/support/strategic-partnerships/.
Media Contact
Lynn Dohm, Women in CyberSecurity, 815-530-7307, lynn@wicys.org
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AG releases body-worn camera video in fatal Towson shooting
Graphic police body-worn camera video shows the moments before officers shot a gunman in Towson.
Warning: The video above is graphic
The Maryland Attorney General's Office's Internal Investigations Division released the video Thursday.
Police said officers were called on June 4 to an apartment building on Virginia Avenue and heard gunfire coming from inside an apartment.
The IID said an armed man pointed a handgun at officers before he and the three officers exchanged gunfire. The gunman, Joseph Thompson, died at the scene.
One officer suffered a gunshot wound and was treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and released.
Police said officers went into the apartment and found a woman who was also shot.
The IID continues to investigate the shooting. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/body-worn-camera-video-fatal-towson-shooting/40476887 | 2022-06-30T23:18:54Z | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/body-worn-camera-video-fatal-towson-shooting/40476887 | true |
LAS VEGAS, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ahern Rentals, Inc. ("Ahern" or the "Company") today announced it has commenced an offer to exchange its existing notes for new 8.375% second priority senior secured notes due 2026. The new notes will pay interest in cash at a rate of 8.375%. The new notes will mature May 15, 2026 (as compared to the maturity of May 15, 2023 on the existing notes). The new notes will be secured by a second lien on substantially all of the Company's assets. In addition to being guaranteed by the guarantors of the existing notes, the new notes will be guaranteed by Xtreme Re-Rental, LLC, an affiliate of the Company.
Investors who participate in the exchange offer will receive $1,000 principal amount of new notes for each $1,000 principal amount of existing notes tendered, provided that the tenders are submitted by 5:00 p.m. ET on July 14, 2022, unless extended. Holders who tender after July 14, 2022 will receive $950 of new notes per $1,000 of existing notes. Tendered existing notes may be validly withdrawn at any time prior to 5:00 p.m. ET on July 14, 2022, but not thereafter. Holders who participate in the exchange offer will also be providing consents to certain amendments to the indenture for the existing notes. The exchange offer will expire on July 28, 2022, unless extended. Accrued and unpaid interest on the existing notes that are exchanged will be paid in cash.
In order for the exchange offer to be completed, (1) all outstanding loans previously made from the Company to its affiliated companies must be repaid in full to the Company from these affiliated companies, (2) Xtreme Re-Rental, LLC, an affiliate of the Company which owns approximately $173 million in equipment based on original equipment cost (and currently re-rents certain of the same equipment to the Company), must become a guarantor for the new notes, (3) an amendment to the ABL Credit Facility must be made on terms acceptable to the Company which shall among other changes, extend the maturity of the ABL Credit Facility and provide consent for the exchange offer, and (4) the new notes must be rated by both Moody's Investors Service and S&P Global, Inc. In addition, the exchange offer is conditioned on minimum participation of the holders of at least 66-2/3% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding existing notes, which constitutes requisite participation to release the collateral and guarantees for the existing notes and to eliminate certain restrictive covenants and events of default in the indenture for the existing notes.
Any existing notes that remain outstanding after the closing of the exchange offer will be effectively subordinated to the new notes with respect to substantially all the assets of the Company. In addition, most of the covenants for any existing notes that remain outstanding will have been eliminated.
Available Documents and Other Details
Documents relating to the exchange offer will only be distributed to holders of existing notes who complete and return an eligibility form confirming that they are either a "qualified institutional buyer" under Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or not a "U.S. person" under Regulation S under the Securities Act (such holders, "Eligible Holders"). Noteholders who desire to complete an eligibility form should request instructions by sending an e-mail to ahern@dfking.com, or call D.F. King & Co., the information agent for the exchange offer, at (800) 669- 5550 (toll-free) or (212) 269-5550 (for banks and brokers).
The new notes will not be registered under the Securities Act, or any other applicable securities laws and, unless so registered, the new notes may not be offered, sold, pledged or otherwise transferred within the United States to or for the account of any U.S. person, except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements thereof. Accordingly, the new notes are being offered and issued only (i) to persons reasonably believed to be "qualified institutional buyers" (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) and (ii) to non-"U.S. persons" who are outside the United States (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) and in both cases of (i) and (ii) are not beneficial owners in or resident of Canada or authorized representatives acting on behalf of beneficial owners in or resident of Canada. Beneficial owners in or resident of Canada or such authorized representatives should contact the information agent for the exchange offer listed in the preceding paragraph.
The complete terms and conditions of the exchange offer are set forth in the informational documents relating to the exchange offer. This press release is for informational purposes only and is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell the new notes. The exchange offer and consent solicitation is only being made pursuant to the Confidential Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement and the related letter of transmittal. The exchange offer is not being made to holders of existing notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction.
About Ahern
Ahern Rentals is the largest independently owned equipment rental company in the United States. With $906 million in fiscal year 2021 revenue, the company is ranked as the eighth largest U.S. equipment rental company by Rental Equipment Register ("RER"). Founded in 1953 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Ahern Rentals has expanded through organic growth to develop a national platform with 112 branch locations in 31 states as of March 31, 2022. Ahern focuses on the aerial market segment of the $50 billion equipment rental industry with an extensive fleet of "high reach" equipment, which is supplemented by a fleet of ground engaging, general rental, and specialty equipment to provide customers with a "one- stop" solution for their equipment needs. Serving a large and diverse customer base comprised of commercial and residential construction companies, specialty contractors, industrial companies, utility companies, governmental entities, and homeowners, Ahern provides a comprehensive range of equipment and solutions, including renting and selling used/new equipment, parts, supplies, and related merchandise, as well as providing maintenance, repair, and other services that supplement rental and sales activities.
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Editor’s Note: The article was updated to include statements from Pacific Gas & Electric.
The Supreme Court issued another controversial ruling Thursday and this one is set to have far-reaching consequences for the ability of the federal government to regulate everything from pollution to e-cigarettes, but it’s not likely to impede progress on addressing the climate crisis.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States in a 6-3 ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency decided that the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal- and natural-gas-fired power plants, is illegal. The opinion states that the methodology the EPA used in setting emission standards was a shift away from what was authorized by legislators and thus needed approval from Congress.
“Today a radical and corrupt Supreme Court handed another major deliverable to the rightwing dark money machine that has worked for decades to bring us to this moment,” U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) said in a statement. “After stripping women of their fundamental right to reproductive choice, inventing a new fundamental right to carry guns in public just for the heck of it, and dismantling the wall separating church and state, the Kangaroo Court is now shielding the fossil fuel industry from direct federal regulation of planet-killing carbon pollution, effectively hijacking and rewriting the Clean Air Act for corporate polluters.”
Congress delegated the authority to regulate air emissions to the EPA through the Clean Air Act of 1970. The EPA put forward the Clean Power Plan in 2015, the first national policy addressing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants with the aim of reducing carbon pollution from the power sector 32% below 2005 levels.
“When it came out, it was a big deal,” said Michael Craig, an assistant professor of energy systems in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. “Not because it was a huge policy with massive greenhouse gas emission reductions, but just because it was the first.”
But the law never actually had any impact because it was immediately challenged, then suspended and finally cut down, Craig said. That’s why the ruling isn’t going to be as impactful toward ongoing efforts, Craig said, adding that national emissions were already reduced 31% below 2005 levels during the past year.
“This ruling is not good, but it is not an absolute death blow to our climate mitigation efforts,” Craig said. “We have already passed the Clean Power Plan target at the national level. That means some states like California have overachieved and there are a lot of states that are underachieving.”
The Biden-Harris administration has now adopted a more aggressive target of zero greenhouse gas emissions within the power sector by 2035 and California’s policies are also already more aggressive than what was laid out in the Clean Power Plan.
After the ruling was announced, Gov. Gavin Newsom and State Attorney General Rob Bonta issued statements reaffirming their commitment to addressing the climate crisis and refusal to turn the clock back.
“California will remain the tentpole for this movement with record investments and aggressive policies to reduce pollution, to protect people from extreme weather, and to leave our children and grandchildren a world that’s better off than we found it,” Newsom said.
The decision doesn’t impact the air permits or emission limits at the Humboldt Bay Generating Station, and Pacific Gas & Electric spokesperson Deanna Contreras said in a statement that the company is disappointed in the ruling and its constraint of the “EPA’s authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants.”
“However, we were pleased to see that the ruling didn’t entirely strike EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions,” Contreras wrote. “PG&E has long advocated for EPA’s legal authority to pursue greenhouse gas reductions, including in this case as part of a broader coalition. Doing so is part of our long-standing commitment to serving our planet and actively embracing California’s bold climate and clean energy goals. With the growing threat of climate change comes the urgent need for action to stabilize the climate. With our new, longer-term climate goals, we’re moving forward with a broad set of actions to support our state and our customers in achieving a cleaner energy future.”
While climate mitigation efforts are still underway, Tom Wheeler, executive director of the Environmental Protection Information Center, said he was concerned about the Supreme Court’s repeated and significant departures from precedent in the past week’s worth of rulings.
In this case, Wheeler said the Supreme Court used the major questions doctrine to stray from the respect it usually affords the administrative state to issue rules consistent with the directions provided by Congress.
“Congress frequently delegates authority to agencies to regulate particular aspects of society, in general or broad terms,” states a report on the major questions doctrine from the Congressional Research Service. “However, in a number of decisions, the Supreme Court has declared that if an agency seeks to decide an issue of major national significance, its action must be supported by clear statutory authorization.”
This application of the major questions doctrine was most recently used by the Supreme Court to limit the ability of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue an eviction moratorium to stop the spread of COVID-19 and the ability of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to implement emergency temporary vaccination and testing requirements.
This is ultimately reshaping the power dynamic among the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government, and lending more authority to the legislative branch, which can be a problem given the gridlock in Congress, Wheeler said.
“It’s become clear that the Supreme Court is not a neutral arbiter of the law,” Wheeler said. “It is a political body and we need to treat it as a political body.”
That means state and local governments need to take bolder action to safeguard their citizens, he said.
“We can no longer rely on federally protected rights that have been in existence for decades,” Wheeler said.
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Three coaches at separate schools, but brothers for life who come together in the Summer to help make a difference for Berks County youth. Rick Perez, Rob and Matt Flowers host 'Three Brothers on a Mission', a fitness camp.
The brothers are giving back to the Berks County community. Empowering youth through mental and physical toughness, growth and compassion.
Even at different schools, and the head-to-head battles between Rick and Matt, there's never any love lost. They all believe this was a path they were destined to be on.
The camp runs four days a week, with two hour training sessions. | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/three-brothers-on-a-mission-giving-back-to-berks-county-youth/article_9311a4fe-f8b7-11ec-97b1-5b11f76a0b04.html | 2022-06-30T23:21:19Z | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/three-brothers-on-a-mission-giving-back-to-berks-county-youth/article_9311a4fe-f8b7-11ec-97b1-5b11f76a0b04.html | false |
Lenders using FormFree's AccountChek with LPA will immediately benefit from this enhancement once it is announced in the July publication of the Freddie Mac Single-Family Seller/Service Guide.
ATHENS, Ga., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FormFree® announced that mortgage lenders using AccountChek® verification of asset (VOA) reports in conjunction with a Freddie Mac Loan Product Advisor® (LPASM) solution will soon benefit from an enhancement that takes loan applicants' 12-month on-time rent payment history into consideration when assessing eligibility for qualified first-time homebuyers.
The enhancement, which is effective once announced in the Freddie Mac July Guide Bulletin, is designed to expand sustainable homeownership for the millions of Americans by taking their rent payment history into account when assessing eligibility. The expansion of rent payment history can increase the number of mortgage loan applicants who receive an Eligible/Accept recommendation in LPA.
"Freddie Mac is focused on offering value to our clients and improving the borrower experience as we continue to modernize the mortgage process," said Kevin Kauffman, Freddie Mac Single-Family Vice President of Client and Partner Delivery. "FormFree has been a strong partner on this journey by helping lenders assess credit eligibility for qualified first-time homebuyers."
LPA will automatically identify on-time rent payments — including those made via mobile apps like Venmo, Zelle and Paypal — within AccountChek VOA reports and take them into consideration when assessing eligibility for qualified first-time homebuyers. Only on-time rent payments will be considered; LPA will not assess late or missing rent payments.
"Freddie Mac's move to have Loan Product Advisor consider rent payment history in its assessment is part of a much larger push for more equitable home financing practices," said FormFree Chief Customer Officer Christy Moss. "People of color, who have disproportionately low homeownership rates and are overrepresented among credit invisible consumers will be most positively impacted by this enhancement to LPA."
"FormFree takes great pride in helping borrowers communicate their ability to pay and equipping lenders with the tools to confidently and efficiently verify borrower credentials," continued Moss. "We look forward to supporting Freddie Mac as it continues to deploy technology that improves access to sustainable credit for homebuyers."
Lenders can leverage rent payment history assessment through LPA asset and income modeler (AIM) when they order AccountChek reports of any length, including 30-, 60-, 90- and 180-day reports. In supplying LPA with 12 months of rent payment history, AccountChek has established safeguards that ensure the collection of extended rent payment history does not expose lenders to non-rent transactions, such as large gift deposits, that occurred more than 90 days in the past.
"FormFree remains committed to developing and supporting solutions that correct the racial homeownership gap," said FormFree Founder and CEO Brent Chandler. "Using FICO scores alone to evaluate creditworthiness excludes a large swath of minority homeowners who pay their rent on time and responsibly manage their finances without borrowing money from creditors. Direct source financial data is the key to understanding consumers' true ability and FormFree applauds Freddie Mac's efforts to help lenders finance homeownership more equitably."
For more information, visit https://www.formfree.com/rent/.
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American Horror Stories is back to haunt your dreams.
The first teaser, titled Die-O-Rama, for season two of the American Horror Story spin-off, coming to FX on Hulu July 21, will probably make you sleep with the lights on tonight.
While The Chordettes' "Mr. Sandman" plays, a creepy dollhouse comes into focus and a giant human doll injects another resembling Alice in Wonderland's Red Queen with a huge needle. The needle doesn't do its job (or does it?) and the doll awakens to choke the other.
We're off to a terrifying start.
In a separate room of the house, a doll dressed in a wedding gown tears off the arm of another doll and pushes her down some sort of well. Talk about a bridezilla.
In another room, dolls dressed in various costumes—think maids and ballerinas—congregate. If you look closely, you can see a man tied up to something resembling an electric chair in the corner.
The teaser concludes with a little boy in a tuxedo riding a tricycle and forcing a doll to fall off a ledge.
Created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, Horror Stories is a weekly anthology series that features a different bone-chilling tale every episode.
While there is no word on casting for season two, the first season featured AHS favorites like Matt Bomer and Billie Lourd, while welcoming in newcomers like Paris Jackson, Aaron Tveit and Kevin McHale.
Get ready to be terrorize when the second season of American Horror Stories premieres July 21 on FX on Hulu.
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AFRICA OIL ANNOUNCES THE RECEIPT OF PRIME DIVIDEND AND PROVIDES SHARE CAPITAL AND VOTING RIGHTS UPDATE
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 30, 2022 /CNW/ - (TSX: AOI) (Nasdaq-Stockholm: AOI) – Africa Oil Corp. ("AOI", "Africa Oil" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has received a dividend from Prime Oil and Gas Cooperatief UA ("Prime"). The Company has a 50% shareholding in Prime. View PDF Version
Prime has distributed a $75.0 million dividend with a net payment to Africa Oil of $37.5 million related to its shareholding. This is the third Prime dividend distributed this year with Africa Oil having received an aggregate amount of $162.5 million.
Since acquiring its 50% interest in Prime for a cash consideration of $519.5 million in January 2020, Africa Oil has received 13 dividends from Prime for a total amount of $562.5 million.
Also, the Company reports the following share capital and voting rights update in accordance with the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act.
As a result of the exercise of stock options under the Company's Stock Option Plan and return to treasury, the Company now has 477,280,774 common shares issued and outstanding with voting rights as at June 30, 2022.
Africa Oil Corp. is a Canadian oil and gas company with producing and development assets in deepwater Nigeria; development assets in Kenya; and an exploration/appraisal portfolio in Africa and 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 Corp. is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation and the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out below on June 30, 2022 at 6:45 p.m. ET.
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As Thursday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day:
Ukraine won back control over Snake Island, which Russia occupied in February. Ukrainian officials said Russian troops evacuated after Ukraine's overnight bombardment. Russia said it left the island as a "goodwill gesture" for Ukraine's grain exports. The strategic outpost in the Black Sea is where Ukrainian soldiers famously refused to surrender to the Russian warship Moskva.
President Biden said the U.S. would provide $800 million more in security assistance for Ukraine. Speaking at the close of a NATO summit, Biden said the war "will not end with Russia defeating Ukraine" and that allies would support Ukraine "as long as it takes." Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier said his country had no "problem" with Finland and Sweden joining NATO but would have to respond if the alliance built up a military presence along its northern borders.
Amnesty International said the Mariupol theater bombing was a clear war crime. A new report by the human rights organization concluded that the attack "was almost certainly carried out by Russian fighter aircraft." Hundreds of civilians sheltered in the building during the March siege of the southern port city that Russian troops now occupy.
The European Court of Human Rights told Russia to ensure two British captives don't get the death penalty. In early June, a court in a Russian-backed separatist part of Ukraine sentenced Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin to death. Russia's government, which pulled out of the European rights jurisdiction after invading Ukraine, said it no longer complies with the European court's orders.
Ukraine said it broke ties with Syria for recognizing the independence of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk regions at Russia's request. Ukraine's foreign ministry said in recent years it had already ordered the closure of its and Syria's embassies over crimes of the Syrian regime, which is friendly with the Kremlin. Kyiv said it will now also impose a trade embargo and other sanctions against Syria.
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Camp Lighthouse provides overnight summer camp experience for visually-impaired high schoolers
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Camp Lighthouse empowers and brings experiences to those who are visually impaired in East Texas and surrounding areas. This year is the first year for the overnight summer camp and it’s been a busy week, with a full schedule for campers.
The camp is put on by East Texas Lighthouse for the Blind. Community Relations Administrator Craig Ellis said they’re all about empowering those with a visual impairment.
“A lot of times kids get shut out of activities at school because they’re blind or they don’t realize because they’re blind what all they can do,” he said.
The campers started their day at Grand Slam, bowling and playing arcade games. Earlier in the week they played different sports as well. Emily Anderson is a camper and said she hasn’t always been a sports person.
“But these I really had a lot of fun doing because I felt confident doing them and I could understand everything and everything was kind of tailored to what I could do,” Anderson said.
After Grand Slam the camp headed to Brookshire’s for a shopping trip to buy food for a potluck they’ll be hosting on Friday. Campers went around with a personal shopper and volunteers to purchase items on their lists.
“There has been literally no issue with me not being able to do things on my own. I felt included, I felt like I could do things,” said camper Trey Smith.
Throughout the week campers have gotten to play sports, toured businesses around Tyler, and learned independent living skills.
“We’ve had some self-care classes, different things like that, so we’re trying to address the whole child with how to present themselves, how to take care of themselves, and also have fun,” Ellis said.
For Anderson, it’s been a while since she’s gotten to do anything like this, but says it’s been a great week.
“All the different activities we get to do and kind of being away from home and getting that independence for a few days,” she said.
The camp was free of charge for campers thanks to many generous donors and sponsors.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
9-8-2-5, FIREBALL: 2
(nine, eight, two, five; FIREBALL: two)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
9-8-2-5, FIREBALL: 2
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has issued a directive instructing the Washington State Patrol to not cooperate with out-of-state abortion investigations, a preemptive move in case states where abortion is banned or significantly restricted seek to investigate whether their residents have traveled to the state.
The order, which was finalized Thursday, was first announced by Inslee at a news conference outside the Capitol last weekend, one day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
“Washington is and will remain a sanctuary for any person seeking abortion care and services in our state, but we must act to protect our rights and our values,” Inslee wrote in his directive. “To that end, it is critical that our law enforcement agencies not cooperate in any manner with any out-of-state investigation, prosecution, or other legal action based on another state’s law that is inconsistent with Washington’s protections of the right to choose abortion and provide abortion-related care.”
Under the directive, the state patrol must not cooperate with most subpoenas, search warrants or court orders from states with laws that ban or significantly restrict abortion access. Any request received by the patrol must be reviewed and processed in conjunction with the attorney general’s office and the governor’s attorney.
The governor doesn’t have jurisdiction over local law enforcement agencies, but under a law passed this year, state and local law enforcement are prohibited from being able to “penalize, prosecute, or otherwise take adverse action” against an individual seeking to end their pregnancy or against anyone assisting someone who is pregnant in obtaining an abortion.
The neighboring state of Idaho has enacted a near-total abortion ban that automatically takes effect 30 days after the court's decision.
Planned Parenthood is suing over the law and asking for an expedited schedule so the Idaho Supreme Court can hear arguments before it goes into effect, but health care providers expect that Idaho residents seeking abortion services may travel to Washington state for the procedure.
Abortion has been legal in Washington state since a 1970 statewide ballot referendum. Another ballot measure approved by voters in 1991 affirmed a woman’s right to choose physician-performed abortion prior to fetal viability and further expanded and protected access to abortion in the state if Roe v. Wade was overturned.
As part of the enforcement prohibitions measure Inslee signed earlier this year, the number of providers who can provide abortions increased, after the Legislature granted specific statutory authorization for physician assistants, advanced registered nurse practitioners and other providers acting within their scope of practice.
Inslee's office said he's talking with fellow Democrats in the Legislature about additional policies to to protect patient rights and data, though no specific bills have been proposed as of yet. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Inslee-prohibits-Patrol-from-aiding-abortion-17277795.php | 2022-06-30T23:28:16Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Inslee-prohibits-Patrol-from-aiding-abortion-17277795.php | false |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Public schools in Texas would describe slavery to second graders as “involuntary relocation” under new social studies standards proposed to the state's education board.
A group of nine educators submitted the idea to the State Board of Education as part of Texas' efforts to develop new social studies curriculum, according to the Texas Tribune. The once-a-decade process updates what children learn in the state's nearly 8,900 public schools.
The board is considering curriculum changes one year after Texas passed a law to eliminate topics from schools that make students “feel discomfort.”
Board member Aicha Davis, a Democrat who represents Dallas and Fort Worth, raised concerns during a June 15 meeting that the term wasn't a fair representation of the slave trade. The board sent the draft back for revision, urging the educator group to “carefully examine the language used to describe events.”
“I can’t say what their intention was, but that’s not going to be acceptable,” Davis told The Texas Tribune on Thursday.
Part of the proposed draft standards obtained by The Texas Tribune say students should “compare journeys to America, including voluntary Irish immigration and involuntary relocation of African people during colonial times.”
Texas' public education system has become heavily politicized in recent years, with lawmakers passing legislation to dictate how race and slavery should be taught in schools and conservative groups pouring large amounts of money into school board races.
Texas drew attention for a similar situation in 2015, when a student noticed wording in a textbook that referred to slaves who were brought to America as “ workers.” The book's publisher apologized and promised to increase the number of textbook reviewers is uses. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Some-Texas-schools-may-call-slavery-involuntary-17277898.php | 2022-06-30T23:29:23Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Some-Texas-schools-may-call-slavery-involuntary-17277898.php | true |
SÃO PAULO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FS Luxembourg S.à r.l. (the "Issuer"), a wholly-owned finance subsidiary of FS Indústria de Biocombustíveis Ltda. (the "Guarantor"), announces the successful results of its previously announced solicitation of consents ("Consents") (the "Consent Solicitation") with respect to its outstanding US$654,176,000 aggregate principal amount of 10.00% senior secured notes due 2025, issued by the Issuer and guaranteed by the Guarantor (the "Notes").
As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 30, 2022 (the "Expiration Date"), holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount outstanding of the Notes had validly delivered and not validly revoked their Consents to certain proposed amendments to the indenture governing the Notes (the "Proposed Amendments"), upon the terms and conditions described in the Consent Solicitation Statement, dated June 24, 2022 (the "Statement").
As a result, the Proposed Amendments are expected to become effective upon the execution of the amended and restated indenture governing the Notes, to be dated on or about July 5, 2022, between the Issuer, the Guarantor, the trustee and the collateral agent (the "Amended and Restated Indenture"). The Amended and Restated Indenture reflecting the Proposed Amendments will be effective and operative immediately upon execution thereof as to all Holders, whether or not a Holder delivered a Consent pursuant to the Consent Solicitation.
The revocation deadline for the Consent Solicitation has passed and therefore Consents that have been validly delivered can no longer be revoked. On the settlement date for the Consent Solicitation, which is expected to be on or about July 5, 2022, the Issuer will make a consent payment of US$10 per US$1,000 principal amount of Notes that represents the Consents validly delivered and not validly revoked on or prior to the Expiration Date.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC acted as solicitation agent in the Consent Solicitation, and can be contacted at its telephone numbers set forth on the back cover page of the Statement with questions regarding the Consent Solicitation.
Copies of the Statement are available to holders of Notes from D.F. King & Co., Inc., the information agent, tabulation agent and paying agent for the Consent Solicitation. Requests for copies of the Statement should be directed to D.F. King at +1 (800) 714-3310 (toll free), +1 (212) 269-5550 (collect) or fsluxembourg@dfking.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are information of a non-historical nature or that relate to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Neither the Issuer nor the Guarantor undertakes any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events or for any other reason.
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8-year-old boy found in sewer after missing for more than a week
Published: Jun. 30, 2022 at 6:25 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BERLIN (AP) - Police say there are no signs of foul play in the case of an 8-year-old boy who was found in a rainwater sewer more than a week after going missing in northern Germany.
The boy disappeared on June 17 in the town of Oldenburg.
Search parties spent days looking for him until somebody heard whimpering from beneath a manhole cover about 330 yards from the boy’s home on June 25.
Rescuers found the boy naked, chilled and dehydrated inside the sewer, but otherwise unharmed.
Oldenburg police said Tuesday that their investigation concluded the boy likely climbed into a drain near his home and then lost inside the narrow tunnels.
The boy is still in the hospital.
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TOLEDO, Ohio, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Welltower Inc.® (NYSE: WELL) today released its 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") Report. The report summarizes Welltower's progress and achievements across a range of ESG initiatives including diversity and inclusion, environmental responsibility and corporate governance.
"2021 was a year of significant advancement in our environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards, in response to both investor expectations and employee engagement," said Shankh Mitra, Welltower's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer. "Our commitment to be a responsible corporate citizen is directed from the top down and from the bottom up with our Board of Directors, employees and investors intricately involved in identifying and driving best practices. Acting responsibly is not only the right thing to do, but also benefits our key stakeholders and is fundamental to our business."
Welltower's noteworthy ESG achievements in 2021 include:
- Attained ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year, Sustained Excellence Award
- Included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Composite Index
- Raised MSCI ESG rating from A to AA
- Named as one of Top 10 Most Sustainable REITs by Barron's
- Listed in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook
- Named to the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index
- Named as one of America's Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek
To view the complete 2021 ESG Report and learn more about Welltower's ESG initiatives, visit the link below:
About Welltower
Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL), an S&P 500 company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, is driving the transformation of health care infrastructure. The Company invests with leading seniors housing operators, post-acute providers and health systems to fund the real estate infrastructure needed to scale innovative care delivery models and improve people's wellness and overall health care experience. Welltower®, a real estate investment trust, owns interests in properties concentrated in major, high-growth markets in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, consisting of seniors housing, post-acute communities and outpatient medical properties. More information is available at www.welltower.com.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Legislation requiring North Carolina’s sheriffs to assist federal agents who are seeking a jail inmate whom they believe is in the country unlawfully neared final General Assembly approval Thursday with House backing.
The Senate bill is a response by Republicans unhappy with Democratic sheriffs in several urban counties who have stopped working closely with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold defendants. The Senate, which voted for the measure in March 2021, now must accept a small change made by the House before sending the measure to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. Friday is likely the last day of the General Assembly's primary work session this year.
The House's 65-47 party-line vote signals that Cooper is likely to veto that measure if it goes to his desk. It's only slightly different from a 2019 measure that Cooper vetoed and had solid support from legislative Democrats so it couldn't be overridden.
The bill would require sheriffs and other jail administrators to check whether any person charged with felony drug or violent crimes have ICE detainers seeking their custody. If a detainer is listed, deputies must take the inmate to a local magistrate or judge who will decide whether to issue an order holding them. The additional hold would give ICE agents 48 hours to pick up the inmate.
Bill supporters say the measure is about protecting public safety during a time of increase violence and criminal activity. But groups representing immigrants and the poor argue these demands counter the desires of voters who elected sheriffs with campaign platforms of easing aggressive postures against immigrants. They also say the requirements also would reduce goodwill with the population of recent immigrants to the country. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Veto-likely-again-ahead-for-bill-making-NC-17277939.php | 2022-06-30T23:43:03Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Veto-likely-again-ahead-for-bill-making-NC-17277939.php | false |
Usher capped off Black Music Month with a soulful and smooth "Tiny Desk Concert" at NPR's offices in Washington, DC on Thursday.
Backed by his band, the R&B singer performed a stripped-down set of his hits, including "You Make Me Wanna...," "U Don't Have to Call" and "Confessions Part II."
"Being able to sing and just be joyous, there's something about that that just ties us and brings us together," Usher said to the audience, who appeared to join in the chill, happy vibes.
The performance marked the first filmed in-person in more than two years for the ongoing NPR series due to the pandemic.
Acknowledging his band, Usher said he was happy to have the opportunity to celebrate his fellow musicians.
"If life has taught us anything, it's that we should share with each other. Not just the music but understanding that life is a collaborative process," Usher said. "Being able to lift each other up, stand with each other, you know. It's what life is really about."
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The first phase of MLB All-Star Game voting has concluded, and Aaron Judge led all American League players. Under this new system, Judge has automatically earned a starting spot in the game thanks to winning Phase 1. Braves’ outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr. will join Judge, as he led all National League players.
This is Judge’s fourth career All-Star nod. In his previous All-Star years (2017, 2018 and 2021) he was also a starter. He is the first Yankee to lead all players in fan voting since Alex Rodriguez in 2008. With 3,762,498 total votes, Judge not only led the AL, but the entire league.
Judge is slashing .289/.364/.998 with 29 home runs and 59 RBI on the season.
The second phase of voting begins on July 5. During this phase, fans can only vote between the top two vote-getters at each position and the next four outfielders after Judge and Acuna. The full starting lineups will be announced on July 8 with the rest of the teams unveiled on July 10.
Judge’s teammates Giancarlo Stanton and Jose Trevino finished in the top two at their respective positions, making them finalists to be starters. Stanton received the fourth-most votes among AL outfielders, trailing Judge, Mike Trout and George Springer. Trevino was out-voted by only Toronto catcher Alejandro Kirk.
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Bucks re-sign Bobby Portis
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - The Bucks took care of their own as free agency got underway with the league’s tampering period beginning on Thursday.
Bobby Portis was the first to re-sign just five minutes after the flood gates open at 5 p.m. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reporting Portis and the bucks agreed to a four year deal worth $49 million dollars. That’s the max Milwaukee could offer with his Early Bird Rights being held by the team.
Portis started 59 games last season in place of an ailing Brook Lopez, and averaged 14.6 points and nine rebounds a contest. He’s also been elevated to hero status in Milwaukee with his energy and key plays during the 2021 championship run.
The veteran big man also Tweeting out a video following reports of the deal, using the hashtag “4moreyears.”
The Bucks also re-signing veteran guards Wes Matthews (one year) and Jevon Carter (two years), according to a report by The Athletic.
In all Milwaukee spent $59 million dollars over the first few minutes of free agency to bring back some key pieces.
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8-year-old boy found in sewer after missing for more than a week
Published: Jun. 30, 2022 at 6:25 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
BERLIN (AP) - Police say there are no signs of foul play in the case of an 8-year-old boy who was found in a rainwater sewer more than a week after going missing in northern Germany.
The boy disappeared on June 17 in the town of Oldenburg.
Search parties spent days looking for him until somebody heard whimpering from beneath a manhole cover about 330 yards from the boy’s home on June 25.
Rescuers found the boy naked, chilled and dehydrated inside the sewer, but otherwise unharmed.
Oldenburg police said Tuesday that their investigation concluded the boy likely climbed into a drain near his home and then lost inside the narrow tunnels.
The boy is still in the hospital.
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BESSEMER, Ala., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Prime Therapeutics' proposed acquisition of rival PBM Magellan Rx Management "raises serious anti-competitive concerns" and should be blocked, according to a letter sent today from American Pharmacy Cooperative, Inc. (APCI) to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.
In its letter to the agencies, APCI not only opposed the proposed acquisition but also called for a review of Magellan's acquisition by Medicaid Managed Care organization Centene in 2021 and its decision to unload the PBM in such a short time frame.
In the 13-page letter, APCI Director of Healthcare Policy and General Counsel Greg Reybold wrote:
Simply put, Prime's acquisition is likely to create more conflicts of interest, reduce competition, and lead to greater inefficiencies in an already inefficient and flawed system. Rather than allowing this merger to proceed, the Agencies would do well to utilize their authority to not only stop this proposed acquisition but also investigate the premise for Centene's acquisition of Magellan Health and determine whether it is appropriate to unwind that merger in light of Centene's past behavior on the PBM space combined with the proposed divestiture seemingly standing in contrast to the claimed reasons for its acquisition in the first place.
"We have seen time and time again how these PBM acquisitions and mergers have turned out to be detrimental for patients, taxpayers, and small businesses," said Tim Hamrick, APCI Chief Executive Officer. "We urge the FTC and the Department of Justice to take a long, hard look at this proposed merger and do what is right not only for patients and our member pharmacies but for all Americans."
"The largest PBMs in the U.S. have created a prescription drug pricing and access problem," Reybold said. "Six PBMs handle more than 95 percent of the market for prescription claims, and we continue to see increasing prescription prices and reduced access to lifesaving medications for patients. While these middlemen claim to bring market efficiencies to the prescription drug chain, the reality is integration in the PBM market has increased prices and had anti-competitive effects."
APCI is a member-owned cooperative of more than 1,600 member pharmacies in 30 states. Established in 1984 and headquartered in Bessemer, Ala., APCI is proud to lead the fight for prescription drug pricing transparency and reform.
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SÃO PAULO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FS Luxembourg S.à r.l. (the "Issuer"), a wholly-owned finance subsidiary of FS Indústria de Biocombustíveis Ltda. (the "Guarantor"), announces the successful results of its previously announced solicitation of consents ("Consents") (the "Consent Solicitation") with respect to its outstanding US$654,176,000 aggregate principal amount of 10.00% senior secured notes due 2025, issued by the Issuer and guaranteed by the Guarantor (the "Notes").
As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 30, 2022 (the "Expiration Date"), holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount outstanding of the Notes had validly delivered and not validly revoked their Consents to certain proposed amendments to the indenture governing the Notes (the "Proposed Amendments"), upon the terms and conditions described in the Consent Solicitation Statement, dated June 24, 2022 (the "Statement").
As a result, the Proposed Amendments are expected to become effective upon the execution of the amended and restated indenture governing the Notes, to be dated on or about July 5, 2022, between the Issuer, the Guarantor, the trustee and the collateral agent (the "Amended and Restated Indenture"). The Amended and Restated Indenture reflecting the Proposed Amendments will be effective and operative immediately upon execution thereof as to all Holders, whether or not a Holder delivered a Consent pursuant to the Consent Solicitation.
The revocation deadline for the Consent Solicitation has passed and therefore Consents that have been validly delivered can no longer be revoked. On the settlement date for the Consent Solicitation, which is expected to be on or about July 5, 2022, the Issuer will make a consent payment of US$10 per US$1,000 principal amount of Notes that represents the Consents validly delivered and not validly revoked on or prior to the Expiration Date.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC acted as solicitation agent in the Consent Solicitation, and can be contacted at its telephone numbers set forth on the back cover page of the Statement with questions regarding the Consent Solicitation.
Copies of the Statement are available to holders of Notes from D.F. King & Co., Inc., the information agent, tabulation agent and paying agent for the Consent Solicitation. Requests for copies of the Statement should be directed to D.F. King at +1 (800) 714-3310 (toll free), +1 (212) 269-5550 (collect) or fsluxembourg@dfking.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are information of a non-historical nature or that relate to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Neither the Issuer nor the Guarantor undertakes any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events or for any other reason.
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NEWARK, NJ (PIX11) — Nine people suffered gunshot injuries in a shooting in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday evening, officials said.
Police rushed to the 200 block of Clinton Place after a ShotSpotter notification around 6:20 p.m., Newark Acting Public Safety Director Raul Malave said. Initially, officials said seven adults and one juvenile were hurt. Another adult victim was later reported.
Four of the adults and the juvenile went to Newark Beth Israel Medical Center for treatment, authorities said. The other four adults were taken to University Hospital. All eight victims were in what officials described as stable condition.
Officials have not yet said what led up to the shooting. The extent of the victims’ injuries was not immediately clear.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – A New Orleans native who sang with the Southern University Choir and toured the U.S. to perform for jazz fans across the nation is set to take the stage before a Baton Rouge audience next month.
Ed Perkins and the jazz band named in his honor will perform Wednesday, July 20 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Main Library at Goodwood.
Visitors who enjoy this free concert will hear the unforgettable sounds of well-known favorites and salutes to influential jazz artists.
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As Thursday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day:
Ukraine won back control over Snake Island, which Russia occupied in February. Ukrainian officials said Russian troops evacuated after Ukraine's overnight bombardment. Russia said it left the island as a "goodwill gesture" for Ukraine's grain exports. The strategic outpost in the Black Sea is where Ukrainian soldiers famously refused to surrender to the Russian warship Moskva.
President Biden said the U.S. would provide $800 million more in security assistance for Ukraine. Speaking at the close of a NATO summit, Biden said the war "will not end with Russia defeating Ukraine" and that allies would support Ukraine "as long as it takes." Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier said his country had no "problem" with Finland and Sweden joining NATO but would have to respond if the alliance built up a military presence along its northern borders.
Amnesty International said the Mariupol theater bombing was a clear war crime. A new report by the human rights organization concluded that the attack "was almost certainly carried out by Russian fighter aircraft." Hundreds of civilians sheltered in the building during the March siege of the southern port city that Russian troops now occupy.
The European Court of Human Rights told Russia to ensure two British captives don't get the death penalty. In early June, a court in a Russian-backed separatist part of Ukraine sentenced Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin to death. Russia's government, which pulled out of the European rights jurisdiction after invading Ukraine, said it no longer complies with the European court's orders.
Ukraine said it broke ties with Syria for recognizing the independence of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk regions at Russia's request. Ukraine's foreign ministry said in recent years it had already ordered the closure of its and Syria's embassies over crimes of the Syrian regime, which is friendly with the Kremlin. Kyiv said it will now also impose a trade embargo and other sanctions against Syria.
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Tensions are on the rise in the Baltic between Russia and NATO member Lithuania.
Russia's sanctions, graded: NPR's Indicator from Planet Money assesses the effectiveness of economic punishments levied against Russia.
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Many are driving to Springfield Fireworks in order to stock up before Independence Day.
This despite reports of shortages when it comes to fireworks. Springfield Fireworks says that they have been hit with the shortage as well, but say that they have enough to meet with local demand in the area.
"Yeah, you would always like to have stuff before the 4th, not after," said Greg Greer, Operations Manager at Springfield Fireworks. "We actually got one container last week and yesterday. We are running short on some items, but I think we have enough to get us through."
In addition, the message has been clear, if you plan on setting off fireworks -- it's best to get them as soon as you can versus waiting last minute.
"Going through what we went through in 2020 with COVID -- and what we knew -- we didn't know what to expect then," said Greer. "Last year, we knew we were going to be short, but we were trying to get the message out, and that is a message that we have tried to get out this year. Everybody tends to wait for the 3rd or the 4th, that's typically the way it has always been."
And while Springfield Fireworks may not have their full supply, they say that it's just fine as the community has always stepped up in helping them when they need it.
"We get customers year after year after year, some of them we know by name, we recognize them when they get in the door. We do appreciate the support from the communities around here and we have people that drive hours to get to us."
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Sri Lanka’s strategic location has attracted outsized interest in the small island nation from regional giants China and India for more than a decade, with Beijing and its free-flowing loans and infrastructure investments widely seen as having gained the upper hand in the quest for influence.
But Sri Lanka’s economic collapse has proved an opportunity for India to swing the pendulum back, with New Delhi stepping in with massive financial and material assistance to its neighbor.
“There is no such thing as charity in international politics,” said Sreeram Chaulia, who heads the School of International Affairs at O.P. Jindal University in Sonipat, India.
“The intent is to drive China away from India’s backyard and restore the balance in New Delhi’s favor.”
Sri Lanka, a country of 22 million, sits off the southern coast of India on the Indian Ocean shipping lanes through which China receives the vast majority of its imported oil from the Middle East.
As part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative to pump money into infrastructure projects across Asia and Africa, former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa took on many loans, including $1.1 billion to build a port in his home region of Hambantota despite the plan having been rejected by an expert panel.
When the deep-water port failed to generate the foreign revenue needed to pay China back, Sri Lanka in 2017 was forced to hand the facility and thousands of acres of land around it to Beijing for 99 years – giving China a key foothold directly opposite regional rival India’s coastline.
That stoked India’s ongoing concerns about China’s growing influence in South Asia, particularly in smaller countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Maldives.
Concerns over China’s increasing regional assertiveness deepened in 2020 when Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed in deadly skirmishes on the disputed Himalayan Ladakh border.
In its maritime approach, Beijing’s military focus is currently more on the South China Sea and the Pacific, while its interest in Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean appears to be more economically motivated, said Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, a London-based analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
“On the security side for China it’s not a priority, but it is an emerging opportunity for China to bolster its influence in South Asia and ... to counter India’s influence,” he said.
Caught in between is Sri Lanka itself which, like many others in the region, needs both China and India, whose combined population is nearly 3 billion people, Mr. Roy-Chaudhury said.
“It’s not black and white,” he said. “The leaders of these countries have to be pro-India and pro-China at the same time.”
Sajith Premadasa, the current Sri Lankan opposition leader, emphasized that while the country is “extremely grateful” for India’s help in the current crisis, the government needs to ensure that Sri Lanka’s sovereignty and political independence are not impacted by the situation.
“What Sri Lanka should do always is to ensure our own national interests – in order to maximize our own national interests,” he told The Associated Press. “We should work with everyone in international society, irrespective of which power group or power bloc anybody belongs to.”
Sri Lanka has been rocked by protests since April after its foreign currency reserves ran dry, leading to widespread food and fuel shortages and power cuts, with demonstrators calling for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the brother of Mahinda Rajapaksa who was elected in 2019.
In May, Mahinda, who had been appointed prime minister, himself resigned, but Gotabaya has clung to power.
Gotabaya inherited an economy already in a slump after a series of attacks in early 2019 by Islamic extremists caused a dramatic drop-off in tourism, a major source of income, and enormous foreign debt from infrastructure projects, many bankrolled by Chinese money and commissioned by brother Mahinda.
But a series of unwise economic decisions made the situation worse, and it was further exacerbated by the global coronavirus hitting the tourism sector again, while the war in Ukraine has driven up food and fuel costs.
The government now owes $51 billion and is unable to make interest payments. It has suspended repayment of $7 billion in foreign debt due this year out of $25 billion to be repaid by 2026, pending the outcome of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on a rescue package.
China, Sri Lanka’s third largest creditor after Japan and the Asian Development Bank, accounts for about 10% of its debt.
China has offered to lend more on favorable terms but has balked at forgiving some of Sri Lanka’s debt, possibly over concerns it would prompt other borrowers across Asia and Africa to demand the same relief.
But Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took office after Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned, has said that Sri Lanka has not been able to access $1.5 billion in loans offered by China, because Beijing has made the money contingent on the country having enough foreign reserves for three months.
Beijing has also promised to “play a positive role” in Sri Lanka’s talks with the IMF and is providing some 500 million yuan, about $75 million, in humanitarian aid, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijan.
Meanwhile, India has stepped in with millions of dollars worth of rice, milk powder, medicine, and other humanitarian aid, as well as diesel fuel and gasoline.
India has also extended Sri Lanka a $4 billion credit line on favorable terms that has been widely credited with helping the country’s crisis from worsening, even as Mr. Wickremesinghe last week declared the economy had “completely collapsed.”
Mr. Wickremesinghe, who has served as prime minister several times before, is seen as pro-India, though he has limited leverage in his current role with Gotabaya Rajapaksa remaining president.
While the Rajapaksa family is considered pro-China, and with the general perception that China has been partially responsible for the country’s problems, the political winds seem to be shifting in India’s favor, Dr. Chaulia said.
India has not been actively promoting the perception that Chinese loans contributed to the crisis in Sri Lanka, but it also has not fought it, seeing the idea of a Chinese “debt trap” as an advantageous narrative for it regionally.
“India is not worried if this message comes across,” Mr. Roy-Chaudhury said.
New Delhi has recently succeeded in wresting away some of Beijing’s important projects in Sri Lanka, which is also a major destination for Indian exports.
In March, Sri Lanka finalized a joint venture with India to develop a solar power plant in the island nation. That same month, Colombo also terminated a contract with a Chinese company to build a $12 million wind farm in the country and offered it to an Indian rival.
“While India is trying to maintain its strategic footprint in Sri Lanka, its main aim appears to be to minimize Chinese hold in the country,” said K.C. Singh, a former Indian foreign secretary and a strategic affairs expert.
Coming to Sri Lanka’s aid also fits neatly into Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Neighborhood First” foreign policy initiative, which focuses on cultivating and sustaining relations with nearby countries, and it is also in India’s self interest not to have a neighboring country like Sri Lanka collapse into chaos, Mr. Roy-Chaudhury said.
“In economic terms, I think it would want to be one of a number of countries providing economic reassurance or support.”
This story was reported by the Associated Press. David Rising reported from Bangkok. Krutika Pathi in New Delhi, Joe McDonald in Beijing, and Krishan Francis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, contributed to this report. | https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2022/0630/India-throws-a-lifeline-to-sinking-Sri-Lanka-edging-out-China | 2022-07-01T00:12:43Z | https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2022/0630/India-throws-a-lifeline-to-sinking-Sri-Lanka-edging-out-China | false |
As Thursday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day:
Ukraine won back control over Snake Island, which Russia occupied in February. Ukrainian officials said Russian troops evacuated after Ukraine's overnight bombardment. Russia said it left the island as a "goodwill gesture" for Ukraine's grain exports. The strategic outpost in the Black Sea is where Ukrainian soldiers famously refused to surrender to the Russian warship Moskva.
President Biden said the U.S. would provide $800 million more in security assistance for Ukraine. Speaking at the close of a NATO summit, Biden said the war "will not end with Russia defeating Ukraine" and that allies would support Ukraine "as long as it takes." Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier said his country had no "problem" with Finland and Sweden joining NATO but would have to respond if the alliance built up a military presence along its northern borders.
Amnesty International said the Mariupol theater bombing was a clear war crime. A new report by the human rights organization concluded that the attack "was almost certainly carried out by Russian fighter aircraft." Hundreds of civilians sheltered in the building during the March siege of the southern port city that Russian troops now occupy.
The European Court of Human Rights told Russia to ensure two British captives don't get the death penalty. In early June, a court in a Russian-backed separatist part of Ukraine sentenced Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin to death. Russia's government, which pulled out of the European rights jurisdiction after invading Ukraine, said it no longer complies with the European court's orders.
Ukraine said it broke ties with Syria for recognizing the independence of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk regions at Russia's request. Ukraine's foreign ministry said in recent years it had already ordered the closure of its and Syria's embassies over crimes of the Syrian regime, which is friendly with the Kremlin. Kyiv said it will now also impose a trade embargo and other sanctions against Syria.
In-depth
Putin has been unwilling to engage in Ukraine talks, says Secretary of State Blinken.
Tensions are on the rise in the Baltic between Russia and NATO member Lithuania.
Russia's sanctions, graded: NPR's Indicator from Planet Money assesses the effectiveness of economic punishments levied against Russia.
Special report
Russia's war in Ukraine is changing the world: See its ripple effects in all corners of the globe.
Earlier developments
You can read more daily recaps here. For context and more in-depth stories, you can find more of NPR's coverage here. Also, listen and subscribe to NPR's State of Ukraine podcast for updates throughout the day.
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Hammond Walmart associate Erika Ramirez got a big surprise when she was recently promoted on stage at the Walmart shareholders meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Walmart Chief Operations Officer Chris Nicholas brought Ramirez on stage at the annual shareholders meeting, which drew thousands of people from around the world and featured a concert by Christina Aguilera.
"That's the whole point of this bit — that it's unexpected," she said. "Because of her ability to solve problems and willingness to listen, she was promoted twice in a year. Isn't that amazing? I understand from your team you really stand out as a servant leader. You love teaching and training people. You've really grabbed the whole connected device and really driven that to make your associates' lives better."
Ramirez started as a maintenance associate at the Walmart supercenter by Cabela's in south Hammond. She was promoted twice within in a year after impressing management with her work ethic and drive to learn the store's operations.
She was promoted to frozen foods manager and then to a stocking team lead position. Nicholas promoted her to stocking team coach as the assembled crowd roared at Walmart's corporate headquarters.
It caught her completely unawares.
"I was in a front row seat and was a little confused why I was down there, and then they called my name, went over my history with the company and promoted," she said. "I got to be all over Walmart channels. I was Walmart famous."
It was the Hammond resident's first time on a plane to visit Northwest Arkansas for the shareholders meeting that hosts employees from even-numbered stores and odd-numbered stores in alternating years. They were briefed on new and upcoming happenings with the company.
"It's the world's largest pep rally," she said. "People come in from Walmarts internationally and for all walks of life for meetings and different activities like a minor league baseball game and a Christina Aguilera concert. It was definitely more than I ever imagined."
Ramirez started part-time at the store to get some extra cash and soon got promoted to a manager.
"I just enjoy the people," she said. "I really love it."
She's been preparing for her new managerial role.
"I've been training at the academy," she said. "It's challenging, I'm not going to lie. But it's rewarding. It's definitely something I'll remember for life."
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"It is another tale in a long string of betrayals by the company, which now has permanently closed nearly two thirds of the assets it acquired from National Steel along with other acquisitions."
The 12/20 landscape of Dunes Highway and the largely parallel U.S. 20 highway in Gary's Miller neighborhood have been undergoing a major transformation as many decrepit old buildings get demolished.
“Disney was dealt a tough hand by the pandemic, yet with Bob at the helm, our businesses—from parks to streaming—not only weathered the storm, but emerged in a position of strength." | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/hammond-walmart-worker-surprised-with-promotion-at-shareholders-meeting-in-arkansas/article_201978cb-d9bc-5747-8e53-c7e6203611bb.html | 2022-07-01T00:14:48Z | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/hammond-walmart-worker-surprised-with-promotion-at-shareholders-meeting-in-arkansas/article_201978cb-d9bc-5747-8e53-c7e6203611bb.html | false |
The West Flagstaff Little League Juniors All-Stars are heading to the state tournament following a 13-5 win over Payson in the District I championship game Wednesday at Continental Park.
WFLL -- a squad mixed between kids who played in the Juniors division of both WFLL and Continental Little League during the regular season -- went undefeated in the double-elimination tournament and beat Payson twice to claim the district title.
Down 3-2 after three innings, WFLL's bats came alive in the later portion of the seven-inning championship game. With two outs, two WFLL runners got on base and scored on an error. Outfielder DJ Faust drove in two more with a hit and gave WFLL a 6-3 lead that WFLL would never relinquish.
WFLL tacked on six more runs in the bottom of the fifth and one more in the sixth to take a commanding advantage. After 4 2/3 innings from pitcher Caleb Begay, Abiu Chairez came in to close out the contest. He struck out six batters and gave up just one hit and one run in the final 2 1/3 innings to secure the win.
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All 11 players on the WFLL roster reached base at least once and combined for just one strikeout.
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Which bralettes are best?
If you can never manage to find a bra that’s comfortable enough to wear all day, it may be time to try a less conventional option. Bralettes are an excellent lightweight alternative to bras that make you feel like you’re not wearing anything at all, so they’re comfortable enough to sleep in.
Unlike traditional bras, bralettes don’t feature much padding and underwire. They still offer some support, though the exact amount depends on the design, what you plan to wear them for and the size of your breasts. If you’re searching for a high-quality, seamless bralette with excellent coverage, the Calvin Klein Invisibles Wirefree Triangle Bralette is the top option.
What to know before you buy a bralette
Bralette vs. bra
It’s essential to understand the differences between a bralette and a bra so you know if the former will suit your needs.
A bralette doesn’t have the same structure that a traditional bra does. Bras usually feature underwire and padding in the cups, which is why they can be uncomfortable to wear all day long. The lack of structure definitely makes a bralette more comfortable, but it also means that it doesn’t provide the same support that a conventional bra does. This can be an issue for large busts, so it’s important to look for a bralette with foam padding if you have large breasts.
Size
Bralettes don’t have cup sizes like traditional bras, so you can’t just look for your usual bra size when shopping. Depending on the brand, most bralette sizes range from XXS or XS to 3X. These sizes do roughly correspond to traditional bust measurements, though.
- If you have a 30- to 32-inch bust, an XS bralette usually works.
- If you have a 34- to 36-inch bust, opt for a small bralette.
- If you have a 38- to 40-inch bust, choose a medium bralette.
- If you have a 42- to 44-inch bust, try a large bralette.
- If you have a 46- to 48-inch bust, a 1X bralette is usually a good fit.
- If you have a 50- to 52-inch bust, a 2X bralette can work well.
- If you have a 54- to 56-inch bust, look for a 3X bralette.
Keep in mind that bralette sizes are also affected by your cup size. In most cases, if you wear a C cup or larger, you’ll want a larger bralette than someone who wears an A or B cup. For example, if you wear a 40C bra, you’ll likely want a large bralette rather than a medium.
However, because sizing isn’t standard across all bralette brands, you should always consult the size guide for a particular bralette before choosing a size.
Material
Bralettes are made of similar materials to those used for bras. You can find options made of cotton, nylon and lace, but most features blends that also contain Lycra or another stretchy fabric to provide a better fit. The best material for a bralette really depends on how you plan to use it, though, so keep that in mind when shopping.
Purpose
All bralettes are not created equal, so it’s important to consider how you plan to wear your bralette when trying to find the right option.
- Fashion bralettes are designed to peek out from under clothing or be worn on their own. As such, they usually provide more coverage, with many resembling a camisole. However, most fashion bralettes have a cropped design, so their hem hits above your navel. You can find them in a variety of materials, including knits like crochet and macrame.
- Lounge bralettes are generally meant for wearing around the house or when running quick errands. They usually don’t have much padding and only feature a layer or two of fabric. A lounge bralette can work well for small breasts that don’t require much support. They can also work well for sleep for all bust sizes.
- Athletic bralettes are meant to be worn when working out or playing sports, so they’re similar to sports bras. They often feature fabrics with moisture-wicking properties to keep you cool and dry when active and usually feature some padding to provide support as you move. Some athletic bralettes can be worn on their own, while others are best worn under a T-shirt or tank top.
- Lingerie bralettes are usually lacy and feature plunging necklines to highlight your cleavage. They’re made of delicate fabrics like lace, silk or satin and are generally meant to be worn in the bedroom.
Fit
A bralette should be more comfortable than a conventional bra, so finding the right fit is crucial.
Because most of a bralette’s support comes from its band, it’s essential to choose a style with a band that sits flat over your ribcage and doesn’t ride up. You can check that the band isn’t too tight by raising your arms over your head. The bralette is too tight if the band rides up, so you should go up a size.
When it comes to a bralette’s cups, make sure that your breasts fit completely inside them. If your breasts spill over the cups, the bralette is too small. If there are gaps around the cups, opt for a smaller size.
Make sure that a bralette’s straps don’t dig or pinch into your shoulders either. If you have a larger bust, you may prefer a bralette with thicker straps so they don’t chafe your shoulders. At the same time, the straps shouldn’t be so loose that you can pull them more than an inch above your shoulders, though, or it won’t provide enough support.
What to look for in a quality bralette
Neckline
You can find bralettes with a range of necklines to work under nearly all tops.
- Crew necklines have a rounded shape that covers a good portion of the chest. Bralettes with this neckline are usually ideal for wearing on their own.
- Scoop necklines are similar to crew necks, but they fall a little lower and have a U-shape that exposes the collarbone. Many lounge bralettes feature a scoop neckline.
- Halter necklines have straps that go around your neck, so your back is uncovered.
- Plunging necklines are extremely low to expose more cleavage. Because this neckline has a sexier look, you can find it on many lingerie bralettes.
Closure
Many bralettes don’t have any type of closure, so you simply pull them on and off over the head. However, some do feature closures similar to those on a traditional bra.
- Those with back clasps feature hooks that connect at the back with hook-and-eye closures.
- Those with front-clasp closures feature hooks that close in the front between the breasts.
- Hook-and-loop closures aren’t very common on bralettes, but they can be easier to fasten if you have pain or limited mobility in your hands.
How much you can expect to spend on a bralette
Most bralettes cost between $10 and $80. For basic cotton bralettes or those that don’t provide much support, you’ll usually pay between $10 and $25. Bralettes with enough support for larger busts or those with sexy lingerie or fashion elements generally range from $25 to $40. For sexy, elegant lingerie bralettes, though, you’ll likely spend $50 to $80.
Bralette FAQ
Can I wear a bralette in place of a bra every day?
A. If you’re comfortable in a bralette, you can definitely wear it daily instead of a traditional bra. Bralettes typically work best for small to medium busts, though, because they usually don’t offer the most support. If you have larger breasts, you may want to save your bralettes for certain occasions rather than wear them every day.
Are bralettes dryer-safe?
A. Always check the care label on your bralettes to be sure, but most are made of materials that can break down when exposed to heat. It’s best to hang your bralettes up to dry.
What’s the best bralette to buy?
Top bralette
Calvin Klein Invisibles Wirefree Triangle Bralette
What you need to know: Featuring a simple design, this comfortable seamless bralette has all the style you’d expect from Calvin Klein and works well as an everyday bra.
What you’ll love: It features a lightweight fit that stays comfortable all day. Its triangular neckline works well under a range of tops without being visible. It features a lining to offer some modesty without feeling too bulky.
What you should consider: The bottom of the band can sometimes roll up. Some of the padding may be visible through clothing.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Macy’s
Top bralette for the money
What you need to know: This bralette offers a seamless design and thin straps that make you feel like you’re wearing nothing at all while also boasting an affordable price tag.
What you’ll love: It’s made of smooth, comfortable fabric and features a tag-free design, making it ideal for sensitive skin. The microfiber material is also highly breathable. It’s extremely easy to put on and take off.
What you should consider: Some buyers report the sizes are inaccurate. The removable cups can sometimes look lumpy under clothing too.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Bali Comfort Revolution ComfortFlex Bralette
What you need to know: This high-quality bralette provides full coverage and maximum comfort, making it an excellent option for both daily wear and low-impact workouts.
What you’ll love: It features an extra-wide back strap, so it provides greater support than other bralettes. It offers a lightweight, breathable feel, thanks to its nylon/spandex blend. It comes in a large number of colors.
What you should consider: The cups’ seams can sometimes unravel after just a few washes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NFL adamant on indefinite suspension for Watson
Deshaun Watson´s disciplinary hearing concluded Thursday with the NFL adamant about an indefinite suspension of at least one year and the quarterback´s legal team arguing there´s no basis for that punishment, two people with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press.
Both sides presented their arguments over three days before former U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson in Delaware, according to both people who spoke on condition of anonymity because the hearing isn´t public.
Watson was accused of sexual misconduct by 24 women and settled 20 of the civil lawsuits.
Robinson, who was jointly appointed by the league and the NFL Players´ Association, will determine whether Watson violated the NFL´s personal conduct policy and whether to impose discipline.
Post-hearing briefs are due the week of July 11 so it´s uncertain when Robinson will make a ruling. The Cleveland Browns are hoping to know Watson´s availability before training camp starts July 27.
If either the union or league appeals Robinson´s decision, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell or his designee "will issue a written decision that will constitute full, final and complete disposition of the dispute," per terms of Article 46 in the collective bargaining agreement.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson throws a pass during an NFL football practice at FirstEnergy Stadium, Thursday, June 16, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
A person familiar with the case told the AP the league believes it presented evidence to warrant keeping Watson off the field this season. The person said the league´s investigation determined Watson committed multiple violations of the personal conduct policy and he would be required to undergo counseling before returning.
A person familiar with Watson´s defense told the AP they expect a suspension. Asked what would be acceptable, the person said: "our goal is to get him back on the field this year."
Two separate Texas grand juries declined to indict Watson on criminal complaints stemming from the allegations.
Watson has denied any wrongdoing and vowed to clear his name.
This is the first hearing for Robinson, who was the first female Chief Judge for the District of Delaware. Previously, Goodell had the authority to impose discipline for violations of the personal conduct policy.
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Milwaukee Bucks adding former Jazz sharp-shooter Joe Ingles in free agency
The Milwaukee Bucks added a sharpshooter on Thursday by agreeing in principle to a one-year, $6.5 million deal with Joe Ingles. It is a significant agreement for the Bucks in that it uses up their entire taxpayer midlevel exception, which was one of the few ways the team had to fill out its roster as a luxury tax team.
By contrast, the team spread its exception last year among three players.
Any free agent signing cannot become official until July 6, as the NBA entered its “moratorium” period at 5 p.m. Thursday. Teams can agree to trades and contracts, but no deals outside of a select few can be signed. It is possible for players or teams to change their minds on an agreement in this period.
The 6-foot, 8-inch, 228-pound Ingles joined the Utah Jazz in Jazz in 2014 and shot 40.8% from behind the three-point line in his eight-year career there.
Ingles suffered a torn left anterior cruciate ligament in late January and the Journal Sentinel learned that the soon-to-be 35-year-old will not be available to play at the beginning of the regular season, but that his rehabilitation is going well enough for the Bucks to feel good about making the move to bring him in.
Bobby Portis news:Bobby Portis agrees in principle to re-sign with Milwaukee Bucks for 4 years, $49 million
Wes Matthews news:Milwaukee Bucks retain backcourt depth by re-signing ex-Marquette star Wesley Matthews
In the early throes of free agency reporting after the window opened at 5 p.m., Ingles' wife Renae was one of the first to tweet the impending move to the Midwest.
Renae Ingles joked "sources very close to" Ingles could confirm that he had signed a one-year deal with the Bucks. "Joe himself, is said to be very bucking happy," she added.
Ingles is one of the 25 best three-point shooters by percentage in NBA history, and was runner up for the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year award behind teammate Jordan Clarkson in 2020-21.
The native of Canberra, Australia, has scored 8.6 points per game in his career, with 3.2 rebounds and 3.8 assists. Those numbers were slightly down in 45 games that he played last year with the Jazz. He's a career 44.9% shooter, including that 40.8% mark from three-point range, though just 34.7% from deep last year, his weakest career season by far.
Ingles told ESPN he had no doubt his career would continue after the tear.
"Then the other part of it — and we joke about it — is my game," Ingles said. "My game has never been based on athleticism, above the rim or anything like that. I'm not writing off what this surgery is and what the rehab looks like, but everyone around the league knows how I play and what I can do."
Pat Connaughton news:Pat Connaughton opts in to return to the Milwaukee Bucks for the 2022-23 season
Jevon Carter news:Milwaukee Bucks retain more of their own by re-signing defensive-minded guard Jevon Carter
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‘It was hard to believe’: Man wins $250,000 in lottery after using numbers he saw in a dream
HENRICO, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A dream came true for a Virginia man after he won thousands of dollars in his state’s lottery.
Alonzo Coleman said he bought his ticket from a corner mart in Henrico, according to WWBT.
While watching the June 11 drawing, Coleman looked down at his ticket and noticed the numbers 13-14-15-16-17-18 and the Bonus Ball 19 come across the screen. That’s when he realized he’d matched the first six numbers, winning him $250,000.
Coleman said that he selected those numbers because they came to him in a dream.
“It was hard to believe!” he told Virginia Lottery officials. “It still hasn’t hit me yet!”
Virginia Lottery said in a press release Coleman split his $2 wager four ways when he bought the ticket. He had four sets of numbers and, using the “Play Your Way” feature, he won the money on one of his sets of numbers.
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Energy firms´ customer service standards fall to record low - Citizens Advice
Energy firms’ customer service standards have fallen to a record low amid rising waiting times for help with soaring bills, Citizens Advice has warned.
The charity is calling on companies to urgently improve their customer service and ensure staff are able to support customers who are struggling, warning that standards would only worsen from October, when bills are expected to rise again, without swift action.
It found customer service standards have “plummeted” since June last year, when many energy firms went under in quick succession and millions of customers found themselves shifted to new suppliers.
The latest Citizens Advice ratings of firms’ customer service between January and March has an average score of just 2.8 stars out of five, the lowest on record.
The highest score is now just 3.6 stars, compared with 3.85 in the previous quarter and 4.65 at the same time last year.
The watchdog warned the decline coincided with customers finding themselves desperate for support with soaring bills, with its own helpline handling more than 70,000 cases related to energy issues between January and March – a 63% increase on the same period last year.
Energy suppliers are obliged to help people who cannot afford their bills, but Citizens Advice warned they had struggled to cope with increased demand over the past year.
The charity said it was particularly worried about people on prepayment meters, who are at risk of having no gas or electricity if they cannot afford to top up.
The average time to wait on the phone to speak to an energy supplier is now around six and a half minutes (391 seconds), compared with just under four minutes (224 seconds) last June.
Companies are also getting slower at responding to emails, responding on average to 62% of emails within two working days, compared with 66% during the same period in 2021.
Citizens Advice chief executive Clare Moriarty said: “At a time when customers need all the support they can get, it’s worrying to see service performance is the worst on record. This leaves people frustrated and in the dark at the end of the phone.
“For many families on low incomes, life will get even harder when the price cap goes up again in October, despite government support.
“We recognise call centre staff are working incredibly hard to answer as many calls as possible, but energy companies must do better. This should include improving support services for people struggling the most. Ofgem should make sure suppliers are following the rules, and take action where needed.”
Ofgem said it was working with suppliers to improve service, adding that “now is the time for them to up their game”.
A spokesman for the energy watchdog said: “Our top priority is to protect consumers, and as these stats from Citizens Advice show, there are areas where customers are simply not getting the service they desperately need and rightly expect in these very difficult times.”
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EXPLAINER-Will U.S. Supreme Court EPA ruling rein in federal regulators?
By Tom Hals
June 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in a 6-3 ruling that some legal experts said would more broadly curb the federal government's regulatory power. Below is an explanation of the court's decision and its wider impact:
WHAT DID THE COURT SAY IN THE EPA CASE?
The majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts said the EPA could not require a sweeping shift from coal to cleaner energy sources by citing what he called a "little-used backwater" section of the Clean Air Act.
The decision invoked the "major questions" legal doctrine, which requires explicit congressional authorization before regulators can take consequential actions on issues of vast importance and societal impact.
Roberts' opinion, in the case West Virginia v EPA, said the agency fell under the doctrine by adopting regulations of unprecedented power aimed at shifting U.S. power generation toward renewable energy sources.
The White House counsel's office and Department of Justice are studying the impact, a White House official said, adding that they may have more to say about the ruling on Friday.
IS THE DOCTRINE NEW?
The court has been applying the major questions doctrine to some degree for more than two decades, although generally as one of several tools used to review regulations.
Roberts said Thursday's ruling, which marked the first time the court referred to the doctrine by name in a decision, was a recognition of the common thread running through those cases.
The court applied the approach last year when it ruled the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacked authority to impose a national eviction ban to contain the spread of COVID-19.
This year, the court invoked the doctrine when it blocked most of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration´s vaccination and testing mandate that was imposed on large employers by the Biden administration.
WHAT'S CHANGED?
Thursday's ruling marked a shift in the way the Supreme Court reviews an agency's authority by focusing more attention on the major questions doctrine, said Max Sarinsky, a professor at the New York University School of Law.
"It's inviting courts to apply particular scrutiny and skepticism," Sarinsky said, when judges are reviewing regulations that "tackle new or large problems that America is facing."
Expanding the doctrine has been a goal of conservative groups such as the Cato Institute, which in a brief in the EPA case argued for a "robust" interpretation of the doctrine.
Justice Elena Kagan said in the dissenting opinion that the goal of the ruling was to "prevent agencies from doing important work, even though that is what Congress directed."
WILL THE RULING REIN IN THE POWER OF FEDERAL AGENCIES?
Allison Zieve of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group that had urged the court to rule for the EPA, said the decision is malleable and could be used by conservative lower court judges to attack the federal government's ability to regulate.
Several administrative law experts said the doctrine will discourage regulators from pushing for innovative policies in politically charged matters.
Specifically, lawyers and analysts said the decision could undermine the ability of the Securities and Exchange Commission to impose a proposed rule requiring public companies disclose climate risks, as well as efforts by the Biden administration to expand labor regulations.
Michael Lotito, a lawyer at Littler Mendelson, one of the largest labor and employment firms, said the rationale behind Thursday's ruling could apply to several forthcoming rules, including expected Department of Labor rules to expand mandatory overtime pay to millions of workers. It could also make it more difficult to classify workers as independent contractors.
Officials at the Department of Labor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The doctrine could also be used against Biden administration rules to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, attempts to fix the so-called "family glitch" in the Affordable Care Act that priced many people out of health insurance, as well as efforts to protect medication abortion, experts said.
The FDA declined to comment. The SEC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. (Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; Additional reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein, Alison Frankel in New York and Michelle Price in Washington and Dan Wiessner in Albany, New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Daniel Wallis) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10971341/EXPLAINER-Will-U-S-Supreme-Court-EPA-ruling-rein-federal-regulators.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-01T00:27:40Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10971341/EXPLAINER-Will-U-S-Supreme-Court-EPA-ruling-rein-federal-regulators.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Texas police: 4 migrants killed in smuggling attempt
Published: Jun. 30, 2022 at 6:25 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
ENCINAL, Texas (AP) — Authorities in Texas say four migrants have died and three other people were hospitalized in another fatal human smuggling attempt.
The crash Thursday happened in Encinal, the same small town where a tractor-trailer carrying migrants passed through Monday before ending up in San Antonio, where authorities found more than 50 people dead or dying inside.
The Texas Department of Public Safety says a Jeep carrying seven people was trying to evade Border Patrol agents when it crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer.
The driver was air-lifted to a San Antonio hospital in critical condition.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s Kyle Tucker was thrown out Thursday night when he tried to steal home while New York Yankees starter Luis Severino tinkered with his malfunctioning PitchCom device.
Alex Bregman had just hit a two-run double to put Houston up 2-0 and Tucker was on third with two outs in the third inning.
With Yuli Gurriel at-bat, a frustrated Severino took off his cap and held the PitchCom speaker to his ear, apparently unable to hear instructions from catcher Jose Trevino.
Tucker saw Severino was distracted and tried to sneak home. Severino had the PitchCom earpiece in his right hand and had to quickly maneuver to get the baseball back in his throwing hand. He threw home while still holding his cap, and his throw narrowly beat Tucker and ended the inning.
The PitchCom digital pitch-calling devices, which transmit signals from the catcher to the pitcher, were introduced to the majors this season. The system was designed to halt sign stealing in the wake of the Astros' 2017 scandal.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
03-05-09-10-14-15-17-18-19-20-21-23
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Biden Jumps Gun Again: Manchin and Sinema Will Not End Filibuster to Pass Abortion Legislation
President Joe Biden got over his skis again Thursday when he called for Senate Democrats to end the filibuster to pass legislation codifying Roe v. Wade.
The problem now is the same as it was when he made a similar push late last year to bypass the filibuster to get “voting rights” legislation through Congress: Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are not onboard.
And with the Senate divided 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, that’s a problem for Biden.
During a news conference in Madrid on Thursday, a reporter asked the 46th president, “What further specific executive actions are you considering in response to the Roe ruling?”
Biden responded, “I believe we have to codify Roe v. Wade in the law. And the way to do that is to make sure that Congress votes to do that.
“And if the filibuster gets in the way … require an exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with the Supreme Court decision.”
Joe Biden calls for eliminating the filibuster to legalize abortion nationwide until the moment of birth. pic.twitter.com/okoVAdgA8R
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 30, 2022
The Supreme Court ruled last week that the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision was made in error. There is no constitutionally protected federal right to an abortion, and therefore the matter is left to the states.
The offices of Manchin and Sinema told reporters their views on ending the filibuster have not changed although they wanted Roe to remain the law of the land.
Both Manchin and Sinema’s position on preserving the filibuster hasn’t changed in light of the Dobbs ruling or Biden calling for congress to eliminate it in order to codify Roe v. Wade, their spokespeople tell me
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) June 30, 2022
CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju tweeted, “Sinema stands by her opposition to gutting the 60-vote threshold despite Biden’s call for a carveout on abortion rights. Her office points to this op-ed: ‘And, sometimes, the filibuster … is needed to protect against attacks on women’s health.'”
Sinema stands by her opposition to gutting the 60-vote threshold despite Biden’s call for a carveout on abortion rights. Her office points to this op-ed: “And, sometimes, the filibuster … is needed to protect against attacks on women’s health” https://t.co/adP0ioNwfJ
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 30, 2022
As the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization came before the high court — regarding Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks — the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed the Women’s Health Protection Act in September.
The legislation fell short in the Senate in May when it did not meet the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome the filibuster, NPR reported.
All Democratic senators, except Manchin, voted to end the debate, so the effort went down 49-51.
Manchin said at the time he would vote to codify Roe, but the Women’s Health Protection Act apparently went too far for him.
Moderate Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska also did not vote for the bill, though both are pro-Roe.
“Consistent with Roe and [Planned Parenthood v.] Casey, I support reasonable limits on abortion services related to maternal health,” Murkowski said at the time. “I oppose late-term abortion, as long as there are clear and workable exceptions in the case of rape, incest or when a woman’s life is threatened. I also oppose the use of taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions, and oppose any requirement for individuals to provide these services against their religious beliefs.”
The Washington Post reported that the bill “would eliminate a list of what proponents describe as ‘medically unnecessary’ antiabortion restrictions, including mandatory waiting periods, antiabortion counseling, telemedicine bans and various regulations on the layout, structure and staffing policies at abortion clinics, which have forced many clinics to shutter.”
Presumably, parental notification for minors would go down too.
The law Biden wants to eliminate the filibuster for would:
*force virtually limitless abortion until the moment of birth
*eviscerate parental notification laws
*eliminate many popular health and safety protectionshttps://t.co/w5Nx94QLpb— Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) June 30, 2022
Manchin’s and Sinema’s opposition to ending the filibuster is with the long game in mind.
Last year, when the issue came up regarding federal voting rights legislation, Manchin explained that changing or manipulating the filibuster rule is “a tough one … because what goes around comes around here. You’ve got to be very careful what you do.”
Similarly, Sinema said on ABC’s “The View,” “People seem to not like the filibuster when they’re the ones who want to pass the legislation.”
“But when we’re in the minority,” she continued, “we being either Democrats or Republicans — we use the filibuster a lot to force dialogue, to bring people together and to make changes.”
And Democrats could find themselves in the minority in a few short months following November’s midterm elections.
When the history is written about this time in American politics, Manchin and Sinema will deserve a place in it for keeping the country from veering into destructive left-wing radicalism.
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT) between March 4, 2021 and March 8, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 16, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Yext securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Yext class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7115 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 16, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Yext's revenue and earnings were significantly deteriorating because of, among other things, poor sales execution and performance, as well as COVID-19 related disruptions; (2) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year ("FY") fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook; and (3) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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Supreme Court Refuses to Review California Law Curtailing Independent Contractors
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to take a case seeking to overturn a California law on worker misclassification, and by doing so expanded employment protections to California truck drivers currently misclassified as independent contractors.
In denying the petition of the California Trucking Association, the court will let stand AB 5, a California law meant to ensure that those who work at the beck-and-call of a company must be considered employees. The measure, which was signed into law in 2019 but hadn't fully gone into effect, was landmark legislation for California truck drivers, particularly at the ports, who rallied with the Teamsters for years against being improperly labeled as contract workers.
"Finally, port truck drivers and so many others across California will have the opportunity to join together and earn a fair wage that allows them to support their families," said Sean M. O'Brien, Teamsters General President. "These companies can no longer take advantage of workers and fill their own executive pockets with unfairly earned profits."
"AB 5 was a significant victory in the Teamsters' decades-long battle against misclassification in trucking," said Jason Rabinowitz, President of Teamsters Joint Council 7. "We thank the courts for letting stand legislation that guarantees truck drivers the employment protections they deserve. Now it's time to enforce this law."
The Teamsters worked with Attorney General Rob Bonta to help defend the legislation.
"Over the last decade, the California Labor Commissioner found misclassification is rampant at our ports, in construction, package delivery, and more," said Randy Cammack, President of Teamsters Joint Council 42. "The race-to-the-bottom in trucking is going to end in California when the Teamsters help to enforce AB 5."
Companies purposefully and deceptively misclassify their workers as independent contractors to deny workers fair wages and benefits, and to avoid paying employee-related expenses, like unemployment insurance, workers' compensation and Social Security. This corporate greed damages the economy, leaves workers' lives in jeopardy, and puts good employers who play by the rules at a competitive disadvantage.
Lorena Gonzalez, who previously authored AB 5 as a state legislator and now is the incoming Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the California Labor Federation, said workers will now have a better quality of life thanks to the law.
"AB 5 stands for the simple principle that all workers deserve the protections of employment status, including the right to unionize," Gonzalez said. "Misclassified truck drivers have been at the forefront of this fight for decades. The courts have spoken and AB 5 is the law of the land. Now it's time for us to crackdown on abusive employers and better the lives of working people."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Visit www.teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/teamsters.
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LONDON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SCC Power Plc ("SCC Power") announced today that its Argentine subsidiary SPI Energy S.A. ("SPI Energy") has successfully obtained financing to fund the expansion and conversion to combined cycle of the San Pedro power plant.
On June 27, 2022, SPI Energy issued, through a public offering in the Argentine market, two series of U.S. Dollar-Linked senior secured notes for an aggregate principal amount of US$135,000,000 comprising its 4.00% Class 1 Senior Secured Notes due 2026, for an aggregate principal amount of US$33,499,900, and 6.75% Class 2 Senior Secured Notes due 2032, for an aggregate principal amount of US$101,500,100 (the "Notes"). The Notes are secured with first priority liens on SPI Energy's rights under the project, including the combined cycle PPA with CAMMESA, and the project's EPC contract and equipment.
The expansion and conversion to combined cycle of the San Pedro plant consists on the installation of a 55 MW steam turbine, three heat recovery steam generators, an aero-condenser and various other auxiliary components which will increase aggregate plant capacity to 209 MW and enhance energy efficiency by 25%, placing San Pedro amongst the most efficient thermal generators in the Argentine power matrix. The combined cycle is expected to become fully operational by February 2024.
The issuance of the Notes is a milestone in SCC Power's history, evidencing investors' support following the recent acquisition of Stoneway Capital Corporation's assets by SCC Power.
About SPI Energy
SPI Energy owns and operates the San Pedro simple-cycle thermal power generation plant, located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a total installed capacity of 154MW. The plant is equipped with highly reliable and proven Siemens technology. The company's capacity is fully contracted under long term take-or-pay PPA contracts denominated in U.S. Dollars.
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Hernán Cerutti
ir@scc-power.com
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BESSEMER, Ala., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Prime Therapeutics' proposed acquisition of rival PBM Magellan Rx Management "raises serious anti-competitive concerns" and should be blocked, according to a letter sent today from American Pharmacy Cooperative, Inc. (APCI) to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.
In its letter to the agencies, APCI not only opposed the proposed acquisition but also called for a review of Magellan's acquisition by Medicaid Managed Care organization Centene in 2021 and its decision to unload the PBM in such a short time frame.
In the 13-page letter, APCI Director of Healthcare Policy and General Counsel Greg Reybold wrote:
Simply put, Prime's acquisition is likely to create more conflicts of interest, reduce competition, and lead to greater inefficiencies in an already inefficient and flawed system. Rather than allowing this merger to proceed, the Agencies would do well to utilize their authority to not only stop this proposed acquisition but also investigate the premise for Centene's acquisition of Magellan Health and determine whether it is appropriate to unwind that merger in light of Centene's past behavior on the PBM space combined with the proposed divestiture seemingly standing in contrast to the claimed reasons for its acquisition in the first place.
"We have seen time and time again how these PBM acquisitions and mergers have turned out to be detrimental for patients, taxpayers, and small businesses," said Tim Hamrick, APCI Chief Executive Officer. "We urge the FTC and the Department of Justice to take a long, hard look at this proposed merger and do what is right not only for patients and our member pharmacies but for all Americans."
"The largest PBMs in the U.S. have created a prescription drug pricing and access problem," Reybold said. "Six PBMs handle more than 95 percent of the market for prescription claims, and we continue to see increasing prescription prices and reduced access to lifesaving medications for patients. While these middlemen claim to bring market efficiencies to the prescription drug chain, the reality is integration in the PBM market has increased prices and had anti-competitive effects."
APCI is a member-owned cooperative of more than 1,600 member pharmacies in 30 states. Established in 1984 and headquartered in Bessemer, Ala., APCI is proud to lead the fight for prescription drug pricing transparency and reform.
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Mother was drunk when baby died from suffocation after falling off bed, police say
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - A mother was arrested in the death of her 4-month-old daughter, according to police in Louisiana.
The Baton Rouge Police Department said 23-year-old Keanna Thomas is facing negligent homicide charges in connection with the infant’s death. Police said Thomas’ daughter was found dead at a home on June 18.
According to the arrest warrant, Thomas told investigators she dropped her child off at her sister’s house to go out for the night and said she had several drinks before returning later to pick up the baby and go home.
The warrant stated that she also told investigators she had put the baby in the middle of the bed before lying next to the child and falling asleep. Thomas was later awakened by a family member and saw the baby was no longer in the bed with her, according to the warrant.
The document stated Thomas told police she then found the baby on the floor, face down in some pillows and bedding. Thomas said she picked up the baby, realized the infant was unresponsive and contacted EMS, the document added.
Authorities said it remains unknown how the baby ended up on the floor but that Thomas allegedly admitted to several people that she had gotten drunk that night.
The East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office conducted an autopsy and ruled suffocation as the cause of death, WAFB reports. The arrest warrant went into more detail and stated, “the cause of death was found to be positional asphyxiation due to unsafe sleeping, and suffocation due to being face down in pillows and bedding.”
The warrant added investigators found Thomas to be at fault by allegedly “admitting that she knew she was intoxicated.” It said she “showed gross disregard to the victim by picking the victim up from her sister’s residence first and later placing the victim in the bed with her which led to the victim suffocating and passing away.”
Thomas was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
The investigation is ongoing.
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California-based cybersecurity company showcases AI and Big Data powered software at Europe's largest land and air defense and security conference
LOS ANGELES, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Resecurity, Inc., a U.S.-based cybersecurity and threat intelligence company, recently exhibited its solutions and shared its expertise at Eurosatory in Paris, France. Hosted June 13-17, 2022, Eurosatory is a leading international land and air defense and security exhibition every two years, welcoming over 1,800 exhibitors and 57,000 attendees to explore innovations and share best practices.
With European countries facing increased cyber threats and geopolitical tensions, the European cybersecurity market is expected to reach USD 39.98 billion in 2022. Given the high demand and expertise needed for cybersecurity services, cybersecurity IT services represent the largest market segment of this growth.1
Accordingly, cybersecurity and threat intelligence were key focuses at Eurosatory 2022, with numerous sessions on cyber defense and hundreds of new security providers and innovations — including Resecurity's cybersecurity and threat intelligence solutions. Other exhibitors included Microsoft, Airbus, AAE, Hexatrust, NSPA, GICAT and global government and law enforcement agencies.
"With cyber-attack vectors constantly evolving, cybersecurity was top of mind for every delegate at Eurosatory. Resecurity was proud to exhibit our novel threat intelligence and risk management solutions designed to scale and meet the needs of both enterprise and government organizations," said Selene Giupponi, Managing Director of Europe for Resecurity. "We look forward to providing security and defense providers with the real-time threat intelligence and actionable Big Data they need to counter adversaries, reduce security gaps and make strategic decisions."
Resecurity introduced its AI-powered cyber threat intelligence solutions that provide proactive early-warning alerts and comprehensive visibility of digital risks targeting an organization's ecosystem. Drawing from one of the world's largest Dark Web data sets, Resecurity's platform allows administrators to reduce potential blind spots by quickly seeing in-depth analysis and specific artifacts obtained through botnets activity, network intelligence and high-quality threat intelligence data.
Just recently Resecurity has been named a gold winner by the 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards in North America. Resecurity's products and services received Gold recognition across 3 categories in highly competitive nominations such as cyber threat intelligence (CTI), threat hunting, and third-party risk management (TPRM).
Resecurity's products and services honored with Gold by the Cybersecurity Excellence Award 2022 include:
- GOLD WINNER for Cyber Threat Intelligence in North America: Resecurity® Context™ Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform
- GOLD WINNER for Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) in North America: Resecurity® Risk™ Supply Chain Risk Management Platform
- GOLD WINNER for Threat Hunting in North America: Resecurity® Hunter™ Research & Development
Click here to learn more about Resecurity's cybersecurity solutions exhibited at Eurosatory 2022.
Resecurity is a cybersecurity company providing managed threat detection and response. The company delivers a unified platform for endpoint protection, risk management, and cyber threat intelligence. Known for providing best-of-breed data-driven intelligence solutions, Resecurity's services and platforms focus on early-warning identification of data breaches and comprehensive protection against cybersecurity risks. Founded in 2016, it has been globally recognized as one of the world's most innovative cybersecurity companies with the sole mission of enabling organizations to combat cyber threats regardless of how sophisticated they are. Most recently, Resecurity was named as one of the Top 10 fastest-growing private cybersecurity companies in Los Angeles, California by Inc. Magazine. An official member of AFCEA, NDIA, SIA, Infragard, the American Chamber of Commerce in Saudi Arabia (AmChamKSA) and the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico (AmChamMexico). To learn more about Resecurity, visit https://resecurity.com.
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writers
Wall Street racked up more losses for stocks Thursday, as the market closed out its worst quarter since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020.
The S&P 500 fell 0.9%, its fourth consecutive drop. The benchmark index is now down 21% since it hit an all-time high at the beginning of the year. It entered a bear market earlier in June.
All told, the S&P 500′s performance in the first half of 2022 was the worst since the first six months of 1970.
“And in 1970 there was a solid rebound after that first half decline,” said Lindsey Bell, chief markets and money strategist at Ally Invest. “This time around, the impact of the Fed, the impact of inflation and the uncertainty of where growth goes from here is really weighing on investors’ minds. … We just don’t know when the clouds of uncertainty are going to start to clear.”
The market’s steep decline this year has all but wiped out its gains from 2021, what was a banner year for the market as it emerged from its previous bear market in early 2020.
Rising inflation has been behind much of the slump for the broader market this year as businesses raise prices on everything from food to clothing and consumers are squeezed tighter. Inflation remains stubbornly hot, according to a series of recent economic updates.
The Federal Reserve and other central banks have been aggressively raising interest rates to try and slow economic growth in order to cool inflation. Higher rates can bring down inflation, but they also risk a recession by slowing the economy too much. They also push down on prices for stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies and other investments.
“What the market is trying to assess is when does it seem as if the Fed is going to have what it needs to ascertain that inflation is plateauing,” said Quincy Krosby, chief equity strategist for LPL Financial.
The S&P 500 fell 33.45 points to 3,785.38 Thursday. It lost 16.4% in the April-June quarter, its biggest quarterly decline since it slumped 20% in the first three months of 2020, when the pandemic upended the global economy in a matter of weeks.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 253.88 points, or 0.8%, to 30,775.43. The Nasdaq slid 149.16 points, or 1.3%, to 11,028.74.
Small company stocks also fell. The Russell 2000 lost 11.38 points, or 0.7%, to 1,707.99.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set mortgage rates, fell to 3.01% from 3.09% late Wednesday.
Technology companies were among the biggest weights on the market, as investors continued to favor utilities and other traditional defensive stocks. Apple fell 1.8%, while Exelon rose 2.2%.
Retailers and other companies that rely directly on consumer spending also posted some of the biggest losses, as they have all year. Amazon slipped 2.5% and Best Buy shed 2.9%.
Investors got another update on inflation Thursday. A measure of inflation that is closely tracked by the Fed rose 6.3% in May from a year earlier, unchanged from its level in April. The report from the Commerce Department also said that consumer spending rose at a sluggish 0.2% rate from April to May.
The update follows a worrisome report earlier this week showing that consumer confidence slipped to its lowest level in 16 months. The government has also reported that the U.S. economy shrank 1.6% in the first quarter and weak consumer spending was a key part of that contraction.
The situation has become even more complicated following added supply chain problems because of COVID-19 lockdowns in China and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The war in Ukraine prompted a surge in oil prices this year that resulted in record high gasoline prices.
The OPEC oil cartel and allied producing nations decided Thursday to increase production of crude oil, but the amount will likely do little to relieve high gasoline prices at the pump and energy-fueled inflation plaguing the global economy.
“There’s no doubt this has been a difficult two quarters for the market, the U.S. economy, the U.S. consumer, and for the Fed’s job to control and curtail inflationary pressure,” Krosby said. “And yet, as we get into the beginning of the second half, so far companies have been managing and it’s the guidance they offer that is going to help set the tone over the next couple of weeks.”
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Big Ten votes to accept Southern California and UCLA as full conference members, effective Aug. 2, 2024
ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Big Ten votes to accept Southern California and UCLA as full conference members, effective Aug. 2, 2024.
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NEWARK, NJ (PIX11) — Nine people suffered gunshot injuries in a shooting in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday evening, officials said.
Police rushed to the 200 block of Clinton Place after a ShotSpotter notification around 6:20 p.m., Newark Acting Public Safety Director Raul Malave said. Initially, officials said seven adults and one juvenile were hurt. Another adult victim was later reported.
Four of the adults and the juvenile went to Newark Beth Israel Medical Center for treatment, authorities said. The other four adults were taken to University Hospital. All eight victims were in what officials described as stable condition.
Officials have not yet said what led up to the shooting. The extent of the victims’ injuries was not immediately clear.
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NEWARK, NJ (PIX11) — Nine people suffered gunshot injuries in a shooting in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday evening, officials said.
Police rushed to the 200 block of Clinton Place after a ShotSpotter notification around 6:20 p.m., Newark Acting Public Safety Director Raul Malave said. Initially, officials said seven adults and one juvenile were hurt. Another adult victim was later reported.
Four of the adults and the juvenile went to Newark Beth Israel Medical Center for treatment, authorities said. The other four adults were taken to University Hospital. All eight victims were in what officials described as stable condition.
Officials have not yet said what led up to the shooting. The extent of the victims’ injuries was not immediately clear.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Spirit Airlines rose Thursday after it postponed a vote for the second time on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines, allowing for a bidding war over the budget airline between Frontier and JetBlue Airways to play out.
The delay, announced hours before the scheduled vote, indicated that Spirit lacked support to approve the Frontier merger.
JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes said Spirit shareholders gave their board a mandate to negotiate a sale to his airline.
But JetBlue investors seemed underwhelmed by the prospect of the New York-based carrier buying Spirit. They sent shares of JetBlue down 6.6% on Thursday. Spirit rose 6.4%, while Frontier dipped 1.5%.
Florida-based Spirit said the vote on a proposed tie-up with Frontier would be postponed until July 8. Leaders of all three airlines have been making their pitch to major Spirit shareholders for support in a vote that could reshape the market for travelers looking for the cheapest possible fare.
Spirit’s board has stood by a February agreement with Frontier despite pressure from JetBlue.
The vote on the Frontier deal was originally scheduled for June 10, but was postponed nearly three weeks in what analysts took as a sign that Spirit lacked support for the merger in the face of an all-cash offer from JetBlue.
Both sides have sweetened their offers since early June. At current stock prices, the Frontier bid is worth about $22 per share, or $2.4 billion, while JetBlue’s hostile takeover bid is $33.50 per share, or $3.6 billion.
Spirit and Frontier argue that antitrust regulators will prefer their combination of two similar budget airlines and won’t let a bigger carrier like JetBlue buy Spirit. JetBlue says it can win government approval, and it has offered to divest some Spirit assets.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California on Thursday became the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $307.9 billion operating budget that pledges to make all low-income adults eligible for the state’s Medicaid program by 2024 regardless of their immigration status. It’s a long-sought victory for health care and immigration activists, who have been asking for the change for more than a decade.
Nationwide, federal and state governments join together to give free health care to low-income adults and children through Medicaid. But the federal government won’t pay for people who are living in the country illegally. Some states, including California, have used their own tax dollars to cover a portion of health care expenses for some low-income immigrants.
Now, California wants to be the first to do that for everyone.
About 92% of of Californians currently have some form of health insurance, putting the state in the middle of the pack nationally. But that will change once this budget is fully implemented, as adults living in the country illegally make up one of the largest groups of people without insurance in the state.
“This will represent the biggest expansion of coverage in the nation since the start of the Affordable Care Act in 2014,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a statewide consumer health care advocacy group. “In California we recognize (that) everybody benefits when everyone is covered.”
People living in the country illegally made up about 7% of the population nationwide in 2020, or about 22.1 million people, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health care nonprofit. They are not eligible for most public benefit programs, even though many have jobs and pay taxes.
Immigrants have slowly been getting access to some health care programs. Eighteen states now provide prenatal care to people regardless of their immigration status, while the District of Columbia and five states — California, Illinois, New York, Oregon and Washington — cover all children from low-income families regardless of their immigration status. California and Illinois have expanded Medicaid to cover older adult immigrants.
In California, Republicans and conservative groups have opposed expanding health care to immigrants living in the country illegally. Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, said offering free health care will make California “a magnet for those who are not legally authorized to enter the country.”
“I think many of us are very sympathetic to the immigrant community, but we really wish we had better control of who enters this nation and this state,” Coupal said.
California’s expansion of Medicaid won’t be easy. A confluence of events, including the state’s slow rollout of the expansion and the end of some federal pandemic policies, mean about 40,000 low-income immigrants will likely lose their health coverage for up to a year in 2023 before being eligible to get it back — illustrating the difficulty of navigating the government-run health insurance system that is supposed to make it easier for people to get coverage.
Beatriz Hernandez came to the United States in 2007 as a 11-year-old. She got health care through Medicaid when she was a child. She lost that coverage once she turned 19 because of her immigration status, but it was restored in 2020 when the state began covering low-income immigrants 26 and younger.
Hernandez turned 26 in February. She hasn’t lost her coverage yet because of emergency federal rules during the pandemic. But those rules could expire later this year, making her one of the estimated 40,000 people who will temporarily lose their coverage before California’s new program starts on Jan. 1, 2024, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.
Hernandez lives in Merced in California’s Central Valley and works as an organizer with the California Immigrant Policy Center. She said her mother would benefit the most from the expansion, having never had health insurance since moving to the U.S.
But for Hernandez, she’s worried a gap in her coverage would cause her to lose access to the medication she takes to treat depression. In the meantime, she’s scheduling as many appointments as she can this year — including for the dentist, optometrist and dermatologist — before she loses coverage.
“It’s great that California is taking that step to set that example for other states,” said Hernandez, who said she does not have a work permit or other permission to live in the United States. “I do believe that we can do better by making sure that people like myself and hundreds of others, thousands of others, do not fall out of their health care simply because they turn 26.”
Previous expansions of California’s Medicaid system have taken six months to a year to implement. But the Newsom administration says it needs a year and a half to complete this expansion because it is so much larger than the previous ones.
Health care advocates say the gap in coverage is significant for low-income immigrants living in the country illegally because they don’t have other options. Citizens who lose their Medicaid coverage can purchase coverage from Covered California, the state-run health insurance exchange, and likely qualify for a significant discount.
“But for this population, that’s it. (Medicaid) is the only public program available to them,” said Sarah Dar, director of health and public benefits policy for the California Immigrant Policy Center.
Democrats in the state Legislature say they are working with the Newsom administration on speeding up the process.
“We’re doing all that we can. We’re talking to the administration, talking to the leadership in the (California) Department of Health, to make sure that we do it as fast as possible and that nobody loses it in the meanwhile,” said Democratic Sen. Maria Elena Durazo. “It doesn’t make sense to lose them and then pull them back in.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/ap-health/california-first-to-cover-health-care-for-all-immigrants/ | 2022-07-01T00:53:18Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/ap-health/california-first-to-cover-health-care-for-all-immigrants/ | false |
OTTAWA (AP) — Canada’s chief public health officer is warning of a possible COVID-19 resurgence in the fall and winter.
Theresa Tam said Thursday the circulating omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are even more transmissible and able to evade immunity than previous versions, making a rise in cases likely in coming weeks.
Tam and federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos stressed the importance of up-to-date vaccination status, noting 40% of Canadians still have not received a booster following their primary two shots, putting Canada behind other G7 countries when it comes to three doses.
“As cases go up… in some areas of Canada, getting that booster, if you haven’t had it, now would be quite important, in particular going into the fall,″ Tam said.
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization has advised jurisdictions to prepare to offer another round of shots to people at increased risk of severe COVID-19 illness, regardless of the number of booster doses they’ve already received.
Tam said new vaccines tailored to omicron are in development but have not yet been evaluated by Canada’s drug regulator. She said officials are still waiting for data on what new protection the so-called bivalent vaccines could offer. | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/ap-health/canada-official-warns-of-possible-covid-resurgence-ahead/ | 2022-07-01T00:53:25Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/ap-health/canada-official-warns-of-possible-covid-resurgence-ahead/ | true |
GENEVA (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases rose by 18% in the last week, with more than 4.1 million cases reported globally, according to the World Health Organization.
The U.N. health agency said in its latest weekly report on the pandemic that the worldwide number of deaths remained relatively similar to the week before, at about 8,500. COVID-related deaths increased in three regions: the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the Americas.
The biggest weekly rise in new COVID-19 cases was seen in the Middle East, where they increased by 47%, according to the report released late Wednesday. Infections rose by about 32% in Europe and Southeast Asia, and by about 14% in the Americas, WHO said.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said cases were on the rise in 110 countries, mostly driven by the omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5.
“This pandemic is changing, but it’s not over,” Tedros said this week during a press briefing. He said the ability to track COVID-19’s genetic evolution was “under threat” as countries relaxed surveillance and genetic sequencing efforts, warning that would make it more difficult to catch emerging and potentially dangerous new variants.
He called for countries to immunize their most vulnerable populations, including health workers and people over 60, saying that hundreds of millions remain unvaccinated and at risk of severe disease and death.
Tedros said that while more than 1.2 billion COVID-19 vaccines have been administered globally, the average immunization rate in poor countries is about 13%.
“If rich countries are vaccinating children from as young as 6 months old and planning to do further rounds of vaccination, it is incomprehensible to suggest that lower-income countries should not vaccinate and boost their most at risk (people),” he said.
According to figures compiled by Oxfam and the People’s Vaccine Alliance, fewer than half of the 2.1 billion vaccines promised to poorer countries by the Group of Seven large economies have been delivered.
Earlier this month, the United States authorized COVID-19 vaccines for infants and preschoolers, rolling out a national immunization plan targeting 18 million of the youngest children. American regulators also recommended that some adults get updated boosters in the fall that match the latest coronavirus variants.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the pandemic at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/coronavirus/who-covid-19-cases-rising-nearly-everywhere-in-the-world/ | 2022-07-01T00:53:52Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/coronavirus/who-covid-19-cases-rising-nearly-everywhere-in-the-world/ | false |
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