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COVID-19 endemic stage could be two years away
NEW YORK - The coronavirus pandemic could last for nearly two more years before becoming an endemic, according to new Yale research.
The endemic stage will be when the virus becomes more of a seasonal nuisance, like the cold or flu, that is not seriously harmful to much of the population.
A new study, published in the journal PNAS Nexus, looked at rats to model a potential future with the virus. Rats can also get coronaviruses.
Researchers looked at a coronavirus that is similar to one that causes the common cold in humans and how it was transmitted among rats. They created mathematical models to find that the pandemic could take a total of about 4 years to end.
NYC shuts COVID-19 testing spots as cases rise
They arrived at an endemic state in which 15% of the population remains susceptible to reinfection. Similar to endemic coronaviral infections in other animals, transmission states are altered by the introduction of new variants, even with vaccination.
The authors said that it appears increasingly likely that eventual widespread immunity combined with reduced viral pathogenicity, as seen with the Omicron variant may reduce SARS-CoV-2 to an endemic seasonal respiratory infection with severe disease manifesting primarily in older or medically vulnerable persons. | https://www.fox29.com/news/covid-19-endemic-stage-could-be-two-years-away | 2022-07-06T22:47:16Z | https://www.fox29.com/news/covid-19-endemic-stage-could-be-two-years-away | true |
GameStop said Wednesday it approved a 4-for-1 stock split that will take place later in July. The company first announced plans for the split back in March.
A stock split doesn't directly impact the value of a company, but divides existing shares into smaller pieces. At the close of business on July 18, stockholders will receive three additional shares for every one share they have via a stock dividend. Trading will begin on a stock split-adjusted basis on July 22, GameStop said.
GameStop's stock price jumped in after-market trading to $125.65 after its announcement Wednesday.
The video game retailer rocked the stock market for one week in early 2021 when its share prices went through the roof, fueled by online day traders buying shares of the company in droves. The drama that followed led to investment app Robinhood being targeted by government regulators, hedge funds going under and documentaries being made to explain what happened.
Several tech giants have unveiled stock splits in recent years. Last month, Amazon split its shares in a 20-for-1 stock split, while Tesla did a 3-for-1 stock split. | https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/investing/stock-market/gamestop-plans-4-for-1-stock-split/ | 2022-07-06T22:48:28Z | https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/investing/stock-market/gamestop-plans-4-for-1-stock-split/ | false |
RIPLEY, WV (WOWK) — From Wednesday, July 6, to Friday, July 8, there is a 50% scaled replica of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on display in Ripley. It is the first time West Virginia is hosting the tribute.
The replica is located at Dutch Miller of Ripley, also known as the former Interstate 77 Chevrolet dealership showroom.
The display is open to the public from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier-replica-on-display-in-ripley-wv/ | 2022-07-06T22:49:25Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier-replica-on-display-in-ripley-wv/ | true |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Members of Congress say the investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol is leading to new threats both against Congress members involved in the investigation and against witnesses who were close to Trump in the days before and after the attack on the Capitol.
On Twitter, Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger released audio recordings of threatening phone calls aimed at him that he says staff members, like college and high school interns, have to deal with.
“We know who your family is and we’re going to get you,” one recording said.
Lawmakers involved in the investigation of the attack on the U.S. Capitol are not the only ones being targeted with threats. Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-CA) says Trump’s inner-circle has been threatening the witnesses the Select Committee is trying to talk to.
“They have been intimidating witnesses implying that there will be tremendous damage if they even do a deposition,” Chu said.
Congresswoman Chu says the intimidation tactics have been systematic.
“They are sending emails, implying that they will be rewarded if they take the 5th Amendment or do not appear,” Chu said.
The investigation into the attack on the Capitol is still moving forward, with the next public hearing slated for July 12.
The committee members say the next hearings will follow up on new details and information they have learned thanks to the witnesses who have cooperated and testified under oath. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/washington-dc/lawmakers-receive-threats-amid-jan-6-committee-hearings/ | 2022-07-06T22:50:02Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/washington-dc/lawmakers-receive-threats-amid-jan-6-committee-hearings/ | true |
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CHICAGO (AP) — A grandson and nephew of Chicago's two longest-serving mayors was sentenced to four months in prison Wednesday after being convicted of tax crimes and making false statements.
Patrick Daley Thompson, 52, was accused of falsely claiming mortgage interest deductions and lying about lines of credit from the now-closed Washington Federal Bank for Savings.
U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama imposed the sentence after a hearing in federal court in Chicago.
Thompson was convicted in February on five counts of willfully filing a false income tax return and two counts of knowingly making a false statement to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Thompson’s grandfather was Richard J. Daley and his uncle is Richard M. Daley, who each served more than 20 years as mayor of Chicago.
Federal regulators closed Washington Federal in 2017. Investigators said Thompson lied about the extent of his loans to a new lender and said he only owed $110,000, not $269,000.
After the sentencing hearing, Thompson attorney Chris Gair called the sentence a “grave miscarriage of justice.” He had suggested at the time of his client's conviction that the government wanted to nail someone named Daley, although prosecutors denied it.
Thompson left the courthouse without commenting.
In court filings, prosecutors said Thompson should be sentenced to two years in prison. They said he was a sophisticated lawyer and public official who knew the consequences of his actions. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ex-alderman-who-s-part-of-Daley-family-sentenced-17288704.php | 2022-07-06T22:50:14Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ex-alderman-who-s-part-of-Daley-family-sentenced-17288704.php | false |
ND Sober Ride offers Lyft discount codes for ND Country Fest
NEW SALEM, N.D. (KFYR) - With Wednesday being the start of North Dakota Country Fest, it also is the start of ND Sober Rides. The program is geared toward getting impaired drivers off the roads.
The ND Sober Ride program will offer $10 off Lyft rides vouchers from July 6-9, while codes last. The codes are from AAA, the Auto Club Group of North Dakota. Patrons can use the code “VZCOUNTRY22.” Additional information be found on the Vision Zero website.
“Impaired driving crashes, fatalities, DUIs, all of that is preventable if we all made the choice to driver sober,” said Lauren Bjork, North Dakota Department of Transportation.
Shuttle buses to and from North Dakota Country Fest will be ready at the Bismarck Radisson and from the Kirkwood Mall. Residents are encouraged to use the Lyft service for transportation to the shuttles.
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North Dakota tribal leaders react to SCOTUS giving states broader authority to prosecute crimes
MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) – Amid a flurry of 11th-hour rulings last week, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded the rights of states to prosecute offenders on Native American reservations.
In a 5-4 decision, the high court ruled in favor of Oklahoma in its bid to prosecute Victor Castro-Huerta, a non-Native American convicted of child neglect committed against a five-year-old Native American child. But tribal leaders in North Dakota, like Turtle Mountain Chairman Jamie Azure, are calling foul over the jurisdictional ruling.
“I mean, this case overrides tribal sovereignty by dictating when the state can intercede and may do so without even consulting with the tribes,” said Azure.
Until now, states generally lacked jurisdiction over such crimes, which were prosecuted by the federal government. Mark Fox, the chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes, said he’s disappointed in the majority ruling.
“We will be closely watching how state courts sentence non-Indians who commit covered crimes in Indian country, to be sure that they are prosecuted and sentenced the same as crimes committed outside of Indian country,” said Fox, in a written statement to Your News Leader.
Azure said his tribe has a good relationship with the state, but some tribes in other parts of the country do not have as good a rapport with their state. He said he’s worried about conflicts between multiple jurisdictions.
“Break it down into one sentence you know we are a nation within a nation with the right to govern ourselves so that supreme court decision was a direct conflict to what the Tribal Nations was set up to be,” said Azure.
Tribal leaders said they hope this ruling strengthens relationships, and does not destroy the trust built over the last few decades between the tribes and the state.
Currently, 35 states are home to federally recognized tribes. Of those, 16 had already been given authority by Congress to assert jurisdiction.
Your News Leader reached out to state attorneys Rolette and Mountrail Counties, as well as the North Dakota U.S. District Attorney’s office for response, and are waiting to hear back.
Here is Chairman Mark Fox’s full statement on the SCOTUS ruling:
“The Court ruled that state courts have jurisdiction to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians within Indian country. The court ruling goes no further than that and does not affect existing tribal jurisdiction in Indian country. Justice Kavanaugh’s opinion was narrowly accepted in a 5 to 4 decision. We believe that the dissent written by a Justice Gorsuch is a more accurate reflection of the foundational principles of Indian law and history. We’re disappointed in the majority opinion to the extent it does not accurately reflect the Court’s long standing precedent when it comes to issues of state authority in Indian country. The ruling applies only to issues of state jurisdiction to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians, which is concurrent with Federal jurisdiction. We expect states to exercise this jurisdiction in an evenhanded and nondiscriminatory manner. We will be closely watching how state courts sentence non-Indians who commit covered crimes in Indian country to be sure that they are prosecuted and sentenced the same as crimes committed outside of Indian country.”
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Federal authorities on Wednesday reached a settlement with immigration advocates that restricts the use of a privately run detention center in Virginia that saw a massive coronavirus outbreak two years ago.
The settlement in federal court in Alexandria restricts the Farmville Detention Center, run by Immigration Centers of America, from accepting more than 180 detainees at any time over the next two years. That's 25% of the facility's overall capacity.
In 2020, a judge barred the center from accepting any new detainees after an outbreak led to the death of a 72-year-old Canadian detainee, and a 90% positivity rate among the facility's 300 detainees.
Advocacy groups that filed suit on the detainees' behalf said only two detainees are currently held at the site.
Judge Leonie Brinkema faulted authorities for the outbreak, saying a “bureaucratic circus” resulted in the transfer of a large group of detainees from Florida and Arizona without any quarantine, despite jail policies against such transfers.
The National Immigration Project, one of the organizations that filed the lawsuit, said 15 individual plaintiffs who were detained at Farmville will also receive undisclosed financial settlements under the agreement. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Settlement-resolves-lawsuit-at-immigration-jail-17288545.php | 2022-07-06T22:51:52Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Settlement-resolves-lawsuit-at-immigration-jail-17288545.php | true |
WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 6, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
513 PM CDT Wed Jul 6 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of south central Bailey
and northeastern Cochran Counties through 530 PM CDT...
At 513 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 4
miles southwest of Morton, moving north at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Morton, Enochs and Maple.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3362 10273 3366 10294 3390 10295 3387 10265
TIME...MOT...LOC 2213Z 190DEG 10KT 3369 10283
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Beaver County in the Panhandle of Oklahoma...
Northwestern Lipscomb County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Northeastern Ochiltree County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 645 PM CDT.
* At 514 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Booker, or 13
miles east of Perryton, moving northeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect some tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile
homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Hail damage to vehicles
is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Beaver, Booker, Forgan, Darrouzett, Gate, Knowles, Elmwood, Mocane,
Slapout and Balko.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW) ("Aviat"), the leading expert in wireless transport solutions, today issued the following open letter to the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: CRNT) ("Ceragon" or the "Company"), urging the Company to schedule an extraordinary meeting of shareholders, which Aviat called for on June 27th (U.S.) / June 28th (Israel), 2022. As Ceragon's third largest shareholder, Aviat is entitled to call this meeting and believes Ceragon's silence represents its continued refusal to engage constructively with Aviat and act in the best interests of shareholders.
Members of the Board:
It has been over a week since we made public our acquisition proposal and, as the holder of more than 5% of Ceragon's outstanding shares, requested an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders for the purposes of removing three current directors and electing five highly qualified and independent new directors to better represent the interests of all Ceragon shareholders. To date, your only response has been to confirm receipt and the only guidance that you have provided to your shareholders is that they "need not take action at this time".
While your lack of response is disappointing, it is not surprising, given your refusal for several months to engage constructively with us in negotiations regarding a transaction that would deliver compelling value to shareholders. Your failure to respond over the past week only demonstrates to us, and to our fellow shareholders, that transparency and communication are far from your top priorities. We have come to expect delay tactics from you, but your other shareholders deserve better. They deserve a Board that will confront the Company's continued underperformance and that will consider opportunities to unlock value in earnest.
I urge you to do right by your shareholders – begin negotiations with us and set a date for shareholders to make their voices heard.
Sincerely,
Peter A. Smith
Aviat Networks
President and Chief Executive Officer
Aviat Networks, Inc. is the leading expert in wireless transport solutions and works to provide dependable products, services and support to its customers. With more than one million systems sold into 170 countries worldwide, communications service providers and private network operators including state/local government, utility, federal government and defense organizations trust Aviat with their critical applications. Coupled with a long history of microwave innovations, Aviat provides a comprehensive suite of localized professional and support services enabling customers to drastically simplify both their networks and their lives. For more than 70 years, the experts at Aviat have delivered high-performance products, simplified operations, and the best overall customer experience. Aviat Networks is headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.aviatnetworks.com or connect with Aviat Networks on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
The information contained in this document includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include, without limitations, statements regarding the proposed transaction between Aviat and Ceragon, the results of the requested extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Ceragon and Ceragon's actions in connection therewith. All statements, trend analyses and other information contained herein regarding the foregoing beliefs and expectations, as well as about the markets for the services and products of Aviat and trends in revenue, and other statements identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including, without limitation, "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "will," "see," "continue," "delivering," "view," and "intend," or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, forward-looking statements are based on estimates reflecting the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of the senior management of Aviat regarding the future of its business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. Such forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements should therefore be considered in light of various important factors, including those set forth in this document. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from estimates or projections contained in the forward-looking statements include the following:
- the impact of COVID-19 on our business, operations and cash flows;
- continued price and margin erosion as a result of increased competition in the microwave transmission industry
- our ability to realize the anticipated benefits of any proposed or recent acquisitions, including our proposed transaction with Ceragon, within the anticipated timeframe or at all, including the risk that proposed or recent acquisitions will not be integrated successfully;
- the results of the extraordinary general meeting of Ceragon's shareholders;
- the impact of the volume, timing, and customer, product, and geographic mix of our product orders;
- the timing of our receipt of payment for products or services from our customers;
- our ability to meet projected new product development dates or anticipated cost reductions of new products;
- our suppliers' inability to perform and deliver on time as a result of their financial condition, component shortages, the effects of COVID-19 or other supply chain constraints;
- the effects of inflation and the timing and extent of changes in the prices and overall demand for and availability of our inputs;
- customer acceptance of new products;
- the ability of our subcontractors to timely perform;
- weakness in the global economy affecting customer spending;
- retention of our key personnel;
- our ability to manage and maintain key customer relationships;
- uncertain economic conditions in the telecommunications sector combined with operator and supplier consolidation;
- our failure to protect our Intellectual property rights or defend against Intellectual property infringement claims by others;
- the results of our restructuring efforts;
- the ability to preserve and use our net operating loss carryforwards;
- the effects of currency and interest rate risks;
- the effects of current and future government regulations, including the effects of current restrictions on various commercial and economic activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic;
- general economic conditions, including uncertainty regarding the timing, pace and extent of an economic recovery in the United States and other countries where we conduct business;
- the conduct of unethical business practices in developing countries;
- the impact of political turmoil in countries where we have significant business;
- the impact of tariffs, the adoption of trade restrictions affecting our products or suppliers, a United States withdrawal from or significant renegotiation of trade agreements, the occurrence of trade wars, the closing of border crossings, and other changes in trade regulations or relationships; and
- Aviat's ability to implement our stock repurchase program or the extent to which it enhances long-term stockholder value.
For more information regarding the risks and uncertainties for Aviat's business, see "Risk Factors" in Aviat's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on August 25, 2021 as well as other reports filed by Aviat with the SEC from time to time. Aviat does not undertake any obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, for any reason, except as required by law, even as new information becomes available or other events occur in the future.
This document does not constitute an offer to sell or exchange, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or exchange, any securities, nor will there be any sale of securities in any states or jurisdictions in which such offer or sale or exchange would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities will be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933 or an exemption therefrom.
In connection with any transaction between Aviat and Ceragon that involves the issuance of Aviat shares to the Ceragon shareholders, Aviat will file a registration statement with the SEC. INVESTORS ARE URGED TO READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, ANY AMENDMENTS THERETO AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT MAY BE FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRANSACTION. Investors will also be able to obtain copies of the registration statement and other documents containing important information about each of the companies once such documents are filed with the SEC, without charge, at the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov.
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Aviat Networks
Andrew Fredrickson
+1-408-501-6214
andrew.fredrickson@aviatnet.com
Okapi Partners LLC
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+1-212-297-0720
info@okapipartners.com
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Sydney Isaacs / Jeremy Jacobs
+1-212-371-5999
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NEW YORK, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Moore Kuehn, PLLC, a law firm focusing in securities litigation located on Wall Street in downtown New York City, is investigating potential claims concerning whether the following proposed mergers are fair to shareholders. Moore Kuehn may seek increased consideration, additional disclosures, or other relief on behalf of the shareholders of these companies:
- Epizyme, Inc. (NASDAQ: EPZM)
Epizyme has agreed to merge with Ipsen. Under the proposed transaction, Epizyme shareholders will receive $1.45 in cash per share plus one contingent value right per share.
- Radius Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: RDUS)
Radius has agreed to merge with Gurnet Point Capital and Patient Square Capital. Under the proposed transaction, Radius shareholders will receive $10.00 per share in cash plus a contingent value right of $1.00 per share payable upon TYMLOS® net sales reaching 300 million.
- Ocean Bio-Chem, Inc. (NASDAQ: OBCI)
Ocean Bio-Chem has agreed to merge with OneWater. Under the proposed transaction, Ocean Bio-Chem shareholders will receive $13.08 in cash per share.
- Convey Health Solutions Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNVY)
Convey agreed to merge with TPG. Under the proposed transaction, Convey shareholders will receive $10.50 in cash per share.
Moore Kuehn is investigating whether the Boards of the above companies 1) acted to maximize shareholder value, 2) failed to disclose material information, and 3) conducted a fair process.
Moore Kuehn encourages shareholders who would like to discuss their rights to contact Justin Kuehn, Esq. by email at jkuehn@moorekuehn.com or telephone at (212) 709-8245. The consultation and case are free with no obligation to you. Moore Kuehn pays all case costs and does not charge its investor clients. Shareholders should contact the firm immediately as there may be limited time to enforce your rights.
Moore Kuehn is a 5-star client-rated New York City law firm with attorneys representing investors and consumers in litigation involving securities laws, fraud, breaches of fiduciary duties, and other claims. For additional information about Moore Kuehn, please visit http://www.moorekuehn.com/practice/new-york-securities-litigation/.
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MADRID (AP) — Italian singer Raffaella Carrà, a 20th-century pop icon both at home and in many Spanish-speaking countries, has had a square in Spain’s capital named in her honor one year after her death.
Madrid’s town hall held a ceremony Wednesday to inaugurate the square with a plaque bearing an illustrated portrait of the performer who died last July at age 78.
The town hall said it wanted to “pay homage to the Italian artist, who had strong links to Spain and its capital, where she pursued a good part of her professional career.”
Carrà won over legions of gay fans both in Italy and the Spanish-speaking world, and her new square coincides with the celebration of Madrid Pride week.
The plaque showed her from the shoulders up, highlighting her characteristic platinum blonde hair and short bangs.
Born in Bologna in 1943, Carrà started her diverse career as a singer, dancer, TV presenter and actress when still a child.
She became a staple of Italian television, but also conquered fans in Spain and Latin American in the mid-1970s. She recorded hits “Fiesta” and “Caliente, Caliente,” among others, in Spanish. | https://www.cbs42.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/italian-singer-raffaella-carra-honored-with-square-in-madrid/ | 2022-07-06T22:56:21Z | https://www.cbs42.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/italian-singer-raffaella-carra-honored-with-square-in-madrid/ | true |
Despite waning support from his party, Britain's Boris Johnson says he won't resign By Willem Marx Published July 6, 2022 at 5:15 PM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:35 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains defiant, insisting he won't resign after another crisis rocked his leadership. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wunc.org/2022-07-06/despite-waning-support-from-his-party-britains-boris-johnson-says-he-wont-resign | 2022-07-06T23:01:26Z | https://www.wunc.org/2022-07-06/despite-waning-support-from-his-party-britains-boris-johnson-says-he-wont-resign | true |
AUSTIN, Texas, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW) ("Aviat"), the leading expert in wireless transport solutions, today issued the following open letter to the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: CRNT) ("Ceragon" or the "Company"), urging the Company to schedule an extraordinary meeting of shareholders, which Aviat called for on June 27th (U.S.) / June 28th (Israel), 2022. As Ceragon's third largest shareholder, Aviat is entitled to call this meeting and believes Ceragon's silence represents its continued refusal to engage constructively with Aviat and act in the best interests of shareholders.
Members of the Board:
It has been over a week since we made public our acquisition proposal and, as the holder of more than 5% of Ceragon's outstanding shares, requested an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders for the purposes of removing three current directors and electing five highly qualified and independent new directors to better represent the interests of all Ceragon shareholders. To date, your only response has been to confirm receipt and the only guidance that you have provided to your shareholders is that they "need not take action at this time".
While your lack of response is disappointing, it is not surprising, given your refusal for several months to engage constructively with us in negotiations regarding a transaction that would deliver compelling value to shareholders. Your failure to respond over the past week only demonstrates to us, and to our fellow shareholders, that transparency and communication are far from your top priorities. We have come to expect delay tactics from you, but your other shareholders deserve better. They deserve a Board that will confront the Company's continued underperformance and that will consider opportunities to unlock value in earnest.
I urge you to do right by your shareholders – begin negotiations with us and set a date for shareholders to make their voices heard.
Sincerely,
Peter A. Smith
Aviat Networks
President and Chief Executive Officer
Aviat Networks, Inc. is the leading expert in wireless transport solutions and works to provide dependable products, services and support to its customers. With more than one million systems sold into 170 countries worldwide, communications service providers and private network operators including state/local government, utility, federal government and defense organizations trust Aviat with their critical applications. Coupled with a long history of microwave innovations, Aviat provides a comprehensive suite of localized professional and support services enabling customers to drastically simplify both their networks and their lives. For more than 70 years, the experts at Aviat have delivered high-performance products, simplified operations, and the best overall customer experience. Aviat Networks is headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.aviatnetworks.com or connect with Aviat Networks on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
The information contained in this document includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include, without limitations, statements regarding the proposed transaction between Aviat and Ceragon, the results of the requested extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Ceragon and Ceragon's actions in connection therewith. All statements, trend analyses and other information contained herein regarding the foregoing beliefs and expectations, as well as about the markets for the services and products of Aviat and trends in revenue, and other statements identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including, without limitation, "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "will," "see," "continue," "delivering," "view," and "intend," or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, forward-looking statements are based on estimates reflecting the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of the senior management of Aviat regarding the future of its business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. Such forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements should therefore be considered in light of various important factors, including those set forth in this document. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from estimates or projections contained in the forward-looking statements include the following:
- the impact of COVID-19 on our business, operations and cash flows;
- continued price and margin erosion as a result of increased competition in the microwave transmission industry
- our ability to realize the anticipated benefits of any proposed or recent acquisitions, including our proposed transaction with Ceragon, within the anticipated timeframe or at all, including the risk that proposed or recent acquisitions will not be integrated successfully;
- the results of the extraordinary general meeting of Ceragon's shareholders;
- the impact of the volume, timing, and customer, product, and geographic mix of our product orders;
- the timing of our receipt of payment for products or services from our customers;
- our ability to meet projected new product development dates or anticipated cost reductions of new products;
- our suppliers' inability to perform and deliver on time as a result of their financial condition, component shortages, the effects of COVID-19 or other supply chain constraints;
- the effects of inflation and the timing and extent of changes in the prices and overall demand for and availability of our inputs;
- customer acceptance of new products;
- the ability of our subcontractors to timely perform;
- weakness in the global economy affecting customer spending;
- retention of our key personnel;
- our ability to manage and maintain key customer relationships;
- uncertain economic conditions in the telecommunications sector combined with operator and supplier consolidation;
- our failure to protect our Intellectual property rights or defend against Intellectual property infringement claims by others;
- the results of our restructuring efforts;
- the ability to preserve and use our net operating loss carryforwards;
- the effects of currency and interest rate risks;
- the effects of current and future government regulations, including the effects of current restrictions on various commercial and economic activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic;
- general economic conditions, including uncertainty regarding the timing, pace and extent of an economic recovery in the United States and other countries where we conduct business;
- the conduct of unethical business practices in developing countries;
- the impact of political turmoil in countries where we have significant business;
- the impact of tariffs, the adoption of trade restrictions affecting our products or suppliers, a United States withdrawal from or significant renegotiation of trade agreements, the occurrence of trade wars, the closing of border crossings, and other changes in trade regulations or relationships; and
- Aviat's ability to implement our stock repurchase program or the extent to which it enhances long-term stockholder value.
For more information regarding the risks and uncertainties for Aviat's business, see "Risk Factors" in Aviat's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on August 25, 2021 as well as other reports filed by Aviat with the SEC from time to time. Aviat does not undertake any obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, for any reason, except as required by law, even as new information becomes available or other events occur in the future.
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(NEXSTAR) — The billboard of the future may just be one unsuspecting tap away. Companies aren’t just competing to be in your social media feeds anymore — now their ads may show up right on your phone’s lock screen.
Glance, a lock screen ad group, is preparing to launch across U.S. Android lock screens in the next few months, tech outlet The Verge reports. Glance works like a real-time screen saver, automatically sending content to your phone every time it turns on.
According to its website, Glance content panels (called “glances”) includes news, entertainment and games. The company says it has over 200 million users across India and Southeast Asia. The company is already partnered with most Android smartphone makers in Asia, and is in talks with U.S. wireless carriers, TechCrunch says.
Google and Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital are investors in the company, which doesn’t have a traditional app but instead is built in to Android’s software. Glance, which is headquartered in Singapore, has worked with several major American companies, including Coca-Cola, Amazon, Netflix and KFC.
In addition to content that works similarly to ads on Instagram Stories and Snapchat, Glance collaborates with creators and brands for virtual events. Back in May, Glance launched its Glance LIVE Fest, which billed itself as “India’s largest digital carnival of live, interactive experiences.” The company says the event was available to over 70 million users.
Statista data shows on average, you’re unlocking your phone way more than you may realize. Latest research on unlocking indicates Gen Z smartphone users unlock 79 times per day and millennials unlock 63 times per day.
For now, iPhone users won’t be seeing Glance, though Apple recently overhauled lock screen programming to allow feature expansion.
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Several remains from the Philadelphia bombing of the MOVE house in 1985 have yet to be released. The bombing left several dead, including children.
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Several remains from the Philadelphia bombing of the MOVE house in 1985 have yet to be released. The bombing left several dead, including children.
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Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi have been linked for more than two decades, playing together at UConn and then helping the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team win five gold medals.
Now the basketball greats will appear on the cover of the NBA 2K23 WNBA edition video game that will be released on Sept. 9.
“Is is really, really cool personally, and I also think it, you know being that we’re women and it’s now the second time they’ve had women on the cover it’s it’s meaningful has special in a different way as well,” Bird said.
It’s the second straight year that the video game will feature a WNBA athlete on one of its covers; Candace Parker was on it last year.
“The response to NBA 2K’s first WNBA Edition last year was overwhelmingly positive and a testament to the W’s growing audience and prominence,” said Alfie Brody, Vice President of Global Marketing Strategy at 2K. “Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi have achieved greatness both individually and together, cementing their status as two of the best players in the WNBA’s history.”
Bird and Taurasi said they played video games a bit when they were younger, but there were no female basketball players on the games.
“You know you have all these little girls playing basketball, and they can actually start gaming now with you know, hopefully, two of their favorite players on the cover,” Taurasi said. “It just shows you how far gaming and women’s basketball has come.”
Bird feels that being on the cover and having WNBA players in the video game will help normalize the presence of female athletes in the lives of both boys and girls.
“Whether it’s girls or boys, whether it’s women, men it doesn’t really matter and that’s that’s the beauty of it,” Bird said. “It’s just becoming like a normal part of this ecosystem that is professional sports and gaming is a big part of that ecosystem so to be involved in it now it’s just going to continue to push things forward and just open up more doors and open up more minds.”
NBA 2K is also partnering with the WNBA stars to donate $100,000 to Every Kid Sports, giving young people the opportunity to join youth basketball programs across the country. The donation will cover the registration fees of over 550 girls from income-restricted families.
“Girls are dropping out of sports at an alarming rate, and I think part of it is they’re not always able to dream of what could be a career that could be it’s really easy for little boys,” Bird said. “Whether you make it or not, it’s actually not the point. But it’s really easy for little boys that turned on the TV to see what life could be like, if I stayed with my sport.”
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Wincing from abdominal pain, unable to ply his customary relentless style of tennis, Rafael Nadal thought he might need to stop playing in the Wimbledon quarterfinals against Taylor Fritz.
Up in the Centre Court stands, Nadal’s father was waving his arms, motioning to the 22-time Grand Slam champion to quit. Not surprisingly, perhaps, he didn’t listen. Nadal stayed out there, adjusted his service motion and his strategy — and figured out a way to win.
With much of the crowd roaring and standing after Nadal’s best strokes, he twice erased one-set deficits against the 11th-seeded Fritz and emerged with 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (10-4) victory Wednesday to reach his eighth semifinal at the All England Club.
“For a lot of moments,” Nadal said, “I was thinking, ‘Maybe I will not be able to finish the match.’”
He did complete it, but said he couldn’t be sure whether he will be able to play Friday against Nick Kyrgios, a 27-year-old Australian who earned his Grand Slam semifinal debut with a 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (5) victory over Cristian Garin of Chile.
“I don’t know exactly what I have. It’s clear something’s not right,” said Nadal, who will get tests Thursday for an issue that first cropped up nearly a week ago but got much worse at 3-1 in the first set against Fritz. “I’m obviously worried.”
The other men’s semifinal is Novak Djokovic against Cam Norrie. The women’s semifinals Thursday are 2019 champion Simona Halep against Elena Rybakina, and Ons Jabeur against Tatjana Maria. Halep eliminated Amanda Anisimova 6-2, 6-4, and Rybakina defeated Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Nadal got to his 38th career major semifinal by denying what would have been a first such appearance for Fritz, who beat Nadal in the hard-court final at Indian Wells, California, in March. That ended a 20-match winning streak for Nadal, who was bothered that day by a painful rib injury.
This time, the problem was a muscle in his stomach area, which had some athletic tape. Nadal left the court with a trainer for a medical timeout while up 4-3 in the second set; Fritz paced around the baseline, waiting.
A doctor gave Nadal some pills; the trainer tried to relax the muscle.
“They can’t do much,” Nadal said. “Nothing can be fixed when you have a thing like this.”
When action resumed, Nadal clearly was compromised. It was hard not to think: Might he give up?
Nadal acknowledged that went through his mind. Fritz did, too.
“It definitely made me kind of think. I kind of stopped being as aggressive,” the 24-year-old American said. “I feel like I let it kind of get to me a little bit.”
He pretty much handed over the second set of what would become a 4-hour, 21-minute contest under a sky of slate clouds. After Fritz took the third set, his big serve got broken three times in the next.
Nadal occasionally would watch a ball off Fritz’s orange racket fly by. Nadal couldn’t move the way he usually does. His trademark grunts of “Uhhhh!” were rare. He didn’t generate the usual zip on his serves, which dipped from a high of 120 mph to barely above 100 mph. He sought to end exchanges with a quick-strike forehand or a drop shot — sometimes with success, often not.
But Nadal is not one who concedes easily. This was his 351st Grand Slam match and he has a total of three mid-match retirements at majors (against Andy Murray at the 2010 Australian Open, against Marin Cilic at the 2018 Australian Open, and against Juan Martin del Potro at the 2018 U.S. Open). In all tour-level events, the totals are: 1,275 matches, nine retirements.
“I hate to do it,” Nadal said.
So he summoned his best for last, grabbing a 5-0 lead in the closing tiebreaker — the first-to-10, win-by-two format starting at 6-all in a fifth set is new to Wimbledon this year — and then five of the last six points.
Fritz’s take on the tiebreaker? “Got destroyed,” he said.
“Probably hurts more than any loss I’ve ever had,” Fritz said. “After the match was over, I was sitting there and I felt like crying.”
Nadal extended his unbeaten mark in 2022 Grand Slam matches to 19-0 as he seeks to add a trophy at Wimbledon to his triumphs at the Australian Open in January and French Open in June. For everything he’s accomplished, the 36-year-old Spaniard never has won the first three Slam titles of a season.
Nadal, who won Wimbledon in 2008 and 2010, leads Kyrgios 6-3 head-to-head; they are 1-all at Wimbledon. In 2014, Kyrgios, then just 19 and ranked 144th, announced himself to the world by winning; in 2019, Nadal took the rematch after Kyrgios was at a local pub into the wee hours the night before.
“I feel like that would be a mouth-watering kind of encounter for everyone around the world,” Kyrgios, never afraid of a little hyperbole, said about facing Nadal again. “That would probably be the most-watched match of all time.”
Give Kyrgios credit for honesty on this matter, at least: Even he did not think this day ever would arrive. Kyrgios became the first unseeded and lowest-ranked man to get to the final four at the All England Club since 2008 by playing what, for him, amounts to a restrained and efficient brand of tennis against Garin.
“I thought my ship had sailed,” Kyrgios said. “Obviously, I didn’t go about things great early in my career and may have wasted that little window.”
Kyrgios, who is ranked 40th, has garnered more attention for his behavior on and off the court than his skills with a racket in hand. His match against the unseeded Garin came a day after police in Canberra, Australia, said that Kyrgios is due in court next month to face an allegation of common assault stemming from something that happened in December.
“I have a lot of thoughts, a lot of things I want to say, kind of my side about it,” Kyrgios said at his post-match news conference. “Obviously I’ve been advised by my lawyers that I’m unable to say anything at this time.”
Worth noting, too, is how well Kyrgios has been playing. His serve, in particular, is among the best in the game, regularly topping 130 mph, and he pounded 17 aces against Garin while getting broken just once — in the very first game, at love.
His big forehands are terrific, too, but little else is conventional about Kyrgios. One example: “I don’t have a coach,” Kyrgios said with a smile. “I would never put that burden on someone.”
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 6, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
440 PM CDT Wed Jul 6 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Hale
and east central Lamb Counties through 515 PM CDT...
At 439 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles northwest of Cotton Center, or 10 miles south of Olton, moving
northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Plainview, Hale Center, Olton, Cotton Center, Halfway and Edmonson.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall may be occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3393 10205 3406 10222 3430 10205 3430 10182
3412 10172
TIME...MOT...LOC 2139Z 222DEG 13KT 3403 10207
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Four baseball fans were injured by bullet fragments from outside the Coliseum while attending a postgame July 4 fireworks show, Oakland Police and the team said Tuesday.
None of the injuries were life-threatening, police and the A’s said.
Because the A’s 5-1 victory over the Blue Jays lasted just 2 hours, 27 minutes, it wasn’t yet dark enough for the fireworks show to start. Fans from a season-high crowd of 24,403 were allowed onto the playing field just after 9 p.m. local time.
“The Oakland Police Department (OPD) is investigating firearm-related injuries that occurred on July 4, 2022, after 9:30 p.m., in the 7000 block of Coliseum Way,” police and the A’s said in a joint statement.
Police initially were notified of a possible shooting victim inside the ballpark and officers located three fans struck by bullet fragments “from what appears to be celebratory gunfire occurring throughout the city of Oakland,” the statement said. An additional victim walked into a hospital.
“I think if it wasn’t Fourth of July, it would be more alarming. Any time during Fourth of July, I can remember this growing up, it’s never safe but people tend to do things that aren’t in the ordinary,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said before the series resumed Tuesday night. “That’s firing weapons in the air in terms of celebration. It’s really unfortunate that we had that happen here in the Coliseum and there were people injured. I know we’ve reached out to those people.”
An investigation is ongoing and Oakland Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland offered a reward up to $20,000 for information leading to an arrest or arrests.
Police reiterated their joint efforts with the A’s and the team’s security to keep everyone attending games in the venue safe.
“From a safety standpoint, I think the Coliseum is a safe environment,” Kotsay said. “It’s just unfortunate that on a holiday with the fireworks show that people were injured.”
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PITTSBURGH — Anthony Rizzo was not in the lineup Wednesday, the second straight game he has missed with “lower back stiffness.” The Yankees’ first baseman was getting treatment before Wednesday’s finale against the Pirates at PNC Park and not made available to talk.
“He’s doing better today. So we’ll see,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “Again, this is kind of something that he’s talked about he’s had, seems like once a year, where it’s just this day-to-day thing. He had some improvements today, but obviously not good enough to be in there. But hopefully continue to improve with the rehab and things he’s doing in there today and we’ll see where we’re at game time and then obviously tomorrow and into the weekend.”
Rizzo, 32, has had a history of back issues dating back to his time with the Cubs.
Boone said it wasn’t a play or swing, it just kind of popped up on him Tuesday.
Wednesday, Boone said Rizzo was more upright walking around.
“I would say he’s definitely better, definitely improved,” Boone said. “He was like an optical illusion yesterday when I saw him. He was all kind of twisted up so I think he’s definitely better.”
Rizzo was not expected to do any baseball activities Wednesday. He did not have any tests on the back.
The first baseman has been an integral part of the Yankees’ success this season. Rizzo is slashing .223/.336/.507 with an .844 OPS. He is one of three Yankees sluggers with at least 20 homers. He has clubbed 22 in 77 games this season and driven in 52 runs.
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With the recent 50th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark legislation giving girls and women equal opportunity in education and sports, I would like to share my Title IX story.
The year was 1972, and the track and field North-South meet for Seattle Metro League sports was held at Shoreline High School. The girls and boys meet was held together. Frank Inslee, our current governor’s father, was athletic director for Seattle Public Schools. The girls team at Shoreline was deep that year and expected to win multiple events (which it did).
The boys were awarded medals for first, second and third place. And the girls? Nothing! No medals, no ribbons, nada! Apparently, the meet directors didn’t think the girls side of the meet was important enough.
I won four events that day. I’m still waiting for my medals.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Sublime with Rome will play at the Seneca Casinos Outer Harbor at the Lakeside Event Lawn on September 23.
Tickets will be available for presale on July 7 at 10 a.m. for Seneca Gaming club members. General ticket sales begin July 8 at 10 a.m.
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USD/CHF is juggling around 0.9700 as investors await employment data. The Swiss Unemployment data is seen as stable at 2.2%. Hawkish Fed minutes have supported the DXY and may display more upside …
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How SC sheriffs are responding to reporting requirement in six-week abortion ban
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - While most abortions in South Carolina are now prohibited after six weeks, the state’s new law does allow for exceptions for rape and incest at up to 20 weeks.
But the law also requires patients who undergo abortions for this reason have their names and contact information reported to law enforcement.
In these situations, doctors are mandated to report rape and incest allegations to the sheriff’s office in the county where the abortion was performed within 24 hours of the procedure. Physicians must notify patients of this reporting requirement before they perform the abortion and note the procedure in their medical records.
Here’s the part of the SC law re: rape/incest exceptions — if an abortion is performed under those circumstances, providers must report the allegation, incl. the name + contact info of the victim, w/in 24 hours of the abortion to the sheriff of the county where it was performed. pic.twitter.com/iLbkaAojuK
— Mary Green (@MaryGreenNews) July 1, 2022
Three clinics in South Carolina provide abortions, located in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, so it is up to the sheriffs in Greenville County, Richland County, and Charleston County to determine what they do when they receive these reports.
Two of those sheriffs said they will not be investigating further unless the woman wants that.
Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano, South Carolina’s only female sheriff, said in a statement that her office has been speaking with healthcare providers to determine the best way to comply with the new law.
“I want the public to know that while these providers are now mandated by law to send us these reports regardless of the will of their patients, we will not contact the patient if she doesn’t want us to,” Graziano said in the statement. “We will offer our support and investigative services only if they request it.”
She continued, “I know all too well the pain and heartache that comes from sexual assault, as a family member to a victim and as someone who has worked with them as a law enforcement officer. It is traumatizing, and my agency will do everything we can to offer care, solace and respect to these women who are seeking health care.”
In Columbia, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department said it does not have a specific policy on this.
“As with any report we get, we would vet it, then potentially follow up on it if there’s information to follow up on,” the department said in a statement. “If the woman doesn’t want to follow up or have it investigated, then we would go no further than that.”
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office said it does not have comment at this time.
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DES MOINES, Iowa – A disaster has been declared in Emmet, Hancock, O'Brien, and Winnebago counties after Tuesday’s derecho storms.
Governor Kim Reynolds issued the proclamation Wednesday, activating the Iowa Individual Assistance Grant Program and the Disaster Case Management Program for the four counties.
The Iowa Individual Assistance Grant Program provides grants of up to $5,000 for households with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level for a family of three. Grants are available for home or car repairs, replacement of clothing or food, and temporary housing expenses. The grant application and instructions are available on the Iowa Department of Human Services website at https://dhs.iowa.gov/disaster-assistance-programs. Potential applicants have 45 days from the date of the proclamation to submit a claim.
The Disaster Case Management Program addresses serious needs related to disaster-related hardship, injury, or adverse conditions. Disaster case managers work with clients to create a disaster recovery plan and provide guidance, advice, and referral to obtain a service or resource. The program closes 180 days from the date of the governor's proclamation. For information on the Disaster Case Management Program, contact your local community action association or visit www.iowacommunityaction.org. | https://www.kimt.com/news/disaster-proclamation-issued-for-hancock-and-winnebago-counties/article_dd1751ee-fd7a-11ec-8d54-ef9983c2ad81.html | 2022-07-06T23:24:58Z | https://www.kimt.com/news/disaster-proclamation-issued-for-hancock-and-winnebago-counties/article_dd1751ee-fd7a-11ec-8d54-ef9983c2ad81.html | false |
For the first time in three years because of COVID-19, fans will be able to catch live practices of the Giants leading up to the NFL season.
The team recently announced that 11 practices will be open to the public during training camp. In addition, Giants Fan Fest will run from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5.
The first open practice is on the first date of camp — July 27 — from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The other dates are July 28, July 29, July 30, Aug. 1, Aug. 2, Aug. 3, Aug. 7, Aug. 8, Aug. 9 and Aug 14.
Each of those practices also starts at 10 a.m. at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center. Times are subject to change, and in the event of inclement weather, practice will be moved indoors and there will be no public viewing.
“We are thankful to be able to welcome our fans back to training camp,” Giants president John Mara said. “We have missed having them at training camp the past couple years. Our players, coaches and staff love the energy our fans bring throughout camp. It is a great opportunity for us to interact with the fans and show our appreciation for their support.”
Admission to the practices and Fan Fest is free, but fans must reserve tickets online at giants.com/trainingcamp.
Season ticket holders will have exclusive early access to claim tickets for practices starting at noon next Monday, July 11, and then the following Monday for Fan Fest tickets.
Remaining tickets for practices and Fan Fest will be made available to the general public at noon next Thursday, July 14 and then July 21, respectively.
The open practices will feature current player autographs, meet and greet opportunities with Giants Legends, a Jr. Giants Kids Zone and daily giveaways.
The second annual Fan Fest, which is held at MetLife Stadium, will feature a Blue & White intrasquad scrimmage, autographs by Giants Legends and a fireworks show.
“Last season we welcomed our loyal fans back to MetLife Stadium with Giants Fan Fest, and the response was overwhelming,” Chief Commercial Officer Pete Guelli said. “This year we’re aiming to make Fan Fest bigger and better as we officially kick off a new era of Giants football.”
This summer is the Giants’ first training camp until general manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll.
The main attraction for fans is expected to be the team’s new-look under Daboll, who was the Bills’ offensive coordinator from 2018-21, and quarterbacks coach Mike Kafka, who was a Chiefs assistant from 2017-21.
The Giants have finished second-to-last in points and total yards each of the last two seasons. Wide receiver Sterling Shepard, the organization’s longest-tenured player, recently said on the Giants Huddle podcast that the offense is undergoing big changes.
“Moving parts all day long,” Shepard said. “It kind of gets overwhelming whenever you look at the motion list, too. They have it broken down on our (tablets), so when you look at the motion list, it’s so many different motions that you can do. It’ll be good getting a lot of our playmakers moving around. It’s going to be tough on defenses.
“It has potential for a lot of big plays, and it has some fancy plays in there as well. I think the fans will love it. We’ve just got to keep doing our part and putting in work.” | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/07/06/giants-to-release-free-tickets-next-week-for-training-camp-practices/ | 2022-07-06T23:25:23Z | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/07/06/giants-to-release-free-tickets-next-week-for-training-camp-practices/ | true |
Perhaps I should wait another 12 months before recounting this 1973 tale. After all, nothing is ever seems noteworthy about the 49th anniversary of an event. But this experience — one of my strangest ever as a baseball writer — is a good story whenever it is recounted.
The date was July 20, 1973, which happened to be the Friday night before the All-Star break. My assignment was to cover a twi-night doubleheader in Yankee Stadium — the original Yankee Stadium. The Yankees were unexpectedly leading the American League East and the visiting Chicago White Sox would be pitching Cy Young Award contender Wilbur Wood in the first game.
Wood would be bidding for his 19th victory. Wood was a knuckleball pitcher, a commodity which has always been rare and now seems to be extinct. The knuckleball is a pitch that is thrown with as little velocity as possible and with as little spin as possible. Once the ball is released the pitcher has no idea where it’s going to go. Neither does the batter or — as a matter, of fact — the catcher. Its flight path is determined by tiny local air currents that push against the seams of the ball. It isn’t unusual for a knuckleball to change direction multiple times en route to home plate. Hence, the pitch’s nickname — the butterfly ball.
Very few pitchers have ever mastered the knuckleball but the ones who have tend to use it almost exclusively. The pitch puts relatively little stress on the arm, and no one demonstrated that fact better than Wood. He was pitching that night on two days’ rest, but he was used to that. This would be the 13th time in 1973 that he worked on short rest. It would be Chicago’s 95th game and the 30th started by Wood.
The bottom of the first inning began in typical knuckleball fashion. Yankees leadoff hitter Horace Clarke struck out but reached base on a passed ball. Passed balls have always been common with a knuckler on the mound.
The rest of the inning, though, was quite unexpected. After Matty Alou walked, Roy White, Bobby Murcer, Thurman Munson and Graig Nettles all delivered hits. White Sox manager Chuck Tanner walked to the mound and removed his star pitcher, who had not retired a batter.
The Yankees went on to score eight runs in the first inning and coast to a 12-2 victory. Everybody in the lineup had at least one hit and I knew the clubhouse would be full of chatty players, but they wouldn’t be talking to the press — at least not for several hours. Yankees manager Ralph Houk had a strict rule that media were not permitted in the clubhouse between games of a doubleheader.
Because of The Trentonian’s deadlines I couldn’t wait for the second game to end to file a story. I had to send something for the first edition, and it would have to focus on the first game. The sports editor demanded player reaction — quotes, as they were called in the business — in every story and the only way I was going to get any quotes was to interview the losers.
To my amazement I discovered that I was the only writer entering the Chicago clubhouse between games. I walked past the players and headed for the manager’s office. Tanner was making out his lineup card for the second game but looked up and greeted me with his customary class. I’m not sure whether I returned the greeting or not. My eyes focused on the lineup card and I was stunned.
The bottom line read ‘WOOD P.”
“He’s my best pitcher,” Tanner explained. “He’s ready to pitch and any time I can put my best pitcher out there I’m going to do it.”
I left the office and looked for Wood. He assured me that he felt fine and was ready for the task.
Zounds, did I have a story, The other writers would soon have the same information but I would be the only one who could embellish it with some quotes. To add to the intrigue the Yankees starter in Game Two was Sam McDowell, whose nickname was “Sudden Sam.” Along with Bob Gibson and Nolan Ryan, McDowell was one of the three hardest throwers in that era.
For three innings the game matched McDowell’s heat and Wood’s butterfly ball. Both were dominant. In fact, Wood was perfect.
Then Clarke, batting for the second time, opened the fourth with a single. Two errors later the Yanks had a pair of unearned runs.
Everything came unglued for Wood in the fifth when New York scored five more, four on a grand slam by White. For the second time that evening Tanner was forced to walk to the mound to remove Wood.
A short time later a heavy thunderstorm ended play with the score still 7-0, but there was a lengthy rain delay before the game was officially called. By then my final-edition deadline was rapidly approaching and I began working feverishly to put together a substitute story that encompassed everything that had happened that evening. I found myself lamenting the fact that the Yankees had just won two games and I didn’t have a single quote from any of their players.
“They’re not the story,” replied a veteran writer. “The story tonight’s in the other clubhouse.”
That put a smile on my face.
“I’ve got that story,” I replied.
P.S. — In the past 49 years no pitcher has started both games of a doubleheader. Wilbur Wood remains the last pitcher to do it,
A FEW STATISTICS (Wednesday’s games not included): On Monday Twins center fielder Byron Buxton combined with third baseman Gio Urshela to turn the first 8-5 triple play in major league history…Zac Gallen of the Diamondbacks has made 15 starts, In 14 of them he has blanked the opposition in the first inning…Juan Soto of the Nationals is batting ,226 but he has drawn 68 walks, which is 18 more than any other player has drawn…Owen Miller of the Guardians has only one sacrifice fly in his last 19 games. Nevertheless, he has eight for the season, which leads the major leagues…The Braves are 20-8 against left-handed starters. They’re 28-26 vs. righties…The Cardinals have turned 90 double plays which is 11 more than any other team…Mike Brousseau of the Brewers is 5-for-8 as a pinch hitter. That includes two home runs…Sandy Alcantara has made 17 starts for the Marlins and gone seven innings or more in 13 of them. He is the only pitcher with two complete games…The Yankees are 5-1 in extra innings…Ha-Seong Kim of the Padres is the most productive number-nine hitter (minimum 10 games), His average in that slot is .304…The Rockies are 23-21 at home. They’re 12-25 on the road.
Former Hall of Fame voter Jay Dunn has written baseball for The Trentonian for 54 years. Contact him at jaydunn8@aol.com | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/07/06/jay-dunn-knuckle-up-white-sox-pitcher-wilbur-wood-once-started-both-games-of-a-doubleheader-vs-yankees/ | 2022-07-06T23:25:35Z | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/07/06/jay-dunn-knuckle-up-white-sox-pitcher-wilbur-wood-once-started-both-games-of-a-doubleheader-vs-yankees/ | true |
(NEXSTAR) — The billboard of the future may just be one unsuspecting tap away. Companies aren’t just competing to be in your social media feeds anymore — now their ads may show up right on your phone’s lock screen.
Glance, a lock screen ad group, is preparing to launch across U.S. Android lock screens in the next few months, tech outlet The Verge reports. Glance works like a real-time screen saver, automatically sending content to your phone every time it turns on.
According to its website, Glance content panels (called “glances”) includes news, entertainment and games. The company says it has over 200 million users across India and Southeast Asia. The company is already partnered with most Android smartphone makers in Asia, and is in talks with U.S. wireless carriers, TechCrunch says.
Google and Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital are investors in the company, which doesn’t have a traditional app but instead is built in to Android’s software. Glance, which is headquartered in Singapore, has worked with several major American companies, including Coca-Cola, Amazon, Netflix and KFC.
In addition to content that works similarly to ads on Instagram Stories and Snapchat, Glance collaborates with creators and brands for virtual events. Back in May, Glance launched its Glance LIVE Fest, which billed itself as “India’s largest digital carnival of live, interactive experiences.” The company says the event was available to over 70 million users.
Statista data shows on average, you’re unlocking your phone way more than you may realize. Latest research on unlocking indicates Gen Z smartphone users unlock 79 times per day and millennials unlock 63 times per day.
For now, iPhone users won’t be seeing Glance, though Apple recently overhauled lock screen programming to allow feature expansion.
Glance did not immediately respond for comment. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/android-lock-screens-may-soon-be-taken-over-with-ads/ | 2022-07-06T23:25:38Z | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/android-lock-screens-may-soon-be-taken-over-with-ads/ | false |
App-based monitoring of subsidised cooking oil and fuel distribution may deny access to intended recipients coming from low-income families.
The Indonesian government’s move in using two existing mobile applications as a tool to monitor accurate distribution may eventually deny the poor access to these subsidised commodities.
This is because they have relatively low access to smartphones and the internet, and lower technological literacy. Instead, the government should identify recipients according to data provided by the Social Affairs Ministry.
Digitalising subsidies
Recently, the government has moved forward with its plan to use the PeduliLindungi and MyPertamina applications for the public to buy subsidised cooking oil and fuel.
The price of cooking oil has skyrocketed over the past couple of months. Meanwhile, Pertalite, with an octane number of 90, is currently the cheapest type of subsidised motor fuel after the government increased the price of Pertamax in early April.
In response to the public outcry about unaffordable cooking oil, the government issued a regulation in May that mandates the distribution of cheap bulk cooking oil to the public coming from lower-income bracket (25% of the population with the lowest income), as well as micro and small businesses. It comes with a predetermined maximum retail price of Rp 14,000 per litre or Rp 15,500 per kilogram, the price of which is below the current market price.
Meanwhile, the government has also ordered state oil company Pertamina to limit the distribution of Pertalite by banning “luxurious” personal vehicles – identified as those with engine capacity of 2000 cc and above – from using the product.
The government claims these apps can serve as a monitoring tool to mitigate leakage, prevent misappropriation of supply and ensure targeted distribution of subsidised goods.
Experts from various backgrounds, netizens, to recipients – commentators from a range of groups have opposed this claim.
Using apps may harm the distribution of subsidised goods
In our view, the government’s plan is not what these apps were designed for.
PeduliLindungi was created as a platform to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, MyPertamina is intended for non-cash transactions of fuel purchases in gas stations.
Further, and more importantly, this system will undoubtedly become very burdensome to the community.
Since the plan came to light, people in the lower-income bracket —- who should be the primary user of these subsidised products —- have been complaining about the idea, citing probable distribution ineffectiveness and inefficiency. Some also raise concerns about data security.
Their concerns are valid.
The National Socio-Economic Survey (SUSENAS) database from the National Statistics Agency (BPS) shows many Indonesians still lack access to digital services. The survey showed that as many as 34% of adult citizens do not use a mobile phone. The survey also indicates that 52.3% of the population still do not access the internet today.
This distribution mechanism does not fit the “Java-centric” type of policy that, in many instances, the government issues in favour of most Indonesian citizens living on the island. Data show that adult citizens with no mobile phones and internet access in Java – the most developed island in Indonesia – account for 34.27% and 56.7%.
Based on 2021 SUSENAS, one in four low-middle income people do not possess a mobile phone or a smartphone and do not access the internet.
The government’s solution to those without mobile phones and internet access is to allow offline purchases using an ID card number (NIK). Unfortunately, SUSENAS also indicates that 9.3 million adult citizens do not have this number.
This shows that the government’s plan to use PeduliLindungi and MyPertamina is a miscalculation that ignores these facts.
In addition, while downloaded by more than 98 million users, PeduliLindungi only has 60 million active users despite being a mandatory app during the pandemic, according to the Health Ministry at the end of May. As for MyPertamina, the application has only been downloaded 6 million times.
The government will need to ensure which of the 60 million active PeduliLindungi users and the 6 million MyPertamina users are the intended recipients of the subsidised cooking oil and fuel.
What’s more, the figure does not even capture the whole number of citizens that have the right to these subsidised commodities. Indonesia has 26.5 million of the population living under the poverty line. This figure does not include the population in the lower-middle bracket that is also eligible as recipients of the subsidised goods.
We view that the government is making complex matters that should have been simple. Its move may have instead created the perception that it cannot manage the domestic trade and distribution of basic needs.
Instead of facilitating the people in need access to cheap cooking oil and fuel, this policy may actually limit it.
Back to basics
We believe the Prosperous Family Card (Kartu Keluarga Sejahtera/KKS) and the Family Hope Program (Program Keluarga Harapan/PKH) are better databases that the government can use to ensure proper distribution.
The Social Affairs Ministry programs the KKS and PKH to disburse conditional social assistance to low-income families. The databases from these two cards are superior to PeduliLindungi, especially when identifying subsidised cooking oil and fuel recipients.
Beneficiary families of these programs are recorded in the Integrated Social Welfare Data (Data Terpadu Kesejahteraan Sosial/DTKS). This electronic database contains social, economic and demographic information of around 99 million Indonesians with the lowest welfare status.
What’s more, DTKS contains not only data of the poor but also of the lower-middle-income people and micro, small and medium enterprises, which are regular buyers of cheap cooking oil and fuel.
Therefore, with the KKS and PKH programs’ data, their use would be more suitable to ensure proper cooking oil and fuel distribution rather than using PeduliLindungi and MyPertamina. | https://theconversation.com/requiring-recipients-to-use-mobile-apps-might-hamper-efforts-to-distribute-much-needed-subsidised-goods-186310 | 2022-07-06T23:28:33Z | https://theconversation.com/requiring-recipients-to-use-mobile-apps-might-hamper-efforts-to-distribute-much-needed-subsidised-goods-186310 | false |
BINGHAMTON, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – NewsChannel 34 is beginning a new collaboration with the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator highlighting the promising startups receiving space and support.
Our first Koffman Innovation is Strategic Test Prep.
Owner Laura Whitmore began working for another college admissions test preparation business in Florida back in 2007.
When she moved back to our area, she continued doing some tutoring on the side while also working as a middle school math teacher.
A year and a half ago, she secured a space in the Koffman Incubator in downtown Binghamton, incorporated her business and began seeing students last Summer.
What distinguishes Whitmore’s business is her focus on in-person tutoring. While she offers virtual sessions for those who require it, Whitmore says the students are more focused, more active and take the lessons more seriously when they’re done face-to-face.
“I’ve worked with hundreds of students at this point,” said Whitmore. “I feel that every year, I get better at this. It’s an art, it’s a craft and the more students I work with, the more my skills develop. I think that I am at the top of my game right now.”
With the help of her mentor at the Koffman Incubator, Whitmore entered this year’s Binghamton Business Plan Competition and won.
Strategic Test Prep received 5 thousand dollars in startup capital along with a host of free professional services from local marketing, accounting, legal and website firms.
Whitmore says her next step is to hire some additional tutors, especially ones with math and science backgrounds.
In addition to helping students raise their SAT and ACT scores, she plans to start offering assistance with college applications, essays and STEM learning.
Whitmore says, “If you’re a parent that’s out there and you have a student that’s in middle or high school, and they’re struggling academically, my company is going to help you sleep at night. Bring your kids to us, you are in good hands, we will help them boost their confidence on the test and in their classes.”
Whitmore says she’s recently become a reader of applications for prestigious universities giving her more insight into what the schools are looking for.
While she eventually wants to establish her own location for tutoring, Whitmore says she’s in no hurry to leave the incubator. She says the advice and encouragement she’s received has been invaluable.
For more information, go to strategictestprep.com. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/koffman-innovations-strategic-test-prep/ | 2022-07-06T23:34:35Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/koffman-innovations-strategic-test-prep/ | false |
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — A search is underway by the Wichita Falls Police Department for a missing teenage girl from Wichita Falls.
According to WFPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Charlie Eipper, Kady Marie Aine, 15, has been missing since Tuesday, July 5, 2022.
Sgt. Eipper said Kady is a white female who is about 5-feet-2-inches tall and weighs about 110 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black hoodie, black pants, and black slides.
Authorities said Kady is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
According to Sgt. Eipper, Kady was last seen by her father on Tuesday, July 5, at about 8:30 a.m. when she was dropped off for school at 1808 Rose Street.
Authorities said Kady never actually entered the school on Tuesday.
If you have information on Kady’s location, please call the WFPD non-emergency number at 940-720-5000 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/texas/15-year-old-wichita-falls-girl-missing-needs-medical-attention-wfpd-searching/ | 2022-07-06T23:34:59Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/texas/15-year-old-wichita-falls-girl-missing-needs-medical-attention-wfpd-searching/ | true |
FORT WAYNE, Ind (WANE)- Residents of the Concordia Gardens neighborhood deal with flooding often but not to the extent.
The residents on Woodbrook Drive have a creek that runs through their backyard that goes all the way to the park nearby. But the second round of rain they received Tuesday night made damage to their homes more extreme.
“Yesterday the storm hit and we were actually watching it come up and then we lose power and then within about 30 to 45 minutes of it raining we actually had to shut the garage door,” said resident Adam Schafianski. “Before it started to come up into the garage within another half hour to 40 minutes the creek behind you was completely full and the whole creek was pouring into the park and flooding the entire park as well, we ended up with about 10-11 inches of water in our house,” Schafianski explained.
A few doors down, residents’ basements were completely ruined, and they had to start tearing the drywall off and pulling their carpet up because their sub-pump gave out during the second part of rain Tuesday night.
Residents have even given up on any restorations to their homes.
“There are definitely sections in my house where I don’t put drywall up anymore, I don’t bother fixing and I have stopped replacing floors,” said Schafianski. “I just have sections of my house that are unusable or easily or quickly dismantled so that I can deal with floods again,” Schafianski said.
Residents of Concordia Gardens hope that some of the houses in the area can turn into green spaces.
Wane 15 contacted the city and asked what was being done with this area to help relieve some of the stresses living in this area, the city of Fort Wayne said they have done a total of 6 projects in the area since 1986. The last one was completed in 2017, including adding more storm drains.
But with the amount of rain, this side of the city received Tuesday, in the short amount of time it is hard to get that under control.
Some areas of northeast Fort Wayne recorded nearly 8 inches of rainfall during Tuesday’s rounds of rain. | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/the-one-two-punch-of-rainfall-fw-residents-dealing-with-the-second-round-of-rain/ | 2022-07-06T23:39:24Z | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/the-one-two-punch-of-rainfall-fw-residents-dealing-with-the-second-round-of-rain/ | true |
NEW YORK, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 1, 2022 Roche Freedman LLP ("RF") and Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky ("SWCK") filed a class action lawsuit for violations of federal securities laws against Solana Labs, Inc., the Solana Foundation, Anatoly Yakovenko, Multicoin Capital Management LLC, Kyle Samani, and FalconX LLC ("Defendants").
Plaintiff Mark Young, a resident of California, alleges that Defendants violated Sections 5, 12(a)(1), and 15 of the 1933 Securities Act, and Sections 25110 and 2550 of the California Corporations Code. Plaintiff's claims are based on Defendants' sale of Solana securities without any registration statement in effect, and their promotion of unregistered Solana securities.
Plaintiff's claims are brought as a class action on behalf of himself and as a representative for a proposed class of other investors in Solana securities between March 24, 2020, and the present, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The case is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and is captioned Mark Young v. Solana Labs, Inc., et al., Case No. 22-cv-03912.
Solana Labs, Inc., is based in San Francisco California and issues securities that began to be offered to U.S. investors on March 24, 2020. Plaintiff alleges that Solana issues securities that are required to be, but are not, registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Throughout the Class Period, Defendants promoted Solana securities and sold them to investors such as Plaintiff, who has suffered losses from purchasing Solana securities.
Not later than September 6, 2022, which is sixty days from the date of publication of this notice, any member of the proposed class that is identified in Plaintiff's complaint may move to the Court to serve as Lead Plaintiff through counsel of their choice. The rules for the Lead Plaintiff process are provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "PSLRA"). See 15 U.S.C. § 78u-4(a)(2)(A)(i)-(vi); § 78u-4(a)(3)(A)(i)(II); § 77z-1(a)(2)(A)(i)-(vi); § 77z-1(a)(3)(A)(i)(II). Any member of the putative class may also choose to do nothing and remain a member of the proposed class. The ability to share in any potential future recovery from this class action is not dependent on moving for or serving as Lead Plaintiff.
RF is a law firm based in New York City with additional offices in Miami. SWCK is based in Oakland, California, and has offices in Los Angeles, Houston, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Both RF and SWCK have served as lead counsel in securities class actions. Both RF and SWCK have recovered substantial sums of money for their clients in class action litigation. For more information about RF, please visit https://www.rochefreedman.com. For more information about SWCK, please visit https://www.schneiderwallace.com, or contact RF and SWCK as described below:
Kyle Roche
Edward Normand
99 Park Avenue, Suite 1910
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 646-350-0527
Fax: 646-392-8842
Email: kyle@rochefreedman.com, tnormand@rochefreedman.com
Todd Schneider
Matthew S. Weiler
2000 Powell Street, Suite 1400
Emeryville, California 94608
Tel: 415-421-7100
Toll Free: 800-689-0024
Fax: 415-421-7105
Email: info@schneiderwallace.com
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SYDNEY (AP) — Floodwaters inundated or were threatening the homes of 85,000 people around Sydney on Wednesday as rivers started to recede and the heavy rains tracked north of Australia’s largest city.
While rain was easing across Sydney, several waterways including the Hawkesbury-Nepean rivers system on Sydney’s northern and western fringes remained at major flood levels, Emergency Services Minister Steph Cooke said.
Emergency responders knocked on doors overnight in the towns of Singleton and Muswellbrook, in the Hunter Valley north of Sydney, to order residents to evacuate, she said.
“For many, it has been a sleepless night,” Cooke said.
Evacuation orders and official warnings to prepare to abandon homes were given to 85,000 people by Wednesday, up from 50,000 on Tuesday, New South Wales state Premier Dominic Perrottet said.
On the fifth day of the flood emergency, Perrottet warned that homes that remained dry during previous floods could be inundated this week.
“This event is far from over. Please don’t have that past experience inform your current behavior,” Perrottet said.
Federal funding would be available to flood victims from Thursday, less than two days after a disaster was declared in 23 local government areas, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
“This is, I believe, the quickest that these payments have ever been approved,” Albanese said.
Albanese said the fourth major flood event across Sydney and its surrounds since March last year that followed devastating wildfires in the same region during the 2019-2020 Southern Hemisphere summer were evidence of the need for climate action.
“We are looking at long-term solutions. My government has changed Australia’s position on climate change from day one,” he said.
Albanese’s center-left Labor Party was elected in May on a promise to cut Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 43% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. The previous conservative government had promised a reduction of between 26% and 28%.
“What we know is that Australia has always been subject of floods, of bushfires, but we know that the science told us that if we continued to not take action, globally, on climate change, then … extreme weather events would be more often and more intense. And what we’re seeing, unfortunately, is that play out,” Albanese added.
When Parliament resumes on July 26 for the first time since the election, the government will propose spending 4.8 billion Australian dollars ($3.3 billion) on disaster mitigation measures such as building higher river levees, Albanese said.
Bureau of Meteorology manager Jane Golding said the weather pattern that brought heavy rain to Sydney since Friday has moved off the coast north of the city of 5 million people.
Heavy rain fell in the last 24 hours as far north as Coffs Harbor, 450 kilometers (280 miles) from Sydney, Golding said.
Hong Kong-registered cargo ship Portland Bay was towed into Sydney’s Port Botany on Wednesday after its engine failed near the coast farther south on Monday in mountainous seas and strong winds.
Transport Minister Catherine King thanked tugboat and rescue crews, saying the ship had been in serious danger of being wrecked on the coast, which would have risked the lives of 21 crew members on board and an environmental disaster.
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New York, July 06, 2022 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has assigned a Baa2 senior unsecured rating to Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.'s ("FIS") proposed senior unsecured notes offering. The net proceeds from the offering will be used to repay outstanding debt.
The following rating actions were taken:
Assignments:
..Issuer: Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
....Senior Unsecured Regular Bond/Debenture, Assigned Baa2
RATINGS RATIONALE
FIS' credit profile reflects its positioning as a leading global diversified financial technology company, with a broad portfolio of businesses including leadership positions in banking technology, merchant acquiring and capital markets technology. The company's key business lines have high stability characteristics and are supported by positive secular growth trends such as cash displacement, bank technology outsourcing and SaaS transition. Stability and diversification benefits were demonstrated in 2020 as FIS' EBITDA declined only 4% in the difficult environment. However, the financial technology industry is characterized by very rapid technology evolution, the competitive environment in FIS' key verticals is highly intense, and the company will need to continue to make significant investments to maintain leadership.
Moody's projects FIS to sustain revenue growth in mid-to-upper single digits in the near term. Merchant Solutions will outperform the growing US acquiring sector with growth near 11% in 2022, supported by strong growth in e-commerce and T&E rebound. Banking Solutions will grow in the mid-single digits, with a solid pipeline of implementations and growth in debit processing. Capital Markets Solutions will also grow in mid-single digits, supported by constructive demand trends and a differentiated solution suite. FIS' profitability is strong, but Moody's does not expect further meaningful margin expansion due to intense competition and substantial investment requirements.
FIS' balance sheet strategy targets Moody's adjusted total leverage of about 3.0x over time. The capital allocation strategy includes high capital return through dividends and share repurchases, which if maintained within the bounds of annual FCF is consistent with the rating. Moody's expects FIS to remain acquisitive as it reinforces its capabilities in the highly competitive industry. If acquisitions result in temporary leverage increases, the company intends to reduce leverage back to the 3.0x target.
FACTORS THAT COULD LEAD TO AN UPGRADE OR DOWNGRADE OF THE RATINGS
The stable outlook reflects expectation of sustained organic growth and profitability with Moody's adjusted total leverage around 3.0x. The ratings could be upgraded if FIS generates consistent solid organic growth, sustains strong profitability, and maintains total leverage in mid-2x area with balanced financial policy. The ratings could be downgraded if revenue or profitability experience a sustained decline, or if total leverage is sustained above 3.5x.
With adjusted net revenues of $14 billion in 2021, FIS is a leading global diversified financial technology company.
The principal methodology used in these ratings was Business and Consumer Services published in November 2021 and available at https://ratings.moodys.com/api/rmc-documents/356424. Alternatively, please see the Rating Methodologies page on https://ratings.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bill Mazeroski threw out the first pitch. David Bednar froze one of the most feared hitters in baseball with the last.
In between, the Pittsburgh Pirates offered a fleeting glimpse of what they’re trying to build, one that came at the expense of an old friend and briefly cooled off the hottest team in the majors.
Rookie outfielder Jack Suwinski hit his 14th home run, Daniel Vogelbach added his 11th and the Pirates spoiled Jameson Taillon’s return to PNC Park with a 5-2 win over the New York Yankees on Tuesday night.
The Pirates played a short tribute video for Taillon — who spent more than a decade with the organization before being traded to New York in January 2021 — as he walked to the mound. “When The Levee Breaks” by Led Zeppelin blared as Taillon warmed up, just as it had for home starts made by the popular right-hander during his four seasons in Pittsburgh’s rotation.
Taillon called running out of the visitors’ dugout a little weird, though nearly 18 months removed from the trade that sent him to New York in exchange for a handful of prospects for a club in a top-to-bottom reset, he wasn’t exactly overcome with emotion. His bigger concern was trying to figure out a way to navigate Pittsburgh’s left-handed-heavy lineup.
He didn’t fare as well as he liked. Vogelbach hit a laser over the right-field wall leading off the second and Suwinski flicked a ball into the first row of seats in center field that scored two runs as Taillon (9-2) took his first loss since April 11.
Despite his stellar won-loss record, Taillon’s ERA over his last six starts is north of 5.00. Even with the Yankees cruising atop the AL East with the All-Star break looming, Taillon is wary.
“It’s a results-oriented league,” he said. “But at the same time, I feel healthy and I feel like I’m making a lot of quality pitches, but it seems I’m getting burned every outing on just a couple of pitches.”
Jose Quintana (2-4) held New York in check for five innings and Pittsburgh’s bullpen did the rest. Bednar worked the ninth for his 13th save — striking out Aaron Judge looking with a runner on to end it — as the Pirates sent the Yankees to consecutive losses for just the fifth time this season.
Pittsburgh leaned into a rare visit by the Yankees, whose first appearance at PNC Park since 2017 produced the first sellout of the season at a ballpark that is typically more than half-empty most nights. Fans caught a glimpse of a lineup that included promising rookies like Suwinski and shortstop Oneil Cruz, and a gritty effort by Quintana.
The veteran left-hander, brought in on a one-year deal in the offseason, retired the Yankees in order just once but struck out seven.
“He just competes,” Vogelbach said. “You can just feel it from him, that he’s never out of the count, never out of the inning. He’s always one pitch away. That rubs off on you. That makes you want to make a play behind him and makes you want to score runs for him.”
A FULL HOUSE
Mazeroski, who hit the clinching home run in the bottom of the ninth in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series against the Yankees at Forbes Field, tossed the ceremonial first pitch. The crowd roared as the 85-year-old waved, setting the tone for a night that felt as if there was something at stake for two teams separated by more than 25 games in the standings.
HALFWAY HOME
New York reached the season’s midway point at 58-23, the best record in the majors by a significant margin and well ahead of the club’s pace last year, when the Yankees slogged to a 41-40 mark through the first 81 games.
New York rallied to make the playoffs a year ago. That likely won’t be required this time around, not with the Yankees entering the day leading the AL East by a staggering 13 games.
Still, New York’s blistering pace has cooled a bit of late with the All-Star break approaching. The Yankees are 2-3 halfway through their four-city road trip that wraps up in Boston this weekend.
Isiah Kiner-Falefa had three hits for New York. Gleyber Torres and Matt Carpenter added two apiece. Judge went 1 for 5, grounding into an inning-ending double-play with two runners on in the seventh and striking out in the ninth, symbolic of a night when the Yankees left nine men on.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: 1B Anthony Rizzo was scratched an hour before the first pitch with lower back tightness. DJ LeMahieu filled in for Rizzo at first. … RHP Domingo Germán (right shoulder) will make at least one more rehab start before the team makes a decision on when he might be activated off the 60-day injured list. Manager Aaron Boone said Germán “looked good” and he is “encouraged” by Germán’s progress. … RHP Miguel Castro (paternity leave/restricted list) could rejoin the team on Wednesday.
UP NEXT
New York’s Luis Severino (4-3, 3.35 ERA) will try to pick up his first win in a month when he faces Pittsburgh’s Mitch Keller (2-5, 5.14) on Wednesday. Keller has allowed three runs or fewer in five of his last six starts following a brief stint in the bullpen.
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BREAKING: Cheer star Jerry Harris is jailed for 12 years after pleading guilty to soliciting sex from underage boys at cheerleading competitions
- The former star of popular Netflix docuseries 'Cheer' was sentenced yo 12 years inn jail for soliciting sex from minors at cheerleading competitions
- Jerry Harris' plea comes after a two-year long federal child pornography case
- Harris, who quickly rose to fame in season one of the Netflix series, entered in the guilty plea for two charges - receiving child porn using interstate commerce
- He also plead guilty to a charge of traveling over state lines with intent to illicit sexual conduct with a minor
- The actor, 22, was 19 years old at the time he was arrested in Illinois on child pornography charges in September 2020
- The alleged victims were 13 at the time, according to the criminal complaint
- Prosecutors accused Harris of using his position within the cheerleading community to lure and groom minors for sex or to send him graphic videos
- Harris is being held without bond in Chicago's downtown Metropolitan Correctional Center, records show
The former star of popular Netflix docuseries Cheer was jailed for 12 years Wednesday after pleading guilty to federal charges of soliciting sex from minors at cheerleading competitions at his child pornography trial.
Jerry Harris, 22, who quickly rose to fame in season one of the cheerleading-related Netflix hit, had entered guilty pleas to two charges - receiving child porn using interstate commerce, and traveling over state lines with intent to illicit sexual conduct with a minor.
On Wednesday, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison, to be followed by 8 years of court-supervised release.
The Texas native was 19 years old at the time he was arrested in Illinois on child pornography charges in September 2020.
The alleged victims in that case were boys aged 13 at the time, according to the criminal complaint.
'Harris' sexual assault of (one) boy in such a public place, in an unlocked public bathroom, during an event attended by dozens of responsible adults demonstrates that Harris either does not care about being caught committing his offenses, or simply cannot stop himself,' Assistant US Attorney Christopher Parente wrote of one of Harris' victims.
Cheer star Jerry Harris, shown in 2020, pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal charges of soliciting sex from minors at cheerleading competitions
Harris, pictured above on the 'Ellen' show, rose to fame in season one of the cheerleading-related Netflix hit
Authorities said Harris coerced minor victims to send him graphic photos and videos of themselves while soliciting sex from boys as young as 13 at cheerleading competitions across the country, according to the Tribune.
In December 2020, Harris was indicted on charges alleging misconduct at such competitions in Illinois, Florida and Texas, with federal prosecutors alleging that Harris had attempted to persuade a minor to engage in oral sex at one cheerleading event.
Authorities also claim he solicited another minor for sex in a different state, and admitted to having five to 10 victims in all.
Prosecutors had painted him as a major figure within the competitive cheerleading community due to his role on the popular Netflix docuseries, which follows a cheerleading squad from Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas.
The popular Netflix docuseries follows a cheerleading squad, pictured above, from Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas
A still image taken from the Netflix docuseries 'Cheer,' with the Navarro College cheerleading squad pictured above
Harris 'Cheer' co-stars address his child pornography charges against him during Season Two
The Naperville native has been behind bars since October 2020, when US Magistrate Judge Heather McShain said he would be a danger to the community if released following an initial charge of one count of production of child porn.
McShain added that Harris had used his position within the cheerleading community to both meet and proposition his young victims, while rejecting the 'blurred line' between Harris' age and that of his alleged victims.
'(Harris) was not a child,' McShain said. 'He was an adult.'
On Tuesday, federal prosecutors described Harris as a sexual predator who used his fame to victimize young boys at cheerleading events nationwide.
Authorities said Harris continued to pursue minors in a sexual manner even after he learned he was under investigation, with prosecutors asking the court that Harris be denied bond.
Meanwhile, Harris' attorneys had requested the courts to release him on house arrest, while adding that he suffers from asthma and is at risk for COVID-19 in jail.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Four baseball fans were injured by bullet fragments from outside the Coliseum while attending a postgame July 4 fireworks show, Oakland Police and the team said Tuesday.
None of the injuries were life-threatening, police and the A’s said.
Because the A’s 5-1 victory over the Blue Jays lasted just 2 hours, 27 minutes, it wasn’t yet dark enough for the fireworks show to start. Fans from a season-high crowd of 24,403 were allowed onto the playing field just after 9 p.m. local time.
“The Oakland Police Department (OPD) is investigating firearm-related injuries that occurred on July 4, 2022, after 9:30 p.m., in the 7000 block of Coliseum Way,” police and the A’s said in a joint statement.
Police initially were notified of a possible shooting victim inside the ballpark and officers located three fans struck by bullet fragments “from what appears to be celebratory gunfire occurring throughout the city of Oakland,” the statement said. An additional victim walked into a hospital.
“I think if it wasn’t Fourth of July, it would be more alarming. Any time during Fourth of July, I can remember this growing up, it’s never safe but people tend to do things that aren’t in the ordinary,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said before the series resumed Tuesday night. “That’s firing weapons in the air in terms of celebration. It’s really unfortunate that we had that happen here in the Coliseum and there were people injured. I know we’ve reached out to those people.”
An investigation is ongoing and Oakland Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland offered a reward up to $20,000 for information leading to an arrest or arrests.
Police reiterated their joint efforts with the A’s and the team’s security to keep everyone attending games in the venue safe.
“From a safety standpoint, I think the Coliseum is a safe environment,” Kotsay said. “It’s just unfortunate that on a holiday with the fireworks show that people were injured.”
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LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles law firm Anderson, McPharlin & Conners LLP (AMC) announce that Partners Colleen Deziel, Vanessa Widener and Rosa Martinez-Genzon have been selected as nominees for the Los Angeles Business Journal's "Women's Leadership Awards," recognized for their impact among women business leaders in the Los Angeles community.
Deziel is selected as a nominee in the "Champion of Women" category. As an active mentor, Deziel has been influential in shepharding the growth and success of other female attorneys within the firm, two of whom have been elevated to Partner status. She regularly makes herself available to answer questions and counsel others about any aspect of the practice of law, including advice on marketing and client development, handling opposing counsel or judges as well as client and case handling strategies. Her focus on empowering women comes from the lack of female mentors when she was a young attorney. Her business includes representation of clients and carriers in casualty, employment and business related matters.
Widener is selected as a nominee in the "Executive of the Year" category. In addition to leading the firm as one of its Managing Partners, she advocates to find practical, appropriate and early resolutions to clients' problems. Widener's robust practice involves a range of complex commercial and real property matters, including prosecuting and defending actions on behalf of title insurers, escrows, real estate owners, and lienholders. In addition to her litigation skills, Widener also represents insurers in connection with the investigation of claims and analysis of coverage under the policy.
Martinez-Genzon is selected as a nominee in the "Women to Watch" category that recognizes emerging leaders who make noteworthy contributions in their firms and in the business community. Her practice focuses on the areas of surety and construction law. She is highly experienced in the investigation, litigation and resolution of construction disputes and commercial bond claims. She also has experience in the pursuit of salvage recoveries representing the nation's leading surety companies through adverse litigation in both civil and bankruptcy proceedings. Martinez-Genzon has successfully represented the interests of contractors and sureties in administrative hearings related to prevailing wage laws and disputes with the California Labor Commissioner, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, and Labor Compliance Programs. She has served as a vice-chair of the ABA Fidelity Surety and Law Committee and is a former president of the Surety Claims Association of Los Angeles.
Anderson, McPharlin & Conners LLP is a dynamic and well-established civil ligation defense firm that adheres to the highest ethical standards and serves its clients throughout California and Nevada. Simply put, they do what is right and believe their integrity is one of their most valued assets. To learn more, visit https://www.amclaw.com/.
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A Santa Fe man who tried to intervene in a violent roadside incident Sunday that appeared to involve a domestic dispute is hospitalized in Albuquerque with a bullet lodged in his back, a family member says.
The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office says in an incident report 29-year-old Kyle Ramirez-Stevens was driving on N.M. 14 south of Madrid, near the tiny community of San Pedro, on Sunday morning when he saw a man beating a woman in a gray Chevrolet Cruz or Impala parked on the side of the highway.
He decided to stop and try to help the woman, the report says, but when Ramirez-Stevens walked toward the couple’s vehicle, which had a Colorado license plate, the man pulled out a small, black handgun and shot him in the abdomen.
The couple then drove away and have yet to be identified.
Ramirez-Stevens described the man as in his late 30s or early 40s, with a muscular build and a beard, according to the report. He said the woman was “pretty far along in pregnancy.”
His grandfather, Enrique Montoya, who confirmed his grandson’s identity, happened to be driving on N.M. 14 that day as he was heading to Albuquerque to spend some time with his girlfriend, he said in an interview Tuesday. He saw his grandson’s car on the side of the highway surrounded by law enforcement.
“I figured he pulled over because he might have had something wrong,” Enrique Montoya said. “When I walked across, that’s when the policeman told me he was shot.”
By that time, Ramirez-Stevens was receiving medical attention.
He told deputies to allow his grandfather to take his car rather than having it towed, Montoya said.
In the meantime, Ramirez-Stevens was taken to University of New Mexico Hospital for treatment, where his grandfather said he is still receiving care.
Hospital officials declined to speak about Ramirez-Stevens’ condition.
The bullet hit Ramirez-Stevens’ small intestine and colon, Montoya said, adding doctors have been unable to remove it because it is lodged in a muscle in his grandson’s back.
As for his grandson’s decision to try to be a good Samaritan and intervene in the violent incident, Montoya said he approved.
“We’d all do that,” Montoya said. “He’s former military; my son’s former military — we’d all do that.”
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Bo Bichette hit a tiebreaking solo home run in the eighth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied past the Oakland Athletics 2-1 on Wednesday to snap a five-game losing streak.
“We needed it,” Bichette said. "I think when you’re trying to stop a skid, sometimes that’s how it goes, so I thought we fought well today and definitely excited to get the win.”
Matt Chapman also homered against his former team for the second straight day. Chapman spent his first five seasons in Oakland before being traded to Toronto in March.
Ramón Laureano homered for the A’s, who failed to complete their first sweep of the season.
“We’ve played well against the Blue Jays team this year,” Oakland manager Mark Kotsay said. “Unfortunately, we didn’t get the win today to get our first sweep and to get our season series to win, but we’ve still got games in front of us.”
Laureano’s sixth long ball of the year broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the sixth. Chapman answered with his 13th in the top of the seventh before Bichette hit his 13th an inning later.
"It seems like every time that (Bichette) hits a home run, it’s to go ahead or tie a game," Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo said. “It was good. Hopefully, that gets us going offensively again.”
Blue Jays starter José Berríos pitched six strong innings, allowing one run on four hits with six strikeouts and a walk. Adam Cimber (8-2) followed with two perfect frames to earn his eighth win, most among major-league relievers.
“(I was) feeling pretty good,” Berríos said. “I was able to go out there and compete and give our team a chance to win, and we did it.”
Jordan Romano recorded a 1-2-3 ninth inning with two punch-outs for his 18th save in 21 opportunities.
Oakland starter James Kaprielian blanked Toronto through six innings before serving up the home run to Chapman, one of his best friends, to begin the seventh.
Kaprielian allowed five hits and four walks with one strikeout. It was his 24th consecutive start of six frames or fewer, extending the all-time A’s record.
Domingo Acevedo (1-2) surrendered his seventh homer of the year to suffer his first loss since April 29.
ALLEN FLASHES THE LEATHER
A’s rookie Nick Allen made a pair of dazzling defensive plays at second base in the fourth inning. With Bichette leading off the frame, Allen chased a pop-up into shallow right field and made a leaping catch to take away a hit. Then with two runners on base and two outs, Allen made a spectacular diving stop on a blistering one-hopper to rob Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and keep the game scoreless.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays: RHP Kevin Gausman, who took a comebacker off his right foot Saturday, is expected to miss his scheduled start Thursday. Gausman played catch for a third straight day and could potentially make his next start this weekend.
Athletics: RHP Frankie Montas received a cortisone injection in his right shoulder after an MRI revealed inflammation but no structural damage. He will miss his next start and is considered day-to-day. ... RHP Dany Jiménez (strained right shoulder) has played catch out to 90 feet but needs to be stretched out farther over the next week to 10 days.
ROSTER MOVES
The Blue Jays claimed RHP Matt Peacock off waivers from the Kansas City Royals and designated RHP Shaun Anderson for assignment. Toronto also recalled RHP Casey Lawrence and optioned RHP Trent Thornton to Triple-A Buffalo.
UP NEXT
Blue Jays: Begin a four-game series in Seattle on Thursday. With Gausman (ankle) expected to miss his start, Toronto has not named a starting pitcher.
Athletics: Following an off-day, RHP Paul Blackburn (6-3, 2.90 ERA) will open a three-game home series against the Houston Astros on Friday.
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Twelve boaters across the state were arrested on DWI counts over the July 4 weekend, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, including the driver in a boating fatality Monday on Blind River that left a Slidell teenager dead.
Dustin Crowe, 33, of Denham Springs, was booked on vehicular homicide, operating a vessel while impaired and reckless operation of a vehicle after the death of 17-year-old Madison Bradley.
Bradley fell off Crowe's pontoon boat and was struck by the vessel's propeller.
Other arrests in Louisiana included those on Bayou Magazille, Tickfaw River and False River. These DWIs will carry the same penalties as those on the road, including a fine of up to $1,000, six months in jail and the loss of driver’s license and boating privileges for first-time offenders.
“Anytime you’re on the water, being cautious is a good thing,” said Adam Einck, a spokesperson for LDWF. “We want people to have fun out there, but we want them to do it safely.”
The arrests took place during the LDWF’s Operation Dry Water campaign, which emphasizes awareness and enforcement of laws against boating under the influence.
“While we are always on the lookout for impaired boat operators, we participate in this campaign during the Fourth of July weekend because we feel it is important to spread the word about our DWI enforcement efforts,” Einck said Tuesday.
Bradley’s death marked the fourth boating death in recent weeks. Three men drowned in Lake Maurepas on June 26. Zachary LeDuff, 18, of Greenwell Springs was swimming near the mouth of Blind River when he began to struggle. Zane Bryant, 20, went to rescue him, and then his 48-year-old father, Michael Bryant, went in after them. None resurfaced.
None of those four victims had on life preservers, according to LDWF. Wearing a life preserver is one of three rules Einck advises all boaters to follow, along with having a sober operator and taking a free boating safety education course with the department.
“We have people that will bring their grandkids to the course, and they’ll walk away telling our agency, ‘I learned a lesson from that I’ve never heard before, and I’ve been boating for my whole life,'” said Einck.
At least 20 people died in boating incidents so far this year in Louisiana. That's fast closing in on the 2021 total of 26 boating deaths, eight of which were related to alcohol use. | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_f2da1d0a-fd74-11ec-ad1a-1b5b38d366ff.html | 2022-07-06T23:49:32Z | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_f2da1d0a-fd74-11ec-ad1a-1b5b38d366ff.html | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration and Juul agreed Wednesday to put their court fight on hold while the government conducts more review of the company’s electronic cigarettes.
The agreement comes one day after the FDA placed a hold on its initial order banning Juul’s products from the market, saying that Juul’s application warranted “additional review.”
Juul can continue selling its e-cigarettes in the meantime, according to the federal court filing.
“With this administrative stay from the FDA now in place, we continue to offer our products to adult smokers while we pursue the agency’s internal review process,” a company spokesman said in a statement.
The FDA ordered Juul to pull its products from the market on June 23. A day later, a federal appeals court temporarily blocked the government ban at Juul’s request.
If the FDA eventually decides to reimpose its ban, Juul will have 30 days to seek another stay, according to the filing.
To stay on the market, companies must show that their e-cigarettes benefit public health. In practice, that means proving that adult smokers who use them are likely to quit or reduce their smoking, while teens are unlikely to get hooked on them.
FDA regulators have recently authorized a handful of e-cigarettes from some of Juul’s chief rivals, including R.J. Reynolds and NJOY. But industry players and anti-vaping advocates had been eagerly awaiting an FDA decision on Juul’s products, which are the best-selling e-cigarettes in the U.S.
The FDA originally said Juul’s application left regulators with significant questions, including about the chemical makeup of its vaping formulations. Juul said it submitted enough information and data to address all issues raised.
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The Drugs Controller General of India has recommended allowing
Serum Institute of India to manufacture and stockpile their life-saving qHPV vaccine against cervical cancer, official sources said on Wednesday. The recommendation has been sent to the
Union Health Ministry which may issue a gazette notification shortly, they said.
Prakash Kumar Singh, Director,
Government and Regulatory Affairs at
SII, had written to the
Health Ministry on February 4 seeking approval to manufacture and stockpile the qHPV vaccine as a priority for public health, to save time in making it and to ensure its early availability, an official source said.
At present, the government allows manufacturing and stockpiling of only Covid-related vaccines and drugs before marketing approval.
Based on Singh's letter, the ministry sought comments from the
DCGI about the provision of manufacturing and stockpiling of non-COVID vaccines.
"After examining the matter, the DCGI last week recommended allowing Serum Institute to manufacture and stockpile non-Covid vaccine qHPV to the Health Ministry. The ministry is likely to issue a gazette notification in this regard shortly," an official source said.
"Currently, our country is fully dependent only on foreign manufacturers for vaccines against cervical cancer and the citizens of our country are bound to buy these vaccines at a very high price.
"We have been working for more than five years under the leadership of our CEO Adar C Poonawalla for making available indigenous world-class vaccine against cervical cancer -- Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine," Singh is learnt to have said in his letter.
The letter mentions that every year lakhs of women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and the death rate is also very high. Cervical cancer is the second-most frequent type of the disease in India among women aged between 15 and 44 years.
The government advisory panel NTAGI has already recommended vaccination against cervical cancer examining the data in this regard in June, according to sources.
The separately constituted HPV working group of NTAGI had on June 8 reviewed the clinical trial data and the usefulness of SII's indigenously-developed and India's first qHPV vaccine against cervical cancer for inclusion in the National Immunization Programme. | https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/pharma/dcgi-recommends-allowing-sii-to-manufacture-stockpile-qhpv-vaccine-against-cervical-cancer-source/92710793 | 2022-07-06T23:53:37Z | https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/pharma/dcgi-recommends-allowing-sii-to-manufacture-stockpile-qhpv-vaccine-against-cervical-cancer-source/92710793 | false |
LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Reuben Raucher & Blum announced today that Certified Family Law Specialist and head of the firm's Family Law Department Stephanie Blum has been selected as a nominee for the Los Angeles Business Journal's "Women's Leadership Awards," which honors the impact of women business leaders in the Los Angeles community.
"We are thrilled to see Stephanie honored for the meaningful work she does not only for her clients and our firm but for the legal profession and our greater community," says firm Managing Principal Timothy Reuben.
Blum advises those who face the turmoil, uncertainty and challenges of a divorce. Though her first preference is always to mediate spousal, financial, and custody issues, Blum is also a fierce and relentless opponent in a court of law. Her philosophy in dealing with her clients is to bring sensitivity to what they are going through and to always treat every case on a highly individualized basis. "I always keep in mind my client's needs and circumstances," she says. "That means sound strategy, pragmatic advice, and excellent knowledge of the system. I'm fully prepared to resolve disputes but, when necessary, to fight to secure my client's rights."
Already this year, Blum has been selected as a "Top 100 Lawyer" by the Los Angeles Business Journal, named a "Trailblazing Family Lawyer" by The National Law Journal and recognized as a "Top Family Law Attorney" by the Daily Journal. Blum has been selected by Southern California Super Lawyers as a "Top Rated Family Lawyer" for the past ten years.
A Cornell University graduate and USC School of Law alumna, Blum has appeared on radio and television shows, such as "Entertainment Tonight," "Celebrity Justice," "Inside Edition," "The Insider," KZLA Radio, and KOST Radio. She has been featured and quoted in publications and print, such as iparenting.com, Variety, CBSMarketWatch.com, People Magazine, US Weekly and the Daily Journal and she is a Contributing Expert to Living Brentwood Magazine on family law topics. Blum also co-authored the book "Divorce and Finances: Know your Rights Clearly and Quickly."
The Harriet Buhai Foundation has honored Blum for her pro bono work on their behalf. She currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Family Law Section and was formerly on the executive committee of the LA County Bar Association family law section. She has worked pro bono for both Harriett Buhai and Levitt and Quinn Family Law Center representing clients who could not afford counsel.
REUBEN RAUCHER & BLUM has earned widespread recognition as a boutique litigation and family law firm representing a broad spectrum of clients. The firm has an outstanding track record in resolving complex disputes for its clients through mediation and other settlement methods, but also has obtained multi-million dollar results, as well as total vindication and recovery of attorney's fees when representing the defense. For more information, please visit https://www.rrbattorneys.com/.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 6, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
507 PM CDT Wed Jul 6 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Beaver, northwestern
Lipscomb and northeastern Ochiltree Counties through 600 PM CDT...
At 507 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 4
miles south of Booker, or 13 miles east of Perryton, moving north at
25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Perryton, Beaver, Booker, Forgan, Darrouzett, Gate, Knowles, Elmwood,
Boyd, Floris, Bryans Corner, Mocane, Slapout and Balko.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3670 10000 3621 10033 3630 10088 3700 10080
3700 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 194DEG 20KT 3639 10056
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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Wichita County Commissioners hesitant on approving LEC upgrades
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - The Wichita County Law Enforcement Center wants to make upgrades to their facility, but while they say the changes would make staff safer, the commissioners court wasn’t satisfied with the current proposal.
The upgrades could still be approved down the road. Money wasn’t the issue here; Wichita County Judge Woody Gossom said the upgrades that were presented were somewhat vague.
The LEC wanted five items approved, including upgrading the entry lobby windows to bulletproof glass and reconstructing roof drains to improve drainage, but the commissioners court wants a more detailed description of what the money would be used for before approving the upgrades.
“The request, if you took them at face value, added up to about $210,000,” Gossom said. “We have the money to cover it, but it doesn’t mean we should just take it and go here, do it. Let’s look at it a little closer.”
The money would come out of the LEC bond fund, which Gossom said has about $600,000 left.
County commissioners told the LEC to come back with a more in-depth plan of what they want to use the money for. Gossom believes it will be about six weeks before they see a new proposal.
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Wolfgang Van Halen is engaged to longtime girlfriend Andraia Allsop — and no one is more thrilled than his mom, Valerie Bertinelli.
The Grammy-nominated musician, whose dad was late rocker Eddie Van Halen, posted a photo on Instagram on Wednesday of himself smiling next to Allsop to announce he'd popped the question. In the pic, Allsop shows off a stunning diamond engagement ring as she sweetly touches her new fiancé's face.
"She said yes!!" Wolfgang Van Halen, 31, gushed in the caption, adding three red heart emojis.
Bertinelli, 62, responded in the comments to share her joy over the couple's update. "How do I ❤️ this a million times? So happy!!!!!!!" she wrote, adding a trail of more heart emojis.
Van Halen replied to his mom, writing, "love you maaa."
The actor and Food Network star also proudly shared a pic of the couple’s announcement in her Instagram story.
Van Halen and Allsop, a software engineer, began dating more than six and a half years ago.
In April, the couple attended the 2022 Grammy Awards alongside Bertinelli. Van Halen was nominated in the best rock song category for his song "Distance," but didn't win.
"We came, we saw, but we did NOT conquer and that’s ok! I got to have a wonderful night with the two most important women in my world ❤️” Van Halen wrote at the time on Instagram next to a photo of him posing with Allsop and Bertinelli.
The musician frequently celebrates his love for Allsop in grateful Instagram posts.
In March, he paid tribute to Allsop on her birthday, writing, "You make my life better in every way just by existing. I love you more than anything."
In December 2020, a little more than two months after the death of his beloved father, Van Halen marked his five-year anniversary with Allsop by thanking her for supporting him through good times and bad.
"5 years with this beautiful lady today," Van Halen wrote on Instagram.
"I’m so thankful that she’s in my life. She’s the reason I’m remotely functional at all right now. She’s helped me through so much. I don’t know what I’d do without her." | https://www.today.com/popculture/popculture/wolfgang-van-halen-engaged-andraia-allsop-valerie-bertinelli-happy-rcna37010 | 2022-07-07T00:11:12Z | https://www.today.com/popculture/popculture/wolfgang-van-halen-engaged-andraia-allsop-valerie-bertinelli-happy-rcna37010 | true |
SAN ANTONIO — The Tejano Music Awards is returning in-person this November for the first time in two years.
Three time Grammy-Award Winning Tejano Star Sunny Sauceda was at Tech Port Center this morning for the announcement, giving a taste of of what’s in store at the upcoming awards show.
“It's going to be great for the Tejano music industry and for the fans of Tejano, for this part of town and for tech port,” said Texas Talent Musician's Association President Robert Arellano.
It will be the first time a major Tejano music awards show is held at the Tech Port Center and Arena and the first time the Texas Talent Musician's Association has held the event in person in two years.
“The past two years due to the COVID-19, we've had two awards programs that have been virtual,” said Texas Talent Musicians Association Board Vice-President Frank Salazar. “And of course, it's not the same as being live, so now that going back for the first time after the virus, we're very excited to be here."
The show on November 26 will feature 15 Tejano musical acts from all over the country. Texas talent musician's association president Robert Arellano says the media attention this award show is going to bring is just what the industry needs.
“The Tejano Music Awards Industry has not had this following in many, many years,” he said. “We believe this is going to give a jump-start to the industry."
For Port San Antonio Board Chair Chris Alderete, bringing the Tejano Music Awards to Tech Port Center is special because of it's historical connection to Kelly Air Force Base and the many Latinos who used to work there every day.
"On their commute, guess what they were listening to? Tejano music in the 70's 80's and 90's,” Alderete said. “So I look at it personally as it's coming home. Coming home to the southwest part of our city. "
Tickets go on sale on Friday, July 8 and cost $50 to $125. They can be purchased at here. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/tejano-music-awards-coming-in-person-to-tech-port-center-events/273-333cac41-18fd-4e1d-8044-e62f2ed23bf6 | 2022-07-07T00:14:18Z | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/tejano-music-awards-coming-in-person-to-tech-port-center-events/273-333cac41-18fd-4e1d-8044-e62f2ed23bf6 | false |
Macau's Grand Lisboa hotel in lockdown as COVID-19 infections spread rapidly in Asian gambling hub
Macau has locked down one of the city's most famous hotels, the Grand Lisboa, as COVID-19 infections spread rapidly in the world's biggest gambling hub.
Key points:
- Macau has recorded more than 1,000 cases since mid-June
- Hundreds of people have reportedly been told they can't leave one of the city's most luxurious hotels
- More than 600,000 residents have been told to stay home
Authorities reported 146 new infections on Wednesday, taking the total to more than 1,000 cases since mid-June.
More than a dozen COVID cases were recorded in the Grand Lisboa.
Local media reported around 500 people were inside the hotel, with no-one allowed to exit or enter.
At least 16 other buildings across the special Chinese administrative region are also under restrictions, with more than 14,000 people in quarantine as the city battles to contain its biggest outbreak since the pandemic began.
Macau had largely been COVID-free since an outbreak in October 2021.
The Grand Lisboa is the second casino hotel to be locked down in recent weeks.
Owned by SJM Holdings, which was started by former Macau kingpin Stanley Ho, the building is one of the city's best known landmarks.
Local media showed photos of the Lisboa sealed off, with people in protection gear and hazmat suits standing outside.
SJM Holdings said it was acting in strict accordance with the government and supported the authorities' pandemic control measures.
"SJM stands united with the entire community in this health crisis and wishes Macau a rapid recovery from the pandemic," it said in an emailed statement.
While the government has stopped short of imposing a full lockdown, seen in Chinese cities such as Shanghai, most facilities in Macau are shut and restaurants can only provide takeaway.
But the city's casinos have been allowed to stay open in what the government says is an effort to ensure job security.
The more than 600,000 residents in the former Portuguese colony have been asked to stay at home when possible and are required to take part in three citywide COVID-19 tests this week. People are also required to take rapid antigen tests in between.
Macau relies on casino-led economy
The government relies on the gambling industry for more than 80 per cent of its tax revenue, with most of the population employed directly or indirectly by the casino resorts.
Although physically open, there are few patrons inside and only a small number of staff, with many employees asked to stay at home.
Macau adheres to China's "zero-COVID" policy which aims to eradicate all outbreaks, at almost any price, running counter to a global trend of trying to co-exist with the virus.
It has an open border with mainland China, and its economy depends on the inflow of Chinese visitors.
Macau's cases remain far below daily infections in other places, including neighbouring Hong Kong, where they have jumped to more than 2,000 a day this month.
However the densely-populated hub only has one public hospital, which was stretched even before the COVID-19 outbreak.
Officials have put up a makeshift hospital next to the city's Las Vegas-style Cotai strip to help cope with the rise in cases.
Casino revenues are likely to be zero for at least several weeks analysts said, exacerbating tight liquidity caused by the impact of more than two years of pandemic.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A contract between shipping companies and 22,000 West Coast dockworkers expired over the weekend. But both sides continued to talk and said they want to avoid a strike that could savage an economy already stressed by soaring inflation and supply chain woes.
The contract that expired last Friday covered workers at ports from California to Washington state that handle nearly 40% of U.S. imports.
“While there will be no contract extension, cargo will keep moving, and normal operations will continue at the ports until an agreement can be reached,” said a joint statement from the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
The ILWU is the union representing Pacific dockworkers, and the Pacific Maritime Association is a trade group for cargo carriers and terminal operators. Its members include such global shipping giants as Maersk and Evergreen Marine.
The talks are so crucial that President Joe Biden even stepped in last month and met with both sides in Los Angeles. They are taking place against the backdrop of surging imports that left backlogs of ships anchored offshore, and declining exports.
Both sides said last month that they weren’t planning any work disruptions, but U.S. industries are clearly worried.
In a letter to Biden issued hours before the latest contract expired, about 150 trade groups ranging from truckers to agricultural, chemical and toy industries urged the administration to work with both parties to extend the current contract, negotiate in good faith and agree to avoid actions that further disrupt the ports.
The letter stressed that the groups are entering their peak season for imports as retailers stockpile goods for the fall holidays and back-to-school items.
“We continue to expect cargo flows to remain at all-time highs, putting further stress on the supply chain and increasing inflation,” the letter said. “Many expect these challenges to continue through the rest of the year.”
A major issue in the talks is automation of port facilities. The union argues that it will cost the jobs of crane operators and other workers, who can earn $100,000 or more per year. The Pacific Maritime Association argues that automation will actually will increase employment by enabling ports to move more cargo.
Ports already have been struggling to handle container traffic, much of it from Asia, where ports are heavily automated.
After the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold in 2020, cargo traffic to ports slumped drastically. But then it recovered and has been booming since. Soaring demand has led to traffic jams at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which in 2021 alone moved some 20 million cargo containers. The ports, collectively known as the San Pedro Bay port complex, alone handle more than 30% of waterborne containerized imports and exports in the U.S.
In January, some 100 ships were waiting to get into the port complex, but that total is now down to 60 or even as low as 20 at times, Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero said Tuesday.
Cargo is loaded and unloaded 16 hours a day, on average, Cordero said. However, the ports need to have a “24-7 mindset” to deal with Asian traffic, where ports operate around the clock, he said.
Contracts are renegotiated every six years, and Cordero said most have concluded without disruptions.
However, a lockout in 2002 and an eight-day strike in 2015 cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars and forced the administrations of then-presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama to intervene.
Cordero said he hadn’t seen any work slowdowns at the port and was optimistic that the current negotiations would end with a fairly quick resolution.
“The world’s looking at us to make sure that were moving the cargo,” he said. “I think the administration has made it clear that they expect a reasonable … outcome.”
Unionized dockworkers also are seeking a raise and argue that shipping lines can afford it. With global demand, overseas freight shipping firms are seeing record profits.
Last month, Biden signed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act — meant to make shipping goods across oceans cheaper — and blasted the concentration of corporate shipping in the hands of nine foreign-owned companies.
“These carriers made $190 billion in profit in 2021, seven times higher than the year before,” Biden said. “The cost got passed on, as you might guess, directly to consumers, sticking it to American families and businesses because they could.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/west-coast-dockworkers-still-talking-after-contract-expires/ | 2022-07-07T00:16:07Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/west-coast-dockworkers-still-talking-after-contract-expires/ | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration issued an administrative stay Tuesday on the order it issued last month for vaping company Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the market.
The agency said on Twitter that the stay temporarily suspends the marketing denial order while it conducts further review, but does not rescind it.
The FDA issued the initial order banning Juul sales on June 23. A day later, a federal appeals court temporarily blocked the government ban.
The initial FDA action was part of a sweeping effort by the agency to bring scientific scrutiny to the multibillion-dollar vaping industry after years of regulatory delays.
To stay on the market, companies must show that their e-cigarettes benefit public health. In practice, that means proving that adult smokers who use them are likely to quit or reduce their smoking, while teens are unlikely to get hooked on them.
The FDA originally said Juul’s application left regulators with significant questions and didn’t include enough information to evaluate any potential health risks. Juul said it submitted enough information and data to address all issues raised.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted Juul’s request for a hold while the court reviews the case.
On Tuesday, the FDA said it has determined “there are scientific issues unique to the Juul application that warrant additional review.”
Still, it said, the stay and the review do not “constitute authorization to market, sell or ship Juul products.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/politics/fda-temporarily-suspends-order-banning-juul-cigarettes/ | 2022-07-07T00:16:14Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/politics/fda-temporarily-suspends-order-banning-juul-cigarettes/ | true |
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Four baseball fans were injured by bullet fragments from outside the Coliseum while attending a postgame July 4 fireworks show, Oakland Police and the team said Tuesday.
None of the injuries were life-threatening, police and the A’s said.
Because the A’s 5-1 victory over the Blue Jays lasted just 2 hours, 27 minutes, it wasn’t yet dark enough for the fireworks show to start. Fans from a season-high crowd of 24,403 were allowed onto the playing field just after 9 p.m. local time.
“The Oakland Police Department (OPD) is investigating firearm-related injuries that occurred on July 4, 2022, after 9:30 p.m., in the 7000 block of Coliseum Way,” police and the A’s said in a joint statement.
Police initially were notified of a possible shooting victim inside the ballpark and officers located three fans struck by bullet fragments “from what appears to be celebratory gunfire occurring throughout the city of Oakland,” the statement said. An additional victim walked into a hospital.
“I think if it wasn’t Fourth of July, it would be more alarming. Any time during Fourth of July, I can remember this growing up, it’s never safe but people tend to do things that aren’t in the ordinary,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said before the series resumed Tuesday night. “That’s firing weapons in the air in terms of celebration. It’s really unfortunate that we had that happen here in the Coliseum and there were people injured. I know we’ve reached out to those people.”
An investigation is ongoing and Oakland Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland offered a reward up to $20,000 for information leading to an arrest or arrests.
Police reiterated their joint efforts with the A’s and the team’s security to keep everyone attending games in the venue safe.
“From a safety standpoint, I think the Coliseum is a safe environment,” Kotsay said. “It’s just unfortunate that on a holiday with the fireworks show that people were injured.”
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 6, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
635 PM CDT Wed Jul 6 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL CARSON AND HUTCHINSON COUNTIES...
At 635 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles east of
Borger, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Locations impacted include...
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NEW YORK, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 1, 2022 Roche Freedman LLP ("RF") and Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky ("SWCK") filed a class action lawsuit for violations of federal securities laws against Solana Labs, Inc., the Solana Foundation, Anatoly Yakovenko, Multicoin Capital Management LLC, Kyle Samani, and FalconX LLC ("Defendants").
Plaintiff Mark Young, a resident of California, alleges that Defendants violated Sections 5, 12(a)(1), and 15 of the 1933 Securities Act, and Sections 25110 and 2550 of the California Corporations Code. Plaintiff's claims are based on Defendants' sale of Solana securities without any registration statement in effect, and their promotion of unregistered Solana securities.
Plaintiff's claims are brought as a class action on behalf of himself and as a representative for a proposed class of other investors in Solana securities between March 24, 2020, and the present, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The case is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and is captioned Mark Young v. Solana Labs, Inc., et al., Case No. 22-cv-03912.
Solana Labs, Inc., is based in San Francisco California and issues securities that began to be offered to U.S. investors on March 24, 2020. Plaintiff alleges that Solana issues securities that are required to be, but are not, registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Throughout the Class Period, Defendants promoted Solana securities and sold them to investors such as Plaintiff, who has suffered losses from purchasing Solana securities.
Not later than September 6, 2022, which is sixty days from the date of publication of this notice, any member of the proposed class that is identified in Plaintiff's complaint may move to the Court to serve as Lead Plaintiff through counsel of their choice. The rules for the Lead Plaintiff process are provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "PSLRA"). See 15 U.S.C. § 78u-4(a)(2)(A)(i)-(vi); § 78u-4(a)(3)(A)(i)(II); § 77z-1(a)(2)(A)(i)-(vi); § 77z-1(a)(3)(A)(i)(II). Any member of the putative class may also choose to do nothing and remain a member of the proposed class. The ability to share in any potential future recovery from this class action is not dependent on moving for or serving as Lead Plaintiff.
RF is a law firm based in New York City with additional offices in Miami. SWCK is based in Oakland, California, and has offices in Los Angeles, Houston, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Both RF and SWCK have served as lead counsel in securities class actions. Both RF and SWCK have recovered substantial sums of money for their clients in class action litigation. For more information about RF, please visit https://www.rochefreedman.com. For more information about SWCK, please visit https://www.schneiderwallace.com, or contact RF and SWCK as described below:
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Edward Normand
99 Park Avenue, Suite 1910
New York, NY 10016
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Matthew S. Weiler
2000 Powell Street, Suite 1400
Emeryville, California 94608
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Toll Free: 800-689-0024
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RADNOR, Pa. , July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed against Oscar Health, Inc. (Oscar) (NYSE: OSCR). The action charges Oscar with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. As a result of Oscar's materially misleading statements to the public, Oscar investors have suffered significant losses.
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In March, 2021, Oscar conducted its IPO, selling 36,391,946 shares of Class A common stock at a price of $39.00 per share. Oscar received net proceeds of approximately $1.3 billion from the IPO.
On August 12, 2021, Oscar disclosed that its Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) for the second quarter of 2021 was 82.4%, an increase of 2170 basis points year-over year, claiming that the increase was primarily driven by meaningfully lower utilization in 2Q20 as a result of COVID-19, as well as higher COVID-19 testing and treatment costs. Oscar also disclosed that its net loss for the quarter was $73.1 million, an increase of $32.1 million year-over-year.
Then, on November 10, 2021, Oscar disclosed that its third quarter 2021 MLR increased 920 basis points year-over-year, to 99.7%. Oscar claimed, again, that the MLR increase was primarily driven by higher net COVID costs, as well as several other purported reasons. Oscar also disclosed that its net loss for the quarter was $212.7 million, an increase of $133.6 million year-over-year.
Following this news, Oscar's share price fell $4.05 per share, or 24.5%, to close at $12.47 per share on November 11, 2021. At the time of the filing of the complaint, Oscar stock has traded as low as $5.76 per share, a more than 85% decline from the $39.00 per share IPO price.
Oscar investors may, no later than July 11, 2022 seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class through Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP or other counsel, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP encourages Oscar investors who have suffered significant losses to contact the firm directly to acquire more information.
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A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of all class members in directing the litigation. The lead plaintiff is usually the investor or small group of investors who have the largest financial interest and who are also adequate and typical of the proposed class of investors. The lead plaintiff selects counsel to represent the lead plaintiff and the class and these attorneys, if approved by the court, are lead or class counsel. Your ability to share in any recovery is not affected by the decision of whether or not to serve as a lead plaintiff.
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP prosecutes class actions in state and federal courts throughout the country and around the world. The firm has developed a global reputation for excellence and has recovered billions of dollars for victims of fraud and other corporate misconduct. All of our work is driven by a common goal: to protect investors, consumers, employees and others from fraud, abuse, misconduct and negligence by businesses and fiduciaries. The complaint in this action was not filed by Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP. For more information about Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP please visit www.ktmc.com.
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MIAMI (AP) — Sandy Alcantara pitched eight dominant innings in his second straight win, and the Miami Marlins beat the Los Angeles Angels 2-1 on Tuesday night for their sixth straight victory.
Alcantara (9-3) allowed two hits — singles by Luis Rengifo in the fifth and Mike Trout in the seventh — in his 11th consecutive outing of at least seven innings. The right-hander struck out 10 and lowered his ERA to 1.82.
“I just try to stay consistent, go out there every fifth day and fight for my team,” Alcantara said. “Every time I can pitch seven, eight innings I feel satisfied. It’s a long career and you have to stay healthy.”
Tanner Scott earned his 10th save, surrendering Taylor Ward’s sacrifice fly before retiring Jared Walsh on a liner to center for the final out.
Garrett Cooper and Bryan De La Cruz homered for Miami. Joey Wendle had two hits.
Marlins manager Don Mattingly considered giving Alcantara the opportunity for consecutive complete games. But with a prolonged bottom of the eighth, which included a pitching change, Alcantara was done after 107 pitches.
“It’s hard because Sandy is your best guy no matter where you are,” Mattingly said.
Trout snapped an 0-for-16 skid with his infield single leading off the seventh. The three-time AL MVP struck out in his first two at-bats against Alcantara.
Reigning AL MVP Shohei Ohtani went 0 for 3 with a walk. Ohtani, who turned 28 on Tuesday, reached on a fielder’s choice in the seventh and stole his ninth base of the season.
“We came back, we fought, we’ve been doing everything we can,” Angels interim manager Bill Haselman said.
Alcantara retired his first 14 batters before Rengifo’s soft line drive to right.
Cooper connected against Noah Syndergaard (5-7) in the third, driving a 3-2 pitch over the wall in left-center for his sixth homer.
De La Cruz went deep in the fifth. It was his sixth of the year.
Syndergaard allowed five hits, struck out eight and walked none in five innings.
“Some of my stuff didn’t have swing and miss action,” Syndergaard said. “Got away with some pitches and made it through five.”
Umpire Lance Barrett ejected Miami right-fielder Avisaíl García for arguing balls and strikes in the fourth.
SCANT SCORING CHANCES
The Angels had two scoring opportunities against Alcantara. After his two-out single in the fifth, Rengifo stole second and advanced to third on catcher Jacob Stallings’ throwing error. But Alcantara struck out Max Stassi to end the threat. Ohtani advanced to third on Ward’s fly ball to deep center before Alcantara struck out Walsh for the final out in the seventh.
“I’ve said it before, I don’t worry when I have men on base,” Alcantara said. “I trust my stuff and have to use it to my advantage.”
UNLIKELY BASE STEALER
Include Jesús Aguilar among the Marlins who have contributed to the club’s NL-leading 65 stolen bases. The husky first baseman got his first career steal in the first. Aguilar, who reached on a throwing error by second baseman Rengifo, beat catcher Stassi’s throw in his successful attempt at second.
“It was an off-speed pitch, that’s why I got it,” Aguilar said. “Finally, I got one after six years.”
DON’T UNPACK
The Marlins’ brief homestand against the Angels interrupts a stretch of 11 road games. Before their two-game set with the Angels, the Marlins finished 5-2 in St. Louis and Washington. They begin a four-game series at the NL East-leading New York Mets on Thursday.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: INF-OF David Fletcher (left hip strain) has been progressing and will take live swings soon.
Marlins: 2B Jazz Chisholm Jr. (right lower back strain) is doing mobility exercises at the club’s spring training complex. … LHP Jesús Luzardo (left forearm strain) threw a 30-pitch bullpen session.
UP NEXT
Ohtani (7-4, 2.68 ERA) makes his first career start against Miami in the closing game of the series Wednesday. LHP Trevor Rogers (4-6, 5.56 ERA) starts for the Marlins.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Max Scherzer turned in a stellar performance for the New York Mets in his return from an oblique injury.
Perhaps more importantly for the NL East leaders, the ace right-hander felt good the entire time on a steamy Tuesday night in Cincinnati.
Scherzer struck out 11 while pitching six innings of two-hit ball, but New York lost 1-0 to the last-place Reds on Mike Moustakas’ game-ending sacrifice fly.
Scherzer, who turns 38 in three weeks, had been sidelined by a strained oblique muscle on his left side. It was his first big league game since May 18.
“I felt great,” he said. “No issues whatsoever today. Felt strong all the way through. (The oblique) never tightened up on me, so that’s a good thing.”
Mets manager Buck Showalter took Scherzer out after 79 pitches — mostly fastballs and sliders — but the ace believed he could have gone deeper into the game.
“This is a good problem to have,” Scherzer said. “Buck is going to make the best decision for the ballclub and for my health and my long-term health, so I completely understand where he’s coming from. With that being said, I didn’t have any problems tonight. I felt good. I felt strong. I had nothing tighten up. I wanted to get to that 90, 95 pitch count.”
Tommy Pham led off the Cincinnati ninth with a double into the right-field corner against Seth Lugo (1-2). It was the Reds’ fourth hit of the game.
Tyler Naquin was walked intentionally before Donovan Solano walked to load the bases. Moustakas’ deep fly ball to center drove in Pham with the game-winner.
“It is kind of how you want to draw it up when you’re coming up to win the game,” Moustakas said. “You just get a pitch to hit and don’t miss it.”
Reds rookie Nick Lodolo combined with four relievers on a six-hitter. Lodolo struck out eight and gave up just three hits in 4 2/3 innings in his return from a back injury.
It was Lodolo’s first major league game since April 24.
“Lodolo — as good as he was — that lineup made him work,” Reds manager David Bell said. “He was really on a mission.”
Hunter Strickland (2-2) got three outs for the win.
“I’m so happy for the bullpen, they kept us right there,” Bell said.
“I know the players are frustrated to have that kind of outing, but I knew that their pitcher was going to be a challenge before the game,” Showalter said of Lodolo. “Watching a lot of stuff on him and talking to people, we knew he was going to be a challenge for us tonight. I was hoping it wasn’t that much of a challenge as it ended up being.”
The Reds threatened in the eighth, putting runners on second and third with one out. But Tommy Hunter got Jonathan India to pop out and Brandon Drury to fly out to right.
DELAYED
There was a 53-minute weather delay before the start of the game. But it never rained.
NICE CATCH
Pham prevented a potential extra-base hit in the Mets ninth when he went into the left-field corner to snag a deep fly off the bat of Jeff McNeil.
TRAINERS ROOM
Reds: RHP Tony Santillan (back) was transferred to the 60-day injured list. … RF Tyler Naquin (strained quadriceps) was back in the lineup for the first time since May 31.
MOVES
The Reds claimed right-hander Ian Gibaut off waivers from the Dodgers. They also optioned utilityman Max Schrock and catcher Mark Kolozsvary to Triple-A Louisville. Catcher Chris Okey was designated for assignment. … To make room on the roster for Scherzer, the Mets designated lefty Chasen Shreve for assignment.
UP NEXT
Right-hander Graham Ashcraft (4-2, 4.53 ERA) starts for the Reds against Mets lefty David Peterson (5-1, 3.24 ERA). Ashcraft was tagged for seven runs and seven hits in 2 1/3 innings in a 15-7 loss to the Cubs last week. Peterson is coming off the paternity list to start for New York.
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(RNS) — Outside the small Texas town of Elsa, a sheet metal fence too tall to see over surrounds a few acres of prime Rio Grande Valley land. In front of the compound’s drab, gray gate, bright orange letters spell out “Nature’s Resort.” The gate opens to reveal a seemingly ordinary community. RVs and small homes line the roads, péntaque and pickleball courts offer residents recreational spaces, and the front office acts as the community’s nucleus.
Nothing looks amiss, except that is, for what’s missing — namely, clothing.
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Misty Katz, part owner of Nature’s Resort, finds comfort in shunning clothes. Growing up in South Africa, she was scolded by her parents for undressing in public when her clothes got dirty. She didn’t take those lessons too seriously. More than half a century later, she lives at a nudist (or naturist) resort in South Texas and doesn’t worry about dirty clothes anymore.
For as long as Katz has been a nudist, she has also been a Christian.
Public nudity may seem antithetical to the modesty often promoted by churches, but to Katz, the two go hand in hand. “Believe it or not, we are modest,” Katz says. “Modesty doesn’t mean you have to cover everything up. We don’t display our wares, we’re not adorning various parts of our bodies in a way that’s going to attract attention.”
Her idea of modesty echoes Pope John Paul II’s 1981 book “Love and Responsibility,” in which he writes “nakedness itself is not immodest.” He goes on to explain that immodesty presents itself only when nakedness serves to sexually arouse.
At Nature’s Resort, public nudity is not sexual. “The initial conception is that this is a sexual thing,” Katz says. “People think we’re all out on the front lawn having sex with each other, swapping partners. In fact, if there is any overt sexuality, you see that gate open real fast and somebody is ushered out.”
Some Christian critics of nudism, including Mary Lowman of The Christian Working Woman, see the lifestyle as an affront to God. On her website’s page The Christian Dress Code, Lowman claims “God’s dress code from the beginning has been to cover our nakedness.”
Even still, nudism attracts unlikely allies. Some nondenominational, hard-line conservative clergy accept nudism. Pastor Ron Smith, of McAllen’s Church of the King, vehemently opposes homosexuality, abortion and the transgender community, but when it comes to nudism, his strident views loosen up.
“I think it’s odd, I think it’s strange, but I have no proof it’s sinning,” Smith said. “We have a retired couple that sit in the front row every Sunday that live at a nudist camp. I believe they’re dedicated Christians.”
Because the Bible doesn’t explicitly forbid nudism, Smith says he cannot condemn those who practice it. In fact, the Bible condones nudism on several occasions: “Adam and Eve were in the garden talking to God every day. They were nude,” Katz says. “When David had his big victory in battle, he went dancing in the streets naked to praise God. So, that must be OK in God’s eyes.”
Katz isn’t the only Christian at Nature’s Resort. Chip and Daisy are a married couple who requested to exclude their last names so friends and family don’t learn of their nudism. They, like most everyone at Nature’s Resort, are winter Texans, retirees spending their summers up north and coming down to the Rio Grande Valley when temperatures start to drop.
Chip, a Black man, is also one of the only residents of color out of the up to 250 people in the community. Like Katz, Chip and Daisy find nudism fits neatly into their Christianity and see it enhancing their religious lives. “In a nudist environment, the true Christian belief of valuing others and not judging others is accentuated,” Daisy says. “Here, you don’t judge someone for what they look like or what they wear.”
“It’s one thing to be with Christians in a building,” Chip says. “It’s another thing to be with Christians who are nudists. There’s a deeper connectivity.”
Though Nature’s Resort is not explicitly religious, it is affiliated with the American Association for Nude Recreation, an organization with deep Christian roots. AANR, once named the American Sunbathing Association, and the American League for Physical Culture before that, was led by Ilsley Boone in the 1930s.
Boone was a Dutch Reformed minister and a driving force behind popularizing Christian naturism in the U.S., where he preached a religiously enriching nudism. Christian naturism, popular in the early 20th century, continues to find success in the digital age on online forums.
And though Nature’s Resort’s particular brand of nudism is not the Christian variety, some of its members have found the lifestyle deeply spiritual.
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Owner finds dog after 8-year search: ‘We never stopped looking’
FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) - In dog years, it’s a reunion that took more than 50 years.
When it comes to human years, it took eight years and five months.
“I just want to tell him I’m so sorry that I didn’t find him,” Betsy Dehaan said.
In February of 2014, Harley was a lovable, adventurous pit bull, but he got a little too adventurous.
“I turned them out to go to the bathroom and turned my back for a second and they went off into the woods. And we went looking and never found Harley,” Dehaan said.
Harley vanished from his Lee County home at just a few years old.
“We searched and posted missing pet posters. We never stopped looking,” Dehaan said.
Even though he was microchipped, the search went cold. Whoever took Harley never checked the microchip to find his owner.
Fast forward to the present day, a miracle kept the love story alive.
“The dog was so sweet and behaved. He [Harley] seemed as happy as he could be,” Angie Bray said, who helped find Harley.
Bray said she found a dog that looked like Harley, malnourished, almost nothing but skin and bones.
“It made me cry. It was just so heartbreaking to think about being torn away from my animals and unable to find them,” Bray said.
She took Harley to the Cypress Lake Animal Hospital and Lee County Domestic Animal Services, and they found Dehaan’s number through the microchip.
“We got the text on Saturday. And I was like, is this a scam? We were just talking about him that morning,” Dehaan said
Dehaan no longer lives in Lee County, but when she found out Harley was safe, she drove over 1,000 miles from Missouri to meet back up with him.
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Japan has unique holidays and events that have been part of Japanese people’s lives since ancient times. Every month throughout the year, we celebrate special days which include some memorable days designed for children such as Girl’s Day on March 3rd and Children’s Day on May 5th. Shichigosan is also traditionally held on November 15th and probably can be found only in Japan. What is Shichigosan? How do Japanese people celebrate this special day? Here you can get the basic knowledge of the Shichigosan ceremony in Japan!
What is Shichigosan?
Shichigosan is an annual event that takes place on November 15th. The name of “Shichi-go-san” literally means seven, five and three years of age in Japanese. When children reach these certain ages, parents take them to Shinto shrines or temples to celebrate their healthy growth and pray for their happy future. Children are dressed up in traditional Japanese outfits such as Kimono for girls and Hakama for boys which are typically worn on special occasions.
Shichigosan is traditionally celebrated at different ages for girls and boys. While girls celebrate the special day at the age of three and seven, boys are commonly celebrated when they turn three and five years old. This custom may vary depending on the region, and in modern days many people celebrate all of these ages regardless of the gender of their children. As we mentioned, Shichigosan is traditionally on November 15th, but some people celebrate Shichigosan in their favorite season to avoid the crowds and in accordance with their schedule.
Brief History of Shichigosan
The origin of Shichigosan is believed to date back in the Heian period which is from 794 until 1185. In those days, the infant mortality rate was significantly higher than today due to poor hygiene and a shortage of effective medical care. Therefore, parents had to wait until their children reached the age of three which was considered mature enough to officially register them as a new member of the family. Five and Seven years of age were also regarded as an important milestone in their lives.
During that time, there were also special ceremonies to be held for children at three, five and seven years old. The first one was called Kamioki (髪置き), which was held to keep hair of new-born babies shaved until they turned three years old. When they became three, they were officially entitled to grow out their hair. Hakamagi (袴着) was a second ceremony for five-year-old boys which allowed them to wear Hakama, traditional Japanese formal attire for the first time. Obitoki (帯解き) was for seven-year-old girls and they could wear Obi tie around their Kimono instead of a simple cord. It was during the Meiji period (1868 -1912) that the custom of Shichigosan finally started to spread throughout Japan from upper Samurai class down to ordinary people.
How do Japanese People Celebrate Shichigosan?
Japanese people celebrate Shichigosan in different ways. Here are some ideas and traditional ways to celebrate the special day!
Visit shrines and temples
Many people visit Shinto shrines or temples in their neighborhoods to celebrate Shichigosan in Japan. Some shrines and temples hold special ceremonies on Shichigosan Day, and people can attend them to pray for happiness and health for their children. There are no specific rules for what to wear on Shichigosan day, but most people typically prepare traditional Japanese outfits such as Kimono and Hakama for their children.
Buy and eat Chitose-ame (thousand-year candy)
Chitose-ame is a traditional sweet treat sold at shrines and temples on Shichigosan day. This special candy has a unique shape like a long stick which symbolizes longevity. Chitose-ame is typically sold in a bag with pictures of turtles and cranes which have been loved as a symbol of good fortune and a long life in Japan since ancient times. Parents buy and give the candy to their children wishing them a long and healthy life.
Take pictures of their children in Kimono or Hakama
Taking pictures is definitely the best and most memorable way to celebrate special days in life. If you visit shrines or temples on November 15th in Japan, you will see a certain number of families take pictures of their children dressed up in Kimono or Hakama. If you want to take pictures of children, don’t forget to get permission from their parents beforehand. Some families also ask professional photographers to take pictures in a studio and keep them in a family photo album.
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Woman recorded kicking child faces child abuse charges, police say
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (WSAZ/Gray News) – A video posted on social media showing a child being kicked out of a chair by an adult has led to an arrest, according to West Virginia police.
The Cabell County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that Staci Burgy was arrested on child abuse charges.
In an interview, Burgy admitted it was her in the video but told officials she wasn’t attempting to hurt the child, the Cabell County Sheriff told WSAZ.
Deputies say Burgy told them she was imitating something she saw on a TV show.
Burgy is in the Western Regional Jail awaiting arraignment.
The sheriff’s office is working with the Huntington Police Department on the investigation, according to authorities.
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Jerry Harris, one of the breakout stars of the Netflix docuseries "Cheer," was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison on federal charges involving child sexual abuse images.
Harris, 22, was indicted on seven counts of receiving and attempting to receive child pornography and of persuading minors to engage in sexual contact from August 2017 to August 2020. Prosecutors said the acts involved victims in Texas, Florida and Illinois.
His was sentenced to 12 years in prison, to be followed by 8 years of court-supervised release, Joseph D. Fitzpatrick, assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, confirmed to NBC News.
Prosecutors had sought a 15-year sentence for Harris, writing in a sentencing memorandum that he used "his status as a competitive cheerleader, his social media persona, and eventually his celebrity and money" to persuade underage boys into sending sexually explicit content.
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Already strained rural obstetrics units could find themselves dealing with even more maternity cases if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
The court is expected to make a decision on a challenge to Roe v. Wade at the end of June, or the beginning of July. In May, a leaked draft opinion suggested that the Court is poised to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that established abortion rights protections nationwide. If the case is overruled, it could lead to abortion bans in nearly half of the country’s states.
The resulting pregnancies, experts said, could add to the problems rural communities are experiencing when it comes to quality maternity care in their areas.
“We are already under-staffed and under-resourced for deliveries in rural areas,” said Brock Slabach, COO of the National Rural Health Association. “We have maternity deserts in rural areas all over the country. If, as expected, Roe is overturned, we could have real capacity issues with many more live births.”
In Michigan, he said, officials anticipate between 8,000 and 20,000 additional live births per year.
“That could overwhelm a lot of hospitals,” he said. “Let me be clear — the maternity care crisis is already here. I don’t want to say that it’s going to get bad. It’s already bad, but we are going to have to do a lot to... beef up our resources to be able to accommodate the volume of people that are going to be delivering if Roe is overturned.”
According to the Commonwealth Fund, rural hospitals are closing their obstetric (OB) units, leaving fewer than half of the country’s rural counties with those services. With fewer OB units, rural women are facing longer travel times to get to a hospital that can deliver their babies. The OB unit closures also mean increases in births outside hospitals, births in hospitals without obstetrics care, and preterm births — all of which put both mother and child at risk.
Katy Backes Kozhimannil, professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and director of the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center, said restricted access to abortion services would affect miscarriages and reproductive health as well.
“These services will be needed by rural residents, increasingly, at a time when rural hospitals are closing obstetric units, and rural emergency departments are ill-equipped to support emergency births and other obstetric care emergencies,” she said.
“Beyond the walls of the clinic or hospital, further restrictions on reproductive health care in rural communities carry important risks for pregnant people and families, who bear the burden of suffering when needed health care is not available.”
Already maternal sickness and mortality is higher for rural residents, she said. Those rates would likely increase if access to abortions is restricted. The impact would most be felt by marginalized communities within rural areas, she said.
According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the more rural an area is, the higher the rate of deaths among pregnant women. The GAO found that rural areas with small urban clusters saw 19.8 maternal deaths per every 100,000 live births, where rural areas with no urban clusters saw 23.8 deaths. In comparison, large metropolitan areas with over 1 million residents saw 14.6 deaths per every 100,000 live births, while small and mid-sized metropolitan areas saw 16.2 deaths.
Greater disparities exist by race and ethnicity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found. Black women in rural counties had 59.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared to 19.7 for white women in those same counties.
“Rural communities where a majority of people are Black or Indigenous already suffer higher rates of premature death, and these are the same communities where access to rural maternity care is declining most rapidly,” Kozhimannil said. “Lack of access to abortion care and other reproductive health care services is likely to amplify risk of severe maternal morbidity and mortality among those who are already at greatest risk: rural residents who are Black or Indigenous.”
The impact would also be felt in emergency departments, she said, that would likely see increases in births, miscarriages, and the complications that could result from illegal abortions. | https://www.willistonherald.com/news/state/roe-fallout-could-put-more-p-pressure-on-rural-childbirth-care/article_fbcabe18-fd53-11ec-8051-3f410a078366.html | 2022-07-07T00:43:42Z | https://www.willistonherald.com/news/state/roe-fallout-could-put-more-p-pressure-on-rural-childbirth-care/article_fbcabe18-fd53-11ec-8051-3f410a078366.html | false |
Two Seattle Police officers were justified when they shot and killed Charleena Lyles and had no other reasonable alternative when they pulled the trigger, according to a unanimous King County Coroner’s jury after a two-week inquest into her 2017 death.
The decision was met with an angry outburst by Lyles’ father, who hollered “[Expletive] you! [Expletive] you! You killed my daughter!” as he was expelled from the courtroom by inquest administrator Michael Spearman, who apologized to the six-member jury.
The two police officers, Jason Anderson and Steven McNew, left the inquest by a back door and through a loading dock as Lyles’ angry family members crowded the hallway outside.
The jury responded to 123 questions and not all responses were unanimous. All agreed that Anderson failed to follow SPD policy requiring him to carry a Taser that day.
However, the jury also unanimously found that use of a Taser in the closed confines of her apartment, as she advanced on the officers with a knife, would not have been appropriate or effective.
Lyles, a pregnant, 30-year-old Black mother of four with a history of mental illness, had called police the morning of July 18, 2017, to report a burglary, although evidence at the inquest would show no burglary had occurred and surveillance video showed she had never left her apartment.
Officer Jason Anderson, who had been a Seattle officer for about two years, was dispatched, and when he arrived at the Brettler Family Place Apartments near Magnuson Park, where Lyles and her children lived in a fourth-floor unit, he made a routine computer check that showed Lyles was well-known to police and had an “officer safety warning” attached to her name.
The warning said that two weeks earlier during a domestic violence call Lyles had cornered an officer in her apartment with a large pair of shears. She had said she was going to “morph into a wolf” and talked about cloning her daughter. That incident ended peacefully, with Lyles taken into custody.
Anderson, per Seattle police procedures, asked for a backup on that July day officer even though a “cold burglary” was usually a one-officer response. Officer Steven McNew, a 17-year veteran, responded. As the pair walked to the apartment, it was decided that McNew would be the “cover” officer, an observer there for security, and that Anderson would take the report. Their only discussion about how to handle the call was to “not let her get behind us,” according to an audio recording of the incident captured by microphones synched to Anderson’s police cruiser’s dash camera.
The officers went into the apartment and for the first several minutes, the call was routine. Lyles said what had been taken, and Anderson asked questions. Children could be heard in the background. Then, about four minutes into the call, Lyles’ demeanor changed, according to the officer’s testimony and the audio.
Anderson said he looked up from his notepad and saw Lyles lunging at him with a small knife. He said he jumped back and had to suck in his stomach to avoid being stabbed. McNew said he drew his Glock service handgun. Both officers can be heard yelling “Get Back! Get Back!” while Lyles yelled obscenities and yelled “Do it!” McNew was in the apartment’s small kitchen, with nowhere to go. Anderson recalled being backed up against a door, although video would later show him retreating into the hallway through the apartment’s open door as the shots where fired.
Both officers said they had no choice to but shoot Lyles, claiming she represented a deadly threat that could not have been neutralized any other way, even though McNew called “Taser!” at one point and evidence showed the device could have been effective. Anderson was supposed to be carrying one, but had left it in his locker that day because it’s battery was dead. He was later disciplined for that failure.
The family last year settled a civil lawsuit against the officers and the Seattle Police Department for $3.5 million.
Both officers also had batons and pepper spray, but said they would not have been effective at stopping the 5-foot-3, 110-pound Lyles and that their use would have put them too close to Lyles and endangered their lives.
Both officers fired almost simultaneously, striking Lyles seven times, with three of the rounds hitting her from behind. The medical examiner said two of the wounds would have been almost immediately fatal — one ripping through her superior vena cava, the large vein that returns the body’s blood to the heart, and another in her stomach that tore the deep femoral. Another bullet struck her in the uterus; she was 15 weeks’ pregnant.
In King County, an inquest jury is convened for every death caused by law enforcement. The process is a public inquiry designed to explore the facts around Lyles’ death, whether police followed proper procedures and if “criminality” was involved.
SPD has cleared the officers of wrongdoing. Both remain with the department.
The six-member inquest jury — down from its original eight members because of a COVID outbreak that also infected two of the attorneys — heard six days of testimony, 19 witnesses and considered 56 exhibits, including the audio of the shooting, photographs of Lyles dead in the hallway of her apartment and autopsy photos of her wounds.
The inquest was punctuated with tense moments, including an incident that drew condemnation from her family and a warning from inquest administrator Michael Spearman. SPD sent members of its SWAT team to the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center after McNew walked through a group of Lyles’ family members outside, drawing taunts and obscenities.
Both officers offered emotional testimony, with McNew recalling the Lyles children in the moments after the shooting: how he picked up a baby who had crawled over to his mother’s body and lay on her chest, and a second child, a boy, coming out of a bedroom to say, “You shot my mom.”
Both officers faced a blistering examination by the Lyles family attorney, Karen Koehler, who relentlessly attacked their narrative that they had no way of knowing Lyles might turn on them — despite her history of mental illness and the previous incident just 13 days earlier — or that they had no alternative to the use of deadly force, either through the use of less-lethal tools or their claimed inability to retreat from the apartment or de-escalate the situation.
The inquest into Lyles’ death was postponed for years because of revisions to the coroner’s inquest process — which is unique to King County — and police legal challenges to those changes, culminating in a unanimous Washington Supreme Court opinion that reinstated an expanded inquest process and recognized that its previous incarnation had been biased toward police and detrimental to the families of the victims of police violence.
Before 2017, no police officer in King County had been charged for a death in 30 years. Those inequities were evident in 2017, when Lyles’ death was one of a grim string of 11 police shootings, several involving young Black people. That year also hosted a pair of questionable inquests into two of those deaths — Des Moines teen Mi’Chance Dunlap-Gittens and Kent’s Giovonn Joseph-McDade — which led tled King County Executive Dow Constantine to halt inquests and impanel a task force to review and suggest changes to the system.
There are at least 56 inquests pending in King County, all but a handful involving police shootings. The others involve deaths in correctional facilities.
The next inquest, scheduled to start Aug. 22, involves the Oct. 30, 2017, shooting death of Robert Lightfeather by Federal Way police. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattle-police-officers-justified-in-shooting-pregnant-black-woman-inquest-jury-finds/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-07-07T00:51:07Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattle-police-officers-justified-in-shooting-pregnant-black-woman-inquest-jury-finds/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | false |
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New rules proposed by the Biden administration on Wednesday would make it easier for borrowers to get their federal student debt forgiven through several existing programs.
The action is intended to overhaul relief programs that have been criticized for their burdensome paperwork requirements and long processing times. It builds on the administration’s efforts to expand targeted debt cancellation for certain borrowers while President Joe Biden considers broader student debt forgiveness.
“We are committed to fixing a broken system,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. “If a borrower qualifies for student loan relief, it shouldn’t take mountains of paperwork or a law degree to obtain it.”
The proposal would smooth out a debt forgiveness process for students whose colleges deceive them, along with other programs for borrowers who are disabled and those with careers in public service.
It’s unlikely to open debt forgiveness to huge swaths of borrowers, but it’s meant to make it easier for those who already qualify. The Education Department plans to finalize the rules no later than July 1, 2023.
Some of the most significant changes are to the borrower defense program, which allows students to get their loans erased if their colleges lie to them or otherwise commit fraud.
The program has seen an explosion of claims over the last decade starting with an Obama-era crackdown on for-profit colleges. But political and legal battles have led to a backlog of more than 200,000 applications, with some borrowers waiting years for a decision.
Instead of requiring the government to review each claim individually — a rule set by the Trump administration — the new proposal would allow the Education Department to process groups of similar claims together.
If a college is found to have deceived students about their job prospects after graduating, for example, the department would be able to combine all claims from that school and approve them in one action. That option would be available if there’s evidence of widespread fraud by a school, determined by state or federal authorities or through a class-action lawsuit.
The Biden administration also hopes to hold more colleges financially liable for their students’ canceled loans. In the past, loan cancellation has typically been passed to taxpayers, but the proposal rules would make it clear that the department plans to recoup costs from colleges that commit fraud.
And for the first time, borrowers would known when to expect a decision: The policy would require the Education Department to approve or deny individual claims within three years.
The new plan drew condemnation from the for-profit college industry, which faced intense scrutiny from the Obama administration but later found an ally in President Donald Trump.
Jason Altmire, president and CEO of the industry trade group Career Education Colleges and Universities, said the policy would be an “unprecedented expansion” of the Education Department’s authority.
“Today’s proposed rule sends a clear and troubling message that the Department intends to use the rulemaking process to discharge federal student loans en masse while hurting unfavored institutions and their students,” Altmire said.
Critics of the industry applauded what they see as increased accountability. Veterans Education Success, a nonprofit advocacy group, called it a “significant improvements over current rules,” adding that it would hold “unscrupulous schools accountable for federal losses.”
Also targeted for an overhaul is the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which was created by Congress as an incentive for government and nonprofit workers but has been criticized for having overly rigid requirements.
Under the current rules, workers in eligible jobs who make 120 monthly payments can get the rest of their federal student debt erased. Each monthly payment must be made in full and within 15 days of its due date, otherwise it doesn’t count toward the 120 payments.
The new action would erase the 15-day rule, allowing payments to count even if they are made late or in multiple installments. It also would allow borrowers to make up to a year of payments in advance instead of making monthly payments.
For the first time, borrowers in certain situations could also make progress toward loan forgiveness even if they don’t pay. People who get their loans paused for cancer treatment, military service or to join the Peace Corps, for example, would be treated as if they were still making monthly payments during that time.
Although the changes would add flexibility, they don’t go as far as a temporary overhaul the Biden administration instituted last year in response to the pandemic.
That short-term fix allows borrowers to get previous payments counted toward loan forgiveness even if they went toward loans that aren’t eligible under the program’s rules. That flexibility will go away after Oct. 31, and the Education Department urged borrowers to use it before it expires.
More flexibility would also be introduced to a separate program intended to help borrowers with disabilities.
That program offers to cancel federal student debt for people who are permanently disabled and unable to generate significant income. But many have been granted forgiveness only to have their debt restored later after failing to submit paperwork during a three-year monitoring period.
The new action would eliminate the three-year review period and make more types of disabilities eligible for cancellation. The Biden administration temporarily lifted some of the program’s rules during the pandemic, but the new changes would be permanent.
All the proposed changes are the result of a federal rules process that has been in the works for more than a year. It adds to the Biden administration’s effort to expand student debt relief through a patchwork of existing programs. So far it has approved nearly $26 billion in debt forgiveness for more than 1.3 million borrowers.
Biden has separately faced pressure to pursue mass debt cancellation, with some Democrats urging him to erase $50,000 across the board. As a candidate, Biden supported $10,000 in forgiveness and in April he said he was “taking a hard look” at the issue, promising a decision “in the next couple of weeks.” No decision has been announced.
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With a forecasted heat index of 105, people rushed to get inside Plano’s Oak Point Rec Center on Wednesday.
“I’m already sweating and I’ve only been walking for 2 minutes, so yeah – it’s pretty hot,” said Jay Young.
Offering indoor basketball, swimming and camps, the rec center offers plenty of ways for people to escape the heat.
Plano Fire-Rescue is bracing for an uptick in heat-related calls as the triple-digit temperatures remain in the forecast into next week.
Lt. Daniel Daly encourages people to start hydrating before they go outside, wear loose-fitting clothing and limit time outdoors, especially during the hottest part of the day.
“Heat emergencies – weather emergencies – are unbiased,” said Lt. Daniel Daly with Plano Fire-Rescue. “Usually by the time we are called [someone] is teetering on that line from heat exhaustion to heat stroke.”
Crews are also bracing for an increased fire threat as the forecast shows no signs of rain.
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“Everything is just so brittle, so dry that the slightest spark could cause a pretty good fire,” said Daly. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/plano-residents-look-for-ways-to-stay-cool-in-triple-digit-heat/3008342/ | 2022-07-07T00:53:04Z | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/plano-residents-look-for-ways-to-stay-cool-in-triple-digit-heat/3008342/ | false |
REMINGTON, Va. (AP) — For years, there’s been a cardinal rule for flying civilian drones: Keep them within your line of sight. Not just because it’s a good idea — it’s also the law.
But some drones have recently gotten permission to soar out of their pilots’ sight. They can now inspect high-voltage power lines across the forested Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia. They’re tracking endangered sea turtles off Florida’s coast and monitoring seaports in the Netherlands and railroads from New Jersey to the rural West.
Aviation authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere are preparing to relax some of the safeguards they imposed to regulate a boom in off-the-shelf consumer drones over the past decade. Businesses want simpler rules that could open your neighborhood’s skies to new commercial applications of these low-flying machines, although privacy advocates and some airplane and balloon pilots remain wary.
For now, a small but growing group of power companies, railways and delivery services like Amazon are leading the way with special permission to fly drones “beyond visual line of sight.” As of early July, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration had approved 230 such waivers — one of them to Virginia-based Dominion Energy for inspecting its network of power plants and transmission lines.
“This is the first step of what everybody’s expecting with drones,” said Adam Lee, Dominion’s chief security officer. “The first time in our nation’s history where we’ve now moved out into what I think everyone’s expecting is coming.”
That expectation — of small drones with little human oversight delivering packages, assessing home insurance claims or buzzing around on nighttime security patrols — has driven the FAA’s work this year to craft new safety guidelines meant to further integrate drones into the national airspace.
The FAA said it is still reviewing how it will roll out routine operations enabling some drones to fly beyond visual line of sight, although it it has signaled that the permissions will be reserved for commercial applications, not hobbyists.
“Our ultimate goal is you shouldn’t need a waiver for this process at all. It becomes an accepted practice,” said Adam Bry, CEO of California drone-maker Skydio, which is supplying its drones to Dominion, railroad company BNSF and other customers with permission to fly beyond line of sight.
“The more autonomous the drones become, the more they can just be instantly available anywhere they could possibly be useful,” Bry said.
Part of that involves deciding how much to trust that drones won’t crash into people or other aircraft when their operators aren’t looking. Other new rules will require drones to carry remote identification — like an electronic license plate — to track their whereabouts. And in the aftermath of Russia’s war in Ukraine — where both sides have used small consumer drones to target attacks — the White House has been pushing a parallel effort to counter the potential malicious use of drones in the U.S.
At a gas-fired plant in Remington, Virginia, which helps power some of Washington’s suburbs, a reporter with The Associated Press watched in June as Dominion Energy drone pilots briefly lost visual line of sight of their inspection drone as it flew around the backside of a large fuel tank and the top of a smoke stack.
That wouldn’t have been legally possible without Dominion’s recently approved FAA waiver. And it wouldn’t have been technically possible without advancements in collision-avoidance technology that are enabling drones to fly closer to buildings.
Previously, “you would have to erect scaffolding or have people go in with a bucket truck,” said Nate Robie, who directs the drone program at Dominion. “Now you can go in on a 20-minute flight.”
Not everyone is enthused about the pending rules. Pilots of hot air balloons and other lightweight aircraft warn that crashes will follow if the FAA allows largely autonomous delivery drones the right of way at low altitudes.
“These drones cannot see where they are flying and are blind to us,” said a June call to action from the Balloon Federation of America.
Broader concerns come from civil liberties groups that say protecting people’s privacy should be a bigger priority.
“There is a greater chance that you’ll have drones flying over your house or your backyard as these beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone operations increase,” said Jeramie Scott, a senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center who sat on the FAA’s advisory group working to craft new drone rules. “It’ll be much harder to know who to complain to.”
EPIC and other groups dissented from the advisory group’s early recommendations and are calling for stronger privacy and transparency requirements — such as an app that could help people identify the drones above them and what data they are collecting.
“If you want to fly beyond visual line of sight, especially if you are commercial, the public has a right to know what you’re flying, what data you are collecting,” said Andrés Arrieta, director of consumer privacy engineering at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “It seems like such a low bar.”
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O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/the-next-frontier-for-drones-letting-them-fly-out-of-sight/ | 2022-07-07T00:55:04Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/the-next-frontier-for-drones-letting-them-fly-out-of-sight/ | false |
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — In a roundabout way, Simona Halep is finally getting a chance to defend her Wimbledon title.
And she’s picking up right where she left off.
Halep won the title at the grass-court Grand Slam in 2019, but she missed a chance to play as reigning champion in 2020 because the tournament was canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic. She then missed a second chance last year because of an injured left calf.
“That was the perfect match of my life,” Halep said of her straight-set victory over Serena Williams three years ago. “Now I’m playing really well. I’m feeling confident that I feel the game the way I felt back then.”
The 16th-seeded Halep extended her winning streak at the All England Club to 12 matches and reached the semifinals for the third time by beating Amanda Anisimova 6-2, 6-4 Wednesday on Centre Court.
In the semifinals on Thursday, again on Centre Court, Halep will face Elena Rybakina in the second match of the day. The 17th-seeded Rybakina defeated Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 on No. 1 Court in Wednesday’s other quarterfinal match.
Third-seeded Ons Jabeur will play Tatjana Maria in the first semifinal match. They advanced by winning their quarterfinal matches on Tuesday.
In the men’s quarterfinals, two-time champion Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios both won Wednesday and will play Friday in the semifinals. Nadal beat Taylor Fritz 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (10-4) on Centre Court. Kyrgios defeated Cristian Garin 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (5) on No. 1 Court.
Halep is making her 10th appearance at Wimbledon. She is the only Grand Slam champion left in the women’s tournament, winning the French Open in 2018 before taking the title at the All England Club the next year.
“I’m different. I play different. I play well now. All the matches were different than in 2019,” Halep said. “I think every match I got a little bit better. I had tough opponents, and I did what I had to do every day.”
The match against Anisimova appeared to be as straightforward as her first four victories at this year’s tournament — all came in straight sets. But the 20th-seeded American broke Halep when she was serving for the match at 5-2.
Anisimova then had three more break points when Halep again served for the match at 5-4, but the Romanian won five straight points to finish the match.
“I feel like she played without thinking that she has something to lose, so every ball was really hard hit,” Halep said. “But I refused that she’s going to come at 5-all. Even if I was 0-40, I was hard a little bit on myself. I pumped myself. I served very well.”
Halep injured her left calf more than a year ago, forcing her to withdraw from last year’s French Open and Wimbledon. She started working with Patrick Mouratoglou, the former coach of Williams, in April and has now matched her best run at a major since reaching the semifinals at the 2020 Australian Open.
Next up for the Romanian will be Rybakina, a 23-year-old Kazakh who is playing at Wimbledon for only the second time in her career. She lost in the fourth round last year.
Rybakina dropped her first set of the tournament but broke Tomljanovic early in the second and third sets. She finished the match with 15 aces.
“I think that the key, of course, is my serve, aggressive game,” Rybakina said of her next match against Halep. “She’s a great champion. She’s moving really well, reading the game. I just try to do my best, focus on things which I can control: my serve, my shots, emotions.”
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has defied growing calls for him to step down, as members of his government continue to quit in droves.
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Collins one of two state DAs who says they will not prosecute those who seek abortions
Published 1:20 pm Wednesday, July 6, 2022
NATCHEZ — Sixth District Attorney Shameca Collins is one of two Mississippi prosecutors who have signed a statement saying they will not prosecute someone who seeks an abortion, performs and abortion or helps someone obtain an abortion.
Mississippi Today reported Collins joins Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens in signing a joint statement published by Fair and Just Prosecutions.
Collins said this afternoon that she will not prosecute abortions because she cannot prosecute them.
“The only abortion clinic in the state is in Jackson, and only that district attorney could prosecute abortions in Mississippi,” she said.
“Because there is no abortion clinic in Adams County, I cannot prosecute someone for an abortion. For instance, if someone from Adams County goes over to Vidalia to have an abortion, I could not prosecute that because it didn’t happen in my jurisdiction,” Collins said.
Collins is the district attorney for Adams, Amite, Franklin and Wilkinson counties.
More than 90 district attorneys and state attorneys general from 31 states pledged to u se discretion not to criminalize personal healthcare decisions, according to Mississippi Today.
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it became up to individual states as to whether to make abortion illegal, which is the case in Mississippi.
“All members of our communities are our clients – they elected us to represent them and we are bound to fight for them as we carry out our obligation to pursue justice,” prosecutors said in the June 24 statement. “Our legislatures may decide to criminalize personal healthcare decisions, but we remain obligated to prosecute only those cases that serve the interests of justice and the people.” | https://m.natchezdemocrat.com/2022/07/06/collins-one-of-two-state-das-who-says-they-will-not-prosecute-those-who-seek-abortions/ | 2022-07-07T01:03:03Z | https://m.natchezdemocrat.com/2022/07/06/collins-one-of-two-state-das-who-says-they-will-not-prosecute-those-who-seek-abortions/ | false |
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TPD said the shooting took place at Courtland Street N. and Chelsea Street E. in Tampa. According to Tampa Police, the 4 victims, one female and three males, suffered non-life threatening injuries. All victims are being treated at a local hospital.
The suspect or suspects involved remains unknown.
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A pair of California real estate investment outfits have traded a 92,800-square-foot data center in Broomfield for $26.5 million.
GI TC Broomfield LLC, a holding company registered to San Francisco real estate investor and private equity firm GI Partners, bought the property at 11525 Main St. this month from LD DI Assetco LLC, an entity affiliated with El Segundo, California-based real estate acquisition, development and management company Landmark Dividend LLC, Broomfield property records show.
Recent tenants include financial services organization TIAA-CREF and footwear umbrella company Deckers Outdoor Corp., which owns brands such as Ugg and Teva.
The deal appears to be Landmark Dividend’s first in the area, but it’s by no means the company’s first call- or data-center asset. LD’s website boasts that it has more than $1 billion in digital infrastructure properties under management.
GI Partners had held the data center since 2016, when the company partnered with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System to buy it for $17.5 million.
That deal marked the first Boulder Valley transaction for the joint venture.
GI Partners had previously made waves in the local real estate market with the 2009 takeover of a controlling stake in The Macerich Co.’s (NYSE:MAC) Flatiron Crossing mall in Broomfield.
Steve Smith, who took over as CEO of Boulder’s Zayo Group Holdings Inc. in 2020, was previously a managing director at GI Partners.
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Locals in Kyiv show support for the 'cute hero' they call Borys Johnsoniuk as he clings to power in Downing Street
- Ukrainians fete the PM as one of their biggest supporters amid war with Russia
- Embattled Tory leader is depicted in street art and at museum exhibitions in Kyiv
- But Johnson is facing a major rebellion within his Conservative Party at home
- A total of 46 of his ministers have handed in their resignations in under 48 hours
Ukrainians are hoping the man who some have affectionately taken to calling 'Borys Johnsoniuk' can cling on as the Prime Minister's tenure hangs in the balance amid a slew of ministerial resignations.
Johnson is facing a growing rebellion within his own Conservative Party, but Ukrainians fete him as one of their most vocal supporters for overseeing vital supplies of arms and anti-tank weapons to fend off Russia's invasion.
In Kyiv, he has been depicted in street art and is the subject of a portrait exhibition, while a creamy cake with an ice cream topping that resembles his unruly blond hair bears his name - as do several Ukrainian streets.
'It's a shame because we need as much support for (Ukraine) as possible,' said 22-year-old actress Kateryna Chikina, one of several Kyiv residents who told Reuters they did not want him to go.
'If there are influential politicians abroad, we need them. We don't want to lose him because he really helps us. He is a cutie.'
A portrait of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seen at a gallery in Kyiv, Ukraine July 6, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shows Boris Johnson around downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022. Ukrainians are hugely supportive of Johnson who is perceived as a key ally in fight against Russia
A woman walks past a portrait of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson displayed at a gallery, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 6
Artist Tetiana Kropyva, 24, busied herself on Wednesday painting a likeness of Johnson onto a barrel serving as an outdoor table at a bar in the capital's hipster hub of Podil.
'As a painter, I can say that he has very distinctive facial features. He is interesting to paint because he has many quirks,' she told Reuters.
At Kyiv's History Museum, two portraits of Johnson behind glass frontage help bring in the punters, said museum employee Mykola Petrychenko.
'It's a marketing magnet of sorts because Boris Johnson is extremely popular among Ukrainian people.
'Passers-by, when they see his portrait in the window, they recognise him and they come inside and ask about the exhibition.'
Inside, more portraits of Johnson - as well as one of Queen Elizabeth and another of U.S. President Joe Biden - hang side-by-side with Ukrainian soldiers and well-known commanders in a series depicting Ukrainian heroes.
Dmytro Usikov, 27, said Johnson would have free drinks in his bar even if he was forced from power.
'We will serve him everything for free... because he really helped our country, and is still helping us. The soul of Ukraine, one could say.'
Johnson may well have some free time to enjoy the free drinks in the near future, as a total of 46 of his ministers handed in resignations in under 48 hours in a scathing indictment of his perceived ability to lead the Conservative party.
In an historic political collapse, two Cabinet ministers, 15 ministers, 17 parliamentary private secretaries, three trade envoys and one vice-chair have so far tendered their resignations
Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Number 10 for PMQs on Wednesday amid a storm of resignations from dozens of his ministers
In an historic collapse the PM suffered the highest number of government resignations of any Prime Minister since 1932, as three Cabinet ministers, 16 ministers, 22 parliamentary private secretaries, four trade envoys and one vice-chair tendered their resignations.
It is the equivalent of around one in five of the total 'payroll vote' in the House of Commons – the number of MPs who hold positions from which they would have to resign in order to oppose the Government.
Meanwhile, a YouGov poll taken on Tuesday found 69 per cent of people believe the PM should step down - up 11 per cent from June 9 - a sentiment shared by more than half (54 per cent) of respondents who voted Conservative in 2019's general election.
Just 34 per cent of Conservative voters wanted Johnson out on June 9 just days after he narrowly survived a no-confidence vote, suggesting that today's Cabinet resignations represent the final straw for many Tory supporters.
Johnson is facing a growing rebellion within his own Conservative Party and widespread calls for his resignation
Only 18 per cent of Brits overall believe Johnson should remain in charge, but despite the widespread calls for his resignation, just one in five YouGov poll respondents actually believe the Prime Minister will heed them.
The Prime Minister was already fighting an uphill struggle to remain in No 10 before the torrent of ministerial resignations as his handling of the row over scandal-hit former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher became the latest issue to raise questions over his judgment.
YouGov's Associate Director of Political and Social Research Patrick English said of the poll results: 'The figures make for dire reading for Boris Johnson.
'With over half of the very people who put him into office in 2019 now wanting him out, he is losing the battle for support not just with the general public, but his own party's voters.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10988563/Ukrainians-hope-embattled-UK-PM-Johnsoniuk-cling-on.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-07T01:16:23Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10988563/Ukrainians-hope-embattled-UK-PM-Johnsoniuk-cling-on.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
Driver's naked contempt for tandem pair: Nude cyclists had a bruising encounter when they were deliberately knocked down by a car
- Colin Unsworth and Sadie Tann are naked riding across Britain on a bicycle
- They are raising money for charity while riding from John O'Groats to Lands End
- The pair, who are on a tandem, said they were knocked off the bike by a motorist
Cycling au naturel across Britain for charity, Colin Unsworth and Sadie Tann thought the only challenges they’d face on their light-hearted stunt would be fending off midges and saddle soreness.
But the pair were left bruised and shaken when they were deliberately knocked off their tandem bike by a car on their ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End.
Police are investigating the collision on Monday near Bridge of Earn, Perthshire.
It was captured on camera by Miss Tann, 31, who had been filming a live video when the car swerved into them. Someone in the vehicle also shouted abuse. The unclad couple escaped with scrapes and bruises after being flung into the road.
Mr Unsworth, a joiner and mushroom forager from Adlington, Lancashire, said: ‘It’s really shaken us up. On the live video you can see the driver pass us in the opposite direction and then they’ve turned round and come steaming back down to catch us up and it’s taken a swing at us.
Colin Unsworth and Sadie Tann, pictured at John O'Groats are riding to Land's End to raise money for charity
The pair, pictured, said they were deliberately struck by a car as they rode through Perthshire
‘I’m quite a skilful cyclist, I’ve been glued to a push bike saddle all my life, and I managed to avoid the first swerve. But as I slammed the brakes on to come to a stop he swerved again and hit us that second time. He knocked us to the floor.
‘We weren’t injured as such, just a few bruises and scrapes. At the time I just got back on my feet and thought it’s fine, we’re not injured, but that night I didn’t half have a sleepless night thinking about it.
‘Something like that has a big impact on you emotionally. We are very, very vulnerable, being naked on a bike.’ Mr Unsworth, 52, and Miss Tann, a student from Sheffield, are doing the ride to raise money for Rewild Britain and Mind, and send a message of body positivity. They set off last week and are using bespoke merino sheepskin saddle covers to protect from chafing.
Mr Unsworth said they had not been able to do the entire ride naked due to Scottish law. Public nudity is not a specific offence, but they were asked to cover up after a complaint. They also had to get dressed after being ‘mobbed’ by youths on motorbikes.
He added: ‘In my mind when we planned it all I had this image of a nice hot glorious summer like we’ve had in past years, and that we’d cycle completely naked all the way... with nothing but smiles and waves and cheers off the public.
‘I was dreading the midges but we’ve been bothered hardly at all. We’re absolutely knackered and our bums are killing us.
‘It’s also been a bit of a personal challenge for us both getting over that body shape thing and challenging ourselves to be comfortable without any clothes on.’
A Police Scotland spokesman said: ‘Police inquiries are ongoing after a 52-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman who were riding a tandem bike were deliberately driven at and struck by a car on the A912 near to Bridge of Earn at about 2pm on Monday.’ | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10989563/Motorist-knocks-nude-cyclists-involved-John-OGroats-Lands-End-bike-ride.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-07T01:17:02Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10989563/Motorist-knocks-nude-cyclists-involved-John-OGroats-Lands-End-bike-ride.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Wincing from abdominal pain, unable to ply his customary relentless style of tennis, Rafael Nadal thought he might need to stop playing in the Wimbledon quarterfinals against Taylor Fritz.
Up in the Centre Court stands, Nadal’s father was waving his arms, motioning to the 22-time Grand Slam champion to quit. Not surprisingly, perhaps, he didn’t listen. Nadal stayed out there, adjusted his service motion and his strategy — and figured out a way to win.
With much of the crowd roaring and standing after Nadal’s best strokes, he twice erased one-set deficits against the 11th-seeded Fritz and emerged with 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (10-4) victory Wednesday to reach his eighth semifinal at the All England Club.
“For a lot of moments,” Nadal said, “I was thinking, ‘Maybe I will not be able to finish the match.’”
He did complete it, but said he couldn’t be sure whether he will be able to play Friday against Nick Kyrgios, a 27-year-old Australian who earned his Grand Slam semifinal debut with a 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (5) victory over Cristian Garin of Chile.
“I don’t know exactly what I have. It’s clear something’s not right,” said Nadal, who will get tests Thursday for an issue that first cropped up nearly a week ago but got much worse at 3-1 in the first set against Fritz. “I’m obviously worried.”
The other men’s semifinal is Novak Djokovic against Cam Norrie. The women’s semifinals Thursday are 2019 champion Simona Halep against Elena Rybakina, and Ons Jabeur against Tatjana Maria. Halep eliminated Amanda Anisimova 6-2, 6-4, and Rybakina defeated Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Nadal got to his 38th career major semifinal by denying what would have been a first such appearance for Fritz, who beat Nadal in the hard-court final at Indian Wells, California, in March. That ended a 20-match winning streak for Nadal, who was bothered that day by a painful rib injury.
This time, the problem was a muscle in his stomach area, which had some athletic tape. Nadal left the court with a trainer for a medical timeout while up 4-3 in the second set; Fritz paced around the baseline, waiting.
A doctor gave Nadal some pills; the trainer tried to relax the muscle.
“They can’t do much,” Nadal said. “Nothing can be fixed when you have a thing like this.”
When action resumed, Nadal clearly was compromised. It was hard not to think: Might he give up?
Nadal acknowledged that went through his mind. Fritz did, too.
“It definitely made me kind of think. I kind of stopped being as aggressive,” the 24-year-old American said. “I feel like I let it kind of get to me a little bit.”
He pretty much handed over the second set of what would become a 4-hour, 21-minute contest under a sky of slate clouds. After Fritz took the third set, his big serve got broken three times in the next.
Nadal occasionally would watch a ball off Fritz’s orange racket fly by. Nadal couldn’t move the way he usually does. His trademark grunts of “Uhhhh!” were rare. He didn’t generate the usual zip on his serves, which dipped from a high of 120 mph to barely above 100 mph. He sought to end exchanges with a quick-strike forehand or a drop shot — sometimes with success, often not.
But Nadal is not one who concedes easily. This was his 351st Grand Slam match and he has a total of three mid-match retirements at majors (against Andy Murray at the 2010 Australian Open, against Marin Cilic at the 2018 Australian Open, and against Juan Martin del Potro at the 2018 U.S. Open). In all tour-level events, the totals are: 1,275 matches, nine retirements.
“I hate to do it,” Nadal said.
So he summoned his best for last, grabbing a 5-0 lead in the closing tiebreaker — the first-to-10, win-by-two format starting at 6-all in a fifth set is new to Wimbledon this year — and then five of the last six points.
Fritz’s take on the tiebreaker? “Got destroyed,” he said.
“Probably hurts more than any loss I’ve ever had,” Fritz said. “After the match was over, I was sitting there and I felt like crying.”
Nadal extended his unbeaten mark in 2022 Grand Slam matches to 19-0 as he seeks to add a trophy at Wimbledon to his triumphs at the Australian Open in January and French Open in June. For everything he’s accomplished, the 36-year-old Spaniard never has won the first three Slam titles of a season.
Nadal, who won Wimbledon in 2008 and 2010, leads Kyrgios 6-3 head-to-head; they are 1-all at Wimbledon. In 2014, Kyrgios, then just 19 and ranked 144th, announced himself to the world by winning; in 2019, Nadal took the rematch after Kyrgios was at a local pub into the wee hours the night before.
“I feel like that would be a mouth-watering kind of encounter for everyone around the world,” Kyrgios, never afraid of a little hyperbole, said about facing Nadal again. “That would probably be the most-watched match of all time.”
Give Kyrgios credit for honesty on this matter, at least: Even he did not think this day ever would arrive. Kyrgios became the first unseeded and lowest-ranked man to get to the final four at the All England Club since 2008 by playing what, for him, amounts to a restrained and efficient brand of tennis against Garin.
“I thought my ship had sailed,” Kyrgios said. “Obviously, I didn’t go about things great early in my career and may have wasted that little window.”
Kyrgios, who is ranked 40th, has garnered more attention for his behavior on and off the court than his skills with a racket in hand. His match against the unseeded Garin came a day after police in Canberra, Australia, said that Kyrgios is due in court next month to face an allegation of common assault stemming from something that happened in December.
“I have a lot of thoughts, a lot of things I want to say, kind of my side about it,” Kyrgios said at his post-match news conference. “Obviously I’ve been advised by my lawyers that I’m unable to say anything at this time.”
Worth noting, too, is how well Kyrgios has been playing. His serve, in particular, is among the best in the game, regularly topping 130 mph, and he pounded 17 aces against Garin while getting broken just once — in the very first game, at love.
His big forehands are terrific, too, but little else is conventional about Kyrgios. One example: “I don’t have a coach,” Kyrgios said with a smile. “I would never put that burden on someone.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Starting wages for lifeguards in New York City will be $19.46 an hour this summer under an agreement reached with the lifeguard union, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday.
Under the deal, a retention bonus will be awarded in September for those lifeguards who work every week through the summer season. Also, a new training program will be developed to fully staff 17 mini pools throughout the city.
Adams said in a statement that with an influx of lifeguards, the city will be able to “very quickly open all of our mini pools, an essential cooling center for young New Yorkers." But he warned the agreement reached with the union won't entirely solve the city's challenge of fully guarding public swim areas.
“While these changes are a step in the right direction, our ability to safely open beaches and pools has been impacted by a national lifeguard shortage, and has also been held back by inefficient practices that are in dire need of further reform,” he said.
The mayor last month said he didn't believe a pay raise would help the city attract more lifeguards, noting how lifeguards do the job for the “love of swimming” and “love of protecting people."
State and local communities across the country have been grappling with the lack of available lifeguards this year, with many offering higher pay. While summer shortages aren’t unusual, many U.S. pools are also dealing with the fallout from earlier in the pandemic, when they closed and lifeguard certification stopped, according to the American Lifeguard Association. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/NYC-to-boost-starting-pay-for-lifeguards-to-17288885.php | 2022-07-07T01:18:56Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/NYC-to-boost-starting-pay-for-lifeguards-to-17288885.php | false |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
9-5-7
(nine, five, seven)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
9-5-7
(nine, five, seven) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-game-17288831.php | 2022-07-07T01:19:07Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-game-17288831.php | false |
Oct. 13 Colorado, 9:30 p.m.
Oct. 15 at Edmonton, 10 p.m.
Oct. 18 Vegas, 9 p.m.
Oct. 20 Buffalo, 9 p.m.
Oct. 22 Carolina, 10 p.m.
Oct. 25 Pittsburgh, 9 p.m.
Oct. 29 Edmonton, 10 p.m.
Nov. 1 Seattle, 9 p.m.
Nov. 3 Nashville, 9 p.m.
Nov. 5 New Jersey, 10 p.m.
Nov. 7 at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.
Nov. 8 at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Nov. 10 at Boston, 7 p.m.
Nov. 12 Winnipeg, 10 p.m.
Nov. 14 Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.
Nov. 17 at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
Nov. 19 at Florida, 4 p.m.
Nov. 21 at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Nov. 23 at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Nov. 25 at Washington, 2 p.m.
Nov. 26 at Carolina, 4 p.m.
Nov. 29 Florida, 9 p.m.
Dec. 1 Montreal, 9 p.m.
Dec. 3 Washington, 10 p.m.
Dec. 5 Arizona, 9 p.m.
Dec. 7 Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Dec. 9 at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Dec. 10 at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Dec. 12 at Montreal, 7 p.m.
Dec. 14 Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Dec. 16 St. Louis, 9 p.m.
Dec. 18 at San Jose, 10 p.m.
Dec. 20 at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Dec. 22 at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Dec. 23 at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Dec. 27 Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Dec. 28 at Seattle, 10 p.m.
Dec. 31 Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Jan. 3 at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Jan. 6 N.Y. Islanders, 9 p.m.
Jan. 8 at Chicago, 7 p.m.
Jan. 10 at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Jan. 12 at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Jan. 14 at Dallas, 2 p.m.
Jan. 16 at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Jan. 18 Colorado, 10 p.m.
Jan. 21 Tampa Bay, 3 p.m.
Jan. 23 Columbus, 9:30 p.m.
Jan. 26 Chicago, 9 p.m.
Jan. 27 at Seattle, 10 p.m.
Feb. 6 at N.Y. Rangers, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 9 at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 11 at Buffalo, 12:30 p.m.
Feb. 13 at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 16 Detroit, 9 p.m.
Feb. 18 N.Y. Rangers, 10 p.m.
Feb. 20 Philadelphia, 4 p.m.
Feb. 22 at Arizona, 10 p.m.
Feb. 23 at Vegas, 10 p.m.
Feb. 25 at Colorado, 10 p.m.
Feb. 28 Boston, 9 p.m.
March 2 Toronto, 9 p.m.
March 4 Minnesota, 10 p.m.
March 6 at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
March 7 at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
March 10 Anaheim, 9 p.m.
March 12 Ottawa, 9 p.m.
March 14 at Arizona, 10 p.m.
March 16 at Vegas, 10 p.m.
March 18 Dallas, 10 p.m.
March 20 at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
March 21 at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
March 23 Vegas, 9 p.m.
March 25 San Jose, 4 p.m.
March 28 Los Angeles, 9 p.m.
March 31 at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
April 2 Anaheim, 8 p.m.
April 4 Chicago, 9 p.m.
April 5 at Winnipeg, 7:30 p.m.
April 8 at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
April 10 Nashville, 9:30 p.m.
April 12 San Jose, 10 p.m. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/article/2022-23-Calgary-Flames-Schedule-17288909.php | 2022-07-07T01:19:51Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/article/2022-23-Calgary-Flames-Schedule-17288909.php | false |
'Gentleminions': Here's why a TikTok trend has teens wearing suits to 'Minions: The Rise of Gru'
"Minions: The Rise of Gru" did gangbusters over the weekend. The latest film in the "Despicable Me" franchise of a would-be villain and his bizarre yellow henchmen had the biggest opening ever over the July 4 holiday.
For all its success in drawing audiences back to theaters, distributor Universal Pictures has, at least partially, the "Gentleminions" to thank.
Watch the trailer for "Minions: The Rise of Gru" in the video player above.
Gentleminions are young people who film themselves dressed in formalwear, flooding unsuspecting movie theaters to see the newest "Minions" flick and hollering at the screen like they're lining the ring at Wrestlemania. TikTok teens are arguably not the audience Illumination had in mind when concocting the latest slapstick-heavy animated children's film, but they've turned out in droves anyway thanks to the viral trend — the hashtag #Gentleminions has over 22 million views and counting on the platform.
The Gentleminions are not always welcome, though. They're showing up at theaters everywhere from the U.S. to Australia and countries in between, causing chaos to the point that some theaters have banned them from buying tickets to "Minions" if they come dressed in a suit.
If you spot a Gentleminion at a viewing of "Minions," don't panic — they're typically harmless, if irksomely obsessed with the little yellow menaces. Here's how the odd trend came to be — and how teenage boys on TikTok became the Minions' biggest fans.
How Minions became ironic icons
To understand the Gentleminions, one must first understand the Minions themselves.
Minions first hit the scene when the first "Despicable Me" premiered in 2010. Immediately, viewers were drawn to the oblong creatures in overalls who served villain-turned-softie Gru. With names like Kevin and Bob, a penchant for drag and a wholly unique delivery of the word "banana," the Minions endeared themselves to audience members across generations — including Facebook users of a certain age, some of whom started sharing memes of Minions that convey the thankless exhaustion of parenthood.
And then there are the ironic Minion memes, those shared by irreverent young people and jaded adults. The Minions, these users postulate, are funny because they are not funny, but they're so unfunny that the same memes have become funny again. Somehow, within that cycle of earnestness and irony, the Minions have become what they've always striven to be: Comedy legends.
Now, in 2022, the children who grew up with Minions are now young adults and very fluent in internet-speak. Enter the Gentleminions.
The Gentleminions wear suits and wreak light havoc
To be a Gentleminion, one must arrive at the movie theater in formal attire — usually a suit and tie. Then, after one has purchased a ticket to "Minions: The Rise of Gru," one must film themselves before, during and after the film to demonstrate their excitement. One must cheer, leap up in glee and generally disrupt the viewing experience to inhabit the Gentleminion ethos. And then, of course, one must post their excursion on TikTok, setting the clip to a song called "Rich Minion" by the rapper Yeat.
Why dress up for a night at the theater? Bill Hirst, an Australian teen whose Gentleminions video has received millions of views, told Variety it was all "just for fun" after he and his friends saw another group of boys on TikTok who donned suits to the movies.
"We just chucked on our suits and went straight to the cinemas," he said. "It was very spontaneous"
In a few cases, though, the Gentleminions' mostly innocent revelry has soured. The only movie theater in Guernsey, in the British Isles, had to cancel screenings of the film after a horde of Gentleminions vandalized the theater and led some children at the screenings to leave in tears, its manager told the BBC.
Some American theaters have also seen light vandalism: A representative for a major theater chain who wasn't authorized to speak on the record told the Los Angeles Times that its employees have been alerted to the trend after some Gentleminions caused minor property damage, though it doesn't currently have rules in place to stop them from seeing the film.
Some theaters shut them out, but the Minions support their fans
Movie theaters have long been the preferred domains of many a raucous teen, but the Gentleminions have pushed many theaters to their limits. In the U.K., several theaters have banned certain young people from purchasing tickets to the film as a result of the chaos in Guernsey and other locales, the Guardian reported. One theater said it would not admit any "unaccompanied children wearing suits" who came to see the Minions make mischief.
Whether American cinemas will take the same steps to curb the chaos remains to be seen. CNN reached out to national chains AMC, Regal and Cinemark for comment on their response to the Gentleminions trend and is waiting to hear back.
Meanwhile, Universal Pictures has wholeheartedly embraced the Gentleminions: In a tweet last week, the company wrote: "to everyone showing up to @Minions in suits: we see you and we love you."
The Minions themselves even sent the Gentleminions a video salute on TikTok, wishing them "Bobspeed." Their new "fans" might be seeing the film for disingenuous laughs, but the Minions are taking their teasing all the way to the bank. | https://www.wlky.com/article/tiktok-trend-teens-wearing-suits-to-minions/40531509 | 2022-07-07T01:20:07Z | https://www.wlky.com/article/tiktok-trend-teens-wearing-suits-to-minions/40531509 | false |
Oct. 12 at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Oct. 14 Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
Oct. 15 at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Oct. 18 Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Oct. 20 Nashville, 7 p.m.
Oct. 22 Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Oct. 23 at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.
Oct. 25 Arizona, 7 p.m.
Oct. 28 Boston, 7 p.m.
Oct. 30 at New Jersey, 2 p.m.
Nov. 4 at Colorado, 1 p.m.
Nov. 5 Colorado, 1 p.m.
Nov. 10 Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Nov. 12 at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 15 Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Nov. 17 Montreal, 7 p.m.
Nov. 19 Detroit, 7 p.m.
Nov. 20 Florida, 6 p.m.
Nov. 23 Montreal, 7 p.m.
Nov. 25 N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 26 at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Nov. 28 Vegas, 7 p.m.
Dec. 2 at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Dec. 4 Detroit, 6 p.m.
Dec. 6 at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Dec. 7 Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Dec. 9 Calgary, 7 p.m.
Dec. 11 Los Angeles, 6 p.m.
Dec. 13 at Florida, 7 p.m.
Dec. 15 at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
Dec. 17 at Boston, 1 p.m.
Dec. 19 Dallas, 7 p.m.
Dec. 20 at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Dec. 23 at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Dec. 27 Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Dec. 29 at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 31 Chicago, 7 p.m.
Jan. 3 at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
Jan. 5 Washington, 7 p.m.
Jan. 7 Carolina, 4 p.m.
Jan. 8 at Washington, 5 p.m.
Jan. 10 at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
Jan. 12 Carolina, 7 p.m.
Jan. 14 at Detroit, 7 p.m.
Jan. 16 N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
Jan. 19 Anaheim, 7 p.m.
Jan. 21 San Jose, 7 p.m.
Jan. 23 at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.
Jan. 25 at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.
Jan. 27 at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Jan. 28 at Seattle, 10 p.m.
Jan. 31 Washington, 7 p.m.
Feb. 10 Toronto, 7 p.m.
Feb. 11 at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Feb. 14 New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Feb. 16 Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
Feb. 18 at Dallas, 6 p.m.
Feb. 19 at Arizona, 8:30 p.m.
Feb. 23 Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Feb. 25 Edmonton, 12:30 p.m.
Feb. 26 at Minnesota, 2 p.m.
Feb. 28 at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
March 3 Seattle, 7 p.m.
March 4 at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
March 7 at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
March 11 St. Louis, 7 p.m.
March 14 at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
March 16 at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
March 17 at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
March 19 at Vegas, 4 p.m.
March 21 at Washington, 7 p.m.
March 24 N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.
March 25 at Montreal, 7 p.m.
March 28 at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
March 30 at Boston, 7 p.m.
April 1 Florida, 7 p.m.
April 2 Ottawa, 6 p.m.
April 4 at Toronto, 7 p.m.
April 6 at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
April 8 N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
April 11 at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
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Man writes song to help devastated community heal
Songwriter dedicates it to families of fallen officers
FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) -- No words exist that will ever truly comfort the families of the three law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty last week during an ambush in Allen, Kentucky.
Deputy William Petry, Capt. Ralph Frasure, and Officer Jacob Chaffins all leave behind families who will never be the same.
The community at large, still mourning the tragedy, is changed forever in its own way.
While so many try to find the right words and the right guidance in someone or some thing, WSAZ’s Shannon Litton shows how one man is putting his thoughts on paper and his voice on a song to help those in his community heal.
“I can’t imagine what they’re going through,” said singer Nicholas Jamerson, who is a part of Sundy Best. “To swiftly have someone taken out of their lives, we need to be there for each other.”
He went on to say, “At the end of the day, they’re people, they’re humans. Despite the flaws in the system, it’s like these people literally everyday put their lives on the line.”
Jamerson says he is working to record the song inside a recording studio in Prestonsburg. He says he’s looking at different ways he can support the families of the officers – some of whom he knew personally – in the weeks to come.
For more, tap on the video link with this story.
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Oct. 12 Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Oct. 15 Calgary, 10 p.m.
Oct. 18 Buffalo, 9 p.m.
Oct. 20 Carolina, 9 p.m.
Oct. 22 St. Louis, 4 p.m.
Oct. 24 Pittsburgh, 8 p.m.
Oct. 26 at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Oct. 27 at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Oct. 29 at Calgary, 10 p.m.
Nov. 1 Nashville, 9 p.m.
Nov. 3 New Jersey, 9 p.m.
Nov. 5 Dallas, 4 p.m.
Nov. 7 at Washington, 8 p.m.
Nov. 8 at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 10 at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Nov. 12 at Florida, 4 p.m.
Nov. 16 Los Angeles, 10 p.m.
Nov. 19 Vegas, 10 p.m.
Nov. 21 at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Nov. 23 at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 26 at N.Y. Rangers, 1 p.m.
Nov. 28 Florida, 9:30 p.m.
Nov. 30 at Chicago, 9:30 p.m.
Dec. 1 at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Dec. 3 Montreal, 7 p.m.
Dec. 5 Washington, 8:30 p.m.
Dec. 7 Arizona, 9:30 p.m.
Dec. 9 Minnesota, 9 p.m.
Dec. 12 at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Dec. 13 at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Dec. 15 St. Louis, 9 p.m.
Dec. 17 Anaheim, 4 p.m.
Dec. 19 at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Dec. 21 at Dallas, 9:30 p.m.
Dec. 23 Vancouver, 9 p.m.
Dec. 27 at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Dec. 30 at Seattle, 10 p.m.
Dec. 31 Winnipeg, 10 p.m.
Jan. 3 Seattle, 9 p.m.
Jan. 5 N.Y. Islanders, 9 p.m.
Jan. 7 Colorado, 10 p.m.
Jan. 9 at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Jan. 11 at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Jan. 13 at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Jan. 14 at Vegas, 10 p.m.
Jan. 17 Seattle, 9 p.m.
Jan. 19 Tampa Bay, 9 p.m.
Jan. 21 at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Jan. 25 Columbus, 9:30 p.m.
Jan. 28 Chicago, 10 p.m.
Feb. 7 at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 9 at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Feb. 11 at Ottawa, 12:30 p.m.
Feb. 12 at Montreal, 12:30 p.m.
Feb. 15 Detroit, 9:30 p.m.
Feb. 17 N.Y. Rangers, 9 p.m.
Feb. 19 at Colorado, 3 p.m.
Feb. 21 Philadelphia, 9 p.m.
Feb. 23 at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Feb. 25 at Columbus, 12:30 p.m.
Feb. 27 Boston, 8:30 p.m.
March 1 Toronto, 8 p.m.
March 3 Winnipeg, 9 p.m.
March 4 at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
March 6 at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.
March 9 at Boston, 7 p.m.
March 11 at Toronto, 7 p.m.
March 14 Ottawa, 9 p.m.
March 16 Dallas, 9 p.m.
March 18 at Seattle, 4 p.m.
March 20 San Jose, 9:30 p.m.
March 22 Arizona, 10:30 p.m.
March 25 Vegas, 10 p.m.
March 27 at Arizona, 10 p.m.
March 28 at Vegas, 10 p.m.
March 30 Los Angeles, 9 p.m.
April 1 Anaheim, 10 p.m.
April 4 at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.
April 5 at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
April 8 at San Jose, 4 p.m.
April 11 at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.
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Oct. 13 N.Y. Rangers, 8 p.m.
Oct. 15 Los Angeles, 8 p.m.
Oct. 17 Colorado, 8 p.m.
Oct. 20 Vancouver, 8 p.m.
Oct. 22 at Boston, 1 p.m.
Oct. 25 at Montreal, 7 p.m.
Oct. 27 at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
Oct. 29 at Detroit, 7 p.m.
Oct. 30 at Chicago, 7 p.m.
Nov. 1 Montreal, 8 p.m.
Nov. 3 Seattle, 8 p.m.
Nov. 8 at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Nov. 9 at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Nov. 11 at Seattle, 10 p.m.
Nov. 13 San Jose, 6 p.m.
Nov. 15 at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Nov. 17 Pittsburgh, 8 p.m.
Nov. 19 Carolina, 8 p.m.
Nov. 23 Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
Nov. 25 Toronto, 2 p.m.
Nov. 27 Arizona, 2 p.m.
Dec. 1 Edmonton, 8 p.m.
Dec. 3 Anaheim, 2 p.m.
Dec. 4 at Dallas, 3 p.m.
Dec. 7 at Calgary, 8 p.m.
Dec. 9 at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Dec. 10 at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Dec. 12 Edmonton, 8 p.m.
Dec. 14 Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 16 Chicago, 8 p.m.
Dec. 18 Ottawa, 2 p.m.
Dec. 21 at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Dec. 22 at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Dec. 27 at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Dec. 29 Dallas, 8 p.m.
Dec. 31 at St. Louis, x:xx p.m.
Jan. 4 Tampa Bay, 9:30 p.m.
Jan. 7 at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Jan. 8 St. Louis, 7 p.m.
Jan. 10 at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
Jan. 12 at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 14 Arizona, 8 p.m.
Jan. 17 at Washington, 7 p.m.
Jan. 19 at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Jan. 21 at Florida, 6 p.m.
Jan. 24 at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
Jan. 26 Philadelphia, 9 p.m.
Jan. 28 Buffalo, 9 p.m.
Feb. 6 at Arizona, 9 p.m.
Feb. 8 at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Feb. 9 Vegas, 8 p.m.
Feb. 11 New Jersey, 8 p.m.
Feb. 13 Florida, 8 p.m.
Feb. 15 Colorado, 9:30 p.m.
Feb. 17 Dallas, 8 p.m.
Feb. 19 Nashville, 2 p.m.
Feb. 21 Los Angeles, 8 p.m.
Feb. 23 at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Feb. 24 at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Feb. 26 Columbus, 2 p.m.
Feb. 28 N.Y. Islanders, 8 p.m.
March 2 at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
March 4 at Calgary, 10 p.m.
March 7 Calgary, 8 p.m.
March 8 at Winnipeg, 7:30 p.m.
March 11 at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
March 12 at Arizona, 9:30 p.m.
March 15 at St. Louis, 9:30 p.m.
March 18 Boston, 2 p.m.
March 19 Washington, 2 p.m.
March 21 at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
March 23 at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
March 25 Chicago, 5 p.m.
March 27 Seattle, 8 p.m.
March 29 at Colorado, 10 p.m.
April 1 at Vegas, 10 p.m.
April 3 Vegas, 8 p.m.
April 6 at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
April 8 St. Louis, 3 p.m.
April 10 at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
April 11 Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
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Oct. 14 N.Y. Rangers, 8 p.m.
Oct. 17 at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Oct. 19 at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Oct. 20 at Vegas, 10 p.m.
Oct. 22 Toronto, 7 p.m.
Oct. 24 St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Oct. 27 at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Oct. 28 at Arizona, 10:30 p.m.
Oct. 30 at Vegas, 8 p.m.
Nov. 3 Montreal, 8 p.m.
Nov. 5 Chicago, 3 p.m.
Nov. 8 Dallas, 8 p.m.
Nov. 12 at Calgary, 10 p.m.
Nov. 13 at Seattle, 8 p.m.
Nov. 17 Anaheim, 8 p.m.
Nov. 19 Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Nov. 21 Carolina, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 23 at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Nov. 25 at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Nov. 27 at Chicago, 7 p.m.
Nov. 29 Colorado, 8 p.m.
Dec. 2 Columbus, 8 p.m.
Dec. 4 Anaheim, 3 p.m.
Dec. 6 Florida, 8 p.m.
Dec. 8 at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Dec. 9 at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Dec. 11 Washington, 7 p.m.
Dec. 13 Vegas, 8 p.m.
Dec. 15 Nashville, 8 p.m.
Dec. 17 at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Dec. 18 at Seattle, 8 p.m.
Dec. 20 Ottawa, 8 p.m.
Dec. 22 at Boston, 7 p.m.
Dec. 23 at Washington, 7 p.m.
Dec. 27 Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Dec. 29 Vancouver, 8 p.m.
Dec. 31 at Edmonton, 10 p.m.
Jan. 3 Calgary, 8 p.m.
Jan. 6 Tampa Bay, 8 p.m.
Jan. 8 Vancouver, 3 p.m.
Jan. 10 at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 12 at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Jan. 13 at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Jan. 15 Arizona, 7 p.m.
Jan. 17 at Montreal, 7 p.m.
Jan. 19 at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Jan. 21 at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
Jan. 22 at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Jan. 24 at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Jan. 26 Buffalo, 8 p.m.
Jan. 28 Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Jan. 30 St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Feb. 11 Chicago, 10 p.m.
Feb. 14 Seattle, 8 p.m.
Feb. 16 at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Feb. 19 at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Feb. 20 at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
Feb. 22 at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.
Feb. 24 Colorado, 8 p.m.
Feb. 26 N.Y. Islanders, 3 p.m.
Feb. 28 Los Angeles, 8 p.m.
March 3 at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
March 4 Edmonton, 7 p.m.
March 6 San Jose, 7:30 p.m.
March 8 Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.
March 11 at Florida, 7 p.m.
March 12 at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
March 14 at Carolina, 7 p.m.
March 16 Boston, 8 p.m.
March 18 at Nashville, 2 p.m.
March 19 at St. Louis, 7 p.m.
March 21 Arizona, 8 p.m.
March 23 at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
March 25 at Los Angeles, 4 p.m.
March 28 at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
March 31 Detroit, 8 p.m.
April 2 New Jersey, 7 p.m.
April 5 Calgary, 7:30 p.m.
April 8 Nashville, 7 p.m.
April 10 San Jose, 7 p.m.
April 11 at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
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Oct. 12 at Edmonton, 10 p.m.
Oct. 15 at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.
Oct. 17 at Washington, 7 p.m.
Oct. 18 at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Oct. 20 at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Oct. 22 Buffalo, 10 p.m.
Oct. 24 Carolina, 10:30 p.m.
Oct. 27 at Seattle, 10 p.m.
Oct. 28 Pittsburgh, 10 p.m.
Nov. 1 New Jersey, 10 p.m.
Nov. 3 Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Nov. 5 Nashville, 10 p.m.
Nov. 8 at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
Nov. 9 at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 12 at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Nov. 13 at Boston, 6 p.m.
Nov. 15 at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Nov. 18 Los Angeles, 10 p.m.
Nov. 21 Vegas, 10:30 p.m.
Nov. 23 at Colorado, 10 p.m.
Nov. 26 at Vegas, 10 p.m.
Nov. 27 at San Jose, 8 p.m.
Nov. 29 Washington, 10 p.m.
Dec. 1 Florida, 10 p.m.
Dec. 3 Arizona, 10 p.m.
Dec. 5 Montreal, 10:30 p.m.
Dec. 7 at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Dec. 10 Minnesota, 10 p.m.
Dec. 14 at Calgary, 10 p.m.
Dec. 17 Winnipeg, 10 p.m.
Dec. 19 St. Louis, 10:30 p.m.
Dec. 22 Seattle, 10 p.m.
Dec. 23 at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Dec. 27 San Jose, 10 p.m.
Dec. 29 at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Dec. 31 at Calgary, 10 p.m.
Jan. 3 N.Y. Islanders, 10 p.m.
Jan. 5 Colorado, 10 p.m.
Jan. 8 at Winnipeg, 3 p.m.
Jan. 10 at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Jan. 12 at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
Jan. 14 at Florida, 7 p.m.
Jan. 15 at Carolina, 5 p.m.
Jan. 18 Tampa Bay, 10 p.m.
Jan. 20 Colorado, 10 p.m.
Jan. 21 Edmonton, 10 p.m.
Jan. 24 Chicago, 10 p.m.
Jan. 25 at Seattle, 10 p.m.
Jan. 27 Columbus, 10 p.m.
Feb. 6 at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 8 at N.Y. Rangers, 8 p.m.
Feb. 9 at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 11 at Detroit, 12 p.m.
Feb. 13 Detroit, 10 p.m.
Feb. 15 N.Y. Rangers, 10 p.m.
Feb. 18 Philadelphia, 10 p.m.
Feb. 21 at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Feb. 23 at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Feb. 25 Boston, 7 p.m.
Feb. 27 at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
March 2 Minnesota, 10 p.m.
March 4 Toronto, 7 p.m.
March 6 Nashville, 10:30 p.m.
March 8 Anaheim, 10 p.m.
March 11 Ottawa, 10 p.m.
March 14 Dallas, 10 p.m.
March 16 at Arizona, 10 p.m.
March 18 at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.
March 19 at Anaheim, 8 p.m.
March 21 Vegas, 10 p.m.
March 23 San Jose, 10 p.m.
March 25 at Dallas, 7 p.m.
March 26 at Chicago, 6 p.m.
March 28 at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
March 31 Calgary, 10 p.m.
April 2 Los Angeles, 8 p.m.
April 4 Seattle, 10 p.m.
April 6 Chicago, 10 p.m.
April 8 Calgary, 10 p.m.
April 10 at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
April 11 at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple said it will roll out a “lockdown” option for iPhones, iPads and Mac computers intended to protect against spyware unleashed by state-sponsored hackers — although enabling that protection will also make these devices less useful.
The safeguard announced Wednesday is a tacit acknowledgement that not even Apple — the world’s most valuable company — has been able to adequately shield the iPhone and its other products against intrusions from state-backed hackers and commercial spyware. Governments have used these tools to violate the privacy of journalists, political dissidents and human rights activists.
The new feature, called “lockdown mode,” will initially be offered as a test version so that security researchers can help Apple identify any bugs or weaknesses. Apple usually releases its major updates to its device operating systems in late September.
While only a handful of countries appear to have the resources to develop in-house mobile phone hacking tools, private companies like Israel’s NSO Group have been selling phone hacking software to government agencies around the world for years.
The growing hacker-for-hire problem prompted Apple to file a federal lawsuit late last year against NSO Group for breaking into iPhones and other Apple products. In its complaint, Apple accused NSO Group employees of being “amoral 21st century mercenaries who have created highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance machinery that invites routine and flagrant abuse.”
NSO, which has been blacklisted by the U.S. Commerce Department, has denied any wrongdoing and said its products have been used to thwart child abusers and terrorists.
Unlike the security features that Apple builds into most of its software, the company’s lockdown feature is meant to serve as an emergency button that Apple expects will only be needed by a small number of its users.
The lockdown measure is considered a last resort for people targeted by spyware, since activating lockdown will disable many popular features. That includes sending attachments and links in texts, as well as the ability to receive FaceTime calls from new numbers. Web browsing will also be limited.
But Apple believes the extra layer of protection will be valuable to activists, journalists and other targets of hacking attacks launched by well-funded groups. Users will be able to activate and deactivate lockdown mode at will.
The growing use of encrypted communications through phone apps like WhatsApp and Signal have prompted governments to turn to commercial spyware vendors to gather information on targets.
Such mobile phone spyware vacuums up text messages, emails and photos while secretly controlling a smartphone’s microphones and cameras. Some of the more advanced tools can infect a phone using so-called “zero click” exploits that don’t depend on the user inadvertently activating them, such as by clicking on a malicious link.
Google, whose Android mobile phone platform is used by iPhone competitors, has also been targeted by commercial spyware vendors. The company’s Threat Analysis Group says it’s tracking more than 30 such companies and routinely publishes reports on exploits used to hack into phones, making them far less effective.
Google also offers an “Advanced Protection Program” that uses a special security key hardware to make user accounts harder to hack. The company said it strongly recommends the program for “journalists, activists, business executives, and people involved in elections.”
Separately, Apple also provided more details about a $10 million grant it pledged last November to help counter large-scale hacking attacks. The money will go to the Dignity and Justice Fund, a philanthropic arm of the Ford Foundation. | https://www.koin.com/news/business/ap-business/apple-to-add-lockdown-safeguard-on-iphones-ipads-macs/ | 2022-07-07T01:26:18Z | https://www.koin.com/news/business/ap-business/apple-to-add-lockdown-safeguard-on-iphones-ipads-macs/ | false |
The grinding two-plus years of the pandemic have yielded outsize benefits for one company — Pfizer — making it both highly influential and hugely profitable as COVID-19 continues to infect tens of thousands of people and kill hundreds each day.
Its success in developing COVID-19 medicines has given the drugmaker unusual weight in determining U.S. health policy. Based on internal research, the company’s executives have frequently announced the next stage in the fight against the pandemic before government officials have had time to study the issue, annoying many experts in the medical field and leaving some patients unsure whom to trust.
Pfizer’s 2021 revenue was $81.3 billion, roughly double its revenue in 2020, when its top sellers were a pneumonia vaccine, the cancer drug Ibrance and the fibromyalgia treatment Lyrica, which had gone off-patent.
Now its mRNA vaccine holds 70 percent of the U.S. and European markets. And its antiviral Paxlovid is the pill of choice to treat early symptoms of COVID-19. This year, the company expects to rake in more than $50 billion in global revenue from the two medications alone.
Paxlovid’s value to vaccinated patients isn’t yet clear, and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t entirely prevent infections, although each booster temporarily restores some protection. Yet, while patients may recoil at the need for repeated injections — two boosters are now recommended for people 50 and older — the requirement is gold for investors.
“Hopefully, we could be giving it annually and maybe for some groups that are high-risk more often,” CEO Albert Bourla told investors this year. “Then you have the treatment [Paxlovid] that will, let’s say, resolve the issues of those that are getting the disease.”
Just last week, the Biden administration agreed to buy another 105 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for the fall booster campaign, paying $3.2 billion. At $30.47 a dose, it’s a significant premium over the $19.50-a-dose rate the government paid for the first 100 million. The vaccine is being modified to target early omicron variants, but newer variants are gaining dominance.
Because the virus keeps mutating and will be around for a long time, the market for Pfizer’s products won’t go away. In wealthier countries, the public is likely to keep coming back for more, like diners at an all-you-can-eat restaurant, sated but never entirely satisfied.
The reliance on Pfizer products at each stage of the pandemic has steered the U.S. response, including critical public health decisions.
When last year Bourla suggested that a booster shot would soon be needed, U.S. public health officials later followed, giving the impression that Pfizer was calling the tune. Some public health experts and scientists worry these decisions were hasty, noting, for example, that although boosters with the mRNA shots produced by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech improve antibody protection initially, it generally doesn’t last.
Since January, Bourla has been saying that U.S. adults will probably all need annual booster shots, and senior FDA officials have indicated since April that they agree.
At a June 28 meeting of FDA advisers considering a potential fall vaccination campaign, Pfizer presented studies involving about 3,500 people showing that tweaks to its COVID-19 vaccine allowed it to elicit more antibodies against the omicron variant that began circulating last December. But most of the advisers said the FDA should require the next vaccine to target an even newer omicron variant, known as BA.5.
That would mean more work and expense for Pfizer, which called on the FDA to enable it to make future changes to the COVID-19 vaccine without human trials — similar to how annual influenza vaccines are approved. “If such a process were implemented, responses to future waves could be substantially accelerated,” said Kena Swanson, Pfizer’s vice president for viral vaccines.
FDA officials at the meeting did not immediately respond to the suggestion.
As societies abandon other efforts to control COVID-19’s spread, such as mask mandates and physical distancing, Pfizer’s prospects look even brighter, especially now that the company has brought out the first oral COVID-19 treatment, Paxlovid.
“People are going to get out there,” Angela Hwang, president of Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group, told investors May 3. “We know with all of that, infections are going to increase, and that’s the role that Paxlovid can play.”
During a recent investor call, a Pfizer official could spin the recent reports that the virus can hide from Paxlovid into good news, predicting that, as with the vaccine, patients may need multiple courses.
Immunocompromised patients “may carry this virus for a very, very long time,” Dr. Mikael Dolsten said in the investor call. “And we see that area as a real new opportunity growth area for Paxlovid to do very well, where you may need to take multiple courses.”
Pfizer has spent handsomely to bolster its influence during the pandemic. Since early 2020, it has shelled out more than $25 million for in-house lobbying and payments to 19 lobbying firms, pushing for legislation to protect its products and promote more robust U.S. vaccination programs.
Pfizer’s donations to political candidates in the 2020 cycle were larger than those of any other drug company, totaling about $3.5 million, with the greatest share going to Democrats. Joe Biden got $351,000; Donald Trump just $103,000.
Unlike Moderna, Sanofi, Novavax, and Johnson & Johnson, which got billions of dollars in U.S. support, Pfizer did not seek government money to develop its vaccine, saying it would work independently.
Pfizer did benefit from $445 million the German government provided to BioNTech, Pfizer’s partner in developing the vaccine. And, in the end, Pfizer relied substantially on U.S. government logistical support, according to a new book by former Health and Human Services official Paul Mango.
Pfizer recorded $7.8 billion in U.S. revenue for its COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. The government has options to buy 1.6 billion Pfizer vaccine doses and has so far bought 900 million of them, including 500 million purchased at not-for-profit prices to be donated to poor countries.
Pfizer’s terms in the contracts exclude many taxpayer protections. They deny the government any intellectual property rights and say that federal spending played no role in the vaccine’s development — even though National Institutes of Health scientists invented a key feature of Pfizer’s vaccine, said Robin Feldman, a patent law expert at the University of California.
“The agreement could set a precedent,” in which another company could cite Pfizer’s contracts to argue the government has surrendered any rights to an invention, she said.
The government also has agreed to buy about 20 million five-day courses of Paxlovid for $530 each.
Prices for the COVID-19 drug and vaccine will go up once the pandemic period is over, Bourla said at a January event, “to reflect the cutting-edge technology.”
Pfizer spokesperson Sharon Castillo declined to respond to specific questions about Pfizer’s influence on pandemic policy. She released a statement saying that “since Day 1 of this pandemic, we have been laser-focused on working collaboratively with all relevant stakeholders to bring to the world two medical breakthroughs. In doing so, we have moved at the speed of science, complied with the strict regulatory processes, and relied on our scientists’ expertise and manufacturing prowess.”
There is little question that the company ripped a scientific home run in responding rapidly to meet the medical needs created by the pandemic. It used artificial intelligence to track the spread of the virus and find the best places to recruit volunteers for its vaccine trials and deployed rapid drug-screening tools to develop Paxlovid.
Its success with the COVID-19 vaccine has raised hopes for a Pfizer vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, a danger to babies and older adults. The company is also moving toward seeking licensure for shots that protect against Lyme disease and hospital infections.
Pfizer had long shunned the vaccine business, with its historically modest financial returns. It dropped out of human vaccine production in the late 1960s after the recall of its disastrous measles vaccine, which sickened scores of children after exposure to the virus caused unexpected reactions with antibodies stimulated by the shot. The company returned to the field in 2009 when it bought Wyeth, which was making a highly effective and uncommonly profitable vaccine against pneumonia and ear infections.
Now, Pfizer is a new kind of global powerhouse. In 2021 alone, the company hired nearly 2,400 people. “We are a household name right now to billions of people,” Bourla said in January. “People are trusting the Pfizer vaccines.”
The company’s power worries some vaccinologists, who see its growing influence in a realm of medical decision-making traditionally led by independent experts.
During a recent investor call, analyst Evan Seigerman of BMO Capital Markets asked whether the world was “kind of walking blindly into recommending boosters” so frequently.
Data from Israel, which uses only Pfizer’s vaccine and has provided most of the studies that have led to vaccination booster recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggest that third and fourth doses of the mRNA vaccines increase antibody levels that quickly wane again. Added boosters saved some lives in the over-60 population, but the data are less clear about the benefit to younger adults.
When President Biden in September 2021 offered boosters to Americans — not long after Bourla had recommended them — Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a developer of a vaccine for an intestinal virus, wondered, “Where’s the evidence you are at risk of serious disease when confronted with COVID if you are vaccinated and under 50?”
Policies on booster recommendations for different groups are complex and shifting, Offit said, but the CDC, rather than Bourla and Pfizer, should be making them.
“We’re being pushed along,” he said. “The pharmaceutical companies are acting like public health agencies.”
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday that the 27-nation European Union needs to make emergency plans to prepare for a complete cut-off of Russian gas in the wake of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.
“It is obvious: (Russian President Vladimir) Putin continues to use energy as a weapon. This is why the Commission is working on a European emergency plan,” she told legislators in Strasbourg, France.
The EU has already imposed sanctions on Russia, including on some energy supplies, and is steering away from Kremlin-controlled deliveries. But the head of the EU’s executive branch said the bloc needed to be ready for shock disruptions coming from Moscow, and said the first plans would be presented by the middle of the month.
“If worst comes to worst, then we have to be prepared,” she said, hoping to avoid the chaotic scenes, and the my-country-first attitude that some member states showed early on in the COVID-19 pandemic response.
Energy, and the prospect of a winter without enough heating for homes or power to keep factories going, could now pose a similar challenge to EU solidarity and a source for populist-spawned division.
“It is very important to have a European overview and a coordinated approach to a potential complete cut off of Russian gas,” von der Leyen said. A dozen members have already been hit by reductions or full cuts in gas supplies as the political standoff with Moscow over the Ukraine invasion intensifies.
Highlighting the potential challenges ahead, Germany said last week it suspects that Russia may not resume natural gas deliveries to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline after planned maintenance work in July, complicating the outlook for this winter.
Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom blamed a technical problem for the reduction in gas flowing through Nord Stream 1, which runs under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. The company said equipment maintenance was affected by Western sanctions.
European Union countries already agreed last month that all natural gas storage in the 27-nation bloc should be topped up to at least 80% capacity for next winter to avoid shortages during the cold season. The new regulation also says underground gas storage on EU soil will need to be filled to 90% capacity before the 2023-24 winter.
Von der Leyen said that the storage stood at 55% a week ago, adding that liquefied natural gas deliveries from the United States had already tripled.
The war in Ukraine has prompted the 27-nation bloc to rethink its energy policies and sever ties with Russian fossil fuels. Member countries have agreed to ban 90% of Russian oil by year-end in addition to a ban on imports of Russian coal that will start in August.
The EU has not included gas — a fuel used to power factories and generate electricity — in its own sanctions for fear of seriously harming the European economy. Before the war in Ukraine, it relied on Russia for 25% of its oil and 40% of its natural gas.
To slash its use of Russian energy, the European Commission has been diversifying suppliers.
In the meantime, the average monthly import of Russian pipeline gas is declining by 33% compared with last year, von der Leyen said as she called for a speedy transition toward renewable sources of energy.
“Some say, in the new security environment after Russia’s aggression, we have to slow down the green transition. This transition would come at the ‘the cost of basic security,’ they say. The opposite is true. If we all do nothing but compete about limited fossil fuels, the prices will further explode and fill Putin’s war chest,” she said. “Renewables are home-grown. They give us independence from Russian fossil fuels. They are more cost-efficient. And they are cleaner.”
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Temperatures across the middle parts of the United States were “dangerously high” on Wednesday, the National Weather Service warned, as another heat wave took hold. And it won’t end soon.
About 80 million people were sweating through excessive heat warnings or advisories that stretched across Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, eastern Tennessee and Arkansas, according to Zack Taylor, a weather service meteorologist.
Thursday could be even hotter, with highs in the upper 90s and low 100s, the weather service said. Nightfall will bring little relief, with temperatures remaining in the upper 70s and low 80s. And high humidity levels will make parts of the Central Plains feel about 10 degrees warmer than it actually is.
“These multiday heat waves can become more dangerous because the body is unable to cool off at night,” Taylor said. “And it’s just repeating, day after day after day of high heat and humidity.”
The Central Plains and the South could break daily temperature records this week. On Thursday, Memphis, Tennessee, is expected to break a record high of 102 degrees, which was set in 1875.
This heat wave follows one that settled over roughly the same region for three weeks in June, but it will very likely move more slowly across the country, aylor said. Much of the Central Plains may not get any relief until next week. And although hot stretches during the summer are “not terribly unusual,” he said, the back-to-back heat waves are becoming a concern.
The heat dome that is trapping the hot air over the country was centered on Wednesday in western Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana. Some scattered thunderstorms could fall there, said Michael York, a meteorologist with the weather service in Kentucky. “But it doesn’t look like they will really cool down anything,” he added. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/80-million-americans-are-under-heat-warnings-or-advisories/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-07-07T01:29:11Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/80-million-americans-are-under-heat-warnings-or-advisories/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | false |
Channel 10 boss dismisses reports about new breakfast show's poor ratings and insists the network is 'happy' with its performance… after drawing just 44 viewers in Sydney
Channel 10's new 8am news bulletin, 10 News First: Breakfast, landed with a thud last week, drawing just 44 viewers in Sydney during its second day on air.
And now a network executive has stepped forward to dismiss press coverage of the disastrous OzTam ratings as 'exaggerated'.
Martin White, Head of Broadcast News at Channel 10, defended the show's performance in an interview with TV Tonight on Wednesday.
A Channel 10 executive has defended the disastrous ratings of the network's new 8am news bulletin, 10 News First: Breakfast. (Pictured: hosts Natasha Exelby and Lachlan Kennedy)
White said 10 News First: Breakfast had increased viewership in its time slot by 13 per cent, adding that it's still a 'work in progress'.
'We're happy with how it's building,' he said.
'It's still early days but there's better to come, and it's got a great and passionate team behind it.'
During its first week on air, the show drew an average of just 17,000 viewers across the five major cities.
White is confident these numbers will build with 'increased awareness'.
Martin White (pictured), Head of Broadcast News at Channel 10, defended the show's performance in an interview with TV Tonight on Wednesday
White described the show, hosted by Natasha Exelby and Lachlan Kennedy, as 'pure news, no filler', unlike other breakfast programs.
'No one does a pure, half-hour news bulletin at that time of day,' he added.
He said the bulletin 'showcases' the 10 News brand and will increase the network's 'footprint' across the day on different platforms.
10 News First: Breakfast landed drew just 44 viewers in Sydney during its second day on air
Viewers can see 10 News First: Breakfast live on Channel 10, on streaming platform 10 Play and the 10 News First YouTube channel.
The new 8am bulletin replaced the first half-hour of morning talk show Studio 10.
Just 44 viewers in Sydney tuned in to watch the breakfast program during its second day on air, according to OzTAM figures.
Channel 10's last attempt at a breakfast program, Wake Up, was axed in 2014 after six months on the air. Pictured: James Mathison (left), Natarsha Belling (centre) and Natasha Exelby (right)
On the same day, the 30-minute broadcast attracted just 224 viewers in Perth.
About 17,000 viewers across the five major cities watched the show in its first week.
This isn't the first time Channel 10 has gone into damage control after a breakfast TV show spectacularly flopped.
It comes after Channel 10 categorically denied rumours Studio 10 was on the chopping block (Pictured: hosts Sarah Harris and Tristan MacManus)
The station's last attempt at a breakfast program, Wake Up, was axed in 2014 after just six months on the air.
The program was launched in November 2013 to compete with Channel Seven's Sunrise and Channel Nine's Today show, but it failed miserably.
It comes after Channel 10 denied rumours Studio 10 was on the chopping block.
The morning show has been struggling in the ratings for years, with The Australian reporting there are now fears within the network it could soon face the axe.
But a 10 spokesperson rubbished the speculation, telling Daily Mail Australia on Monday the program remains profitable and isn't going anywhere.
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CLINTON, Wash. — At first glance, there's nothing out of the ordinary at Marsha Owen's yarn shop near the Clinton ferry dock.
"We're the only yarn store on South Whidbey Island," Marsha said.
But just behind the colorful coils of hand-dyed yarn, is the dream of her husband, Matt.
"His dream — he talked about owning a bar. We didn't know what kind of bar so craft cocktails just been a passion," Marsha said. "So we decided to merge them."
That merger became one of the most unique businesses on Whidbey Island, Skein & Tipple.
"So this is a skein of yarn, and tipple is an old-time word for a cocktail," Marsha explained. "So the name was born and we found the building and it just kind of lent itself to a yarn store and speakeasy in the back."
"I've been a knitter since 2006," Marsha continued. "And so, I absolutely love yarn, any yarn, anything knitted. Definitely a passion of mine."
"I love making cocktails. I love serving them," Matt said. "I'm actually an introvert but I actually love people so as long as they come to me, I'm good."
"It's a little bit strange. At first, they come through and they see yarn, okay, okay, and the store closes down at night. So there's kind of a pathway that brings you through a yarn store into a cocktail bar," Marsha said. "And very surprising for everyone."
Not only do they mix a mean cocktail, but they also serve up live music too.
"We have local live entertainment. Almost all our musicians are south Whidbey residents, the majority of them. We get to watch a concert every night."
"One of the best things about the bar is that I've met so many interesting, really cool people and all local. Like so many months of saying, 'Oh my god I live right down the street.' And I just think that it's the best thing ever."
Skein & Tipple, two dreams under one roof.
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Foxcroft Academy head football coach Danny White’s involvement with the annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic football game has come full circle.
White — then a student at Foxcroft Academy — played in the 2003 game, which was won by the East 55-8 for the East’s second win in 14 games. Since then, he’s served as an assistant coach for six subsequent games.
But this summer, White will be making his debut as the head coach of the East team. The event pits this past season’s seniors from the West against the East and will be held at Lewiston’s Don Roux Field on Saturday, July 16, at 4 p.m.
They will play four 15-minute quarters instead of the four 12-minute quarters they play in high school.
White is coming off a season in which he guided his Dover-Foxcroft-based Ponies to an 11-0 season and the state Class D championship.
The teams will convene at Foxcroft Academy on Sunday and will practice for a week while living in the dorms on campus.
“Having played in this game in 2003, coaching in it six times, and having the opportunity to be the head coach coming off the heels of a state championship, while also being able to coach three of my players, is pretty special,” said the 37-year-old White.
He also said being able to practice where he works and lives adds even more to it.
Quarterback Austin Seavey, offensive lineman Anthony Smith and utility back Jesse Drury played important roles leading the Ponies to their first state title since 2012 and are on the East roster.
White said everybody is “very excited” to have the Lobster Bowl return to its normal 11 vs. 11 tackle football format for the first time since 2019.
The COVID-19 pandemic canceled the 2020 game and forced last year’s contest to be restructured as a 7 vs. 7, eight-team touch football affair.
Each will have 15 separate practices.
“It’s a pretty grueling schedule,” White said.
Aside from football practice, the teams will also take time away to go to the Sports Arena on the Bangor-Hermon line for bowling and another day they will go to Peaks-Kenny State Park on Sebec Lake in Dover-Foxcroft.
White, who will begin his 14th season as the head coach at Foxcroft Academy in the fall, said the preparation for the game began in February when the coaching staffs and players were named.
Rosters have changed as some players opt out for reasons such as military involvement or their college coach advising against it.
White said having been an assistant six times will be beneficial for his head coach role.
“I’ve learned a thing or two so I know what to expect. Some of my assistants have been the head coaches in previous Lobster Bowls. There is a lot of organization and a lot of moving parts involved when you are getting this many people together,” White said.
He will be assisted by Oxford Hills of South Paris’ Mark Soehren, John Bapst of Bangor’s Danny O’Connell, Mt. Blue of Farmington’s Matt Friedman, Windham’s Matt Perkins and Don Ledbetter, Foxcroft Academy’s Ryan Dankert, Dexter’s Andy Shorey, and Houlton’s Jon Solomon.
With players from so many schools and just one week of practice, it is important the coaches limit the amount of plays or schemes they subject the players to.
“Simplicity is important in a game like this. Simplicity and execution,” he said.
“You aren’t going to use a lot of unique plays because you have only so much time to practice things that you’re going to use in the game. But both sides will be mixing in a few things they feel like their team will be particularly good at.”
Coaches will also be cognizant of the fact the players won’t necessarily be in “football shape” even though many of them have been working out preparing for their college season this fall.
“The game is the goal but we first have to get them through the week from a physical and mental standpoint,” White said.
The game has raised more than $750,000 for the Shriners Hospitals for Children over the years.
The West has a 20-10 historical advantage, including a 60-14 win in 2019 in which it broke the record for points in a game. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/06/sports/high-school-sports/former-lobster-bowl-classic-champion-makes-his-head-coach-debut-for-east-team-joam40zk0w/ | 2022-07-07T01:31:35Z | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/06/sports/high-school-sports/former-lobster-bowl-classic-champion-makes-his-head-coach-debut-for-east-team-joam40zk0w/ | true |
New rules proposed by the Biden administration on Wednesday would make it easier for borrowers to get their federal student debt forgiven through several existing programs.
The action is intended to overhaul relief programs that have been criticized for their burdensome paperwork requirements and long processing times. It builds on the administration’s efforts to expand targeted debt cancellation for certain borrowers while President Joe Biden considers broader student debt forgiveness.
“We are committed to fixing a broken system,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. “If a borrower qualifies for student loan relief, it shouldn’t take mountains of paperwork or a law degree to obtain it.”
The proposal would smooth out a debt forgiveness process for students whose colleges deceive them, along with other programs for borrowers who are disabled and those with careers in public service.
It’s unlikely to open debt forgiveness to huge swaths of borrowers, but it’s meant to make it easier for those who already qualify. The Education Department plans to finalize the rules no later than July 1, 2023.
Some of the most significant changes are to the borrower defense program, which allows students to get their loans erased if their colleges lie to them or otherwise commit fraud.
The program has seen an explosion of claims over the last decade starting with an Obama-era crackdown on for-profit colleges. But political and legal battles have led to a backlog of more than 200,000 applications, with some borrowers waiting years for a decision.
Instead of requiring the government to review each claim individually — a rule set by the Trump administration — the new proposal would allow the Education Department to process groups of similar claims together.
If a college is found to have deceived students about their job prospects after graduating, for example, the department would be able to combine all claims from that school and approve them in one action. That option would be available if there’s evidence of widespread fraud by a school, determined by state or federal authorities or through a class-action lawsuit.
The Biden administration also hopes to hold more colleges financially liable for their students’ canceled loans. In the past, loan cancellation has typically been passed to taxpayers, but the proposal rules would make it clear that the department plans to recoup costs from colleges that commit fraud.
And for the first time, borrowers would known when to expect a decision: The policy would require the Education Department to approve or deny individual claims within three years.
The new plan drew condemnation from the for-profit college industry, which faced intense scrutiny from the Obama administration but later found an ally in President Donald Trump.
Jason Altmire, president and CEO of the industry trade group Career Education Colleges and Universities, said the policy would be an “unprecedented expansion” of the Education Department’s authority.
“Today’s proposed rule sends a clear and troubling message that the Department intends to use the rulemaking process to discharge federal student loans en masse while hurting unfavored institutions and their students,” Altmire said.
Critics of the industry applauded what they see as increased accountability. Veterans Education Success, a nonprofit advocacy group, called it a “significant improvements over current rules,” adding that it would hold “unscrupulous schools accountable for federal losses.”
Also targeted for an overhaul is the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which was created by Congress as an incentive for government and nonprofit workers but has been criticized for having overly rigid requirements.
Under the current rules, workers in eligible jobs who make 120 monthly payments can get the rest of their federal student debt erased. Each monthly payment must be made in full and within 15 days of its due date, otherwise it doesn’t count toward the 120 payments.
The new action would erase the 15-day rule, allowing payments to count even if they are made late or in multiple installments. It also would allow borrowers to make up to a year of payments in advance instead of making monthly payments.
For the first time, borrowers in certain situations could also make progress toward loan forgiveness even if they don’t pay. People who get their loans paused for cancer treatment, military service or to join the Peace Corps, for example, would be treated as if they were still making monthly payments during that time.
Although the changes would add flexibility, they don’t go as far as a temporary overhaul the Biden administration instituted last year in response to the pandemic.
That short-term fix allows borrowers to get previous payments counted toward loan forgiveness even if they went toward loans that aren’t eligible under the program’s rules. That flexibility will go away after Oct. 31, and the Education Department urged borrowers to use it before it expires.
More flexibility would also be introduced to a separate program intended to help borrowers with disabilities.
That program offers to cancel federal student debt for people who are permanently disabled and unable to generate significant income. But many have been granted forgiveness only to have their debt restored later after failing to submit paperwork during a three-year monitoring period.
The new action would eliminate the three-year review period and make more types of disabilities eligible for cancellation. The Biden administration temporarily lifted some of the program’s rules during the pandemic, but the new changes would be permanent.
All the proposed changes are the result of a federal rules process that has been in the works for more than a year. It adds to the Biden administration’s effort to expand student debt relief through a patchwork of existing programs. So far it has approved nearly $26 billion in debt forgiveness for more than 1.3 million borrowers.
Biden has separately faced pressure to pursue mass debt cancellation, with some Democrats urging him to erase $50,000 across the board. As a candidate, Biden supported $10,000 in forgiveness and in April he said he was “taking a hard look” at the issue, promising a decision “in the next couple of weeks.” No decision has been announced.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has died, Nigerian authorities and the oil cartel announced Wednesday. Only hours before his death, he’d met with Nigeria’s president and spoken in defense of the energy industry amid increasing climate change pressure.
Mohammad Barkindo, 63, died late Tuesday in Abuja, a spokesman for Nigeria’s petroleum ministry told The Associated Press. The reason for his death was not immediately known. The Vienna-based oil cartel also confirmed his death, saying he was a “much-loved leader” of OPEC.
His death came as a surprise to industry insiders. His second term as head of OPEC was set to end in three weeks on July 31. He’d held the post for six years since 2016.
Barkindo’s death was first confirmed in a tweet by the managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, Mele Kyari.
OPEC’s statement said Barkindo’s last words to friends were that he was happy to have concluded his tenure as secretary-general, he’d served the best he could and that he was proud of those who’d served with him.
Barkindo led the crude oil bloc through some of its most turbulent times in recent memory, including during the COVID-19 pandemic when oil prices plummeted due to declining demand. He helped guide the group, working to keep the positions of its members unified.
OPEC’s 13 member-states have 1.24 billion proven crude oil reserves among them, or 80% of the world’s share. Of the world’s total crude oil production, OPEC producers’ share is just under 38%.
His role representing OPEC took on even greater significance in past years amid a global effort to tackle climate change. Barkindo used his platform to advocate in favor of a bigger role for the energy industry in conversations about the energy transition. This positioned him firmly on the side of oil producers who say more investments in oil and gas are needed until the world is able to run on alternative forms of energy.
“Our industry is now facing huge challenges along multiple fronts and these threaten our investment potential now and in the longer term. To put it bluntly, the oil and gas industry is under siege,” he said hours before his death at an energy conference in Nigeria.
Scientists and authors of U.N.-backed studies say the world needs to cut by more than half its production of coal, oil and gas in the coming decade to maintain a chance of keeping global warming from reaching dangerous levels. To do this, they say investments in oil and gas must stop and be rerouted to cleaner forms of energy.
Barkindo’s legacy, however, is perhaps most tied to his final years steering OPEC as the group entered into an agreement known as OPEC+ with major non-OPEC producer, Russia. That agreement, spearheaded by Saudi Arabia and Russia, has helped steady oil markets as the world emerges from the pandemic, though it has come under criticism amid current high oil prices and as the U.S. and other Western nations try to squeeze Russia’s economy over the war in Ukraine. Brent crude has soared past $100 a barrel this year.
OPEC member-states accounted for around 48% of all world crude oil exports last year. Saudi Arabia is by far the biggest exporter of crude within OPEC, with 6.23 million barrels per day of crude exports last year. Non-OPEC producer, Russia, exported 4.5 million barrels of crude last year.
Barkindo’s successor Haitham al-Ghais, a veteran of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, was set to assume the post in August.
Born in Nigeria’s eastern city of Yola, Barkindo began his career with the Nigerian Mining Corporation in 1982 before holding multiple roles over more than two decades at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, including as its CEO. He also served as deputy managing director of Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas.
He’d led Nigeria’s technical delegation to the U.N. climate change negotiations for years and served several terms as vice president of the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties.
He attended university in Nigeria before earning a post-graduate degree in petroleum economics from Oxford University in the U.K. and an MBA from Washington University in the U.S.
In his meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari told Barkindo: “Welcome back home!” according to an OPEC readout of the meeting. Buhari also congratulated him on his tenure at OPEC. Nigeria has been a member of OPEC for 50 years.
Barkindo was set to join the Atlantic Council as a distinguished fellow next month, after finishing his term at OPEC. He was a frequent speaker at the Atlantic Council’s global energy forum.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – President Joe Biden is spotlighting a major push to save pensions.
The president spoke in front of a crowd of union workers in Ohio on Wednesday, promising retirement security.
“With today’s actions, millions of workers will have the dignified retirement they earned and they deserve,” Biden said.
His team is implementing an American Rescue Plan measure to fund struggling union pension plans. Senior Advisor Gene Sperling says that means millions of workers will get their full retirement benefits at a time when they have been slashed or threatened.
“These workers who’ve devoted 20, 30, 40 years of their life, this will be game-changing,” Sperling said.
There are concerns about how much the pension relief costs and some critics worry it doesn’t address the problems that put pensions at risk in the first place.
Rachel Greszler, a Heritage Foundation Economist, criticized the move.
“The notion that Democrats and the administration are saving these private union pension plans by forcing ordinary Americans to pay for them is just dead wrong,” Greszler said.
She argues the government should reform the system, rather than give it what she sees as a taxpayer-funded bailout.
“Instead of penalizing the bad actors and putting in place rules that will actually fix the system going forward, it is literally handing over tens of billions of dollars to the people that ran those plans into the ground,” Greszler said.
This measure also only funds a portion of pension plans and only lasts until 2051. Greszler believes officials are just kicking the can down the road.
“There will have to be future bailouts if they don’t fix the rules now,” Greszler said.
Sperling agrees the system may need reforms in the future, but says retirees deserve help now.
“Not just letting those folks take a harsh hit when they’ve done nothing but work hard their whole lives,” Sperling said. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/washington/washington-dc/biden-touts-measure-to-rescue-struggling-union-pension-plans/ | 2022-07-07T01:36:56Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/washington/washington-dc/biden-touts-measure-to-rescue-struggling-union-pension-plans/ | false |
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Authorities said Crimo was spotted by a North Chicago officer who attempted a traffic stop. Crimo led officers on a brief chase before being stopped. He was taken into custody without incident and will be transferred to the police department in Highland Park, where the deadly shooting occurred earlier Monday.
As law enforcement searched for Crimo, police had labeled him “a person of interest” and the FBI said, “He is being sought for his alleged involvement in the shooting of multiple individuals at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois.”
The capture ended an intense manhunt across the Chicagoland area after the shooting upended Independence Day festivities in cities throughout the region.
The shooting began shortly after 10 a.m. CT as parade-goers enjoyed a sunny Fourth of July parade along Central Avenue.
Firearm evidence was found on the rooftop of a business near the shooting, police commander Chris O’Neill said earlier. The gunman used a ladder attached to the building on a wall in an alley to access the roof, said Christopher Covelli, spokesperson for the Lake County Major Crime Task Force. The gun was a “high-powered rifle” and the attack appeared to be “random” and “intentional,” Covelli said.
Authorities are working to trace the firearm to find out who purchased it and its origins, according to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesperson Kim Nerheim.
Covelli told reporters that SWAT members and other officers have been evacuating people from buildings within a certain radius of the shooting. Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek said the five people who died at the scene were adults. She said one person died at a hospital, but she didn’t have more information about that victim.
A total of 26 patients were received at Highland Park Hospital. The patients ranged in age from 8 years old to 85 years old — four or five were children, according to Dr. Brigham Temple, the medical director of the NorthShore University Health System.
He said 19 of the 25 gunshot victims were treated and have been discharged. There were gunshot wounds to extremities as well as more central parts of bodies, he added.
The shooting caused hundreds of parade attendees to flee and triggered a large police response of local, state, and federal officers, including the FBI. Heavily armed officers patrolled the streets of Highland Park on Monday afternoon, and others were positioned on rooftops with sniper rifles.
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