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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police in suburban Portland, Oregon, said Thursday they arrested a crime ring leader responsible for trafficking more than 44,000 catalytic converters stolen from vehicles on the West Coast since 2021.
Detectives said they identified Brennan Doyle, 32, as the leader of the operation and searched his Lake Oswego home last week, along with seven other properties. The detectives seized over 3,000 catalytic converters hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, a high-end car and jewelry, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
Doyle and his associates are accused of stealing catalytic converters from vehicles along the West Coast, Beaverton police spokesperson Matt Henderson said. The crime ring was centered around Portland, but spanned multiple Oregon counties as well as Washington state, Nevada, California, Texas and New York, he said.
The metals inside catalytic converters can sell for thousands of dollars per ounce. The street value of the parts stolen and trafficked was estimated to be over $22 million.
The crime ring shipped boxes of converters to the East Coast and internationally, Henderson said. Dozens, if not hundreds, of people may have been involved in the operation, he added, but declined to share more details because the investigation is ongoing.
Doyle was indicted on 72 different charges, including racketeering, aggravated theft, and money laundering. Police say one of his associates, Tanner Hellbusch of Beaverton, was caught with over 100 catalytic converters in March. He was indicted on 20 similar counts. It wasn’t immediately known if they have lawyers to comment on the case.
At least 12 other people face charges in connection within the operation, police said. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/cops-oregon-crime-ring-moved-22m-in-catalytic-converters/ | 2022-08-12T20:57:27Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/cops-oregon-crime-ring-moved-22m-in-catalytic-converters/ | true |
Naira exchanges N429.62 to dollar at Investors, Exporters window
The Naira on Friday appreciated against the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window, exchanging at N429.62.
The open indicative rate closed at N429.67 to the dollar on Friday.
An exchange rate of N431.94 to the dollar was the highest rate recorded within the day’s trading before it settled at N429. 62.
The Naira sold for as low as N410 to the dollar within the day’s trading.
A total of 46.31 million was traded in foreign exchange at the official investors and exporters window on Friday.
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Scandal-tainted legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin exits CNN
Jeffrey Toobin, a longtime legal analyst at CNN who became engulfed in scandal for exposing himself to his colleagues at the New Yorker in a Zoom meeting, announced Friday that he is leaving the network.
Toobin has been with CNN for 20 years. He made his departure public in a tweet.
Toobin was fired by the New Yorker on Nov. 11 after what was perhaps the most famously humiliating snafu of the work-at-home era created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Oct. 19, 2020 Toobin exposed his genitals during a virtual meeting with staffers from the New Yorker and WNYC radio in preparation for presidential election coverage.
But Toobin only faced a suspension at CNN, where he was allowed to return to the air after eight months. When he returned, he described the incident as “an embarrassingly stupid mistake.”
However, with personnel cuts expected across CNN parent Warner Bros. Discovery, Toobin apparently became expendable, especially since the news network has no shortage of legal analysts to put on the air.
CNN President Jeff Zucker says he failed to disclose a relationship with another executive that was revealed during an inquiry into Chris Cuomo.
The Zoom incident is not the first scandal in Toobin’s career. The pundit has a son by fellow lawyer Casey Greenfield, with whom he had a lengthy on-and-off affair. She got pregnant in 2008, but he didn’t admit paternity until sometime later, after a DNA test.
Toobin has been married to Amy McIntosh for more than 30 years, and they have two children.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
5-1-8
(five, one, eight)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
5-1-8
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GRAPHIC: Man charged with beating blind man in wheelchair to death
GRANITE CITY, Ill. (KMOV/Gray News) – A blind man who used a wheelchair was beaten to death inside an Illinois home over the weekend, according to investigators.
Police said around 4:30 a.m. Sunday, 30-year-old Blake Streeb attacked two people inside a home in Granite City.
One of the victims, identified as 25-year-old Michael Reay, later died from his injuries. The second victim was hurt, but officials did not clarify the extent of injuries.
Streeb was arrested on the scene.
According to Reay’s uncle, Gary Reay, an accident as a teenager left Michael Reay blind and in a wheelchair. The family said he was defenseless when he was brutally attacked Sunday.
“Our understanding is (Streeb) showed up to the place and he beat Michael to a pulp, clearly from the picture here. He was beat beyond recognition and stomped,” Gary Reay said.
Photos from the hospital show Michael Reay on life support and with facial injuries beyond recognition.
The family said Michael Reay was visiting a friend the night of the attack. The family said they do not know Streeb.
Investigators with the Madison County Sheriff’s Department said this was not a random attack, although they are not yet sharing further information on a motive.
Investigators said Streeb lived nearby and was an acquaintance of the people who live in the house where the attack happened. The other victim who was injured lived at the home.
Capt. Brian Koberna said investigators believe Streeb was intoxicated at the time of the attack. The second victim was able to get away and call 911.
Investigators said they have responded to that house in the past for disturbance calls.
Michael Reay was taken to the hospital where he died from his injuries. His family said some of his organs were donated.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help the Reay family with funeral expenses.
Streeb remains behind bars, facing first-degree murder and battery charges. His bond was set at $1 million.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge held Baltimore’s top prosecutor in contempt of court on Friday, finding that she willfully violated a gag order with an Instagram comment about a high-profile murder case involving a defendant set to be tried a fifth time.
Circuit Judge John Nugent fined city State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby $1,500, but ruled that she can avoid paying the fine by following an even more restrictive gag order about the case for the next 90 days, The Daily Record reported.
The case involves the 2015 shooting death of Kevin Jones, a security guard at Pimlico race track. Prosecutors have unsuccessfully tried Keith Davis Jr., 31, for murder four times. Two of Davis’ trials ended in mistrials. He was convicted in two other trials, but both convictions were overturned. Davis’ case has been the focus of social justice advocates who fault Mosby for continuing to prosecute Davis. He maintains his innocence.
After an Instagram account posted a video asserting Davis’s innocence and a user commented that Mosby had lost her vote in the July 19 Democratic primary for Baltimore state’s attorney, Mosby responded: “You really shouldn’t believe everything you read.”
In commenting on the post, Nugent said, “I cannot see the social media comments on Instagram as anything but a willful violation of this court’s gag order.”
Mosby was present for the hearing, but wasn’t required to testify. Chief Counsel Erin Murphy, who represented the State’s Attorney’s Office, acknowledged that the comment was “an unwise choice” saying it was intended as a response to the user saying Mosby had lost her vote.
Mosby was defeated in a Democratic primary by defense attorney Ivan Bates. Baltimore is heavily Democratic, and no Republican is running in November though one unaffiliated candidate filed for the upcoming general election.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 12, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
239 PM CDT Fri Aug 12 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Calhoun
and central Victoria Counties through 330 PM CDT...
At 238 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Telferner, or 7 miles east of Victoria, moving southwest at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 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...
Victoria, Guadalupe, Victoria Colony Creek Country Club, Dacosta,
Wood Hi, Bloomington, Victoria Detar Hospital North, Victoria
Riverside Park, Placedo, Victoria College, Victoria Mall, Saxet
Lakes, Brentwood Subdivision, Inez, Victoria Regional Airport,
Telferner, Ball Airport Area and Downtown Victoria.
This includes the following highways...
US Highway 59 between mile markers 622 and 648.
US Highway 77 between mile markers 572 and 588.
US Highway 87 between mile markers 808 and 830.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2900 9682 2892 9679 2892 9678 2890 9676
2889 9673 2886 9672 2885 9670 2883 9672
2882 9672 2881 9671 2857 9677 2874 9717
2877 9716 2902 9686
TIME...MOT...LOC 1938Z 028DEG 12KT 2885 9686
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning film producer and industry thought leader Evan Shapiro will keynote the 2022 NAB Show New York opening event on Wednesday, October 19 at 10:30 a.m. at the Javits Center. In his keynote address titled, "Bringing Media Into the Current Century, Now," Shapiro's notoriously interactive presentation will engage NAB Show New York attendees in examining the shifts occurring in today's media landscape.
Shapiro's address will take place in the Content Theater located on the show floor following welcome remarks by National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) President and CEO Curtis LeGeyt.
Evan Shapiro is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning producer of film, TV and podcasts. He is a professor of Media Studies at New York University and Fordham University schools of business and co-hosts a podcast called Cancel Culture. Many in media know him as the official, unofficial cartographer of the media universe. Using his specific point of view, Shapiro has mapped the tech and entertainment ecosystem, and through his essays, helps chart media's future. Shapiro uses these insights to power his change agency, ESHAP, which offers partners and consumers media insight as a service.
"With an impressive resume of award-winning projects, unique insight into the competition for audience's attention and influential thinking about the future of the business, Evan Shapiro is a sought-after voice for preparing media professionals for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow," said Chris Brown, NAB executive vice president and managing director, Global Connections and Events. "We are excited to have Evan share his perspective with our community as we kick off the return to an in-person NAB Show New York."
Shapiro will also participate in an exclusive interview on NAB Amplify as a preview to his NAB Show New York keynote address.
Press registration for NAB Show New York is available here.
Produced by the National Association of Broadcasters and co-located with the AES New York 2022 Convention, NAB Show New York will be held October 17-20, 2022 (exhibits October 19-20) at the Javits Center. Located in the media capital of the world, NAB Show New York offers hands-on learning, discovery and insights into the technology and business strategies that are transforming media and entertainment. Through exhibits, conferences and networking events, NAB Show New York spotlights the products, practices and leaders promoting superior audio and video experiences. Learn more at www.nabshowny.com.
The National Association of Broadcasters is the premier advocacy association for America's broadcasters. NAB advances radio and television interests in legislative, regulatory and public affairs. Through advocacy, education and innovation, NAB enables broadcasters to best serve their communities, strengthen their businesses and seize new opportunities in the digital age. Learn more at www.nab.org.
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Hundreds of military families will travel to Orlando, Florida to support their family members competing in the DoD Warrior Games
ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Close to 650 family and friends of military athletes will travel to cheer on their loved ones at the DoD Warrior Games next week. Fisher House Foundation is proud to be a presenting sponsor of the Department of Defense Warrior Games and to lead the Family Program, making this experience possible. Athletes will compete in a series of adaptive sports that begins with the opening ceremony on Aug. 19 at ESPN Wide World of Sports and continues through Aug. 28.
As part of the Warrior Games Family Program, friends and families of U.S. athletes receive travel, lodging, and meals at no cost. This year, the Family Program also includes the Warrior Games Family and Athlete Welcome Event at Magic Kingdom Theme Park at Walt Disney World Resort on Aug. 18 and the Warrior Games Family Program Hospitality Suite at ESPN Wide World of Sports. The Family Program Hospitality Suite will include meals, snacks, beverages, resiliency activities, games, and more throughout the Games.
First Lady Jill Biden will deliver remarks at this year's Warrior Games Family and Athlete Welcome Event at Magic Kingdom in support of the White House's Joining Forces initiative.
Fisher House Foundation has sponsored the Warrior Games Family Program since 2012. The Foundation provides support to these competitors' families allowing them to be there to cheer on their service member or veteran and celebrate alongside them as they continue their recovery journey.
"We believe a family's love is the best medicine of all, and that is why bringing families to the Warrior Games is so important," said Ken Fisher, Chairman and CEO of Fisher House Foundation. "Many of these families stayed at a Fisher House while receiving medical care for their injuries or illness. Through the Warrior Games Family Program, we can help them celebrate how far they have come."
Fisher House Foundation Vice President of Strategic Initiatives Tish Stropes will also participate in the Veterans Institute Summit panel on Aug. 19. The Summit, hosted by the Disney Institute, will be held in person and online Aug. 19-20. It is designed to help companies and organizations learn how to build or improve effective veteran-hiring initiatives. Several panels and guest speakers will discuss best practices and experiences with hiring veterans. Learn more about the Veterans Institute Summit at https://www.disneyinstitute.com/disney-institute-summits/veterans-institute-summit/
The DoD Warrior Games were delayed in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19. This year's Warrior Games will also include teams from Canada and Ukraine. The Games will be streamed live at www.dodwarriorgames.com.
Fisher House Foundation is best known for its network of 92 comfort homes where military and veteran families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment. These homes are located at major military and VA medical centers nationwide, and in Europe, close to the medical center or hospital they serve. Fisher Houses have up to 21 suites, with private bedrooms and baths. Families share a common kitchen, laundry facilities, a warm dining room, and an inviting living room. Fisher House Foundation ensures that there is never a lodging fee. Since inception, the program has saved military and veteran families an estimated $547 million in out-of-pocket costs for lodging and transportation. www.fisherhouse.org
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PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. transportation officials announced $2.2 billion for local infrastructure projects on Thursday, paving the way for new bridges, roads, bike lanes, railways and ports in scores of communities across the country.
The competitive grants are more than double the amount awarded the previous year under the same program. The influx comes from a $1 trillion infrastructure law backed by President Joe Biden, which provided an additional $7.5 billion over five years for the grants.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the projects would help modernize America’s transportation systems.
“This is a program that recognizes many of the most interesting and compelling ideas and designs and plans aren’t going to come from Washington, but more of the funding should,” Buttigieg said. “That’s what we’re delivering here.”
Buttigieg traveled to Arizona to highlight projects in Phoenix and Tucson, each of which are receiving the maximum $25 million. In Phoenix, the money will help build a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Rio Salado, connecting the city’s southern area with downtown.
In Tucson, the money will revamp a prominent street and replace a 1960s-era vehicle bridge that’s in poor condition. It also will add a separate bicycle and pedestrian bridge as part of what Mayor Regina Romero called “a transformative investment in Tucson’s infrastructure.”
While the Tucson project will expand the number lanes for motorists, some projects elsewhere will reduce them. For example, a $17 million grant will help narrow a five-lane road to three lanes in the Chicago suburb of Munster, Indiana, in an effort to decrease traffic crashes. The money also will fund a 10-foot-wide multi-purpose path along the street and plant more than 250 trees.
For many road improvement grants, “we’re doing it in mind of also benefitting the bike and pedestrian side,” Buttigieg said.
Other newly announced projects in the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program also provide funding for bicycle and pedestrian paths.
Texas and Kansas are each receiving about $25 million for hiking and biking trails. Huntsville, Alabama, is getting $20 million to improve a pedestrian corridor linking downtown to isolated neighborhoods. Another $20 million is helping finance a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Potomac River between Arlington, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Buttigieg said the U.S. Department of Transportation received about $13 billion in grant applications.
A total of 166 projects across the country are getting a slice of the $2.2 billion. The funding marks a significant increase from the $983 million distributed among 90 projects in 2021. The allotment is the largest dating to 2009 for a program that has undergone multiple name and emphasis changes during the presidential administrations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
Though still substantial, the funding doesn’t have quite the buying power as anticipated when the infrastructure legislation passed Congress last year. That’s because inflation has driven up the cost of key transportation construction materials, such as steel plates for bridges and asphalt for paving roads.
This year’s projects range from a new seawall and port improvements in Sitka, Alaska, to the construction of a four-lane parkway in the Virgin Islands.
Among other projects, New Jersey is getting $20 million to elevate a roadway that serves as a main evacuation route for Atlantic City and its casino industry. In Louisiana, $20 million will go toward the design and construction of two train stations along a planned route between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Whatcom County, Washington, will get $25 million to replace a 60-year-old ferry serving rural Lummi Island with an electric hybrid model.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The Aug. 5 demonstrations by India’s main opposition Congress party against soaring food prices and unemployment began like any other recent protest — an electorally weak opposition taking to the New Delhi streets against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s massively popular government.
The protests, however, quickly took a turn when key Congress lawmakers led by Rahul Gandhi — Modi’s main opponent in the last two general elections — trooped to the Parliament, leading to fierce standoffs with police.
“Democracy is a memory (in India),” Gandhi later tweeted, describing the dramatic photographs that showed him and his party leaders being briefly detained by police.
Gandhi’s statement was largely seen as yet another frantic effort by a crisis-ridden opposition party to shore up its relevance and was dismissed by the government. But it resonated amid growing sentiment that India’s democracy — the world’s largest with nearly 1.4 billion people — is in retreat and its democratic foundations are floundering.
Experts and critics say trust in the judiciary as a check on executive power is eroding. Assaults on the press and free speech have grown brazen. Religious minorities are facing increasing attacks by Hindu nationalists. And largely peaceful protests, sometimes against provocative policies, have been stamped out by internet clampdowns and the jailing of activists.
“Most former colonies have struggled to put a lasting democratic process in place. India was more successful than most in doing that,” said Booker Prize-winning novelist and activist Arundhati Roy. “And now, 75 years on, to witness it being dismantled systematically and in shockingly violent ways is traumatic.”
Modi’s ministers say India’s democratic principles are robust, even thriving.
“If today there is a sense in the world that democracy is, in some form, the future, then a large part of it is due to India,” External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in April. “There was a time when, in this part of the world, we were the only democracy.”
History is on Jaishankar’s side.
At midnight on August 15, 1947, the red sandstone parliamentary building in the heart of India’s capital echoed with the high-pitched voice of Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister.
“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom,” Nehru famously spoke, words that were heard over live radio by millions of Indians. Then he promised: “To the nations and peoples of the world, we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in furthering peace, freedom and democracy.”
It marked India’s transition from a British colony to a democracy — the first in South Asia — that has since transformed from a poverty-stricken nation into one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, earning itself a seat at the global high table and becoming a democratic counterweight to its authoritarian neighbor, China.
Apart from a brief interruption in 1975 when a formal emergency was declared under the Congress party rule that saw outright censorship, India clung doggedly to its democratic convictions — largely due to free elections, an independent judiciary that confronted the executive, a thriving media, strong opposition and peaceful transitions of power.
But experts and critics say the country has been gradually departing from some commitments and argue the backsliding has accelerated since Modi came to power in 2014. They accuse his populist government of using unbridled political power to undermine democratic freedoms and preoccupying itself with pursuing a Hindu nationalist agenda.
“The decline seems to continue across several core formal democratic institutions… such as the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information, and freedom of association,” said Staffan I. Lindberg, political scientist and director of the V-Dem Institute, a Sweden-based research center that rates the health of democracies.
Modi’s party denies this. A spokesperson, Shehzad Poonawalla, said India has been a “thriving democracy” under Modi’s rule and has witnessed “reclamation of the republic.”
Most democracies are hardly immune to strains.
The number of countries experiencing democratic backsliding “has never been as high” as in the past decade, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance said last year, adding the U.S. to the list along with India and Brazil.
Still, the descent appears to be striking in India.
Earlier this year, the U.S.-based non-profit Freedom House downgraded India from a free democracy to “partially free.” The V-Dem Institute classified it as an “electoral autocracy” on par with Russia. And the Democracy Index published by The Economist Intelligence Unit called India a “flawed democracy.”
India’s Foreign Ministry has called the downgrades “inaccurate” and “distorted.” Many Indian leaders have said such reports are an intrusion in “internal matters,” with India’s Parliament disallowing debates on them.
Globally, India strongly advocates democracy. During the inaugural Summit for Democracy organized by the U.S. in December, Modi asserted the “democratic spirit” is integral to India’s “civilization ethos.”
At home, however, his government is seen bucking that very spirit, with independent institutions coming under increasing scrutiny.
Experts point to long pending cases with India’s Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of key decisions taken by Modi’s government as major concerns.
They include cases related to a controversial citizenship review process that has already left nearly 2 million people in Assam state potentially stateless, the now revoked semi-autonomous powers pertaining to disputed Kashmir, the opaque campaign finance laws that are seen disproportionately favoring Modi’s party, and its alleged use of military-grade spyware to monitor political opponents and journalists.
India’s judiciary, which is independent of the executive, has faced criticism in the past but the intensity has increased, said Deepak Gupta, a former Supreme Court judge.
Gupta said India’s democracy appears to be “on the downswing” due to the court’s inability to uphold civil liberties in some cases by denying people bail and the misuse of sedition and anti-terror laws by police, tactics that were also used by earlier governments.
“When it comes to adjudication of disputes… the courts have done a good job. But when it comes to their role as protectors of the rights of the people, I wish the courts had done more,” he said.
The country’s democratic health has also taken a hit due to the status of minorities.
The largely Hindu nation has been proud of its multiculturalism and has about 200 million Muslims. It also has a history of bloody sectarian violence, but hate speech and violence against Muslims have increased recently. Some states ruled by Modi’s party have used bulldozers to demolish the homes and shops of alleged Muslim protesters, a move critics say is a form of collective punishment.
The government has sought to downplay these attacks, but the incidents have left the minority community reeling under fear.
“Sometimes you need extra protection for the minorities so that they don’t feel that they are second-rate citizens,” said Gupta.
That the rising tide of Hindu nationalism has helped buoy the fortunes of Modi’s party is evident in its electoral successes. It has also coincided with a rather glaring fact: the ruling party has no Muslim lawmaker in the Parliament, a first in the history of India.
The inability to fully eliminate discrimination and attacks against other minorities like Christians, tribals and Dalits — who form the lowest rung of India’s Hindu caste hierarchy — has exacerbated these concerns. Even though the government sees the ascent of an indigenous woman as India’s ceremonial president as a significant step toward equal representation, critics have cast their doubts calling it political optics.
Under Modi, India’s Parliament has also come under scrutiny for passing important laws with little debate, including a religious-driven citizenship law and controversial agricultural reform that led to massive protests. In a rare retreat, his government withdrew the farm laws and some saw it as a triumph of democracy, but that sentiment faded quickly with increased attacks on free speech and the press.
The country fell eight places, to 150, out of 180 countries in this year’s Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders, which said “Indian journalists who are too critical of the government are subjected to all-out harassment and attack campaigns.”
Shrinking press freedoms in India date to previous governments but the last few years have been worse.
Journalists have been arrested. Some are stopped from traveling abroad. Dozens are facing criminal prosecution, including sedition. At the same time, the government has introduced sweeping regulatory laws for social media companies that give it more power to police online content.
“One has only to look around to see that the media has certainly shriveled up during Mr. Modi’s regime,” said Coomi Kapoor, journalist and author of “The Emergency: A Personal History,” which chronicles India’s only period of emergency.
“What happened in the emergency was upfront and there was no pretense. What is happening now is more gradual and sinister,” she said.
Still, optimists like Kapoor say not everything is lost “if India strengthens its democratic institutions” and “pins its hopes on the judiciary.”
“If the independence of the judiciary goes, then I’m afraid nothing will survive,” she said.
Others, however, insist India’s democracy has taken so many body blows that the future looks increasingly bleak.
“The damage is too structural, too fundamental,” said Roy, the novelist and activist.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police in suburban Portland, Oregon, said Thursday they arrested a crime ring leader responsible for trafficking more than 44,000 catalytic converters stolen from vehicles on the West Coast since 2021.
Detectives said they identified Brennan Doyle, 32, as the leader of the operation and searched his Lake Oswego home last week, along with seven other properties. The detectives seized over 3,000 catalytic converters hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, a high-end car and jewelry, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
Doyle and his associates are accused of stealing catalytic converters from vehicles along the West Coast, Beaverton police spokesperson Matt Henderson said. The crime ring was centered around Portland, but spanned multiple Oregon counties as well as Washington state, Nevada, California, Texas and New York, he said.
The metals inside catalytic converters can sell for thousands of dollars per ounce. The street value of the parts stolen and trafficked was estimated to be over $22 million.
The crime ring shipped boxes of converters to the East Coast and internationally, Henderson said. Dozens, if not hundreds, of people may have been involved in the operation, he added, but declined to share more details because the investigation is ongoing.
Doyle was indicted on 72 different charges, including racketeering, aggravated theft, and money laundering. Police say one of his associates, Tanner Hellbusch of Beaverton, was caught with over 100 catalytic converters in March. He was indicted on 20 similar counts. It wasn’t immediately known if they have lawyers to comment on the case.
At least 12 other people face charges in connection within the operation, police said. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/cops-oregon-crime-ring-moved-22m-in-catalytic-converters/ | 2022-08-12T21:11:38Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/cops-oregon-crime-ring-moved-22m-in-catalytic-converters/ | true |
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an accessory to contain a toilet auger to prevent it from contaminating carpets, furnishings and clothing," said an inventor, from Mc Kinney, Texas, "so I invented the AUGER CASE. My design offers an improved alternative to using a bag and it can be employed with most toilet augers."
The invention offers a method of containing sewage adhering to the surface of a toilet auger between uses. In doing so, it prevents dripping, contamination and/or damage to rugs and other furnishings. It also increases convenience and efficiency. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households, businesses, plumbing contractors, etc. Additionally, a prototype is available.
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Courts continue to scrutinize J&J's controversial bankruptcy ploy to avoid liability
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Legal experts say the decision by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) to halt future sales and distribution of talc-based products worldwide, including its iconic Johnson's Baby Powder, points to mounting pressure on the company to resolve tens of thousands of legal claims brought by ovarian cancer and mesothelioma victims.
Numerous scientific studies spanning decades have established the carcinogenic effects of cosmetic talc, while U.S. and Canadian governmental regulators have called for enhanced testing techniques for products containing the mineral, particularly after independent testing by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration revealed asbestos in consumer samples of talc-based powders. Meanwhile, internal corporate documents presented in trials during the past several years have shown that J&J and its consultants knew of the dangers of the company's products and took steps to deny or otherwise cover up those findings to avoid legal liability.
"J&J has finally done the right thing. Throughout decades of selling talc-based products, the company knew talc could cause deadly cancers to unsuspecting women and men around the world," says Leigh O'Dell of the Beasley Allen Law Firm in Montgomery. "They stopped sales in North America more than two years ago and blamed that move on the litigation. The delay in taking this step is inexcusable. I can only hope J&J will now do the next right: take responsibility and adequately compensate the victims they have needlessly harmed."
The vast majority of the more than 38,000 cases filed by ovarian cancer victims against J&J were consolidated in multidistrict litigation in New Jersey federal court, and bellwether trials had been scheduled to begin last spring. Those proceedings were put on hold in late 2021 when the company chose to pursue a controversial "Texas Two-Step" bankruptcy.
That scheme involved creating a new corporate shell company to hold all talc-related liabilities before taking that entity into bankruptcy. If successful, the tactic would allow Johnson & Johnson to avoid paying cancer victims and protect a market capitalization of approximately a half-trillion dollars. Because of the bankruptcy, all trials in the MDL and others filed in state courts are currently suspended.
The two-step move has raised eyebrows in Congress, where representatives have begun discussing potential changes to the bankruptcy laws that would prevent this sort of consumer harm in future cases.
"The potential loss of a jury trial is not a mere by-product of the filing; the sole purpose of the bankruptcy is to remove tort claimants from the tort system and strip them of their rights against extraordinarily wealthy and highly solvent entities," wrote Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the University of California's Berkeley School of Law, in a brief filed with the bankruptcy court.
"The Debtor is a newly created shell, with no business to restructure, no operations to rehabilitate, and no customers or genuine employees to serve. In short, the Debtor has no reorganizational purpose," he noted in the brief, one of many filed by constitutional scholars raising concerns about the "Two-Step."
The propriety of the bankruptcy and accompanying halt to litigation imposed by the bankruptcy court will be reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a hearing Sept. 19.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is calling for proposals that would be funded with $10 million received as part of a recent settlement stemming from a 2015 mine spill that polluted rivers in three western states.
The state and the federal government reached the agreement in June. Colorado and the Navajo Nation also have inked multimillion-dollar agreements to settle claims and sort out responsibility for cleanup following the spill at the inactive Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado.
Any proposed projects should aim to benefit farming, outdoor recreation or natural resources in northwestern New Mexico.
New Mexico's Office of the Natural Resources Trustee will consider applications for the settlement funding. Priority will be given to projects that are ready to begin soon and will be completed within three years.
“Regular monitoring of the San Juan and Animas rivers in New Mexico shows that the water is safe for agricultural and recreational uses, but the ongoing stigma associated with the Gold King Mine remains,” Natural Resources Trustee Maggie Hart Stebbins said in a statement. “We encourage creative ideas that restore or replace natural and cultural resources and rebuild the region’s economic sectors that depend on clean and healthy rivers and watersheds.”
The spill released 3 million gallons (11 million liters) of wastewater from the inactive mine, sending a bright-yellow plume of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals south to New Mexico, through the Navajo Nation and into Utah through the San Juan and Animas rivers.
Water utilities were forced to scramble and shut down intake valves while farmers stopped drawing from the rivers as the contaminants moved downstream.
In addition to New Mexico's $32 million settlement with the federal government announced in June, the state reached an $11 million settlement with the mining defendants last year. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/New-Mexico-seeks-proposals-with-mine-spill-17370311.php | 2022-08-12T21:13:02Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/New-Mexico-seeks-proposals-with-mine-spill-17370311.php | true |
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Teenage substitutes Jamie Bynoe-Gittens and Youssoufa Moukoko inspired Borussia Dortmund to a late comeback in Freiburg. Another super-sub, Marius Wolf, secured all three points late on for Eden Terzic’s side.
For 77 minutes in Freiburg’s brand new Europa-Park-Stadion, Borussia Dortmund were second best and heading for what would have been a deserved defeat.
But late goals from substitutes Jamie Bynoe-Gittens, Youssoufa Moukoko and Marius Wolf saw Eden Terzic’s come from behind to secure a dramatic late victory.
They needed a significant helping hand from Freiburg goalkeeper Mark Flekken, who completely fumbled Bynoe-Gittens’ speculative long-range effort for the equalizer – the English teenager’s first Bundesliga goal.
But Bynoe-Gittens played a crucial role in the next goal, too, with a winding run on the edge of the box. He found Marco Reus and the captain found Moukoko who fired Dortmund ahead.
And as if two super-subs weren’t enough, Marius Wolf capped a second-half appearance with a low drive into the bottom corner to make it 3-1.
Before that, however, Dortmund had been second best and found themselves trailing to Michael Gregoritsch’s first-half header.
While much of the focus in the build-up had been on Borussia Dortmund center-back Nico Schlotterbeck, returning to Freiburg to face his former club, it was his Freiburg replacement, Matthias Ginter, who played a key role in setting up the hosts’ opener.
The German international, who left Borussia Mönchengladbach this summer, beat three Dortmund defenders to Günter’s cross, heading back across goal where Gregoritsch nodded in unmarked.
For Gregoritsch, it was payback of a sorts for the tough start he experienced at the hands of Schlotterbeck, who twice outmuscled him to win the ball earlier in the half, prompting a furious outcry from the frustrated Austrian. But Schlotterbeck was nowhere to be seen when he headed Freiburg ahead.
The pendulum now swung decidedly in Freiburg’s favor as the hosts pushed for a second before the break. Doan whizzed a ball out to the left where Grifo and Günter got in behind Meunier, Grifo’s shot ultimately being blocked. The next Freiburg attack came down the right, in behind Guerreiro, but Sallai couldn’t connect in the middle.
Before that, Dortmund had edged the cagey opening stages and had the better early chances.
Anthony Modeste, a last-minute arrival from Cologne to replace Sebastien Haller, showed he’s more than just a big man up front with a deft touch in a neat one-two with Marco Reus before seeing his shot saved by Mark Flekken.
Then, when Guerreiro and Bellingham combined well on the right hand side of the Freiburg box, the Portuguese’s cross was just too high for Modeste.
It took two teenage super-subs in the second half to turn the game around. | https://www.dw.com/en/bundesliga-moukoko-and-bynoe-gittens-rescue-borussia-dortmund-in-freiburg/a-62795058 | 2022-08-12T21:13:04Z | https://www.dw.com/en/bundesliga-moukoko-and-bynoe-gittens-rescue-borussia-dortmund-in-freiburg/a-62795058 | true |
Mexican Unifin's debt restructuring is negative for other fincos -Moody's
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MEXICO CITY, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Mexican leasing firm Unifin's debt restructuring is credit negative and could reflect tight refinancing conditions for Mexican financial institutions, Moody's rating agency said on Friday.
"Unifin's restructuring and cessation of principal and interest payments will negatively affect Mexico's smaller finance institutions, whose own liquidity profiles and funding sources are strained by heightened global volatility and investors wary of Mexico's," non-bank financial institution sector, Moody's said in its report.
The leasing firm on Monday said it would miss principal and interest payments on its debt because of limited sources of financing.
Since then, the company has faced downgrades on its ratings, as well as strong share movements at Mexico's stock exchange. Unifin's shares were down 7.21% in late trading Friday.
To Moody's, Unifin's default will not affect the country's financial stability because the non-bank financial institution sector comprised less than 5% of systemwide loans in June 2022.
Still, the agency pointed out that around 20 banks have been "exposed" to Unifin through "secured and unsecured loan products that amounted to more than $1 billion."
(Reporting by Carolina Pulice and Diego Ore; Editing by Brendan O'Boyle)
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Toms River East, a team out of New Jersey, faces Massapequa Coast (New York) in the final game of the 2022 Little League Metro Regional Tournament on Friday, August 12, 2022 (8/12/22) in Bristol, Connecticut.
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Mitch Hammontree stood back and gazed at the flowers, candles and handwritten messages laid out beneath a sign welcoming fans to Dodger Stadium at the main entrance on Vin Scully Avenue.
“This is an altar,” said the 68-year-old fan from Placentia.
The city of Los Angeles was mourning Wednesday for the Bronx-born Scully, whose 67-year career calling games in Brooklyn and Los Angeles made him the longest-tenured broadcaster with a single team in sports history. He died Tuesday night at age 94.
With the Dodgers out of town until Friday, fans of all ages gathered outside the stadium and at other spots to honor Scully. Some recalled his voice soothing them to sleep as kids.
“It was like listening to your favorite song on the radio all the time, he was always in the background,” said George Esteves, a 58-year-old from Sierra Madre.
Hammontree added, “He painted such a picture, you didn’t need a TV.”
Others recalled Scully as a bridge from one generation to the next, including 29-year-old Kenneth Walls of South Los Angeles who tuned in alongside his 90-year-old grandfather.
“He’s been a part of my life since I was born,” Walls said. “Having this opportunity to share this moment with the fans is really important. It’s more appropriate to be in a celebratory mood for such a long, beautifully lived life.”
At one point, a tiny green-colored bird alighted on a Dodgers cap nestled among the flowers.
“Look, it’s Vinny!” a woman exclaimed.
Diana Gutierrez of Downey brought her 8-year-old grandson to view the collection of mementos that included a blue-and-white Dodgers serape, baseball-shaped balloons and baseballs resting on top of the D and tucked in the V on the welcome sign at 1000 Vin Scully Ave.
“My grandson was saying this morning, ‘He’s such a nice person to everybody,’” Gutierrez said. “I said, ‘Absolutely, that’s definitely a good memory to leave behind and that’s something to be proud of in Los Angeles.’”
Along Hollywood Boulevard, tourists and locals paused at Scully’s flower-strewn star on the Walk of Fame located two doors down from another legend, Musso & Frank Grill. A delivery man hung an arrangement of roses and other flowers in Dodgers colors on a wooden easel.
Back downtown a few miles from the stadium, the weekday lunch crowd was already in line at Philippe the Original French Dipped Sandwiches.
“I was almost in tears,” 75-year-old Daniel Mirgil of Pomona said of hearing Scully had died. “We used to use our transistor radio just to listen to him.”
Los Angeles City Hall will be lit in blue starting Wednesday night. ESPN2 is re-airing Game 1 of the 1988 World Series featuring Scully’s memorable call of Kirk Gibson’s pinch-hit, walk-off home run that led the Dodgers to a win over the Oakland Athletics. The Dodgers will add a patch with ‘VIN’ above a microphone to their uniforms.
The self-effacing Scully would have appreciated the tributes but would have likely found them to be “a little bit embarrassing,” which was how he described the hoopla surrounding his retirement in 2016.
“I’ve never wanted to get out in front of the game,” he said then.
Moments of silence were held in Scully’s honor around the majors Wednesday.
“It’s the end of an era,” Hammontree said. “You think he’s going to live forever, and of course his legacy will.”
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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Wall Street capped a choppy week of trading with a broad stock market rally Friday, as the S&P 500 notched its fourth consecutive weekly gain.
The benchmark index closed 1.7% higher, for a 3.3% weekly gain. The S&P 500 hadn’t posted such a good stretch since November.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.3%, while the Nasdaq and Russell 2000 index of smaller companies both closed 2.1% higher. Each index also posted a solid weekly gain.
Technology stocks drove much the rally. Crude oil prices fell and bond yields were mixed.
Trading was choppy much of the week, but major indexes got a big bump on Wednesday after a report showed that inflation cooled more than expected last month. Another report on Thursday showed inflation at the wholesale level also slowed more than expected.
The cooler-than-expected inflation readings have bolstered hopes among investors that inflation may be close to a peak and that the Federal Reserve could less aggressively hike interest rates, its main tool for fighting inflation.
“The data that we’ve gotten this week has all been consistent with the idea that we’re in the midst of peak inflation rates on a month-to-month basis,” said Scott Ladner, chief investment officer at Horizon Investments. “And that’s something that we’ve been waiting to see for months now. And it looks like, if that’s the case, then we’ve probably also seen peak Fed hawkishness.”
The S&P 500 rose 72.88 points to 4,280.15, while the Dow gained 424.38 points to 33,761.05. The Nasdaq added 267.27 points to 13,047.19.
Small-company stocks also made strong gains in a sign that investors are confident about the economy. The Russell 2000 rose 41.36 points to 2,016.62.
Around 95% of the stocks in the S&P 500 rose, with technology companies driving much of the rally. Chipmaker Nvidia rose 4.3%.
The central bank has been raising interest rates in the hopes of slowing the economy and cooling the hottest inflation in four decades, but investors are worried that it could hit the brakes too aggressively and steer the economy into a recession.
On Friday, a survey by the University of Michigan showed that consumer sentiment is stronger than economists expected. Still, inflation remains painfully high. That means the Fed is likely to remain on course with its rate hikes until it is certain that prices have peaked and are easing.
The Fed’s last two increases were by 0.75 percentage points. Traders now see about a 60% chance that the central bank will raise overnight interest rates by half a percentage point at its next meeting.
“The market’s strength is based on the assumption that inflation peaked and the Fed can relax, but that may be a bit too complacent,” said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 2.84% from 2.88% late Thursday. It remains below the two-year yield. That’s an unusual inversion of the expectation that borrowing money for a longer period should cost more than a shorter period. When investors demand a higher return for a short term like the 2-year than a longer one like 10 years, it’s viewed by some investors as a reliable signal of a pending recession. The economy has already contracted for two consecutive quarters.
Next week the Commerce Department releases its retail sales report for July and retail giant Walmart reports its latest financial results.
Investors can also assess the health of the housing market when they get a report on home sales for July and the latest earnings from Home Depot. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/asian-shares-mixed-after-new-signs-of-cooling-inflation/ | 2022-08-12T21:18:03Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/asian-shares-mixed-after-new-signs-of-cooling-inflation/ | true |
New Yorkers are noticing something odd: Squirrels are laid out on all fours
New Yorkers are noticing something odd: Squirrels are laid out on all fours
People across the city noticed the squirrels flat on their stomachs — all four legs splayed out. The city's parks department said it's normal for four-legged critters to cool down by flattening out.
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Andy Warhol’s Family to Sell His Earliest Paintings
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A selection of Andy Warhol’s earliest paintings that have been kept in his family for more than 70 years will hit the auction block later this year, according to Warhol’s nephew, artist James Warhola.
The 10 paintings were created by Warhol (1928-87) when he attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “They really do show my uncle’s earlier years of discovery of how to create art, and his aspiration to be an artist,” Warhola tells Penta.
Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr. ) left Pittsburgh for New York in 1949 and worked as a commercial artist for nearly a decade. He rose to international fame as a leading figure in the visual art movement known as Pop art in the 1960s with his iconic paintings of everyday objects, such as Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles and Brillo boxes, in addition to bold and vibrant portraits of celebrities.
In May, Warhol’s 1964 portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe sold for US$195 million at a Christie’s auction in New York, making it the most expensive American artwork sold at auction and the second-most expensive auctioned piece of art, trailing only Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, which sold for US$450 million in 2017 at Christie’s.
“It’s hard to believe the portrait of Marilyn Monroe, painted in his studio where I often visited, became the most paid-for American painting,” Warhola says. “With the imagination my uncle captured, it made our decision to move on with selling our family collection much easier.”
Warhola and his six siblings have been planning to sell the group of 10 paintings since their parents died several years ago. After Warhol left Pittsburgh, the paintings were taken care of by their father Paul, the oldest of Warhol’s brothers.
“My father had loaned the paintings to museums, so the public was able to see them,” he says.
The paintings were included in a recently concluded international traveling exhibition, “Andy Warhol: Lifetimes,” with stops in the Tate Modern in London, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Art Gallery of Toronto, and the Aspen Art Museum.
Warhola says he is currently in talks with major auction houses to sell two of the paintings this November, with plans to sell two-to-three paintings during the spring and fall seasons next year.
“It is not easy to value his works from this period, we’ll see where the market falls,” Warhola says.
The first two works to appear on the market will be Nosepicker 1 and Living Room.
Warhol once entered Nosepicker 1, a self portrait, into a local art show, but it was rejected by two of the three judges because they thought it was offensive, according to Warhola.
“The early portraits of him picking his nose has a humorous title, it started up a lot of controversy when it was shown,” Warhols says. “In a way it showed my uncle’s strive for attention: He’s a little bit shy, he let his artwork speak for him.”
Living Room was a rendition of the living room of the family’s home in Pittsburgh, which is now in the stewardship of Warhola. “It’s a very interesting peek into his private life when he was going to college,” he says.
A selection of Andy Warhol’s earliest paintings that have been kept in his family for more than 70 years will hit the auction block later this year, according to Warhol’s nephew, artist James Warhola.
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DALLAS — A Texas man accused of injuring three people in a shooting at a hair salon in Dallas’ Koreatown in May was indicted earlier this week on hate crime charges.
The Dallas County District Attorney announced Tuesday that a grand jury returned a seven-count indictment charging Jeremy Smith with seven counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon as a hate crime.
"A Dallas County Grand Jury has returned multiple indictments on Jeremy Smith, 37, charged in connection to shootings allegedly motivated by bias or prejudice against Asian Americans – thus classified under Texas law as a hate crime," District Attorney John Creuzot said in a statement.
The grand jury met on Aug. 4, the district attorney's office said in a statement.
Smith is accused of shooting inside the Hair World Salon on May 11, firing allegedly 13 times, hitting three people, according to the statement.
According to the district attorney, Smith allegedly selected the victims "because of his bias or prejudice against Asian Americans."
The district attorney said Dallas Police arrested Smith on May 16.
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CHULA VISTA, Calif., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For many, taking the risk to new heights is a tough move, and with execution comes new challenges. For the Battle Bunker, taking risks is what the brand is built on — as the company ventured to a new milestone by partnering with Chula Vista Elite Training Center. The Battle Bunker is a Veteran founded fitness show that plans to expand the brand with fitness competitions.
"While Battle Bunker is dedicated to creating inspiring fitness series content, this partnership would mean we have an excellent place for physical events," says Austen Alexander, founder of the Battle Bunker.
The Story Behind Battle Bunker
The Battle Bunker produces challenge videos that take athletes, occupations, and creators through rigorous military-style fitness events to inspire viewers to burn through excuses and be at their best every day.
Austen Alexander, the founder, built an obstacle course consisting of 9 obstacles in the deserts of California after his discharge from the U.S Navy in 2020. "If you build it, they will battle" is the focus of Austen's thinking behind the building of the first course. He mentions this because he was unsure if athletes would want to come to the course or even if the series would work.
The Battle Bunker has run into challenges from the start. Since the business model is based on producing for Youtube, sometimes the platforms change, resulting in drops or spikes in viewership. But with 21 episodes and a little over 17,000,000 views across all platforms, the Battle Bunker has room to grow into a better location. With the partnership with the Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center, they now have access to hotels, cafeterias, showers, offices, and space to build their new obstacle course. This is something they never had before.
A Deeper Meaning
Chula Vista has a 155-acre Olympic training center with rolling hills, tracks, fields, and archery ranges. Within its perimeter, and with the Battle Bunker partnership, it will incorporate a 22 obstacle course that will test both endurance and strength. The number "22" is significant in the Veteran community as it is the number of Veterans on average that fall victim to mental health issues every day. The Battle Bunker is deeply rooted in the military community, so this is an anchor point to which the new course will bring awareness.
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Sous vide cooking with Anova
Sous vide isn’t a common way to cook — but it’s getting more popular every day. Sous vide is a French term meaning “under vacuum,” and it’s pretty simple despite looking like an advanced cooking method.
Sous vide involves sealing food — usually meat — in plastic and submerging it in high-temperature water for a specific amount of time. A tool called an immersion circulator or sous vide cooker sits in the water, pumping it past a heating element that maintains a precise temperature.
Although this isn’t the most intuitive way to cook, sous vide cooking doesn’t have to be difficult. And once you start using it, you’ll immediately notice that the resulting meals are packed with the moisture and flavor that makes for a great culinary experience.
What are wet and dry heat?
Put simply, wet heat involves cooking methods that introduce water, and dry heat represents methods that draw water out or evaporate it. For example, boiling and steaming use wet heat, while frying and grilling use dry heat.
Foods such as packaged pasta require wet heat just to reconstitute and make them edible. Using wet heat to cook foods such as meat, though, draws valuable flavor from the meat and wastes it (unless you’re making stock or broth).
But dry heat leads to at least some degree of overcooking, even when you’re careful. It also causes evaporation. Both of these can damage or eliminate the chemicals responsible for delicious flavors and aromas.
Why sous vide cooking is special
Sous vide cooking technically uses wet heat because it doesn’t cause the meat to dry out. Unlike boiling or steaming, though, sous vide cooking doesn’t draw out flavor, because the sealed plastic layer means it’s a closed system.
Since sous vide cooking doesn’t dry food out or pull out important flavors, it can deliver the most succulent meat possible, with the perfect balance of juiciness and flavor. In fact, many professionals and cooking enthusiasts argue that nothing makes a better steak than sous vide.
Where Anova comes in
Anova makes a highly specialized line of products. Aside from sous vide cookers, it only manufactures what are called combination, or “combi,” ovens. Like Anova’s immersion circulators, its combi ovens are essentially consumer-focused versions of powerful machines found in professional kitchens. In that light, it’s no surprise that Anova sous vide circulators consistently get high marks from experts and rave reviews from owners.
Not only are Anova sous vide cookers efficient and reliable, they also offer wireless connectivity that lets you set the temperature and keep track of progress without repeatedly visiting the kitchen.
How sous vide cooking works
- Set up the sous vide bath. To save time, start by mixing hot and cold water from the tap until the sous vide cooker reads close to the desired temperature. You probably already have a stock pot that will work great, although square plastic containers save counter space and insulate slightly better for a more efficient process.
- Prepare the food. Pat the food dry, salt it and season it. Keep in mind that the salt will go a little farther than normal, since you won’t lose any during the grilling or pan-frying process. Despite what some sous vide fans claim, it’s best to salt meat before dropping it in the sous vide bath. Doing so helps it penetrate a millimeter or two deeper into the meat and has zero negative effects.
- Seal the sous vide bag. Place the food in the bag — standard zip-close food storage bags work well if you don’t have access to anything more heavy-duty. You can use a vacuum sealer and special bags that come with pumps and valves for extracting air, but you don’t have to. You can simply leave a small bit of the bag unzipped. Then lower it slowly into the water, keeping the open part dry until the water bath has forced out most of the air.
- Drop the food in the sous vide bath. Once the circulator reads the correct temperature, set the timer and drop the bag in gently. Connect the Anova app to your smartphone or tablet to monitor progress just in case.
- Stop cooking. When the timer’s up, remove the food from the water and let it rest. Smaller foods such as thin steaks and poached eggs can rest at room temperature, but anything thicker will need a quick bath in cold water. This stops the cooking process exactly when you want.
- If you’re cooking meat, sear it. Meat doesn’t look appetizing the moment you remove it from a sous vide bath. That’s because the dry heat of grilling and baking creates a browned layer that’s missing with sous vide. To get this layer, many people sear in a hot cast-iron skillet, but that can lead to accidental overcooking. A high-powered propane torch is better — small kitchen torches aren’t powerful enough to give steaks the perfect sear. Consider a specialized searing attachment, which spreads out the flame for more consistent results.
- Enjoy your meal. Once the sear’s been applied, plate your food and enjoy a succulent culinary delight.
Best Anova sous vide cookers
This one’s the most popular because it’s compact, relatively affordable and serves most people’s needs just fine. It connects to your smartphone or tablet via Bluetooth and has a 750-watt heating element.
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Anova Precision Cooker 1,000 Watts
Its more powerful element makes it a little more consistent than the Nano. It also offers slightly more reliable Wi-Fi connectivity in addition to removable clips instead of the fixed ones found on the less costly model.
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Driven by 1,200 watts and a pump flow of 12 liters per minute, this is the best choice if you frequently make large batches of sous vide dishes at home. Its only drawback is that it’s somewhat costly.
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Other tools that help with sous vide cooking
These durable bags are perfect for sous vide cooking a wide variety of foods. They’re washable and reusable and come with an optional pump that makes extracting air easy.
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Cuisinart Chef’s Classic 8-Quart Stockpot
This rugged stainless steel pot comes with a lid and handles and can help with a lot of kitchen tasks, including sous vide cooking.
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8-Quart Cambro Camwear Container
Cambro containers are exactly what pros use for a huge range of storage and food prep tasks in high-end restaurants. This 8-quart size is the right one for most home kitchens.
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This blowtorch attachment helps create the perfect sear after you pull a steak out of the sous vide water bath.
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This is one of the best handheld blowtorches in existence, no matter what you need it for. It’s the better of the two torch nozzles that work with the Searzall attachment. Use it with a short 1-pound propane cylinder for safe and effective searing.
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Bubba Wallace locked down his future with 23XI Racing on Friday and now is eyeing a spot in NASCAR’s playoffs for the first time in his career.
Wallace and 23XI announced a multiyear contract extension that keeps Wallace in the No. 23 Toyota that was the foundation of Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan’s race team. The organization was launched around the only Black driver competing at NASCAR’s top level and the many partners Wallace signed in 2020 when he became a central figure in the national reckoning on racial and social justice issues.
“It feels great to get this renewal done and to know I have a home at 23XI Racing,” Wallace said. “Thanks to M.J. and Denny for continuing to believe in me. We’ve come a long way together in less than two years and we’ve checked off some major goals along the way. We know we still have work to do, both on and off the race track, but I feel good about our team and the direction we’re heading.”
Wallace had no intention of testing the free agent market because he believes his only future in NASCAR is with 23XI.
“I thought from Day 1 on joining this team that I wanted to make this where I retire and a place that I call home for a very long time,” Wallace said. “I’m just trying to do the best that I can and continue those efforts.”
The team expanded this season to add a second car, with veteran Kurt Busch as Wallace’s teammate. Busch will miss his fourth consecutive race on Sunday with concussion-like symptoms, which has put his playoff berth in jeopardy.
At the same time, Wallace is clawing toward his own spot in the 16-driver field. Wallace has never before made the Cup Series playoffs and heads into Sunday’s race at Richmond ranked a career-best 19th in the standings.
He’s coming off his first pole of the season last week at Michigan International Speedway and then a second-place finish that left him nearly in tears over falling just short of his second career win.
“We haven’t had the best season, but we’ve been able to turn it around and really shown what we are capable of these last handful of races,” Wallace said. “We know the urge to win is high and I thought that was the best opportunity that we had all year long, and just me replaying the last restart and wondering what could I have done different?
“I am in a much better place today; I see how incredible our team performed … to put us in that position. So lots to be happy for and grateful for, but in that moment, the sign of defeat got me there for a second.”
Wallace has four consecutive finishes of eighth or better, but he needs a victory in the remaining three regular-season races to get into the playoffs. NASCAR races at Richmond, the road course at Watkins Glen and then Daytona, where Wallace should be considering among the favorites.
Wallace earned his only career victory, the first for the 23XI organization, last fall at Talladega. At Daytona, Wallace has four top-five finishes in 10 career Cup starts. Three of those finishes were second.
“Without a doubt,” Wallace said when asked if he believes he can win in the regular season. “We’re really confident with what we’re bringing back for Sunday. Watkins Glen is just a race of survival, you never know what can happen. But then Daytona, I think we’re one of the favorites going into that. We just have to continue to do what we do like we’ve been doing the last four to five races.
“It seems to be working. Don’t ask what it is. I can’t really tell you. But it’s working.”
The extension was announced a day after Wallace hosted more than 3,500 people at Richmond Raceway for the inaugural “Bubba’s Block Party,” which he hopes will bring a younger, more diverse audience to NASCAR.
The event was one of the many initiatives Wallace has tackled as a key figure in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts with both 23I Racing and NASCAR. His “Live to be Different Foundation” allows Wallace to engage with the Charlotte-area community through backpack drives and the “Knowledge is Power Program” brings students to race tracks across the country.
Additionally, Wallace’s clothing design collaborations with both McDonald’s and Columbia Sportswear Company have brought NASCAR to a new audience.
Hamlin called Wallace “a key part of the early stages of 23XI” and said the team would continue pushing his career.
“The goal was to help him take his career to a higher level, and we have done just that,” Hamlin said. “Bubba is continuing to get more competitive each week. We’re excited to see his growth as he and the team work toward achieving our goals.”
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Though Ted Danson and Kristen Bell were The Good Place’s top-billed stars, the rest of the NBC sitcom’s ensemble quickly found their stock rising thanks to the sharp, philosophical series. As the inhuman assistant Janet, D’Arcy Carden was a key part of establishing the show’s world and tone as she guided Eleanor (Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Jason (Manny Jacinto), and Tahani (Jameela Jamil) through the afterlife.
After The Good Place concluded in 2020, Carden inevitably entered the next stage of her career. By that time, she had already started her recurring role on Barry, but she was looking for a new challenge.
“There’s something Mickey Mouse-ish about Janet,” she says in a new interview with Variety. “I’m wearing the same costume every day. I have a catchphrase or two. In a way, it’s all you could ever ask for. But then you’re like, ‘Let me show you what else I can do.’”
The Good Place became a pop culture touchstone in a way few shows can achieve, thanks to its snappy, specific dialogue. As much as Carden loved playing Janet, and netted an Emmy nomination for her performance, she was nervous about getting typecast, and asked Danson about taking her next steps.
“My advice to you is to do something as different from Janet as possible,” Carden remembers the Cheers veteran saying. “Do not do something in the world of Janet.”
Luckily, her former Broad City co-star Abbi Jacobson came through with the right role at the right time. Carden is now one of the stars of A League Of Their Own, a 1940s-set series inspired by the 1992 baseball movie, and her character Greta has her channeling George Clooney rather than Siri.
“She’s almost zero percent goofy. I can’t settle into my tricks,” Carden tells Variety. “But I was like, I think I have to do something like this in order to shake off every comment on my Instagram being, ‘not a girl!’”
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By Jason Pugh, Northwestern State Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations
NATCHITOCHES – Fifth-year head coach Brad Laird can boil down his goals for Saturday’s first intrasquad scrimmage of fall camp to one word.
“The word we keep talking about is consistency,” Laird said. “We want to see that in all three phases.”
Laird and the Demons are set for a roughly 100-play first “preseason game” that will kick off at around 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
In addition to serving as the ninth of 25 practices ahead of the Demons’ Sept. 3 season opener at Montana, it will mark the first time the 2022 NSU squad will deal with officials in a game setting.
“It’s always good to have those guys here, especially this year,” Laird said. “Every two years, you have true rule changes and things that they have tweaked. That’s one of those years. It’s always good to be able to ask them questions and for them to see us live. They do a great job of sticking around after practice, answering any questions we have.
“That holding call may not get called in a Tuesday afternoon practice, and you don’t realize how costly it is until it really happens.”
Saturday marks the first full-scale fall effort for the Demons, who are incorporating new coordinators on each side of the ball.
“You talk about the six new coaches, but we also have five new graduate assistant or volunteer coaches who play an important role in the development of this team,” Laird said.
“This Saturday morning will be an opportunity to get a feel of what the game will be like. We’ll be in the press box. We’ll have headsets. We’ll start to get an idea of how a true game day is going to happen, not just for the players and the 100 snaps between the lines but for the coaching staff as well.”
That is not to say there isn’t importance for what happens between the lines.
“This Saturday morning is going to tell us a lot,” Laird said. “We’ve got some guys we want to see step up and certain positions. Who’s going to step and be that one? Also, who are the guys who are going to step up and provide depth? This scrimmage will give us the opportunity to see where we are through nine practices.
“We’ll sit down Monday as a staff and see have we got it down from 110 to 80 or 90 and see where we are. Those guys who are twos and threes, where do they fall on special teams? It’s not just offensively and defensively, but what they can do from a special teams aspect.”
TRAFFIC NOTE: Saturday is one of two move-in days for Northwestern State students. All gates will be open, but traffic likely will be more prevalent than on most Saturday mornings.
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Attempted FBI breach leads to standoff: What we know about the suspect
An armed suspect is dead after an attempted breach of a Cincinnati FBI building led to an hourslong standoff in rural Clinton County, according to Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The suspect has been identified as 42-year-old Ricky Shiffer.
The tense seven-hour situation started at the Cincinnati FBI field office in the Kenwood neighborhood.
Investigators say Shiffer tried to breach the building's visitor screening facility around 9 a.m. Thursday morning.
The attempted breach led to a pursuit and hourslong standoff in Clinton County before Shiffer was shot and pronounced dead at the scene. OSP has not released a possible motive for the breach.
According to the Associated Press, Federal agents are looking into whether Shiffer may have had ties to far-right extremist groups.
A law enforcement official says Shiffer was at the capitol on Jan. 6 but was not charged with any crimes.
Sister station WLWT has been digging to learn more about Shiffer.
A man with an account with Shiffer's name has been taken down from the Truth Social platform.
The last post happened during the standoff with police, it read, "Well, I thought I had a way through bullet proof glass, and I didn't. If you don't hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I., and it'll mean either I was taken off the internet, the F.B.I. got me, or they sent the regular cops while..." The post apparently ended mid-sentence.
And he replied to another person on Thursday, saying, "I do not expect to save America, I do expect to die trying. If, when I am gone, you stick to this pseudohistorical line that America doesn't use violence, you deserve what happens to you. Your children, unfortunately, do not."
Before the account was disabled, it said Shiffer was a construction mechanic in Columbus, Ohio. WLWT is working to confirm that information.
According to reporting from the AP, a now-suspended Twitter account, rickyshiffer, shared the same profile picture as the Truth Social account and similar opinions, including a call for armed conflict in the U.S. this past spring. It included posts saying that “elections are rigged” against conservatives and that the country faces “tyranny.”
The incident comes days after federal agents searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
FBI Director Christopher Wray released a statement following the attempted breach and fatal standoff:
"Unfounded attacks on the integrity of the FBI erode respect for the rule of law and are a grave disservice to the men and women who sacrifice so much to protect others. Violence and threats against law enforcement, including the FBI, are dangerous and should be deeply concerning to all Americans. Every day I see the men and women of the FBI doing their jobs professionally and with rigor, objectivity, and a fierce commitment to our mission of protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution. I am proud to serve alongside them."
The Cincinnati FBI office released a separate statement about the incident Thursday night and said they will be investigating the shooting.
“On August 11, 2022, at approximately 9:15 a.m., an armed male subject attempted to breach the Visitor Screening Facility at the FBI Cincinnati Field Office. The subject eventually fled and was encountered by the FBI, Ohio State Highway Patrol, and local law enforcement near Wilmington, OH. The subject shot at law enforcement officers. During the incident, law enforcement also fired their weapons. At approximately 3:45 p.m., the subject was shot and is deceased. The FBI is now reviewing this agent-involved shooting. The FBI takes all shooting incidents involving our agents or task force members seriously. In accordance with FBI policy, the shooting incident is under investigation by the FBI’s Inspection Division. The review process is thorough and objective, and is conducted as expeditiously as possible under the circumstances.” | https://www.wesh.com/article/ricky-shiffer-fbi-office-cincinnati-suspect/40884265 | 2022-08-12T21:30:47Z | https://www.wesh.com/article/ricky-shiffer-fbi-office-cincinnati-suspect/40884265 | true |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
5-1-8
(five, one, eight)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
5-1-8
(five, one, eight) | https://www.timesunion.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Midday-game-17370232.php | 2022-08-12T21:32:49Z | https://www.timesunion.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Midday-game-17370232.php | true |
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Höegh LNG Partners LP (NYSE: HMLP) (the "Partnership") announced today that it has established a record date of August 22, 2022 for a special meeting of its unitholders currently planned to take place on September 20, 2022. At the special meeting, the holders of the Partnership's common units will vote on the previously announced proposed merger of the Partnership and a subsidiary of Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. ("Höegh LNG"). Partnership common unitholders of record at the close of business on August 22, 2022 will be entitled to receive notice of the special meeting and to vote at the special meeting.
This communication does not constitute a solicitation of any vote or approval with respect to the proposed transaction. This communication relates to a proposed business combination between Höegh LNG and the Partnership. In connection with the proposed transaction, the Partnership filed a Report on Form 6-K on May 26, 2022, which contains, among other things, a copy of the merger agreement, and the Partnership will furnish to its unitholders a proxy statement and other relevant documents. WE URGE UNITHOLDERS TO READ THE MERGER AGREEMENT, PROXY STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT MAY BE DISSEMINATED BY THE PARTNERSHIP BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN OR WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED MERGER. Security holders will be able to obtain these materials (if and when they are available) free of charge at the SEC's website, www.sec.gov. In addition, copies of any documents filed by the Partnership with the SEC may be obtained free of charge from the Partnership's website for investors at www.hoeghlngpartners.com.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ideanomics (NASDAQ: IDEX) ("Ideanomics" or the "Company"), a global company focused on accelerating the adoption of commercial electric vehicles (EV), today announced that, as expected, the Company received an additional notice of non-compliance from the Listing Qualifications Staff (the "Staff") of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") due to the Company's failure to timely file the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), as required by Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1). As previously disclosed, the Company earlier received notices from Nasdaq regarding its non-compliance with the Rule with respect to the Forms 10-K and 10-Q for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and quarter ended March 31, 2022, respectively. The Company plans to regain compliance with the filing requirement by no later than September 12, 2022, which is the deadline in order to remain compliant with Nasdaq requirements. In the event that such deadline is not met then the Company will apply to Nasdaq for a hearing panel.
Ideanomics (NASDAQ: IDEX) is a global group with a simple mission: to accelerate the commercial adoption of electric vehicles. By bringing together vehicles and charging technology with design, implementation, and financial services, we provide the completeness of solutions needed for the commercial world to commit to an EV future. To keep up with Ideanomics, please follow the company on social @ideanomicshq or visit https://ideanomics.com.
This press release contains certain statements that may include "forward-looking statements". All statements other than statements of historical fact included herein are "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects" or similar expressions, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and include statements regarding the Company's plans to provide the Staff with an update regarding its compliance efforts and its plan to regain compliance with the filing requirement by no later than September 12, 2022. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. All forward-looking statements in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by these risk factors in our most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filed with the SEC, and similar disclosures in subsequent reports filed with the SEC, which are available on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Other than as required under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.
Contacts
Ideanomics, Inc.
Tony Sklar, SVP of Investor Relations
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Democrats want voters to be able to decide whether abortion should continue to be allowed in the state.
The call comes after residents in Kansas, another state with a GOP-controlled Legislature, rejected a ballot measure earlier this month that would have allowed lawmakers to tighten restrictions or ban the procedure outright.
The West Virginia Republican party recently failed to pass legislation criminalizing abortion during a special session initiated by Republican Gov. Jim Justice late last month.
During the session, West Virginia’s House of Delegates passed a sweeping abortion ban that would have made providing the procedure a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The measure included exceptions for victims of rape and incest, as well as for medical emergencies, but failed to move forward in the Senate.
Democratic leadership on Friday asked Justice and the state’s GOP leadership to call lawmakers back to the Capitol to consider a resolution to let the people vote on a constitutional amendment for “reproductive freedom.”
“The legislature had its chance to clarify the laws and failed,” Senate Minority Leader Stephen Baldwin said in a press release. "The session was a slow-motion train wreck that spectacularly went off the rails. Compassion and common sense are in short supply in the capitol right now, so let’s put it before the people to decide.”
Justice did not respond publicly to Democrats’ request Friday and his office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
House Minority Leader Doug Skaff said that in the past, the Legislature has approved ballot measures dealing with gambling, Sunday hunting and taxation.
“Why should the deeply personal issue of abortion be any different?” he said. “There are half a million women in our state, and they should have a voice on this issue.”
Abortion had been banned after 20 weeks of pregnancy in West Virginia until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion. After that ruling, the state’s Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said abortion was banned in the state because of an 1800s-era law that had been unenforceable while abortion was federally protected.
But a Charleston judge barred the state from enforcing the ban, ruling it had been superseded by a slew of conflicting modern laws like the 20-week ban. Morrisey has appealed the ruling to the state Supreme Court, which is expected to take up the case this fall.
In 2018, West Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment saying that nothing in the state Constitution "secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of abortion.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Dems-Abortion-access-question-should-be-put-to-17370164.php | 2022-08-12T21:35:42Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Dems-Abortion-access-question-should-be-put-to-17370164.php | true |
WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 12, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
331 PM CDT Fri Aug 12 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of south central
Colorado, southwestern Wharton and north central Jackson Counties
through 400 PM CDT...
At 331 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 14
miles northwest of El Campo, moving south at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea 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...
El Campo, Nada and Louise.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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The latest tally of analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses shows that among the components of the S&P 500 index, Micron Technology is now the #156 analyst pick, moving up by 2 spots.
This rank is formed by averaging the analyst opinions for each component from each broker, and then ranking the 500 components by those average opinion values.
Looking at the stock price movement year to date, Micron Technology is lower by about 30.9%.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
2-5-9
(two, five, nine)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
2-5-9
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TORONTO, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Restaurant Brands International Inc. (TSX: QSR) (NYSE: QSR) ("RBI") announced today that it has filed, and the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") has accepted, notice of RBI's intention to renew its normal course issuer bid (the "NCIB") for its common shares (the "Common Shares"). The NCIB is being conducted in furtherance of RBI's board-approved share repurchase authorization that allows RBI to purchase up to US$1.0 billion of its Common Shares until August 10, 2023 (the "Repurchase Authorization").
The TSX notice provides that RBI may, during the 12-month period commencing August 17, 2022 and ending on August 16, 2023, purchase up to 30,254,374 Common Shares, representing 10% of its public float of 302,543,742 Common Shares as of July 30, 2022 (a total of 306,106,637 Common Shares were issued and outstanding as of such date). Purchases under the NCIB will be made through the facilities of the TSX, the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") and/or alternative trading systems in Canada and the U.S., if eligible, or by such other means as may be permitted by applicable securities laws, including private agreements. Any purchases made by private agreement under an issuer bid exemption order issued by a securities regulatory authority in Canada will generally be at a discount to the prevailing market price as provided in any such exemption order. In addition, RBI may also enter into derivative-based programs in support of its repurchase activities, including the writing of put options and forward purchase agreements, accelerated share repurchase transactions, other equity contracts or use other methods of acquiring shares, in each case as may be permitted by applicable securities laws or subject to regulatory approval.
Purchases under the NCIB made on the TSX will be made in compliance with the rules of the TSX at a price equal to the market price at the time of purchase or such other price as may be permitted by the TSX. In accordance with TSX rules, any daily repurchases (other than pursuant to a block purchase exception) on the TSX under the NCIB are limited to a maximum of 197,482 Common Shares, which represents 25% of the average daily trading volume on the TSX of 789,930 for the six months ended July 31, 2022. Purchases under the NCIB made on the NYSE will be made in compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 10b-18 and the U.S. federal securities laws.
Under its current NCIB which commenced on August 10, 2021 and expired on August 9, 2022 (the "2021 NCIB"), RBI previously sought and received approval from the TSX to repurchase up to 30,382,519 Common Shares. As of July 30, 2022, RBI has repurchased an aggregate of 15,042,882 Common Shares for cancellation under a NCIB in the past 12 months at a weighted average price of approximately C$72.58 per Common Share and approximately US$123 million remains available to RBI under the Repurchase Authorization. All repurchases under a NCIB within the past 12 months were conducted through the facilities of the NYSE, the TSX or an alternative stock exchange in the US or Canada. In addition, the plan agent under RBI's employee stock purchase plan purchased an aggregate of 5,870 Common Shares in the past 12 months for the benefit of plan participants at a weighted average price of approximately C$72.76 per Common Share.
RBI believes that the market price of Common Shares could be such that their purchase may be an attractive and appropriate use of corporate funds. Decisions regarding the amount and timing of future purchases of Common Shares will be based on market conditions, share price and other factors. RBI may elect to modify, suspend or discontinue the Repurchase Authorization, and its NCIB, at any time. Repurchases under the Repurchase Authorization will be funded using RBI's cash resources and all shares repurchased will be cancelled. RBI intends to enter into an automatic purchase plan to be effective on August 17, 2022 with a broker which will enable RBI to provide standard instructions in the future and then purchase Common Shares on the open market during self-imposed blackout periods. Outside of these blackout periods, Common Shares may be purchased in accordance with management's discretion.
Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with over $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 29,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.
This press release includes forward-looking statements and information, which are often identified by the words "may," "might," "believe," "thinks," "anticipate," "plans," "expects," "intends," or similar expressions and reflect management's expectations regarding future events and operating performance and speak only as of the date hereof. These forward-looking statements include statements about RBI's expectations and beliefs regarding its normal course issuer bid purchases. The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from RBI's expectations are detailed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and on SEDAR in Canada, such as its annual and quarterly reports and current reports on Form 8-K, and include the following: risks related to RBI's substantial indebtedness, risks related to adverse economic and industry conditions and risks related to unforeseen events, such as adverse weather conditions, natural disasters, terrorist attacks or threats, pandemics, including coronavirus (COVID-19), the war in Ukraine or other catastrophic events, all of which could adversely affect its financial condition and prevent it from fulfilling its obligations. Other than as required under U.S. federal securities laws or Canadian securities laws, RBI undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.
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- Dr. Stefan Bean, Veteran Educational Administrator and Leader, Named Executive Director
- Mrs. Sandy Small, Popular Returning Teacher, Elevated to Assistant Principal
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Irvine International Academy announced today the appointment of Dr. Stefan Bean as Executive Director and Mrs. Sandy Small as Assistant Principal for the 2022-23 school year. The Mandarin Immersion and STEAM Charter School is preparing to begin its' second year of operation, with school beginning on August 18.
"Dr. Bean brings a breadth of knowledge and experience with charter schools that will prove valuable to our students and teachers, and Mrs. Small played an invaluable role during our inaugural school year," said Dough Husen, IIA Board President. "Together, their leadership and institutional knowledge will benefit our students, teachers and parents."
Dr. Bean also will serve as the school's new Principal. A longtime educational administrator and leader, Dr. Bean brings more than two decades of experience as a teacher, principal, assistant superintendent, and most recently, superintendent of a leading charter organization in California. He has served on the boards of numerous educational organizations, including the Orange County Classical Academy, Los Angeles Coalition for Excellent School and the W.A.Y.S. Academy for Young Scientist Charter School.
Mrs. Small begins her second year at Irvine International Academy. Last year she served as a teacher, and is very familiar with the students, staff and inner workings of the school, and her depth of passion and commitment to the students and their learning environment made her a perfect fit for this new role.
"We are very fortunate to add Dr. Bean and Mrs. Small in these key roles as we strive to build the best Mandarin immersion and STEAM charter school in the region," said Husen. "There were a lot of lessons learned during our first year, and that knowledge – combined with this team's talents – position us for future success."
"I'm very excited about the opportunity to lead the Irvine International Academy," said Dr. Bean. "Last year's academic achievement – with our student's math and science scores exceeding the local public school's average and the highest of any dual immersion charter school in Irvine – demonstrates the unique opportunity our students have to learn at the premier Mandarin Immersion and STEAM charter school in the region," said Dr. Bean.
He added, "Our specialty classes, including PE, art and STEAM, STEAM Lab and the dedication and commitment from our teachers and staff are a game-changer for parents seeking the best dual immersion education for their children in Irvine."
About Irvine International Academy
Irvine International Academy is a Mandarin Immersion and STEAM charter school located in Irvine, California. IIA provides a unique learning environment for students to learn in both English and Mandarin Chinese, and provide students with the best path for educational success. Additionally, students are steeped in the STEAM educational disciplines, including science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. For more information on the Irvine International Academy, visit: https://irvineia.org/.
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CHICAGO – The drought in Europe may be the worst in 500 years and isn’t getting any better–rivers are running low or dry; crops, commerce and fish are in danger and the fire risk grows–it hasn’t remained significantly in months under the hot summer sun.
The drought underway across western Europe has been accompanied by waves of intense heat for months as droughts so often are, and the situation has grown worse after two months of no significant rain across a wide swath of western Europe.
The UK has just gone through its driest July since 1935. These are but the latest ramifications of a changing climate which is behind the alteration in the paths of critical rain-generating jet streams. As the Associated Press reports, “Europe isn’t alone in the crisis, with drought conditions also reported in East Africa, the western United States and northern Mexico.”
Rivers are so low in Germany, barge traffic on the country’s waterways are being seriously impacted. The drought in the Iberian Peninsula, which includes Spain and Portugal, is characterized as the worst there in 1,200 years and the president of the Italian Meteorological Society is being called the worst there in 230 years with serious impacts on crops and river levels there.
Reports the AP, “The Rhine, Germany’s biggest waterway, could reach critical low levels in the coming days. Water levels near the town of Kaub are forecast to fall to 35 centimeters (14 inches) by Tuesday, said Bastian Klein of the German Federal Institute of Hydrology. Only small or specially designed ships can navigate in such conditions.
Klein adds, “Industries that depend on inland shipping and transport on the Rhine are of course affected, as there’s less transport capacity for raw materials or finished products.’
On the Danube, authorities in Serbia have started dredging to keep vessels moving.
In neighboring Hungary, wide parts of Lake Velence near Budapest have turned into patches of dried mud, beaching small boats. Aeration and water circulation equipment have been installed to protect wildlife, but water quality has deteriorated. A ban on swimming was imposed at one beach on weekends. Stretches of the Po, Italy’s longest river, are so low that barges and boats that sank decades ago are resurfacing. The drought also has affected England, which last month had its driest July since 1935, according to the Met Office weather agency. The lack of rain has depleted reservoirs, rivers and groundwater and left grasslands brown and tinder-dry.”
The European Drought Observatory reports 47% of the European Union is under a “DROUGHT WARNING” and another 17% is under a drought alert.
Politico is out with an article on the UK government’s declaration of drought in parts of the region.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A diesel pipeline in Wyoming owned by a company that’s being sued by federal prosecutors over previous spills in two other states cracked open and released more than 45,000 gallons (205,000 liters) of fuel, a state official said Friday.
Cleanup work is ongoing from the spill that was discovered by the pipeline’s operator on July 27, said Joe Hunter, Emergency Response Coordinator with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. The fuel spilled on private ranchland near the small community of Sussex in eastern Wyoming, he said.
Contaminated soil was being excavated and placed into a temporary staging area, and it will be spread onto a nearby dirt road where the fuel is expected to largely evaporate, Hunter said.
The line is operated by Bridger Pipeline, a subsidiary of Casper-based True companies, according to an accident report submitted to the U.S. Coast Guard’s National Response Center.
The company initially reported only 420 gallons (1,590 liters) had spilled, but later revised its estimate to 45,150 gallons (205,250 liters), according to a National Response Center database.
True and its subsidiaries have a long history of spills. In May, federal prosecutors in Montana alleged that representatives of Bridger Pipeline had concealed from regulators problems with a pipeline that broke beneath the Yellowstone River near the city of Glendive in 2015. The break spewed more than 50,000 gallons (240,000 liters) of crude into the river and fouled Glendive’s drinking water supply.
In North Dakota, federal prosecutors and the state Attorney General’s Office are pursuing parallel claims of environmental violations against a second True companies subsidiary responsible for a 2016 spill that released more than 600,000 gallons (2.7 million liters) of crude, contaminating the Little Missouri River and a tributary.
Representatives of the companies have denied violating pollution laws and rejected claims that problems with the Montana line were concealed from federal regulators.
The Wyoming spill was caused by a crack at a weld in the line, said Hunter, who did not know how long it was leaking before being discovered. The spilled fuel did not appear to reach any waterways and no enforcement actions for environmental violations were planned, he said.
“I’m not saying there wouldn’t be any down the road but for right now there won’t be” any enforcement actions by the state, Hunter said. “It’s an older pipeline and it’s one of those things that happen.”
The 6-inch (15 centimeter) diameter steel line was installed in 1968 by the original owner and later acquired by Bridger Pipeline, said company spokesperson Bill Salvin. It was last inspected in 2019, using a device that travels inside the pipe looking for flaws, Salvin said. No problems were detected at the time, he said.
“We’re focused on minimizing the environmental impact and we’re going to replace the soil and restore the land as close as possible to its original condition,” Salvin said.
Kenneth Clarkson with the Pipeline Safety Trust, a Bellingham, Washington-based group that advocates for safer pipelines, said a thorough investigation into the spill’s cause needs to conducted.
“It’s frustrating to hear of another spill by Bridger Pipeline LLC,” Clarkson said. “This spill of 45,000-plus gallons of diesel into rural Wyoming negatively impacts the environment, wildlife, and surrounding communities.”
Violations of pipeline safety regulations would be handled separately and fall under jurisdiction of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Salvin said the agency has been notified about the spill, but officials did not immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press.
Bridger last year reached a $2 million settlement with the federal government and Montana over damages from the Yellowstone River spill. The company was previously fined $1 million in the case by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.
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EKU’s SAFE emergency fund helping students affected by flooding
RICHMOND, Ky. (WKYT) - Eastern Kentucky University student Kandis Jenkins lost her home in the flood.
“It was hard because I didn’t have anywhere to live for like for days,” said Jenkins.
She remembers waking up to water inside her bedroom.
“Mom was like, ‘we got to get out of here because the power is still on, and we can get electrocuted,’” said Jenkins.
After staying in a hotel, she’s now back on campus. EKU students started moving in on Wednesday, but students like Kandis who were impacted by the floods were allowed to move in earlier.
“We need to make sure that students who come to us from these areas are taken care of,” said EKU Dean of Students Dr. Laura Vance.
Vance says the university has about 700 students from impacted counties. About 100 were directly impacted by the flooding. The university is providing financial assistance to 20 students who’ve lost everything.
Kandis says without EKU’s SAFE emergency fund, she wouldn’t be able to make it to school.
“I got the funds in my account like three days later,” she said.
She used the money to buy food, school supplies, and clothes.
A high achiever, Kandis is on a full scholarship. She’s a sophomore studying engineering and is the first in her family to go to college. If that wasn’t enough, she’s also in the National Guard.
Kandis is heartbroken by the devastation in her native Letcher County. Her puppy, Chewy, and her parents are keeping her spirits up. Her EKU family is helping too.
“I know if I need something, I can go to them. I am very thankful for that,” Jenkins said.
EKU is asking for donations to support other students like Kandis Jenkins.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Capping an extraordinary week in Donald Trump’s post-presidency, a New York judge ordered Friday that his company and its longtime finance chief stand trial in the fall on tax fraud charges stemming from a long-running criminal investigation into Trump’s business practices.
Manhattan Judge Juan Manuel Merchan scheduled jury selection for Oct. 24 in the case, which involves allegations the Trump Organization gave CFO Allen Weisselberg more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation, including rent, car payments and school tuition.
Lawyers at a hearing Friday suggested the trial could last several months.
Merchan denied requests by Weisselberg’s lawyers and the Trump Organization to throw out the case, though he did drop one criminal tax fraud count against the company citing the statute of limitations. More than a dozen other counts remain. Weisselberg’s lawyers argued prosecutors in the Democrat-led Manhattan district attorney’s office were punishing him because he wouldn’t flip on the former president.
Merchan rejected that, saying that evidence presented to the grand jury “was legally sufficient to support the charges in the indictment,” and that those proceedings were properly conducted, their “integrity unimpaired.”
If the schedule holds, Weisselberg and the Trump Organization will be on trial during the November midterm elections where Trump’s Republican party could win control of one or both houses of Congress. At the same time, Trump has been laying the groundwork for a potential comeback campaign for president in 2024.
The criminal trial is just one of several legal concerns playing out in real time in Trump’s orbit. FBI agents searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in an unrelated probe Monday, and on Thursday, he and the U.S. Department of Justice called for the public release of search warrant documents.
Trump sat for a deposition Wednesday as New York Attorney General Letitia James wraps up a parallel civil investigation into allegations Trump’s company misled lenders and tax authorities about asset values. Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination more than 400 times.
Trump has not been charged in the criminal probe, but prosecutors have noted that he signed some of the checks at the center of the case. Trump, who has decried the New York investigations as a “political witch hunt,” has said his company’s actions were standard practice in the real estate business and in no way a crime. James is a Democrat.
Weisselberg and the Trump Organization have pleaded not guilty.
The most serious charge against Weisselberg, grand larceny, carries five to 15 years in prison. The tax fraud charges against the company are punishable by a fine of double the amount of unpaid taxes, or $250,000, whichever is larger.
Weisselberg, who turns 75 on Monday, is the only Trump executive charged in the yearslong criminal investigation started by former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who went to the Supreme Court to secure Trump’s tax records. Vance’s successor, Alvin Bragg, is now overseeing the investigation. Several other Trump executives have been granted immunity to testify before a grand jury in the case.
Prosecutors alleged that Weisselberg and the Trump Organization schemed to give off-the-books compensation to senior executives, including Weisselberg, for 15 years. Weisselberg alone was accused of defrauding the federal government, state and city out of more than $900,000 in unpaid taxes and undeserved tax refunds.
In the months after Weisselberg’s arrest, the criminal probe appeared to be progressing toward a possible criminal indictment of Trump himself, but the investigation slowed, a grand jury was disbanded and a top prosecutor left after Bragg took office in January — though he insists it is continuing.
Although the criminal investigation is separate from James’ civil investigation, which could lead to a lawsuit and fines for Trump and his company, her office has been involved in both investigations. James has dispatched several lawyers to work with Manhattan prosecutors, and it was evidence uncovered in the civil investigation that led to criminal charges against Weisselberg.
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The Interstate 19 northbound on and off ramps at Esperanza Boulevard are closed in Green Valley after one person was injured in a crash on Friday afternoon.
The vehicle using the off ramp on I-19 lost control and crashed, Green Valley Fire District said. Units extricated the victim and took them to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.
East and westbound Esperanza Boulevard is also closed between Los Olmos and Abrego Drive.
GVFD working mva accident Esperanza / I-19 The Vehicle using the ramp off of I-19 northbound lost control. Units extricated the victim to attempt medical treatment. Person was transported to NW Hospital Sahuarita with life threatening injuries. Please avoid the area. pic.twitter.com/QPoEILFyFQ
— Official GV Fire PIO (@GVFDPIO) August 12, 2022
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MCCOMB, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi Department of Public Safety (DPS), the Mississippi Highway Patrol (MHP) and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) have completed an investigation into a recent viral video of a MHP trooper arresting a man in McComb. The agencies believe there’s no evidence of criminal conduct by the trooper.
The agencies released a more than 39 minute-long video of the incident that was shot from the trooper’s dash and in-cab cameras. According to agency officials, the following is the timeline of events in the video:
- On Friday, August 5, Trooper Hayden Falvey stopped Eugene Lewis on Schmidt Road in McComb for a traffic stop. He stopped Eugene for speeding through a light after it had turned from green to yellow, not wearing a seatbelt and passing vehicles on the right.
- Falvey said he smelled marijuana coming from Eugene’s car and on his breath. He said Eugene’s driver’s license was suspended and that he was driving without liability insurance. Eugene admitted to Falvey that there may be a burnt marijuana cigarette in his car. He also admitted that he smoked marijuana about 45 minutes to an hour before the traffic stop.
- Falvey put him in handcuffs and began searching his car. Gary and Derrius Lewis, who identified themselves as Eugene’s brothers, drove up to the scene. Falvey told them to leave because he had no backup and they were in an unpopulated area. The brothers left the scene.
- When Falvey told Eugene that he was under arrest and tried to put him in the police cruiser, Eugene “became belligerent.” Falvey radioed dispatch and requested assistance. Falvey thought he had buckled Eugene into the car.
- Eugene’s brothers came back to the scene and got out of their car. Falvey walked to the back of the cruiser to tell the brothers to leave. At that time, Eugene got out of the cruiser and started shouting at Falvey.
- Eugene resisted when Falvey tried to get him back in the cruiser, which caused both of them to fall. Falvey tried to secure Eugene with his knees and legs so his hands would be free if his brothers tried to approach him.
- Eugene indicated that he would willingly get back into the cruiser. Falvey helped Eugene get to his feet and to the cruiser. Eugene began resisting when Falvey tried to fully put him in the cruiser. Falvey buckled him in.
- Eugene indicated that he needed to go to a hospital. Falvey requested an ambulance. Paramedics arrived and determined that Eugene’s vital signs were normal, no injuries were observed and he was medically clear to be taken to jail.
- Falvey then told both brothers that they were under arrest. He said Derrius was slurring his speech and his breath smelled of an intoxicating beverage. Derrius admitted to drinking earlier, but refused a preliminary breath test.
Eugene Lewis was charged with careless driving, seatbelt violation, disregard for traffic device, window tint violation, no proof of insurance, DUI 1st offense, resisting arrest and failure to comply.
Gary Lewis was charged with two counts of obstructing a public street, resisting arrest, failure to comply, no driver’s license on demand, seatbelt violation, expired tag, improperly displayed tag and window tint violation.
Derrius Lewis was charged with resisting arrest, failure to comply, public drunkenness and disturbing the peace.
“MHSP’s internal review of this matter revealed no evidence of excessive force. All evidence indicates that Trooper Falvey demonstrated exemplary patience, judgement and skill in maintaining the safety of all involved throughout what could have easily become a tragic incident,” said Lt. Col. Malachi Sanders, Director of the MHSP Enforcement Division.
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LOS ANGELES — Anne Heche, the Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor whose work in “Six Days Seven Nights,” “Another World” and dozens of other projects dovetailed with a groundbreaking romance with Ellen DeGeneres that challenged homophobia in Hollywood, has died. She was 53.
Her son Homer confirmed her death in a statement to the Los Angeles Times on Friday.
“My brother Atlas and I lost our Mom. After six days of almost unbelievable emotional swings, I am left with a deep, wordless sadness,” he wrote. “Hopefully my mom is free from pain and beginning to explore what I like to imagine as her eternal freedom.
“Over those six days, thousands of friends, family, and fans made their hearts known to me. I am grateful for their love, as I am for the support of my Dad, Coley, and my stepmom Alexi who continue to be my rock during this time. Rest In Peace Mom, I love you, Homer.”
Heche was removed from life support after being hospitalized after crashing her car into a Mar Vista home, which then caught on fire. After the Aug. 5 crash, Heche was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital in critical condition. She was declared brain dead Thursday night but was kept on life support for possible organ donation.
She suffered significant burns in the crash. On Thursday, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that a blood test showed Heche was under the influence of narcotics at the time, and another law enforcement source told the Times that Heche’s initial blood test showed cocaine in her system.
Before Heche died, the LAPD was planning to administer a second blood test to rule out hospital treatments as the reason for narcotics showing up in her initial screen. Shortly after the crash, Heche fell into a coma with a major injury that required her to be put on mechanical ventilation, her spokesperson said.
By Thursday night, it was clear that Heche would not survive. A statement on behalf of her family and friends said the actor had suffered “a severe anoxic brain injury” and would be kept on life support to determine whether any of her organs were viable for donation, as had long been her wish.
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit,” the statement said. “More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love. She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”
Throughout her decadeslong career, Heche delivered nearly 100 performances on TV, stage and film. In the late 1980s, she got her big break with a dual role on the long-running NBC soap opera “Another World.” By 1991, she won a Daytime Emmy for her acclaimed work as Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on the show.
After rising to prominence on the daytime TV circuit, Heche made the leap to the big screen, where she starred in high-profile films including “Donnie Brasco” (1997), “Volcano” (1997), “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997), “Six Days Seven Nights” (1998), “Return to Paradise” (1998) and “John Q” (2002).
Her professional life took a turn, however, when she began publicly dating DeGeneres, who had just come out as gay on her hit sitcom and in real life. Both performers endured major career setbacks as a result of being open about their sexuality at a time when that was much less accepted.
In a 1998 interview with the Times, Heche accused Fox of refusing to hire her after she and DeGeneres made their relationship official around the time the studio’s “Volcano” debuted — and tanked — at the box office.
“They still have this bitterness about the timing of my falling in love with Ellen and the opening of ‘Volcano,’ ” Heche told the Times.
“I have my own opinions about why that movie didn’t do well, as anybody with half a brain would, but they want to blame it on somebody. I won’t say doors are shut for me. I know there are studios that will hire me (laughing).”
On Friday, DeGeneres tweeted her support for her former partner.
“This is a sad day,” DeGeneres tweeted. “I’m sending Anne’s children, family and friends all of my love.”
Heche was born May 25, 1969, in Aurora, Ohio. During her childhood, Heche and her family moved often when her father, a choir director, pursued different gigs. At 12 years old, she worked with her mother at a dinner theater in Swainton, New Jersey, then eventually moved with her family to Chicago.
In the Windy City came her big break. A talent scout invited a 16-year-old Heche to audition for CBS’ “As the World Turns.” However, before she could take on that daytime drama, her mother insisted that she finish her high school education. After graduating in 1987, Heche debuted as Vicky Hudson and Marley Love in NBC’s “Another World.”
“I think everything in my childhood led me to being an actress,” she told Larry King in 2001. “I not only wanted to leave the planet, I wanted to be anything other than who I was. And so did my family.”
In 1991, Heche earned her first Daytime Emmy for her work in the NBC soap and soon made her film debut. Throughout the ’90s, she appeared in “An Ambush of Ghosts,” “The Adventures of Huck Finn,” “I’ll Do Anything” and others. She eventually became a screen staple, acting alongside Cher, Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin. In 1996, she appeared in Nicole Holofcener’s Sundance film “Walking and Talking,” then in Mike Newell’s “Donnie Brasco” with Johnny Depp a year later. She also shared the screen with Tommy Lee Jones in “Volcano.”
Heche met DeGeneres in March 1997 at the Vanity Fair Oscar party. The two went public with their relationship on an episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” shortly after Heche joined the cast for “Six Days Seven Nights.”
“I don’t think it was immediately a sexual attraction,” Heche told Winfrey about meeting DeGeneres. “I just think it was, ‘Wow, you are just the most incredible person I’ve ever met and I want to be with you.’ ”
The women ended their relationship in August 2000. A day after the breakup, Heche made headlines when she dropped by a stranger’s home in Fresno and claimed that God “was going to take everyone back to heaven in a spaceship.”
In the early aughts, she scaled back her time in the mainstream spotlight, instead opting for roles in indie films and TV series such as “Ally McBeal,” “Prozac Nation” and “Gracie’s Choice.” In 2001, Heche released her memoir, “Call Me Crazy.” In it, she alleged that her father, who was gay and died of AIDS in 1983, abused her when she was young. She previously told the Times that she intended for her autobiography to help others.
“It’s who I am. I hope the fact that I talk about these things in my life might help other people find peace in their own conflicts,” she told the Times in 2004. “People are curious about it, but I think it will become less and less, and hopefully I’ll have more and more topics to add on so that there won’t always be questions about the last seven years of my life.”
In September 2001, Heche married Coleman Laffoon, a cameraman whom she had hired in 2000 to film a documentary about DeGeneres. The next year was a busy one as Heche gave birth to their son, Homer, and made her Broadway debut in a production of “Proof.”
In 2004, she earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her work in “Gracie’s Choice” and a Tony nomination for her work in a Broadway production of the play “Twentieth Century,” where she starred opposite Alec Baldwin. That year also saw Heche appear in films “Sexual Life” and “Birth.”
In 2007, Heche filed for divorce from Laffoon and began dating her “Men in Trees” co-star James Tupper. In December 2008, she gave birth to her second child, Atlas. From 2009 to 2011, Heche starred in HBO’s “Hung.” She also had a recurring arc as Susan Rodriguez-Jones in “The Michael J. Fox Show” from 2013 to 2014. Her additional television credits throughout the ’10s were “The Legend of Korra,” “Dig” and “Aftermath.”
Heche revisited Broadway in 2016 with Topher Grace in “Opening Night.” She also starred with Sandra Oh in the indie film “Catfight.”
“Oh and Heche are great here, giving performances entirely lacking in vanity and self-consciousness,” the Times’ “Catfight” review said. “They aren’t afraid to get ugly, both in their treatment of everyone around them as well as in their post-brawl bruises, which makes them that much funnier.”
“I created characters out of the funniness of life,” Heche told the Times in 2010, speaking about her process. “And I also loved physical comedy, not over the top, but born of what I thought was true in life, fumbling over the journey through life, which is so complicated and painful.”
In 2017, Heche appeared in the film’ “My Friend Dahmer” and took up a lead role for the NBC series “The Brave.” In 2018, she and Tupper split. In 2020 she was a contestant on the 29th season of “Dancing With the Stars,” being voted off third among the contestants. In the same year, she took up a recurring role on the CBS legal drama “All Rise.”
In recent years Heche continued to keep busy, launching the “Better Together with Anne & Heater” podcast with co-host Heather Duff in 2020. In June 2022, she also landed a starring role in Lifetime’s upcoming film “Girl in Room 13,” directed by Elisabeth Rohm. As of Thursday, the film was still on track for its September release.
Heche is survived by her sons Homer and Atlas.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — If there has been a takeaway from the first two weeks of the New York Giants’ training camp, it’s been the signs Saquon Barkley is once again close to finding his top form.
The ACL injury is almost two years removed and the No. 2 pick overall in the 2018 draft is running with conviction, confidence and power.
The running game has shown depth and it has a new improved line to run behind.
New York ran for 177 yards on 33 carries in their 23-21 preseason win over the Patriots on Thursday night in Brian Daboll’s debut as head coach. That’s a 5.4-yard average.
Barkley only played the opening series, but he had four carries for 13 yards and caught an 8-yard pass on third down to keep alive a drive that resulted in the first of three Graham Gano field goals.
First-year pro Antonio Williams led the team with nine carries for 61 yards, with a long of 19. Second-year pro Gary Brightwell had seven carries for 40 yards and rookie free agent Jashaun Corbin of Florida State had six carries for 23 yards and five catches for 28.
Matt Breida, the six-year veteran who is supposed to be Barkley’s backup, didn’t play.
“It’s a competitive room,” Daboll said Friday. “They’re tough, doing a good job with the system. You know, they’re a very supportive group. Even though it’s a competitive group, they run downhill with power, break tackles.”
The one negative was Brightwell missed a block in pass protection and quarterback Daniel Jones was hit around the knees while stepping forward to make a pass. He was not hurt.
Barkley, who didn’t play in the preseason last year, said he felt good.
“I think our offensive line did a great job,” said Barkley, who rushed for 593 yards in his post ACL season. “We were able to move the ball.”
Overall, the offense gained 418 yards and ran 81 plays with new offensive coordinator Mike Kafka running the show. Daboll has not said who will call the plays once the regular season starts.
There were negatives, too.
Cornerback Aaron Robinson, who was given the job on the left side after James Bradberry was released in a salary cap move, was beaten on consecutive deep throws in the first half. Daboll didn’t seem concerned but the depth at the position is thin with rookie Cor’Dale Flott sustaining a groin injury in the game.
The offensive line also was banged up. Left guard Shane Lemieux injured a toe early and was later seen in the sideline in a walking boot. Backup tackle Jamil Douglas sustained an ankle injury in the second half.
Daboll had no update on any of the injuries on Friday.
Receiver Kadarius Toney, who missed seven games last season, was left in New Jersey for the preseason opener after tweaking a knee or leg in practice on Tuesday.
“Things happen in practice, things happen in the game,” Daboll said. “So, again, if he was ready to go, he would be out there.”
Daboll said receiver Sterling Shepard (Achilles tendon) and linebacker Azeez Ojulari (hamstring) are making progress, but he had no timetable for their coming off the physically unable to perform list.
The team is off Saturday and will return to practice on Sunday. The second preseason game is at home against the defending AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals on Aug. 21. ___
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Mom charged with second-degree murder after infant drowns in bathtub
Published: Aug. 12, 2022 at 4:11 PM CDT|Updated: 36 minutes ago
LITHONIA, Ga. (WGCL/Gray News) – A Georgia mother has been charged with second-degree murder in the drowning death of her infant, officials said.
According to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, Shaquilla Feaster, 31, was arrested Thursday.
The sheriff’s office said Feaster left her child, Ja’Lonnie Small, unattended in a bathtub on July 30. Ja’Lonnie was taken to the hospital but died days later.
Officials said Feaster is being held without bond at the DeKalb County Jail.
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Kyrgios downs No.1 Medvedev in Montreal
Nick Kyrgios has scored an emotion-charged comeback win over world No.1 Daniil Medvedev to underline his US Open title credentials and book an intriguing, first-time all-Australian showdown with Alex de Minaur.
The Wimbledon runner-up once again made a mockery of the rankings to wear down Medvedev 6-7 (2-7) 6-4 6-2 in a sapping second-round encounter in Montreal played in searing heat and humidity.
Both in-form stars were coming off title wins last week, with Kyrgios completing an historic singles-double double in Washington and Medvedev reigning in Los Cabos, Mexico.
After losing the opening set in a tiebreaker, Kyrgios dug deep and turned the match around with one incredible backhand passing shot to break Medvedev in the sixth game of the deciding set.
He broke the dispirited Russian for a second straight service game before closing out the match to love after exactly two hours.
The stirring victory was Kyrgios's third from four meetings with Medvedev, his 14th win from 15 matches and second ever over a world No.1 - eight years after conquering Rafael Nadal on his Wimbledon debut as a teenager.
"I'm not the type of player who goes into these matches looking at rankings or anything like that," Kyrgios said after dedicating the win to ailing mother Nill.
"It's just who I'm playing and what kind of ball they're giving me and today I had a very clean objective of how I was going to play - a lot of serve and volley, a lot of aggressive play from the back - and I executed better than he did on the day.
"That's all it came down to ... so hopefully I can keep this rolling.
Unbeaten on the American hardcourt swing, Kyrgios's only defeat in the past six weeks came against Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon decider.
Djokovic won't be in New York for the season's final grand slam starting on August 29, leaving Kyrgios as one the biggest threats to reigning champion Medvedev.
"Look, a grand slam is much, much different to any other tournament," Kyrgios said after ending Medvedev's title defence in Canada.
"If I was in this position of a grand slam, you've still got to win another set and that's not easy at all. He's a machine.
"He's the best player in the world for a reason and at a grand slam he's a totally different beast."
Nevertheless, Kyrgios's US Open hopes continue to skyrocket and the 27-year-old's latest triumph all but secured the Canberran an all-important seeding for Flushing Meadows.
"Look, I feel confident in my body and my mentality going in to the US Open but at the same time there's so much time between then and now," Kyrgios said.
"I've got to focus on this event and then Cincinnati. There's so many things I've got to look forward to. I'm not even going to think about the US Open right now.
"I need to take care of my body."
Kyrgios's mother is in hospital with failing kidneys, prompting the ACT ace to write "be strong, ma" on the camera after his win.
De Minaur, himself in terrific touch after winning his sixth career title two weeks ago in Atlanta, set up a first-time meeting with Kyrgios with a 7-6 (7-4) 7-5 second-round win over Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the 15th seed.
Kyrgios and de Minaur had been poised to clash in the Wimbledon quarter-finals before de Minaur let slip a two-sets-to-love advantage over Chile's Cristian Garin in the fourth round.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A ship docked in a Ukrainian Black Sea port on Friday to begin loading up with wheat for hungry people in Ethiopia. It will be the first food delivery to Africa under a U.N. plan to unblock grain trapped by Russia’s war on Ukraine and bring relief to some of the millions worldwide who are on the brink of starvation.
For months, fighting in Ukraine and a Russian blockade of Ukraine’s ports meant that grain produced in Ukraine, one of the world’s key breadbaskets, piled up in silos. That sent global food prices sky-high and led to hunger in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia. In recent days, several ships carrying grain have left Ukrainian ports under the new deal — but most of those shipments were animal feed and went to Turkey or Western Europe under previous contracts.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the ship named Brave Commander will carry its wheat to the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, where it will be unloaded and sent on to Ethiopia.
“The wheat will go to the World Food Program’s operations in Ethiopia, supporting the Horn of Africa drought response as the threat of famine stalks the drought-hit region,” he said. “It is one of many areas around the world where the near-complete halt of Ukrainian grain and food on the global market has made life even harder for the families already struggling with rising hunger.”
The ship was expected to take on more than 23,000 metric tons, according to Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry — still only a tiny portion of the 20 million tons of grain languishing now in Ukraine. It docked in the port city of Yuzhne late Friday, the ministry said.
Ethiopia, along with neighboring Somalia and Kenya, is facing the worst drought in four decades in the Horn of Africa. Thousands of people across the region have died from hunger or illness this year. Forecasts for the coming weeks indicate that for the first time, a fifth straight rainy season will fail to materialize. Millions of livestock, the basis of many families’ wealth and food security, have died.
“Millions of households will struggle to cope with these shocks” in Ethiopia, according to a new assessment by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network. “Food assistance needs are at record levels, with up to 15 million people in need of food assistance.”
While one shipment won’t solve the crisis, the World Food Program still heralded it as an “important step” in getting Ukrainian grain out of the country to the worst-affected countries. Ethiopian officials did not respond to requests for comment.
Yet on Ukraine’s front lines, the fighting was incessant, especially in the eastern region of the Donbas, where much of the fighting has been centered as the war approaches the six-month mark. The town of Kramatorsk was hit by 11 rockets overnight. Seven people were killed and 14 others were wounded in and around the town, which remains cut off from gas, running water and electricity.
“Three quarters of the population of the region have already been evacuated, because incessant shelling by the Russian army doesn’t leave civilians any choice — it’s either to die from wounds, or from hunger and cold in winter,” Donetsk regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told Ukrainian television.
The threat of a nuclear accident also loomed in southern Ukraine, where shelling has hit near Europe’s largest nuclear plant.
Shelling near the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant continued overnight. Russian forces fired more than 40 rockets at the city of Marhanets, which is across the Dnieper River from the power plant. Three people were wounded in the most recent shelling, including a 12-year-old boy. The neighboring city of Nikopol was shelled as well, said Valentyn Reznichenko, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The U.N. nuclear chief warned late Thursday that “very alarming” military activity at the nuclear plant could lead to dangerous consequences.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi urged Russia and Ukraine, who blame each other for the attacks at the nuclear plant, to immediately allow nuclear experts to assess damage and evaluate safety and security at the sprawling nuclear complex. He said the situation at the plant “has been deteriorating very rapidly.”
He pointed to shelling and several explosions at Zaporizhzhia last Friday that forced the shutdown of its electrical power transformer and two backup transformers, forcing the shutdown of one nuclear reactor.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky said authorities were drafting plans to evacuate residents from towns and villages near the plant.
“There is a high-level threat, so there are plans for any possible development, including release of radiation,” Monastyrsky said Friday. “We all have seen the Russian shelling of the plant. It’s horrible.”
He said Russian forces have stationed weapons at the plant and have denied Ukrainian nuclear workers access to some areas in the complex.
“It’s hard to even imagine the scale of tragedy if the Russians continue their action there,” he said. “We have become convinced that there is no restraining factors. There is a deliberate stand declared by the Russian authorities that they are ready for any action, regardless of consequences.”
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Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Purdue University's season opener is less then a month away, and the university is seeing record ticket sales, even with the game being on a Thursday.
The first game of the season for the Boilermakers will be shown on the national scale. Their Thursday night home opener against Penn State will be, arguably, their biggest game of the year.
Purdue athletes told News 18 that right now they have just over 50,000 tickets sold for that first game alone. As for season tickets, football is at a record high in sales since 2008 with over 36,000 season tickets sold, but it really is that season opener that people have their eyes on.
Having a night game on a Thursday night at Ross-Ade Stadium, it'll be a national TV audience, we'll have the national crew in, Fox is going to bring in the Big Noon Kick Off," Moreland said. "So there's going to be a lot of hype and publicity around the game. I know our coaches and student athletes are really excited about it, and just the energy around Ross-Ade stadium will make for a great environment for everybody. But to have that on the national stage will really show what Purdue university is all about."
Tickets for the Purdue Penn State game are still for sale and prices are running as low as $35.
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Courts continue to scrutinize J&J's controversial bankruptcy ploy to avoid liability
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Legal experts say the decision by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) to halt future sales and distribution of talc-based products worldwide, including its iconic Johnson's Baby Powder, points to mounting pressure on the company to resolve tens of thousands of legal claims brought by ovarian cancer and mesothelioma victims.
Numerous scientific studies spanning decades have established the carcinogenic effects of cosmetic talc, while U.S. and Canadian governmental regulators have called for enhanced testing techniques for products containing the mineral, particularly after independent testing by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration revealed asbestos in consumer samples of talc-based powders. Meanwhile, internal corporate documents presented in trials during the past several years have shown that J&J and its consultants knew of the dangers of the company's products and took steps to deny or otherwise cover up those findings to avoid legal liability.
"J&J has finally done the right thing. Throughout decades of selling talc-based products, the company knew talc could cause deadly cancers to unsuspecting women and men around the world," says Leigh O'Dell of the Beasley Allen Law Firm in Montgomery. "They stopped sales in North America more than two years ago and blamed that move on the litigation. The delay in taking this step is inexcusable. I can only hope J&J will now do the next right: take responsibility and adequately compensate the victims they have needlessly harmed."
The vast majority of the more than 38,000 cases filed by ovarian cancer victims against J&J were consolidated in multidistrict litigation in New Jersey federal court, and bellwether trials had been scheduled to begin last spring. Those proceedings were put on hold in late 2021 when the company chose to pursue a controversial "Texas Two-Step" bankruptcy.
That scheme involved creating a new corporate shell company to hold all talc-related liabilities before taking that entity into bankruptcy. If successful, the tactic would allow Johnson & Johnson to avoid paying cancer victims and protect a market capitalization of approximately a half-trillion dollars. Because of the bankruptcy, all trials in the MDL and others filed in state courts are currently suspended.
The two-step move has raised eyebrows in Congress, where representatives have begun discussing potential changes to the bankruptcy laws that would prevent this sort of consumer harm in future cases.
"The potential loss of a jury trial is not a mere by-product of the filing; the sole purpose of the bankruptcy is to remove tort claimants from the tort system and strip them of their rights against extraordinarily wealthy and highly solvent entities," wrote Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the University of California's Berkeley School of Law, in a brief filed with the bankruptcy court.
"The Debtor is a newly created shell, with no business to restructure, no operations to rehabilitate, and no customers or genuine employees to serve. In short, the Debtor has no reorganizational purpose," he noted in the brief, one of many filed by constitutional scholars raising concerns about the "Two-Step."
The propriety of the bankruptcy and accompanying halt to litigation imposed by the bankruptcy court will be reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a hearing Sept. 19.
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YORK COUNTY, Pa. — A life-sized statue of a local African American icon was unveiled in York County on Friday.
The William C. Goodridge Freedom Center and Underground Railroad Museum hosted a statue unveiling of a life-sized statue of Goodridge.
The statue is the first African American statue in York and was designed by nationally known sculptor Gary Casteel.
Locals say the statue will have a big impact on the community.
"The impact would be that individuals would, number one, be able to come and learn more about who he is, know who he is, sit next to him, take selfies and pictures, but also they can come into our William C. Goodridge Underground Railroad museum and they can tour and learn about his life and learn about the enslaved who were kept in his home while they were ushered into freedom," said Community Development and Housing Director Edquina Washington.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s police have prohibited a religious procession scheduled for Saturday in the capital, the latest sign of tensions between the government and the Roman Catholic Church.
The Managua Archdiocese urged the faithful to come directly and peacefully to the cathedral Saturday “to pray for the church and Nicaragua.”
“The National Police have advised us that for reasons of internal security the procession scheduled for 7 a.m. this Aug. 13, an activity planned on the occasion of the Marian Congress and conclusion of the pilgrimage of the image of Our Lady of Fatima in national territory, is not permitted,” the archdiocese said in a statement.
On Aug. 1, the government announced that Matagalpa Bishop Rolando Álvarez was under investigation for allegedly promoting hate and inciting violence. It said he would not be permitted to leave the church compound that includes his residence while the investigation continued. Police have kept the compound encircled.
Álvarez has been an outspoken critic of President Daniel Ortega’s government.
Prior to that, the government closed seven radio stations owned by the Catholic Church in Matagalpa province.
The police have not allowed large public gatherings, except those sponsored by the government or the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front party, since September 2018. Earlier that year, in April, huge street protests became a call for Ortega to step down.
Ortega has maintained that it was a coup attempt carried out with foreign backing and the support of the church. Since then his government has moved against voices of dissent, including political opposition leaders and more than 1,000 nongovernmental organizations. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Nicaraguan-police-prohibit-religious-procession-17370398.php | 2022-08-12T22:03:20Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Nicaraguan-police-prohibit-religious-procession-17370398.php | false |
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal jury awarded Republican Roy Moore $8.2 million in damages Friday after finding that a Democratic-aligned super PAC defamed him in an advertisement during the 2017 U.S. Senate race in Alabama.
Jurors found the Senate Majority PAC made false and defamatory statements against Moore in the ad that attempted to capitalize on a sexual misconduct accusation made against Moore during the 2017 race. The ruling was a victory for Moore who has lost other defamation lawsuits, including one against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
“We’re very thankful to God for an opportunity to help restore my reputation which was severely damaged by the 2017 election,” Moore said in a telephone interview.
Senate Majority PAC funded a group called Highway 31 that ran a $4 million advertising blitz against Moore.
Moore lost the 2017 race after a woman came forward to The Washington Post and said Moore sexually touched her in 1979 when she was 14 and he was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. Moore denied the accusation. Other women said Moore dated them, or asked them out on dates, when they were older teens.
The lawsuit centered on one television commercial that recounted accusations against Moore in various news articles. Moore’s attorneys argued the ad, through the juxtaposition of statements, falsely claimed he solicited sex from young girls at a shopping mall, including another 14-year-old who was working as a Santa’s helper, and that resulted in him being banned from the mall.
The advertisement at issue in the lawsuit began with: “What do people who know Roy Moore say?” It followed with the statements “Moore was actually banned from the Gadsden mall … for soliciting sex from young girls” and “One he approached was 14 and working as Santa’s helper.” Both quotes cited various news articles.
Wendy Miller has previously testified that she met Moore when she was 14 and working as a Santa’s helper at the local mall. She testified Moore asked her out when she was 15 or 16 but her mother did not give her permission to go.
Moore’s attorneys argued the juxtaposition of statements in the ad painted Moore in a false light and falsely made it look like he was soliciting sex from girls at the mall.
“In their ad they strung quotes together to make a single statement. That’s what the jury found offensive. They got up and lied and said they didn’t intend that,” Jeffrey Scott Wittenbrink, an attorney for Moore said.
The Senate Majority PAC had argued the ad was substantially true. An attorney said they planned to appeal.
“No amount of deflection or distraction from Roy Moore will change the fact that multiple individuals testified under oath to corroborate credible accusations against him. Many others have come forward to make their allegations public, at serious personal cost. We do not think this verdict is the right decision, but we believe the facts are clear and this ruling will be overturned on appeal,” Ben Stafford, an attorney representing Senate Majority PAC, said in an emailed statement. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/jury-democratic-pac-defamed-moore-awards-him-8-2-million/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-08-12T22:03:34Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/jury-democratic-pac-defamed-moore-awards-him-8-2-million/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | true |
KYIV, Ukraine — Days after explosions at a Russian air base on the Crimean coast, no side has officially taken responsibility for what many Ukrainian and international commentators believe to be an attack.
In the hours following Tuesday's blasts, Russian officials claimed workers at the Saki air base weren't following safety protocols, which led to a serious accident and fire. But as social media images appeared of large columns of smoke rising above a nearby beach and ambulances rushing to the scene, local Russian authorities acknowledged that one person was dead and several injured. And a bigger picture of the damage came Wednesday when the officials vowed to repair more than 80 buildings damaged during the blasts.
Analysis of satellite images published by the company Planet suggests that multiple explosions took place hundreds of feet apart, damaging nine airplanes and scattering debris on the taxiway. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said nine Russian planes were destroyed.
Ukrainian officials claim that planes based at the Saki air base were providing tactical assistance to Russia's occupation of Ukraine's southern mainland, where authorities loyal to Moscow announced their intent to be annexed into the Russian Federation.
Many people in Ukraine celebrated the blasts, believing that Ukraine's efforts to take back Russian-occupied territory finally reached Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Ukrainian officials, including Zelenskyy and his top adviser, publicly denied that Ukraine was behind attacks at the base, but the contested peninsula has dominated speeches and media coverage of the war this week.
"The war with Russia began and will end in Crimea," Zelenskyy said, vowing "we will return to the Ukrainian Crimea."
Unnamed Ukrainian military sources cited by The New York Times, The Washington Post and Politico said Ukrainian special forces and local partisans were responsible for the attack. NPR reached out to two high-ranking Ukrainian military sources, who refused to corroborate the claims.
President Zelenskyy has launched a probe into the leak. Calling it "irresponsible" to divulge specifics to the media, he said, "The fewer concrete details you give, the better it will be for the implementation of our defense plans."
American officials say they have restricted the use of U.S.-supplied weapons against Russian territory, but military experts have argued that Crimea is fair game for Ukraine since most countries consider it illegally occupied by Russia.
Even so, Ukrainian forces aren't thought to be capable of firing projectiles over the 120 miles needed to reach from Ukrainian-held territory to the Saki air base, analysts say. But the explosions have fueled speculation Ukraine has accelerated a homegrown, long-range weapons program. An analysis from The War Zone, a military news and analysis site, suggests that Ukraine may have adapted older Soviet-era weapons to reach farther into Russian-held territory. Ukraine used domestic Neptune rockets to sink one of Russia's biggest warships, the Moskva, in April, a move that was also thought to be beyond Ukraine's ability.
Even though Russians are chalking the blasts up to an accident, they have ramped up security levels on the peninsula. Sergei Aksyonov, a local official loyal to Russia, said that Crimea will be under a high "yellow" terrorist threat level through Ukraine's independence day on Aug. 24. A Ukrainian civil rights group has said that Crimea's Indigenous Muslim minority, the Tatars, are being searched and arrested in the wake of the blasts. Tatars are largely seen with suspicion in Crimea over their overwhelming pro-Ukrainian stance since the 2014 annexation, leading many to be exiled.
It's unlikely these blasts will change much about Russia's presence in Crimea. Russia still maintains five other air bases on the peninsula.
The blasts come at the height of Crimea's tourist season, with Russians flocking to the area for its subtropical weather and beaches. Videos on social media showed traffic jams of people attempting to leave the peninsula after the explosions.
Speculation of Ukrainian responsibility has also fueled suspicion that Ukraine might target the Kerch bridge next, a nearly 12-mile stretch of road opened in 2018 to connect Crimea with mainland Russia. Russia's Tourism Ministry says there has not been a decline of visits to Crimea since the incident, though.
Also drawing much attention this week is another crisis, involving apparent attacks at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine. Ukraine's power utility, Energoatom, claims that Russia is working to disconnect the plant from the rest of Ukraine and integrate it with Russia's power grid via Crimea, thus formalizing the annexation of both Crimea and the Zaporizhzhia region. In July, Russian officials said they were busy reconnecting the Ukrainian power lines to Crimea that had been destroyed in 2015.
An analysis from the Institute for the Study of War suggests the Zaporizhzhia crisis may be Russia's way of forcing negotiations with Ukraine, even though 84% of Ukrainians polled by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology are against conceding territory like Crimea to end the war sooner.
Ukraine's envoy for Crimean Tatars, Tamila Tasheva, argued on Wednesday that the two issues are related. She said Ukrainian attempts to "retake Crimea are underway," without providing details.
Tasheva also accused Russia of coercing Tatars from Crimea to visit Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine and lobbying residents to extol the virtues of Russian occupation ahead of a potential annexation vote.
"The Russian occupations of Crimea and southern Ukraine are inherently tied together, both in terms of military strategy and civilian propaganda," said Tasheva during a press briefing in Kyiv.
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Courts continue to scrutinize J&J's controversial bankruptcy ploy to avoid liability
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Legal experts say the decision by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) to halt future sales and distribution of talc-based products worldwide, including its iconic Johnson's Baby Powder, points to mounting pressure on the company to resolve tens of thousands of legal claims brought by ovarian cancer and mesothelioma victims.
Numerous scientific studies spanning decades have established the carcinogenic effects of cosmetic talc, while U.S. and Canadian governmental regulators have called for enhanced testing techniques for products containing the mineral, particularly after independent testing by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration revealed asbestos in consumer samples of talc-based powders. Meanwhile, internal corporate documents presented in trials during the past several years have shown that J&J and its consultants knew of the dangers of the company's products and took steps to deny or otherwise cover up those findings to avoid legal liability.
"J&J has finally done the right thing. Throughout decades of selling talc-based products, the company knew talc could cause deadly cancers to unsuspecting women and men around the world," says Leigh O'Dell of the Beasley Allen Law Firm in Montgomery. "They stopped sales in North America more than two years ago and blamed that move on the litigation. The delay in taking this step is inexcusable. I can only hope J&J will now do the next right: take responsibility and adequately compensate the victims they have needlessly harmed."
The vast majority of the more than 38,000 cases filed by ovarian cancer victims against J&J were consolidated in multidistrict litigation in New Jersey federal court, and bellwether trials had been scheduled to begin last spring. Those proceedings were put on hold in late 2021 when the company chose to pursue a controversial "Texas Two-Step" bankruptcy.
That scheme involved creating a new corporate shell company to hold all talc-related liabilities before taking that entity into bankruptcy. If successful, the tactic would allow Johnson & Johnson to avoid paying cancer victims and protect a market capitalization of approximately a half-trillion dollars. Because of the bankruptcy, all trials in the MDL and others filed in state courts are currently suspended.
The two-step move has raised eyebrows in Congress, where representatives have begun discussing potential changes to the bankruptcy laws that would prevent this sort of consumer harm in future cases.
"The potential loss of a jury trial is not a mere by-product of the filing; the sole purpose of the bankruptcy is to remove tort claimants from the tort system and strip them of their rights against extraordinarily wealthy and highly solvent entities," wrote Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the University of California's Berkeley School of Law, in a brief filed with the bankruptcy court.
"The Debtor is a newly created shell, with no business to restructure, no operations to rehabilitate, and no customers or genuine employees to serve. In short, the Debtor has no reorganizational purpose," he noted in the brief, one of many filed by constitutional scholars raising concerns about the "Two-Step."
The propriety of the bankruptcy and accompanying halt to litigation imposed by the bankruptcy court will be reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a hearing Sept. 19.
About Beasley Allen Law Firm
Headquartered in Montgomery, Ala., Beasley Allen is comprised of more than 70 attorneys and 200 support staff. One of the largest Plaintiffs law firms in the country, Beasley Allen is a national leader in civil litigation, with verdicts and settlements in excess of $26 billion. Beasley Allen was one of only 12 firms in the nation named by Law360 to its Most Feared Plaintiffs Firms list in 2015, and the firm was included on the National Law Journal Midsize Law Firm Hot List and the NLJ Elite Trial Lawyers List in 2014. For more information about our firm, please visit our website at www.beasleyallen.com.
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Jackson-Reed will not renew Joe McMullin’s contract after the boys’ varsity rowing coach made what boosters deemed an “insensitive” comment following the death of Ceph Christie, a student at Dunbar. The Jackson-Reed Crew Boosters announced the decision, “in coordination and agreement with the Jackson-Reed High School administration,” on Friday via Instagram.
“The Jackson-Reed Crew Boosters extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Ceph Christie,” the parent board said in the post. “The comment made by one of our coaches in the wake of this terrible accident was insensitive and harmful, and does not represent the longstanding values of our rowers, our team, or our community.”
McMullin, the boys’ rowing All-Met Coach of the Year last spring, took over the program in 2019 and led the team’s fastest varsity boat to national championship victories in 2019 and 2022. He was not a Jackson-Reed employee, and the rowing program is not directly affiliated with the school.
“Words cannot convey how truly sorry and remorseful I am for the pain I caused Ceph’s family, friends, and community,” McMullin said via text Friday. “I take full responsibility for my actions and the consequences that have resulted from them. My actions are not a reflection of my former team, my family, or who I want to be. To Ceph’s loved ones I apologize for the hurt I caused especially during a time of tremendous grief. I’m commited [sic] to doing and being better.”
The Post published a story Wednesday morning about Christie, a 17-year-old baseball star who was found dead last week in the Potomac River after what his father believed to be a boating accident.
McMullin commented both on that story and on an Instagram post linking to it. Though his comments were removed, they were screen-captured by another Instagram user, who called out the coach. Many staffers within District of Columbia Public Schools expressed anger regarding the comments.
Christie’s father, Marlon, said he refused to look at McMullin’s comment. “My family did, but I wouldn’t look at it,” he said. “… I refuse to let anyone have anything negative to take away from my son’s life, the beautiful life he lived, the legacy he left. He was positive for everyone.
“So for this coach to spew negative remarks to a young person that he may not even know or spew negative remarks on any young person, he deserved to be fired. Young people do not deserve that. Young people deserve encouragement and positivity from adults — especially ones that they look at and call a coach.”
Jackson-Reed Principal Sah Brown addressed the issue in an email Friday to the Jackson-Reed community.
“Disrespectful comments from adults working with children do not reflect our core values or the high standard of excellence we are building at Jackson-Reed,” Brown wrote. “Therefore, after consulting with members of the team’s Board, we have taken appropriate action to address this matter. The actions taken will allow the program to move forward, and we are confident that the team will continue progressing.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/08/12/jackson-reed-rowing-coach-comments/ | 2022-08-12T22:04:56Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/08/12/jackson-reed-rowing-coach-comments/ | false |
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MONTREAL (AP) — Fourth-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway routed hometown favorite Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1, 6-2 on Friday in the National Bank Open quarterfinals.
“It was one of those days where everything goes in one favor and luckily it was in my favor,” Ruud said after reaching his third Masters 1000 semifinal of the season.
The sixth-seeded Auger-Aliassime, made 21 unforced errors to just eight for Ruud.
”(My) first two matches were good, some positive things,” Auger-Aliassime said. “I never thought it would be ending like this today.”
Ruud will face eighth-seeded Hubert Hurkacz of Poland, a 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 6-1 winner over Nick Kyrgios of Australia.
In the night session, American Tommy Paul faced Britain’s Daniel Evans and Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta met British qualifier Jack Draper. | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Ruud-routed-hometown-favorite-Auger-Aliassime-in-17370470.php | 2022-08-12T22:05:31Z | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Ruud-routed-hometown-favorite-Auger-Aliassime-in-17370470.php | true |
WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 13, 2022
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...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures up to 104.
* WHERE...San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland
Empire County.
* WHEN...Until 8 PM PDT Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
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rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Just two weeks left before student loan payments are set to resume, the Biden Administration has yet to announce its game plan.
While United States Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is not able to share some of the details of deliberations, “daily conversations are happening,” he said.
Cardona said he is in close talks with the White House to determine if the payment pause will continue.
“Look, we recognize so many Americans are waiting for answers on this. We want to make sure that we communicate with them and when it is time to repay loans, that they have a long on-ramp,” said Cardona.
The White House said it is also considering forgiving up to $10,000 in student debt per borrower. But that is a far cry from the $50,000 many democrats on Capitol Hill say is necessary.
“Reducing the burden is one of the top priorities we can have,” said Rep. Judy Chu, D-CA.
Chu pushed for the larger amount.
“We have to have some movement on this,” she said.
Wisdom Cole with the NAACP said if the Biden administration truly wants to help close the income gap between Black and white Americans, they must be bold.
“We know that the average Black borrower has about $53,000 in student debt … this is really something that could change the lives of voters all across the country,” Cole said.
Cole warns failing to act could hurt democrats in the midterm elections.
“As we further see delays with this announcement, voters are really getting anxious,” he said. | https://www.wfla.com/news/washington-dc/will-the-government-extend-the-student-loan-repayment-pause/ | 2022-08-12T22:06:26Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/washington-dc/will-the-government-extend-the-student-loan-repayment-pause/ | false |
Company to host conference call and webcast on Monday, August 15, 2022, at 8:00am ET
BOSTON and ATLANTA, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: IKT) ("Inhibikase" or "Company"), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics with the potential to modify the course of Parkinson's disease ("PD") and related disorders, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 and highlighted recent developments.
"In the second quarter, we continued to make progress across our entire portfolio. We recently opened enrollment in our Phase 2a '201' trial for IkT-148009 for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. We have now opened nearly a quarter of all sites for the study and we are actively screening patients. In addition, we have submitted our Investigational New Drug (IND) application for IkT-001Pro for patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and expect to initiate our '501' bioequivalence study of IkT-001Pro following FDA review and concurrence," commented Milton Werner, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Inhibikase. "Looking ahead, we also expect to share Parkinson's assessment data from our Phase 1/1b '101' clinical trial of IkT-148009 at the Movement Disorders Society Congress in September and are continuing to advance our regulatory activities in the U.S. and the EU27 as we plan a Phase 2 trial in Multiple System Atrophy. Taken together, we believe that these activities lay the groundwork for continued momentum across our business as we seek to deliver on our mission of bringing novel, disease-modifying treatments to patients suffering from devastating diseases."
Recent Developments and Upcoming Milestones:
- Phase 2a '201' Trial of IkT-148009 Open for Enrollment: In May 2022, Inhibikase opened enrollment for its Phase 2a study ('201 trial') evaluating IkT-148009 for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. The Company has opened 11 of 40 planned sites and is actively screening patients. The 201 trial is a 1:1:1:1 randomized, double-blind, twelve-week dosing trial, designed to measure the safety, tolerability and steady-state pharmacokinetics (PK) of three doses of IkT-148009 in up to 120 untreated Parkinson's patients. The trial will further measure the potential for IkT-148009 to impact the disease globally in the body using a hierarchy of Parkinson's-related disease assessments in the brain and gut as secondary or exploratory endpoints.
- The advancement of IkT-148009 into Phase 2a followed a review of the study protocol, as well as the safety, tolerability and PK data from the 101 clinical trial by the FDA. In the 101 trial, the clinical pharmacology of IkT-148009 in patients paralleled the clinical pharmacology of IkT-148009 in older heathy volunteers. IkT-148009 also demonstrated a favorable safety and tolerability profile up to a dose of 325 mg, with no clinically-significant adverse events observed. Inhibikase plans to present additional data from the 101 trial at the Movement Disorders Society Congress in Madrid, Spain, in September 2022.
- Filed IND Application for IkT-001Pro for Stable-Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML): On June 29, 2022, Inhibikase filed its IND application with the FDA for IkT-001Pro, the Company's prodrug of imatinib mesylate to treat Stable-phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (SP-CML). A clerical error delayed the review of the IND, however the Division of Hematological Malignancies I confirmed that FDA review of the IND should be completed no later than August 26, 2022. Following clearance by the FDA, the Company expects to initiate bioequivalence studies in accordance with the 505(b)(2) regulatory pathway. IkT-001Pro will be evaluated in a two-part dose finding/dose equivalence study in up to 62 healthy volunteers. The study is designed to evaluate the steady-state pharmacokinetics of IkT-001Pro and determine the dose of IkT-001Pro equivalent to 400 mg imatinib mesylate, the standard-of-care dose for SP-CML. Inhibikase expects to initiate this two-part bioequivalence study in the normal course following review of the proposed clinical study by the FDA. Inhibikase will confer with the FDA once bioequivalence is established to begin the New Drug Application, or NDA, process on the proposed approval path for IkT-001Pro under the 505(b)(2) statute. The Company plans to simultaneously pursue a superiority study comparing the selected dose of IkT-001Pro to standard-of-care 400 mg imatinib mesylate in SP-CML patients using a novel two-period, wait-list-crossover-switching study.
- Evaluating ongoing studies of IkT-148009 in Animal Models of Multiple System Atrophy (MSA): Inhibikase continues to advance regulatory activities IkT-148009 in both the U.S. and EU27 for the treatment of MSA. The Company is preparing regulatory filings in the US and EU27 to enable the planned Phase 2 MSA trial if IkT-148009 is validated to be active in MSA in animal model studies. Execution of this trial will require the Company to raise additional working capital. Two animal model studies are ongoing and a preliminary assessment in one of the two studies demonstrated an apparent functional benefit following treatment.
- Receipt of new patent # 11,407,747 entitled Compositions and methods for inhibiting kinases: This patent was issued August 9, 2022 for the application of the Company's c-Abl kinase inhibitor portfolio to the treatment of cancer or bacterial or viral infections. This patent is the fifth U.S. patent issued for our portfolio of compounds that inhibit Abelson Tyrosine Kinases for a therapeutic purpose.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Net Loss: Net loss for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022, was $4.6 million, or $0.18 per share, compared to a net loss of $ 2.6 million, or $0.22 per share for the second quarter in 2021.
Net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2022, was $9.3 million or $0.37 per share, compared to a net loss of $5.3 million, or $0.47 per share in the six months ended June 30, 2021.
R&D Expenses: Research and development expenses were $3.0 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022, compared to $2.4 million in the second quarter of 2021. The increase of $0.6 million was driven by a $2.1 million increase in non-grant related research offset by a decrease of $1.4 million in grant related research expenditures and a decrease of $0.1 million in non-cash stock compensation expense. The non-grant related research was expended primarily in connection with the Company's PD clinical trials.
Research and development expenses were $6.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $4.8 million in the comparable period in 2021. The $1.2 million increase was driven by a $4.3 million increase in non-grant related research offset by a decrease of $2.7 million in grant related research expenditures and a decrease of $0.4 million in non-cash stock compensation expense. The non-grant related research was expended primarily in connection with the Company's PD clinical trials.
SG&A Expenses: Selling, general and administrative expenses for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 were $1.7 million compared to $1.6 million for the second quarter in 2021. The increase was primarily from increased headcount resulting in increased compensation expense of $0.1 million, increased legal fees, board fees, investor relation and consulting fees of $0.3 million and a net increase of $0.1 million for other normal operating expenses offset by decreased non-cash stock based compensation expense of $0.4 million.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2022 were $3.3 million compared to $3.2 million for comparable period in 2021. The increase was primarily from increased headcount resulting in increased compensation expense of $0.3 million, increased legal fees, board fees, investor relation and consulting fees of $0.6 million and a net decrease of $0.1 million for other normal operating expenses offset by decreased non-cash stock based compensation expense of $0.7 million.
Cash Position: Cash and cash equivalents were $32.2 million as of June 30, 2022. The Company expects that existing cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to fund its normal operations and capital expenditure requirements through December 31, 2023.
Conference Call Information
The conference call is scheduled to begin at 8:00am ET on Monday, August 15, 2022. Participants should dial 844-825-9789 (United States) or 412-317-5180 (International) with the conference code 10169366. A live webcast may be accessed using the link here, or by visiting the investors section of the Company's website at www.inhibikase.com. After the live webcast, the event will be archived on Inhibikase's website for approximately 90 days after the call.
About Inhibikase (www.inhibikase.com)
Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: IKT) is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for Parkinson's disease and related disorders. Inhibikase's multi-therapeutic pipeline focuses on neurodegeneration and its lead program IkT-148009, an Abelson Tyrosine Kinase (c-Abl) inhibitor, targets the treatment of Parkinson's disease inside and outside the brain. Its multi-therapeutic pipeline is pursuing Parkinson's-related disorders of the brain and GI tract, orphan indications related to Parkinson's disease such as Multiple System Atrophy, and drug delivery technologies for kinase inhibitors such as IkT-001Pro, a prodrug of the anticancer agent Imatinib that the Company believes will provide a better patient experience with fewer on-dosing side-effects. The Company's RAMP™ medicinal chemistry program has identified a number of follow-on compounds to IkT-148009 to be potentially applied to other cognitive and motor function diseases of the brain. Inhibikase is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Investors and others should note that the Company announces material financial information to investors using its investor relations website, press releases, SEC filings and public conference calls and webcasts. The Company intends to also use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube as a means of disclosing information about the Company, its services and other matters and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects," "may," "will," "should," "anticipates," "plans," or similar expressions or the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on Inhibikase's current expectations and assumptions. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, which could cause Inhibikase's actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are set forth in Inhibikase's filings with the SEC, including its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, including under the caption "Risk Factors" and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statement in this release speaks only as of the date of this release. Inhibikase undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by any applicable securities laws.
Contacts:
Company Contact:
Milton H. Werner, Ph.D.
President & CEO
678-392-3419
info@inhibikase.com
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SternIR, Inc.
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Former Philadelphia Eagles running back Brian Westbrook was at the Brandywine Hundred Library on Friday, August 12, 2022, to read his new children's book to a crowd of kids and parents, many wearing their best Eagles garb.
Westbrook said his own family experience inspired him to co-author The Mouse Who Played Football with Lesley Van Arsdall.
"We're always trying to get a message to them that sometimes as a parent, I know parents will understand this, just telling them the message usually doesn't sink in," said Westbrook, "but when you read a book, you put it into character form, it usually does."
The book is about a mouse named Brian who is told at every level of football he plays he's too small, reflective of Westbrook's own football career at which he topped out at 5-foot-10 in the NFL.
There's even a nod to Westbrook's head coach with the Eagles, Andy Reid, in the story. The head coach of the team Brian plays for in the Mouse Football League is named Big Red who has a fluffy mustache and reading glasses.
And just like #36 who played with the Eagles from 2002 to 2009, Brian the Mouse perseveres, and that's a message that resonates not just with kids, but adults too.
"There were ebbs and flows throughout my career and I think there's ebbs and flows through everyone's career when things are great and you're on top of the world then when you're at the bottom of the world and everyone's saying you're not good enough. That's the process of life," said Westbrook.
The Villanova Wildcat still holds the all-time NCAA record with 9,512 all-purpose yards, including 468 yards he hung on the University of Delaware in a game in 2000, including more than 250 in return yards.
The Blue Hens won that game but when Westbrook was drafted in the 3rd round by Philadelphia, UD fans knew what the Eagles were getting.
"Philadelphia's the type of town that's going to work their butt off and they always operate with a chip on their shoulder, and that's great, I love it," said Westbrook. "This town fits me perfectly because someone's always doubting Philadelphia, someone's always saying something bad about Philadelphia, but we get up and we grind every single day in spite of that.
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YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz made a stop in York County as part of his campaign on August 12. Oz went to custom car manufacturer Legacy Innovations, citing his commitment to supporting small businesses in the Commonwealth.
Oz argues that his opponent, Democratic candidate John Fetterman, lacks understanding of how businesses like Legacy Innovations work, therefor he won’t be able to protect them.
“Legacy Innovation’s a good example of the lifeblood of Pennsylvania, you got two dozen people working together, doing something really innovative. Again, it’s exactly what you want to have in Pennsylvania, people building communities, building jobs, building value,” said Oz.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ideanomics (NASDAQ: IDEX) ("Ideanomics" or the "Company"), a global company focused on accelerating the adoption of commercial electric vehicles (EV), today announced that, as expected, the Company received an additional notice of non-compliance from the Listing Qualifications Staff (the "Staff") of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") due to the Company's failure to timely file the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), as required by Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1). As previously disclosed, the Company earlier received notices from Nasdaq regarding its non-compliance with the Rule with respect to the Forms 10-K and 10-Q for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and quarter ended March 31, 2022, respectively. The Company plans to regain compliance with the filing requirement by no later than September 12, 2022, which is the deadline in order to remain compliant with Nasdaq requirements. In the event that such deadline is not met then the Company will apply to Nasdaq for a hearing panel.
Ideanomics (NASDAQ: IDEX) is a global group with a simple mission: to accelerate the commercial adoption of electric vehicles. By bringing together vehicles and charging technology with design, implementation, and financial services, we provide the completeness of solutions needed for the commercial world to commit to an EV future. To keep up with Ideanomics, please follow the company on social @ideanomicshq or visit https://ideanomics.com.
This press release contains certain statements that may include "forward-looking statements". All statements other than statements of historical fact included herein are "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects" or similar expressions, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and include statements regarding the Company's plans to provide the Staff with an update regarding its compliance efforts and its plan to regain compliance with the filing requirement by no later than September 12, 2022. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. All forward-looking statements in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by these risk factors in our most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filed with the SEC, and similar disclosures in subsequent reports filed with the SEC, which are available on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Other than as required under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 12, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
353 PM CDT Fri Aug 12 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Hidalgo
County through 445 PM CDT...
At 353 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Progreso City Offices, or near Progreso, moving south at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Weslaco, Progreso, Progreso City Offices, Weslaco High School, Villa
Verde, Weslaco Mid Valley Airport, Black Elementary School, Midway
South, Weslaco City Park and Weslaco City Hall.
This includes US Highway 281 between mile markers 800 and 806.
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.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
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Gunman in Montenegro kills 10 then shot dead by passerby
CETINJE, Montenegro (AP) — A man went on a shooting rampage in the streets of this western Montenegro city Friday, killing 10 people, including two children, before being shot dead by a passerby, officials said.
Montenegrin police chief Zoran Brdjanin said in a video statement shared with media that attacker was a 34-year-old man he identified only by his initials, V.B.
Brdjanin said the man used a hunting rifle to first shoot to death two children ages 8 and 11 and their mother, who lived as tenants in the attacker’s house in Cetinje’s Medovina neighborhood.
The shooter then walked into the street and randomly shot 13 more people, seven of them fatally, the chief said.
“At the moment, it is unclear what provoked V.B. to commit this atrocious act,” Brdjanin said.
Andrijana Nastic, the prosecutor coordinating the crime scene investigation, told journalists that the gunman was killed by a passerby and that a police officer was among the wounded. She said nine of those killed died at the scene and two died at a hospital where they were taken for surgery.
Cetinje, the seat of Montenegro’s former royal government, is 36 kilometers (22 miles) west of Podogrica, the current capital of the small Balkan nation.
Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic wrote on his Telegram channel that the incident was “an unprecedented tragedy” and urged the nation “to be, in their thoughts, with the families of the innocent victims, their relatives, friends and all the people of Cetinje.”
President Milo Djukanovic said on Twitter that he was “deeply moved by the news of the terrible tragedy” in Cetinje, calling for “solidarity” with the families who lost loved-ones in the incident.
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CALGARY, AB, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SNDL Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDL) ("SNDL" or the "Company") reported its financial and operational results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. All financial information in this press release is reported in millions of Canadian dollars unless otherwise indicated. All results for the second quarter of 2021 exclude the subsequent acquisitions of Inner Spirit Holdings ("Spiritleaf") and Alcanna Inc. ("Alcanna"), which closed on July 20, 2021, and March 31, 2022, respectively.
The Company will hold a conference call and webcast at 8:30 a.m. EDT (6:30 a.m. MDT) on Monday, August 15, 2022. Please see the dial-in details within the release and additional information about SNDL's website at www.sndl.com.
This press release is intended to be read in conjunction with the Company's Financial Statements and Notes for the period and the accompanying Management's Discussion and Analysis ("MD&A"). These reports are available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.
SNDL has also posted a supplemental investor presentation on its website.
Following its Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders on July 25, 2022, Sundial Growers Inc. changed its legal name to SNDL Inc. In light of the evolution of SNDL's business over the past two years, management feels that this change more appropriately reflects the operating model and strategy of the Company.
Commenting on the rebrand, Zach George, SNDL's Chief Executive Officer, said: "The rapid and material changes to our business over the last two years have led to our original "Sundial Growers" identity becoming less relevant. We believe that the new SNDL brand better reflects our corporate activities and the undeniable impact that retail investor support has had on our survival and ability to build Canada's largest private sector distribution platform for liquor and cannabis. We continue to focus on delighting consumers with curated experiences and a robust selection of quality product offerings. SNDL embodies our path to the creation of a platform committed to excellence in the regulated products space."
SNDL has launched a new website that can be visited at www.sndl.com, along with a rebrand video at https://sndl.com/Overview/Videos/.
SECOND QUARTER 2022 FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
- Record net revenue for the second quarter of 2022 of $223.7 million, compared to $9.2 million in the second quarter of 2021, representing a 2,344% increase.
- SNDL's second quarter of 2022 gross margin grew to $43.1 million, a record since its inception, up 1,627% from its second quarter of 2021 loss of $2.8 million.
- Net loss of $74.0 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to a $52.3 million net loss in the second quarter of 2021, a 41% increase.
- Adjusted EBITDA loss of $25.9 million for the second quarter of 2022, including an adjusted EBITDA loss of $35.5 million from the Investments segment, compared to Adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.2 million in the second quarter of 2021. The change was significantly impacted by fair value adjustments from the SunStream joint venture in the second quarter of 2022.
- For the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Company purchased and cancelled 0.5 million common shares at a weighted average price of $3.86 (US$2.98) per common share for a total cost of $2.0 million.
- $900 million of cash, marketable securities, and long-term investments and no outstanding debt at June 30, 2022; $334.9 million of unrestricted cash at August 11, 2022.
"The SNDL team's dedication and perseverance have enabled us to make significant progress on our journey to becoming Canada's largest private sector distributor of both liquor and cannabis," said Zach George, Chief Executive Officer of SNDL. "We believe our unique asset base and balance sheet strength represent competitive advantages that we are determined to leverage for the benefit of our stakeholders. We are seeing market share gains through our retail network and this quarter our cannabis operations generated positive adjusted EBITDA for the first time in the Company's history. We continue to strengthen and transform our business while benefitting from vertical integration across our business segments under a shared services model with integration work expected to impact results over the next two quarters. Despite our encouraging results, we know there is still room for improvement, and we remain humbled by the opportunity before us. SNDL represents an opportunity for investors to gain exposure to North American regulated products in a manner that does not exist with any other public company today. We will continue to prioritize free cash flow generation with a focus on strengthening our distribution platform and using our credit portfolios to turn industry headwinds into long-term opportunities."
SECOND QUARTER 2022 KEY FINANCIAL METRICS
SNDL's business is operated and reported in four segments: Liquor Retail, Cannabis Retail, Cannabis Production and Cultivation, and Investments.
Liquor Retail
As a result of the Alcanna acquisition, SNDL is now Canada's largest private sector liquor retailer, operating 170 locations, predominantly in Alberta, under its three retail banners: "Wine and Beyond", "Liquor Depot" and "Ace Liquor". The Liquor Retail segment's stable and growing cash flow profile and best-in-class retail operations expertise have accelerated SNDL's retail growth and vertical integration strategy. The second quarter of 2022 is SNDL's first full quarter of reporting liquor retail revenue following the completion of the acquisition.
- Gross revenue for Liquor Retail sales for the three banners combined was $148.6 million for the second quarter of 2022.
- Gross margin in the Liquor Retail segment was $33.5 million, or 22.6% of sales. Despite fluctuations in sales due to market conditions and retail competition, the Company has stabilized its margin through a pricing and mix strategy in the second quarter of 2022. While customer count is down by 5% year-to-date, largely due to a return to on-premises consumption in a post COVID-19 environment, the average basket size is up 2%. The Company sees larger basket sizes at their Wine & Beyond locations, where consumers come for the experiential, destination shopping approach to liquor retail.
- SNDL's liquor banners' market share in Alberta was 17.6% in the second quarter of 2022, with Wine & Beyond representing 2.9% with only 11 stores, showcasing the continued and increasing popularity of the banner. SNDL is exploring opportunities to expand the Wine & Beyond store footprint in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan.
- Moving forward, the Company will seek to optimize profitability and cash flow for the Liquor Retail segment by focusing on cost discipline, margin accretive products, monetizing intellectual property, and leveraging its retail footprint to develop an e-commerce platform.
- As of August 11, 2022, the Ace Liquor store count is 138, the Liquor Depot store count is 20 and the Wine and Beyond store count is 12.
Cannabis Retail
With the acquisition of our interest in Nova Cannabis Inc. ("Nova") through the Alcanna acquisition, SNDL's expanded retail network has significantly increased the Company's retail market share and its exposure to a broader consumer base. It also provides direct access to more comprehensive customer data, and the Company expects revenue increases from the continued integration of its distribution channels. Cannabis retail operating results include 100% of Nova's results as a majority owned subsidiary.
- Gross revenue from the Cannabis Retail segment for the second quarter of 2022 was $63.5 million, compared to $7.5 million in the first quarter of 2022, a 746% increase. Value Buds sales were the material driver of the increase with $56.3 million of revenue during the second quarter of 2022.
- Gross margin of $13.9 million, or 21.9% of sales, increased from $3.3 million, compared to Q1 2022 primarily due to Value Buds' pricing strategy.
- In the second quarter of 2022, Value Buds and Spiritleaf's combined market share represents 9.8% in the privatized provincial markets, solidifying SNDL's position as a leading national multi-banner cannabis retail operator.
- The Company successfully launched its first private label program with Spiritleaf Selects in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario in 3.5 gram dried flower and 3 x 0.5 gram pre-roll formats.
- As of August 11, 2022, the Spiritleaf store count is 103 (20 corporate stores and 83 franchised stores) and the Value Buds store count is 82.
Cannabis Cultivation and Production
SNDL remains committed to its cultivation and processing activities, including continuous improvement of its product offerings while focusing on cost optimization and the most competitive and profitable strains and brands.
- Gross revenue from the Cannabis Cultivation and Production segment for the second quarter of 2022 was $15.4 million, compared to $11.3 million in the first quarter of 2022, a 36% sequential improvement and a 21% year-over-year improvement.
- Net loss for the segment during the second quarter of 2022 was $8.0 million, compared to a $75.4 million loss in the second quarter of 2021
- Adjusted EBITDA was $3.4 million, in the second quarter of 2022, compared to negative $11.0 million in the same period of 2021. This represents SNDL's first positive Adjusted EBITDA quarter in the Cannabis Cultivation and Production segment. The significant improvement in Adjusted EBITDA can be attributed to higher sales volumes, improved margin on an adjusted basis, reductions to SMG&A, and greater discipline over inventory management driving a reduction in price discounts for provincial board sales during the first half of 2022.
- Average price per gram sold for the second quarter of 2022 was $3.18, compared to $1.69 for the second quarter of 2021. The increase of $1.49 per gram sold reflects an improved margin strategy as the Company has shifted its mix and increased its price per gram in select provinces through a disciplined revenue management initiative.
- Cost of sales per gram sold for the second quarter of 2022 was $2.64, compared to $1.76 for the second quarter of 2021. The increase of $0.88 per gram sold reflects the Company's move away from business-to-business bulk flower transactions that made up a larger portion of its sales mix in the second quarter of 2021.
- Gross margin results for the second quarter of 2022 was negative $4.3 million, compared to negative $2.8 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The gross margin results include a $3.9 million inventory impairment and fair value changes in the accounting for inventory and biological assets.
- Cultivation consistency also hit records in the second quarter of 2022 with the highest monthly weighted average potency in SNDL's history for June 2022 with 25.1% THC. The prior record month was May 2022, with 24.3% THC. SNDL's weighted average yield per square foot continues to increase with an average weighted yield of 57 grams per square foot.
- SNDL is tailoring its product innovation strategy based on increased use of data analytics and access to a broader consumer base. SNDL will be launching several new large-pack formats in an effort to monetize bulk inventory. The Company expects margin growth to be impacted in the short term as it brings these products to market primarily through its owned retail network.
- SNDL has received its international export permit and is on track to dispatch its first shipment to Israel in the third quarter of 2022. While SNDL continues to focus on the Canadian market, the Company is also looking at additional opportunities to increase revenue for its Cannabis Cultivation and Production segment.
- The Company has expanded its national footprint to all 10 provinces by introducing SNDL's branded products to Newfoundland and Labrador
Investments
- Revenue from the Investments segment for the second quarter of 2022 was a loss of $35.1 million, compared to $2.4 million in the second quarter of 2021. The decrease was primarily due to accounting fair value adjustments reflecting an increase in the assumed risk-free rate and the deterioration in overall cannabis credit market conditions.
- As of the end of the second quarter of 2022, the Company had deployed capital on several cannabis-related investments totaling $689 million, including $490 million to the SunStream Bancorp Inc. joint venture ("SunStream"). For the second quarter of 2022, the investment portfolio generated interest and fee revenue of $2.6 million ($3.3 million in the second quarter of 2021), share of the profit of equity-accounted investees generated from investments by SunStream of negative $38.0 million ($3.7 million in the second quarter of 2021), and an investment loss of $35.1 million (gain of $2.4 million in the second quarter of 2021) on marketable securities, which includes unrealized losses on publicly disclosed strategic investments in Village Farms International, Inc. and The Valens Company Inc.
Consolidated Financial Results
General and Administrative Expenses
General and administrative expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2022 were $40.3 million, compared to $10.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase of $30.2 million was mainly due to increases in salaries and wages and office and general expenses from the Alcanna and Inner Spirit acquisitions.
Net Loss
Net loss for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $74.0 million, compared to a net loss of $52.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increased loss of $21.7 million was largely due to investment losses of $37.4 million, share of loss of equity-accounted investees of $41.7 million, higher general and administrative expenses of $30.2 million, depreciation and amortization of $7.9 million and finance costs of $26.5 million, partially offset by an increase in gross margin of $45.8 million, lower asset impairment of $58.2 million, lower transaction costs of $8.7 million and a positive change in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities of $3.8 million.
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $25.9 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to a loss of $0.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021, driven primarily by the Sunstream equity pickup of a $38M loss.
The increased Adjusted EBITDA loss was primarily due to a decrease in share of profit of equity-accounted investees, an increase in general and administrative expenses due to the inclusion of Alcanna and Spiritleaf and a decrease in realized gain on marketable securities. The decrease was partially offset by an increase in gross margin including Alcanna and Spiritleaf.
Liquidity Position
- Effective July 25, 2022, the Company's common shares were consolidated on a one share for each ten shares outstanding basis pursuant to shareholder approval at the Company's annual and special meeting of shareholders.
- As at June 30, 2022, and August 11, 2022, the Company had an unrestricted cash balance of $363 million and $334.9 million, respectively, and a total of 238 million post-consolidation shares outstanding as at August 11, 2022.
- For the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Company purchased and cancelled 0.5 million common shares at a weighted average price of $3.86 (US$2.98) per common share for a total cost of $2.0 million. SNDL has $98 million remaining under its current buyback program allowing the Company to repurchase from time to time at prevailing market prices, enabling SNDL to opportunistically return value to shareholders. The share repurchase program expires on November 19, 2022.
STRATEGIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATE
SNDL remains focused on building long-term shareholder value through vertical integration, the accretive deployment of cash resources, the expansion of its retail distribution network, the further streamlining of the Company's operating structure, and the enhanced offering of high-quality brands.
- Through the acquisition of Alcanna, SNDL's retail footprint is expected to facilitate customer relationships and capture additional economies of scale.
- By gaining insight into thousands of daily shopper transactions at over 350 retail stores, SNDL has begun to optimize offerings, pricing, and promotions in both liquor and cannabis locations to better serve customers.
- Additionally, SNDL expects to continue accessing profitable opportunities and will launch a Value Buds private label flower product. SNDL will continue to develop various offerings and targeted merchandising strategies for its entire retail portfolio.
- Since the closing of the Alcanna transaction, the Company is on target to deliver $6.4 million in cost synergies. These synergies are due to consolidation in key areas such as retail operations, integrated supply and demand planning, and corporate expenses.
SPECIFIED FINANCIAL MEASURES
Certain specified financial measures in this news release are non-IFRS measures. These terms are not defined by IFRS and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar measures provided by other companies. These non-IFRS financial measures should not be considered in isolation or as an alternative for or superior to measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. These measures are presented and described in order to provide shareholders and potential investors with additional measures in understanding the Company's operating results in the same manner as the management team.
ADJUSTED EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA is a non-IFRS measure which the Company uses to evaluate its operating performance. Adjusted EBITDA provides information to investors, analysts, and others to aid in understanding and evaluating the Company's operating results in a manner similar to its management team. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) from continuing operations before finance costs, depreciation and amortization, accretion expense, income tax recovery and excluding change in fair value of biological assets, change in fair value realized through inventory, unrealized foreign exchange gains or losses, unrealized gains or losses on marketable securities, change in fair value of derivative warrants, share-based compensation expense, asset impairment, gain or loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment and certain one-time non-operating expenses, as determined by management. The Company presents both consolidated or total Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA by operating segment.
CONFERENCE CALL
The Company will hold a conference call and webcast at 8:30 a.m. EDT (6:30 a.m. MDT) on Monday, August 15, 2022.
WEBCAST ACCESS
To access the live webcast of the call, please visit the following link:
https://services.choruscall.ca/links/sndl2022q2.html
REPLAY
A telephone replay will be available for one month. To access the replay, dial:
Canada/USA Toll Free: 1-800-319-6413 or International Toll: +1-604-638-9010
When prompted, enter Replay Access Code: 9296 #
The webcast archive will be available for three months via the link provided above.
SNDL is a public company whose shares are traded on Nasdaq under the symbol "SNDL."
SNDL is the largest private sector liquor and cannabis retailer in Canada with retail banners that include Ace Liquor, Wine and Beyond, Liquor Depot, Value Buds, and Spiritleaf. SNDL is a licensed cannabis producer that uses state-of-the-art indoor facilities to supply wholesale and retail customers under a cannabis brand portfolio that includes Top Leaf, Sundial Cannabis, Palmetto, Spiritleaf Selects, and Grasslands. SNDL's investment portfolio seeks to deploy strategic capital through direct and indirect investments and partnerships throughout the global cannabis industry.
For more information on SNDL, please go to www.sndl.com.
This news release includes statements containing certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities law ("forward-looking statements"), including, but not limited to, statements regarding the Company's operational goals, demand for the Company's products, the Company's ability to achieve profitability or its goal of sustainable, positive gross margin and positive free cash flow, the development of the legal cannabis industry, performance of the Company's investments, including through the SunStream joint venture, any potential forms of shareholder value creation, the maintenance of production levels and maintenance or improvement in harvest THC levels (including during the COVID-19 pandemic), the expansion of product offerings, brand and market share and retail networks, and the integration and realization of expected benefits of the acquisition of Alcanna. Forward-looking statements are frequently characterized by words such as "plan", "continue", "expect", "project", "intend", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "likely", "outlook", "forecast", "may", "will", "potential", "proposed" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. These statements are only predictions. Various assumptions were used in drawing the conclusions or making the projections contained in the forward-looking statements throughout this news release. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the date the statements are made and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Please see "Item 3.D.—Risk Factors" in the Company's annual report on Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on April 28, 2022, and the risk factors included in our other SEC filings for a discussion of the material risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking information. The Company is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any intention or obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after a car crash that led to her brain death, a representative for the actor said Friday.
Under current California law, death can be determined by the loss of all brain function and in accordance with accepted medical standards.
While Heche is legally dead, she’s on life support and “her heart is still beating” so that the nonprofit organization OneLegacy can determine if she can be a donor, spokeswoman Holly Baird said in a statement.
The process, which involves assessing which organs are viable and finding an appropriate recipient, could take from one day to several days, Baird told The Associated Press.
In the U.S., most organ transplants are done after the donor has been declared brain-dead.
The actor suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” caused by a lack of oxygen, when her car crashed into a Los Angeles area home Aug. 5 and fire erupted, according to a statement released Thursday that said she wasn’t expected to survive.
She’s been hospitalized at a Los Angeles burn center.
“This is a sad day. I’m sending Anne’s children, family and friends all of my love,” Ellen DeGeneres said Friday on Twitter amid reports of Heche’s dire condition. They were a couple from 1997 to 2000.
Detectives investigating the crash said narcotics were found in a blood sample taken from Heche, though toxicology tests still had to be performed to differentiate them from drugs she was given for her injuries, Los Angeles police said.
A native of Ohio, Heche first came to prominence on the NBC soap opera “Another World” from 1987 to 1991. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role of twins Marley and Vicky.
In the late 1990s she became one of the hottest actors in Hollywood, a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films. In 1997 alone, she played opposite Johnny Depp as his wife in “Donnie Brasco” and Tommy Lee Jones in “Volcano” and was part of the ensemble cast in the original “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — Days after explosions at a Russian air base on the Crimean coast, no side has officially taken responsibility for what many Ukrainian and international commentators believe to be an attack.
In the hours following Tuesday's blasts, Russian officials claimed workers at the Saki air base weren't following safety protocols, which led to a serious accident and fire. But as social media images appeared of large columns of smoke rising above a nearby beach and ambulances rushing to the scene, local Russian authorities acknowledged that one person was dead and several injured. And a bigger picture of the damage came Wednesday when the officials vowed to repair more than 80 buildings damaged during the blasts.
Analysis of satellite images published by the company Planet suggests that multiple explosions took place hundreds of feet apart, damaging nine airplanes and scattering debris on the taxiway. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said nine Russian planes were destroyed.
Ukrainian officials claim that planes based at the Saki air base were providing tactical assistance to Russia's occupation of Ukraine's southern mainland, where authorities loyal to Moscow announced their intent to be annexed into the Russian Federation.
Many people in Ukraine celebrated the blasts, believing that Ukraine's efforts to take back Russian-occupied territory finally reached Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Ukrainian officials, including Zelenskyy and his top adviser, publicly denied that Ukraine was behind attacks at the base, but the contested peninsula has dominated speeches and media coverage of the war this week.
"The war with Russia began and will end in Crimea," Zelenskyy said, vowing "we will return to the Ukrainian Crimea."
Unnamed Ukrainian military sources cited by The New York Times, The Washington Post and Politico said Ukrainian special forces and local partisans were responsible for the attack. NPR reached out to two high-ranking Ukrainian military sources, who refused to corroborate the claims.
President Zelenskyy has launched a probe into the leak. Calling it "irresponsible" to divulge specifics to the media, he said, "The fewer concrete details you give, the better it will be for the implementation of our defense plans."
American officials say they have restricted the use of U.S.-supplied weapons against Russian territory, but military experts have argued that Crimea is fair game for Ukraine since most countries consider it illegally occupied by Russia.
Even so, Ukrainian forces aren't thought to be capable of firing projectiles over the 120 miles needed to reach from Ukrainian-held territory to the Saki air base, analysts say. But the explosions have fueled speculation Ukraine has accelerated a homegrown, long-range weapons program. An analysis from The War Zone, a military news and analysis site, suggests that Ukraine may have adapted older Soviet-era weapons to reach farther into Russian-held territory. Ukraine used domestic Neptune rockets to sink one of Russia's biggest warships, the Moskva, in April, a move that was also thought to be beyond Ukraine's ability.
Even though Russians are chalking the blasts up to an accident, they have ramped up security levels on the peninsula. Sergei Aksyonov, a local official loyal to Russia, said that Crimea will be under a high "yellow" terrorist threat level through Ukraine's independence day on Aug. 24. A Ukrainian civil rights group has said that Crimea's Indigenous Muslim minority, the Tatars, are being searched and arrested in the wake of the blasts. Tatars are largely seen with suspicion in Crimea over their overwhelming pro-Ukrainian stance since the 2014 annexation, leading many to be exiled.
It's unlikely these blasts will change much about Russia's presence in Crimea. Russia still maintains five other air bases on the peninsula.
The blasts come at the height of Crimea's tourist season, with Russians flocking to the area for its subtropical weather and beaches. Videos on social media showed traffic jams of people attempting to leave the peninsula after the explosions.
Speculation of Ukrainian responsibility has also fueled suspicion that Ukraine might target the Kerch bridge next, a nearly 12-mile stretch of road opened in 2018 to connect Crimea with mainland Russia. Russia's Tourism Ministry says there has not been a decline of visits to Crimea since the incident, though.
Also drawing much attention this week is another crisis, involving apparent attacks at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine. Ukraine's power utility, Energoatom, claims that Russia is working to disconnect the plant from the rest of Ukraine and integrate it with Russia's power grid via Crimea, thus formalizing the annexation of both Crimea and the Zaporizhzhia region. In July, Russian officials said they were busy reconnecting the Ukrainian power lines to Crimea that had been destroyed in 2015.
An analysis from the Institute for the Study of War suggests the Zaporizhzhia crisis may be Russia's way of forcing negotiations with Ukraine, even though 84% of Ukrainians polled by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology are against conceding territory like Crimea to end the war sooner.
Ukraine's envoy for Crimean Tatars, Tamila Tasheva, argued on Wednesday that the two issues are related. She said Ukrainian attempts to "retake Crimea are underway," without providing details.
Tasheva also accused Russia of coercing Tatars from Crimea to visit Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine and lobbying residents to extol the virtues of Russian occupation ahead of a potential annexation vote.
"The Russian occupations of Crimea and southern Ukraine are inherently tied together, both in terms of military strategy and civilian propaganda," said Tasheva during a press briefing in Kyiv.
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Giovani Lo Celso has flown to Spain in preparation for a loan move to Villarreal after Antonio Conte made it clear the midfielder is not part of his immediate Tottenham plans
- Midfielder Giovani Lo Celso is set to join Villarreal on a season-long loan
- There will be no option to buy and he can be recalled as early as January
- Tottenham beat Southampton comfortably last week in their season opener
- They will face a sterner test against Chelsea at Stanford Bridge on Sunday
Tottenham midfielder Giovani Lo Celso flew to Spain on Friday night ahead of joining Villarreal on a season loan.
There is no option to buy in the deal and the 26-year-old can be recalled by Tottenham in January.
He is one of a number of players Antonio Conte is trying to offload, along with Sergio Reguilon, Tanguy Ndombele, and Harry Winks.
Giovani Lo Celso has flown to Spain ahead of a loan move to Villareal
Spurs are thought to have been close to agreeing moves away for all four, but have found difficulty in completing those deals due to hesitancy from individuals to commit to moves.
Lo Celso now appears to have one gone one step further and is close to completing his loan move.
The midfielder's role at Spurs has got smaller with each season he has spent at the club, as he played half as many games last season as he did in 2019/20.
Antonio Conte has made it clear that a number of Spurs players are not in his plans
Tottenham beat Southampton comfortably last week but will be tested against Chelsea
Tottenham got their season off to the perfect start last weekend, as goals from Ryan Sessegnon, Eric Dier and Dejan Kulusevski gave them a comfortable win over Southampton.
They will face a sterner test on Sunday as they face up against Chelsea at Stanford Bridge.
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INTRODUCTION
The recent developments and updates in the second quarter of 2022 are reflective of a potential remarkable year ahead for the fintech industry. The quarter has witnessed the introduction and announcement of several key initiatives and changes by the Reserve Bank of India ("RBI"), with an aim to drive digitisation and enhance the outreach for digital payments in India. Some of the key updates in this sector are (1) introduction of the "Payments Vision 2025", - which is a document setting out the roadmap that the RBI proposes to follow over the next few years to bolster digital transactions and empower users with accessible and affordable payment options in India; (2) the launch of 'open network digital commerce', – which is an initiative to develop open and interoperable infrastructure for the e-commerce industry in India that is expected to particularly boost businesses of small merchants; and (3) the consolidation of the Credit Card and Debit Card - Issuance and Conduct Directions, 2022, - which has set out comprehensive instructions to card issuers on matters involving the issuance process and safeguards, telemarketing and strategic partnerships, among others. While some of these developments have been hailed by the market as a step forward in the right direction, some of the other measures introduced during this quarter have also created uncertainties. For instance, the recent circular issued by RBI on loading of prepaid payment instruments ("PPIs") through a credit line has put the future of several marquee fintech players in a limbo. Such measures are likely to impact the growth of this sector which was earlier expected to grow at an estimated rate of 7.5%, this year.
This newsletter highlights these key developments and measures as well as other developments in the Indian fintech space from April 01, 2022 to June 30, 2022.
RECENT LEGAL AND REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS
Indian Computer Emergency Response Team ("CERT-In") directions
On April 28, 2022, CERT-In issued 'directions relating to information security practices, procedure, prevention, response and reporting of cyber incidents for safe & trusted internet' ("CERT-In Directions") pursuant to subsection (6) of section 70B of the Information Technology Act, 2000. The CERT-In Directions have come into effect from June 27, 2022. This deadline has however been extended to September 25, 2022 for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (''MSMEs'').
The CERT-In Directions have covered different dimensions of cybersecurity measures and set out very extensive and onerous compliances and reporting requirements on all service providers, intermediaries (including financial intermediaries), data centres and body corporates to whom it is applicable. Some of the key provisions in the CERT-In Directions are as follows:
- All entities are required to report any cyber incidents to CERT-In within 6 hours of noticing the incident or being brought to notice about such incidents.
- All entities are to mandatorily enable logs of all their information and communication technology systems and maintain them securely for a rolling period of 180 days and the same must be maintained within Indian territorial jurisdiction.
- Virtual asset service providers, virtual asset exchange providers and custodian wallet providers must mandatorily maintain all information obtained as part of know your customer ("KYC") checks and records of financial transactions, for a period of 5 years.
- All data centres, virtual private server providers, cloud service providers and virtual private network ("VPN") providers are required to collect certain information in relation to customer accounts including contact numbers, names, etc., and store it for a period of 5 years even after the cancellation or withdrawal of such subscription.
- CERT-In has the power to issue orders to entities mandating them to take action or provide information that assists CERT-In to prevent, pre-empt or address cyber incidents.
Establishment of Digital Banking Units ("DBUs")
RBI's guidelines on establishment of digital banking units ("DBU Guidelines")1 were issued following the announcement made in the Union Budget 2022-23 for setting up 75 DBUs in 75 districts to commemorate 75 years of independence of India. The DBU Guidelines seek to promote digitalisation of existing banks.
A DBU is a specialised fixed point business unit or hub, housing certain minimum digital infrastructure for delivering digital banking products and services as well as servicing existing financial products and services digitally, to enable customers to have cost effective, convenient access along with an enhanced digital experience in an efficient, paperless, secured and connected environment with most services being available in self-service mode at any time, all year round.2
Scheduled commercial banks with past digital banking experience in tier 1 to tier 6 centres have been permitted to open DBUs with a direction to deploy adequate cybersecurity measures and use various tools and methods to create awareness about digital banking. Additionally, these banks have been provided an option to engage digital business facilitators or business correspondents, in conformance with relevant regulations, to expand the virtual footprint of DBUs.
It may be relevant to note that as recently as June, 2022, the RBI governor discouraged the idea of operating and regulating full stack 'digital only banks'.3 The RBI governor stated that there was no proposal currently to regulate neo-banks as it was felt that existing banks and non-banks could adopt additional technology for delivering banking services digitally.4 The DBU Guidelines accordingly are reflective of the sentiment shared by the RBI governor as the RBI for the time being aims to aid existing regulated banks offer better digital services while being disinclined about regulation of neo-banks.
Credit Card and Debit Card – Issuance and Conduct Directions, 2022 ("Card Directions")
The RBI issued the Card Directions which are applicable to every scheduled commercial bank (excluding payments banks, state co-operative banks, and district central co-operative banks) and all non-banking financial companies ("NBFCs") operating in India, effective from July 1, 2022.5 The Card Directions have been issued to regulate the conduct of credit and debit payments, and to provide an elaborate set of instructions to be followed by card-issuers. The Card Directions have replaced the master circular on credit card, debit card and rupee denominated co-branded pre-paid card operations of banks and credit card issuing NBFCs released in 2015 ("Master Circular of 2015").6 The new directions are more elaborate and have provided more clarity by explicitly providing the scope of co-branding arrangements and the roles of card-issuers and cobranding partners.
While most of the conditions have been reinstated from the Master Circular of 2015, the key distinction between the Card Directions and the Master Circular of 2015 is that the Card Directions have also allowed NBFCs to issue credit cards in tie-up with other banks after obtaining the approval of the RBI. Additionally, under the Card Directions, a co-branding partner has been restricted from accessing the customer's transaction data and from being involved in any of the processes or the controls relating to the co-branded card except for being the initial point of contact in case of grievances.
Draft guidelines on 'processing and settlement of small value export and import related payments' ("Draft OEIF Guidelines")
As per the extant guidelines on processing and settlement of export related receipts facilitated by online payment gateways that were issued by the RBI in November, 2010 ("Existing Guidelines"), banks are permitted to offer a facility of processing and settlement of import and export-related remittances by entering into standing contracts with online payment gateway service providers ("OPGSPs"). In the Draft OEIF Guidelines issued by the RBI, the concept of an OPGSP has been replaced with that of an online export-import facilitator ("OEIF").7 In this context, several additional responsibilities are proposed to be placed on an OEIF to reinforce consumer protection. For instance, an OEIF is required to ensure that the buyer is compensated and protected from liabilities that may arise from cross-border imports before the delivery of goods and digital products. It is also the responsibility of an OEIF to indicate the exact amount that can be refunded before a purchase is made. Additionally, an OEIF is accountable for the creation of a reserve fund for refunds in cases of disputes.
One of the other major changes proposed through the Draft OEIF Guidelines is an increase in the cap on the transaction limits for the online import and export of digital goods and products, which is now proposed to be fixed at USD 3,000 and USD 15,000, respectively.
Overall, the Draft OEIF Guidelines aim to modify the Existing Guidelines to simplify and rationalise the process for settlement of payment for export and import through e-commerce, given that more than 300,000 MSME exporters already rely on OPGSP services to collect payments.8 The additional compliance burden and financial risk on the putative OEIFs is something the RBI will need to navigate with stakeholders.
Open Network for Digital Commerce ("ONDC")
ONDC is an initiative launched by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade with the aim of promoting open networks for all aspects of exchange of goods and services over digital or electronic networks.
ONDC is an open-sourced methodology which is independent of any specific platform. The network is based on an open protocol that will display products and services from all participating e-commerce platforms on one single network as an aim to democratize India's online market. The open protocols would be used for establishing public digital infrastructure to enable exchange of information between providers and consumers.
ONDC protocols aim to standardize operations like cataloguing, inventory management, order management and order fulfilment. Thus, small businesses will be able to use any ONDC compatible applications instead of being governed by specific platform centric policies. Through ONDC, consumers can potentially discover any seller (small or big), product or service by using any compatible application or platform, thus increasing the freedom of choice for consumers. As a result, ONDC would standardize operations, promote inclusion of local suppliers, drive efficiencies in logistics and lead to enhancement of value for consumers. However, the responsibility for onboarding of sellers and buyers and the management of the end-to-end order lifecycle will continue to reside with the relevant digital e-commerce applications and platforms.
All existing digital e-commerce applications and platforms are free to voluntarily choose to adopt and be a part of the ONDC network and accordingly, it is not a mandatory direction.
Payments Vision 2025
The RBI released the 'Payments Vision 2025', which is a document that sets out a roadmap outlining the vision of the RBI in so far as the legal framework is concerned surrounding digital payments and digital banking in India to increase the number of digital payment transactions threefold by 2025. The core theme of the document is "E-Payments for Everyone, Everywhere, Everytime (4 Es)" with the vision to provide every user with safe, secure, fast, convenient, accessible, and affordable e-payment options (6 attributes).
Some of the key initiatives under the Payments Vision 2025 include:
- Implementing alternative authentication mechanism(s) for digital payment transactions in light of increasing instances of phishing, vishing and smishing attacks, and the vulnerabilities of one-time password-based authentication to such attacks;
- Implementing a real or near real time reporting of payments fraud and operationalising an integrated system called the Central Payments Fraud Information Registry wherein all stakeholders can share information and initiate necessary corrective action to prevent frauds;
- Given the emerging geo-political risks, exploring the possibility of mandating domestic processing of payment transactions by the payment system operators;
- Intention to undertake a comprehensive review of different types of PPIs including the definition of closed-system PPIs and related aspects;
- Regulation of bigtechs and fintechs in the payments space to be explored and a discussion paper to be published;
- Evaluation of charges for all payment systems such as switching fee, interchange fee which are incurred while undertaking digital payments services, to ensure that such charges do not deter digital payments adoption;
- A framework on internet of things device payments covering aspects of data security, authentication, identity validation, etc. is intended to be introduced;
- Linking credit cards and credit components of banking products to unified payments interface ("UPI");
- Contemplating the issuance of guidelines on payments involving 'buy now pay later' ("BNPL") services;
- Undertake a comprehensive review of Review of Payment and Settlement Systems Act and regulations keeping in view the dynamic nature of the payment ecosystem;
- Expansion of inter-operability to contactless transit card payments in offline mode;
- Expanding the global footprint of domestic payments systems like UPI by collaborating with relevant stakeholders. Furthermore, the feasibility of expanding real time gross settlement to settle transactions in major trade currencies such as USD, Pound, Euro, etc. is intended to be explored through bi-lateral or multi-lateral agreements;
- To facilitate cross-border remittances using national electronic funds transfer, and remittance facilities as the one undertaken in the Indo-Nepal Remittance Facility Scheme is intended to be extended to other countries; and
- Constitution of a Payments Advisory Council with experts with a legal background along with those with expertise in payments technology and banking as well as representation from consumer groups, fintechs and start-ups, data analysts etc.
Framework for authorization in financial technologies on International Financial Services Centres (''IFSCs")9
The International Financial Services Central Authority ("IFSCA") issued a framework for authorisation in financial technologies on IFSCs on April 27, 2022 ("IFSC Framework") with a view to develop and regulate financial products, financial services and financial institutions in IFSCs and to encourage promotion of fintech across the spectrum of banking, insurance, securities, and fund management in IFSCs. It also aims to facilitate Indian fintechs seeking access to foreign markets and foreign fintechs seeking entry into India.
Through the IFSC Framework, IFSCA has invited applications for fintech Regulatory Sandbox and will accordingly grant limited use authorisation to the eligible fintech entities. This would enable them to apply and avail grants under the IFSCA Fintech Incentive Scheme 2022. The IFSC Framework also incorporates the inter operable regulatory sandbox mechanism, which is a proposed mechanism to facilitate testing of innovative hybrid financial products or services falling within the regulatory ambit of more than one financial sector regulator.
Accordingly, the IFSC Framework aims to serve as a unified regulator for banking, capital markets, insurance and funds management in IFSC, and accordingly enable fintech firms having innovative ideas or solutions across the banking, capital or insurance sector to have seamless interaction with a single regulator.
Modifications to the Payments Infrastructure Development Fund ("PIDF") Scheme
The PIDF Scheme was operationalised by the RBI from January 01, 2021 and is being modified by enhancing the subsidy amount and simplifying the subsidy claim process for the deployment of points of sale ("PoS") infrastructure (physical and digital modes) in tier-1 to tier- 6 centres and north-eastern states of the country.10
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Footnotes
1. Reserve Bank of India - Notifications (rbi.org.in)
2. https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=12285&Mode=0
5. Reserve Bank of India - Master Directions (rbi.org.in)
6. https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_ViewMasCirculardetails.aspx?id=9838
7. Reserve Bank of India - Database (rbi.org.in)
9. International Financial Services Centres Authority (ifsca.gov.in)
10. Reserve Bank of India - Press Releases (rbi.org.in)
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(The Hill) – House Democrats passed their sweeping tax, climate and health care bill on Friday, sending the $740 billion legislation to President Biden’s desk and securing a significant victory for Democrats less than three months before the midterm elections.
The bill, titled the Inflation Reduction Act, passed the House in a 220-207 party-line vote. Four Republicans did not vote.
House passage came four days after the Senate approved the bill in a party-line vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting a tie-breaking vote.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) touted the bill on the House floor during debate on Friday, arguing that it “saves the planet while keeping more money in your pockets.”
“This bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, a package for the people, increases the leverage of the public interest over the special interests, and expands health and financial security now and for generations to come,” she added.
Passage through Congress marks the culmination of more than a year of negotiations among Senate Democrats on a spending package.
The legislation will increase taxes on corporations, address climate change and bring down the prices of prescription drugs, all while lowering the deficit.
The package specifically includes $369 billion in energy security and climate investments and $64 billion to expand Affordable Care Act subsidies for two years.
The bill offers incentives to businesses and consumers to make cleaner energy choices, including utilizing lower-carbon and carbon-free energy, and it creates new programs that will bolster investments in climate.
On the health care end, the measure will allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices for 10 high-cost drugs starting in 2026. By 2029, that number is expected to grow to 20 drugs. Additionally, the measure allows caps to be placed on some drug costs, but mainly for Medicare.
To pay for the legislation, Democrats have written in a 15 percent minimum tax on income that large corporations report to their shareholders. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, only about 150 firms would be affected.
The bill also allocates $80 billion to increase enforcement at the Internal Revenue Service and ensure that wealthy individuals and corporations are not evading taxes. Additionally, a one percent excise tax on stock buybacks is included in the bill.
Passage of the bill caps off more than a year of negotiations among Senate Democrats, who had been working to come to a consensus on a spending package but failed on a number of occasions due to intra-party disagreements.
The Senate, however, finally hit a breakthrough late last month when Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced a deal for the tax-and-spending package. The Senate ultimately approved that bill on Monday through budget reconciliation, a process that allowed Democrats to pass the measure with a simple majority, bypassing what would have likely been a Republican filibuster.
Every Democrat backed the bill, including Rep. Jared Golden (Maine), the only Democrat to oppose an earlier, larger measure approved by the House that was blocked by Manchin in the Senate.
He called it “common-sense legislation” and “fiscally responsible” in a statement prior to the vote.
Some progressive lawmakers had grumbled about the bill not being as expansive as they had hoped, but the entire caucus ultimately came together to support the measure.
House lawmakers interrupted their summer break to return to Washington to complete work on the bill and send it to Biden.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) started whipping against the bill on Tuesday, slamming the bill — which his office described as “the Inflation, Recession, and IRS Army Act — in a memo to House GOP offices.
In a roughly 50-minute speech on the House floor Friday, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called the legislation a “misguided, tone-dead bill,” slamming it for inflationary concerns and bringing attention to elevated prices in the U.S.
Republicans during debate also took issue with the provision that allocates $80 billion to the IRS to bolster enforcement.
“Democrats more than any other majority in history are addicted to spending other people’s money, regardless of what we as a country can afford,” McCarthy said on the House floor.
“Today, now they are choosing to end the session by spending half-a-trillion dollars more of your money, raising taxes on the middle class, and giving handouts to their liberal allies,” he added. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/house-approves-sweeping-climate-tax-health-care-package/ | 2022-08-12T22:27:58Z | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/house-approves-sweeping-climate-tax-health-care-package/ | true |
WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 12, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
501 PM CDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.A band of heavy showers and thunderstorms moving southwest from La
Gloria to Garciasville.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Arroyo and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of Deep South Texas, including the following
county, Starr.
* WHEN...Until 700 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 459 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause arroyo and small stream
flooding. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Sullivan City, Garciasville, La Grulla, Santa Catarina, La
Gloria, La Victoria, San Isidro, Alto Bonito, La Reforma,
Santa Elena, Grulla Middle School, Delmita, La Casita and Rio
Grande City--roma.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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IRVING, Texas and FINO MORNASCO, Italy, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Breeze Holdings Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: BREZ) ("Breeze Holdings"), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, and D-Orbit S.p.A. ("D-Orbit" or the "Company"), a market leading space logistics and transportation company, today announced that the companies have mutually agreed to terminate their previously announced merger agreement ("Agreement"), effective immediately.
"Since the outset of our discussions with D-Orbit over a year ago, we have continued to believe in the Company's unique value proposition and the innovation inherent in their solutions," said J. Douglas Ramsey, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of Breeze Holdings. "However, the financial markets have changed substantially, and we believe that terminating our merger is in the best interest of both D-Orbit and Breeze shareholders. On behalf of Breeze, we wish Luca and the D-Orbit team the best of luck and look forward to cheering on their continued successes. As we look ahead, we remain focused on identifying another value creating opportunity for Breeze shareholders."
"Despite market conditions that were beyond our control and the subsequent need to terminate our agreement with Breeze, we remain incredibly confident about D-Orbit's business and continued growth," said Luca Rossettini, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of D-Orbit. "With our unrivaled ION Satellite Carrier as a foundation and the diversified revenue streams our main line of business already generates, we are setting D-Orbit apart as the global leader in the orbital transportation market. Just this year alone, we have completed more missions than any of our peers, expanded and diversified our customer base across four continents with even more blue-chip companies looking to use our services, secured 11 additional slots with SpaceX and other global launch providers for 2023 and continued to build out the next phase of our In-Orbit Servicing technology, which is also generating revenues from early adopters within institutional and commercial space operators. In addition, we have successfully proven our space cloud infrastructure with almost a dozen third-party applications run on our D-Orbit Cloud Nodes currently in orbit. As we chart our next phase of growth, D-Orbit is moving full speed ahead to achieve our mission of enabling expansion in space and fueling the new space economy."
Since announcing the intention to merge with Breeze in January, D-Orbit has steadily moved along its roadmap and launched an additional three ION Satellite Carrier (ION) missions – six currently in orbit and three scheduled for the remainder of 2022; delivered more than 80 customer payloads into orbit in total; announced several new signed customer contracts among D-Orbit's outstanding customer base, including 30% of existing satellite operators; made progress expanding payload integration and incoming ION assembly in the U.S.; secured eleven ports for launch on SpaceX and on other launchers in 2023; and continued innovating on its suite of in-orbit solutions, including the deployment of D-Orbit Space Cloud and buildout of its In-Orbit Servicing capabilities, positioning the Company to capture long-term growth opportunities.
Details of the termination of the Agreement will be provided in a Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed by Breeze Holdings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov.
D-Orbit is a market leader in the space logistics and transportation services industry with a track record of space-proven services, technologies and successful missions.
Founded in 2011, before the dawn of the New Space market, D-Orbit is the first company addressing the logistics needs of the space market. The first line of business ION Satellite Carrier, for example, is a space vehicle that can transport satellites in orbit and release them individually into distinct orbital slots, reducing the time from launch to operations by up to 85% and the launch costs of an entire satellite constellation by up to 40%. ION can also accommodate multiple third-party payloads like innovative technologies developed by startups, experiments from research entities, and instruments from traditional space companies requiring a test in orbit and offer the fully redundant ION for rent, or edge computing and space cloud services, to those satellite operators in need of additional capacity and capabilities in orbit. In addition, D-Orbit is investing in becoming a leader in the new in-orbit servicing market, which is considered to be one of the largest, growing markets within the space sector and is already demonstrating significant traction.
D-Orbit is a space infrastructure pioneer with offices in Italy, Portugal, the UK, and the US; its commitment to pursuing business models that are profitable, friendly for the environment, and socially beneficial, led to D-Orbit S.p.A. becoming the first certified B-Corp space company in the world.
Breeze Holdings is a blank check company organized for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization, or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities.
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the words "believes," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "may," "will," "potential," "projects," "predicts," "continue," or "should," or, in each case, their negative or other variations or comparable terminology. There can be no assurance that actual results will not materially differ from expectations. Such statements include, but are not limited to, any statements relating to our ability to consummate any acquisition or other business combination and any other statements that are not statements of current or historical facts. These statements are based on management's current expectations, but actual results may differ materially due to various factors, including, but not limited to: (i) our ability to complete any initial business combination; (ii) our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors following our initial business combination; (iii) our officers and directors allocating their time to other businesses and potentially having conflicts of interest with our business or in approving our initial business combination; (iv) our potential ability to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination; (v) our pool of prospective target businesses; (vi) the ability of our officers and directors to generate a number of potential investment opportunities; (vii) our public securities' potential liquidity and trading; (viii) the lack of a market for our securities; (ix) the use of proceeds not held in the trust account or available to us from interest income on the trust account balance; (x) the trust account not being subject to claims of third parties; (xi) or our financial performance following our initial public offering. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to additional risks, uncertainties, and factors, including those described in Breeze Holdings' most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other documents filed or to be filed with the SEC by Breeze Holdings or Holdco from time to time. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof.
Contacts
Patrizia Tammaro Silva - Investor Relations
patrizia.tammaro@dorbit.space
+39 335 7959 913
Caterina Cazzola – Head of Communications
caterina.cazzola@dorbit.space
+39 340 2840 792
Aaron Palash / Jack Kelleher
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher
212-355-4449
Follow D-Orbit on:
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/d-orbit
Facebook: facebook.com/deorbitaldevices/
Twitter: twitter.com/D_Orbit
Instagram: instagram.com/wearedorbit/
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — An American Indian tribe has won a court order blocking Lyman County officials’ plan to hold an at-large election for county commissioners in November.
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported Friday that the county has developed a plan that would give American Indian voters the chance to be represented by two county commissioners on the five-member board. The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe filed a federal lawsuit in May alleging the county was delaying implementation, meaning the the November election would be under the current at-large system.
U.S. District Judge Roberto Lange issued an injunction Thursday ordering the county to propose a different plan by the end of next week. | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/Tribe-wins-injunction-blocking-county-voting-plan-17370616.php | 2022-08-12T22:45:46Z | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/Tribe-wins-injunction-blocking-county-voting-plan-17370616.php | false |
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IRVING, Texas and FINO MORNASCO, Italy, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Breeze Holdings Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: BREZ) ("Breeze Holdings"), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, and D-Orbit S.p.A. ("D-Orbit" or the "Company"), a market leading space logistics and transportation company, today announced that the companies have mutually agreed to terminate their previously announced merger agreement ("Agreement"), effective immediately.
"Since the outset of our discussions with D-Orbit over a year ago, we have continued to believe in the Company's unique value proposition and the innovation inherent in their solutions," said J. Douglas Ramsey, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of Breeze Holdings. "However, the financial markets have changed substantially, and we believe that terminating our merger is in the best interest of both D-Orbit and Breeze shareholders. On behalf of Breeze, we wish Luca and the D-Orbit team the best of luck and look forward to cheering on their continued successes. As we look ahead, we remain focused on identifying another value creating opportunity for Breeze shareholders."
"Despite market conditions that were beyond our control and the subsequent need to terminate our agreement with Breeze, we remain incredibly confident about D-Orbit's business and continued growth," said Luca Rossettini, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of D-Orbit. "With our unrivaled ION Satellite Carrier as a foundation and the diversified revenue streams our main line of business already generates, we are setting D-Orbit apart as the global leader in the orbital transportation market. Just this year alone, we have completed more missions than any of our peers, expanded and diversified our customer base across four continents with even more blue-chip companies looking to use our services, secured 11 additional slots with SpaceX and other global launch providers for 2023 and continued to build out the next phase of our In-Orbit Servicing technology, which is also generating revenues from early adopters within institutional and commercial space operators. In addition, we have successfully proven our space cloud infrastructure with almost a dozen third-party applications run on our D-Orbit Cloud Nodes currently in orbit. As we chart our next phase of growth, D-Orbit is moving full speed ahead to achieve our mission of enabling expansion in space and fueling the new space economy."
Since announcing the intention to merge with Breeze in January, D-Orbit has steadily moved along its roadmap and launched an additional three ION Satellite Carrier (ION) missions – six currently in orbit and three scheduled for the remainder of 2022; delivered more than 80 customer payloads into orbit in total; announced several new signed customer contracts among D-Orbit's outstanding customer base, including 30% of existing satellite operators; made progress expanding payload integration and incoming ION assembly in the U.S.; secured eleven ports for launch on SpaceX and on other launchers in 2023; and continued innovating on its suite of in-orbit solutions, including the deployment of D-Orbit Space Cloud and buildout of its In-Orbit Servicing capabilities, positioning the Company to capture long-term growth opportunities.
Details of the termination of the Agreement will be provided in a Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed by Breeze Holdings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov.
D-Orbit is a market leader in the space logistics and transportation services industry with a track record of space-proven services, technologies and successful missions.
Founded in 2011, before the dawn of the New Space market, D-Orbit is the first company addressing the logistics needs of the space market. The first line of business ION Satellite Carrier, for example, is a space vehicle that can transport satellites in orbit and release them individually into distinct orbital slots, reducing the time from launch to operations by up to 85% and the launch costs of an entire satellite constellation by up to 40%. ION can also accommodate multiple third-party payloads like innovative technologies developed by startups, experiments from research entities, and instruments from traditional space companies requiring a test in orbit and offer the fully redundant ION for rent, or edge computing and space cloud services, to those satellite operators in need of additional capacity and capabilities in orbit. In addition, D-Orbit is investing in becoming a leader in the new in-orbit servicing market, which is considered to be one of the largest, growing markets within the space sector and is already demonstrating significant traction.
D-Orbit is a space infrastructure pioneer with offices in Italy, Portugal, the UK, and the US; its commitment to pursuing business models that are profitable, friendly for the environment, and socially beneficial, led to D-Orbit S.p.A. becoming the first certified B-Corp space company in the world.
Breeze Holdings is a blank check company organized for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization, or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities.
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the words "believes," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "may," "will," "potential," "projects," "predicts," "continue," or "should," or, in each case, their negative or other variations or comparable terminology. There can be no assurance that actual results will not materially differ from expectations. Such statements include, but are not limited to, any statements relating to our ability to consummate any acquisition or other business combination and any other statements that are not statements of current or historical facts. These statements are based on management's current expectations, but actual results may differ materially due to various factors, including, but not limited to: (i) our ability to complete any initial business combination; (ii) our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors following our initial business combination; (iii) our officers and directors allocating their time to other businesses and potentially having conflicts of interest with our business or in approving our initial business combination; (iv) our potential ability to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination; (v) our pool of prospective target businesses; (vi) the ability of our officers and directors to generate a number of potential investment opportunities; (vii) our public securities' potential liquidity and trading; (viii) the lack of a market for our securities; (ix) the use of proceeds not held in the trust account or available to us from interest income on the trust account balance; (x) the trust account not being subject to claims of third parties; (xi) or our financial performance following our initial public offering. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to additional risks, uncertainties, and factors, including those described in Breeze Holdings' most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other documents filed or to be filed with the SEC by Breeze Holdings or Holdco from time to time. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof.
Contacts
Patrizia Tammaro Silva - Investor Relations
patrizia.tammaro@dorbit.space
+39 335 7959 913
Caterina Cazzola – Head of Communications
caterina.cazzola@dorbit.space
+39 340 2840 792
Aaron Palash / Jack Kelleher
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher
212-355-4449
Follow D-Orbit on:
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/d-orbit
Facebook: facebook.com/deorbitaldevices/
Twitter: twitter.com/D_Orbit
Instagram: instagram.com/wearedorbit/
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Cops on 8.4 million Facebook likeline are tattling and making some folly. In the meanings I should be grateful of these good nature as now there’s no doubt about privating things that may off-should I share with the social media, even at some degree of likelins I am sure would have something very wrong at many time…\nA survey suggests socializing, as an activity or a business to sell it by any mean, maybe no more This photograph is good for your biceps. It's on the cover of a heavy, large, impressive catalogue for the National Gallery's exhibition "American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams." A perfect choice, this picture, to express Adams' obsession: the American landscape, and what's happened to it in the 85 years he's been looking at it.
Do you see the message in the photo? Notice that the word FRONTIER is missing its final R? The letter has disappeared just like the landscape itself: lost to over-development, clear-cutting, various human abuses.
"He's passionate about our relationship to the world around us," says National Gallery senior curator and head of the photography department (and friend) Sarah Greenough. I tell her I see Adams' pictures as doctrinaire — indictments of human avarice and neglect. "That's too harsh," Sarah says. He wants us to witness what has been, what's been lost, and the beauties that remain.
The tree announces its survival, shadowing the garage door in what could be a community of such houses, built on land once covered in trees.
Notice how gorgeous these photos are? The velvety blacks, the aggressive chalky whites. Robert Adams does all his own developing.
Ansel Adams (no relation), Robert's elder by some 30 years, is known for his glorious black-and-white work that celebrates the majesty of our landscape. Curator Greenough says that, in the 1970s, Robert Adams was part of a generation of Americans who looked at the landscape in a very different way. Instead, "they looked at the landscape as the place where we live," and what happens to it as our living takes root.
Robert Adams wrote, "go to the landscape that frightens you the most, and take pictures until you're not scared anymore." Greenough says he meant that we must confront the world that's developing around us. "He had to photograph it until he could come to terms with it." And find the beauty. Here, the landscape is wiped out by ticky-tacky houses. Adams shoots them at an angle that celebrates the architectural forms, and they're umbrella-ed by "a glorious sky."
As he gets older, the photographs seem more about beauty. He's looking for "the things that can give us hope." And Sarah says he's finding them.
Hope, especially, in the light. The exhibition is called "American Silence," she says, not because silence is so pervasive here. Rather, when you stand and look at one of our still glorious landscapes, it's the feeling of silence, "that sense of peace and awe that the beauty of nature can give you."
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 12, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
511 PM CDT Fri Aug 12 2022
...A band of heavy showers and thunderstorms moving southwest from
La Gloria to Garciasville...
...FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Arroyo and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of Deep South Texas, including the following
county, Starr.
* WHEN...Until 700 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 510 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause arroyo and small stream
flooding. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Sullivan City, Garciasville, La Grulla, Santa Catarina, La
Gloria, La Victoria, San Isidro, Alto Bonito, La Reforma,
Santa Elena, Grulla Middle School, Delmita, La Casita and Rio
Grande City--roma.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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Bill Allows Medicare to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices and Caps Out-of-Pocket Spending on Medications for Seniors
NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier today the House voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a bill that includes several key provisions to lower the prices of prescription drugs. AARP New York thanks Representatives Tom Suozzi (NY3), Kathleen Rice (NY4), Gregory Meeks (NY5), Grace Meng (NY6), Nydia Velazquez (NY7), Hakeem Jeffries (NY8), Yvette Clarke (NY9), Jerry Nadler (NY10), Carolyn Maloney (NY12), Adriano Espaillat (NY13), Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (NY14), Ritchie Torres (NY15), Jamaal Bowman (NY16), Mondaire Jones (NY17), Sean Patrick Maloney (NY18), Paul Tonko (NY20), Joe Morelle (NY25) and Brian Higgins (NY26) for supporting this critical legislation that will bring real relief for seniors. The bill now goes to President Biden for his signature.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes key AARP priorities that will go a long way to lower drug prices and out-of-pocket costs. AARP fought for provisions in the bill that will:
- Finally allow Medicare to negotiate the price of drugs
- Cap annual out-of-pocket prescription drug costs in Medicare Part D ($2,000 in 2025)
- Hold drug companies accountable when they increase drug prices faster than the rate of inflation, and
- Cap co-pays for insulin to no more than $35 per month in Medicare Part D.
Jo Ann Jenkins, AARP Chief Executive Officer, issued a statement reacting to the House vote:
"Today is a momentous day for older Americans. By passing the Inflation Reduction Act, Congress has made good on decades of promises to lower the price of prescription drugs. Seniors should never have to choose between paying for needed medicine or other necessities like food or rent, and tens of millions of adults in Medicare drug plans will soon have peace of mind knowing their out-of-pocket expenses are limited every year.
"Many people said this couldn't be done, but AARP isn't afraid of a hard fight. We kept up the pressure, and now, for the first time, Medicare will be able to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices, saving seniors money on their medications.
"I thank the House members whose votes today will bring real relief to millions of Americans, and I look forward to President Biden signing this bill into law."
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AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence and nearly 38 million members, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also produces the nation's largest circulation publications: AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org, www.aarp.org/espanol or follow @AARP, @AARPenEspanol and @AARPadvocates, @AliadosAdelante on social media.
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Fox News Poll: Record 70% say life will be worse for next generation
Gun violence, China and Russia listed as top threats to U.S. stability
Against the backdrop of mass shootings, foreign policy showdowns, inflation woes and a pandemic, the latest Fox News survey finds a record-high number of registered voters think life for the next generation of Americans will be worse than it is today.
A majority, 70%, says life will be worse for the next generation than it is today — up 29 percentage points from July 2020. The last time voters were close to being this negative about the future was in September 2014, when 61% said it would be worse.
All of this comes as voters continue to offer pessimistic views of both the national economy and their personal finances. Eight in 10 rate national economic conditions as only fair or poor, while about six in 10 rate their personal finances negatively. On top of this, three-quarters are dissatisfied with the direction of the country — the highest negative rating in a decade.
Almost eight in 10 Republicans (76%) and independents (79%) say life will be worse for the next generation, a 40+ point increase from two summers ago.
Over half of Democrats are also more likely to think life will be more difficult (57%), up 9 points since 2020. However, they are one of the only subgroups where the belief that life will get better for younger generations is up (37% vs. 26% in 2020).
Voters under age 30 (28% better-66% worse) are just as likely as voters ages 65 and over (25-68%) to say life will be worse for the youth of America.
Overall, a quarter (25%) think life will improve for young Americans.
With midterm elections three months away, voters are split on their generic ballot preference (the Democratic candidate in their House district vs. the Republican candidate) at 41% apiece. Of the 70% saying the next generation will be worse off, those voters break for the GOP by 14 points. The 25% who say life will be better favor the Democrat by 34.
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Voters say some of the gravest threats to the stability of the U.S. are at home as well as abroad.
Number one? Gun violence.
Sixty-four percent say it is a "major" threat to the stability of the country. Several high-profile shootings in the last three months could well lead voters to perceive gun violence as a serious concern.
China (60%) and Russia (60%) are also in the top tier of major threats.
Back at home, domestic extremist groups (55%), big government (52%) and climate change (52%) round out a second tier of perceived threats, while illegal immigration (47%) and people refusing to accept election results (46%) come in somewhat lower on the scale.
For Democrats, gun violence is easily seen as the biggest threat to Uncle Sam, with 80% saying it’s a major threat, followed by climate change at 73% and election deniers and domestic extremists at 66%.
Republicans' biggest concern is a tie between China and illegal immigration (71% each). Big government comes in third at 65%.
Just half of Democrats think China is a major threat (49%), while the opposite is true for Republicans on gun violence (51%).
With all their differences, partisans agree that Russia is a major threat (59% for Dems and 58% for Republicans).
Meanwhile, 70% are extremely or very concerned about China's military power. That’s unchanged since last year — and since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent trip to Taiwan, a trip Beijing vehemently opposed.
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Conducted Aug. 6-9, 2022, under the joint direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News Poll includes interviews with 1,002 registered voters nationwide who were randomly selected from a national voter file and spoke with live interviewers on both landlines and cellphones. The total sample has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. | https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-record-70-say-life-will-worse-next-generation | 2022-08-12T23:01:20Z | https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-record-70-say-life-will-worse-next-generation | false |
City of Booneville and its Police Chief headed to Federal Court
BOONEVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – The City of Booneville and its Police Chief are headed to Federal Court in October.
A Mississippi woman has filed a Federal civil lawsuit against a former Booneville Police Officer, the City of Booneville, and Police Chief Michael Ramey.
The woman claims she was sexually assaulted by an on-duty police officer in August of 2020. In her lawsuit, she says the officer picked her up near a motel, put her in the back of the patrol car, told her to lie down, and drove to a warehouse parking lot.
She claims he then stopped the car, dragged her out, and sexually assaulted her. When she said she was going to report him, the officer allegedly told her no one would believe her over him. She says she was able to get away from him while heput his clothes back on.
Court documents say she gave a statement to the Booneville Police Department.
The officer in question was investigated by the FBI for civil rights violations. He was fired in January 2021, and later arrested.
He eventually pleaded guilty to on-duty thefts of money and drugs from traffic stops and arrests and one charge of lying to a federal agent. A Sexual Assault charge against him was dropped.
He is currently serving time in a Federal prison in Texas.
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ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Navy Mutual Aid Association ("Navy Mutual") is proud to announce its sixth year of participation with Military Makeover with Montel® airing on Lifetime TV. This season follows the renovations of the Stupar family home. Staff Sergeant Michael Stupar retired after 20 years of service in the U.S. Army; he deployed four times and the process to award him a Purple Heart for an injury received while deployed in Iraq is underway. SSG Stupar lives with his wife, Crystal, and their two daughters.
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BEND, Ore. (AP) — St. Charles Health System in Central Oregon accidentally overpaid thousands of employees a total of $2 million and is demanding employees pay that money back.
Employees were told Thursday of the total amounts allegedly owed, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
Scott Palmer of the Oregon Nurses Association said the amounts range from less than $100 to as much as $3,000. St. Charles leadership said in a written statement that the average amount owed is $780, and that many employees have already signed forms agreeing to repay the money.
More than 2,300 employees owe some money to St. Charles, a spokeswoman told The Bulletin.
The overpayment issues began in November when hackers launched a ransomware attack on Ultimate Kronos Group, a technology company that runs St. Charles’ payroll system. Many businesses across the U.S. that use the system were unable to access timecard data.
From late November until January, the hospital paid employees based on hours they reported during that time, a spokesperson said.
Palmer said the nurses association plans to issue a cease and desist letter to St. Charles demanding it halt the repayment process and saying it could be illegal. He said in one case, a nurse was notified about an amount allegedly owed with a sticky note.
“This is just yet another way in which nurses and frontline health care providers and staff are being burdened,” Palmer said, noting years of enduring the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said members of the nurses association have received little evidence that the hospital system overpaid employees.
“(St. Charles is) just asserting that this money is owed with no documented support, at least none that we can tell from our members,” he said.
St. Charles representatives declined requests form Oregon Public Broadcasting for an interview.
“While we recognize this is an inconvenience for our employees, we’ve communicated from the beginning that this is a step we’d eventually need to take,” spokesperson Lisa Goodman wrote in a statement.
She also wrote that St. Charles has been paying back employees whom the hospital underpaid as a result of the hack. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Oregon-hospital-overpaid-employees-by-2M-wants-17370545.php | 2022-08-12T23:07:01Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Oregon-hospital-overpaid-employees-by-2M-wants-17370545.php | true |
LONDON – The World Health Organization says it's holding an open forum to rename the disease monkeypox, after some critics raised concerns the name could be derogatory or have racist connotations.
In a statement Friday, the U.N. health agency said it has also renamed two families, or clades, of the virus, using Roman numerals instead of geographic areas, to avoid stigmatization. The version of the disease formerly known as the Congo Basin will now be known as Clade one or I and the West Africa clade will be known as Clade two or II.
WHO said the decision was made following a meeting of scientists this week and in line with current best practices for naming diseases, which aims to “avoid causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional, or ethnic groups, and minimize any negative impact on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare.”
Numerous other diseases, including Japanese encephalitis, Marburg virus, Spanish influenza and Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome have been named after the geographic areas where they first arose or were identified. WHO has not publicly suggested changing any of those names.
Monkeypox was first named in 1958 when research monkeys in Denmark were observed to have a “pox-like” disease, although they are not thought to be the animal reservoir.
WHO said it was also opening a way for the public to suggest new names for monkeypox, but did not say when any new name would be announced.
To date, there have been more than 31,000 cases of monkeypox identified globally since May, with the majority of those beyond Africa. Monkeypox has been endemic in parts of central and west Africa for decades and was not known to trigger large outbreaks beyond the continent until May.
WHO declared the global spread of monkeypox to be an international emergency in July and the U.S. declared its own epidemic to be a national emergency earlier this month.
Outside of Africa, 98% of cases are in men who have sex with men. With only a limited global supply of vaccines, authorities are racing to stop monkeypox before it becomes entrenched as a new disease. | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/08/12/who-plans-to-rename-monkeypox-over-stigmatization-concerns/ | 2022-08-12T23:08:35Z | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/08/12/who-plans-to-rename-monkeypox-over-stigmatization-concerns/ | false |
CINCINNATI – Novak Djokovic pulled out of next week's hard-court tournament in Cincinnati on Friday because he has not gotten any COVID-19 vaccine shots and so is not allowed to travel to the United States.
That is also why Djokovic is not expected to be able to enter the U.S. Open, the year's last Grand Slam tournament, which begins in New York on Aug. 29.
Djokovic is a 35-year-old from Serbia who owns 21 major championships, one behind Rafael Nadal for the men's record. Djokovic has said he won’t get vaccinated against the illness caused by the coronavirus, even if that prevents him from playing in certain tournaments. He missed the Australian Open in January after being deported from that country and needed to sit out two events in the United States earlier this year, along with a tournament in Montreal this week.
Unvaccinated foreign citizens can’t go to Canada or the U.S. currently; the Cincinnati tournament's news release announcing Djokovic's withdrawal cited “travel restrictions.”
Djokovic has said he was stil holding out hope of being able to enter the U.S. Open, but that would require a change of government policy, which the U.S. Tennis Association says it will adhere to.
Djokovic is a three-time champion at the U.S. Open and was the runner-up last year to Daniil Medvedev.
Other men who have withdrawn from the field in Cincinnati include defending champion Alexander Zverev — the 2020 U.S. Open runner-up tore ankle ligaments at the French Open in June — and injured players Gael Monfils, Reilly Opelka, Oscar Otte and Dominic Thiem. Australian Open finalist Danielle Collins pulled out of the women's draw because of a neck injury, while three-time major champion Angelique Kerber made a scheduling change and opted not to compete in Cincinnati.
Serena Williams is entered in the field for what is expected to be one of her last appearances on tour.
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Clovis police release bodycam video in woman’s death
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CLOVIS, California (KFSN) — Clovis police have released body camera footage of an incident that led to the death of a woman in March this year.
The woman, 35-year-old Isabel De la Torre, died after being restrained by officers. Her family has filed a lawsuit, claiming excessive force by Clovis police.
According to the lawsuit, De la Torre was suffering from a medical emergency that night when her partner called 911.
Officers and medical aid rushed to the apartment.
Police say they were allowed in by the caller, a fact disputed in the lawsuit, which says officers were told their services were no longer needed. The suit alleges that they ‘forced their way’ into her home, then released a K-9 to bring her to the ground.
While being restrained, De la Torre stopped breathing. She was taken to the Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC), where she died 24 hours later.
She was later found to have had a potentially toxic level of methamphetamine in her system.
In a statement on Thursday, Clovis police say they have tried to reach out to the family.
“We want to express our condolences to the family and friends of Isabel De La Torre. Immediately following the unfortunate incident, and several times since, we reached out to the family to provide details of the incident. At this time we have not yet received a response,” the statement said.
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DMYTRIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — One of the last working dairy farms on Ukrainian-controlled territory in the eastern Donbas region is doing everything it can to stay afloat in a place where neither workers nor animals are safe from Russia’s devastating war.
Only around 200 head of cattle remain of the nearly 1,300 kept at the farm before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. The 8,000-acre (3,200-hectare) farm, set amid rolling hills in embattled Donetsk province, is producing two tons of milk a day compared to 11 tons daily before the war, its managers say.
While a significant proportion of the KramAgroSvit farm’s revenues also once came from cultivating wheat, continuing that work comes with risks. As a farm employee harvested wheat with a grain combine on Sunday, the machine hit two land mines, resulting in a fire that burned more than 60% of the worker’s body.
The worker survived, but is in critical condition as doctors tend to an infection.
An inspection by an emergency services team found 19 additional mines in the field, said Ihor Kriuchenko, the farm’s senior livestock technician, adding that going out to harvest now is “very dangerous due to the shelling and mines.” Farmhands drive combines around visible artillery fragments to avoid them.
Such realities of war have created a cascading series of complications that coalesced to drive the farm’s business down dramatically. In the nearby city of Kramatorsk, the provisional capital of Donetsk province, Russia’s attacks and a lack of gas for heating and cooking have caused most residents to evacuate, creating less demand for dairy products and, consequently, falling profits.
Business also took a hit as Russian forces captured several other cities where the farm had distributed its milk and those markets disappeared behind the front line.
Such conditions — disrupted demand and supply chains along with danger from shelling and mines — have made the prospect of farming in eastern Ukraine fraught with risks that threaten the future of the KramAgroSvit farm, which has been in business since 2003.
“This farm was hit (by a rocket), and 38 cows were killed, plus some of our farming equipment and vehicles were destroyed. Investors decided it was too risky to keep so many cows here, so they were sold abroad,” Kriuchenko said.
The farm’s owner had all the pigs and rabbits once raised there slaughtered and sold amid the uncertainty, he said.
Anna Lavrenyuk, general director of Ukraine’s Association of Milk Producers, said at the end of June that Ukrainian dairy farms lost at least 50,000 head of cattle worth an estimated $136 million during the first three months of the war.
Approximately 800 industrial dairy farms lost assets that included animals, barns, farming equipment and animal feed, Lavrenyuk said, while milk yields in front-line and Russian-occupied territories dropped by more than half since the war began.
Ukrainian milk production was likely to fall to 2 million tons for the year, down by 750,000 tons since 2021, she said.
Only around a third of the KramAgroSvit farm’s previous staff of 63 employees remains, Kriuchenko said, and revenues have dropped six-fold since Russian forces launched their offensive to seize the Donbas, an industrial region made up of Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk province.
One such worker, Nataliia Onatska, lined up around 50 cows side by side on Wednesday and attached vacuum pumps to their udders in one of the farm’s long, musty milking hangars.
She’s spent her entire life on a farm and calls her job “the point of my life.”
“I wish everything was like it was before and everyone had kept their jobs,” Onatska said. “It’s scary to live now. I’m just living from day to day.”
The farm now feeds its wheat to the cows as grain prices have fallen and logistics costs have spiked, Kriuchenko said. The crop wasn’t profitable on the market because of a Russian naval blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports that a U.N.-brokered agreement is only now slowly remedying.
But of all the myriad challenges facing the farm, he said, the most difficult part has been saying goodbye to colleagues who had invested so much in its success. Amid the cutbacks, he said, he had to fire his wife.
“It was very hard and sad to let all our staff go. Our team was brought together from nothing, and there was great teamwork, everything was good,” he said. “It was a shock for me to say goodbye to them.”
As Halyna Borysenko, another worker in the dairy, finished milking the cows for the day, she said she pitied them for also having to live through the war.
“The animals are acting differently. They’re scared just like we are,” she said. “They just can’t say it out loud.”
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Hot nights: US in July sets new record for overnight warmth
BY SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
America sizzled through some hot nights last month, enough to make history. Federal meteorologists say the Lower 48 states in July set a record for overnight warmth. The average overnight temperature for the continental United States in July was 63.6 degrees, which is the highest in 128 years of recordkeeping. This matters because cooler temperatures overnight are crucial for people, animals and plants to recover from the warmth of daytime heat waves. In the U.S., the nighttime is warming faster than the daytime. Climate scientists say that’s a signature of human-caused global warming. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/12/hot-nights-us-in-july-sets-new-record-for-overnight-warmth/ | 2022-08-12T23:12:25Z | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/12/hot-nights-us-in-july-sets-new-record-for-overnight-warmth/ | true |
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Pats rookies Strange, Thornton solid in preseason debut
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The Patriots used their first exhibition outing on Thursday night to evaluate the new faces on their roster with most of their starters watching from the sideline after being given the night off. After struggling to find productive contributors via the draft in recent years, the top two picks of the Patriots’ 2022 rookie class seem poised to end that streak. Left guard Cole Strange and receiver Tyquan Thornton had solid debuts during New England’s 23-21 loss to the New York Giants, a positive sign for an offense that is still evolving after former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels’ offseason departure. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/12/pats-rookies-strange-thornton-solid-in-preseason-debut/ | 2022-08-12T23:14:34Z | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/08/12/pats-rookies-strange-thornton-solid-in-preseason-debut/ | true |
The Biden Administration is trying to curb inflation as people grapple with the increased costs of basic expenses. Consumer prices jumped 8.5 percent in July compared to a year earlier, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s down from June’s numbers, but some goods and services remain expensive.
At the same time, Wyomingites and other Westerners are also struggling with another economic trend: stagnant wage growth.
A living wage is defined as what a worker needs to make to afford necessities. In nearly every county in Wyoming, that number hovers around $15 an hour, according to a calculator from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“That is the bare bones of paying your rent, paying your utilities, making sure you have childcare covered for, paying [for] your groceries,” said Micah Richardson of the Wyoming Community Foundation.
However, over 25 percent of full-time Wyoming workers make less than that basic living rate of $15 an hour, according to a new report published by the foundation. The report also looks at gender inequality, childcare costs, and other factors that limit economic mobility.
“So it's even that much harder for these families and individuals to figure out how in the world they are going to make ends meet,” Richardson said.
The state minimum wage is set at $5.15 an hour. That’s the lowest rate in the country and below the federal baseline of $7.25.
Richardson said some employers are paying people an annual salary that puts them in poverty. Raising the state minimum wage to just $10 an hour would benefit more than 18,000 Wyoming residents, the report found.
“[It] at least gives us a base, like a minimum base for what we can be doing for our neighbors and friends in Wyoming,” Richardson said.
But Wyoming is not alone. Another study released earlier this year by Oxfam America calculated the percentage of all workers (including part-time individuals and those under 18) that make under $15 an hour.
In the Mountain West, only Colorado had a lower percentage than Wyoming of people earning less than $15 an hour. New Mexico, Nevada, Montana and Idaho all fared much worse, while Utah and Arizona were at similar levels.
These trends are occurring as inequality also continues to grow. The top one percent of families earn 21 percent of the income in the U.S., according to the Economic Policy Institute. Ultra-wealthy Teton County, Wyo., is the most unequal county in the country.
Some federal lawmakers have tried to raise minimum wages in recent years, but opponents argue it could worsen unemployment and hurt small businesses. A bill that would have raised the Cowboy State’s minimum wage to $15 an hour failed in the state legislature last year.
This story was produced by the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration between Wyoming Public Media, Nevada Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio in Idaho, KUNR in Nevada, the O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West in Montana, KUNC in Colorado, KUNM in New Mexico, with support from affiliate stations across the region. Funding for the Mountain West News Bureau is provided in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Tuscaloosa probation officer arrested for 'sexual conduct' with parolee
A probation officer in Tuscaloosa is behind bars after allegedly engaging in 'sexual conduct' with a person on probation or parole, according to the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit.
Capt. Jack Kennedy said the TVCU, which often investigates law enforcement officers alleged to have committed crimes, was requested by the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Parole to investigate a probation officer assigned to the Tuscaloosa field office.
The officer, 31-year-old Jeremy Damon Hall, is accused of engaging in sexual conduct with a parolee and was charged with custodial sexual misconduct. His bond is set at $10,000.
Hall was terminated by the Bureau of Pardons and Parole for his alleged actions. According to Code of Alabama 14-11-31, "alleged consent is not a defense to this crime."
"It is of vital importance that people have trust in their criminal justice system," Kennedy said in a news release.
Kennedy said any other people supervised by Hall who may have been "approached, propositioned, threatened, coerced or otherwise convinced into engaging in sexual conduct" while he was in his role as a probation officer is requested to contact the Violent Crimes Unit at 205-464-8690.
The Special Investigations Unit (Internal Affairs) of the Bureau of Pardons and Parole worked alongside TVCU investigators in this case. | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/tuscaloosa-probation-officer-arrested-sexual-conduct-parolee/40884985 | 2022-08-12T23:16:05Z | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/tuscaloosa-probation-officer-arrested-sexual-conduct-parolee/40884985 | false |
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Barbara McQuade, professor at University of Michigan Law School and a former U.S. attorney, about the unsealing of former President Donald Trump's search warrant.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Barbara McQuade, professor at University of Michigan Law School and a former U.S. attorney, about the unsealing of former President Donald Trump's search warrant.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister said Friday that “huge amounts of chemical waste” were probably dumped intentionally into the Oder River, which runs along the border with Germany, causing environmental damage so severe it will take the river years to recover.
Tons of dead fish have been seen floating or washed ashore on the Oder’s banks over the past two weeks but the issue only erupted into a major scandal late this week.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, whose government is under pressure for its handling of what appears to be a major environmental catastrophe, vowed that Polish authorities would hold the perpetrators to account.
“Huge amounts of chemical waste were probably dumped in the Oder River with full awareness of the risks and consequences,” he said in a video on Facebook. “We will not let this matter go. We will not rest until the guilty are severely punished.”
German media have reported that the poison is mercury, although this has not been officially confirmed.
Investigations are underway to determine the cause of the mass fish die-off. Huge numbers of dead fish were first spotted near the southwestern Polish town of Olawa in late July, along with dead animals such as beavers.
Przemyslaw Daca, head of Polish Waters, the national water management authority, said Thursday that 10 tons of dead fish have been removed from the river.
“This shows that we are dealing with a gigantic and outrageous ecological catastrophe,” he said at a news conference near the river where officials faced angry residents.
Meanwhile, German officials complained that Poland failed to honor an international treaty by not notifying them immediately about the possible contamination of the river. A boat captain first alerted German authorities about the dead fish on Aug. 9.
“We know that the chain of reporting that’s envisaged for such cases didn’t work,” Christopher Stolzenberg, a spokesperson for Germany’s Federal Environment Ministry, told reporters in Berlin.
Stolzenberg said German authorities were in contact with their Polish counterparts to get further information about the situation and to provide any assistance requested.
Poland has deployed soldiers to help clean up the Oder and an association of fishermen in Zielona Gora, a city in western Poland, said Friday it was suspending fishing in the river due to the contamination.
According to Morawiecki, the scale of the pollution is so large that it may take years for the river ecosystem to recover.
Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak announced Thursday that soldiers and reservists were being deployed to help remove pollutants from the river, which is known as the Oder in German and the Odra in Polish and Czech. It flows north for hundreds of miles from the Oder Mountains of Czechia and empties into the Baltic Sea.
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Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed.
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US actress Anne Heche died after her life support was turned off, a week after her fiery car crash in Los Angeles, the Daily Mail reported on Friday.
US actress Anne Heche dies after being pulled off life support
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI recovered “top secret” and even more sensitive documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to court papers released Friday after a federal judge unsealed the warrant that authorized the sudden, unprecedented search this week.
A property receipt unsealed by the court shows FBI agents took 11 sets of classified records from the estate during a search on Monday.
The seized records include some marked not only top secret but also “sensitive compartmented information,” a special category meant to protect the nation’s most important secrets that if revealed publicly could cause “exceptionally grave” damage to U.S. interests. The court records did not provide specific details about information the documents might contain.
The warrant says federal agents were investigating potential violations of three different federal laws, including one that governs gathering, transmitting or losing defense information under the Espionage Act. The other statutes address the concealment, mutilation or removal of records and the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations.
The property receipt also shows federal agents collected other potential presidential records, including the order pardoning Trump ally Roger Stone, a “leatherbound box of documents,” and information about the “President of France.” A binder of photos, a handwritten note, “miscellaneous secret documents” and “miscellaneous confidential documents” were also seized in the search.
Trump’s attorney, Christina Bobb, who was present at Mar-a-Lago when the agents conducted the search, signed two property receipts — one that was two pages long and another that is a single page.
In a statement earlier Friday, Trump claimed that the documents seized by agents were “all declassified,” and argued that he would have turned them over if the Justice Department had asked.
While incumbent presidents generally have the power to declassify information, that authority lapses as soon as they leave office and it was not clear if the documents in question have ever been declassified. And even an incumbent’s powers to declassify may be limited regarding secrets dealing with nuclear weapons programs, covert operations and operatives, and some data shared with allies.
Trump kept possession of the documents despite multiple requests from agencies, including the National Archives, to turn over presidential records in accordance with federal law.
The Mar-a-Lago search warrant served Monday was part of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into the discovery of classified White House records recovered from Trump’s home earlier this year. The Archives had asked the department to investigate after saying 15 boxes of records it retrieved from the estate included classified records.
It remains unclear whether the Justice Department moved forward with the warrant simply as a means to retrieve the records or as part of a wider criminal investigation or attempt to prosecute the former president. Multiple federal laws govern the handling of classified information, with both criminal and civil penalties, as well as presidential records.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, the same judge who signed off on the search warrant, unsealed the warrant and property receipt Friday at the request of the Justice Department after Attorney General Merrick Garland declared there was “substantial public interest in this matter,” and Trump said he backed the warrant’s “immediate” release. The Justice Department told the judge Friday afternoon that Trump’s lawyers did not object to the proposal to make it public.
In messages posted on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote, “Not only will I not oppose the release of documents … I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents.”
The Justice Department’s request was striking because such warrants traditionally remain sealed during a pending investigation. But the department appeared to recognize that its silence since the search had created a vacuum for bitter verbal attacks by Trump and his allies, and felt that the public was entitled to the FBI’s side about what prompted Monday’s action at the former president’s home.
“The public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing,” said a motion filed in federal court in Florida on Thursday.
The information was released as( Trump prepares for another run for the White House. During his 2016 campaign, he pointed frequently to an FBI investigation into his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, over whether she mishandled classified information.
To obtain a search warrant, federal authorities must prove to a judge that probable cause exists to believe that a crime was committed. Garland said he personally approved the warrant, a decision he said the department did not take lightly given that standard practice where possible is to select less intrusive tactics than a search of one’s home.
In this case, according to a person familiar with the matter, there was substantial engagement with Trump and his representatives prior to the search warrant, including a subpoena for records and a visit to Mar-a-Lago a couple of months ago by FBI and Justice Department officials to assess how the documents were stored. The person was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
FBI and Justice Department policy cautions against discussing ongoing investigations, both to protect the integrity of the inquiries and to avoid unfairly maligning someone who is being scrutinized but winds up ultimately not being charged. That’s especially true in the case of search warrants, where supporting court papers are routinely kept secret as the investigation proceeds.
In this case, though, Garland cited the fact that Trump himself had provided the first public confirmation of the FBI search, “as is his right.” The Justice Department, in its new filing, also said that disclosing information about it now would not harm the court’s functions.
The Justice Department under Garland has been leery of public statements about politically charged investigations, or of confirming to what extent it might be investigating Trump as part of a broader probe into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The department has tried to avoid being seen as injecting itself into presidential politics, as happened in 2016 when then-FBI Director James Comey made an unusual public statement announcing that the FBI would not be recommending criminal charges against Clinton regarding her handling of email — and when he spoke up again just over a week before the election to notify Congress that the probe was being effectively reopened because of the discovery of new emails.
The attorney general also condemned verbal attacks on FBI and Justice Department personnel over the search. Some Republican allies of Trump have called for the FBI to be defunded. Large numbers of Trump supporters have called for the warrant to be released hoping they it will show that Trump was unfairly targeted.
“I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked,” Garland said of federal law enforcement agents, calling them “dedicated, patriotic public servants.”
Earlier Thursday, an armed man wearing body armor tried to breach a security screening area at an FBI field office in Ohio, then fled and was later killed after a standoff with law enforcement. A law enforcement official briefed on the matter identified the man as Ricky Shiffer and said he is believed to have been in Washington in the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol and may have been there on the day it took place.
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Associated Press writers Lindsay Whitehurst and Meg Kinnard contributed to this report.
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Bill Allows Medicare to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices and Caps Out-of-Pocket Spending on Medications for Seniors
NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier today the House voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a bill that includes several key provisions to lower the prices of prescription drugs. AARP New York thanks Representatives Tom Suozzi (NY3), Kathleen Rice (NY4), Gregory Meeks (NY5), Grace Meng (NY6), Nydia Velazquez (NY7), Hakeem Jeffries (NY8), Yvette Clarke (NY9), Jerry Nadler (NY10), Carolyn Maloney (NY12), Adriano Espaillat (NY13), Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (NY14), Ritchie Torres (NY15), Jamaal Bowman (NY16), Mondaire Jones (NY17), Sean Patrick Maloney (NY18), Paul Tonko (NY20), Joe Morelle (NY25) and Brian Higgins (NY26) for supporting this critical legislation that will bring real relief for seniors. The bill now goes to President Biden for his signature.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes key AARP priorities that will go a long way to lower drug prices and out-of-pocket costs. AARP fought for provisions in the bill that will:
- Finally allow Medicare to negotiate the price of drugs
- Cap annual out-of-pocket prescription drug costs in Medicare Part D ($2,000 in 2025)
- Hold drug companies accountable when they increase drug prices faster than the rate of inflation, and
- Cap co-pays for insulin to no more than $35 per month in Medicare Part D.
Jo Ann Jenkins, AARP Chief Executive Officer, issued a statement reacting to the House vote:
"Today is a momentous day for older Americans. By passing the Inflation Reduction Act, Congress has made good on decades of promises to lower the price of prescription drugs. Seniors should never have to choose between paying for needed medicine or other necessities like food or rent, and tens of millions of adults in Medicare drug plans will soon have peace of mind knowing their out-of-pocket expenses are limited every year.
"Many people said this couldn't be done, but AARP isn't afraid of a hard fight. We kept up the pressure, and now, for the first time, Medicare will be able to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices, saving seniors money on their medications.
"I thank the House members whose votes today will bring real relief to millions of Americans, and I look forward to President Biden signing this bill into law."
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