text stringlengths 46 525k | url stringlengths 24 420 | crawl_date timestamp[us, tz=UTC]date 2022-04-01 00:01:42 2022-09-25 07:27:13 | id stringlengths 24 420 | label bool 2 classes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rail union: Plan for contract deal doesn’t address concerns
By JOSH FUNK
AP Business Writer
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The head of the nation’s largest railroad union says recommendations designed to help resolve stalled contract talks with freight railroads may not satisfy workers. Union leadership says that’s because the recommendations don’t do enough to address concerns about working conditions, even though they suggest 24% raises. The railroads indicated earlier this week that they were ready to hammer out a deal based on the recommendations of the board President Joe Biden appointed. But Thursday’s first comments from union leadership suggest that the 115,000 workers they represent may not be ready to sign off. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/08/18/rail-union-plan-for-contract-deal-doesnt-address-concerns/ | 2022-08-19T00:31:28Z | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/08/18/rail-union-plan-for-contract-deal-doesnt-address-concerns/ | true |
What wig?! Cardi B took a break from the wigs and sew-ins to reveal her natural tresses on TikTok, and her hair is literally sweeping her derriere.
Cardi B’s natural hair will shock you. To the tunes of “3 Little Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf” by Jools TV, the rapper showed off her natural, voluptuous mane in a white crop top, black athletic shorts, and designer slides. She does a subtle twirl so that you can see the front, side, and back of her bushy hair, then she shakes it. The video cuts to the “Up” artist in a white lace-up top and white joggers showcasing a fresh silk press with a side part.
To show off her new ‘do, Cardi runs her claw-like, pink nails over her jet-black hair. She turns around and gathers her hair up in her hands to reveal that there were no tracks in sight. The Grammy award-winner captioned her TikTok video, “I beem using secret vegetable water on my hair….can you guess which vegetable is it? …heres a clue,I did a tutorial on it about 6 years ago.” Of course, her comments went crazy with answers, but the main ingredient that kept popping up was avocado. One follower pleaded with the rapper to cash in on her hair secret.
“She definitely should start her own hair company called Barty growth.” wrote the user. And we agree. Cardi, please let the world in on your haircare routine because your natural hair is banging!
DON’T MISS…
Cardi B Shuts Down The Wireless Festival In A Custom Bodysuit
5 Times Cardi B Was Our Style Goals
Cardi B Reveals The Cover Art For Her New Single And It’s Fire!
Cardi B Shows Off Her Natural Hair On TikTok And Our Girl Has Inchessssss was originally published on hellobeautiful.com | https://hot1009.com/3399705/cardi-b-natural-hair-tiktok/ | 2022-08-19T00:31:40Z | https://hot1009.com/3399705/cardi-b-natural-hair-tiktok/ | true |
The luxury market and the high-profile brands captured within it face a new generation of shoppers. These buyers are exiting a years-long pandemic and face red hot inflation with an unclear end. They are expected to continue to curb spending on "aspirational" purchases, favoring frugality.
As Forbes reported in May, the personal luxury market has faced a roller coaster of challenges and successes in recent years. The market saw a worldwide high of $307 billion in 2019 sales. It was then hit by an unprecedented pandemic, watching COVID-19 lockdowns and other unforeseen factors cause the sector to plunge an incredible 22% during the pandemic's height in 2020. The year after that, astonishingly, it was back to supporting luxury brands, with most people settling into their work-from-home lives, shopping online while saving on takeaway lunches, and commuting costs associated with office life.
The industry saw a rebound last year, reaching $309 billion, Bain reported. But, as industry leaders look at the longer outlook, that could all have been a fluke.
For Gen Z, faced with a future of student loans, possible sustained inflation, and unattainable purchasing power, for many, amid fast-rising home prices and interest rates that could maintain their highs: The prospect of buying a $700 t-shirt as a sign of success is becoming evermore unlikely.
The luxury sector is worried about these financially stretched Gen Z consumers, and how they will sell those "aspirational" products to them, Reuters reported.
Kenneth Chow, director of consulting firm Oliver Wyman, said, “In the U.S., inflation is a big problem, the focus of many luxury companies…in China, it’s youth unemployment that’s alarming right now.”
Internationally, government data over the summer signaled a concerning outlook, with the unemployment rate among Chinese city dwellers aged 16-24 at an astonishing record 19.9%. And if global sales for luxury brands are affected, that could most certainly mean domestic worries for all international labels.
Claudia D’Arpizio, a partner with Bain, said, “There’s this young group of consumers entering the market that requires a lot of creativity at more affordable prices.”
In 2021, a call held by speakers for the Business of Fashion noted that Gen Z is expected to account for 40 percent of the international luxury goods market by 2035.
By a Bain and Company estimate, millennials and Gen Z will hold 130 percent of the purchasing power in the sector, controlling that chuck of its market growth from 2021 until 2025. | https://www.wsfltv.com/news/national/gen-z-buying-habits-are-radically-transforming-the-luxury-industry | 2022-08-19T00:35:04Z | https://www.wsfltv.com/news/national/gen-z-buying-habits-are-radically-transforming-the-luxury-industry | true |
A federal judge in Tennessee has ordered Starbucks to offer to reinstate seven fired baristas following a union organizing drive at a store in Memphis.
The employees, referred to as the Memphis Seven, were fired following an in-store media interview about the store's organizing efforts earlier this year. Starbucks said this violated company policy, but the union, Starbucks Workers United, claims this was all in retaliation for the union drive.
Officials with the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency responsible for enforcing U.S. labor laws, viewed this as retaliation as well and brought the coffee giant to court.
U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman on Thursday agreed, saying Starbucks failed to prove that it enforced similar company policies elsewhere and in similar situations.
Lipman said in her order that the NLRB "provides evidence consistent with the theory that Starbucks discriminatorily applied its policies to the Memphis Seven when terminating them."
Starbucks has to offer those workers their jobs back within five days, Lipman ordered. The company also must expunge those employees' disciplinary actions and cease and desist from any other anti-union practices.
Starbucks said in a statement Thursday that it plans to appeal this decision and request a stay of the order pending appeal.
"We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling in this case. These individuals violated numerous policies and failed to maintain a secure work environment and safety standards," the company said. "Interest in a union does not exempt partners from following policies that are in place to protect partners, our customers and the communities we serve."
The Memphis Starbucks employees voted for union representation by Workers United earlier this summer and the NLRB certified this election on June 15.
Starbucks has fought against efforts to unionize its stores. Earlier this month, the retail giant accused NLRB employees of coordinating with union organizers during an election in Overland Park, Kansas, earlier this year.
The first Starbucks union was formed in Buffalo, New York, a year ago, launching what has since become a nationwide organizing campaign in the country's largest coffee chain.
The NLRB claimed in court in June that Starbucks unlawfully fired seven other employees at shops in Buffalo and engaged in illegal anti-union activities to dissuade workers from organizing.
Starbucks Workers United says more than 200 of the company's stores in the U.S. are now unionized.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/news-from-npr/2022-08-18/starbucks-must-rehire-7-memphis-employees-that-supported-a-union-a-judge-says | 2022-08-19T00:35:38Z | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/news-from-npr/2022-08-18/starbucks-must-rehire-7-memphis-employees-that-supported-a-union-a-judge-says | true |
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate
NEW YORK (AP) — Take my chard, please!
The season has come when many home gardeners, their numbers booming since the pandemic began, are being rewarded with fully matured, ready-to-pick vegetables and flowers. It’s also vacation season, and this summer travel is back.
How do you maintain your garden and take advantage of all that homegrown goodness during extended trips away? Even experienced gardeners can end up with more tomatoes, beans and zucchini than they’d expected come late summer.
Garden sitters are one answer.
Some home gardeners hire professionals, while many just rely on neighbors and hope for the best.
“It’s really hard to leave the garden,” said Theresa Fiumano-Rhatigan, a longtime home gardener in Brooklyn. She relies on her parents and other nearby relatives as garden sitters during her five weeks each summer in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. “Nobody does it quite like I do.”
Having an experienced sitter who isn't afraid to take control can help. Avoid a free-for-all of inexperienced neighbors and friends traipsing through to pick what they want with no care given to the plants and no idea when to water.
“The first thing is to find one friend with a garden you like and make sure you’re willing to return the favor," said Adam Choper, associate director for outdoor gardens and sustainable horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.
He suggests walking your garden sitter through the process beforehand to make sure things are done just right. Setting up sprinklers or soaker hoses will make things easier while you're away. For container gardens, group the containers together in the shade so your plants won't dry out as quickly if your vacation is just a week or two, Choper said. Some gardeners place containers in kiddy pools with water that a garden sitter need only fill up if necessary.
Choper also recommends putting down mulch before heading out for long periods. That helps the soil conserve water and keeps weeds at bay.
For gardeners without trusted neighbors or loved ones, garden sitters for hire are abundant on local online message boards or at nurseries and horticultural societies.
Rachel Mulkerin tends to about 3,000 square feet of garden space on her 9-acre property in Sherman, Connecticut, and has hired special needs helpers she found through her mother, a former adult education teacher.
“It's a wildly mutually beneficial arrangement,” she said.
Mulkerin uses about half of what she produces for herself and her family and gives away the rest to those in need in her community.
Through time, gardens have offered a sense of safety and comfort, so entrusting them to others can be difficult, said Ambra Edwards, a gardening historian and co-author of “The Story of Gardening.”
Edwards, who gardens herself in England's rural Dorset, considers holiday a reprieve from the toil, but she knows a lot of manic gardeners who can't tear themselves away.
“I’ve got one friend in particular and she has to travel a lot. She travels the length and breadth of the country. And when she does, she takes all her vegetable plants, all her sweet peas and a particular myrtle in a pot that she got from a very dear friend, now deceased, and loads them in the car. They go with her. She’s the snail carrying a house," Edwards said.
Gardeners, generally speaking, are sharers, and sharing vegetables while away not only produces more after picking, but also avoids rotting tomatoes and other crops.
“Rotten tomatoes will cause other tomatoes to rot, and they're also really smelly,” Choper said.
Some vegetables, like cucumbers and zucchini, need to be picked so they don’t grow into monsters that aren’t as pleasant to eat.
A designated garden sitter can take what they want and leave the rest on a front porch or at the end of a driveway after putting out the word of free fresh food.
Heather Grabin in Hampton, New Jersey, has 10 garden plots on her 40-acre property. She also owns a cafe in a city an hour away that doesn't have access to much fresh produce. She uses her vegetables and herbs at her restaurant, and sells some of her excess there at low cost.
Grabin had to delay a three-week trip to California this year because of a new school schedule for her two kids. By the time she and her family left, her tomatoes and zucchini were abundant. With such an overwhelming amount, she went the hired garden sitter route.
“It’s different when you’re doing it yourself versus when you have to ask someone else to do it for you,” she said. “He's been flash freezing everything. It's a lot.”
Doug Guttenberg and his wife, Tal, grow herbs in their backyard and vegetables in a community garden plot just a few minutes from their Brooklyn home. They also own a house in Detroit and spend a month in Michigan every summer. They entrust their Brooklyn plants to a neighbor, a fellow gardener, and know firsthand what happens without a sitter after choosing to forgo one last year.
“When we came back, the cucumbers had attacked everything,” Tal said. “It was like this tornado of cucumbers. It was a bit crazy, and they didn’t even fruit. I mean, no cucumbers came of it.”
___
Follow Leanne Italie on Twitter at http://twitter.com/litalie | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/For-hire-or-food-garden-sitters-save-the-day-17381677.php | 2022-08-19T00:40:55Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/For-hire-or-food-garden-sitters-save-the-day-17381677.php | true |
As anticlimaxes go, the indictment of Freddy Geas and Paul DeCologero for the murder of South Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger ranks up there on the all-time list.
Bulger’s body was barely cold by the time law enforcement sources were telling us that Geas and DeCologero were the chief suspects in the murder of the Boston gangster at the Hazelton federal penitentiary in West Virginia in 2018. A third inmate was charged with conspiracy.
A video surveillance camera captured them going into Bulger’s cell right after all the cell doors in the general population opened for the morning, shortly before Bulger’s battered body was found. Sherlock Holmes wasn’t needed on this one.
Advertisement
So, you might ask, what took almost four years for the feds to charge Bulger’s fellow inmates with his murder?
That’s a good question. So is this: Why was Bulger’s irreversibly declining medical condition suddenly and inexplicably upgraded so he could be transferred from a prison in Florida to the one in West Virginia?
Here’s another one: Why would the US Bureau of Prisons take an 89-year-old gangster from Massachusetts, who gave information about the Mafia to the FBI, and put him in the general population with somebody like Geas, a gangster from Massachusetts who was doing a life sentence for killing people at the Mafia’s behest?
The first question is probably the easiest to answer. The feds are notoriously slow when it comes to prison murders. The suspects are usually not going anywhere, though in this case the third man charged, Sean McKinnon, 36, Geas’s cellmate, had been released. He was charged with conspiracy in the murder but not with taking part in the attack.
Still, the foot-dragging in this case gave rise to suspicion that the feds were putting off this day of reckoning as long as possible because there’s simply no way the Bureau of Prisons is going to come out of this looking anything but incompetent, reckless, criminally negligent, or a combination of all three.
Advertisement
The second question, about prison officials fiddling with Bulger’s medical records to grease his transfer, could prove embarrassing, or worse, for the BOP. The evidence to date suggests Bulger had proved to be a pain in the neck for staff at the Florida prison, so they cooked the medical books and made him somebody else’s problem.
The third question — why Bulger, elderly, infirm, and confined to a wheelchair, was thrown in with sharks like Geas and DeCologero — is probably the most significant one that could be answered at trial.
Bulger, who murdered and profited obscenely from the drugs that poisoned his South Boston neighborhood even as he and his enablers claimed he was a benevolent gangster who protected Southie, lived a charmed life of crime precisely because he was an FBI informant.
And Geas had a particular reason to hate informants. He is doing life because of one.
Geas is Greek, so he could not be inducted into the Mafia. But the Mafia in western Massachusetts coveted him as a hitman and had him do their dirty work. When they all got arrested, Geas’s Mafia boss became a government witness, testifying against him. Geas, who believed in the Mafia code of omerta even as his Mafia goombahs made a mockery of it, turned down offers of leniency in exchange for becoming a government witness.
Advertisement
Geas also held Bulger responsible for framing a friend of his for murder.
Put it this way: The absolute last person the Bureau of Prisons should have put Whitey Bulger anywhere near was Freddy Geas.
DeCologero, meanwhile, ran with a North Shore organized crime crew that was close to a Mafia faction that would have harbored a deep hatred of Bulger.
Bulger was dead within 12 hours of arriving at Hazelton. He was alive when the cell door closed that night. He was unrecognizable shortly after the cell doors opened automatically the next morning, beaten to death with a padlock.
Charging two fellow gangsters with his murder was the easy part. The hard part is having the integrity and courage to show why Bulger was put in a position to be murdered.
Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at kevin.cullen@globe.com. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/18/metro/charging-fellow-inmates-with-whitey-bulgers-murder-is-easy-part/ | 2022-08-19T00:42:27Z | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/18/metro/charging-fellow-inmates-with-whitey-bulgers-murder-is-easy-part/ | false |
WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
_____
AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
627 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 630 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 630 PM CDT this evening for a
portion of southeast Texas, including the following counties, Brazos
and Grimes.
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern DeWitt
and south central Lavaca Counties through 715 PM CDT...
At 630 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Fordtran, or 11 miles east of Cuero, moving south at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Thomaston.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2912 9686 2906 9694 2910 9698 2887 9731
2919 9715 2914 9685
TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 018DEG 17KT 2907 9710
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.ctpost.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-HOUSTON-GALVESTON-Warnings-Watches-and-17383233.php | 2022-08-19T00:43:14Z | https://www.ctpost.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-HOUSTON-GALVESTON-Warnings-Watches-and-17383233.php | true |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
_____
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
724 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Angelina County through 800 PM CDT...
At 724 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Hudson, or 7 miles west of Lufkin, moving south at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny 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...
Lufkin, Diboll, Hudson, Burke, Clawson and Central.
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.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3123 9486 3126 9490 3128 9488 3130 9490
3132 9490 3134 9491 3134 9495 3135 9496
3138 9495 3139 9496 3141 9496 3144 9476
3124 9467 3120 9486
TIME...MOT...LOC 0023Z 350DEG 6KT 3136 9485
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 730 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 730 PM CDT this evening for a
portion of southeast Texas, including the following counties, Fort
Bend and Harris.
The heavy rain has ended. Please continue to heed remaining road
closures.
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-SHREVEPORT-Warnings-Watches-and-17383318.php | 2022-08-19T00:45:10Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-SHREVEPORT-Warnings-Watches-and-17383318.php | true |
Shares of Ocugen Inc.
OCGN,
-4.12%
shed 4.12% to $2.56 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
+0.23%
rising 0.23% to 4,283.74 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.06%
rising 0.06% to 33,999.04. This was the stock's third consecutive day of losses. Ocugen Inc. closed $15.09 short of its 52-week high ($17.65), which the company achieved on November 3rd.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Adverum Biotechnologies Inc.
ADVM,
remained unchanged, Ocular Therapeutix Inc.
OCUL,
+1.52%
rose 1.52% to $5.35, and Kodiak Sciences Inc.
KOD,
-1.73%
fell 1.73% to $11.39. Trading volume (4.1 M) remained 1.8 million below its 50-day average volume of 5.9 M.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ocugen-inc-stock-falls-thursday-underperforms-market-01660857144-023b6d15b8e0 | 2022-08-19T00:46:42Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ocugen-inc-stock-falls-thursday-underperforms-market-01660857144-023b6d15b8e0 | false |
Shares of Pinnacle West Capital Corp.
PNW,
-0.13%
sank 0.13% to $77.87 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
+0.23%
rising 0.23% to 4,283.74 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.06%
rising 0.06% to 33,999.04. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. Pinnacle West Capital Corp. closed $3.38 below its 52-week high ($81.25), which the company achieved on August 19th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Xcel Energy Inc.
XEL,
+0.08%
rose 0.08% to $76.99, Edison International
EIX,
-0.37%
fell 0.37% to $71.79, and IDACORP Inc.
IDA,
-0.09%
fell 0.09% to $114.96. Trading volume (486,333) remained 348,031 below its 50-day average volume of 834,364.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pinnacle-west-capital-corp-stock-underperforms-thursday-when-compared-to-competitors-01660857362-3e6c0e961e60 | 2022-08-19T00:49:05Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pinnacle-west-capital-corp-stock-underperforms-thursday-when-compared-to-competitors-01660857362-3e6c0e961e60 | false |
Kendall Jenner's award-winning brand adds ultra-premium product to portfolio
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 818 Tequila, the award-winning Tequila brand founded by Kendall Jenner, announced today the launch of Eight Reserve by 818 – an ultra-premium Añejo Reserve that will be available for purchase in September.
The debut of Eight Reserve by 818 marks an expansion for the brand to new consumers. This comes on the heels of the company's first year successes including becoming the best-selling new spirit brand of 2021 in the United States (Source: Nielsen & IRI Total US, Multi Outlet + Convenience). The brand has also won 25 blind tasting awards at eight international spirits competitions.
Developed in the heart of Jalisco, Mexico, the new Eight Reserve liquid is a blend of one-year-old Añejo and extra Añejos as old as eight years which creates a level of complexity, softness and depth rarely experienced in Tequila. The result is an elegant expression that is smooth and rich, made to be enjoyed neat while celebrating life's special moments.
"The launch of Eight Reserve is a milestone moment for the 818 Tequila brand," said Kendall Jenner, Founder of 818 Tequila. "We are constantly looking to innovate and with this new liquid we are building on what makes 818 Blanco, Reposado, and Añejo so beautiful and complex and taking it to the next level. It's been incredible to work alongside our team in Mexico to develop Eight Reserve."
The Eight Reserve bottle is just as special as its liquid. The handmade ceramic decanter is produced by artisans in Pachuca, Mexico, and the eight shape symbolizes this moment in 818's history – an unforgettable shape made for passing hands and infinite tequila enjoyment.
Retailing for $200 SRP and coming in 750mL, Eight Reserve will be rolling out for purchase on September 19 starting in New York, Texas, Florida, Nevada, Illinois and California, with more states launching through the end of the year. Eight Reserve will also be available to order online through alcohol marketplaces including ReserveBar. The bottle is available for pre-order starting today by visiting eightreserve.com.
"Our Eight Reserve Tequila Añejo is a blend that is as harmonious as it is unique," said David Yan González, Director of Tequila Operations at 818 Tequila. "Aged in French and American barrels, the Tequila is a masterful Añejo blend that is wonderfully rich and layered. We're proud to introduce this delicious product."
The launch of Eight Reserve will expand 818 Tequila's consumer base, coming to shelves at a time when Americans are spending more on premium Tequila and Mezcal. According to new data from the IWSR, US Tequila consumption jumped 27% in 2021 and is expected to surpass vodka sales by 2023, making it the US's most-purchased spirit category.
Guests attending the brand's annual 8.18 celebration, hosted at Soho House's Little Beach House Malibu, were among the first to taste the new liquid, joined by Kendall Jenner and her 818 Tequila team.
From its 1% for the Planet giveback to partnering with S.A.C.R.E.D. – a nonprofit that supports Mexican communities where heritage agave spirits are made – and working with local, family-owned businesses in Jalisco, Mexico and sustainable suppliers, 818 Tequila embodies an emerging consumer ethos. For more information, visit www.drink818.com.
Founded by Kendall Jenner, 818 Tequila is an award-winning, hand-crafted tequila brand. Produced using traditional methods in Jalisco, Mexico at a family-owned-and-operated distillery, the brand has won 25 blind tasting awards across eight major industry competitions, including Best Reposado Tequila from the World Tequila Awards, Platinum Award from the SIP Awards, Chairman's Trophy from the Ultimate Spirits Challenge, Triple Gold from the MicroLiquor Spirit Awards, Top 100 Spirits from the Ultimate Spirits Challenge, and Innovation Award from the SIP Awards. Sustainably produced from one hundred percent Weber Blue agaves, 818 Tequila features three variations – a Blanco, Reposado and Añejo. For more information, follow @drink818 on Instagram or visit www.drink818.com.
###
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE 818 Tequila | https://www.wbay.com/prnewswire/2022/08/18/818-tequila-announces-launch-eight-reserve-by-818/ | 2022-08-19T00:52:06Z | https://www.wbay.com/prnewswire/2022/08/18/818-tequila-announces-launch-eight-reserve-by-818/ | true |
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DotLab, a medical diagnostics company, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted three key patents for its technology focused on the diagnosis, assessment, and characterization of endometriosis. Via its clinical studies, DotLab has pioneered medical tests enabled by single-stranded, non-coding RNAs called microRNAs in circulating body fluids such as blood and saliva. The inventions embodied in the portfolio of granted patents – U.S. Patent No. 10,982,282, U.S. Patent No. 11,220,713, and U.S. Patent No. 11,315,660 B2 – also include the company's proprietary machine learning algorithms to detect, predict, diagnose, and monitor the presence or absence of the disease.
The training set for the DotEndo™ machine learning algorithm was developed via DotLab's EMPOWER clinical study, a prospective, observational, multi-center study run at endometriosis centers of excellence across the United States. EMPOWER is the most robust clinical study of its type ever performed, making it an excellent foundation for the commercial test.
"DotLab tackled a holy grail in women's health - endometriosis - which is notorious for its complex biology and the sheer scale of the unmet medical need," said DotLab's CEO Heather Bowerman. "We're proud to share the news of these inventions and intellectual property achievements, which are ultimately a much-needed win for millions of patients."
DotLab's validation study was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the official publication of the American Gynecological & Obstetrical Society, Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and Society of Gynecologic Surgeons.
Dot Laboratories, Inc. ("DotLab") is a female-founded, female-led company solving some of the world's most significant diagnostic challenges via the latest advancements in multiomics and computational biology. The company delivers clinical innovations to areas of significant unmet need. The company is harnessing its expertise with novel, cutting-edge biomarkers and the power of machine learning to deliver non-invasive tests, starting with endometriosis. The company drives a paradigm shift in the identification and management of the disease.
Media Contact: pr@dotlab.com
General Contact: hello@dotlab.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE DotLab | https://www.wbay.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/dotlab-announces-three-granted-patents-its-non-invasive-test-endometriosis-dotendo/ | 2022-08-19T00:52:41Z | https://www.wbay.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/dotlab-announces-three-granted-patents-its-non-invasive-test-endometriosis-dotendo/ | true |
TIANJIN, China, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From August 19 to 20, the first World Vocational and Technical Education Development Conference (https://m.wvtedc.com/m/en-US?_t=ReI) will be held in north China's Tianjin. Centering on the new changes, new approaches and new skills during the development of vocational and technical education in the post-pandemic era, the conference has attracted about 700 delegates from 123 countries.
This conference is sponsored by the Ministry of Education (MOE), the National Commission for UNESCO of China and the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, and undertaken by the Vocational Education Development Center of the MOE, the Open University of China, the China Association for International Exchange of Education, the China Vocational and Technical Education Association and the Tianjin Municipal Education Commission.
During the conference, the first world vocational college skills competition and the cloud expo of the integration of industry and education of world vocational education will be held, and the initiative of preparing for the world vocational and technical education development alliance will be issued, forming a new platform and paradigm for international exchange and cooperation of vocational education that include a variety of forms.
The opening ceremony and the main forum will be held on August 19. Education ministers or ambassadors from 18 countries, representatives of some international organizations, industry organizations, well-known enterprises and vocational colleges will deliver speeches. On August 20, 14 parallel forums will be held, featuring attendance of more than 250 renowned experts and scholars from various countries. The conference will issue the proposal for the establishment of the world vocational and technical education development alliance and the Tianjin Initiative.
View original content:
SOURCE Tianjin Municipal People's Government | https://www.wibw.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/first-world-vocational-technical-education-development-conference-held-north-chinas-tianjin/ | 2022-08-19T00:52:57Z | https://www.wibw.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/first-world-vocational-technical-education-development-conference-held-north-chinas-tianjin/ | true |
WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
_____
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Las Vegas has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
San Bernardino County in southern California...
* Until 730 PM PDT.
* At 421 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain south of Palm Gardens. Flash flooding is expected to
impact US-95 south of the California State Line.
HAZARD...Life-threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms
producing flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life-threatening flash flooding of low-water
crossings, creeks, normally dry washes and roads.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Highway 95 south of the California-Nevada border And I-40.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
In hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are
potentially dangerous in heavy rain. Do not attempt to cross flooded
roads. Find an alternate route.
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LAS-VEGAS-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17383210.php | 2022-08-19T00:56:28Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LAS-VEGAS-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17383210.php | false |
A quadruple amputee who was the first person in Scotland to have a double hand transplant is preparing to travel along the North Coast 500 on a second-hand scooter in a fundraising challenge.
Quadruple amputee Cor Hutton is embarking on the adventure to raise money for the amputees that the charity she founded, Finding Your Feet, supports.
The 52-year-old, from Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, had her hands and lower legs amputated in 2013 after suffering acute pneumonia and sepsis, which nearly killed her.
She was given a 5% chance of survival, before doctors managed to perform life-saving surgery.
Cor Hutton getting some practice before she sets off on her adventure (Andrew Milligan/PA)
The mum-of-one was fitted with prosthetic legs and, after five years of trying to find the right donor to match her own blood group, skin tone and hand size, she successfully underwent pioneering hand transplant surgery in 2019.
Now, with her new hands functioning near enough to 100%, she has decided to hop on a scooter again to take on the 500-mile route.
“I am an old-school biker,” she told PA news agency, “and this will be a way for me to get back into it.”
When asked what egged her on to take on this challenge, she said: “I have a bee in my bonnet about getting on and doing the things that I wanted to do previously and haven’t been able to do.
“I was a biker, and I want to get back on the bike.
“I want to show that I can get my life back.
“I’m also inspired by the donor and her selfless family.
“I promised myself and them that I would live life to the full because to be given these hands is such an incredible gift, and the pain that the family goes through is never far from my thoughts.”
Ms Hutton will be riding an AJS 125cc, while her friend, Mark McLean, will be following her trail “on a much bigger, better bike”.
“I’ve managed to go up to 60mph on this one, once, but that was downhill with a lot of wind behind me,” she laughed.
“So it’s going to be interesting tackling the motorway near Inverness on this wee bike.”
While looking forward to the scenic trip, one of Scotland’s most-visited attractions, the motorbike enthusiast was open about the challenges ahead.
“My doctors tell me that I have 95% functionality in one hand and 75% in the other.
“That sounds great, but it’s still a massive effort for me to keep the muscles engaged for long periods of time.
“On the bike I’ll be working the acceleration, which will involve a lot of twisting the wrist, and the brakes, and the indicators.
“And my prosthetic legs make it quite hard to stay steady on the bike, it’s only wee.”
But her main concern is whether the bike will make it to the end.
“The bike can only go about 40 miles before I need to fill it up,” she said.
“I will need to map out all the petrol stations in the area, I can’t imagine there are that many.
“So I have made things quite difficult for myself, which is certainly not the first time.
“Other bikers on the route will probably tease me about my wee one, but I can’t imagine many of them will be doing the trip without their legs.”
This expedition is only the latest in a list of challenges Ms Hutton has already done, including the London Triathlon and becoming the first female quadruple amputee to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
In a message to the other people with disabilities ahead of her challenge, she said: “There’s so much you can do if you push yourself.
“I want to show people you can get up and do the things you want to do.”
The North Coast 500 route goes around the north coast, starting and ending in Inverness.
Ms Hutton, who received her third honorary doctorate this year, will be setting off from her charity’s premises in Paisley on August 22 and plans to complete the road trip in seven days.
The trip comes ahead of sepsis awareness month in September and World Sepsis Day on September 13.
Finding Your Feet provides vital support to people who have lost limbs.
The charity was founded by Ms Hutton one year after she lost her hands and legs, and provides fitness classes, emotional support, and opportunities to amputees in Scotland.
To donate to Ms Hutton’s cause, visit https://findingyourfeet.net/cors-nc500/ | https://www.indy100.com/news/scots-mum-who-had-double-hand-transplant-to-take-on-north-coast-500 | 2022-08-19T00:58:41Z | https://www.indy100.com/news/scots-mum-who-had-double-hand-transplant-to-take-on-north-coast-500 | false |
WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Two planes collided in Northern California while trying to land at a local airport Thursday and at least two of the three occupants were killed, officials said.
The planes crashed at Watsonville Municipal Airport shortly before 3 p.m., according to a tweet from the city of Watsonville. The city-owned airport does not have a control tower to direct aircraft landing and taking off.
There were two people aboard a twin-engine Cessna 340 and only the pilot aboard a single-engine Cessna 152 during the crash, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Officials say multiple fatalities were reported but it was not immediately clear whether anyone survived.
The pilots were on their final approaches to the airport before the collision, the FAA said in a statement. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board, which did not immediately have additional details, are investigating the crash.
No one on the ground was injured. The airport has four runways and is home to more than 300 aircraft, according to its website. It handles more than 55,000 operations a year and is used often for recreational planes and agriculture businesses.
Watsonville, near the Monterey Bay, is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of San Francisco.
Photos and videos posted on social media showed the wreckage of one small plane in a grassy field by the airport. One picture showed a plume of smoke visible from a street near the airport.
A photo from the city of Watsonville showed damage to a small building at the airport, with firefighters on the scene.
The planes were about 200 feet (61 meters) in the air when they crashed, a witness told the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Franky Herrera was driving past the airport when he saw the twin-engine plane bank hard to the right and hit the wing of the smaller aircraft, which “just spiraled down and crashed” near the edge of the airfield and not far from homes, he told the newspaper.
The twin-engine aircraft kept flying but “it was struggling,” Herrera said, and then he saw flames at the other side of the airport.
The manager of the Watsonville Municipal Airport was unavailable for a phone interview in the hours after the crash. The airport accounts for about 40% of all general aviation activities in the Monterey Bay area, according to the City of Watsonville’s website.
The Watsonville Police Department referred calls to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office, where a dispatcher had no information.
Two other pilots also were hurt in aircraft crashes elsewhere in California on Thursday.
A 65-year-old San Diego man received injuries that were major but not life-threatening when his single-engine plane crashed on a street near a busy freeway overpass in El Cajon, authorities said.
The plane reportedly struck an SUV but nobody on the ground was hurt in the city nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of downtown San Diego.
Later, the pilot of an ultralight aircraft was critically injured when it crashed upside down on a building at the Camarillo Airport in Ventura County, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) from downtown Los Angeles.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/ap-top-news/2022/08/18/officials-at-least-2-die-after-planes-collide-in-california | 2022-08-19T01:00:50Z | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/ap-top-news/2022/08/18/officials-at-least-2-die-after-planes-collide-in-california | true |
TIANJIN, China, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From August 19 to 20, the first World Vocational and Technical Education Development Conference (https://m.wvtedc.com/m/en-US?_t=ReI) will be held in north China's Tianjin. Centering on the new changes, new approaches and new skills during the development of vocational and technical education in the post-pandemic era, the conference has attracted about 700 delegates from 123 countries.
This conference is sponsored by the Ministry of Education (MOE), the National Commission for UNESCO of China and the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, and undertaken by the Vocational Education Development Center of the MOE, the Open University of China, the China Association for International Exchange of Education, the China Vocational and Technical Education Association and the Tianjin Municipal Education Commission.
During the conference, the first world vocational college skills competition and the cloud expo of the integration of industry and education of world vocational education will be held, and the initiative of preparing for the world vocational and technical education development alliance will be issued, forming a new platform and paradigm for international exchange and cooperation of vocational education that include a variety of forms.
The opening ceremony and the main forum will be held on August 19. Education ministers or ambassadors from 18 countries, representatives of some international organizations, industry organizations, well-known enterprises and vocational colleges will deliver speeches. On August 20, 14 parallel forums will be held, featuring attendance of more than 250 renowned experts and scholars from various countries. The conference will issue the proposal for the establishment of the world vocational and technical education development alliance and the Tianjin Initiative.
View original content:
SOURCE Tianjin Municipal People's Government | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/first-world-vocational-technical-education-development-conference-held-north-chinas-tianjin/ | 2022-08-19T01:06:13Z | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/first-world-vocational-technical-education-development-conference-held-north-chinas-tianjin/ | false |
You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. | https://sportspyder.com/mlb/arizona-diamondbacks/articles/40449330 | 2022-08-19T01:08:40Z | https://sportspyder.com/mlb/arizona-diamondbacks/articles/40449330 | false |
Americans are losing hope in the FBI following the aftermath of the agency’s raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
According to a Rasmussen Report poll, 53 percent of Americans see President Joe Biden as the FBI’s personal mole rat, while 44 percent U.S. voters say they trust the FBI less after Trump’s Florida home was targeted.
Prior to the attack on Mar-a-Lago, 50 percent of Americans had a favorable outlook on the FBI, however 46 percent now say view the agency negatively.
Additionally, the poll asked the group what they thought of Trump’s former advisor Roger Stone’s statement saying that there is “a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI … as Joe Biden‘s personal Gestapo.”
A whopping 53 percent agreed with Stone’s claims, which is up from the 46 percent it was previously in December.
The poll suggests that Americans no longer view the FBI for what it should be. Regardless of political party, the FBI’s power should be used to go after people based on crimes they have committed, not just because one party wants a political figure out of the picture.
In a tweet, Rasmussen Reports said that based on their new polling the lack of transparency on the Biden administration’s part will hurt their chances in November for the midterm elections and cause distrust towards Democrats.
Democrats on the other hand, have a strong approval of the FBI with 63 percent believe the Left- loving agents do their job as they lawfully should.
Shocker, right?
The White House is sticking to its story on how they had no clue Attorney General Merrick Garland signed off on the Trump raid. This is only adding to the nation’s problem of not being able to trust our government. | https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2022/08/18/majority-of-americans-view-fbi-as-bidens-personal-gestapo-n2611980 | 2022-08-19T01:09:06Z | https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2022/08/18/majority-of-americans-view-fbi-as-bidens-personal-gestapo-n2611980 | false |
Border Patrol: Woman crossing border attempts to smuggle meth, fentanyl in laundry basket
EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Texas found more than just dirty clothes when they investigated a basket of laundry making its way across the border.
The officers were working at the Paso Del Norte border crossing in El Paso on Aug. 13 when they encountered a 26-year-old female U.S. citizen. They said she was crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S in a vehicle.
The officers stopped the woman and conducted a secondary inspection of the vehicle, which included screening by a K-9 officer and an X-ray inspection. This search led the officers to the discovery of multiple bundles inside a basket of laundry containing 4.27 pounds of methamphetamine and .71 pounds of fentanyl.
In a release, CBP El Paso Port Director Ray Provencio said people attempting to smuggle drugs in baskets of laundry was “out of the ordinary.”
“A seizure like this serves as a reminder that smugglers will use any and all means available in their attempts to introduce contraband into the United States,” he said.
CBP seized the drugs and the vehicle and turned the driver over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for charges connected to the failed smuggling attempt.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wymt.com/2022/08/19/border-patrol-woman-crossing-border-attempts-smuggle-meth-fentanyl-laundry-basket/ | 2022-08-19T01:09:10Z | https://www.wymt.com/2022/08/19/border-patrol-woman-crossing-border-attempts-smuggle-meth-fentanyl-laundry-basket/ | true |
James "Whitey" Bulger: Three men charged in mob boss murder
- Published
Three men have been charged over the prison killing of infamous Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.
The 89-year-old Bulger was discovered unresponsive in October 2018 at a maximum-security facility in West Virginia.
Fotios Geas, 55, Paul J DeCologero, 48 and Sean McKinnon, 36, were all charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, the Justice Department said.
Bulger was captured in California in 2011 after a 16-year manhunt.
He was serving two life sentences for 11 murders when he was beaten to death, on the same day that he was transferred to the Hazelton penitentiary in West Virginia, which houses 1,385 inmates.
The US justice department announced the charges against the three men on Thursday.
Federal prosecutors accuse Geas and DeCologero of striking Bulger in the head multiple times, causing his death.
They have also both been charged with aiding and abetting first-degree murder, along with assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
Geas, believed to have been a Mafia hitman, faces an additional charge for murder by a federal inmate serving a life sentence, while McKinnon has been charged with making false statements to a federal agent.
All three were held at the Hazelton penitentiary at the time of the killing, though only Geas remains there.
McKinnon was on federal supervised release at the time of the indictment and was arrested in Florida.
Bulger, the former leader of South Boston's Winter Hill gang, inspired the film Black Mass featuring Johnny Depp, and The Departed, which won the Academy Award for best picture in 2007.
Raised in Boston's Irish-Catholic South Boston neighbourhood, he became involved with The Shamrocks gang as a young man, starting off by stealing cars and soon escalating to robbing banks.
While heading the Irish-American Winter Hill mob from the early 1970s until the mid-1980s he lived a double life as a prized FBI informant, feeding the bureau information about rival criminals.
The US government eventually paid more than $20m (£16.8m) in damages to his victims on the grounds he had committed his murders while under government supervision.
During his criminal career, he also attempted to provide weapons to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Northern Ireland.
- 30 October 2018
- 30 October 2018 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62600194 | 2022-08-19T01:11:30Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62600194 | true |
A federal judge in Tennessee has ordered Starbucks to offer to reinstate seven fired baristas following a union organizing drive at a store in Memphis.
The employees, referred to as the Memphis Seven, were fired following an in-store media interview about the store's organizing efforts earlier this year. Starbucks said this violated company policy, but the union, Starbucks Workers United, claims this was all in retaliation for the union drive.
Officials with the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency responsible for enforcing U.S. labor laws, viewed this as retaliation as well and brought the coffee giant to court.
U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman on Thursday agreed, saying Starbucks failed to prove that it enforced similar company policies elsewhere and in similar situations.
Lipman said in her order that the NLRB "provides evidence consistent with the theory that Starbucks discriminatorily applied its policies to the Memphis Seven when terminating them."
Starbucks has to offer those workers their jobs back within five days, Lipman ordered. The company also must expunge those employees' disciplinary actions and cease and desist from any other anti-union practices.
Starbucks said in a statement Thursday that it plans to appeal this decision and request a stay of the order pending appeal.
"We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling in this case. These individuals violated numerous policies and failed to maintain a secure work environment and safety standards," the company said. "Interest in a union does not exempt partners from following policies that are in place to protect partners, our customers and the communities we serve."
The Memphis Starbucks employees voted for union representation by Workers United earlier this summer and the NLRB certified this election on June 15.
Starbucks has fought against efforts to unionize its stores. Earlier this month, the retail giant accused NLRB employees of coordinating with union organizers during an election in Overland Park, Kansas, earlier this year.
The first Starbucks union was formed in Buffalo, New York, a year ago, launching what has since become a nationwide organizing campaign in the country's largest coffee chain.
The NLRB claimed in court in June that Starbucks unlawfully fired seven other employees at shops in Buffalo and engaged in illegal anti-union activities to dissuade workers from organizing.
Starbucks Workers United says more than 200 of the company's stores in the U.S. are now unionized.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kcbx.org/npr-top-news/2022-08-18/starbucks-must-rehire-7-memphis-employees-that-supported-a-union-a-judge-says | 2022-08-19T01:13:16Z | https://www.kcbx.org/npr-top-news/2022-08-18/starbucks-must-rehire-7-memphis-employees-that-supported-a-union-a-judge-says | false |
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Hill International, Inc. ("Hill" or the "Company") (NYSE: HIL), in connection with the proposed merger of the Company with Global Infrastructure Solutions Inc. via tender offer. Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Company's shareholders will receive $2.85 in cash for each share of Hill common stock owned. The transaction is valued at approximately $173 million.
If you own Hill shares and wish to discuss this investigation or have any questions concerning this notice or your rights or interests, visit our website:
https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/hil
Or please contact:
Joshua Rubin, Esq.
Weiss Law
305 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10007
(212) 682-3025
(888) 593-4771
stockinfo@weisslawllp.com
Weiss Law is investigating whether (i) Hill's board of directors acted in the best interests of Company shareholders in agreeing to the proposed transaction, (ii) the $2.85 per-share merger consideration adequately compensates Hill's shareholders, and (iii) all information regarding the sales process and valuation of the transaction will be fully and fairly disclosed.
Weiss Law has litigated hundreds of stockholder class and derivative actions for violations of corporate and fiduciary duties. We have recovered over a billion dollars for defrauded clients and obtained important corporate governance relief in many of these cases. If you have information or would like legal advice concerning possible corporate wrongdoing (including insider trading, waste of corporate assets, accounting fraud, or materially misleading information), consumer fraud (including false advertising, defective products, or other deceptive business practices), or anti-trust violations, please email us at stockinfo@weisslawllp.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Weiss Law | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/shareholder-alert-weiss-law-investigates-hill-international-inc/ | 2022-08-19T01:13:30Z | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/shareholder-alert-weiss-law-investigates-hill-international-inc/ | true |
LONDON — A familiar face was hired to become the seventh head coach in the history of the North Laurel football program after former coach Chris Larkey’s resignation last winter.
Former Whitley County and South Laurel football coach Jason Chappell was hired to lead North Laurel, and he’s ready to get things started.
Chappell’s most recent head coaching stint was at Pineville, leading them to an 8-4 record this past fall while reaching the second round of the Class A playoffs.
He takes over a talented team that posted an 8-4 mark last season while reaching the Class 5A playoffs.
“I have high expectations for every team I coach,” Chappell said. “Lots of key players from last year’s team return and people close to every program expect you to win every year. Just the way it is with coaching.
“I think we have to worry about having a great week of practice next week,” he added. “We cannot control what anyone thinks about us. We have to prepare the best that we know how, each and every day.”
Chappell feels like he and his coaching staff have built a good relationship with their players since taking over.
“Respect and trust are things that don’t just happen because you want them to,” he said. “Generally, those things take time to build. I feel like our players have done anything and everything that I have asked them to do thus far. I’m looking forward to building on our relationships throughout the season.”
When it comes to offense, the Jaguars are looking to pick up where they left off last season.
Defensively, Chappell feels his squad will be strong once again.
“Offensively, we will be very similar to what they did last season,” he said. “Coach PJ Warren, who was the offensive coordinator last season, and I have spent a lot of time together to merge some of the things that were good to them and some of the things my teams have been good at. Defensively, North has always been very good so I hope we look very similar to how they looked a year ago.
“We have a good bunch of kids,” he added. “They come to work with almost a chip on their shoulder. I think they want to be really, really good.”
Chappell returns five starters on offense, which includes junior quarterback Tucker Warren.
“Obviously, Tucker Warren is very special,” Chappell said. “I’ve been blessed to coach some good quarterbacks, and he is right at the top of the list. “I actually told Ricky Bowling the other day that I thought Tucker might be better than he was.
“Gabe Claybrook at left tackle is also an outstanding player,” he added. “He has prototypical size and footspeed for a Division I tackle.”
The defense returns seven starters, including Austin Johnson, who led the state in sacks last season as a sophomore.
“The two that jump off the page at you are Austin Johnson at defensive end, and Jack Chappell at outside linebacker. Both are dynamic, both are rangy, and both can play in space,” Chappell said. “Other game changers are Clay Morris at defensive tackles, Treyshawn Holmes Evans at line backer, and John Begley at defensive back.
“We have a dedicated special teams coordinator, and we probably allocate around 35 to 40 minutes of every practice to special teams,” he added. “This is an area where we have to play well. Collier Mills is our kicker, Gabe Claybrook is our long snapper and John Begley is our punter.”
Chappell said physical size and strength are just some of the strengths his team had.
“Solid quarterback play, overall team defense, and team speed on defense are the other,” he added. “The biggest concern I have is overall depth. We have some spots where we have good depth and other sports where we are razor thin,” Chappell said. “So we have to really be in great shape, do a great job in our strength and conditioning program and do everything in our power to stay as healthy as possible.”
Another hard schedule will test the Jaguars right out of the gate.
“Our schedule is very difficult. Honestly, I was left with an open date and had to fill it,” Chappell said. “I do think adding Boyle County as a scrimmage opponent, and having Johnson Central as a regular season opponent, will certainly help us grow as a team.”
The big question is, can North Laurel make a run at the district crown this season.
“I think our district is extremely competitive,” Chappell admitted. I’m not certain where we fit, I just know that the goal is to win it. I have great respect for PC and PSW as they have been really good for years. Furthermore, I believe all the teams in our district will be really well coached. I think the winner of our district will be a top fine team in class 5A.
“I really love this team,” he added. “I Love their work ethic, love their attitude and really love how they play. I’m excited to see what we are able to do in 2022.” | https://www.sentinel-echo.com/sports/football-preview-new-jaguar-coach-jason-chappell-ready-to-get-season-started/article_1c8645f8-1a75-11ed-991d-1f629759fd43.html | 2022-08-19T01:14:22Z | https://www.sentinel-echo.com/sports/football-preview-new-jaguar-coach-jason-chappell-ready-to-get-season-started/article_1c8645f8-1a75-11ed-991d-1f629759fd43.html | false |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
7-2-3
(seven, two, three)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
7-2-3
(seven, two, three) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-game-17383253.php | 2022-08-19T01:17:46Z | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-game-17383253.php | true |
The luxury market and the high-profile brands captured within it face a new generation of shoppers. These buyers are exiting a years-long pandemic and face red hot inflation with an unclear end. They are expected to continue to curb spending on "aspirational" purchases, favoring frugality.
As Forbes reported in May, the personal luxury market has faced a roller coaster of challenges and successes in recent years. The market saw a worldwide high of $307 billion in 2019 sales. It was then hit by an unprecedented pandemic, watching COVID-19 lockdowns and other unforeseen factors cause the sector to plunge an incredible 22% during the pandemic's height in 2020. The year after that, astonishingly, it was back to supporting luxury brands, with most people settling into their work-from-home lives, shopping online while saving on takeaway lunches, and commuting costs associated with office life.
The industry saw a rebound last year, reaching $309 billion, Bain reported. But, as industry leaders look at the longer outlook, that could all have been a fluke.
For Gen Z, faced with a future of student loans, possible sustained inflation, and unattainable purchasing power, for many, amid fast-rising home prices and interest rates that could maintain their highs: The prospect of buying a $700 t-shirt as a sign of success is becoming evermore unlikely.
The luxury sector is worried about these financially stretched Gen Z consumers, and how they will sell those "aspirational" products to them, Reuters reported.
Kenneth Chow, director of consulting firm Oliver Wyman, said, “In the U.S., inflation is a big problem, the focus of many luxury companies…in China, it’s youth unemployment that’s alarming right now.”
Internationally, government data over the summer signaled a concerning outlook, with the unemployment rate among Chinese city dwellers aged 16-24 at an astonishing record 19.9%. And if global sales for luxury brands are affected, that could most certainly mean domestic worries for all international labels.
Claudia D’Arpizio, a partner with Bain, said, “There’s this young group of consumers entering the market that requires a lot of creativity at more affordable prices.”
In 2021, a call held by speakers for the Business of Fashion noted that Gen Z is expected to account for 40 percent of the international luxury goods market by 2035.
By a Bain and Company estimate, millennials and Gen Z will hold 130 percent of the purchasing power in the sector, controlling that chuck of its market growth from 2021 until 2025. | https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/gen-z-buying-habits-are-radically-transforming-the-luxury-industry | 2022-08-19T01:17:48Z | https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/gen-z-buying-habits-are-radically-transforming-the-luxury-industry | false |
Anita Rao
If you needed to get an abortion tomorrow, where would you go? We asked y'all that question on social media, and the majority of you said Planned Parenthood. The other largest cohort said, "I don't know." Honestly, when I turn the question on myself, "I don't know" is the first thing that came to my mind. I know that my health care plan only covers abortions in very limited circumstances. I know that, at least in this moment, I have legal access to an abortion in my state until partway through the second trimester. But for answers to all the other questions about how much it would cost, what it would be like or how to recover, I'd probably turn to Google. That is until I learned about the work of the people we're all about to meet today.
This is Embodied, I'm Anita Rao.
Abortion doulas are educators, guides and companions. And they've been at this work since long before the reversal of Roe v. Wade. They work independently, in collectives or as part of clinics to make sure people get the emotional, physical and logistical support they need — from driving to a clinic and paying for the procedure, to returning home and any questions that may arise during the after care process.
KáLyn Banks Coghill
Abortion doula work is liberation work. We act as almost like a liaison for those that are experiencing abortion. And we show up for them in ways to act as a support system for them.
Anita Rao
That's KáLyn Banks Coghill. They volunteer as an abortion doula with a Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project or RRFP in Virginia. KáLyn is also a writer, organizer, educator and doctoral student at Virginia Commonwealth University.
KáLyn Banks Coghill
I identify as a Black nonbinary disabled queer femme, and because of that, I have always been very interested in the ways in which I am protected as a Black person. And when I became an abortion doula, one of the main things I wanted to focus on is how can I protect a potential client, whether that be from protesters outside to just the protection of having someone to confide in when you're experiencing this extreme transition in your life.
Anita Rao
KáLyn is an expert in the practical aspects of abortion doula care, including providing transportation, childcare, meals and lodging. If you were to reach out for support through KáLyn's organization, you'd get assigned to someone like them as a point person after one or two other steps.
KáLyn Banks Coghill
We have intake coordinators who are staffed with RRFP. Twice a week, they open up the phone lines for people to be able to call, and then they assign volunteers to call the people back to see how much that the organization will need to pledge in order to help them pay for their abortion. They also discuss with them any travel arrangements or childcare needs or practical support needs. After that, they contact the abortion doulas and volunteers and they let us know something along the lines of like: Client A has an appointment at this clinic on this date at this time. Would anyone be able to pick them up and take them back to their hotel or back to their home? And then once someone confirms, you get put into a private chat where you actually get the name of the person that you'll be assisting and their phone number, and then you move forward with reaching out to them on your own.
Anita Rao
So what does that look like from a relationship-building point of view? You don't have a lot of time sometimes to make that personal connection with someone who you're going to support, but you're about to be helping them through this really intimate experience. So tell me a bit about how you build that connection.
KáLyn Banks Coghill
Simply just introduce yourself. And a lot of people are very receptive to abortion doulas because they know that we are acting as a buffer between them and all of the horrible things that people think about abortion. So when you are introducing yourself to a potential client, you want to just make sure they understand that you are here to serve them, like this work is for them, this work is not for you. So you have to make sure that when you introduce yourself that you are kind and you are compassionate, and that when you are riding with them in your car, that you're having conversations with them that are not always focused or centered around the fact that they're going to have an abortion. Sometimes people, like clients I've had in the past — they just want to talk about what's going on on television. They want to talk about what movies we've seen recently. Sometimes they do want to talk about abortion, sometimes they don't. And then there's also times where they just want to be silent, and you have to respect that as well.
Anita Rao
That type of deep listening and personalized care can make a world of difference in a high stress moment, as we heard from some of our listeners.
Amanda
I got an abortion for an unwanted pregnancy in the early 2000s. Afterwards, I remember there were volunteers who helped take care of me and the other patients that day. And I remember one of them, going with me into the bathroom and helping me change the giant pad that they gave me, because I was so dazed and out of it. It was the best decision I've ever made in my life. But it was still hard. And I wish I had had some kind of support, somebody I could talk to who had been there or who knew what was going on.
Lynn
I encouraged my patients to write themselves a letter and to tell themselves all of the reasons why they had made that decision at that point in time. And to tuck it away somewhere safe, where if they needed it in the future, they could remind themselves of who they were and where they were in life and why they made this decision. The last pregnancy termination I performed, I was pregnant with my first child, and she was actively kicking while I did the procedure. After that procedure, I decided that I was not going to perform any more elective terminations. But I never, ever stopped thinking that there should be safe and legal options.
Anita Rao
Those were listeners Amanda and Lynn. Abortion doula collectives and support organizations have existed formally and informally for a long time. And they'll be the first to tell you that abortion access was already in a dire place before the overturn of Roe. As of a 2017 report from the Guttmacher Institute, nearly 90% of U.S. counties had no clinic providing abortions. In the past month, KáLyn and their colleagues have had to make shifts to respond to increasing demand. Their phone lines, open now twice a week, used to be open just twice a month.
KáLyn Banks Coghill
We've had so many more people who need services since Roe v. Wade. I personally have had a couple of clients who have traveled from the Deep South here to Virginia in order to get their abortions. I've provided childcare for clients who have had to travel with their children for days just to be able to get abortion care, and to experience having that reproductive autonomy, they would have to come to Virginia. And during my abortion doula training, one thing that one of the trainers said is that Virginia is seen somewhat as a safe haven for those who want to have abortions. So we've always had people travel to Virginia, even before the overturn of Roe v. Wade. But recently, since the overturn, we've had an influx of people coming, especially from the Deep South here to get their abortions.
Anita Rao
So you mentioned a couple of things that are unique for people who are coming from states farther away. But I'd love to get a little bit more into those and how you all can and can't help support the needs of people who are coming in from out of state.
KáLyn Banks Coghill
Yeah, so because we are a local reproductive justice organization and abortion fund, fundraising and our fundraisers are how we fund abortions, right? So we've gotten an influx of funds from people ever since Roe v. Wade was overturned. But when I was the fundraising and sustainability coordinator for two years for the organization, it was very difficult, especially during the pandemic, to raise money because a lot of people were dealing with financial insecurities. And that plays a big role in how we're able to assist people who are traveling, right, because not only do they need help with getting here, they also need help with lodging, right. But also they need help with food, like some people have to use their money to travel, so they don't have money for food. So we have to be able to provide that for them as well, which can also be a barrier. Because we are a small organization, we have to be very unique with how we do things and a lot of times the abortion doulas and the volunteers, we will cook food for people, deliver it to their hotels for them. We stand in as childcare. I've sat inside of a Planned Parenthood while someone was getting their abortion to watch their child for them. We have to really get creative with the work that we're doing because of these barriers that we're experiencing.
Anita Rao
But at the end of the day, there is limited capacity, right? There's a limited amount of funds, there are a limited amount of people. So what do you do when you all run out of capacity to help? Are there other places that you're able to direct people, especially those coming from farther away?
KáLyn Banks Coghill
Yes. So we're able to reach out to other funds that are in Virginia. We also have community with funds in the DC area. So, when we need more funds and more pledges, which are just basically donations, we do reach out to those other organizations as well.
Anita Rao
Doulas like KáLyn get training on how abortion affects the body so they can help people know what to expect, whether that be a surgical procedure — or the two-part abortion pill regimen. They are also campaigners against abortion misinformation.
KáLyn Banks Coghill
There's going to be a continuation of a lot of misinformation about abortion care in general. And abortion access is going to be more difficult, right? So when we think about people who have access to abortion, we think about people who are not Black or brown, who are not living in the poorer parts of the United States. We think about people who identify as white cis heterosexual women who have access to money, and they are taking up appointments, right. But I do feel like there's going to be a lot of misinformation around unsafe abortions. And I noticed on Instagram that there have been a lot of activists talking about unsafe abortions, warning people against certain abortion remedies that are just not safe. And I think that a lot of abortion funds and reproductive justice organizations are going to continue to provide educational materials on that, so people can be as safe as possible.
Anita Rao
Yeah, I want to follow up on a couple of threads that you mentioned there. And the first is talking about people who have — who are historically marginalized by the healthcare system — in particular, Black and brown birthing people — and the experience of them kind of coming into a healthcare space to access abortion can be really stressful and challenging. I'm curious about how you help bridge the gap to create a more positive health care experience for those people in particular.
KáLyn Banks Coghill
Yeah, so all the clients that I've ever had have always been people of color. And our volunteer base has people from all different diverse backgrounds. But one thing that I like to do is to make sure that I make them feel as comfortable as possible and that I check my own ego and biases at the door. Because the work that I'm doing is not about myself. It's about the person who's getting the abortion. And I think that most if not all abortion doulas have that same mindset, where it's not about self in that moment — it's about that person.
Anita Rao
Are there way ways that you are encouraging more Black and brown folks to become doulas, to become part of this collective of people supporting people accessing abortions?
KáLyn Banks Coghill
Yes, I'm happy you asked that. I am constantly on my social media, talking about my abortion doula work, talking about how rewarding it is and how it's my heart work. I am constantly reposting podcasts, like Black Feminism Rants that talks about reproductive justice. I am constantly reposting resources and information about abortion doula trainings, because we do need more Black and brown abortion doulas in these spaces.
Anita Rao
One other aspect of inclusivity we need to talk about: language. Abortion has long been labeled as a women's rights issue. But transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people also need access to abortion. How we talk about this as a collective — and what specific language we use — is very much at the forefront of KáLyn's mind.
KáLyn Banks Coghill
So I am a trained linguist, so dialects and language and words are very important to me. And I'm also a writer. So I am a firm believer that words mean things. And when we are talking about people who are getting abortion, we're talking about birthing people, not just women. And I think a lot of people are struggling with that. I noticed when Roe v. Wade was overturned, I got into quite a few heated debates with people that I was even close to about their use of the word "woman" and trying to explain to them that they are not just women getting abortions. And I think it's important for people to use the correct language because when you isolate people through language, it makes them feel even more isolated in a situation where they already feel outcasted. These people are going through a transition that is looked at as evil to some people, and you're not including them in the conversation when you choose to use language that excludes them. I also feel like there's going to be kind of like a stunting of growth within the education for reproductive justice if the language is not changed, and if people are not talking about reproductive justice from a lens that includes all people and not just women.
Anita Rao
Who is part of the conversation on abortion access affects how the future will look. This is true when it comes to gender and also spoken language. KáLyn mentioned that having Spanish speakers and speakers of other languages in the reproductive care network needs to be a priority moving forward for organizations like theirs and for clinics like Planned Parenthood. While Planned Parenthood is one of the most well-known organizations in the abortion care space, and one KáLyn works closely with the encourage people to also get to know and financially support the other players in their area. Whether that's a local doula collective, abortion fund or practical support organization. If you're not sure if you have an organization like that, there are multiple places online to find out. We'll link to some of them in our show notes. Online resources like this are super valuable. But virtual spaces can also be hairy for people doing abortion work. And it takes time and effort to stay safe and keep one's mental health intact.
KáLyn Banks Coghill
As a doctoral student, I study gender-based violence on Twitter. So I know a lot about the different protection methods that people take to protect themselves online if they're being, you know, attacked by trolls. So I make sure that I put those things in place for myself, whether that is blocking people, or making my page private if I have a tweet or something that goes viral that I don't want a lot of attention on. But also, as far as my personal self care, I do a lot of spiritual work. And I also do a lot of poetry writing and journaling. And I'll also make sure that I keep into close contact with my comrades who are also in the reproductive justice space doing this same work, because it's nice to be able to talk to someone who understands what you are experiencing and can provide you with that compassion and care when you just need someone to, you know, talk to you about the type of work that you're doing.
Anita Rao
As you think about moving forward doing this work and inviting others in to be abortion doulas, are there any particular experiences or stories that you reflect on or share to talk about the importance and the value of this work in this moment?
KáLyn Banks Coghill
Yes, so one of my most recent clients, and probably one of my favorite stories so far is they traveled from the Deep South here. It took them days to get here and they needed childcare. And I was willing to do it. And when they came — when they pulled into the Planned Parenthood parking lot, and got out the car, they had their child bring me some roses and a gift card for lunch. And it warmed my heart because I don't expect things from my clients, like I'm doing a service to you. But they were so grateful that we were able to provide them with that child care while they went through this procedure, and that we were able to show up for them in that way. And I love telling that story because I want people to understand that, like I said earlier: abortion doula work is the liberation work. As an abortion doula, we are liberating people by giving them access and community and support for something that can be very hard for them, and a transition that a lot of people do not agree with. And I think that, for me being able to tell that story and just talk about the connections that I've made with some of my clients in the short amount of time of helping them hopefully excites other people to want to become abortion doulas, or even just volunteer for their local abortion fund.
Anita Rao
I've been thinking and reading a lot lately about the future of reproductive health care for obvious reasons. And it certainly makes me feel more at ease knowing that there are people out there building these networks, because one of the themes that seems to be coming up a lot in conversations I'm having is uncertainty.
Deonna
I'm in my 40s and my tubes are tied due to a treatment for a fibroid. So I'm not really worried about pregnancy, but I am at a higher risk for ectopic pregnancy. And being in my 40s, I don't know if I would immediately understand what was happening to me, because I'm edging closer to perimenopause and my cycles are getting a little weird. I fear it could get really complicated if I had to seek treatment for an ectopic pregnancy, because the only treatment is medical or surgical termination. And my understanding is that even in more restrictive states, treating ectopic pregnancies remain legal, but there's a lot of space for confusion because the language is vague, and that potentially puts healthcare workers in a really weird place. I think the past couple months I've just worried that medical care for an array of reproductive health issues is going to be really complicated in this climate in many different situations for anybody with a uterus.
Linden
More than just women and girls need abortions. Transgender men need abortions, gender queer individuals need abortions, intersex individuals need abortions. And we are all valid and face enough discrimination in the health care industry. I myself use an oral contraceptive and without it, I would be in a lot of trouble as it protects me from pain, not just from getting pregnant. I also understand the intersection that access to contraceptives as well as abortion has with race and class. If you don't have access to health care and oftentimes contraceptives, it's easier to get pregnant and therefore require an abortion should you want it. I don't know. I am scared. But at the same time, I am tired of feeling hopeless.
Anita Rao
That was Deonna and Linden. While barriers to abortion access are continuing to increase, some folks like Linden are finding hope in a mobilized younger generation and the number of people working to get educated about reproductive care. One person involved in his education efforts is Raven Freeborn. They are a healing justice practitioner, community educator and full spectrum doula: someone who cares for people in birth, postpartum or abortion.
Raven Freeborn
My journey to full spectrum doula work really began through political activation. I was activated by the death of Erica Garner, who is the daughter of Eric Garner. And we know and have heard of the name of Eric Garner. When we think about our cries around I cannot breathe. Erica Garner, his daughter, responded to his murder with cries of activism. On December 30th, 2017, she died from preventable complications of pregnancy during her postpartum period. And so at that time, I was a birth doula. I had just finished my training as an abortion doula. But I really began to think about all of the outcomes of pregnancy — that includes termination and loss, miscarriage, abortion, adoption and so many others that we often don't name. But my journey really began with some political activation.
Anita Rao
Raven provides trainings for folks looking to become abortion doulas, and their teachings are steeped in the history of reproductive justice and abortion care.
Raven Freeborn
The history of abortion as healthcare really began as abortion as a community organizing measurement of togetherness and a practice within relationships of families and individuals. And so we see that in some of our literature that tells us that churches and clergy members were a part of abortion counseling in the 1960s. When I grew up in the in the reproductive justice movement, and folks raised me up, they used to say, "We know that there is a crisis, there's a concern when we have to go back to the basement of churches." And I really challenged that in my training, because even when we were thinking about organizing ourselves within the basements of churches, we were still losing a critical audience of people who were not welcomed by religious systems, who did not feel safe, or who did not feel that they could be seen in that provision of service.
So it's definitely community organizing, that's a pretty recent reach back into our history. But even further back, I tell folks that abortion has existed as long as pregnancy has existed. So what are the histories of our Southern granny midwives that come out of the Southern Black tradition and raising folks and creating for them practices for reproductive health and whole body health, right? So we can go even into that narrative, and to that lineage and think about who's helped us to maintain these practices within our local communities, because that's where health care was provided, right, is right at the kitchen table for some folks, and then in other places in the basement of the church. So that history is important to us when we're training to see where we've been and how we can take that same spirit, but really expand the reach of abortion as health care for folks.
Anita Rao
That's really helpful context. And I'm curious about how you bring that in to the moment when you are talking to people about being an abortion doula, especially around this concept of criminalization, which which you talk about the history of and then really looking at this moment now when we're criminalizing people who are helping people get abortions, as well as moving to criminalize people who are getting abortions themselves. So talk to me about that and how that factors into the work that you do helping educate people who want to support those getting abortions.
Raven Freeborn
I think that what really makes training for me as an abortion doula training different because I'm a student of justice. When we're in this training space, I bring in some of what I've learned from Mariame Kaba who helps us to understand that criminalization is the process of making an individual criminal by their behavior or their action, but I also talk about their thought processes. We have to deconstruct the stigma around abortion, where folks cannot even approach a choice to make a decision. They don't even feel like they have a choice. When we were thinking about the Roe v. Wade time, we're now in a post-Roe v. Wade world. But prior to that, when we did not have the level of restriction as we do on abortion right now, some folks couldn't even approach that decision from a place of having choice. Criminalization itself is a process where we see someone or something as illegal just by their behavior, action or their thought. And we have to bring that into our abortion work. Because if we're centering a reproductive justice framework, then we're acknowledging that increasing access, not availability, but actual access is our goal, to have safe and sustainable communities.
Anita Rao
So when it comes to that question of access, and whether or not you feel like you have a choice, or you make a choice, and then later you question whether it felt like a choice, it can all be dependent on how you experience the healthcare system, and how people react to you and your body in the healthcare system. And I want to talk about that and medical gaslighting and how you train abortion doulas on medical gaslighting and being able to feel affirmed in these healthcare spaces and feel like people are listening to you and taking your needs seriously so that you can access a range of choices about what you might want to do.
Raven Freeborn
Yes, yes. So witnessing and noticing, those are the two to me most critical tools that you can have in your tool bag. We can do a lot to comfort someone. But when we witness and we notice, we deconstruct what the medical industrial complex does against us in our bodies, and so to witness is to say to someone, "I was a part of that moment where a provider or a nurse or an administrator really dismissed your voice. I witnessed that. Can we correct or repair that in this moment, or would you like to move forward?" And when we're noticing something, we're calling attention to it in a way that is dignified.
So I think it's important that, you know, folks sit with doula itself as a bit of sacred work. And we — I believe that there should be dentists, doulas and tattoo doulas. I think we need doulas for everything, right. But doulaing is a bit of sacred work that is separate and different from advocacy and organizing. And so when we're in those spaces where someone is experiencing loss - they're terminating, they are receiving health care, however they are conceptualizing that moment - to notice is to be a part of increasing their dignity and say "I was a part of that," right, but not to disrupt that healthcare in the moment, if it's the central priority for that person's body.
Anita Rao
When talking with people like Raven and KáLyn who spend so much of their time in direct service of others, I'm always wondering, how do you keep going and keep sustaining yourself in this work? Who's taking care of the carers?
Raven Freeborn
When people are providing any level of care, we have to be really present with our reactions and give our most mindful responses. When we are doing this work, our ability to show up is going to change day by day by day. And so as that ability changes, how you show up to do the work changes as well. Embodiment practices, especially those that are centered in liberation, are really important. They further what folks call self care, I like to say it needs to be self preservation, or even self recognition, the ability to be aware of your reactions, and give the most mindful response that you possibly can. When you are under a level of load on your life that changes your ability to mindfully respond, you have to pause, you have to stop. And you have to then doula yourself, which is a really loving level of work that I think people need to have some tools in their toolkit to be able to do that.
Anita Rao
As we put together this episode, things continue to change each day in the abortion landscape. Voters in Kansas decided to keep abortion legal in their state, and the President signed an executive order on abortion rights. Things are going to continue shifting, likely even between when I'm recording these words and when you will hear them. For Raven, balancing what is known and what is uncertain as a task they are attuning themselves to in this moment.
Raven Freeborn
What I've been talking about with folks is what it looks like to be ungoverned, and some of that really comes from the history of reproductive justice work, where we are moving against and underneath a system that seeks to punish us. And so how do we allow ourselves to be ungovernable? And so I'm going to educate folks, I'm going to provide a level of care and I'm going to shift and pivot my own perspective on this issue to match the urgency of this most critical moment.
So it's no longer an option for me to have conversations with folks who are centering gender as a part of our work to further abortion access. We need to move beyond that. We even need to move beyond the language around abortion is an issue for people with the capacity for pregnancy, right. Abortion is healthcare for people with a uterus. Your capacity for pregnancy is actually not a requirement for me to consider you in access to abortion healthcare, because we know that ectopic pregnancy is a outcome of pregnancy that will then allow you to journey through loss and some level of grief, and some may call that a process of termination. So I'm here for that, right? I'm going to be ungoverned under that.
I'm not going to be restricted by the binary or the rigidity of what you want to hold on to. We're now in a post-Roe world. Roe was the floor. So I'm imagining the ceiling, which is beyond what a government system tells me it should be or what they imagined it could be.
Anita Rao
Embodied is a production of North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC, a listener-supported station. If you want to lend your support to this podcast and WUNC's other shows on demand, consider a contribution at wunc.org now. Incredible storytelling like you hear on Embodied is only possible because of listeners like you.
If you enjoyed the show, please share it, just with one or two friends makes such a difference. This is how this community grows and it means so much.
This episode was produced by Kaia Findlay. Amanda Magnus is our editor. Audrey Smith also produces for our show. Jenni Lawson is our sound engineer and Quilla wrote our theme music. Until next time, I'm Anita Rao taking on the taboo with you. | https://www.wunc.org/2022-08-18/undaunted-podcast-transcript | 2022-08-19T01:18:43Z | https://www.wunc.org/2022-08-18/undaunted-podcast-transcript | true |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
_____
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
648 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Angelina and southwestern San Augustine Counties through 715 PM
CDT...
At 647 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles northwest of Ebenezer, moving south at 10 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.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of southeastern
Angelina and southwestern San Augustine Counties.
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.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
If on or near lower Sam Rayburn, get out of the water and move
indoors or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to
10 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you
are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter
now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 3118 9440 3125 9424 3110 9414 3109 9416
3105 9439
TIME...MOT...LOC 2347Z 343DEG 11KT 3110 9429
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.timesunion.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-SHREVEPORT-Warnings-Watches-and-17383257.php | 2022-08-19T01:34:31Z | https://www.timesunion.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-SHREVEPORT-Warnings-Watches-and-17383257.php | true |
Shares of Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc.
INO,
-0.79%
shed 0.79% to $2.51 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
+0.21%
rising 0.21% to 12,965.34 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.06%
rising 0.06% to 33,999.04. This was the stock's third consecutive day of losses. Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. closed $7.08 below its 52-week high ($9.59), which the company achieved on August 26th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as AbbVie Inc.
ABBV,
-0.11%
fell 0.11% to $141.29, Amgen Inc.
AMGN,
-0.35%
fell 0.35% to $249.70, and AstraZeneca PLC ADR
AZN,
+0.12%
rose 0.12% to $66.50. Trading volume (5.0 M) remained 1.5 million below its 50-day average volume of 6.5 M.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/inovio-pharmaceuticals-inc-stock-falls-thursday-underperforms-market-01660856383-abd46fea2810 | 2022-08-19T01:38:27Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/inovio-pharmaceuticals-inc-stock-falls-thursday-underperforms-market-01660856383-abd46fea2810 | false |
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A Settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit filed against Defendant Anheuser-Busch, LLC regarding Lime-A-Rita® and other Ritas™ Branded Drinks for alleged violations of false advertising laws for allegedly implying that that Ritas™ Brand Products contain certain distilled spirits (such as tequila) and/or wine when they do not. The Defendant denies all allegations and has settled this lawsuit to avoid further litigation. The Court has not decided who is right. If you purchased one or more Ritas™ Brand Products for personal consumption, and not for resale, from January 1, 2018 through July 19, 2022 you are included in the Settlement and may be eligible to receive a partial refund of up to $9.75 without proof of purchase, or $21.75 if you do have proof of your purchases. However, if you want to receive a payment from the Settlement, you must file a claim. To see a list of the Ritas™ Brand Products, or to file a claim, please visit www.RitasSettlement.com.
The deadline to file a claim is December 16, 2022. You can also download a paper claim from the website or by calling the phone number below. If you do not want to be bound by the Settlement you must exclude yourself by November 11, 2022. If you do not exclude yourself, you may object to the Settlement by November 11, 2022. The Court will hold a Final Approval Hearing on December 2, 2022, to determine whether to approve the Settlement as fair, reasonable, and adequate.
This notice is only a short summary of the lawsuit and your rights. Detailed information about the claims in the lawsuit, the Defendants' reply and all of your rights if you are a Class Member is available at www.RitasSettlement.com or by calling toll-free 1-888-905-0657.
Source: United States District Court, Western District of Missouri, Western Division
URL: www.RitasSettlement.com
View original content:
SOURCE United States District Court, Western District of Missouri, Western Division | https://www.kait8.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/if-you-purchased-lime-a-rita-or-other-ritas-branded-drinks-you-may-be-eligible-receive-partial-refund-class-action-settlement/ | 2022-08-19T01:39:56Z | https://www.kait8.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/if-you-purchased-lime-a-rita-or-other-ritas-branded-drinks-you-may-be-eligible-receive-partial-refund-class-action-settlement/ | false |
America’s exit from Afghanistan was going to come eventually. Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump both declared their intentions to extricate the U.S. from its “forever war.” The American public by and large ratified this position.
In the end, though, both former presidents balked when confronted by pushback from the Pentagon. Then, in April 2021, President Joe Biden declared that he was the fourth president to preside over the war in Afghanistan, and refused to “pass this responsibility on to a fifth.”
Unfortunately for Biden, his execution of the withdrawal, which wrapped up at the end of August 2021, was shambolic. Scenes of Kabul International Airport being mobbed by thousands of Afghans desperately fleeing the Taliban only added to the misery.
A single horrific suicide bombing killed more than 100 people, including 13 American soldiers. All 13 were posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
This debacle wasn’t an inevitability, but rather the result of an unnecessarily hasty retreat that felt more politically calculated than methodically thought out. The current administration seemed to make a point of withdrawing American troops by an arbitrary, and much-publicized deadline prior to Sept. 11, which marked the 20th anniversary of the worst act of terrorism in the nation’s history.
The retreat emboldened the Taliban and crushed the morale of the Afghan army, which crumbled with remarkable speed. It was a fitting capstone to have the same regime that America ousted two decades earlier return to power without skipping a beat. The Taliban claimed to be reborn with a more modernized viewpoint, though hardly anyone took such claims seriously.
That skepticism was vindicated when it became clear that the Taliban’s new incarnation was effectively as bad as the original. In May, the Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice issued an order compelling women to to wear clothing from head to toe in public, with only their eyes permitted to be visible. Worst of all, in an about-face that should arouse the international community’s revulsion, young women have been forbidden from attending secondary school beyond the sixth grade.
Education is one of the keys to power, which is why the Taliban cannot tolerate educated women. But it is an especially cruel twist of fate that, after having once been allowed to study openly, the schoolhouse gate is now being closed shut.
Underground schools have emerged for young women who merely want to learn, but this is no substitute for a proper education. Besides, under Taliban rule, it’s dangerous to dream. In 2012, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai was a schoolgirl when she was nearly killed after a Taliban assassination attempt over her pro-education advocacy.
Daywatch
Afghan women who lived through the original Taliban rule are now returned, once more, to a state of powerlessness. For those who came of age during the American occupation, it must be startling to witness how quickly a society can relapse into despotism. After being abandoned by America, a feeling of hopelessness will likely set in.
In 2002, Hamid Karzai, the first president of democratic Afghanistan, attended George W. Bush’s State of the Union address. He was flanked by Dr. Sima Samar, who was the minister of a newly created agency within the Afghan government — the Ministry of Women’s Affairs. Agency officials were around long enough to see millions of Afghan women educated and participating in every professional field the country has to offer.
But, seeing no reason to keep it around, the Taliban disbanded the agency immediately upon reassuming control.
It’s too late for Biden to redo America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan but it isn’t too late to make amends for the abandonment of ordinary Afghans, particularly women.
Speaking before the United Nations in September, the president pledged that the U.S. would hold the Taliban accountable “when it comes to respecting universal human rights.” The Taliban have responded by thumbing their nose at the democratic world.
While the international community dithers, schools for girls that were once a testament to the future hopes of Afghanistan will sit vacant — as empty as a broken promise.
Tyler Michals is a practicing attorney in Chicago. He wrote this for the Chicago Tribune. | https://www.dailypress.com/opinion/vp-ed-column-michals-0819-20220818-p5ih67cwjrdcpa7ulty6qlhgzm-story.html | 2022-08-19T01:40:54Z | https://www.dailypress.com/opinion/vp-ed-column-michals-0819-20220818-p5ih67cwjrdcpa7ulty6qlhgzm-story.html | false |
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.13% as of Aug. 11, according to data released by Freddie Mac on Thursday — down 9 basis points from the previous week. One basis point is equal to one hundredth of a percentage point, or 1% of 1%.
The average rate on the 15-year fixed-rate mortgage fell 4 basis points over the past week to 4.55%. The 5-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage averaged 4.39%, down 4 basis points from the prior week.
The small decline was reflective of new data on inflation, which was flat month-over-month in July. The cost of living is up 8.1% year-over-year.
“Inflation appears to be beyond its peak, which has stopped the rapid increase in mortgage rates that the housing market was experiencing earlier this year,” Sam Khater, chief economist, Freddie Mac said in a statement.
“The market continues to absorb the cumulative impact of the large price and rate increases that led to a plunge in affordability,” he added.
Khater expects purchase demand to continue to drag, and home-price growth to decelerate.
Price growth on existing homes has started to slow, decelerating slightly in July, according to the National Association of Realtors. The median price for an existing home was $403,800 in July.
Home buyers are spooked by the rising prices, higher rates, and recession fears, leading sellers to up incentives in an effort to entice apprehensive prospects.
Builders are calling the current situation a “housing recession,” and new construction of homes has started to fall.
They also expressed gloominess in an August survey, signaling that construction will continue to slow.
Construction on new U.S. homes fell a seasonally adjusted 9.6% in July to 1.45 million, the Commerce Department said Tuesday, the lowest level of starts in July since February 2021.
That slowdown will likely lead to a tightening of supply, which will in turn drive up more demand for rental units and put upward pressure on rents.
Got thoughts on the housing market? Write to MarketWatch reporter Aarthi Swaminathan at aarthi@marketwatch.com | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/plunge-in-affordability-mortgage-rates-dip-slightly-due-to-cooling-inflation-data-but-new-construction-slows-11660834130 | 2022-08-19T01:49:38Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/plunge-in-affordability-mortgage-rates-dip-slightly-due-to-cooling-inflation-data-but-new-construction-slows-11660834130 | true |
You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. | https://sportspyder.com/nhl/nashville-predators/articles/40444640 | 2022-08-19T01:50:41Z | https://sportspyder.com/nhl/nashville-predators/articles/40444640 | false |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles man who opened fire on people at random in 2014, killing five people and wounding seven others, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Alexander Hernandez, 42, from the city's Sylmar neighborhood, was sentenced to multiple consecutive life terms for the rampage.
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office initially sought the death penalty for Hernandez but dropped that request in 2021. After his 2020 election, District Attorney George Gascón issued a policy that in general bars prosecutors from seeking capital punishment.
Authorities said Hernandez attacked people in the city's San Fernando Valley, mainly between March and August 2014. In addition to killing or wounding people, he was charged with opening fire on four people, including two 12-year-old children who were in a car with their parents.
Many victims were shot while in their cars, driving home from work, or heading to church or other activities. One man was killed while standing in a parking lot, another while walking in a Sylmar park, and a teenager was shot in his car and paralyzed after dropping off his girlfriend after their high school prom, authorities said.
Authorities said there was no discernible motive for the attacks. In some of them, Hernandez fired from his own vehicle, emblazoned on the back with stickers of “a white skull” and the numerals “666,″ authorities said.
In others, he stalked victims before opening fire with a shotgun, prosecutors said.
Hernandez pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but withdrew the plea before his trial, which stretched on for years while he remained in custody.
He was convicted last May of five counts of murder with special circumstances, 11 counts of attempted murder and more than a dozen other charges, including animal cruelty and being a felon in illegal possession of a firearm.
Before his murder trial, he pleaded no contest to shooting several dogs, killing two of them. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Los-Angeles-man-sentenced-to-life-for-5-random-17383389.php | 2022-08-19T01:59:27Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Los-Angeles-man-sentenced-to-life-for-5-random-17383389.php | true |
'He had the heart of a lion': Gerard Butler pays tribute to his 'dear friend' Darius Campbell Danesh and his 'unwavering passion for life'
- Gerard Butler revealed how he was 'devastated' at the sudden passing of his 'true brother in arms'
- He offered his thoughts and love to Darius Campbell Danesh's 'wonderful mum and dad' Avril and Booth
- Darius, 41, was found unresponsive in a room inside the Berkman apartments opposite the Mayo Clinic specialist treatment centre in Rochester, Minnesota on August 11
Gerard Butler has written a touching tribute to his 'dear friend' Darius Campbell Danesh.
The actor, known for his portrayal of Spartan king Leonidas in Zack Snyder's hit film 300, revealed how he was 'devastated' at the sudden passing of his 'true brother in arms'.
He offered his thoughts and love to Darius' 'wonderful mum and dad' Avril and Booth, along with his 'two brilliant brothers' Aria and Cyrus.
Darius, 41, was found unresponsive in a room inside the Berkman apartments opposite the Mayo Clinic specialist treatment centre in Rochester, Minnesota on August 11. He had checked in using the name Morgan Brown, a source there said.
Campbell Danesh had become close friends with Butler, his fellow Scot, in recent months, and he was among the last people to be pictured with him before his death.
The pair are believed to have been introduced by pop legend Rod Stewart after the Colourblind singer moved out to America.
Recent photos show Darius and Butler walking barefoot together near Malibu Beach and at the Coachella rock festival last April. In March, they travelled to Glasgow together.
Butler has today paid tribute to his friend, writing: 'To those lucky enough to have met Darius for more than a few minutes, they were deeply moved by his infectious laugh and barely containable zest for life.
Gerard Butler revealed how he was 'devastated' at the sudden passing of his 'true brother in arms' Darius Campbell Danesh
Darius (left) is pictured with Glasgow-based hair stylist Taylor Ferguson (centre) and actor Gerard Butler (right) in March
Actor Gerard Butler goes shoeless while taking a stroll along the Malibu shores with Darius Campbell Danesh
'He was always armed with a smile, a booming voice, and a genuinely warm embrace that few could resist-nor would they want to!!!
'He was an incredible talent, a singer whose voice touched your soul and an actor with great presence. But, most importantly, he had the heart of a lion. It was bigger and brighter than the sun and an energy so contagious he could light up a room in seconds.
'Our boy Darius was always constant and unwavering in his passion for life. But a bigger constant was his dream to inspire others to better themselves. He talked the talk but boy, did he walk the walk.
Butler has today paid tribute to his friend, writing: 'To those lucky enough to have met Darius for more than a few minutes, they were deeply moved by his infectious laugh and barely containable zest for life'
'He had such purity of thought, a deep wisdom and constant gratitude for people, for life, a compassion towards all. His hilarious self-deprecating sense of humor (he was funny as shit) allowed him to stay humble - something he valued deeply.
'Darius' undying commitment to being of service to individuals- his family, his friends (none more so than me) and to the world at large made him the perfect friend. He led by example but he was also a teacher, as he pushed those he loved to be the best possible versions of themselves.
'The universe unfolds in ways we may not agree with or even understand. Somewhere in there I believe there is, or will be, some meaning in why he left us so early. If it was nothing more than teaching us to live with that open heart, putting others first and never taking ourselves too seriously as we learn to traverse this wonky world we live in then, that might be enough.
'But something tells me there will be way more waves created by our boy Darius further down the line. My heart aches heavily. But going forward, I will beat my drum louder and celebrate life and its every beautiful moment because my brother showed me that was a pretty awesome way to go about it.'
It comes after former beauty queen Claire Caudwell, 53, revealed that she had an 18-month 'on-off relationship' with tragic Darius Campbell Danesh and has been left devastated by his sudden death.
The former partner of phones4U founder John Caudwell has spoken of her romance with the star and praised him as 'a wonderful human being'.
She said that she had an 'on-off relationship' for around 18 months with the singer and theatre star who was found dead aged 41 in a hotel apartment in the United States last Thursday.
But in an exclusive interview with MailOnline, she revealed that they stayed 'fantastic friends' after they split up about three-years-ago.
Claire said she had been left 'heartbroken' by the news of his death, and had no idea about him having suffering any problems or personal issues.
Former beauty queen Claire Caudwell, 53, had an 'on-off relationship' for around 18 months with the tragic singer and theatre star, pictured together, who was found dead aged 41 in a hotel apartment in the United States last Thursday
The glamorous socialite told her 28,000 followers on Instagram of her sadness on Wednesday, posting a tribute to him, pictured
The glamorous socialite told her 28,000 followers on Instagram of her sadness on Wednesday, saying: 'This post is done with the heaviest hearts right now as I've heard the news today as one of my most treasured friends has suddenly passed.
'I'm beyond shocked and saddened and my love and deepest condolences go to his wonderful family. I'm sure my love, you're singing to the angels.'
In a sentence, studded with heart and broken-heart emojis, she added: 'You were my angel. Darius my love.'
Claire who lives with her 18-year-old son Jacobi from her relationship with philanthropist Caudwell told MailOnline: 'I am completely heartbroken and feel like I have lost one of my dearest friends. I loved him dearly and my heart goes out to his family, his wonderful parents and brothers.'
Claire, pictured with ex-partner Caudwell, says she is heartbroken after the death of Darius last week
Claire started dating Scottish star Darius in around 2018 soon after his final split from his Canadian actress wife Natasha Henstridge. Pictured: Darius and Claire in one of her social media posts
Darius, pictured in one of her social media posts, first met Claire in around 2004. He supported events for the Caudwell Children charity founded by her former partner
Claire started dating Scottish star Darius in around 2018 soon after his final split from his Canadian actress wife Natasha Henstridge. But she first met him around 14 years earlier when he supported events for the Caudwell Children charity, founded by her former partner, after he shot to fame on TV talent shows Popstars and Pop Idol in 2001.
The singer became friendly with Claire and her then partner Caudwell, even visiting his mother Beryl and singing songs at her bedside including Nessun Dorma and Nat King Cole's Smile, after she became housebound by a stroke.
Claire said: 'We first met about 18-years-ago when he came out of Pop Idol and he was doing the celebrity circuit. He came to our Caudwell Children charity ball as a guest to support us back then.
'There were a couple of other charitable things we saw him at over the next couple of years.
'I didn't see him after that for 10 years or more because he moved to America when he married Natasha. He was doing well there, and I never saw him.
Darius had serenaded John Caudwell's mother several times before her death, and was pictured with her in photographs on Claire's social media
Claire, pictured with Darius, said their relationship was on and off when it started because he was touring with a show for a few months so they got together as and when
She said that she spent around 18 months together with Darius, pictured together, on and off
'Then about four or five years ago, I was taking my mother to see the show Funny Girl which he was touring in.
'He came to my local theatre in Stoke-on-Trent. I saw on TV, probably Loose Women, that he was in the show, and I was already taking my mother.
'I thought, 'Oh, gosh', and it inspired me to contact him, to see if we could say 'Hi' at the end of the show or something like that.
'I did manage to contact him, and he was delighted to hear from me, and said, 'Why don't we have dinner before the show?', so we did with my mum, my sister and a couple of friends,
'We had an early dinner, and then he performed, and he came to see us again after the show, bringing flowers for my mum which was lovely.
'He was touring, so I didn't see him for about a month more, but then we just went out for dinner again.'
Describing how the relationship started, she said: 'It was pretty much on and off because he was touring with the show for the next few months, so we got together as and when.
Claire explained that Darius was travelling around a lot while she was at home with her son. She said she decided it was best for them to stay friends and they remained friends
'I went to join him on a couple of the shows and then he went to LA, so I didn't see him for a little while longer, but then I went over to LA. It was a bit hit and miss, and on off, although always with a friendship.'
Claire released a string of personal photographs to MailOnline showing them enjoying time together, and even sharing a hot tub in the snow during a ski holiday in Vail, Colorado.
But she added: 'Ultimately with his career, and me being at home with my son, it wasn't ideal because I couldn't be jumping around going all over the place. Summer was approaching, and obviously I was hoping to spend some time with him, but he had commitments all over the place.
'He was doing so much work, and I just decided it was best that we stayed friends. There was no drama or fall out. It just seemed to make sense, and we remained friends.
'I wanted to have a partner who could spend more time with me. We must have spent about 18 months together on or off.
Darius was great friends with Claire and John. He spent time with them and sang at the funeral of John's mother
'So ultimately we stopped seeing each other in a romantic way, but we remained fantastic friends.'
Her relationship with Darius led to him forging a even closer friendship with her ex-partner Caudwell who described the singer after his death as 'a vibrant young man' who was 'amazingly kind and amazingly talented'.
Darius even flew back to the UK in April to sing what Caudwell described as a 'a spine-tingling' rendition of Hallelujah at the funeral of his mother after she died aged 98.
Claire said: 'That was when we last spent time together. He came over especially for the funeral of John's mum, but he stayed at my home for a few days.
She insisted that he showed no sign of any personal problems during his visit, saying: 'He was perfect and spot on. He was just the same him - absolutely perfect.'
Claire even released the last picture of them together, larking around at her home in Staffordshire during his stay in April.
Claire and Darius at the annual fundraiser for Caudwell Children, at Grosvenor House, London in 2018
Darius escorted Claire to charity events and parties even when she was alone and single. She described him as a 'perfect gentleman'
Talking of their continuing friendship, she said: 'Even when I was alone and single, he would escort me to charity events, parties and all sorts as my plus one for the want of a better word. He was always a perfect gentleman.
'I Face-Timed him last in May. That was the last time I saw his face. He became extremely good friends with John, and did a lot with him and the charity. He was also very good with my son.
'John was with me when we first got to know him through the charity. So John knew him anyway, but their friendship deepened as a result of me being with him.
'John and I are extremely close still and have a very good relationship. I will go to his events and parties. So as a result of me being with Darius, he came along to events and parties that John was having, and they got closer.
'He came over especially to sing for John's mum at her funeral. It was amazing of him. All of my friends loved him. He was just an overall wonderful human being.'
Claire said she still had no idea how Darius had died in his apartment hotel room in Rochester, Minnesota, opposite St Mary's May Clinic Hospital, a care facility specialising in cancer, cardiology and heart surgery.
She said: 'I am still waiting to hear myself. We haven't heard any finer detail which I am sure the family will get to now first. I am sure we will find out at some point.'
Claire said she is heartbroken after the death of Darius and paid tribute to him online. She said she loved him dearly
The star was booked into the hotel where he died under the name of his close friend Gerard Butler's girlfriend, MailOnline revealed - as it emerged the Hollywood star visited him in the days before his death.
A source at the Berkman apartments told The Sun they saw Butler around 'a few times', adding: 'I think he was supporting his friend'.
His death, at the age of 41, was announced by his family on Tuesday, but the cause remains unknown and it is unclear if he was being treated at the medical facility in Rochester, Minnesota.
Local police in Rochester said there were 'no signs of intent or suspicious circumstances' and are awaiting toxicology results which could take up to two months.
Among the last people to be pictured with Darius before his death was actor Gerard Butler (pictured right with his friend in Malibu, California on June 11), who had reportedly travelled to Rochester, Minnesota, in recent months
The singer, 41, was found unresponsive in a room inside the Berkman apartments opposite the Mayo Clinic specialist treatment centre in Rochester, Minnesota on August 11. He had checked in using the name of Butler's girlfriend Morgan Brown (pic), a source there said
The Berkman, seen last night, is billed as Rochester's 'premier address for elegant short term and long-term furnished suites'
It is described as Rochester's 'premier address for elegant short-term and long-term furnished suites and residential living'.
The majority of those who live in the apartment block, which has around 270 long-term rentals and 75 short-term or nightly rentals, either work or are treated at the Mayo Clinic's Saint Mary's Campus.
The medical facility, which opened in 1889, has 70 operating rooms, ten intensive care units and 1,265 beds and specialises in cardiac treatment, transplants, psychiatry, neurosurgery and rehabilitation.
A police spokesman said: 'The investigation into the cause of his death is still pending. There is no known threat to the public.'
A heartbreaking police dispatch call revealed the moment the star was found unresponsive in the apartment block.
Rochester Police Department said it responded to a 'deceased person call' at 11.53am on August 11 at The Berkman, and the Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner's Office identified the person as Darius.
The family of Scots Pop Idol contestant Darius Campbell Danesh could face an agonising two-month wait to find out the cause of his death. Pictured with his ex-wife Natasha Henstridge and her two sons
The West End star was found unresponsive in a US apartment opposite the Mayo Clinic specialist treatment centre (pictured) on August 11. File image
According to reports, a dispatch call was placed when a 'medical' team was requested for a 'possible deceased' person.
Another call was allegedly made minutes later from an operator saying: 'No need for them to respond. We'll be waiting for RPD [Rochester Police Department] to arrive on the scene. We'll secure the residence.'
Darius was thought to have been just weeks away from a reunion tour with his former Pop Idol co-stars, with sources close to him claiming that he had been hugely 'excited' for the homecoming and UK comeback trip.
Stars of the show from across the world, including Queen singer and American Idol winner Adam Lambert, were due to be invited back with Thames TV filming at the Criterion Theatre in London's West End, reported The Sun.
The family of the Scots Pop Idol contestant could face an agonising two-month wait to find out the cause of his death.
Local police in Rochester said there were 'no signs of intent or suspicious circumstances' and are awaiting toxicology results which could take up to two months.
Darius lived in the US and had been in a relationship with Canadian actress Natasha Henstridge.
Pop Idol star Darius Campbell Danesh, pictured in May 2018 at The Ivy Chelsea Garden Annual Summer Party in London
Darius and Gerard Butler with the celebrity hairdresser Taylor Ferguson
The couple married in 2011 at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California, but had since divorced. His former wife wrote in a statement yesterday: 'There are no words Darius… only Love Love Love. Forever Janam.'
A statement from Campbell Danesh's family read: 'It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Darius Campbell Danesh.
'Darius was found unresponsive in bed in his apartment room on August 11 and was pronounced dead in the afternoon by the medical examiners' office.
'The local police department have confirmed that there were no signs of intent or suspicious circumstances. The cause of his sudden death is unknown at this stage while medical examinations continue.
'We ask that you respect our wishes for privacy at this time whilst we come to terms with the tragic loss of our son and brother.'
One of the last pictures of Campbell Danesh in public was on June 11 as he walked a dog with his friend and fellow Scot, the actor Gerard Butler, in Malibu.
He is said to have been weeks away from a reunion tour with his former Pop Idol co-stars which he was hugely 'excited' about.
Darius and Natasha Henstridge at a barbecue at The Project Beach House in Malibu, California, on August 9, 2008
Tributes poured in from across the entertainment world, with Pete Waterman, who first met Campbell Danesh as a judge on Pop Idol, describing him as 'the perfect person'.
'The word gentleman is overused but not in Darius' case,' he told Good Morning Britain yesterday.
'So quiet, so polite, so gentle, I guess he was the perfect person. So gentle. No cross words. He didn't get angry. Darius wanted to do too much. He had too much talent. Darius could have gone on to be bigger than Michael Bublé.'
Simon Cowell, 63, led the tributes to the late singer he first met in 2002 when he finished in third place on Pop Idol.
The music mogul released a statement honouring the star who passed exactly 20 years after he topped the charts with his critically-acclaimed single Colourblind.
Darius famously turned down a record deal from Cowell but the two have remained friendly over the years and reunited at an X Factor party and recording.
It was also revealed that the late star recently visited Simon's home in Malibu for the evening to attend the party and judges' homes filming.
Cowell told MailOnline: 'I first saw Darius on television over 20 years ago and I got to know him really well. He was charismatic, funny and just a great person to be with.
'His passing, for someone so young, is an absolute tragedy and my heart goes out to his family and friends.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11125877/Gerard-Butler-pays-tribute-dear-friend-Darius-Campbell-Danesh.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-19T02:00:05Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11125877/Gerard-Butler-pays-tribute-dear-friend-Darius-Campbell-Danesh.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AXDX) ("Accelerate Diagnostics") today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 17,500,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $2.00 per share. The gross proceeds to Accelerate Diagnostics from the offering, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, are expected to be $35.0 million. In addition, Accelerate Diagnostics has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,625,000 shares of its common stock at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions. Accelerate Diagnostics anticipates using the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes and to fund commercialization efforts. All of the shares are being offered by Accelerate Diagnostics, and the offering is expected to close on or about August 23, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
William Blair & Company, L.L.C. is acting as lead book-running manager for the offering. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. is acting as a book-running manager and Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC is acting as co-manager for the offering.
A shelf registration statement relating to the shares was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on January 27, 2021 and declared effective on February 4, 2021. A preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering were filed with the SEC. A copy of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering, when available, may be obtained from William Blair & Company, L.L.C., Attention: Prospectus Department, 150 North Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606, or by telephone at (800) 621-0687, or by email at prospectus@williamblair.com or by visiting the EDGAR database on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.
Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. is an in vitro diagnostics company dedicated to providing solutions for the global challenges of antimicrobial resistance and sepsis. The Accelerate Pheno® system and Accelerate Arc™ system are designed to reduce the time clinicians must wait to determine the most optimal antibiotic therapy for bacteremic patients. These diagnostic systems are designed to serve clinical laboratories with automated solutions to expedite time to identification and antimicrobial susceptibility test results directly from positive blood culture samples.
The "ACCELERATE DIAGNOSTICS" and "ACCELERATE PHENO" and "ACCELERATE PHENOTEST" and "ACCELERATE ARC" and diamond shaped logos and marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain of the statements made in this press release are forward looking, such as those, among others, relating to Accelerate Diagnostics' expectations regarding the anticipated closing date and its anticipated use of the net proceeds from the offering. Actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected or implied in these forward-looking statements and Accelerate Diagnostics cautions investors not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Factors that may cause such a difference include risks and uncertainties related to completion of the public offering on the anticipated terms or at all, market conditions and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions related to the public offering. More information about the risks and uncertainties faced by Accelerate Diagnostics is contained in the section captioned "Risk Factors" in the preliminary prospectus supplement filed with the SEC and the documents incorporated by reference therein, which include Accelerate Diagnostics' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and Quarterly Reports Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022. Except as required by law, Accelerate Diagnostics disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. | https://www.kbtx.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/accelerate-diagnostics-announces-pricing-public-offering-common-stock/ | 2022-08-19T02:01:30Z | https://www.kbtx.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/accelerate-diagnostics-announces-pricing-public-offering-common-stock/ | true |
Wake up, it's almost time for a new season of The Morning Show.
The highly-anticipated third season of AppleTV+'s The Morning Show has started production, and while details remain scarce about what's in store—Karen Pittman, who plays Mia on the series, recently gave us a little taste of what to expect.
"Well, we start after the pandemic," Pittman exclusively told E! News at the HCA TV Awards Aug. 14. "I think I can safely tease that."
Hey, we'll take what we can get!
Viewers can also look forward to some exciting additions to the star-studded cast, including Mad Men alum Jon Hamm, whose character Paul Marks is described by the streamer as "a corporate titan who sets his sights on UBA, pulling Cory, Alex and Bradley into his powerful orbit."
"He is extraordinary actor," Pittman said about her new co-star. "I'm interested in what he's going to be bringing to the story. I don't yet know what they have in store for Jon. I loved him in Mad Men. I loved him in all of the work he has ever done. Very exciting to have some new characters and there's going to be a lot of a lot more in store. A lot more interesting people are going to be coming on."
As far as what other new tea she could spill, Pittman remained tight lipped.
"I don't want to spoil it for anybody," she said. "I want everyone to be super excited and get on the twists and turns."
We'll find out more when The Morning Show returns for season three in 2023. | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1342682/karen-pittman-teases-what-to-expect-from-the-morning-show-season-3?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-08-19T02:02:03Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1342682/karen-pittman-teases-what-to-expect-from-the-morning-show-season-3?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | true |
Keegan Bradley hasn’t been to the FedEx Cup finale in four years, but he started the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship on Thursday like he was in a hurry to get back.
Bradley matched a career low with a 29 on the front nine at Wilmington (Del.) Country Club and finished with a 7-under-par 64 to take a one-shot lead over Adam Scott.
Bradley is at No. 44 in the FedEx Cup standings and likely needs a top-10 finish — he hasn’t had one since the U.S. Open in June — to be among the 30 players who advance to the Tour Championship in Atlanta to chase the $18 million prize.
He isn’t willing to consider the scenarios until it matters, which is Sunday. Until then, it’s all about trying to win a tournament, just like any week.
“My plan is I’m going to go home and see my kids no matter what on Sunday night,” Bradley said. “I’d love to go to Atlanta. That’s everyone’s goal to start the year.”
Scott started the postseason at No. 77 and tied for fifth in the playoff opener last weekend just to make it to the second stage. Now he’s at No.45, giving him a chance. It also meant being paired with Bradley, and they put on quite a show. They combined for 15 birdies.
“He played beautifully today, and I was really just trying to follow his lead,” Scott said. “He kind of had everything going the way he wanted, and most of the time, he was teeing off first and I was just trying to follow.”
PGA champion Justin Thomas put a different putter in the bag and responded with a 66 to leave him in the group with 2019 British Open champion Shane Lowry and Harold Varner III.
Xander Schauffele and Cal alum Collin Morikawa led the group at 67.
Rory McIlroy was the only player from the afternoon who looked to challenge Bradley, and he was doing just that at 6-under with four holes to play. But then he was between clubs on the par-3 15th, tried to hit a soft cut with a 5-iron and put his tee shot into he water. He took three putts from just short of the green, missing a 3-footer, and made triple-bogey.
McIlroy was in the group at 68 that included Jordan Spieth and Patrick Cantlay, who won the BMW Championship last year on his way to taking the FedEx Cup.
McIlroy was able to accept one bad swing that cost him three shots, especially having missed the cut last week in the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
“Overall, the rest of it was pretty good,” he said. “I knew once I got here last weekend, I knew it was a golf course that was going to suit me better than last week. … Pleased with my game. Disappointed with how I finished, but encouraged with the rest of it.”
Ladies European Tour: Jessica Korda made three eagles in an 11-under 61 that gave her a five-shot lead after the first round of the Aramco Team Series in Sotogrande, Spain.
Korda also added six birdies to go with one bogey to break the course record at La Reserva Club and equal the lowest round in relation to par on the Ladies European Tour.
“I have never made three eagles in a round, so I’m definitely going to remember this one,” Korda said.
Manon De Roey and Pia Babnik were in a tie for second at 66.
The event features a 54-hole individual tournament taking place alongside a 36-hole team event.
European tour: In Vysoky Ujezd, Czech Republic, Louis de Jager shot an 8-under 64 to to equal the course record and take a one-shot lead over two-time champion Thomas Pieters in the Czech Masters.
Seeking his first European tour title, de Jager completed his round with an eighth birdie on the par-4 18th.
Briefly: Texas A&M senior Sam Bennett, the world’s third-ranked amateur, won two matches to move into the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur in Paramus, N.J. Also moving into the quarterfinals was U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Stewart Hagestad, who took down the nation’s top junior, Ben James, and then won three of the last four holes in a 2-and-1 victory over Hayden Hopewell of Australia. ... Players from Saudi-funded LIV Golf who have filed an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour, which banned them from playing in its events, will be waiting nearly 16 months for the case to go to trial. U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman in San Jose on Thursday set the trial for Jan. 8, 2024. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Golf-roundup-Keegan-Bradley-leads-PGA-Tour-s-17383416.php | 2022-08-19T02:06:31Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/Golf-roundup-Keegan-Bradley-leads-PGA-Tour-s-17383416.php | false |
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's 2016 plane incident: FBI report reveals new details
Angelina Jolie accused Brad Pitt of injuring her and verbally abusing their children during a heated encounter aboard a private jet in 2016, according to an FBI report provided to CNN by a source.
In the heavily redacted report, which was released to both parties as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request, the actress told agents that while traveling back to California with Pitt and their six children following a two-week vacation, her then-husband had been drinking when he told her to accompany him to the back of the plane after he had a tense interaction with one of their children.
Pitt's name is redacted in the report, but it refers to her husband multiple times and he was married to Jolie at the time of the alleged incident.
Once there, she said, they were in a restroom which had a privacy door that did not allow their children to see them as she alleged Pitt "grabbed her by her head," "grabbed her by the shoulders," shook her, pushed her into the bathroom wall and was yelling various things at her, including "'You're (expletive) up this family,'" according to the report.
Pitt was not arrested or charged in connection with the incident after the FBI completed an investigation in 2016.
"In response to allegations made following a flight within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States which landed in Los Angeles carrying Mr. Brad Pitt and his children, the FBI has conducted a review of the circumstances and will not pursue further investigation. No charges have been filed in this matter," FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said in a statement to CNN at the time.
CNN has reached out to representatives for both Pitt and Jolie for comment.
"All parties have had this information for nearly six years and was used in previous legal proceedings. There is nothing new here and serves no purpose other than being a media stunt meant to inflict pain," a source close to Pitt said of the report coming to light now.
According to the FBI report, Jolie told investigators that two of their children (whose names are not evident in the redacted report, but were noted to be minors at the time) "were outside the door crying and asked 'Are you ok Mommy?'"
Pitt allegedly yelled in response, "'No, mommy's not ok. She's ruining this family. She's crazy,'" the report states.
According to Jolie, that prompted one of their children to respond "'It's not her, it's you, you (expletive),'" which she said enraged Pitt and she alleged that she saw him run toward one of the children "like he was going to attack," at which point she said she got Pitt into a choke hold that he tried to break by throwing himself back, pushing her into the chairs behind them, it says in the report.
Jolie alleged in the report that she suffered injuries to her back and elbow as a result and shared a photo of the injury to her elbow with the FBI.
Black and white photocopies of the photos are included in the report, as well as handwritten pages provided by Jolie, purportedly from her children, containing descriptions of the alleged incident. The handwritten pages are substantially redacted.
Jolie also said in the report that Pitt continued to drink during the two-legged trip, later pouring beer on her. After they arrived in Los Angeles, the pair had a physical altercation and she said Pitt prevented her and the children from leaving the plane for 20 minutes.
In addition to her back and elbow, the report states Jolie said she also suffered "a rug burn type wound" on her left hand. A photo of the wound is included in the redacted report. She was asked about a reported scratch on Pitt, which Jolie said in the report could have been caused by her though she believed she had him more in a choke hold.
According to the report, after reviewing a probable cause statement related to the incident, a representative from the U.S. Attorney's Office "discussed the merits of this investigation with the [FBI] case agent."
"It was agreed by all parties that criminal charges in this case would not be pursued due to several factors," the report reads.
CNN has reached out to the U.S. Attorney's Office for comment.
When reached by CNN via email, a spokesperson for the FBI responded, "No charges were filed in connection with this matter and it would be inappropriate to comment further."
Jolie filed for divorce soon after the incident and while a dissolution of their marriage was granted in 2019, their legal battle over property and custody of their minor children has continued over the years with a California appeals court ruling last year that a retired judge who had been hired to arbitrate the custody dispute should be disqualified because of a possible conflict of interest.
In 2020, Jolie told Vogue India she split with Pitt for the sake of her children.
"I separated for the well being of my family," she said. "It was the right decision. I continue to focus on their healing."
Pitt told GQ in 2017 he had quit drinking after having been "boozing" too much that past year.
In a June 2022 interview with British GQ, he talked about finding more peace recently.
"I always felt very alone in my life," he told the publication "alone growing up as a kid, alone even out here, and it's really not till recently that I have had a greater embrace of my friends and family." | https://www.wisn.com/article/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-plane-incident-fbi-report/40932532 | 2022-08-19T02:06:56Z | https://www.wisn.com/article/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-plane-incident-fbi-report/40932532 | false |
BOSTON (AP) — Three men, including a Mafia hitman, have been charged in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Bulger's death raised questions about why the known “snitch” was placed in the West Virginia prison’s general population instead of more protective housing.
The men — Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 55, Paul J. DeCologero, 48, and Sean McKinnon, 36 — were charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Prosecutors allege Geas and DeCologero struck Bulger in the head multiple times, causing his death. McKinnon is charged separately with making false statements to a federal agent.
Bulger, who ran the largely Irish mob in Boston in the 1970s and ’80s, served as an FBI informant who ratted on his gang’s main rival, according to the bureau. He later became one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives. Bulger strongly denied ever being a government informant.
Authorities have not revealed a possible motive for Bulger’s killing, which came hours after he was transferred to USP Hazelton in West Virginia from a prison in Florida. He had been serving a life sentence for 11 murders and other crimes.
Geas and DeCologero are also charged in West Virginia federal court with aiding and abetting first-degree murder, along with assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Geas faces a separate charge of murder by a federal inmate serving a life sentence.
“In the truest of ironies, Bulger’s family has experienced the excruciating pain and trauma their relative inflicted on far too many, and the justice system is now coming to their aid," Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said in an emailed statement.
Geas, who authorities say was a Mafia hitman, remains in prison in Hazelton. DeCologero is being held in another federal prison facility. McKinnon was released from prison last month after pleading guilty in 2015 to stealing guns from a firearms dealer. He was on federal supervised release when the indictment was handed down, and was arrested Thursday in Florida.
Geas and DeCologero were identified as suspects shortly after Bulger’s death, according to law enforcement officials at the time, but they remained uncharged as the investigation dragged on for years.
Bulger’s family sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons and 30 unnamed employees of the prison system over his death, alleging it appeared the gangster was “deliberately sent to his death.” A federal judge dismissed the family’s lawsuit in January.
Hank Brennan, who represented Bulger and his family, accused the Department of Justice of waiting to bring charges until after the family’s lawsuit was dismissed to avoid having information come out in the criminal case that could be used against the government in the family’s civil case.
“They are simply protecting themselves like they’ve always done,” Brennan said. “There could be no ongoing investigation that took this long.”
The three men were placed in solitary confinement throughout the probe, family members told The Boston Globe. McKinnon's mother told the newspaper that her son, who was Geas' cellmate at the time of Bulger's killing, told her he didn't know anything about the slaying.
Daniel Kelly, an attorney for Geas, said Thursday that the charges aren't a surprise, but don't justify his client's continued placement in solitary confinement. It wasn't immediately clear if McKinnon and DeCologero had attorneys to comment on their behalf.
DeCologero was part of an organized crime gang led by his uncle on Massachusetts’ North Shore called the “DeCologero Crew.”
He was convicted of buying heroin that was used to try to kill a teenage girl his uncle wanted dead because he feared she would betray the crew to police. The heroin didn’t kill her, so another man broke her neck, dismembered her and buried her remains in the woods, court records say.
Geas was a close associate of the Mafia and acted as an enforcer, but was not an official “made” member because he is Greek, not Italian.
Geas and his brother were sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for their roles in several violent crimes, including the 2003 killing of Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno, a Genovese crime family boss in Springfield, Massachusetts. Another mobster ordered Bruno’s killing because he was upset he had talked to the FBI, prosecutors said.
Bulger fled Boston in late 1994 after his FBI handler, John Connolly Jr., warned him he was about to be indicted.
After more than 16 years on the run and with a $2 million reward on his head, he was captured at age 81 in Santa Monica, California, where he had been living in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig.
His transfer to Hazelton was prompted by disciplinary issues, said a federal law enforcement official, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to release details. In February 2018, Bulger threatened an assistant supervisor at the prison in Florida, telling her “your day of reckoning is coming.”
A prison workers’ union official told the AP that year that sending Bulger to the troubled federal penitentiary that housed other New England gangsters was like giving him a “death sentence.”
But Bulger never admitted to working for the FBI. Court papers made public in the civil case brought by his family showed that he was interviewed by staff after arriving at Hazelton about whether there were reasons he should be kept out of the general population. An intake screening form signed by Bulger said he answered “no” to the question “have you assisted law enforcement agents in any way?” | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/3-charged-in-2018-killing-of-boston-gangster-whitey-bulger/EDJ3JXXRDBD4PMACCISYH3TI7A/ | 2022-08-19T02:10:31Z | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/3-charged-in-2018-killing-of-boston-gangster-whitey-bulger/EDJ3JXXRDBD4PMACCISYH3TI7A/ | true |
WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
_____
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Reno NV
616 PM PDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of eastern Lassen and
central Washoe Counties through 700 PM PDT...
At 616 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles east of Doyle, moving east at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Pyramid Lake, Sutcliffe, The Needle Rocks and State Line Peak.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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.
If on or near Pyramid Lake, get out of the water and move indoors or
inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to 10 miles
from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close
enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now! Do not
be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 3997 12001 4009 12001 4018 11987 4019 11948
3984 11944
TIME...MOT...LOC 0116Z 274DEG 14KT 4003 11992
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-RENO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17383385.php | 2022-08-19T02:12:37Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-RENO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17383385.php | true |
WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Two planes collided in Northern California while trying to land at a local airport Thursday and at least two of the three occupants were killed, officials said.
The planes crashed at Watsonville Municipal Airport shortly before 3 p.m., according to a tweet from the city of Watsonville. The city-owned airport does not have a control tower to direct aircraft landing and taking off.
There were two people aboard a twin-engine Cessna 340 and only the pilot aboard a single-engine Cessna 152 during the crash, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Officials say multiple fatalities were reported but it was not immediately clear whether anyone survived.
The pilots were on their final approaches to the airport before the collision, the FAA said in a statement.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board, which did not immediately have additional details, are investigating the crash.
No one on the ground was injured. The airport has four runways and is home to more than 300 aircraft, according to its website. It handles more than 55,000 operations a year and is used often for recreational planes and agriculture businesses.
Watsonville, near the Monterey Bay, is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of San Francisco.
Photos and videos posted on social media showed the wreckage of one small plane in a grassy field by the airport. One picture showed a plume of smoke visible from a street near the airport.
A photo from the city of Watsonville showed damage to a small building at the airport, with firefighters on the scene.
The planes were about 200 feet (61 meters) in the air when they crashed, a witness told the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Franky Herrera was driving past the airport when he saw the twin-engine plane bank hard to the right and hit the wing of the smaller aircraft, which “just spiraled down and crashed” near the edge of the airfield and not far from homes, he told the newspaper.
The twin-engine aircraft kept flying but “it was struggling,” Herrera said, and then he saw flames at the other side of the airport.
The manager of the Watsonville Municipal Airport was unavailable for a phone interview in the hours after the crash. The airport accounts for about 40% of all general aviation activities in the Monterey Bay area, according to the City of Watsonville’s website.
The Watsonville Police Department referred calls to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office, where a dispatcher had no information.
Two other pilots also were hurt in aircraft crashes elsewhere in California on Thursday.
A 65-year-old San Diego man received injuries that were major but not life-threatening when his single-engine plane crashed on a street near a busy freeway overpass in El Cajon, authorities said.
The plane reportedly struck an SUV but nobody on the ground was hurt in the city nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of downtown San Diego.
Later, the pilot of an ultralight aircraft was critically injured when it crashed upside down on a building at the Camarillo Airport in Ventura County, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) from downtown Los Angeles. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/officials-at-least-2-die-after-planes-collide-in-california/ | 2022-08-19T02:12:52Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/officials-at-least-2-die-after-planes-collide-in-california/ | false |
What's Included?
Subscriptions to Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu for a discounted price. Available with Hulu (ad-supported) for $13.99/month or with Hulu (No Ads) for $19.99/month. Savings of up to $7.98/month compared to the regular price of each service.
Also available: Hulu + Live TV, Disney+, and ESPN+ for $69.99/month or Hulu (No Ads) + Live TV, Disney+, and ESPN+ for $75.99/month.
Enjoy all your favorite shows, movies, sports, and more using the Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN apps (or sites, for those on a browser). Download each app separately to access each service.
Access select ESPN+ content via Hulu.
Cancel anytime.
No free trial available. You must be 18 years or older to sign up. | https://www.hulu.com/series/nana-36aab705-e0ea-405f-a58d-48a226053c90 | 2022-08-19T02:15:32Z | https://www.hulu.com/series/nana-36aab705-e0ea-405f-a58d-48a226053c90 | false |
The ‘90s cabaret kids of Wellington, New Zealand, have come a long way since their detachable genital days. “One of the shows that Jermaine and I did early on was about body image,” says Bret McKenzie of the experimental theatre shows he started out in, alongside a community of weirdos including future Flight Of The Conchords partner Jermaine Clement and comedy ensemble player Taika Waititi. “The costumes were skin-coloured bike shorts with Velcro, detachable penises. It was very gender fluid. That was really, really fun. Pretty embarrassing when we were handing out flyers in these naked suits but no shame, no shame.”
Such antics preluded a ten-year ascent for the Conchords: the comedy-song duo of McKenzie and Clement that became an arena-filling cult phenomenon when their modest acoustic stage show of folk, prog, rap and soul funk spoofs – ‘Business Time’, ‘The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room)’ – was transformed into an HBO series. Thirteen years on from their final series and studio album, Clement has enjoyed continued success as creator (with Waititi) of the 2014 What We Do In The Shadows film and its subsequent TV spin-off. Meanwhile Waititi, a sometime Conchords episode director, has become one of Hollywood’s most in-demand filmmakers, helming two Thor movies and winning an Academy Award, a BAFTA and a Grammy for 2019’s Jojo Rabbit.
“He’s got so massive,” says Bret, beaming jovially down a Zoom window from his Wellington home. “It’s awesome. I sometimes forget how big Taika has become… It’s cool seeing the same ideas that worked in theatre carry on working on the big films.”
For his part, McKenzie now commutes between quiet family life in Wellington and Hollywood, where he works as musical supervisor and comedy songwriter for movies including Dora And The Lost City Of Gold and major franchises like The Muppets and The Simpsons.
Flight Of The Conchords often played upon serious issues, be it in the heart-warming parable of ‘Albi The Racist Dragon’, the self-conscious sexism in rap pastiche ‘Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros’ or the hard-hitting images of gang violence, monkey diseases and globalisation peppering ‘Think About It’. But sometimes the laughter has to stop. Briefly.
Growing tired of writing songs for films that “have to do a lot of jobs, a lot of character work or tell the story”, Bret began filing away ideas for more serious songs. “As much as I love comedy music, I don’t really listen to it in everyday life,” he admits. “I have a fondness for the funny song within an album that might be more serious. Lots of people have them. Courtney Barnett has some really funny lines and Leonard Cohen has a lot of funny lines. I was interested in something in that zone.”
“As much as I love comedy music, I don’t listen to it in everyday life”
Pulling together some of LA’s best session musicians, Bret laid down his debut solo album ‘Songs Without Jokes’ in four days at United Studios, revelling in its retro vibe. “Something about that period of ‘70s recording just seems like such a golden window of studio time,” he says. Unsurprisingly, ‘Songs Without Jokes’ emerged drenched in Americana, dipping into ragtime pop and melancholy piano balladry in the vein of Randy Newman, Billy Joel, Harry Nilsson and Tom Petty. Yet this record of support and endurance through tough, lonely and dislocated times is often rooted in the frustrations of leaving Wellington for lengthy LA work trips. First single ‘A Little Tune’ is a ragtime tribute to his family back home, while ‘That’s LA’ explores his dichotomous view of the City Of Angels. One minute he’s happily sipping Mai Tais in the Santa Monica surf, the next he’s tearful at the homelessness on Sunset Boulevard.
“The people are amazing and such great artists and musicians and creators there,” Bret argues. “I love the optimism of Hollywood – New Zealanders are far more self-deprecating and less confident and pessimistic about creative endeavours. I do love the Hollywood culture of ‘it’s gonna be amazing’… But the town itself is really desolate and quite tough.”
There’s also a strong ecological thread to the record, with the ironically jaunty ‘This World’ detailing the pollution and corporate lies resulting in a “broken” and “bleeding” planet. Piano ballad ‘Up In Smoke’ uses wildfires as a metaphor for a torched romance. For inspiration, Bret only had to look up. The Australian wildfires of 2019 sent an apocalyptic smoke cloud across the South Pacific to New Zealand.
“It was really bizarre, really ominous,” he recalls. “The haze came across and there was this really creepy red ominous sunset on New Year’s Eve 2020. And that was a pretty bad year… It’s hard to justify Hollywood, which is so wasteful in its systems and unnecessary. There’s some days it’s like ‘What’s the point of making this film? We’ve really got to be fixing the planet right now’.”
Bret’s early forays into music were rather more carefree. New Zealand in the ‘90s, he says, was reggae’s holiday home, the biggest market for Bob Marley records outside Jamaica (“the people who were into rock were a real minority crew”). Bret too felt the draw of Jah, joining a reggae party band called The Black Seeds and having touring misadventures that eventually bled into the Conchords’ TV show. Like the time the band was half an hour out of a festival site at 2am before the manager realised he’d left their $5,000 fee in a bag on the roof of the van.
Likewise, when he started writing songs with his university flatmate Clement in 1998, inspired by the “funny, narrative-driven” Beck track ‘Debra’ and leaning ever-more towards the laughs, their early comic struggles informed later Conchords storylines. Such as the time at a Vancouver fringe festival when their basement venue was so out-of-the-way and their stage times so audience-unfriendly that they couldn’t get anyone to come see their show at all.
“We’d be out trying to give out flyers,” Bret remembers. “This woman was walking home with her groceries and we managed to convince her to come into the creepy basement venue with her groceries at, like, 11 in the morning. Then we start playing these weird comedy songs. I can’t remember if it was her or somebody else but at some point we had an audience of one, and they left halfway through the show. That made it into the TV show.”
Early Conchords audiences, in fact, were bolstered by the Cult Of Figwit. Figwit being the name that Lord Of The Rings fanatics gave to the nameless and wordless elven extra that McKenzie played in the first movie. Figwit developed such an avid cult following that Peter Jackson invited Bret back for the third film, now with an actual line.
“Basically our bread and butter was Rings fans who came to our show,” he says, ruefully. “They helped us get things started. We could always tell because they’d have a little ring. We weren’t complaining because we had ten people in the audience so it was good if four of them were Lord Of The Rings people. But it made me cautious about being in the public eye and connecting with fans. I was like, ‘Oh, this is pretty strange’.”
Thankfully Flight Of The Conchords had nine years under the guitar straps and were rich in comedic depth before HBO shot them to stardom. “We got to make something quite strange and unique,” Bret says. “I think the audience really connected with how the show just seemed too weird to be on TV.”
How big did it get? “It got to the point where it was hard to go out to public places… We played the Hollywood Bowl, Radio City. It was crazy. The entire concert felt ironic because it was this hopeless band from this little TV show – the bigger the room the funnier it was when we did a recorder solo.”
By the end of season two in 2009, Bret claims, “we were very burnt out” and “finding an idea that we hadn’t done was harder than it had been in the past.” Bret had also had his first child. “Making a TV show and having children is just not very compatible,” he explains. “We’d work 12-hour days for weeks straight. I was definitely more interested in being around for my family.” The idea of sporadic, brief tours was far more appealing, between writing songs for Kermit and Fozzie Bear.
Today, Bret is busy at work on some animated movies and several labour-of-love projects including a theatre adaptation of George Saunders’ surreal political comedy The Brief And Frightening Reign Of Phil and a bubbling-along fairytale musical. The kind of imaginative, experimental and off-beat pitches that tend to excite Hollywood’s ideas guys but terrify its money men.
“It’s absolutely heroic when people manage to get new stories through the system,” he says. “It’s very geared up to franchise pre-existing entities, and I tend to like working in new things… I was doing a lot more screenwriting a few years ago and I got sent a toy catalogue, saying ‘are there any of these toys you’d like to write a movie about?’ It’s so crazy. Pick a toy, you’ll be able to make that movie.”
Meanwhile, there are no immediate plans to revive the Conchords. But in the wake of ‘Songs Without Jokes’, comedy songwriting is firmly back on his agenda. “Now I’m doing some other music that satisfies me in a different way,” Bret says, “I’m like: ‘Writing funny songs sounds fun again’.” For now, though, it’s serious business time…
Bret McKenzie’s debut solo album ‘Songs Without Jokes’ is out via Sub Pop on August 26 | https://www.nme.com/en_au/features/tv-interviews/bret-mckenzie-solo-album-interview-flight-of-the-conchords-3293460 | 2022-08-19T02:17:56Z | https://www.nme.com/en_au/features/tv-interviews/bret-mckenzie-solo-album-interview-flight-of-the-conchords-3293460 | true |
Police: Pennsylvania man tried to buy stolen human remains
(AP) - A Pennsylvania man was charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and other charges after police say he allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook.
A spokeswoman for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock confirmed that the remains were to be donated to UAMS’s facility. UAMS spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said they were instead stolen from Arkansas Central Mortuary Services in Little Rock by a female mortuary employee and sold, adding that there is an open federal investigation.
“We are very respectful of those who donate their bodies, and we are appalled that such a thing could happen,” Taylor said.
A representative of the mortuary hung up on a reporter who reached out for comment Thursday.
FBI Little Rock spokesman Conor Hagan said the office was aware of the Pennsylvania incident “but will not comment on ongoing investigations.” No charges had been filed as of Thursday against the Arkansas woman.
East Pennsboro Township Police in Pennsylvania announced the arrest of and charges against 40-year-old Jeremy Lee Pauley, of Enola, Pennsylvania. Pauley had been arrested on July 22 and had an initial court appearance Thursday.
Calls to an attorney representing Pauley were not returned late Thursday. Pauley was released on $50,000 bond, according to court records.
On a Facebook page under his name, Pauley has posted pictures of bags and stacks of femurs, one captioned, “Picked up more medical bones to sort through.” The Facebook page he uses to market his body parts is called “The Grand Wunderkammer,” “Vendors of the odd and unusual, museum exhibits, guest lectures, live entertainment, and so much more! Strange, curious, and unique in every way possible!” It also provides a link to his website.
“I think I’ve seen it all, and then something like this comes around,” said Sean McCormack, district attorney for Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where Pauley was charged. “The question we had to answer was, Is the sale of body parts or bones and remains illegal ... or legal? Some of it, to our surprise, was legal. And as the investigation went on, it became clear there was illegal activity going on as well.”
Pauley, who described himself as a collector of what he called “oddities,” including human body parts, said the remains were acquired legally when first contacted by police, according to a police affidavit. Police initially found what they described as older human remains including full skeletons that they determined were legally obtained.
However, after a second tip about newer remains in Pauley’s home, investigators returned to the house to find more recent purchases. Police found three five-gallon buckets containing assorted body parts— including of children— and federal and state law enforcement agents intercepted packages addressed to Pauley from the Arkansas woman that contained body parts.
Pauley told investigators that he intended to resell the body parts, according to the affidavit. Investigators allege that Pauley arranged to pay the Arkansas woman $4,000 for the body parts through Facebook Messenger.
Facebook did not respond to messages seeking comments on Pauley’s pages. However, its community standards prohibit human exploitation and explicitly prohibit selling body parts through its commercial policies and advertising policies.
___
Associated Press writer Kantele Franko of Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/08/19/police-pennsylvania-man-tried-buy-stolen-human-remains/ | 2022-08-19T02:18:32Z | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/08/19/police-pennsylvania-man-tried-buy-stolen-human-remains/ | true |
Professor Maheswari Devi dies
M
Maheswari Devi, a retired professor of botany at Andhra University, died aged 98 in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.
Born on August 1, 1925, she completed her Ph.D and was the only researcher then in the Department of Botany. Her thesis was published as the best journal in the Science Congress that was held in Hyderabad.
She also had the privilege to show and explain about a flower show to Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad that was then held in Andhra University.
During her tenure at AU, she guided over 30 research scholars, of which 16 later became Readers. She also was an active social worker and had worked for the cause of orphans and mentally challenged children and also conducted sporting activities for the differently-abled.
She had also played a key role in converting a fort in Vizianagaram into MR Women’s College.
- Comments will be moderated by The Hindu editorial team.
- Comments that are abusive, personal, incendiary or irrelevant cannot be published.
- Please write complete sentences. Do not type comments in all capital letters, or in all lower case letters, or using abbreviated text. (example: u cannot substitute for you, d is not 'the', n is not 'and').
- We may remove hyperlinks within comments.
- Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name, to avoid rejection. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/professor-maheswari-devi-dies/article65783963.ece | 2022-08-19T02:18:45Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/professor-maheswari-devi-dies/article65783963.ece | false |
EXPIRING
Main Content
TODAY
WEEKDAYS 7AM ET
S4 E23608/17/22
Hoda & Jenna - 8/17/22
America's feel-good morning show with big stars and sweet surprises.
NRS4 E236 36 minNews and Information Daytime Full Episode
Appearing:Hoda KotbJenna Bush Hager
Available until 08/20/22
Tags: interview, NBC News, news, today, Today Show, Current Events, newscast, politics
Episodes
- EXPIRINGS2022 E195 | 08/17/22Today - 8/17/22
- EXPIRINGS2022 E194 | 08/16/22Today - 8/16/22
- EXPIRINGS2022 E193 | 08/15/22Today - 8/15/22
- EXPIRINGS4 E237 | 08/18/22Hoda & Jenna - 8/18/22
- EXPIRINGS4 E238 | 08/18/22Today 3rd Hour - 8/18/22
- EXPIRINGS4 E236 | 08/17/22Hoda & Jenna - 8/17/22
- EXPIRINGS4 E237 | 08/17/22Today 3rd Hour - 8/17/22
- EXPIRINGS4 E235 | 08/16/22Hoda & Jenna - 8/16/22
- EXPIRINGS4 E236 | 08/16/22Today 3rd Hour - 8/16/22
- EXPIRINGS4 E234 | 08/15/22Hoda & Jenna - 8/15/22
- EXPIRINGS4 E235 | 08/15/22Today 3rd Hour - 8/15/22
- Most Recent
- Excerpt
- Highlight
Clips
- Financial aid, internships, more: Tips for students going into collegeCLIP 08/18/22
- Bobbie’s Bests: Collagen mask, sling bag, cupping kit and more!CLIP 08/18/22
- Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck may have a wedding celebration soonCLIP 08/18/22
- Need to reset your routine? These products may helpCLIP 08/18/22
- How to get along with all personalitiesCLIP 08/18/22
- Improve your sneaker game with these award-winning picksCLIP 08/18/22
- Food for thought: Couple brings taste of home to college studentsCLIP 08/18/22
- Medicine cabinet refresh: What to replace and stock up onCLIP 08/18/22
- USA Mullet Championships for kids is underway: See the finalistsCLIP 08/18/22
- TODAY celebrates 100th (and 102nd) birthdays: Aug. 18, 2022CLIP 08/18/22
- Ginger garlic steak and noodle salad: Get Katie Lee’s recipe!CLIP 08/18/22
- Jazzercise is making a comeback: Try these moves at home!CLIP 08/18/22
- Ellie Kemper, Zach Cherry to host 'Great American Baking Show'CLIP 08/18/22
- See trailer for new Zac Efron movie ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’CLIP 08/18/22
- Special Taylor Hawkins tribute concert set for SeptemberCLIP 08/18/22
- 'The Voice’ coaches reveal their Battle Advisors for this seasonCLIP 08/18/22
- ‘Art of Teaching Children’ author shares wisdom from the classroomCLIP 08/18/22
- See how much was raised during TODAY back-to-school driveCLIP 08/18/22
- LeBron James’ new deal opens possibility to play with son BronnyCLIP 08/18/22
- Officials warn of severe 2022 flu season: Here's how to prepareCLIP 08/18/22
- Sales of cars with stick shifts drops nearly 25%CLIP 08/18/22
- Full steam ahead: Cruise demand surges after COVID rules liftedCLIP 08/18/22
- Chicken wing prices drop below pre-pandemic levelsCLIP 08/18/22
- Judge orders CVS, Walmart, Walgreens to pay $650M in opioid suitCLIP 08/18/22
- Little Leaguer is recovering after tragic fall from dorm bunk bedCLIP 08/18/22
- Anne Heche’s death ruled an accident by medical examinerCLIP 08/18/22
- Astronaut shares stunning photos of aurora borealis from spaceCLIP 08/18/22
- Colorado River is shrinking: What this means for water suppliesCLIP 08/18/22
- CDC to reorganize following botched response to COVID-19CLIP 08/18/22
- Target's profit plunges 90% in Q2, as spending remains stagnantCLIP 08/18/22
- Rudy Giuliani questioned for 6 hours before grand jury in AtlantaCLIP 08/18/22
- Hearing set to begin on whether to unseal Mar-a-Lago affidavitCLIP 08/18/22
- ‘Never Have I Ever’ cast on why fans love the show’s love triangleCLIP 08/17/22
- Back-to-school tips for the new school year | TODAY All Day Back-to-School BootcampCLIP 08/17/22
- Hoda Kotb says she has a high bar for whoever she dates nextCLIP 08/17/22
- Comfortable fashion picks for kids going back to schoolCLIP 08/17/22
- Kathie Lee Gifford talks making small changes to live a happier lifeCLIP 08/17/22
- Kathie Lee Gifford talks grandma duties, new projects in the worksCLIP 08/17/22
- Back-to-school hacks: Anti-theft backpack, locker organizer, moreCLIP 08/17/22
- Craig Melvin, Dylan Dreyer help raise $1M for colorectal cancerCLIP 08/17/22
- See Catherine Zeta-Jones transform into Morticia AddamsCLIP 08/17/22
- Get a sneak peek at season 4 of Selena Gomez’s cooking showCLIP 08/17/22
- Solange Knowles lands historic role at New York City BalletCLIP 08/17/22
- Pilot who fell to his death ‘apologized’ before stepping out of planeCLIP 08/17/22
- Oprah’s Sidney Poitier documentary for Apple TV+ gets first trailerCLIP 08/17/22
- Dolphins swimming in the Hudson River delight kayakersCLIP 08/17/22
- FDA approves sale of over-the-counter hearing aidsCLIP 08/17/22
- President Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into lawCLIP 08/17/22
- Watch: Lightning strikes as massive funnel cloud forms in FloridaCLIP 08/17/22
- Meet the barber training others to be mental health advocatesCLIP 08/16/22
- Rabbi shares tips for moving past regrets, leaving an ‘ethical will’CLIP 08/16/22
- Affordable tech gadgets to prepare kids for schoolCLIP 08/16/22
- See a mother-daughter duo in style rut get a fabulous makeover!CLIP 08/16/22
- Hoda and Jenna share their favorite new booksCLIP 08/16/22
- New dating show ‘Cosmic Love’ matches people based on the starsCLIP 08/16/22
- Hoda Kotb opens up on co-parenting for new People cover storyCLIP 08/16/22
- Sweet corn mac and cheese: Get the delicious recipe!CLIP 08/16/22
- How a doctor helped a young patient with fatal disorder defy oddsCLIP 08/16/22
- How this woman changed her life by walking every dayCLIP 08/16/22
- Why a growing number of Black parents are homeschoolingCLIP 08/16/22
- TODAY exclusively reveals new Girl Scout cookie flavorCLIP 08/16/22
- Hoda and her daughters are featured on People magazine coverCLIP 08/16/22
- Pasta with creamy zucchini sauce: Try this easy recipe!CLIP 08/16/22
- Sterling K. Brown talks movie ‘Honk for Jesus,’ growing out his hairCLIP 08/16/22
- Clea Shearer shares cancer update, advice Hoda Kotb gave herCLIP 08/16/22
- See an exclusive preview of Simone Biles' new Snapchat seriesCLIP 08/16/22
- Adele talks engagement rumors, 'worst moment' in her careerCLIP 08/16/22
- Joanna Gaines announces new memoir called ‘The Stories We Tell’CLIP 08/16/22
- Priscilla Presley talks Elvis’ legacy, reacts to Baz Luhrmann biopicCLIP 08/16/22
- ‘Wizard of Oz’ remake in the works from ‘Blackish’ creatorCLIP 08/16/22
- Supersonic flights set to make a return, possibly as early 2029CLIP 08/16/22
- Biden to sign Inflation Reduction Act after a year of negotiationsCLIP 08/16/22
- News anchor parents go viral for hilarious ‘report’ on newborn babyCLIP 08/16/22
- Are you being tracked? How companies are monitoring productivityCLIP 08/16/22
- With grocery prices up, some are eating out to save moneyCLIP 08/16/22
- Alligator kills 88-year-old woman after she slipped into pondCLIP 08/16/22
- 2 million infant swings and rockers recalledCLIP 08/16/22
- Gunfire outside Memphis hospital leaves at least 8 injuredCLIP 08/16/22
- 22 million under heat advisories on West CoastCLIP 08/16/22
- Officers save man from burning boat in FloridaCLIP 08/16/22
- Schools nationwide struggle to find enough qualified teachersCLIP 08/16/22
- Staffing shortages to blame for massive delays in NY area airportsCLIP 08/16/22
- Even if Liz Cheney loses primary, ‘it’s not the end of the road’CLIP 08/16/22
- Ahead of primary, Liz Cheney fights to save her House seatCLIP 08/16/22
- Rudy Giuliani told by prosecutors he is a target of election inquiryCLIP 08/16/22
- Trump pushes for release of documents seized in FBI searchCLIP 08/16/22
- Hoda and Jenna fan answers trivia for a chance to win a vacation!CLIP 08/15/22
- Jamie Ford talks ‘The Many Daughters of Afong Moy’CLIP 08/15/22
- Organization tips for the school year | TODAY All Day Back-to-School BootcampCLIP 08/15/22
- School supplies for all ages | TODAY All Day Back-to-School BootcampCLIP 08/15/22
- Experts answer parents’ most-searched back-to-school questions | TODAY All Day Back-to-School BootcampCLIP 08/15/22
- TODAY anchors’ back-to-school traditions | TODAY All Day Back-to-School BootcampCLIP 08/15/22
- Prince Harry, Meghan Markle to visit UK, Germany in SeptemberCLIP 08/15/22
- Police search for suspect in Chicago Six Flags shootingCLIP 08/15/22
- Brittney Griner’s lawyers appeal Russian drug charge convictionCLIP 08/15/22
- Shop the best back-to-school gear all in one placeCLIP 08/15/22
- Abbi Jacobson talks modern twist on ‘A League of Their Own’CLIP 08/15/22
- Hoda and Jenna weigh in on how to handle self-absorbed friendsCLIP 08/15/22
- Streamline your morning routine with these must-have itemsCLIP 08/15/22
- Eve Hewson says dad Bono didn’t want her to go into actingCLIP 08/15/22
We and our partners use cookies on this site to improve our service, perform analytics, personalize advertising, measure advertising performance, and remember website preferences. By using the site, you consent to these cookies. For more information on cookies including how to manage your consent visit our cookie policy. | https://www.nbc.com/today/video/hoda-jenna-81722/9000254282 | 2022-08-19T02:21:28Z | https://www.nbc.com/today/video/hoda-jenna-81722/9000254282 | true |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were:
1st:5 California Classic-2nd:11 Money Bags-3rd:2 Lucky Star, Race Time: 1:40.74
(1st: 5 California Classic, 2nd: 11 Money Bags, 3rd: 2 Lucky Star; Race Time: one: 40.74)
¶ To win the grand prize, ticket-holders must match in exact order the winning race time and the first, second and third place horses. Lesser prizes are given to ticket-holders who correctly match other horses or race times. | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Derby-game-17383424.php | 2022-08-19T02:23:58Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Derby-game-17383424.php | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon appears to be getting the TikTok bug, joining other companies seeking to hold consumers’ attention by introducing replicas of the popular social platform.
The e-commerce giant has been testing a feed on its app that enables shoppers to scroll through TikTok-like photos and videos of products posted by other users.
Using the feature, called Inspire, customers can like, save and share posts of products, and purchase items directly from the feed, according to Watchful Technologies, an Israeli-based artificial-intelligence firm that analyzes apps and has tracked the feature.
The test doesn’t mean Amazon will roll out the widget to the public in its current form — or at all. Alyssa Bronikowski, an Amazon spokesperson, declined to say if the company has plans to introduce the feature to all its customers. In a statement, Bronikowski said the company is “constantly testing new features to help make customers’ lives a little easier.”
The Wall Street Journal first reported on the test. Citing an anonymous source, the Journal also said the company is testing the feature among a small number of Amazon employees.
Amazon often experiments with new features, sometimes even targeting its tests to specific regions. Amid regulatory pressure about its private-label business, the company had been testing how to identify its brands in search results by tagging them with badges such as “Amazon brand” or “Exclusive to Amazon,” the research firm Marketplace Pulse discovered earlier this year.
In its current form, the experimental TikTok-like feed mostly shows photos, said Daniel Buchuk, a researcher with Watchful Technologies. But if the feature is rolled out, Buchuk suspects the feed will be video-heavy as Amazon sellers create content to make it more engaging for customers.
The corporate parents of Google and Facebook, the two biggest sellers in digital advertising, already have been pushing their own TikTok clones in bids to keep eyeballs glued to their services so they can continue to boost their revenue.
Google’s YouTube video service rolled a “Shorts” feature limited to clips of a minute or less last year in the U.S. after initially testing it in India during 2020. By June of this year, Google said YouTube Shorts was attracting more than 1.5 billion logged-in users each month, although analysts believe TikTok’s popularity is undercutting ad sales at the video site.
Those concerns were elevated by Google’s latest quarterly results, which revealed YouTube’s year-over-year growth in ad sales had slowed to its slowest pace since public disclosures of the site’s revenue began.
Meanwhile, Facebook now offers its own take on TikTok, a short-form video feature called Reels, on its Instagram app as well as its main social networking service, which are now operate as part of Meta Platforms. Earlier this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Reels accounted for more than 20% of the time that people spend on Instagram.
But it’s not clear that engagement is helping to drive ad sales after Meta recently reported its first year-over-year drop in quarterly revenue since Facebook went public a decade ago.
___
AP Business Writer Michael Liedtke contributed to this report from San Francisco. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/amazon-testing-tiktok-style-feed-on-its-app-ai-firm-says/ | 2022-08-19T02:29:02Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/amazon-testing-tiktok-style-feed-on-its-app-ai-firm-says/ | true |
I read my colleague James Yodice’s recent story about quarterback Aden Chavez’s return to Cibola from Florida with the lyrics and melody of the 1963 Beach Boys hit “Be True to Your School” playing in my head.
If you think Fats Domino’s 1955 hit “Ain’t That a Shame” was next on my hit parade, no. No snark. No disrespect. Glad he’s back.
Of course, Chavez had every right to search for more fertile recruiting fields and a higher level of competition in Florida, just as La Cueva two-sport star Exodus Ayers has every right to leave LCHS for a New Hampshire prep school.
Here, though, is what I believe. If you’re a New Mexico kid and you’re good enough, the colleges will find you.
Right here.
Playing alongside the kids you grew up with.
Certainly, college recruiters do make mistakes. They sometimes sign kids who don’t pan out; they sometimes overlook kids who walk on somewhere and prove to be better than the kids that got signed. Those things happen, yes.
In their ultra-competitive world, though, those talent evaluators have become awfully good at talent evaluation. They’re right far more often than they’re wrong.
In Chavez’s case, based purely on statistics, there’s seemingly no reason the college offers wouldn’t be pouring in. As a Cibola junior, he threw for 3,075 yards, completing 62% of his passes with 32 touchdowns and 10 interceptions.
He’s listed at 6-foot-5 and around 200 pounds. He’s an honor student.
Yet, an online search shows only three scholarship offers: New Mexico Highlands, Pomona-Pitzer College in California and Carleton College in Minnesota.
Is the problem underexposure? He’s been to several big offseason camps out of state, the same type of exposure that transformed former Los Lunas running back O’maury Samuels from a total unknown into a 2016 Michigan signee (he’s now at New Mexico State). So far, for Chavez, no bites.
On one recruiting website, Chavez is listed as having run the 40-yard dash in the relatively pedestrian time of 4.9 seconds. Wait; isn’t the arm, not the legs, the important body part for a quarterback?
These days, it’s both – or all three. If you’re a quarterback who can’t run, you’d better be the second coming of Tom Brady.
The truth is, I’m speculating. I don’t know why Chavez isn’t getting more offers.
I do know that, as an Eldorado senior in 2014, Zach Gentry had passing stats that paled in comparison to Chavez’s in 2021. It should be noted that Gentry rushed for more than 900 yards as a senior.
As we all know, Gentry committed to Texas, then signed with Michigan, where he switched from quarterback to tight end. He’s now entering his fourth year with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Even back at Eldorado, though, Gentry’s senior stats were dwarfed by those of Rio Rancho quarterback Easton Bruere.
As a senior in 2014, Bruere threw for 4,567 yards with 49 TDs and just six interceptions. He was listed at 6-3 and 200 pounds. He was an honor student. He displayed his wares at multiple camps. His Rams beat Gentry’s Eagles en route to a Class 6A state title.
Yet, Bruere never had a single Division I offer, let alone a BCS offer. He wound up at a Kansas junior college, then at a small college in Colorado, where, at both schools, he played sparingly.
“I’ve been asked about Easton all year,” Albuquerque prep football analyst and former Del Norte and Eldorado coach David Williams told the Journal in February 2015, as Bruere remained without substantial offers. “But my answer is always the same; he doesn’t have the unique qualities schools are looking for. … They are looking for an impact player, not at the statistics.”
New Mexico players of impact, in the past, got those offers.
Among them:
Notre Dame found Mayfield running back Roddy Bone (class of 1979). Purdue found Eldorado quarterback Jim Everett (1980).
Running backs Mike Carter (Sandia, Class of 1978) and DonTrell Moore (Roswell, Class of 2001) had multiple offers from power-conference schools; both chose UNM. Nebraska found quarterback Bobby Newcombe (Highland, Class of 1997).
Even before the Internet – in fact, before many households even had TV sets – Oklahoma found small but fleet running back Tommy McDonald (Highland, Class of 1953).
The good news for Chavez is that, pending approval regarding his eligibility from the New Mexico Activities Association, he has his senior season to play with his Cibola teammates, with their Cougars classmates cheering them on.
The college recruiters will be watching – perhaps, among the older coaches, with the 1964 Del Shannon hit “Keep Searchin'” playing in their heads. | https://www.abqjournal.com/2525580/college-recruiters-do-come-to-nm-you-know-know.html | 2022-08-19T02:30:53Z | https://www.abqjournal.com/2525580/college-recruiters-do-come-to-nm-you-know-know.html | true |
GAINES COUNTY, Texas —
Former Gaines County Sheriff’s Deputy Douglas Shane Scott has been indicted for official oppression, a class A misdemeanor, according to a court document filed on June 16, 2022.
The indictment states that on or around May 26, 2021, while Scott worked for the sheriff’s office, he pulled a woman’s hair and put her in a headlock, making unwanted contact with her.
His bond was set at $1,500.
This is all the information we currently have on the 2021 incident and Scott’s indictment. NewsWest 9 has requested an arrest affidavit and mug shot and we will update this story when new details are made available. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/former-gaines-county-sheriffs-deputy-indicted-official-oppression/513-965536f2-f8a7-464d-a57d-46b596453093 | 2022-08-19T02:31:34Z | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/former-gaines-county-sheriffs-deputy-indicted-official-oppression/513-965536f2-f8a7-464d-a57d-46b596453093 | true |
Kenyon Sadiq can expect to hear a lot of that next fall.
The talented Skyline receiver recently committed to the University of Oregon, where the quirky duck mascot is more prevalent around Eugene than rain showers.
Despite 24 offers that Sadiq eventually cut down to three -- Washington, Iowa State and Michigan - the final decision came from the heart, he said.
"I always had this thought about Oregon in my mind," he said. "We always had conversations, it just wasn't as heavy as the other three schools ... It started to increase some more and I had a good relationship with them. On top of that, it's been my dream school forever. It's where I wanted to be. Everything about Oregon felt right."
Sadiq visited the Oregon campus in April and watched the team practice. The school, and particularly the athletic department, has been heavily influenced and funded by Nike founder Phil Knight. On the field, the Ducks have been a contender in the Pac-12 nearly every season and recently played in the Fiesta Bowl (2020 season) and the Rose Bowl (2019 season) and played in the College Football National Championship in 2015.
"Some of the other places it felt as if I was almost second guessing myself," Sadiq said. "Honestly, I couldn't see myself playing there and Oregon was the place where all the boxes were checked. You always talk about that feeling 'You know when you know.' I got that feeling and I was like this is where I need to be. This is where I want to be."
Sadiq said when he was young he became a fan of former Oregon player De'Anthony Thomas and wears No. 6 in his honor.
After a solid 2021 season that included 79 receptions, 1,166 receiving yards and 19 touchdowns, Sadiq rose to a 4-star recruit and was named the top-rated 2022 recruit in Idaho by 247sports.com.
Sadiq's seemingly meteoric rise started with offers from Idaho State and other Big Sky programs. Then coach Scott Berger said he started getting calls and emails from Iowa State, Michigan, Kansas State, Stanford and the list of major colleges grew.
But at the end, it was the Ducks that got the commitment.
"I really love the area of Eugene," Sadiq said. "The schooling and the alumni network that connects after life in football was important to me. Football's not there forever ... and I know Oregon has my back. I'm going to get a degree and go on and do great things as an alumni there."
Allan Steele is Sports Editor of the Post Register. Reach him at 208 542-6772 and follow on Twitter at asteele12000 | https://www.postregister.com/postregister/high-school-football-skylines-kenyon-sadiq-talks-about-his-commitment-to-oregon/article_6b744104-c239-5ddf-a183-5ba55dd51448.html | 2022-08-19T02:32:03Z | https://www.postregister.com/postregister/high-school-football-skylines-kenyon-sadiq-talks-about-his-commitment-to-oregon/article_6b744104-c239-5ddf-a183-5ba55dd51448.html | false |
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AXDX) ("Accelerate Diagnostics") today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 17,500,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $2.00 per share. The gross proceeds to Accelerate Diagnostics from the offering, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, are expected to be $35.0 million. In addition, Accelerate Diagnostics has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,625,000 shares of its common stock at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions. Accelerate Diagnostics anticipates using the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes and to fund commercialization efforts. All of the shares are being offered by Accelerate Diagnostics, and the offering is expected to close on or about August 23, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
William Blair & Company, L.L.C. is acting as lead book-running manager for the offering. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. is acting as a book-running manager and Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC is acting as co-manager for the offering.
A shelf registration statement relating to the shares was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on January 27, 2021 and declared effective on February 4, 2021. A preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering were filed with the SEC. A copy of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering, when available, may be obtained from William Blair & Company, L.L.C., Attention: Prospectus Department, 150 North Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606, or by telephone at (800) 621-0687, or by email at prospectus@williamblair.com or by visiting the EDGAR database on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.
Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. is an in vitro diagnostics company dedicated to providing solutions for the global challenges of antimicrobial resistance and sepsis. The Accelerate Pheno® system and Accelerate Arc™ system are designed to reduce the time clinicians must wait to determine the most optimal antibiotic therapy for bacteremic patients. These diagnostic systems are designed to serve clinical laboratories with automated solutions to expedite time to identification and antimicrobial susceptibility test results directly from positive blood culture samples.
The "ACCELERATE DIAGNOSTICS" and "ACCELERATE PHENO" and "ACCELERATE PHENOTEST" and "ACCELERATE ARC" and diamond shaped logos and marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain of the statements made in this press release are forward looking, such as those, among others, relating to Accelerate Diagnostics' expectations regarding the anticipated closing date and its anticipated use of the net proceeds from the offering. Actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected or implied in these forward-looking statements and Accelerate Diagnostics cautions investors not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Factors that may cause such a difference include risks and uncertainties related to completion of the public offering on the anticipated terms or at all, market conditions and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions related to the public offering. More information about the risks and uncertainties faced by Accelerate Diagnostics is contained in the section captioned "Risk Factors" in the preliminary prospectus supplement filed with the SEC and the documents incorporated by reference therein, which include Accelerate Diagnostics' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and Quarterly Reports Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022. Except as required by law, Accelerate Diagnostics disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/accelerate-diagnostics-announces-pricing-public-offering-common-stock/ | 2022-08-19T02:32:29Z | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/accelerate-diagnostics-announces-pricing-public-offering-common-stock/ | false |
It's been more than a week, and Raju Srivastava's health isn't showing positive signs of growth. As per the reports of ETimes, the comedian's blood pressure dropped drastically on Wednesday. Later the levels were stabilised, but the overall health is in a deteriorating stage. Even Raju's nephew shared an update with the portal, and the news is gloomily scary.
While speaking to the portal, Kushal stated that top neuro-surgeon Dr Padma Srivastava is being flown to Delhi to treat Raju. He further added that they are hoping for a miracle, and the condition has become very critical. "We are hoping and praying for a miracle. Dr Padma Srivastava is flying to Delhi from Kolkata, she should be here by this evening. As we speak, Raju ji's condition has become very critical," Kushal said.
Raju Srivastava suffered a fatal heart attack on Wednesday, August 10 and he is being treated in the AIIMS hospital, New Delhi. There have been recent reports that the comedian's health has worsened and he is in a brain-dead state. However, now his manager Maqbool has rubbished these reports.
READ: Raju Srivastava health update: Comedian's manager rubbishes reports of him being brain dead
There also have been death rumours being spread about the comedian. Talking to News18, Maqbool said, "There is nothing of such sort. A team of doctors is working to retrieve him. At 2 am on Wednesday, doctors informed us that he was critical but it’s been 16 hours now, and doctors are working on his treatment."
Speaking about the reports of Raju being brain dead, Maqbool said to the portal, "There is nothing like this. He is unconscious. There was swelling in his brain nerves. With some medicines, he was unable to respond. Then some injections were given which caused swelling in some of his brain nerves. Doctors are treating it." For the unversed, Raju has acted in many famous Hindi films including Maine Pyar Kiya, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon, Bombay to Goa, and Baazigar among others. | https://www.dnaindia.com/television/report-raju-srivastava-health-update-comedian-is-critical-nephew-says-we-are-praying-for-miracle-2977720 | 2022-08-19T02:33:04Z | https://www.dnaindia.com/television/report-raju-srivastava-health-update-comedian-is-critical-nephew-says-we-are-praying-for-miracle-2977720 | true |
Lone survivor of lightning strike near the White House talks about struggle with survivors' guilt
File video above: Officials hold press conference after 4 people struck by lightning at park near White House
Amber Escudero-Kontostathis is the only survivor of a deadly lightning strike outside the White House earlier this month, and despite going through something so life-changing, she said she's recovering quickly.
Escudero- Kontostathis, 28, and three other victims were riding out a thunderstorm that hit the D.C. region around 7 p.m. in Lafayette Park underneath a tree on Aug. 4, a law enforcement source told CNN earlier this month.
Six bolts of lightning struck within half a second, Escudero-Kontostathis said on CNN's New Day Thursday.
James Mueller, 76, Donna Mueller, 75, and Brooks Lambertson, 29, died from their injuries.
"I'm not sure why I'm the one that made it," she told CNN affiliate WUSA. "I definitely have survivors' guilt because if I were to be this lucky, I feel everyone should be."
Plagued by nerve damage from her waist down leaving her with no feeling in her legs, Escudero-Kontostathis is now dependent on a walker to get around most of the time.
"Sometimes my legs just don't want to do what they're supposed to," she said. "It feels like almost like pins and needles is the best way to explain it, but just really magnified, sometimes it feels like my feet are on fire or really cold because the nerves don't know how to process pain."
Escudero-Kontostathis said doctors told her they have never had a patient survive what she endured.
"The emergency ER nurses actually brought my heartbeat back twice, and there were 10 minutes between those two heartbeats where I didn't have oxygen to my brain, I didn't have a heartbeat at all," she said.
Escudero-Kontostathis was canvassing the park for Threshold Giving, a grassroots organization that fundraises for nonprofits like the International Rescue Committee and the Humane Society, according to WUSA.
During the strike, Escudero-Kontostathis was wearing Doc Martin shoes with thick rubber soles she said probably helped reduce some of the shock she absorbed, but she credits the emergency responders, hospital staff and U.S. Secret Service for saving her life.
"Don't just go out in a thunderstorm wearing Docs because that will not save you, that's for sure," she said. "It is the miraclemakers that allow miracle stories to happen so they get all the props, all the attention goes to them."
An elderly couple and a bank executive died from the strike
Escudero-Kontostathis is still trying to piece together parts of time missing from her memory but remembers meeting and talking to the Muellers, who were visiting from Wisconsin, before they were all struck.
"They were just really lovely wonderful people," she said, "My heart is constantly breaking for both of those families that are going through that loss."
The Muellers and Lambertson were the 10th, 11th and 12th killed by lightning so far this year in the United States, according to John Jensenius, an expert at the National Lightning Safety Council.
Lambertson, a vice president at City National Bank, was in the area on business from Los Angeles.
"Brooks was an incredible young man who will be remembered for his generosity, kindness and unwavering positivity," his employer said in an online news release. "His sudden loss is devastating for all who knew him, and his family, friends and colleagues appreciate the thoughts and prayers that have poured in from around the country." | https://www.wtae.com/article/survivor-of-deadly-lightning-strike-near-the-white-house-survivors-guilt/40930986 | 2022-08-19T02:34:44Z | https://www.wtae.com/article/survivor-of-deadly-lightning-strike-near-the-white-house-survivors-guilt/40930986 | false |
Assessment of August 2 primary election gets mixed reviews
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - For most folks, the Aug. 2 primary went off without a hitch.
“We had new redistricting, a new system and a lot of new staff,” District 5 supervisor Adelita Grijalva told elections staff. “I thought you did a remarkable job.”
“Many of the fears that were propounded by opponents of the vote centers and e-poll books in the community were completely unfounded,” said District 1 Supervisor Rex Scott. “The voter experience on election day was a positive one.”
But not everyone agrees with those assessments, especially District 4 Supervisor Steve Christy.
“Our office received numerous anecdotal information about voting problems, voting issues that led to a lot of dissatisfaction with the process,” he told the board.
The Pima County Board of Supervisors held a postmortem on the election during it’s Aug. 15meeting to hear concerns about what might need to be fixed and where they were most successful.
There were no big disruptions, but according to Christy there were enough to cause concern.
“The more insecurity it spreads, the more opportunity for conspiracy theories,” he said.
The county became the 12th county in the state to adopt vote centers rather than precincts, a concept about two decades old and only permitted in 18 states.
Christy said they “had delays and hour long waits due to printers not working and voting centers running out of supplies.”
He said in Bear Canyon vote center they “ran out of ballots.”
Another problem he cited was “six voting centers had no Republican watchers at all and two had no Democrats at all.”
Vote centers are required to have representatives of both parties watching over the process.
The board voted to require the Pima County Elections Director and County recorder to prepare a report detailing the issues and concerns and a plan for correcting them. It’s due by the first board meeting in October although the report will first be given to the election integrity commission.
Copyright 2022 KOLD News 13. All rights reserved. | https://www.kold.com/2022/08/19/assessment-august-2-primary-election-gets-mixed-reviews/ | 2022-08-19T02:36:36Z | https://www.kold.com/2022/08/19/assessment-august-2-primary-election-gets-mixed-reviews/ | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — The newest meme stock on Wall Street, Bed Bath & Beyond, tumbled even further in after-hours trading Thursday after a high-profile activist investor confirmed that he’s bailed out of the stock.
Ryan Cohen, the co-founder of Chewy who helped ignite a couple of meme stocks to jaw-dropping heights, confirmed in a filing with U.S. regulators that he no longer owns any shares or options related to Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock.
The move disappointed hordes of smaller-pocketed and novice investors, who had piled into the stock amid hopes Cohen could turn around the company’s struggling finances, or at least send its stock on a moonshot like GameStop’s early last year.
Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock dropped 42% in after-hours trading, after it had already sank nearly 20% during the regular session to close at $18.55. The steep drop follows a monstrous run from $5.77 at the start of the month to $23.08 on Tuesday, which Wall Street analysts saw as irrational.
Cohen sold all of the nearly 7.8 million shares he held in Bed Bath & Beyond on Tuesday and Wednesday, at prices between $18.68 and $29.22. He also sold options tied to the stock. In March, he first revealed that he had built a nearly 10% stake in Bed Bath & Beyond, with shares purchased at prices between $13.08 and $17.10.
Investors on Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum, a hub of discussion for the stock, were trying to gauge their next steps in what one commenter called “BLOOD BATH AND BEYOND.”
“How many times are ‘meme traders’ going to keep mindlessly gambling on false prophets instead of actually learning how to invest and trade?” one commenter wrote.
Cohen was a big reason many investors piled into Bed Bath & Beyond, particularly after his earlier investment in GameStop helped that stock soar to heights that stunned all of Wall Street. As Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock kept going higher in recent days, many voices on Reddit and other social media sites urged other investors to keep buying. Along the way, some reveled in facing down the professional investors who had bet Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock would fall.
Despite all the furor, Bed Bath & Beyond continues to lose money as it struggles to navigate the post-pandemic retail landscape.
Bed Bath & Beyond fired CEO Mark Tritton in June after the company based in Union, New Jersey, reported a 25% drop-off in sales in its most recent quarter, which followed a 22% sales decline the previous quarter. Tritton, who as CEO of Target revitalized that retailer by introducing a bevy of new brands, laid out a similar plan for Bed Bath & Beyond in 2021, but with less success. | https://www.wfla.com/business/ap-business/bed-bath-beyond-tumbles-after-influential-investor-exits/ | 2022-08-19T02:38:11Z | https://www.wfla.com/business/ap-business/bed-bath-beyond-tumbles-after-influential-investor-exits/ | true |
EDISON, N.J., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SFERRA Fine Linens, LLC ("SFERRA") is notifying individuals of a data incident. To date, we have no evidence of actual or attempted misuse of information as a result of this incident. This notice provides details about the incident, our response, and resources available to help protect information. Please note, this event did not impact any of SFERRA's e-commerce platforms or any information retained in our e-commerce systems.
What Happened? On or about April 24, 2022, SFERRA became aware of suspicious activity on its computer servers. SFERRA immediately took steps to secure our network, and with the assistance of third-party forensic specialists, deployed countermeasures to contain the event. SFERRA immediately began an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the activity, with the assistance of third-party forensic specialist. The investigation found that certain files may have been subject to unauthorized access between April 14, 2022, and April 24, 2022.
Given that certain files were potentially accessed without authorization, SFERRA undertook a comprehensive review of the data to understand the specific information potentially impacted and to whom it related. Once those efforts were completed, SFERRA worked diligently to provide notification to potentially impacted individuals as quickly as possible.
What Information Was Involved? The impacted information varied by individual but may include name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, driver's license, financial account information, medical and/or health insurance information, passport information, electronic/digital signature, and account access credentials.
What SFERRA is Doing. SFERRA take this event and the obligation to safeguard the information in its care very seriously. After discovering the suspicious activity, SFERRA promptly took steps to confirm its system security, and engaged third-party forensic specialists to assist in conducting a comprehensive investigation of the event to confirm its nature, scope, and impact. SFERRA also promptly notified federal law enforcement. Further, as part of its ongoing commitment to the privacy and security of personal information in its care, SFERRA is reviewing and enhancing existing policies and procedures relating to data protection and security. SFERRA has instituted additional security measures to better protect against future similar events. SFERRA is also notifying relevant regulatory authorities, as required.
What Affected Individuals Can Do. Individuals are encouraged to remain vigilant against incidents of identity theft by reviewing account statements and credit reports for unusual activity and reporting any suspicious activity immediately to their financial institution. Additional detail can be found below in the Steps You Can Take to Help Protect Your Personal Information.
For More Information. Individuals who have questions about this incident or believe they may be impacted by this incident, please call our dedicated call center at 1-800-939-4170, which is available from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday (excluding major U.S. holidays).
Steps You Can Take to Help Protect Your Personal Information
Monitor Your Accounts
Under U.S. law, a consumer is entitled to one free credit report annually from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. To order your free credit report, visit www.annualcreditreport.com or call, toll-free, 1-877-322-8228. You may also directly contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below to request a free copy of your credit report.
Consumers have the right to place an initial or extended "fraud alert" on a credit file at no cost. An initial fraud alert is a 1-year alert that is placed on a consumer's credit file. Upon seeing a fraud alert display on a consumer's credit file, a business is required to take steps to verify the consumer's identity before extending new credit. If you are a victim of identity theft, you are entitled to an extended fraud alert, which is a fraud alert lasting seven years. Should you wish to place a fraud alert, please contact any one of the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below.
As an alternative to a fraud alert, consumers have the right to place a "credit freeze" on a credit report, which will prohibit a credit bureau from releasing information in the credit report without the consumer's express authorization. The credit freeze is designed to prevent credit, loans, and services from being approved in your name without your consent. However, you should be aware that using a credit freeze to take control over who gets access to the personal and financial information in your credit report may delay, interfere with, or prohibit the timely approval of any subsequent request or application you make regarding a new loan, credit, mortgage, or any other account involving the extension of credit. Pursuant to federal law, you cannot be charged to place or lift a credit freeze on your credit report. To request a credit freeze, you will need to provide the following information:
- Full name (including middle initial as well as Jr., Sr., II, III, etc.);
- Social Security number;
- Date of birth;
- Addresses for the prior two to five years;
- Proof of current address, such as a current utility bill or telephone bill;
- A legible photocopy of a government-issued identification card (state driver's license or ID card, etc.); and
- A copy of either the police report, investigative report, or complaint to a law enforcement agency concerning identity theft if you are a victim of identity theft.
Should you wish to place a credit freeze, please contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below:
Additional Information
You may further educate yourself regarding identity theft, fraud alerts, credit freezes, and the steps you can take to protect your personal information by contacting the consumer reporting bureaus, the Federal Trade Commission, or your state Attorney General. The Federal Trade Commission may be reached at: 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580; www.identitytheft.gov; 1-877-ID-THEFT (1-877-438-4338); and TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The Federal Trade Commission also encourages those who discover that their information has been misused to file a complaint with them. You can obtain further information on how to file such a complaint by way of the contact information listed above. You have the right to file a police report if you ever experience identity theft or fraud. Please note that in order to file a report with law enforcement for identity theft, you will likely need to provide some proof that you have been a victim. Instances of known or suspected identity theft should also be reported to law enforcement and your state Attorney General. This notice has not been delayed by law enforcement.
For California residents: Visit the California Office of Privacy Protection (www.oag.ca.gov/privacy) for additional information on protection against identity theft.
For Maryland residents, the Maryland Attorney General may be contacted at: 200 St. Paul Place, 16th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202; 1-410-528-8662 or 1-888-743-0023; and www.oag.state.md.us.
For New Mexico residents, you have rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, such as the right to be told if information in your credit file has been used against you, the right to know what is in your credit file, the right to ask for your credit score, and the right to dispute incomplete or inaccurate information. Further, pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the consumer reporting bureaus must correct or delete inaccurate, incomplete, or unverifiable information; consumer reporting agencies may not report outdated negative information; access to your file is limited; you must give your consent for credit reports to be provided to employers; you may limit "prescreened" offers of credit and insurance you get based on information in your credit report; and you may seek damages from violator. You may have additional rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act not summarized here. Identity theft victims and active duty military personnel have specific additional rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. We encourage you to review your rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act by visiting https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201504_cfpb_summary_your-rights-under-fcra.pdf, or by writing Consumer Response Center, Room 130-A, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580.
For New York residents, the New York Attorney General may be contacted at: Office of the Attorney General, The Capitol, Albany, NY 12224-0341; 1-800-771-7755; or https://ag.ny.gov/.
For North Carolina residents, the North Carolina Attorney General may be contacted at: 9001 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-9001; 1-877-566-7226 or 1-919-716-6000; and www.ncdoj.gov.
For Oregon residents: Oregon Department of Justice, 1162 Court Street NE, Salem, OR 97301-4096, www.doj.state.or.us/, Telephone: 877-877-9392.
For Rhode Island residents, the Rhode Island Attorney General may be reached at: 150 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02903; www.riag.ri.gov; and 1-401-274-4400. Under Rhode Island law, you have the right to obtain any police report filed in regard to this incident.
For all U.S. residents: Identity Theft Clearinghouse, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580, www.consumer.gov/idtheft, 1-877-IDTHEFT (438-4338).
View original content:
SOURCE SFERRA Fine Linens, LLC | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/notice-data-breach/ | 2022-08-19T02:41:33Z | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/notice-data-breach/ | false |
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Pupils will profit from tougher exams
Not since the Second World War has a year group of pupils weathered such a horrendously disrupted education as those receiving their A-level results yesterday.
Covid closed their schools for almost a year, forcing them to endure the peculiarities of remote learning, and their GCSEs were cancelled. These were the first formal exams many teenagers had taken.
So the Mail congratulates all those hard-working pupils who achieved the grades they needed to find jobs or go to university. They richly deserve their day of celebration.
A student at Southwark's City of London Academy opens her results as he teacher looks on
And we commiserate with the tens of thousands who sadly came up short – missing out on their first-choice universities. They must now join the anxious scramble for courses at other institutions.
Predictably, some critics moaned about the record slump in top grades awarded, claiming pupils had been treated unfairly.
But the decline happened because they are again sitting exams, instead of being assessed by over-generous teachers.
Indeed, the proportion receiving A or A* marks will fall sharply again next year back to pre-pandemic levels.
Yes, a few pupils may be disadvantaged. But re-imposing rigour and robustness to the education system could not be more vital. Reforms advanced by then education secretary Michael Gove, including tougher exams, have restored A-levels as a gold-standard qualification, after the rot set in under Tony Blair who allowed grade inflation to run rampant.
If these stringent benchmarks are casually abandoned, the biggest losers will be future generations of pupils.
Warped priorities
Up pops inept London Mayor Sadiq Khan on social media to advise the public on how to stay safe in thunderstorms.
Seek shelter indoors, he writes gravely, and if in a field, crouch down.
As violence engulfs the capital, wouldn’t an anxious public rather know how to stay safe on Mr Khan’s streets?
How old men on mobility scooters, like Thomas O’Halloran, can go about their lives without being stabbed to death? How the rising tide of gun and knife crime happening on Mr Khan’s watch can be turned?
That he has no answers speaks volumes about his warped priorities and appalling leadership. The mayor and police should heed ex-Met commissioner Lord Stevens.
Protecting the communities they are meant to serve, he says, means ditching virtue-signalling wokery and returning to ‘hard-edged basics’: Cracking down on crime by catching and convicting culprits.
Policing the streets in a meaningful way and keeping people safe would be an appropriate legacy from Mr O’Halloran’s senseless killing.
Deadly 999 delays
We know that emergency care in Britain is in a desperately poor state.
But what sort of country have we become when seriously ill elderly patients must suffer life-threateningly long delays before an ambulance takes them to hospital?
Today we report how a woman of 90 with a fractured hip waited an appalling two days before paramedics arrived. In another harrowing case, an 87-year-old grandfather spent a rainy night in a makeshift shelter, built by his family, after falling in his garden.
Of course, NHS trusts are overstretched, taking unprecedented volumes of 999 calls.
But a key problem is patients blocking beds in hospitals under intolerable strain, rather than being moved to social care.
This means it is pointless for ambulances to take new patients to A&E because there is simply nowhere to put them.
People call 999 at times of immense distress and pain. They don’t expect the NHS to add to their trauma. The case for urgent reform has never been more pressing. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11125847/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Pupils-profit-tougher-exams.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-08-19T02:45:28Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11125847/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Pupils-profit-tougher-exams.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true |
South Korea calls for talks as North test fires missiles
By Hyonhee Shin and Soo-hyang Choi
SEOUL, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Talks with North Korea should not be for political show but contribute to establishing peace, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Wednesday, just hours after the North test fired two cruise missiles into the sea.
Speaking at a news conference to mark his first 100 days in office, Yoon made no mention of the launches, which were only publicly reported later by the South Korean military.
Yoon repeated his willingness to provide phased economic aid to North Korea if it ended nuclear weapons development and began denuclearisation, noting that he had called for a dialogue with Pyongyang since his campaign.
"Any dialogue between the leaders of the South and North, or negotiations between working-level officials, should not be a political show, but should contribute to establishing substantive peace on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia," he said.
The comments were an apparent criticism of summits involving his predecessor Moon Jae-in, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and then-U.S. President Donald Trump.
Despite those meetings, denuclearisation talks stalled in 2019 and North Korea has said it will not trade away its self-defence, though it has called for an end to sanctions. It has been observed preparing for a possible nuclear test, which would be its first since 2017.
MILITARY DRILLS
North Korea's launches on Wednesday were the first reported in months, and were a day after South Korea and the United States began preliminary joint drills ahead of a restart of live field training halted under Moon.
A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on what he called "an alleged cruise missile launch," but said the United States remained focused on coordinating closely with allies and partners to "address the threats" posed by North Korea.
Yoon said South Korea was not in a position to guarantee the North's security if it gave up its nuclear weapons, but Seoul did not want a forced change in the status quo in the North.
The North's missile tests and nuclear development has revived debate over whether the South should pursue its own nuclear weapons. Yoon said that he was committed to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and working with the United States to boost its "extended deterrence" for South Korea.
"The NPT should not be abandoned and I will adhere to that until the end," he said.
LABOUR STRIFE
Facing falling opinion poll numbers and controversies over his picks for top ministers, Yoon was pressed by media on a range of issues including labour reform, housing shortages, and recovery from flooding this month.
Since Yoon took office in May, two strikes have cost industry more than $1.6 billion, according to labour ministry and shipbuilder estimates, although neither involved a government suppression before ending.
The president said he would always allow time for dialogue and compromise before suppressing an illegal strike.
Yoon called for ending discrepancies between "workers who do the same job", such as between direct hires and contract workers, without elaborating on how.
UKRAINE AID
He also touted major weapons sales including a deal last month with NATO-member Poland involving more than 1,600 tanks and howitzers, and nearly 50 fighter jets.
He declined, however, to say whether his government would change its policy of not directly providing lethal aid to Ukraine as it defends itself following Russia's invasion nearly six months ago.
"While it's difficult to elaborate here on the issue of supplying military support, we will help the Ukrainian people recover freedom and rebuild the destroyed national assets swiftly," Yoon said.
He said he believed that historical disputes with Japan dating back to its colonial occupation of the Korean peninsula from 1910-1945 could be overcome and that the two countries needed to cooperate more closely on supply chain and economic security. (Reporting by Josh Smith, Hyonhee Shin, Soo-hyang Choi, Joori Roh, Joyce Lee, and Idrees Ali; Writing by Richard Pullin, Stephen Coates; editing by Gerry Doyle and Grant McCool) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11118445/S-Korea-president-says-talks-N-Korea-show.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-19T02:46:48Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11118445/S-Korea-president-says-talks-N-Korea-show.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A trio of lawsuits target a Florida law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts race-based conversation and analysis in business and education, the latest filed Thursday by college professors and students claiming it is blatantly unconstitutional.
Known as the “Stop WOKE” act, the law targets what DeSantis has called a “pernicious” ideology exemplified by critical race theory — the idea that racism is systemic in U.S. institutions that serve to perpetuate white dominance in society.
The law prohibits teaching or business practices that contend members of one ethnic group are inherently racist and should feel guilt for past actions committed by others. It also bars the notion that a person’s status as privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by their race or gender, or that discrimination is acceptable to achieve diversity.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court claims the law amounts to “racially motivated censorship” that will act to “stifle widespread demands to discuss, study and address systemic inequalities” underscored by the national discussion of race following the killing of the Black man George Floyd by Minneapolis police in May 2020.
“In place of free and open academic inquiry and debate, instructors fear discussing topics of oppression, privilege, and race and gender inequalities with which the Legislature disagrees,” the lawsuit says. “As a result, students are either denied access to knowledge altogether or instructors are forced to present incomplete or inaccurate information that is steered toward the Legislature’s own views.”
Conservatives see critical race theory less as academic inquiry into truth and history and more as the imposition of a divisive ideology stemming from Marxism that assigns people into the categories of oppressor and oppressed based on their race.
The latest lawsuit joins two others already pending in Tallahassee federal court. Like the professors, a group of K-12 teachers and a student claim the law violates the Constitution’s protections of free expression, academic freedom and access to information in public schools.
The other lawsuit was brought by private entities, Clearwater-based Honeyfund.com and others, claiming their free speech rights are curtailed because the law infringes on company training programs stressing diversity, inclusion, elimination of bias and prevention of workplace harassment. Companies with 15 or more employees could face civil lawsuits over such practices.
That lawsuit says Honeyfund seeks to protect the rights of private employers to “engage in open and free exchange of information with employees to identify and begin to address discrimination and harm” in their organizations.
“The Stop WOKE Act aims to forward the government’s preferred narrative of history and society and to render illegal speech that challenges that narrative,” the lawsuit says.
All of the lawsuits are in various stages in the legal process and seek to have the Stop WOKE act declared unconstitutional. DeSantis has repeatedly said any losses at the lower court level are likely to be reversed by appeals courts that are generally more conservative.
DeSantis is running for reelection as governor this year and is widely viewed as a contender for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. He has made cultural issues a cornerstone of his administration, particularly snuffing out what he calls “woke” entities and philosophies centered on issues of discrimination involving race, gender and sexual orientation.
“What you see now with the rise of this woke ideology is an attempt to really delegitimize our history and to delegitimize our institutions and I view the wokeness as a form of cultural Marxism,” DeSantis said in a December 2021 speech. “They really want to tear at the fabric of our society.”
Another example of this is DeSantis’ effort to punish Walt Disney World for the company’s opposition to the Parental Rights in Education law, labeled by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law because it limits gender orientation instruction in early grades and chills discussion of the issue overall in schools.
The governor pushed the Legislature to end Disney World’s special independent district that essentially enabled it to run its own private government. That law doesn’t take full effect until June 2023 but has already been challenged in court.
Other lawsuits have challenged DeSantis priorities such as a ban on abortion after 15 weeks, a measure to fine tech companies if they “de-platform” political candidates over their viewpoints, an “anti-riot” law enacting new felonies following Black Lives Matter protests, a law placing new restrictions on elections and others. | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/trio-of-suits-target-florida-woke-law-pushed-by-desantis/ | 2022-08-19T02:49:30Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/trio-of-suits-target-florida-woke-law-pushed-by-desantis/ | false |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles man who opened fire on people at random in 2014, killing five people and wounding seven others, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Alexander Hernandez, 42, from the city's Sylmar neighborhood, was sentenced to multiple consecutive life terms for the rampage.
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office initially sought the death penalty for Hernandez but dropped that request in 2021. After his 2020 election, District Attorney George Gascón issued a policy that in general bars prosecutors from seeking capital punishment.
Authorities said Hernandez attacked people in the city's San Fernando Valley, mainly between March and August 2014. In addition to killing or wounding people, he was charged with opening fire on four people, including two 12-year-old children who were in a car with their parents.
Many victims were shot while in their cars, driving home from work, or heading to church or other activities. One man was killed while standing in a parking lot, another while walking in a Sylmar park, and a teenager was shot in his car and paralyzed after dropping off his girlfriend after their high school prom, authorities said.
Authorities said there was no discernible motive for the attacks. In some of them, Hernandez fired from his own vehicle, emblazoned on the back with stickers of “a white skull” and the numerals “666,″ authorities said.
In others, he stalked victims before opening fire with a shotgun, prosecutors said.
Hernandez pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but withdrew the plea before his trial, which stretched on for years while he remained in custody.
He was convicted last May of five counts of murder with special circumstances, 11 counts of attempted murder and more than a dozen other charges, including animal cruelty and being a felon in illegal possession of a firearm.
Before his murder trial, he pleaded no contest to shooting several dogs, killing two of them. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Los-Angeles-man-sentenced-to-life-for-5-random-17383389.php | 2022-08-19T02:50:45Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Los-Angeles-man-sentenced-to-life-for-5-random-17383389.php | true |
WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Two planes collided in Northern California while trying to land at a local airport Thursday and at least two of the three occupants were killed, officials said.
The planes crashed at Watsonville Municipal Airport shortly before 3 p.m., according to a tweet from the city of Watsonville. The city-owned airport does not have a control tower to direct aircraft landing and taking off.
There were two people aboard a twin-engine Cessna 340 and only the pilot aboard a single-engine Cessna 152 during the crash, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Officials say multiple fatalities were reported but it was not immediately clear whether anyone survived.
The pilots were on their final approaches to the airport before the collision, the FAA said in a statement.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board, which did not immediately have additional details, are investigating the crash.
No one on the ground was injured. The airport has four runways and is home to more than 300 aircraft, according to its website. It handles more than 55,000 operations a year and is used often for recreational planes and agriculture businesses.
Watsonville, near the Monterey Bay, is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of San Francisco.
Photos and videos posted on social media showed the wreckage of one small plane in a grassy field by the airport. One picture showed a plume of smoke visible from a street near the airport.
A photo from the city of Watsonville showed damage to a small building at the airport, with firefighters on the scene.
The planes were about 200 feet (61 meters) in the air when they crashed, a witness told the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Franky Herrera was driving past the airport when he saw the twin-engine plane bank hard to the right and hit the wing of the smaller aircraft, which “just spiraled down and crashed” near the edge of the airfield and not far from homes, he told the newspaper.
The twin-engine aircraft kept flying but “it was struggling,” Herrera said, and then he saw flames at the other side of the airport.
The manager of the Watsonville Municipal Airport was unavailable for a phone interview in the hours after the crash. The airport accounts for about 40% of all general aviation activities in the Monterey Bay area, according to the City of Watsonville’s website.
The Watsonville Police Department referred calls to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office, where a dispatcher had no information.
Two other pilots also were hurt in aircraft crashes elsewhere in California on Thursday.
A 65-year-old San Diego man received injuries that were major but not life-threatening when his single-engine plane crashed on a street near a busy freeway overpass in El Cajon, authorities said.
The plane reportedly struck an SUV but nobody on the ground was hurt in the city nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of downtown San Diego.
Later, the pilot of an ultralight aircraft was critically injured when it crashed upside down on a building at the Camarillo Airport in Ventura County, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) from downtown Los Angeles. | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/officials-at-least-2-die-after-planes-collide-in-california-2/ | 2022-08-19T02:51:00Z | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/officials-at-least-2-die-after-planes-collide-in-california-2/ | false |
WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
_____
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
809 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Live Oak and
northwestern Bee Counties through 900 PM CDT...
At 809 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Tulsita, or 12 miles south of Kenedy, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This strong thunderstorm will be near...
Tuleta around 815 PM CDT.
Normanna around 830 PM CDT.
Mineral around 835 PM CDT.
This includes US Highway 181 between mile markers 572 and 584.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 2871 9790 2870 9789 2869 9786 2867 9782
2868 9779 2866 9776 2846 9778 2852 9807
2869 9799 2872 9792
TIME...MOT...LOC 0109Z 019DEG 14KT 2863 9784
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of northeast Texas, including the following
counties, Angelina and Cherokee.
* WHEN...Until 1115 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos. Dangerous flows
over low-water crossings.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 812 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause urban and small stream
flooding. Between 2 and 3 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...
Lufkin, Hudson and Wells.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-CORPUS-CHRISTI-Warnings-Watches-and-17383375.php | 2022-08-19T02:53:38Z | https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-CORPUS-CHRISTI-Warnings-Watches-and-17383375.php | false |
MASON, Ohio (AP) — American Madison Keys upset No. 1 Iga Swiatek 6-3, 6-4 to reach the Western & Southern Open quarterfinals on Thursday.
Swiatek, a two-time Grand Slam champion, hasn’t gotten past the round of 16 in four tournaments since winning Roland Garros in June.
The win was the 24th-ranked Keys’ first in six matches against a top-ranked opponent. She had never won a set against a No. 1 player.
After dropping the first set and losing the first five games of the second, Swiatek rallied to win four straight, fighting off one match point before Keys clinched with a forehand winner to the ad court off a shot that clipped the net.
Swiatek won her first two matches against Keys, including 6-1, 6-0 earlier this year at Indian Wells.
“Obviously, there were a couple of games where I had match point,” Keys said in an on-court interview. “She beat me pretty badly the last time we played, so I was happy to get the win.”
Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova advanced to the women’s quarterfinals with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-0 win over 2022 Wimbledon finalist and fifth-seeded Ons Jabeur.
No. 1 Daniil Medvedev advanced to the quarterfinals with a 7-5, 7-5 win over Denis Shapovalov. Medvedev is trying to shake off a second-round loss to Nick Kyrgios last week in Montreal and hone his game for the upcoming U.S. Open.
Eleventh-seeded Taylor Fritz became the first man to reach the quarterfinals, edging sixth-seeded Andrey Rublev, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 7-5. | https://www.wfla.com/sports/ap-sports/keys-knocks-out-no-1-swiatek-of-western-southern-open/ | 2022-08-19T02:55:08Z | https://www.wfla.com/sports/ap-sports/keys-knocks-out-no-1-swiatek-of-western-southern-open/ | false |
Police: Pennsylvania man tried to buy stolen human remains
(AP) - A Pennsylvania man was charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and other charges after police say he allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook.
A spokeswoman for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock confirmed that the remains were to be donated to UAMS’s facility. UAMS spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said they were instead stolen from Arkansas Central Mortuary Services in Little Rock by a female mortuary employee and sold, adding that there is an open federal investigation.
“We are very respectful of those who donate their bodies, and we are appalled that such a thing could happen,” Taylor said.
A representative of the mortuary hung up on a reporter who reached out for comment Thursday.
FBI Little Rock spokesman Conor Hagan said the office was aware of the Pennsylvania incident “but will not comment on ongoing investigations.” No charges had been filed as of Thursday against the Arkansas woman.
East Pennsboro Township Police in Pennsylvania announced the arrest of and charges against 40-year-old Jeremy Lee Pauley, of Enola, Pennsylvania. Pauley had been arrested on July 22 and had an initial court appearance Thursday.
Calls to an attorney representing Pauley were not returned late Thursday. Pauley was released on $50,000 bond, according to court records.
On a Facebook page under his name, Pauley has posted pictures of bags and stacks of femurs, one captioned, “Picked up more medical bones to sort through.” The Facebook page he uses to market his body parts is called “The Grand Wunderkammer,” “Vendors of the odd and unusual, museum exhibits, guest lectures, live entertainment, and so much more! Strange, curious, and unique in every way possible!” It also provides a link to his website.
“I think I’ve seen it all, and then something like this comes around,” said Sean McCormack, district attorney for Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where Pauley was charged. “The question we had to answer was, Is the sale of body parts or bones and remains illegal ... or legal? Some of it, to our surprise, was legal. And as the investigation went on, it became clear there was illegal activity going on as well.”
Pauley, who described himself as a collector of what he called “oddities,” including human body parts, said the remains were acquired legally when first contacted by police, according to a police affidavit. Police initially found what they described as older human remains including full skeletons that they determined were legally obtained.
However, after a second tip about newer remains in Pauley’s home, investigators returned to the house to find more recent purchases. Police found three five-gallon buckets containing assorted body parts— including of children— and federal and state law enforcement agents intercepted packages addressed to Pauley from the Arkansas woman that contained body parts.
Pauley told investigators that he intended to resell the body parts, according to the affidavit. Investigators allege that Pauley arranged to pay the Arkansas woman $4,000 for the body parts through Facebook Messenger.
Facebook did not respond to messages seeking comments on Pauley’s pages. However, its community standards prohibit human exploitation and explicitly prohibit selling body parts through its commercial policies and advertising policies.
___
Associated Press writer Kantele Franko of Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wnem.com/2022/08/19/police-pennsylvania-man-tried-buy-stolen-human-remains/ | 2022-08-19T02:59:51Z | https://www.wnem.com/2022/08/19/police-pennsylvania-man-tried-buy-stolen-human-remains/ | false |
From student to janitor to being in charge: Meet Ione Elementary’s new principal
Ione Elementary School has a new principal this year but, this is far from his first time setting foot on the campus.
Mike Huss was a student at the elementary school, and despite him saying that he never saw himself in education growing up, his peers and family believed otherwise.
After graduating high school, Huss became a janitor at the school. His coworkers, friends and family saw how he interacted with the kids and encouraged him to get his teaching degree.
And he went for it.
“I wanted to show my young son, that if your dad can do this, if your dad can be the school janitor coaching youth sports, maintain a good grade point average and become a school teacher, you can accomplish anything in this life son,” Huss said.
Those that work with him say it's that drive of his that makes him an inspiration to everyone he encounters.
“I think it’s neat when people can stay in their community and there’s opportunities like this," said Melanie Cortez, office administrator for the school. "The kids aren’t used to seeing him in the office, so we have kids come in all day long asking, 'Is Mr. Huss busy?"
Huss said, for him, it's just the opportunity to change a child’s life as someone once did for him. Now, as an educator himself, he takes pride in connecting with his students.
Every Wednesday, he said he walks to school with kids. He also started a summer bike riding group as a way to stay active and involved with his students even over the break.
"I’m trying to help students believe in themselves that they can accomplish great things if they just say the course,” Huss said. | https://www.kcra.com/article/student-janitor-meet-ione-elementarys-new-principal/40935910 | 2022-08-19T03:03:40Z | https://www.kcra.com/article/student-janitor-meet-ione-elementarys-new-principal/40935910 | true |
WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
_____
AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
946 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of west central Texas, including the following
counties, Concho, Menard, Schleicher and Tom Green.
* WHEN...Until 1245 AM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 944 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Eldorado, Christoval, Live Oak, Adams and The Intersection Of
Us-190 And Ranch Road 2084.
- This includes the following Low Water Crossings...
County Road 2019 crossing Brady Creek, County Road 2304
crossing Fitzgerald Creek and Russell crossing Rocky Creek.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.myplainview.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-SAN-ANGELO-Warnings-Watches-and-17383494.php | 2022-08-19T03:07:27Z | https://www.myplainview.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-SAN-ANGELO-Warnings-Watches-and-17383494.php | true |
Mystery as 10-year veteran is sacked by Brisbane Roar in bizarre 25-word press release that saw club slammed by players' association - as defender launches legal action
- Veteran defender Corey Brown has been sacked by A-League club Brisbane Roar
- Team released terse 25-word statement on Thursday night confirming the news
- Professional Footballers Australia (PFA) will fight outcome on behalf of Brown
Brisbane Roar have sacked veteran defender Corey Brown - and are refusing to say what's behind the shock decision.
The Roar released a bizarre 25-word statement on Thursday confirming the 28-year-old has departed the A-League club, effective immediately.
'Brisbane Roar FC wishes to advise of the termination of the contract of defender Corey Brown,' the statement read.
'The club wishes him well for his future endeavours.'
The shock development has been slammed by Professional Footballers Australia (PFA), which believes Brown has been treated appallingly.
Brisbane Roar have sacked veteran defender Corey Brown (pictured right) - and are remaining tight-lipped about why he was cut
The Roar released a bizarre 25-word statement on Thursday confirming Brown, 28, has departed the A-League club, effective immediately
The PFA believes the statement from the Roar is 'misleading and bizarre', saying Brown's contract still stands and he has started legal proceedings.
'As the club is aware, Corey has initiated proceedings to dispute Brisbane Roar's termination of his contract,' PFA co-chief executive Beau Busch said in a statement.
'As a consequence of this legal action, Corey's contract remains on foot until a final determination is made. This is something the club, deliberately or otherwise, is failing to understand.
'As the club continues to operate well below the expected standards of a professional football club, the PFA's primary focus remains on protecting Corey's well-being – something the club seems to have little regard for.'
Brown has made over 150 appearances across two stints with the Roar dating back to 2011.
The shock development has been slammed by the Professional Footballers Australia (PFA), who believe Brown has been treated appallingly. The 28-year-old will fight the outcome via Football Australia's national dispute resolution chamber
It remains unknown why Roar coach Warren Moon (pictured) didn't see Brown in his plans for the upcoming A-League season
It is understood the matter is set to go before Football Australia's national dispute resolution chamber.
The Roar and legal disputes with former players and coaches seem to go hand in hand.
Last year, the Roar were ordered to cough up an insurance payout of nearly $370,000 to former Socceroo Brett Holman after a court ruled a payment received following a career-ending knee injury should have gone to the player and not the club.
In 2020, FIFA's dispute resolution chamber upheld Robbie Fowler's claim he was wrongfully dismissed by the club as head coach in June 2020, leading to a reported six-figure payout in favour of the Liverpool great.
Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Brisbane Roar for comment. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/a-league/article-11125759/Mystery-10-year-veteran-sacked-Brisbane-Roar-bizarre-25-word-press-release.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-19T03:14:37Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/a-league/article-11125759/Mystery-10-year-veteran-sacked-Brisbane-Roar-bizarre-25-word-press-release.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Alexandra Elena Franco Rivas was born in Ecuador and at the age of 13 decided to give Taekwondo a try following her siblings. She has not looked back since.
In the South American country she earned high recognitions and made it all the way to the Ecuadorian national team.
As the years went by, Alexandra moved to the United States and with her husband began having classes in the back of their home in Hamilton, New Jersey.
Then, they started having classes in Trenton, where they opened what would be Capital City, a school that teaches the youth, majority latinos.
Capital City earned recognition as they started winning competitions at a local, state and national.
Through her hard work, dedication and family support, Alexandra has received to become a member of the official Taekwondo Hall of Fame.
The event will take place on Friday, August 18 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
To watch the story in Spanish click here. | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/elena-franco-of-trenton-becomes-first-ecuadorian-in-the-taekwondo-hall-of-fame/article_7480fee0-1f5e-11ed-8647-2f3c2ab579b3.html | 2022-08-19T03:19:02Z | https://www.wfmz.com/sports/elena-franco-of-trenton-becomes-first-ecuadorian-in-the-taekwondo-hall-of-fame/article_7480fee0-1f5e-11ed-8647-2f3c2ab579b3.html | true |
WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
_____
AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
946 PM CDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of west central Texas, including the following
counties, Concho, Menard, Schleicher and Tom Green.
* WHEN...Until 1245 AM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 944 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Eldorado, Christoval, Live Oak, Adams and The Intersection Of
Us-190 And Ranch Road 2084.
- This includes the following Low Water Crossings...
County Road 2019 crossing Brady Creek, County Road 2304
crossing Fitzgerald Creek and Russell crossing Rocky Creek.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.michigansthumb.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-SAN-ANGELO-Warnings-Watches-and-17383494.php | 2022-08-19T03:22:15Z | https://www.michigansthumb.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-SAN-ANGELO-Warnings-Watches-and-17383494.php | false |
INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Metro Police are investigating after a child was assaulted in a park on the near east side.
Neighbors along Forest Manor Avenue say police were all over Legacy Park of Hope Tuesday night, investigating after an 11-year-old girl told them a man sexually assaulted her there.
After police issued an alert about an alleged suspect in the case, reports say they arrested James Kenneth Howard Jr.
Howard was being held in the Marion County Jail on preliminary charges of criminal confinement and child molesting.
One neighbor, who didn’t want to give his name, said he hoped police would patrol the area more often, especially in light of what allegedly happened Tuesday.
“These children are out here, and we need to do everything we can to keep them safe,” he said.
13News has reached out to the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office seeking court documents that may provide more detail about the investigation.
What other people are reading:
- Here's when you can now expect your tax refund check from the state
- Man critically injured in massive Bargersville house fire
- Man injured in fall during Lucas Oil Stadium concert
- Monkey business behind 911 call from California zoo
- Veterinarian warns of ticks, Lyme disease year-round
- B1G deal: Big Ten lands $7 billion, NFL-style TV contracts
- This New York City tower is the skinniest skyscraper in the world
- IEMS makes changes to how emergency runs are handled | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/indianapolis-police-make-arrest-after-11-year-old-girl-reports-being-assaulted-in-park-impd-molest-confinement/531-37ccdec5-8b46-41bb-ae40-eb09da92da7e | 2022-08-19T03:23:10Z | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/indianapolis-police-make-arrest-after-11-year-old-girl-reports-being-assaulted-in-park-impd-molest-confinement/531-37ccdec5-8b46-41bb-ae40-eb09da92da7e | true |
WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 18, 2022
_____
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
821 PM PDT Thu Aug 18 2022
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MST/10 PM PDT/
THIS EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MOHAVE AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES...
At 821 PM MST /821 PM PDT/, As of 820 pm...Heavy thunderstorms
continued near Parker and Vidal Junction. Rainfall estimates of 1 to
2 inches have been detected in this area and flash flooding is
likely. Impacts to US 95 near Vidal Junction as well as Parker Dam
Road are expected.
HAZARD...Life-threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms producing
flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life-threatening flash flooding of low-water crossings,
creeks, normally dry washes and roads.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Lake Havasu City, Highway 95 At Mile Marker 29, Parker Dam, Desert
Hills, Vidal Junction, Big River, Earp, Three Dunes Campground,
Black Meadow Landing Campground and Cattail Cove State Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
_____
Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.mrt.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LAS-VEGAS-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17383539.php | 2022-08-19T03:36:18Z | https://www.mrt.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LAS-VEGAS-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17383539.php | true |
RALEIGH, N.C. — Preparing for a storm happens long before the dark clouds roll in during the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season.
What You Need To Know
The Burke Brothers Hardware store has been family-owned since 1936
Jeff Hastings took over more than seven years ago
The co-owner said severe weather positively impacts sales
Weather and consumer buying habits are linked according to NRF report
Burke Brothers Hardware is one of those go-to locations people turn to before inclement weather. That's true for not only customers but the store owners that provide essential items.
“I’m a believer that when you have a small business like a hardware store you are part of the community,” Jeff Hastings said.
Hastings co-owns Burke Brothers with his wife. The mom and pop store has been a pillar of the community since 1936. It’s why Hastings didn’t change the business model when he took over the shop more than seven years ago.
His top priority is stocking up on the goods folks need for severe weather, like batteries.
“(It will) be the first thing. If you get a power outage people are going to need it for their flashlights. They gotta be able to see after 9 o’clock at night when they get up in the middle of the night and they hear something go boom,” he said.
Extreme weather patterns and business sales often tie together. A National Retail Federation report revealed changes in temperature and precipitation affect consumer habits.
The NRF estimated these changes influence over 90% of a business' weather-driven sales.
Hastings watches it play out storm after storm.
“Where are there holes, and if we can’t get this exact product, what can we get that is very much like it that we can put in the hands of the consumer?” he said.
Locals have shopped at the hardware store for more than 80 years.
Much of what Hastings sells depends on how Mother Nature functions.
“When y’all (meteorologists) tell me the storm starts coming, that's when I start to push hard on stocking things up,” Hastings said.
The businessman said customers are curious about the best ways to protect their families.
“You never get the same question twice,” he said.
He said in recent years, ahead of an impending hurricane, more electrical equipment has sold.
“People are turning to this (brand) so they don’t have to worry about fuel resources,” Hastings said.
Replenishing some items, like gasoline-free lawnmowers and cordless power tools, isn’t easy. Hastings said supply chain issues impact the timely shipments of this brand.
Hastings said planning for weather events is never-ending. As an independently owned business, he and his wife check inventory well after closing time many nights.
“Where are there holes? And, if we can’t get this exact product, what can we get that is very much like it that we can put in the hands of the consumer?” he said.
Hastings leaned on a shelf and waved his arm in the direction of some products. He pulled out a list of what weather-related products are in stock.
“Top of mind awareness. It tells us what we need to have,” he said as he pointed at the paper.
The list stays in his pocket when he is in the store. He said what they sell is a feeling of safety, whether it be an older couple or a group of college students.
“(We want our customers to) be self-sufficient without having to come back here five or six times for the same issue,” he said.
The store even has a pair of four-legged store mascots: two cats named Paul and John.
He said they have pawed out a fair amount of repeat business.
“You literally see all walks of life, and we see everybody, and it’s a joy to come here every day,” he said.
Hastings said sales can rise 40% before storms hit and revenue can fall 30% if storms are bad enough to close their store. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/08/19/severe-weather-benefits-family-owned-hardware-store- | 2022-08-19T03:40:39Z | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/08/19/severe-weather-benefits-family-owned-hardware-store- | false |
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To ease the rising electricity tension this summer, BLUETTI will have a Power Week from August 18 to August 28. Scroll down to learn more about them.
Not just a sidekick, but a hero on its own.
Not only as an expansion battery, B230 and B300 can be used as an independent power source since multiple outputs are built for versatile charging, including 1*18W USB-A QC3.0, 1*100W PD3.0 Type-C, and 1*12V/10A Cigarette Lighter.
The MPPT within B300 allows a 200W Max. solar input. While with the T500 adapter, no need to connect with AC200MAX and AC300 power stations, the B230 and B300 can reach up to 500W AC input rate.
The magic charging box - BLUETTI D050S (DC Charging Enhancer).
B230 and B300 are qualified as power sources. However, they can be leveraged to their full potential when teamed up with the D050S. It enables more recharging methods, like 12/24V car charging, Lead-acid battery, and even AC. It can boost a 1400W Max. solar input for AC200MAX.
Without the idle draw of the inverter, the discharge efficiency of such a Pure DC Solar Generator is expected to reach more than 95%. An excursionist doesn't have to carry a whole set of BLUETTI products because one battery pack is sufficient to power hungry devices on the road.
High Compatibility - Not just for the AC200MAX or AC300.
B230 and B300 were announced with AC200MAX and AC300, respectively. Yet they are also compatible with other units like AC200, AC200P, EB150, and EB240 while connecting with D050S. Increase the overall capacity anytime to survive blackouts and other emergencies.
LiFePO4 - The safest and most durable battery chemistry.
Safety and durability have been the top priorities to consider before purchasing a power station, so BLUETTI adopts the latest LiFePO4 technology while producing solar generators in recent years.
B230 and B300 provides better electrochemical performance, lower resistance, and more stable cathode materials compared to NCM chemistry in the market.
More Units and Combos to Recommend During BLUETTI Power Week 2022
Electricity, one of the most widely used forms of energy, soon became life's necessity once found. If there's a power cut, even a very brief one, the consequences can be catastrophic, especially while experiencing extreme heat on summer days.
About BLUETTI
With over 10 years of industry experience, BLUETTI has tried to stay true to a sustainable future through green energy storage solutions for both indoor and outdoor use while delivering an exceptional eco-friendly experience for everyone and the world. BLUETTI is making its presence in 70+ countries and is trusted by millions of customers across the globe. For more information, please visit BLUETTI online at https://www.bluettipower.com/.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE BLUETTI POWER INC | https://www.valleynewslive.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/bluetti-will-have-power-week-august-18-august-28/ | 2022-08-19T03:42:14Z | https://www.valleynewslive.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/bluetti-will-have-power-week-august-18-august-28/ | true |
The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Thursday:
9-8-8
(nine, eight, eight)
12-31-34-36-39
(twelve, thirty-one, thirty-four, thirty-six, thirty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $273,000
17-21-23-39-41-42
(seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-three, thirty-nine, forty-one, forty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $205,000
9-1-1
(nine, one, one)
5-8-6
(five, eight, six)
5-7-1-7
(five, seven, one, seven)
9-5-2-9
(nine, five, two, nine)
02-14-18-22-25
(two, fourteen, eighteen, twenty-two, twenty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $140,000
9-5-2
(nine, five, two)
1-7-4
(one, seven, four)
4-5-2-3
(four, five, two, three)
1st:5 California Classic-2nd:11 Money Bags-3rd:2 Lucky Star, Race Time: 1:40.74
(1st: 5 California Classic, 2nd: 11 Money Bags, 3rd: 2 Lucky Star; Race Time: one: 40.74)
Estimated jackpot: $62,000
01-13-26-29-35
(one, thirteen, twenty-six, twenty-nine, thirty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $78,000
06-08-12-14-30
(six, eight, twelve, fourteen, thirty)
Estimated jackpot: $20,000
0-7-9
(zero, seven, nine)
2-4-8
(two, four, eight)
05-22-30-32-34
(five, twenty-two, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-four)
8-2-2, WB: 1
(eight, two, two; WB: one)
5-6-3, WB: 3
(five, six, three; WB: three)
8-3-8-2, WB: 5
(eight, three, eight, two; WB: five)
0-0-0-1, WB: 9
(zero, zero, zero, one; WB: nine)
2-8-6
(two, eight, six)
8-9-4
(eight, nine, four)
0-3-6-3
(zero, three, six, three)
6-6-3-3
(six, six, three, three)
3-5
(three, five)
0-7
(zero, seven)
7-4-7
(seven, four, seven)
9-8-1
(nine, eight, one)
9-3-8-6
(nine, three, eight, six)
2-8-3-8
(two, eight, three, eight)
6-8-6-9-2
(six, eight, six, nine, two)
0-4-5-3-6
(zero, four, five, three, six)
4-5, FB: 7
(four, five; FB: seven)
2-6, FB: 5
(two, six; FB: five)
5-3-6, FB: 7
(five, three, six; FB: seven)
4-7-4, FB: 5
(four, seven, four; FB: five)
7-2-4-4, FB: 7
(seven, two, four, four; FB: seven)
2-4-5-3, FB: 5
(two, four, five, three; FB: five)
3-9-3-0-0, FB: 7
(three, nine, three, zero, zero; FB: seven)
7-8-7-6-4, FB: 5
(seven, eight, seven, six, four; FB: five)
7-4-7
(seven, four, seven)
9-0-2
(nine, zero, two)
5-3-4-1
(five, three, four, one)
6-1-4-5
(six, one, four, five)
8-2-7-6-2
(eight, two, seven, six, two)
5-1-1-6-5
(five, one, one, six, five)
06-07-11-14-36
(six, seven, eleven, fourteen, thirty-six)
Estimated jackpot: $75,600
9-7-7
(nine, seven, seven)
3-0-8
(three, zero, eight)
0-8-1-0
(zero, eight, one, zero)
0-7-0-8
(zero, seven, zero, eight)
05-06-19-25-26
(five, six, nineteen, twenty-five, twenty-six)
07-10-16-20-25-50, Extra Shot: 9
(seven, ten, sixteen, twenty, twenty-five, fifty; Extra Shot: nine)
Estimated jackpot: $9,500,000
10-19-29-34-36
(ten, nineteen, twenty-nine, thirty-four, thirty-six)
Estimated jackpot: $1,300,000
03-08-26-34-37
(three, eight, twenty-six, thirty-four, thirty-seven)
Estimated jackpot: $1,300,000
01-05-14-21-25-26-28-33-34-37-39-45-47-50-57-60-67-70-74-80, BE: 25
(one, five, fourteen, twenty-one, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-eight, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-seven, thirty-nine, forty-five, forty-seven, fifty, fifty-seven, sixty, sixty-seven, seventy, seventy-four, eighty; BE: twenty-five)
2-5-1, SB: 2
(two, five, one; SB: two)
5-9-6-1, SB: 2
(five, nine, six, one; SB: two)
2-5-1
(two, five, one)
5-9-6-1
(five, nine, six, one)
5-5-4
(five, five, four)
0-7-8
(zero, seven, eight)
08-10-22-29, Cash Ball: 19
(eight, ten, twenty-two, twenty-nine; Cash Ball: nineteen)
4-5-9
(four, five, nine)
1-1-2
(one, one, two)
2-0-8-6
(two, zero, eight, six)
5-9-8-3
(five, nine, eight, three)
4C-9C-5D-7D-5H
(4C, 9C, 5D, 7D, 5H)
05-06-19-34-39, Bonus: 31
(five, six, nineteen, thirty-four, thirty-nine; Bonus: thirty-one)
8-1-0
(eight, one, zero)
2-5-0
(two, five, zero)
5-4-6-8
(five, four, six, eight)
8-8-1-6
(eight, eight, one, six)
5-3-8-6-1
(five, three, eight, six, one)
4-7-5-0-3
(four, seven, five, zero, three)
05-07-15-17-31
(five, seven, fifteen, seventeen, thirty-one)
8-3-4-6
(eight, three, four, six)
7-9-6-5
(seven, nine, six, five)
09-17-18-32-39
(nine, seventeen, eighteen, thirty-two, thirty-nine)
AD-JH-3C-7D-6H
(AD, JH, 3C, 7D, 6H)
0-5-4
(zero, five, four)
0-2-8-8
(zero, two, eight, eight)
7-2-3
(seven, two, three)
9-4-4-4
(nine, four, four, four)
05-12-16-17-29
(five, twelve, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $180,000
03-05-12-18-19-22-25-27-29-30-34-37-40-41-44-45-54-55-68-69-79-80
(three, five, twelve, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-five, twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-four, thirty-seven, forty, forty-one, forty-four, forty-five, fifty-four, fifty-five, sixty-eight, sixty-nine, seventy-nine, eighty)
01-02-07-16-18
(one, two, seven, sixteen, eighteen)
Estimated jackpot: $93,000
3-8-6
(three, eight, six)
4-4-0
(four, four, zero)
2-3-6
(two, three, six)
7-2-3-0
(seven, two, three, zero)
6-2-5-7
(six, two, five, seven)
01-17-20-35-37
(one, seventeen, twenty, thirty-five, thirty-seven)
09-14-16-17, Bonus: 9
(nine, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen; Bonus: nine)
Estimated jackpot: $10,111
Month: 5, Day: 12, Year: 88
(Month: five; Day: twelve; Year: eighty-eight)
8-6-7
(eight, six, seven)
05-06-12-16-28
(five, six, twelve, sixteen, twenty-eight)
08-17-19-22-27-30
(eight, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-seven, thirty)
06-20-23-35-45-46
(six, twenty, twenty-three, thirty-five, forty-five, forty-six)
02-20-21-25-41, Xtra: 3
(two, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-five, forty-one; Xtra: three)
3-6-9, Fireball: 9
(three, six, nine; Fireball: nine)
5-2-5-2, Fireball: 9
(five, two, five, two; Fireball: nine)
8-6-0
(eight, six, zero)
9-1-4-1
(nine, one, four, one)
13-22-25-29-37
(thirteen, twenty-two, twenty-five, twenty-nine, thirty-seven)
7-5-9
(seven, five, nine)
2-3-4-8
(two, three, four, eight)
7-7-1
(seven, seven, one)
7-6-8-8
(seven, six, eight, eight)
07-17-18-19-21
(seven, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-one)
07-10-12-16-19-23-31-32-35-38-39-40-44-49-51-55-58-65-66-76
(seven, ten, twelve, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-three, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-five, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty, forty-four, forty-nine, fifty-one, fifty-five, fifty-eight, sixty-five, sixty-six, seventy-six)
0-6-3, Lucky Sum: 9
(zero, six, three; Lucky Sum: nine)
3-4-6-1, Lucky Sum: 14
(three, four, six, one; Lucky Sum: fourteen)
1-9-1
(one, nine, one)
5-7-2
(five, seven, two)
9-1-9-4
(nine, one, nine, four)
4-5-0-5
(four, five, zero, five)
2-8-0-1-1
(two, eight, zero, one, one)
6-0-3-0-6
(six, zero, three, zero, six)
08-11-26-33-38
(eight, eleven, twenty-six, thirty-three, thirty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $300,000
01-14-20-24-25
(one, fourteen, twenty, twenty-four, twenty-five)
6-0-3
(six, zero, three)
04-08-12-15-19-24-28-30
(four, eight, twelve, fifteen, nineteen, twenty-four, twenty-eight, thirty)
Estimated jackpot: $17,000
3-6-5-5
(three, six, five, five)
8-4-9-6
(eight, four, nine, six)
4-5-5-0
(four, five, five, zero)
02-04-10-11-17
(two, four, ten, eleven, seventeen)
Estimated jackpot: $530,000
07-11-12-14-18-30
(seven, eleven, twelve, fourteen, eighteen, thirty)
Estimated jackpot: $770,000
5-1, Wild: 7
(five, one; Wild: seven)
0-6, Wild: 1
(zero, six; Wild: one)
1-9-1, Wild: 7
(one, nine, one; Wild: seven)
3-0-7, Wild: 1
(three, zero, seven; Wild: one)
3-6-5-0, Wild: 7
(three, six, five, zero; Wild: seven)
9-5-5-6, Wild: 1
(nine, five, five, six; Wild: one)
4-5-1-1-9, Wild: 7
(four, five, one, one, nine; Wild: seven)
3-1-7-5-1, Wild: 1
(three, one, seven, five, one; Wild: one)
07-10-13-14-15
(seven, ten, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen)
Estimated jackpot: $31,000
7-5-4-5
(seven, five, four, five)
2-9-8-9
(two, nine, eight, nine)
08-12-13-16-26, Extra: 24
(eight, twelve, thirteen, sixteen, twenty-six; Extra: twenty-four)
Estimated jackpot: $103,000
02-11-17-24-36, Power-Up: 3
(two, eleven, seventeen, twenty-four, thirty-six; Power, Up: three)
6-7-5, FB: 2
(six, seven, five; FB: two)
9-1-2, FB: 3
(nine, one, two; FB: three)
6-8-2-7, FB: 2
(six, eight, two, seven; FB: two)
3-2-0-5, FB: 3
(three, two, zero, five; FB: three)
8-2-9, Wild: 3
(eight, two, nine; Wild: three)
6-1-1, Wild: 9
(six, one, one; Wild: nine)
2-3-1, Wild: 6
(two, three, one; Wild: six)
1-4-2-8, Wild: 4
(one, four, two, eight; Wild: four)
7-2-0-6, Wild: 1
(seven, two, zero, six; Wild: one)
1-0-3-2, Wild: 2
(one, zero, three, two; Wild: two)
02-03-06-07-08-10-13-15-17-18-21-24
(two, three, six, seven, eight, ten, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-four)
01-02-06-08-12-14-15-17-18-20-22-24
(one, two, six, eight, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-four)
01-02-05-06-08-09-10-16-19-20-21-23
(one, two, five, six, eight, nine, ten, sixteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-three)
6-6-1-4, FIREBALL:
(six, six, one, four; FIREBALL: zero)
7-1-8-9, FIREBALL: 6
(seven, one, eight, nine; FIREBALL: six)
9-3-6-3, FIREBALL: 7
(nine, three, six, three; FIREBALL: seven)
9-8-8, FIREBALL:
(nine, eight, eight; FIREBALL: zero)
2-3-3, FIREBALL: 2
(two, three, three; FIREBALL: two)
6-7-6, FIREBALL: 2
(six, seven, six; FIREBALL: two)
10-27-29-30-34
(ten, twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-four)
4-5-2, FB: 1
(four, five, two; FB: one)
0-6-2, FB: 5
(zero, six, two; FB: five)
8-7-8-5, FB: 6
(eight, seven, eight, five; FB: six)
1-6-0-3, FB: 1
(one, six, zero, three; FB: one)
01-05-33-34-36
(one, five, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-six)
07-16-19-21
(seven, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-one)
06-13-16-20-23-25
(six, thirteen, sixteen, twenty, twenty-three, twenty-five)
9-9-8
(nine, nine, eight)
5-7-6-2
(five, seven, six, two)
01-02-04-05-06-13-15-17-19-20-21
(one, two, four, five, six, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one)
03-04-08-09-11-12-14-15-16-19-21
(three, four, eight, nine, eleven, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-one)
5-7-5
(five, seven, five)
3-2-8-9
(three, two, eight, nine)
04-19-25-26-35-37, Doubler: N
(four, nineteen, twenty-five, twenty-six, thirty-five, thirty-seven; Doubler: N)
09-15-23-28-29
(nine, fifteen, twenty-three, twenty-eight, twenty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $10,000
4-5-1
(four, five, one)
1-8-5-5
(one, eight, five, five) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Lottery-State-by-State-All-17383470.php | 2022-08-19T03:44:27Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Lottery-State-by-State-All-17383470.php | true |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
07-10-16-20-25-50, Extra Shot: 9
(seven, ten, sixteen, twenty, twenty-five, fifty; Extra Shot: nine)
Estimated jackpot: $9,500,000 | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17383500.php | 2022-08-19T03:45:59Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17383500.php | false |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
05-22-30-32-34
(five, twenty-two, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-four)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
05-22-30-32-34
(five, twenty-two, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-four) | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17383514.php | 2022-08-19T03:46:53Z | https://www.theheraldreview.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17383514.php | true |
TAIZHOU, China, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jiangsu Recbio Technology Co., Ltd. (the "Company", together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") is pleased to announce that, the Company has completed the subject enrollment and dosing for the comparative Phase II clinical trial between its recombinant protein COVID-19 vaccine, ReCOV ("ReCOV") and Pfizer's mRNA vaccine COMIRNATY®. It has only taken around two weeks from the receipt of clinical trial approval to completion of the subject enrollment and dosing, which clearly demonstrates the high efficiency and execution capability of the clinical team of the Group.
A total of 600 subjects have been enrolled in this Phase II clinical trial. After completion of the booster vaccination, safety and immunogenicity follow-up will be conducted on all the subjects.
ReCOV is a recombinant COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the Company with its technology platforms including the novel adjuvant and protein engineering platforms, and the adjuvant used therein is the self-developed novel adjuvant BFA03. Based on the relevant studies conducted by the Company, ReCOV can induce high titers of neutralizing antibody and Th1 biased cellular immune response, and has shown favourable neutralizing effect and immune persistence against variants including Omicron variant and Delta variant. It has a variety of comprehensive advantages, including overall positive safety profile, potential growth in production scale, low production cost, preparation stability, and ability to be stored and transported at room temperature.
About Recbio
Founded in 2012, Recbio is an innovative vaccine company. With the vision of "Become the Leader of Innovative Vaccine in the Future," Recbio takes "Protect Human Health with Best-in-Class Vaccines" as its mission. It has established three major cutting-edge technology platforms including novel adjuvants platform, protein engineering platform, immunological evaluation platform and mRNA vaccine platform. Recbio has a high-value vaccine portfolio consisted of HPV vaccine candidates, COVID-19 vaccine candidates, shingles vaccine candidates, influenza vaccine candidates, adults TB vaccine candidates etc. The core management team has more than 20 years of experience in the development and commercialization of innovative vaccines. For more information, please visit https://www.recbio.cn/.
Forward-looking statements
This Press Release may contain projections, estimates, forecasts, targets, opinions, prospects, results, returns and forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition, results of operations, capital position, strategy and business of the Group which can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may", "will", "should", "expect", "anticipate", "project", "plan", "estimate", "seek", "intend", "target", "believe", "potential" and "reasonably possible" or the negatives thereof or other variations thereon or comparable terminology (collectively, "forward-looking statements"), including the strategic priorities, research and development projects, and any financial, investment and capital targets and any other targets, commitments and ambitions described in writing or verbally herein. Any such forward-looking statements are not a reliable indicator of future performance, as they may involve significant stated or implied assumptions and subjective judgements which may or may not prove to be correct, accurate or complete. There can be no assurance that any of the matters set out in the forward-looking statements are attainable, will actually occur or will be realised or are complete or accurate. The assumptions and judgments may prove to be incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other important actors, many of which are outside the control of the Group. There is also no assurance that the Group may develop or market its core products or other pipeline candidates successfully. Actual achievements, results, performance or other future events or conditions may differ materially from those stated, implied and/or reflected in any forward-looking statements due to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors (including without limitation general market conditions, regulatory changes, geopolitical tensions or data limitations and changes). Any such forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs, expectations and opinions of the Group at the date the statements are made, and the Group does not assume, and hereby disclaims, any obligation or duty to update, revise or supplement them if circumstances or management's beliefs, expectations or opinions should change. For these reasons, you should not place reliance on, and are expressly cautioned about relying on, any forward-looking statements. No representations or warranties, expressed or implied, are given by or on behalf of the Group as to the achievement or reasonableness of any projections, estimates, forecasts, targets, commitments, prospects or returns contained herein.
Please refer to the announcements published by the Company on the websites of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (www.hkexnew.hk) or of the Company (www.recbio.cn) for further details. If there is any inconsistency between this Presentation and the announcements, the announcements shall prevail.
Jiangsu Recbio Technology Co., Ltd.
Investor Inquiry:
Email: ir@recbio.cn
Tel: +86-0523-86818860
Media Inquiry:
Email: media@recbio.cn
Tel: +86-0523-86818860
Related Links:
https://www.recbio.cn/
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Jiangsu Recbio Technology Co., Ltd. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/completion-subject-enrollment-vaccination-comparative-study-between-recov-mrna-vaccines/ | 2022-08-19T03:49:34Z | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/completion-subject-enrollment-vaccination-comparative-study-between-recov-mrna-vaccines/ | false |
Follow the latest updates from our preps sports coverage team.
PONTOTOC – New Albany’s experience can make an overwhelming difference.
The senior-heavy Lady Bulldogs rolled past Pontotoc in volleyball action Thursday night, 3-0 (25-19, 25-15, 25-13).
Pontotoc (3-4), the reigning Class 4A state champion, is relatively young this season. New Albany (2-2) has 11 seniors. The difference was stark.
“It paid off big time,” New Albany coach Ashley Connolly said. “Even though we did have two freshmen on the court, all the other ones were seniors. When you have leadership and they can take control of the game, the leaders will step up and lead.”
Senior setter Masey Adams led the Lady Bulldogs with 25 assists and seven digs. She was able to consistently get New Albany into its offense.
For all its experience, New Albany got a big contribution from freshman Teelie Tyer, who finished with eight kills – all in the final two sets. She also had three-straight aces during an 8-0 run in the third set to help open up a 20-9 lead.
“She makes a statement when she swings,” Connolly said.
Senior Camryn Rainwater had seven kills and six digs, and New Albany had 28 kills as a team. When it comes to setting the front line, Adams has plenty of options.
“It makes it a lot easier because I don’t have to depend on one person all the time,” she said. “It also helped that a lot of time we would get them out of system, so they didn’t know where the ball was going. So I was able to set anyone, and everyone was always ready.”
Pontotoc didn’t help itself by making a slew of hitting errors; the Lady Warriors had 10 in the first set alone.
They also are playing without junior McKenzie McGuirt, who’s out injured, and junior Ava Robbins just returned from injury this week.
“We’re definitely in a transition phase,” first-year Pontotoc coach Kate Osbirn said. “Even though it was a 3-0 loss, the young ones that we do have, they’ve got a lot of potential.”
Newsletters
Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup.
Error! There was an error processing your request. | https://www.djournal.com/sports/high-school/adams-tyer-lead-new-albany-to-sweep-of-pontotoc/article_d64cb2f3-d54f-51bb-9b4f-23e44692a69a.html | 2022-08-19T03:50:01Z | https://www.djournal.com/sports/high-school/adams-tyer-lead-new-albany-to-sweep-of-pontotoc/article_d64cb2f3-d54f-51bb-9b4f-23e44692a69a.html | false |
When it comes to making the most of late night medications before bed, new research shows posture plays an important factor.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have been using a computer modeling and simulation platform called Stomach-Sim, which is designed to mimic the biomechanics of the organ.
“Most of the grinding and mixing of anything that we eat happens towards the bottom part of the stomach,” Dr. Rajat Mittal said.
Dr. Mittal and his colleagues used the tool to examine how a pill dissolves in a human.
“The closer it gets to that last part of the stomach — the faster it’s going to get digested and dissolve,” he said.
His team tested four different postures to see which was best at bringing a medication to the bottom of the stomach and closed to the small intestine — where pills eject their contents and start to work.
Lying on the right side was the winner — sending the pill into the lowest part of the organ. There, drugs dissolve the fastest, possibly at a rate 2.3 times faster than an upright posture, which didn’t send the pill as deep.
A similar landing spot was achieved whole lying straight back. The worst position was lying on the left side. Compared to other locations, it may take 10 times longer to dissolve from the mid-stomach.
Next, the researchers hope to explore how pill shape and size, along with stomach contents, impact how quickly a drug can dissolve. | https://wgntv.com/news/medical-watch/posture-plays-important-factor-in-late-night-medications/ | 2022-08-19T03:50:29Z | https://wgntv.com/news/medical-watch/posture-plays-important-factor-in-late-night-medications/ | false |
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
01-05-33-34-36
(one, five, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-six)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
01-05-33-34-36
(one, five, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-six) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Hit-5-game-17383534.php | 2022-08-19T03:56:33Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Hit-5-game-17383534.php | true |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
05-22-30-32-34
(five, twenty-two, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-four)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
05-22-30-32-34
(five, twenty-two, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-four) | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17383514.php | 2022-08-19T03:57:37Z | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17383514.php | false |
SHANGHAI, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuance Pharma ("the Company") announces the Center for Drug Evaluation ("CDE") has approved its Investigational New Drug ("IND") application supporting its pivotal clinical trial of Ensifentrine for the maintenance treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ("COPD") in mainland China.
Ensifentrine is a first-in-class, dual inhibitor of the enzymes phosphodiesterase 3 and 4 ("PDE3" and "PDE4") combining bronchodilator and anti-inflammatory activities in one compound. This activity has the potential to alleviate respiratory symptoms such as breathlessness and cough, as well as providing anti-inflammatory benefits for those with COPD.
On August 9th, 2022, Verona Pharma announced its ENHANCE-2 Phase III trial evaluating nebulized Ensifentrine for the maintenance treatment of COPD met its primary endpoint, as well as secondary endpoints demonstrating improvements in lung function, and significantly reduced the rate and risk of COPD exacerbations. Verona Pharma expects to report top-line results from its ongoing ENHANCE-1 Phase III trial around the end of the 2022 and, if similarly positive, plans to submit a New Drug Application to the US Food and Drug Administration for Ensifentrine in 1H2023.
Under this Ensifentrine Chinese IND approval, conduction of both Phase I and Phase III studies in China are granted. According to Dr. Haijin Meng, CMO of Nuance Pharma, the company is planning to conduct a Phase I study to evaluate the detailed pharmacokinetic characteristics of Ensifentrine in healthy Chinese volunteers. Meanwhile, the pivotal Phase III study is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Ensifentrine over 24 weeks in patients with moderate to severe COPD. "We are thrilled to introduce this first-in-class molecule to China and give our Chinese investigators and subjects the opportunity to participate in the global clinical development of this novel molecule and to evaluate how to apply it to Chinese COPD clinical setting properly," she said.
In 2021, Nuance Pharma entered into an agreement with Verona Pharma with a potential value of up to $219 million, granting Nuance Pharma exclusive rights to develop and commercialize Ensifentrine in Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan). In return, Verona Pharma received an upfront payment of USD 25 million in cash and an equity interest valued at USD 15 million. Meanwhile, Verona Pharma is eligible to receive future milestone payments as well as double-digit royalties as a percentage of net sales in Greater China.
"This is a significant milestone for Nuance Pharma, and we are confident that we will achieve solid and inspiring progress for the development of Ensifentrine in China," commented Mark G. Lotter, CEO and Co-Founder of Nuance Pharma. "COPD is the fifth leading cause of death in China with a reported prevalence of 8.2% in the population aged 40 years and above. We strongly believe Ensifentrine will be an effective COPD therapy to address the unmet medical needs in mainland China."
"We are pleased our development partner, Nuance Pharma, has received IND approval to begin pivotal studies in COPD with Ensifentrine in mainland China," said David Zaccardelli, Pharm. D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Verona Pharma. "This is an important milestone and, based on our recent positive Phase 3 results from our ENHANCE-2 trial in COPD, we remain confident about the potential of Ensifentrine to address the urgent global need for a novel treatment for COPD."
About Ensifentrine
Ensifentrine (RPL554) is an investigational, first-in-class, dual inhibitor of the enzymes phosphodiesterase 3 and 4 ("PDE3" and "PDE4") that combines bronchodilator and anti-inflammatory activities in one compound. In Phase 2 clinical studies in COPD, Ensifentrine has shown significant and clinically meaningful improvements in lung function, symptoms and quality of life as a monotherapy or added onto a maintenance bronchodilator. In the Phase 3 ENHANCE-2 clinical trial, Ensifentrine showed significant and clinically meaningful improvements in lung function measures and reduced the rate of COPD exacerbations. Ensifentrine has been well tolerated in clinical trials involving more than 2,200 subjects to date.
About Nuance Pharma
Nuance Pharma is a patient-centric and innovation focused biopharmaceutical company, with both clinical and commercial stage assets. Founded by Mark Lotter in 2014, with the mission to address critical unmet medical needs in Greater China and Asia Pacific, Nuance's portfolio represents a differentiated combination of commercial stage and innovative pipeline assets across respiratory, pain management, emergency care and iron deficiency anemia. Focusing on specialty care, Nuance deploys the Dual Wheel model that incubates a late clinical stage innovative portfolio, while maintaining a self-sustainable commercial operation.
About Verona Pharma
Verona Pharma is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapies for the treatment of respiratory diseases with significant unmet medical needs. If successfully developed and approved, Verona Pharma's product candidate, Ensifentrine, has the potential to be the first therapy for the treatment of respiratory diseases that combines bronchodilator and anti-inflammatory activities in one compound. The Company is evaluating nebulized ensifentrine in its Phase 3 clinical program ENHANCE ("Ensifentrine as a Novel inHAled Nebulized COPD thErapy") for COPD maintenance treatment. Ensifentrine met the primary endpoint in ENHANCE-2 demonstrating a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in lung function. In addition, Ensifentrine significantly reduced the rate of COPD exacerbations in the ENHANCE-2 trial. Two additional formulations of Ensifentrine are in Phase 2 development for the treatment of COPD: dry powder inhaler ("DPI") and pressurized metered-dose inhaler ("pMDI"). Ensifentrine also has potential applications in cystic fibrosis, asthma and other respiratory diseases. For more information, please visit www.veronapharma.com.
Forward-looking statements
This announcement includes forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside of our control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning our plans, objectives, goals, future events, performance and/or other information that is not historical information. All such forward-looking statements are expressly qualified by these cautionary statements and any other cautionary statements which may accompany the forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances after the date made, except as required by law.
Contacts
Nuance Pharma
Verona Pharma PLC.
Victoria Stewart, Director of Investor Relations and Communications, info@verona.com, Tel: +44 (0)203 283 4200
View original content:
SOURCE Nuance Pharma Limited | https://www.wkyt.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/nuance-pharma-announces-clearance-ind-application-ensifentrine-pivotal-clinical-trials-copd-china/ | 2022-08-19T03:59:33Z | https://www.wkyt.com/prnewswire/2022/08/19/nuance-pharma-announces-clearance-ind-application-ensifentrine-pivotal-clinical-trials-copd-china/ | false |
India Day is this weekend, showcasing Indian culture and lots of delicious food
When Neelu Matai moved to Greenville in the early 1980s, she remembers feeling a little out of place in her new home. She was used to Kolkata, India, where she’d grown up, and London, where she’d attended university, large cities with diverse populations.
Greenville was small by comparison and far less diverse.
Today, Greenville is a vastly different city with people from many different countries who are influencing the city’s food and events and creating a broader culture.
This week marks India Day, an event put on by the India Association of Greenville to celebrate Indian culture and to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Indian independence from the United Kingdom. After a hiatus for COVID, Matai and her co-organizers are excited to bring the festivities back in full, to share Indian culture and to celebrate the city that so many call home.
“I think the awareness we are trying to bring is for people to work together,” said Matai, India Association president. “Every bank, every attorney’s office, there are so many Indians working here now.”
The festivities include a range of offerings, all free. Beginning in the morning, attendees will be able to experience a seminar on mental health and attend a yoga session. The day continues with henna, a parade, Bollywood dancing, music, cultural exhibits and an Indian styles fashion show.
The role of food
And of course, there will be lots of delicious food. Food is a key piece of the event, Matai says, not only for its importance to any celebration or gathering but for its ability to communicate culture without words.
This year, the event has five vendors, all showcasing distinct foods from different regions of India. Three vendors are coming from Charlotte, and two are from Greenville.
Greenville events:Build a muscle car, enjoy live music or pop by a farmer's market
“The food is so vast because we have four different regions – North, South, East, West,” Matai said. “We speak around 32 languages in India, and every culture has a different kind of food, so it makes a vast variety.”
Sanjeev Arora, owner of Saffron Indian Cuisine in Greenville, will bring some favorite Northern Indian dishes to share. This style of cuisine is generally spice-ful but less spicy and includes more dairy.
On the menu will be everything from samosas and chana parpri chaat to Chicken Tikka Masala and vegetarian hakka noodles, in addition to chai tea and mango lassi, popular dishes from the restaurant.
“It’s about showing the culture of India,” Arora said of India Day. “We live in the community; we are part of the community and we love to be part of the India Day event.”
When she moved to Greenville 10 years ago, Cima Mathur fell in love with the city immediately. She was working in medical services when she got the opportunity to take over a restaurant. She and a partner took ownership of Persis Biryani Indian Grill on Woodruff Road three years ago, just a few months before the COVID pandemic shut things down.
Mathur has learned a lot, but mostly the power of food to provide comfort and to bring people together.
“I have a saying that says delicious food is small and it’s a way of delivering happiness,” Mathur said brightly. “That’s where you gather people, you gather people at a table, and you eat. That’s where you exchange stories. That’s where you learn about other people.”
Mathur will be preparing some classic South Indian cuisine, which is known for its added spices and vegetable-forward dishes. On the menu is her version of chicken tikka masala, samosas, a chicken lollipop, chana masala (a chickpea dish), paneer and rice.
“Indians love dancing, music, food and friends,” Matai said. “So, this is what we are showcasing.
“When people leave, we want them to be happy, that they enjoyed the day, and that they learned about our culture, too.”
India Day takes place 9 a.m. - 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the TD Wyche Pavillion in downtown Greenville. For more visit https://www.myiag.org
Lillia Callum-Penso covers food for the Greenville News. She loves the stories recipes tell and finds inspiration in the people behind them. When she’s not exploring local food, she can be found running, both for pleasure and to keep up with her 6-year-old twins. Reach her at lpenso@greenvillenews.com, or at 864-478-5872, or on Facebook atfacebook.com/lillia.callumpenso.
This coverage is only possible with support from our readers. Sign up today for a digital subscription. | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/greenville/2022/08/19/greenville-sc-events-india-day-showcase-culture-food/10328558002/ | 2022-08-19T04:01:14Z | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/greenville/2022/08/19/greenville-sc-events-india-day-showcase-culture-food/10328558002/ | true |
by: Hoosier Lottery Posted: Aug 18, 2022 / 11:13 PM EDT Updated: Aug 18, 2022 / 11:13 PM EDT SHARE Close Modal Suggest a Correction Your name(required) Your email(required) Report a typo or grammatical error(required) Submit Δ Suggest a Correction | https://fox59.com/hoosier-lottery/daily-3-daily-4-evening-drawing-august-18-2022/ | 2022-08-19T04:10:58Z | https://fox59.com/hoosier-lottery/daily-3-daily-4-evening-drawing-august-18-2022/ | false |
Dear Amy: I was married in 1990. My wife and I had a daughter together.
I was shocked and said, “What?!”
“Yeah,” she said, “Mom told me that you have a son with a woman.”
Um, 100 percent not true.
I started to think about it and I’m pretty sure that my ex told our daughter this so that I would look like the bad person that caused our divorce.
I want to ask my ex why she did this, and tell her that she needs to talk to our daughter and tell her the truth, or I will.
My relationship with my daughter was great, and then it started to change. It occurs to me that this is probably the reason why.
What should I do? Should I try to fix this, or should I try to forget about it?
— Wondering Dad
Dad: Your former wife’s infidelity led to the ending of your marriage.
You quite obviously shielded your young daughter from the truth during her childhood, perhaps to protect and preserve your privacy, as well as her relationship with her mother.
She is an adult now. At this point the truth behind your breakup has taken on some bizarre characteristics.
Do NOT say to your ex: “Either you tell the truth, or I will.”
You should not trust your ex with any version of this story. Her lie is profound and hurtful; don’t tempt her to embellish further or to put her own spin on these long-ago events.
You should tell your daughter the truth. Don’t re-litigate decades-old hurts. Just tell her the truth and answer any questions she might have.
Dear Amy: A few years ago, I was abruptly ghosted by a friend.
I asked what was wrong, but received no reply. I have a suspicion as to the reason, which is based upon a slanderous falsehood that she was told about me.
This still bothers me, both because of the lie and the way that I was so abruptly dropped.
Should I just accept it and move on, or should I try to find out for sure why I was ghosted by contacting my now ex-friend?
— Ghosted and Confused
Ghosted: You’ve already asked your ex-friend why she abruptly pulled away. Don’t ask again.
You have also tried to accept this and have not been able to. I vote for the truth.
This person is already ghosting you. Bottom line, she will probably continue, no matter what. You have one shot at this, so make it good.
Write exactly what your suspicions are. You have the right and the duty to correct the record regarding this “slanderous falsehood.”
You could also state that the way she chose to handle this hurt you then, and continues to bother you. Doing this will help you to move on. And you should move on.
Dear Amy: A reader questioned why people investigate their DNA and then contact biological family members — implying that people who do this don’t know that the family they were raised in is their “real family.”
I am adopted and in my eyes my parents are the ones who raised me. Their family is my family.
I did DNA testing to find out more about myself.
I did contact people on both biological sides and was met with open arms. This is not the case for many.
What this contact has given me is the ability to fill out medical forms correctly. I no longer need to write “adopted” in my family medical history.
I now know that I need to make sure to get testing because of the cancer history of my biological father.
I’ve gained siblings I never knew about.
My brother (also adopted but with different birthparents) now knows about his family medical history, including extensive cardiac history. Although he was met with a different outcome in terms of reunion with bio family members, he has no regrets.
Not all adopted children are looking for relationships with our biological family, but we are looking to fill in the blanks and understand ourselves better.
— Adopted in Louisiana
Adopted: In terms of filling in these blanks, DNA testing has been a gift. It is every person’s right to know their biological history.
©2022 by Amy Dickinson distributed by Tribune Content Agency | https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2022/08/19/ask-amy-ex-wife-daughter/ | 2022-08-19T04:11:25Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2022/08/19/ask-amy-ex-wife-daughter/ | true |
Members of the Denton High School football team go through warmup drills before the first day of fall practice in August 2016. Area medical experts urge student-athletes, as they return to training in hot conditions, to make sure they stretch, hydrate and slowly ease back into training, to avoid injury and symptoms of heat intolerance.
As student-athletes enter the fall sports season, record-setting heat and a lack of conditioning over the summer may leave them unprepared and prone to injury.
According to Direct Orthopedic Care (DOC), a network of orthopedic clinics with a location in Denton, there are an estimated 1,200 sports-related injuries in Denton annually. Two DOC physicians, Dr. Cori Grantham, a North Texas-based orthopedic surgeon, and Dr. Chris Flowers, a Denton-based orthopedic surgeon, are working to help athletes improve their health.
Whether you’ve suffered an injury in the past or not, DOC offers help to reduce the risk of new injuries or old injuries resurfacing and to help athletic performance.
“If you have an injury, and it’s something that is concerning you enough where you’re thinking about seeking medical attention,” Flowers said, “I think you should.”
Flowers’ goal when treating patients is to help them understand what their situation is and explain the best methods for them to take.
“I’ve found that if we can get [patients] involved in some physical therapy or just knowledge about the risks that they have,” Flowers said, “then they can potentially prevent some of these injuries.”
Outside of seeing a specialist, athletes can take simple steps to prevent injuries, beginning with having the correct footwear.
“Proper footwear can help safeguard the ankles and feet, as well as hips and knees,” Grantham said. “It’s essential to wear the correct footwear based on your sport to help maintain your balance.”
Once athletes begin engaging in activity, DOC recommends starting workouts with dynamic stretches and ending with static stretches.
“If you don’t stretch before activity, you put your body at a higher risk of injury,” Grantham said. “Muscles may tighten and create a strenuous pull on bones and other joint components, but stretching before and after workouts helps reduce soft tissue and muscle injuries.”
Along with stretching, slowly easing back into training can help athletes not only avoid injury but also symptoms of heat intolerance.
“Returning to play outside without adjusting properly to outdoor temps can cause issues such as dehydration, hypotension, hyperventilation, vomiting and diarrhea, and more severe symptoms including seizures and coma,” Grantham said.
Area high school sports programs are adapting to the heat as they return to training.
“We have adjusted our workouts and start at them every day at 6 a.m. to stay out of the hottest part of the day,” Aubrey football coach Keith Ivy said. “On most days, we are off the field when it’s around 90 degrees. We have also increased water breaks to ensure that the players stay as hydrated as possible.”
Flowers, who is also an orthopedic consultant at the University of North Texas, said the approach at the college level is similar. He said athletes should not underestimate the effect hydration, a balanced diet and electrolytes have on their health.
“At UNT, the No. 1 thing that [the athletic training teams] push is hydration, hydration, hydration,” Flowers said. “It’s on every wall everywhere you go because it’s really that important.” | https://dentonrc.com/life/as-area-athletes-return-to-training-in-the-heat-hydration-remains-key/article_9b5cb46a-c275-59d5-b2d8-9581e2d0aca9.html | 2022-08-19T04:12:59Z | https://dentonrc.com/life/as-area-athletes-return-to-training-in-the-heat-hydration-remains-key/article_9b5cb46a-c275-59d5-b2d8-9581e2d0aca9.html | false |
Sharks, grizzlies, giant snakes and rampaging apes have traditionally been the go-to choices for animal-kingdom antagonists in survival thrillers. Lions not so much. Maybe the king of the jungle has always been too regal, too majestic — too heroic — to be lowered to the status of mere summer-movie marauder.
But the circle of life also pertains to movies, and it was probably inevitable that the lion’s time would come. That’s, at least, the nature of “Beast,” a surprisingly agile and nifty B-movie graced by Idris Elba’s formidable presence, fluid camerawork and tolerable levels of implausibility.
It’s a movie well engineered as a late-summer diversion — a big cat movie for the dog days of August — that Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (“Adrift,” “Everest”) insures stays well within the paths of man-against-nature films before it. But while the lion is CGI, the South African location is genuine, and Kormákur and cinematographer Philippe Rousselot’s long, well-choreographed takes give “Beast” an immersive quality well beyond the genre’s usual slapdash cutting.
But how do you make a lion a diabolical hunter? “Beast,” written by Ryan Engle, opens with poachers mowing down a pride of lions. But one — a big one — escapes, and has a preternatural taste for avenging the killings and protecting its territory. The lion’s ferocity is easy to empathize with, ever to root for. Having had his family taken from him, he’s like the Liam Neeson of lions.
This is what Nate Samuels (Elba) and his two daughters, Meredith (Iyana Halley) and Norah (Leah Jeffries), walk into. They’ve just arrived in South Africa, a trip that Nate hopes will be a healing one for the family. They’re still reeling from the death of Nate’s wife from cancer, a loss that Mere and Norah partly blame on Nate, a doctor. The pair had also separated a year before her death, adding to the family friction.
But what’s better at ailing abandonment issues than a man-hunting lion? After reuniting with an old friend, Martin (Sharlto Copley), a vehemently anti-poacher wildlife biologist, the four set out in a jeep to explore the savanna. It doesn’t take long before they stumble across the lion’s victims and find themselves fending off his attacks from the vehicle. When Martin radios that the lion is staring right at him, one of the daughters gamely asks, “Is that a little, um, unnatural?”
There’s the backdrop of animal treatment, but “Beast” is mostly unburdened by larger meaning. For most of its brisk 93-minute running time, the Samuels tussle with the animal in a game of (big) cat and mouse. The shark in “Jaws” put an entire community under the microscope, but the scope of “Beast” is narrowly fixed on Nate and his girls. There isn’t any beast within here, just a beast.
But with lively supporting performances from Halley and Jeffries and a commanding one from Elba, they make a realistic, often bickering family. Elba’s commitment to the film gives it more psychological weight than it might deserve. Nothing will surprise you in how “Beasts” unfolds except for how engrossing it manages to be.
“Beast,” a Universal Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for violent content, bloody images and some language. Running time: 93 minutes. Three stars out of four. | https://www.postregister.com/chronicle/freeaccess/beast-with-idris-elba-has-b-movie-bite/article_acbb63a7-6adb-5ba5-919b-b87b828fcf0b.html | 2022-08-19T04:13:57Z | https://www.postregister.com/chronicle/freeaccess/beast-with-idris-elba-has-b-movie-bite/article_acbb63a7-6adb-5ba5-919b-b87b828fcf0b.html | true |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
07-10-16-20-25-50, Extra Shot: 9
(seven, ten, sixteen, twenty, twenty-five, fifty; Extra Shot: nine)
Estimated jackpot: $9,500,000 | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17383500.php | 2022-08-19T04:22:03Z | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17383500.php | false |
Celltrion clinches 110 bln-won drug substance supply deal from Teva
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Yonhap) -- Celltrion Inc., a major South Korean biopharmaceutical firm, said Friday it has secured a 110 billion-won (US$83 million) drug substance supply deal from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. for use in producing the Israel-based generic drugmaker's migraine medicine.
Under the contract manufacturing organization (CMO) deal, Celltrion will provide drug substance material for Ajovy, Teva's prescription medicine used for the preventive treatment of migraine in adults.
The deal is approximately worth 5.8 percent of the South Korean company's annual sales in 2021. A Celltrion official declined to identify the drug substance material, citing company policy.
The Incheon-based South Korean bio company has been in discussions with Teva to produce Ajovy since 2015.
When including the latest deal, the South Korean company has secured 353 billion won worth of supply contracts from the Israeli multinational firm.
Teva is a North American operational partner of Celltrion. Teva handles marketing and sales of Celltrion's blood cancer treatment Truxima and breast cancer treatment Herzuma in the region.
odissy@yna.co.kr
(END)
-
(News Focus) Samsung's Lee expected to solidify leadership, step up biz activities after receiving pardon
-
S. Korea expresses deep regret over Japanese PM's offering to war shrine
-
(LEAD) Yoon pledges to improve ties with Japan, offers economic aid in exchange for N.K. denuclearization
-
(LEAD) Bill Gates calls for S. Korea to play leading role in global health cooperation
-
DP warns Yoon's Liberation Day speech will give 'wrong signal' to Japan
-
(News Focus) Samsung's Lee expected to solidify leadership, step up biz activities after receiving pardon
-
(LEAD) Yoon pledges to improve ties with Japan, offers economic aid in exchange for N.K. denuclearization
-
Ex-ruling party chair takes swipe at Yoon amid legal action over leadership switch
-
(LEAD) Ex-ruling party chief files another lawsuit against leadership switch
-
Today in Korean history
-
U.S. agrees with taking 'incremental steps' to denuclearize Korean Peninsula: State Dept.
-
Busan mayor proposes allowing alternative military services for BTS
-
Preorders for BLACKPINK's second LP surpass 1.5 mln copies
-
(2nd LD) Yoon names new prosecutor general, chief of antitrust regulator
-
Clash of 2 S. Koreans on horizon in Premier League | https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20220819003100320 | 2022-08-19T04:22:46Z | https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20220819003100320 | true |
Jonquel Jones had 19 points and eight rebounds, Alyssa Thomas added 15 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists and the Connecticut Sun beat the Dallas Wings 93-68 on Thursday night in Game 1 of their first-round series.
Third-seeded Connecticut pulled away in the third quarter, scoring 13 straight points to build a 64-45 lead. The sixth-seeded Wings went five-plus minutes without a field goal in the third quarter, and the Sun closed the frame on a 17-5 run for an 18-point lead.
Game 2 of the best-of-three series is Sunday in Uncasville.
“We’ve been working the entire season to be here, so we don’t want to squander this opportunity,” Jones said of the home-court advantage. “We got to come up with that right intensity.”
Dijonai Carrington added 13 points and DeWanna Bonner scored 10 points of her 12 points in the first half for Connecticut.
Dallas scoring leader Arike Ogunbowale sat out because of an abdominal injury. The Wings got a boost when Satou Sabally played in her first game since July 12. Sabally scored 10 points in the first half, including a half-court heave to beat the first-quarter buzzer, but she went scoreless after halftime.
Allisha Gray led Dallas with 17 points. Tyasha Harris each added 13 points and Marina Mabrey had 11. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/connecticut-sun-beat-dallas-wings-93-68-in-game-1/3052307/ | 2022-08-19T04:24:02Z | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/connecticut-sun-beat-dallas-wings-93-68-in-game-1/3052307/ | true |
R. Kelly’s lawyer gets chance to question government witness
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s legal team will get its chance to question the government’s star witness on Friday after she gave what jurors could see as damning testimony against Kelly at his federal trial in Chicago on charges that include the production of child pornography.
Jane, the pseudonym used for her during the trial, has been central to Kelly’s legal troubles for more than two decades. She testified for over four hours Thursday, telling jurors it was her and Kelly in a videotape that was at the heart of his 2008 child pornography trial, at which he was acquitted.
Jane, now 37, paused, tugged at a necklace and dabbed her eyes with a tissue as she said publicly for the first time that the girl in the video was her and that the man was Kelly.
When a prosecutor asked Jane how old she was at the time the video was shot, she said quietly: “14.” Kelly, 55, would have been around 30 years old at the time.
In addition to charges of child pornography and enticement of minors, Kelly faces charges of conspiring to rig that 2008 trial by intimidating and paying off the girl to ensure she didn’t testify then.
Some jurors who presided over that 2008 trial, which was on state charges, said that they had no choice but to acquit the R&B star because the girl — by then an adult — didn’t testify. On the stand Thursday, Jane conceded that she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said that it was not her in the video.
“I was afraid something bad would happen to Robert,” she told jurors about why she didn’t tell the truth then, referring to Kelly by his full first name. “I was protecting him.”
She added there was another reason she lied about the identity of the person in the video. “I also did not want that person to be me,” she told jurors. “I was ashamed.”
Dressed in a white dress coat and removing a face mask before testifying, Jane remained on the witness stand for over four hours for the government. Kelly’s attorney was scheduled to get her chance to cross-examine Jane starting Friday morning.
A prosecutor asked Jane toward the end of the day Thursday why she decided in recent years to begin speaking honestly about what happened with Kelly, who Jane said she continued to care for and sometimes live with into her 20s.
“I became exhausted living with his lies,” she answered. She added that federal prosecutors assured her she would not be charged with lying to authorities if she testified truthfully at this trial.
Earlier, Jane also became emotional when she was asked to explain why Kelly can be seen handing money to her in the video. She said it was a precaution against anyone accusing him of abusing a child if the video ever fell into the hands of authorities.
“If anyone saw the tape ... he wanted it to appear as if I was a prostitute,” Jane said.
She described her parents confronting Kelly in the early 2000s about whether he was having sex with their daughter. Kelly dropped to his knees and begged her parents to forgive him, Jane testified. She said she later implored her parents not to do anything to get Kelly in trouble, telling them she loved him.
As she spoke, Kelly mostly stared down at the defense table and rarely looked up at her. She, too, rarely looked in his direction.
Earlier, she testified that Kelly sexually abused her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18 years old, starting when she was 15. She said they were having oral sex in the video and that she was 14 at the time.
Jane told jurors that in the late 1990s when she was 13, she asked the Grammy award-winning singer to be her godfather because she saw him as an inspiration and mentor.
She said within weeks, Kelly would call her and say sexual things. She told jurors she was 15 when they first had intercourse.
Asked by a prosecutor how she would know what to do sexually, Jane answered, “He would tell me what to do.” Asked how many times they had sex before she turned 18, she answered quietly: “Uncountable times. … Hundreds.”
A federal judge in New York sentenced Kelly to a 30-year prison sentence this year for his 2021 conviction for using his fame to sexually abuse fans.
Speaking softly and tentatively when she first took the stand Thursday, Jane described her upbringing in a musical family in a Chicago suburb, including that she was home-schooled because she was in a touring musical group that she joined when she was about 12.
Jane first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer who worked with Kelly. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents that Kelly was going to be her godfather.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it, and so prosecutors say he conspired to fix that trial.
Kelly has been trailed for decades by complaints and allegations about his sexual behavior. The scrutiny intensified after the #MeToo era and the 2019 six-part documentary “Surviving R. Kelly.”
Kelly also faces four counts of enticement of minors for sex at the Chicago trial — one each for four other accusers. They, too, are expected to testify.
___
Follow AP Legal Affairs Writer Michael Tarm on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mtarm
___
Find AP’s full coverage of the R. Kelly trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/r-kelly
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kswo.com/2022/08/19/r-kellys-lawyer-gets-chance-question-government-witness/ | 2022-08-19T04:25:42Z | https://www.kswo.com/2022/08/19/r-kellys-lawyer-gets-chance-question-government-witness/ | true |
VIDEO: Flash mob ransacks, vandalizes 7-Eleven after street takeover, police say
LOS ANGELES (Gray News) - Police in Los Angeles say a flash mob ransacked and looted a 7-Eleven convenience store earlier this week following a street takeover.
The Los Angeles Police Department shared surveillance video from the store located in South Los Angeles.
Police said the video shows several group members grabbing various items on Aug. 15 at about 12:40 a.m., including drinks, cigarettes, lottery tickets and other merchandise.
LAPD said members of the group were also throwing merchandise at store employees.
Afterward, the store was left in disarray, with authorities saying the group left before law enforcement arrived.
Police said before the incident within the store, the group held a street takeover at a nearby intersection that blocked traffic with vehicles performing “donuts” in the street.
The LAPD urged anyone with further information about this incident to contact South Traffic Division Detectives at 323-421-2500.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.newschannel6now.com/2022/08/19/video-flash-mob-ransacks-vandalizes-7-eleven-after-street-takeover-police-say/ | 2022-08-19T04:30:01Z | https://www.newschannel6now.com/2022/08/19/video-flash-mob-ransacks-vandalizes-7-eleven-after-street-takeover-police-say/ | false |
TEMPE — A man who was wanted out of Washington was shot by U.S. Marshals in Tempe Thursday night near McClintock Drive and Rio Solado Parkway.
Arizona WANTED Task Force members were attempting to arrest the man when officials say he reached into the backseat of the vehicle he was in and pulled out a gun. That was when the officer involved shooting occurred.
Officials say the suspect was shot and has been taken to the hospital for treatment.
No officers or bystanders were injured during this incident.
The man, who has not been identified, was wanted out of Washington for robbery, assault, burglary, theft, and had a warrant for escape from Washington State Department of Corrections.
It is unknown what charges the man will face.
No further information has been provided.
The incident is under investigation by the Tempe Police Department. | https://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/tempe/man-wanted-out-of-washington-shot-by-us-marshals-in-tempe | 2022-08-19T04:31:20Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/tempe/man-wanted-out-of-washington-shot-by-us-marshals-in-tempe | false |
(T) – taped (JIP) – joined in progress
TELEVISION
AUTO RACING
NHRA, qualifying, FS1, 8 p.m.
BASEBALL
LLWS, Curacao-Panama, ESPN, 1 p.m.
MLB, Milwaukee-Chicago Cubs, Marquee, 2 p.m.
LLWS, Tennessee-Utah, ESPN, 3 p.m.
LLWS, Japan-Canada, ESPN, 5 p.m.
LLWS, New York-Hawaii, ESPN, 7 p.m.
MLB, Cincinnati-Pittsburgh, Bally Indiana, 7 p.m.
MLB, L.A. Angels-Detroit, Bally Detroit, 7 p.m.
MLB, Chicago White Sox-Cleveland, NBC Chicago, 7 p.m.
MLB, teams TBD, MLB Net, 9:40 p.m.
FOOTBALL
NFL, Carolina-New England, NFL Net, 7 p.m.
NFL, Houston-L.A. Rams, NFL Net, 10 p.m.
GOLF
DP World, D+D Real Czech Masters, TGC, 7 a.m./6:30 a.m. (Sat.)
USGA, U.S. Men’s Amateur, TGC, noon
PGA, BMW Championship, TGC, 3 p.m.
(T) Champions, Dick’s Sporting Goods Open, TGC, 8 p.m.
SOCCER
MLS, Seattle-LA Galaxy, ESPN, 10 p.m.
RADIO
BASEBALL
MLB, Milwaukee-Chicago Cubs, 92.7 FM, 2 p.m.
FOOTBALL
HS, North Side-Snider, 1250 AM/105.5 FM, 7 p.m.
HS, Northrop-Homestead, 1380 AM, 7 p.m.
TV, radio listings subject to change | https://www.journalgazette.net/sports/lineup/article_297a1e10-1f4d-11ed-b498-c741fd0f6f79.html | 2022-08-19T04:36:00Z | https://www.journalgazette.net/sports/lineup/article_297a1e10-1f4d-11ed-b498-c741fd0f6f79.html | true |
Battery caged eggs to be phased out in Australia over the next decade in a major win for animal welfare groups
- Conventional layer hen cages to be banned by 2036 under new guidelines
- It comes after a seven-year battle between governments and poultry industry
- Egg-layer hens to be given nest areas and access to perches and scratch areas
- The reform labelled as a 'win for animal welfare' but criticised for long deadline
Australia will phase out barren battery cages, which are used to contain egg-laying hens, from 2036 after a lengthy battle between the egg industry and animal welfare groups.
The Independent Poultry Welfare Panel, commissioned by Commonwealth, state and territory agriculture ministers in 2019, released the reform on Thursday after seven years of negotiations between governments and the poultry industry.
The National Poultry Standards and Guidelines requires egg producers to install nest areas in all new chicken cages from this year and provide layer hens with access to perches, platforms and a scratch area.
A reform released by the Independent Poultry Welfare Panel requires egg producers to phase out conventional layer hen cages by 2036 and install nest areas in all new chicken cages from this year (stock image, battery cage of layer chickens)
Meanwhile, conventional layer hen cages are to be phased out over the next 10 to 15 years depending on the age of the egg producers infrastructure.
RSPCA Australia CEO Richard Mussell hailed the new guidelines as a 'significant win for animal welfare'.
'This is a win for animal advocates and for the community, who have been calling for an end to these barren, wire cages for over 40 years,' said Mr Mussell.
'But most importantly, it will eventually be a win for the millions of layer hens confined to battery cages.'
Mr Mussell said the ban will bring Australia 'into line' with more than 75 per cent of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries who have moved to phase out battery cages.
Mr Mussell welcomed the 2036 deadline, despite it seeming 'a long way away' and argued states and territories should transition to cage-free systems as soon as possible.
'While 2036 may seem a long way away – and it is – putting an end date in place is vitally important so that producers can transition to cage-free systems as soon as possible,' Mr Mussell said.
'But there's no reason that we need to wait until 2036 – states and territories can implement a phase out ahead of schedule.'
The National Poultry Standards and Guidelines also requires ducks be provided with access to water to bathe in and made 'environmental enrichments' recommendations for meat chickens (Stock image)
Rochelle Flood from World Animal Protection said the reform was a 'positive' first step but the 2036 deadline was 'simply not good enough'.
'While it is encouraging that the government have finally made an announcement after seven years of review, they can, and must, do better,' Ms Flood said.
'A 2036 phase-out of battery cages is simply not good enough for the millions of hens in Australia, who will continue to suffer in cruel battery cages.
'Already, during the seven years of the review, 35 million hens were made to suffer in conventional battery cages. Up to 55 million more hens could be forced to live in cages, until 2036.'
RSPCA Australia CEO Richard Mussell (pictured, at a layer hen farm in South Australia) hailed the new guidelines as a 'significant win for animal welfare' but urged farmers to transition to a cage-free system as soon as possible
Under the new guidelines, cage systems installed in 2011 must be updated by July 1, 2032, while cages installed after 2014 must meet the new requirements by 2036.
Recommendations for ducks and meat chickens were also given under the new guidelines.
Farmers would be required to provide ducks with access to water to bathe in and outlined 'environmental enrichments' for meat chickens including ventilation, minimum light intensity, periods of darkness and temperature parameters.
Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed roughly 5.36 million layer hens were confined to cages in 2020 to 2021. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11125533/Australia-ban-battery-farmed-eggs-2036-seven-year-battle-poultry-welfare-reform.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-19T04:36:00Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11125533/Australia-ban-battery-farmed-eggs-2036-seven-year-battle-poultry-welfare-reform.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Conclusion expected by 30 September. The construction site had opened in May
CALUSO. The end of the works for the construction of fifty new niches and a “garden of memories”, dedicated to burials with the scattering of ashes in the new part of the Caluso cemetery, has been postponed by 64 days. This is the second postponement from the beginning of the year requested by the company (Simco srl) which had won the contract announced by the Municipality, and by the construction management, entrusted to the architect Delmastro di Chivasso.
The reason is linked to the difficulties in procuring the materials necessary for the lining of the loculars and ossuaries. The conclusion is therefore scheduled for next September 30th. The construction site, on the other hand, had opened last May with the preparation of the area and the first interventions. The total cost, covered through self-financing, is 210 thousand euros, and includes the construction of 50 niches in the cemetery of Caluso and another 30 spread in the burial places of the hamlets of Arè, Rodallo and Vallo. On the other hand, the installation in the form of a book has been completed, which will allow the names of the deceased to be engraved with an epitaph to fix their memory. Not far away an area had already been dedicated to the burials in underground tombs of the nuns belonging to the order of Mary Help of Christians who lived and managed the homonymous institute in via Diaz. A marble stone commemorates the deceased who served in the South Canavese Rescue Volunteers.
The works had already been postponed last winter, again due to the lack of materials, while the company had then subcontracted the work to a second company after the authorization of the Municipality. Other interventions to refurbish the external areas of the four cemeteries are planned. In that of Caluso, the stairs to access the niches had already been replaced, while the underground tombs of older dating had already been placed. We will then move on to the outdoor area, completing the pavement towards the pedestrian crossing. The expected cost for a niche varies from 3 thousand to 5 thousand euros, depending on the location. The interested citizens had been invited to submit an application for the acquisition of the cemetery spaces to the municipal offices, leaving a deposit. The sale of the niches will also be allowed to non-residents, with a price increase of 15%. It will also be possible to book the new cells at a cost of 750 euros.
Unlimited access to all site content
3 months for € 1, then € 2.99 per month for 3 months
Unlock unlimited access to all content on the site | https://www.breakinglatest.news/news/the-materials-are-missing-the-end-of-the-works-on-the-caluso-cemetery-is-still-postponed/ | 2022-08-19T04:40:39Z | https://www.breakinglatest.news/news/the-materials-are-missing-the-end-of-the-works-on-the-caluso-cemetery-is-still-postponed/ | false |
SAN DIEGO — A federal judge has thrown out an $85 million lawsuit award over the death of a Southern California man who was beaten, hogtied and shocked with a stun gun by sheriff’s deputies in 2015.
“The size of the jury’s wrongful death award is far out of proportion to the evidence and indicates that the jury may have impermissibly included in the award some measure of plaintiffs’ emotional distress, or some amount intended to punish defendants,” the judge wrote in a 75-page ruling.
At the time, it was the nation’s largest civil rights award for a custody death.
In her ruling Wednesday, Huff declined to order a new trial and upheld findings of excessive force and negligence. However, a new trial will still be needed to decide how much money the county should pay.
The county declined to comment on the decision, the Union-Tribune said.
Phounsy, 32, died after a confrontation with nearly a dozen San Diego County sheriff’s deputies, including one who later served jail time for assaulting women while on duty.
Family members said he was suffering a mental health crisis.
Phounsy was hogtied, shocked with a stun gun and restrained at the Santee home of a relative on April 13, 2015. Phounsy’s heart stopped on the way to the hospital. He was resuscitated, but died several days later.
The county medical examiner concluded his death was accidental and the result of the long struggle with deputies, combined with the effects of the drug ecstasy he had taken several days before.
But lawyers for the family disputed that conclusion and argued that the conduct of the deputies caused him to suffocate.
They pointed to deputies binding Phounsy’s hands and ankles in restraints, failing to monitor his vital signs and continuing to restrain him when one deputy forcibly held his head down while he was in an ambulance.
The case was tried twice in federal court. In September 2021, a jury deadlocked and could not reach a verdict. At a second trial held in March, after only a day of deliberation, the jury found the county liable and awarded Phounsy’s family $85 million. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/judge-throws-out-85m-award-over-california-custody-death/2022/08/18/e4a19b02-1f6e-11ed-9ce6-68253bd31864_story.html | 2022-08-19T04:59:30Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/judge-throws-out-85m-award-over-california-custody-death/2022/08/18/e4a19b02-1f6e-11ed-9ce6-68253bd31864_story.html | true |
R. Kelly’s lawyer gets chance to question government witness
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s legal team will get its chance to question the government’s star witness on Friday after she gave what jurors could see as damning testimony against Kelly at his federal trial in Chicago on charges that include the production of child pornography.
Jane, the pseudonym used for her during the trial, has been central to Kelly’s legal troubles for more than two decades. She testified for over four hours Thursday, telling jurors it was her and Kelly in a videotape that was at the heart of his 2008 child pornography trial, at which he was acquitted.
Jane, now 37, paused, tugged at a necklace and dabbed her eyes with a tissue as she said publicly for the first time that the girl in the video was her and that the man was Kelly.
When a prosecutor asked Jane how old she was at the time the video was shot, she said quietly: “14.” Kelly, 55, would have been around 30 years old at the time.
In addition to charges of child pornography and enticement of minors, Kelly faces charges of conspiring to rig that 2008 trial by intimidating and paying off the girl to ensure she didn’t testify then.
Some jurors who presided over that 2008 trial, which was on state charges, said that they had no choice but to acquit the R&B star because the girl — by then an adult — didn’t testify. On the stand Thursday, Jane conceded that she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said that it was not her in the video.
“I was afraid something bad would happen to Robert,” she told jurors about why she didn’t tell the truth then, referring to Kelly by his full first name. “I was protecting him.”
She added there was another reason she lied about the identity of the person in the video. “I also did not want that person to be me,” she told jurors. “I was ashamed.”
Dressed in a white dress coat and removing a face mask before testifying, Jane remained on the witness stand for over four hours for the government. Kelly’s attorney was scheduled to get her chance to cross-examine Jane starting Friday morning.
A prosecutor asked Jane toward the end of the day Thursday why she decided in recent years to begin speaking honestly about what happened with Kelly, who Jane said she continued to care for and sometimes live with into her 20s.
“I became exhausted living with his lies,” she answered. She added that federal prosecutors assured her she would not be charged with lying to authorities if she testified truthfully at this trial.
Earlier, Jane also became emotional when she was asked to explain why Kelly can be seen handing money to her in the video. She said it was a precaution against anyone accusing him of abusing a child if the video ever fell into the hands of authorities.
“If anyone saw the tape ... he wanted it to appear as if I was a prostitute,” Jane said.
She described her parents confronting Kelly in the early 2000s about whether he was having sex with their daughter. Kelly dropped to his knees and begged her parents to forgive him, Jane testified. She said she later implored her parents not to do anything to get Kelly in trouble, telling them she loved him.
As she spoke, Kelly mostly stared down at the defense table and rarely looked up at her. She, too, rarely looked in his direction.
Earlier, she testified that Kelly sexually abused her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18 years old, starting when she was 15. She said they were having oral sex in the video and that she was 14 at the time.
Jane told jurors that in the late 1990s when she was 13, she asked the Grammy award-winning singer to be her godfather because she saw him as an inspiration and mentor.
She said within weeks, Kelly would call her and say sexual things. She told jurors she was 15 when they first had intercourse.
Asked by a prosecutor how she would know what to do sexually, Jane answered, “He would tell me what to do.” Asked how many times they had sex before she turned 18, she answered quietly: “Uncountable times. … Hundreds.”
A federal judge in New York sentenced Kelly to a 30-year prison sentence this year for his 2021 conviction for using his fame to sexually abuse fans.
Speaking softly and tentatively when she first took the stand Thursday, Jane described her upbringing in a musical family in a Chicago suburb, including that she was home-schooled because she was in a touring musical group that she joined when she was about 12.
Jane first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer who worked with Kelly. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents that Kelly was going to be her godfather.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it, and so prosecutors say he conspired to fix that trial.
Kelly has been trailed for decades by complaints and allegations about his sexual behavior. The scrutiny intensified after the #MeToo era and the 2019 six-part documentary “Surviving R. Kelly.”
Kelly also faces four counts of enticement of minors for sex at the Chicago trial — one each for four other accusers. They, too, are expected to testify.
___
Follow AP Legal Affairs Writer Michael Tarm on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mtarm
___
Find AP’s full coverage of the R. Kelly trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/r-kelly
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wafb.com/2022/08/19/r-kellys-lawyer-gets-chance-question-government-witness/ | 2022-08-19T05:04:58Z | https://www.wafb.com/2022/08/19/r-kellys-lawyer-gets-chance-question-government-witness/ | false |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.