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NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Technavio categorizes the global programming language training market as a part of the education services market, the parent market. The programming language training market covers products, services, and solutions that are offered to educational institutions, corporate institutions, students, parents, individuals, and teachers. The global programming language training market size is estimated to increase by USD 5,375.55 million from 2022 to 2027. The market's growth momentum will accelerate at a CAGR of 15.15%.
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Global programming language training market- Customer Landscape
To help companies evaluate and develop growth strategies, the report outlines –
- Key purchase criteria
- Adoption rates
- Adoption lifecycle
- Drivers of price sensitivity
Global programming language training market– Vendor Analysis
Vendor Landscape - The global programming language training market is fragmented, with the presence of several global as well as regional vendors. A few prominent vendors that offer programming language training in the market are Barcelona Code School, Coursera Inc., DataCamp Inc., Dataquest Labs Inc., Eduonix Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd, edX LLC, Global Knowledge Training LLC, LinkedIn Corp., NIIT Ltd, Online Consulting Inc., PTR, Udacity Inc., Udemy Inc., Aptech Ltd., Coding Blocks Pvt. Ltd., Firebrand Training Ltd., and NetCom Learning and others.
The global programming language training market is at its growing stage. This implies that the market in focus is characterized by increased adoption of boot camps by developing economies, increased emphasis on blended learning, and incorporation of programming languages in school curricula.
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Global programming language training market - Segmentation assessment
Geography Overview
Based on geography, the global programming language training market is segmented into North America, Europe, APAC, South America, and the Middle East and Africa. The report provides actionable insights and an accurate estimation of the contribution of all regions to the growth of the global programming language training market.
- North America will account for 38% of the market growth during the forecast period. The market in the region is estimated to grow at the fastest pace during the forecast period. The various steps taken by the US and Canadian governments to include programming language classes early in the educational system are one of the factors driving the market. Another element influencing the growth of coding boot camps in North America is the growing demand for programming language training. The expansion of boot camps reflects an increase in demand for software developers who are fluent in all programming languages.
Segment Overview
Based on end-user, the global programming language training market is segmented into corporate and academic.
- The market share growth of the corporate segment will be higher than the other segments during the forecast period. The business sector, which consists of personnel receiving programming language training, contributes significantly to the global market for programming language training. The blended learning model incorporates both online and offline activities. This is one of the major factors in market growth. The development of Big Data technologies such as R and Scala has also contributed to the growth of this business. With the expanding use of Big Data, there is a greater demand for applicants that excel in analytical software. As a result, businesses are heavily investing in Big Data analytics and training their workers in it. During the forecast period, such factors will lead to the expansion of the corporate segment in the worldwide programming language training market.
Global programming language training market – Market dynamics
- Impactful Driver - The increased emphasis on blended learning is driving the growth of the market. The blended learning approach combines traditional classroom activities with online learning opportunities. One of the elements promoting the development of this model is the growing emphasis on online training. The convenience and flexibility that the mixed approach offers to learners is the main driver behind its adoption in programming language training.
- Key Trend - The increased integration of e-learning is the key trend in the market. E-learning offers businesses the ease of flexible training schedules that can be accessed from any location at any time with just an internet connection. This enables the employees to fit training into their workday rather than taking part in activities that conflict with tasks that demand both time and travel. The cost savings associated with delivering training modules is one of the main advantages of online training. E-learning is therefore anticipated to have a better market outlook during the projection period.
- Major Challenge - The inconsistency in training is expected to impact market growth negatively. Students will have different levels of linguistic proficiency, and their exposure to new programming languages may vary. As a result, it becomes challenging to provide for all the various client needs using a uniform paradigm. The key problem that programming language training firms have is ensuring that students with lesser learning abilities grasp the programming language. During the forecast period, these factors will have a negative effect on the market's expansion.
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- Precise estimation of the size of the programming language training market size and its contribution to the parent market
- Accurate predictions about upcoming trends and changes in consumer behavior
- Growth of the programming language training industry across APAC, North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and South America
- A thorough analysis of the market's competitive landscape and detailed information about vendors
- Comprehensive analysis of factors that will challenge the growth of programming language training market vendors
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Table Of Contents:
1 Executive Summary
- 1.1 Market overview
- Exhibit 01: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Overview
- Exhibit 02: Executive Summary – Data Table on Market Overview
- Exhibit 03: Executive Summary – Chart on Global Market Characteristics
- Exhibit 04: Executive Summary – Chart on Market by Geography
- Exhibit 05: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Segmentation by End-user
- Exhibit 06: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Segmentation by Product
- Exhibit 07: Executive Summary – Chart on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 08: Executive Summary – Data Table on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 09: Executive Summary – Chart on Vendor Market Positioning
2 Market Landscape
- 2.1 Market ecosystem
- Exhibit 10: Parent market
- Exhibit 11: Market Characteristics
3 Market Sizing
- 3.1 Market definition
- Exhibit 12: Offerings of vendors included in the market definition
- 3.2 Market segment analysis
- Exhibit 13: Market segments
- 3.3 Market size 2022
- 3.4 Market outlook: Forecast for 2022-2027
- Exhibit 14: Chart on Global - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 15: Data Table on Global - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 16: Chart on Global Market: Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 17: Data Table on Global Market: Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
4 Historic Market Size
- 4.1 Global programming language training market 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 18: Historic Market Size – Data Table on Global programming language training market 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
- 4.2 End-user Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 19: Historic Market Size – End-user Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
- 4.3 Product Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 20: Historic Market Size – Product Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
- 4.4 Geography Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 21: Historic Market Size – Geography Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
- 4.5 Country Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 22: Historic Market Size – Country Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
5 Five Forces Analysis
- 5.1 Five forces summary
- Exhibit 23: Five forces analysis - Comparison between 2022 and 2027
- 5.2 Bargaining power of buyers
- Exhibit 24: Chart on Bargaining power of buyers – Impact of key factors 2022 and 2027
- 5.3 Bargaining power of suppliers
- Exhibit 25: Bargaining power of suppliers – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.4 Threat of new entrants
- Exhibit 26: Threat of new entrants – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.5 Threat of substitutes
- Exhibit 27: Threat of substitutes – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.6 Threat of rivalry
- Exhibit 28: Threat of rivalry – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.7 Market condition
- Exhibit 29: Chart on Market condition - Five forces 2022 and 2027
6 Market Segmentation by End-user
- 6.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 30: Chart on End-user - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 31: Data Table on End-user - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.2 Comparison by End-user
- Exhibit 32: Chart on Comparison by End-user
- Exhibit 33: Data Table on Comparison by End-user
- 6.3 Corporate - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 34: Chart on Corporate - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 35: Data Table on Corporate - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 36: Chart on Corporate - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 37: Data Table on Corporate - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.4 Academic - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 38: Chart on Academic - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 39: Data Table on Academic - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 40: Chart on Academic - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 41: Data Table on Academic - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.5 Market opportunity by End-user
- Exhibit 42: Market opportunity by End-user ($ million)
7 Market Segmentation by Product
- 7.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 43: Chart on Product - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 44: Data Table on Product - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.2 Comparison by Product
- Exhibit 45: Chart on Comparison by Product
- Exhibit 46: Data Table on Comparison by Product
- 7.3 Online - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 47: Chart on Online - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 48: Data Table on Online - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 49: Chart on Online - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 50: Data Table on Online - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.4 Classroom - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 51: Chart on Classroom - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 52: Data Table on Classroom - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 53: Chart on Classroom - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 54: Data Table on Classroom - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.5 Boot camp - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 55: Chart on Boot camp - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 56: Data Table on Boot camp - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 57: Chart on Boot camp - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 58: Data Table on Boot camp - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.6 Market opportunity by Product
- Exhibit 59: Market opportunity by Product ($ million)
8 Customer Landscape
- 8.1 Customer landscape overview
- Exhibit 60: Analysis of price sensitivity, lifecycle, customer purchase basket, adoption rates, and purchase criteria
9 Geographic Landscape
- 9.1 Geographic segmentation
- Exhibit 61: Chart on Market share by geography 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 62: Data Table on Market share by geography 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.2 Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 63: Chart on Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 64: Data Table on Geographic comparison
- 9.3 North America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 65: Chart on North America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 66: Data Table on North America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 67: Chart on North America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 68: Data Table on North America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.4 APAC - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 69: Chart on APAC - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 70: Data Table on APAC - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 71: Chart on APAC - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 72: Data Table on APAC - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.5 Europe - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 73: Chart on Europe - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 74: Data Table on Europe - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 75: Chart on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 76: Data Table on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.6 South America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 77: Chart on South America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 78: Data Table on South America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 79: Chart on South America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 80: Data Table on South America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.7 Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 81: Chart on Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 82: Data Table on Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 83: Chart on Middle East and Africa - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 84: Data Table on Middle East and Africa - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.8 US - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 85: Chart on US - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 86: Data Table on US - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 87: Chart on US - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 88: Data Table on US - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.9 Canada - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 89: Chart on Canada - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 90: Data Table on Canada - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 91: Chart on Canada - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 92: Data Table on Canada - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.10 China - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 93: Chart on China - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 94: Data Table on China - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 95: Chart on China - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 96: Data Table on China - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.11 India - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 97: Chart on India - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 98: Data Table on India - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 99: Chart on India - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 100: Data Table on India - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.12 Germany - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 101: Chart on Germany - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 102: Data Table on Germany - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 103: Chart on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 104: Data Table on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.13 Market opportunity by geography
- Exhibit 105: Market opportunity by geography ($ million)
10 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
- 10.1 Market drivers
- 10.2 Market challenges
- 10.3 Impact of drivers and challenges
- Exhibit 106: Impact of drivers and challenges in 2022 and 2027
- 10.4 Market trends
11 Vendor Landscape
- 11.1 Overview
- 11.2 Vendor landscape
- Exhibit 107: Overview on Criticality of inputs and Factors of differentiation
- 11.3 Landscape disruption
- Exhibit 108: Overview on factors of disruption
- 11.4 Industry risks
- Exhibit 109: Impact of key risks on business
12 Vendor Analysis
- 12.1 Vendors covered
- Exhibit 110: Vendors covered
- 12.2 Market positioning of vendors
- Exhibit 111: Matrix on vendor position and classification
- 12.3 Aptech Ltd.
- Exhibit 112: Aptech Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 113: Aptech Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 114: Aptech Ltd. - Key offerings
- 12.4 Coursera Inc.
- Exhibit 115: Coursera Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 116: Coursera Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 117: Coursera Inc. - Key news
- Exhibit 118: Coursera Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 119: Coursera Inc. - Segment focus
- 12.5 DataCamp Inc.
- Exhibit 120: DataCamp Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 121: DataCamp Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 122: DataCamp Inc. - Key news
- Exhibit 123: DataCamp Inc. - Key offerings
- 12.6 Dataquest Labs Inc.
- Exhibit 124: Dataquest Labs Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 125: Dataquest Labs Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 126: Dataquest Labs Inc. - Key offerings
- 12.7 edX LLC
- Exhibit 127: edX LLC - Overview
- Exhibit 128: edX LLC - Product / Service
- Exhibit 129: edX LLC - Key offerings
- 12.8 Firebrand Training Ltd.
- Exhibit 130: Firebrand Training Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 131: Firebrand Training Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 132: Firebrand Training Ltd. - Key offerings
- 12.9 Global Knowledge Training LLC
- Exhibit 133: Global Knowledge Training LLC - Overview
- Exhibit 134: Global Knowledge Training LLC - Product / Service
- Exhibit 135: Global Knowledge Training LLC - Key offerings
- 12.10 Learning Tree International Inc.
- Exhibit 136: Learning Tree International Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 137: Learning Tree International Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 138: Learning Tree International Inc. - Key offerings
- 12.11 LinkedIn Corp.
- Exhibit 139: LinkedIn Corp. - Overview
- Exhibit 140: LinkedIn Corp. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 141: LinkedIn Corp. - Key offerings
- 12.12 NetCom Learning
- Exhibit 142: NetCom Learning - Overview
- Exhibit 143: NetCom Learning - Product / Service
- Exhibit 144: NetCom Learning - Key offerings
- 12.13 NIIT Ltd
- Exhibit 145: NIIT Ltd - Overview
- Exhibit 146: NIIT Ltd - Product / Service
- Exhibit 147: NIIT Ltd - Key news
- Exhibit 148: NIIT Ltd - Key offerings
- 12.14 Online Consulting Inc.
- Exhibit 149: Online Consulting Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 150: Online Consulting Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 151: Online Consulting Inc. - Key offerings
- 12.15 Simplilearn Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
- Exhibit 152: Simplilearn Solutions Pvt. Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 153: Simplilearn Solutions Pvt. Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 154: Simplilearn Solutions Pvt. Ltd. - Key offerings
- 12.16 Udacity Inc.
- Exhibit 155: Udacity Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 156: Udacity Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 157: Udacity Inc. - Key news
- Exhibit 158: Udacity Inc. - Key offerings
- 12.17 Udemy Inc.
- Exhibit 159: Udemy Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 160: Udemy Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 161: Udemy Inc. - Key news
- Exhibit 162: Udemy Inc. - Key offerings
13 Appendix
- 13.1 Scope of the report
- 13.2 Inclusions and exclusions checklist
- Exhibit 163: Inclusions checklist
- Exhibit 164: Exclusions checklist
- 13.3 Currency conversion rates for US$
- Exhibit 165: Currency conversion rates for US$
- 13.4 Research methodology
- Exhibit 166: Research methodology
- Exhibit 167: Validation techniques employed for market sizing
- Exhibit 168: Information sources
- 13.5 List of abbreviations
- Exhibit 169: List of abbreviations
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The Biden administration has announced a breakthrough on nuclear fusion, fueling hopes of further progress toward clean energy.
Nuclear fusion — the process in which atoms are fused together to create energy — has long been studied as a potential power source.
But various hurdles have prevented the reaction from being a viable option for clean energy, and a commercial effort is still likely decades away.
Here’s what you should know about the Energy Department’s announcement:
1. It’s the first time a net energy gain has come from fusion
The crux of Tuesday’s news is that scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California were able to produce more energy via fusion than they put in. They put in 2.05 megajoules of energy and got out 3.15 megajoules.
This is the first time scientists in a lab were able to create a net energy output through fusion, demonstrating that it is possible to do so.
“It’s the first time it has ever been done in a laboratory anywhere in the world. Simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told reporters at a press conference.
While the technology isn’t ready to be commercialized yet, the successful experiment raises the prospects of larger-scale deployment of fusion energy.
Previously, the lab came relatively close to breaking even when it generated 70 percent of the energy it put into a fusion reaction last year.
2. It’s seen as another potential source of carbon-free energy
If fusion can become a large-scale power source, it will provide another way of generating carbon-free energy as the world looks to transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels.
U.S. officials have said they hope to broadly have an entirely clean electric grid by 2035 and commercially viable fusion power within a decade.
Like wind, solar and traditional nuclear energy — where an atom is split apart instead of fused together — nuclear fusion doesn’t emit any planet-warming gasses or air pollution.
“This milestone moves us one significant step closer to the possibility of zero-carbon, abundant fusion energy powering our society,” Granholm said.
“We can use it to produce clean electricity, transportation fuels, power heavy industry [and] so much more,” she added. “It would be like adding a power drill to our toolbox in building this clean energy economy.”
Unlike traditional nuclear energy, called fission, fusion doesn’t generate radioactive waste that requires long-term storage. And unlike traditional hydropower dams, it doesn’t require finding — and flooding — a new reservoir.
The main place that fusion power would be useful if plugged into the current American grid would be as what is called “base load” power: a stable constant amount of electricity that current grids rely on.
In the U.S., about 19 percent of electricity comes from nuclear power, while 60 percent comes from fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas and petroleum, and the rest is from renewables, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Carolyn Kuranz, associate professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences at the University of Michigan, told The Hill on Monday that nuclear fusion does create byproducts that have small amounts of radioactive material, but she said the material can stay on the power plant site and be used to fuel future fusion reaction instead of needing to go elsewhere.
Paul Dabbar, who was the Energy Department’s under secretary for science during the Trump administration, also pointed to some advantages that fusion could have over wind and solar in an interview with The Hill this week.
“It needs to be windy, it needs to be sunny, it takes a lot of land,” he said of the other energy sources, though he noted that battery technology could be used to improve on the intermittency issue.
However, fusion comes with its own drawbacks. A future fusion industry built around large, expensive individual plants would be dependent on an expanded, high-capacity electric grid to move power across the region or country — something that feels almost as far away at this point as commercial fusion power.
3. Breakthrough positions US as leader in global quest for fusion
The successful net power-producing experiment is a clear mark of success for America’s burgeoning public and private investment into fusion energy — particularly as the European Union, China and South Korea build out their own programs.
In January, China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) sustained a record 17-minute fusion reaction, Smithsonian reported.
And the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in southern France will be the largest fusion facility in the world when it begins experiments in 2025, according to a statement.
In March, the Energy Department released a decadelong roadmap to bring commercial fusion to electricity markets.
That initiative touted the $2.5 billion that the private sector poured into fusion last year — about 3.5 times what the government spends directly.
An April White House summit also promoted the fact that two-thirds of private fusion companies and suppliers are based in the U.S. — and that American companies are the main recipients of international fusion funding.
But while it is tempting to think of fusion in terms of a “race” between countries, the drive for fusion power is highly international and collaborative.
U.S. companies built the central solenoid magnet for the ITER tokamak — necessary to create the magnetic fields that power and control the superheated plasma during a fusion reaction, according to the U.S. government.
And the Energy Department in November announced nearly $50 million for fusion research — of which part will go to support U.S. researchers at ITER and EAST, as The Hill reported.
4. Fusion still years off from becoming a mainstream energy source
The development was a major step toward fusion energy, but you’re not likely to be using this type of energy to turn on your lights anytime soon.
Granholm told reporters the administration hopes to see commercial fusion within a decade.
“The president has a decadal vision to get to a commercial fusion reactor within, obviously, 10 years, so we’ve got to get to work,” she told reporters.
Kim Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where the breakthrough occurred, said it could be even longer, taking “decades” before the technology is commercialized.
“There are very significant hurdles” in both science and technology, Budil said.
Dabbar told The Hill this week that he thinks the first commercial demonstration fusion reactors could crop up between 2030 and 2035 and that large-scale deployment could come a few years after that.
“It takes a long time for energy systems to go from testing to full-scale deployment,” he said.
5. It has military implications
The applications of this discovery — like the experiment itself — go well beyond peacetime.
While the ultimate implications of this test are a milestone on the road to clean energy, the “more immediate” implications were military, said Marvin Adams, deputy administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
So are the program’s roots: The National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory uses extremely powerful lasers to “ignite” hydrogen and cause a self-sustaining explosion — a system developed in part to test advanced nuclear weapons without having to detonate an entire bomb.
“You start with a little spark, and then the spark gets bigger and bigger and bigger, and then the burn propagates through,” physicist Riccardo Betti of University of Rochester told public radio station WBUR.
This is a tiny-scale version of the same process used to kick off a hydrogen or “thermonuclear” bomb — which uses fusion power to release 1,000 times as much energy as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, Time reported.
Fusion reactors don’t contain nearly enough fuel to produce that kind of explosion — and a thermonuclear bomb requires a separate atomic explosion to trigger ignition, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
But U.S. officials hinted at military applications. Fusion is “an essential process in modern nuclear weapons” and a milestone like this one was a strong argument for American military power, Adams noted.
The successful test demonstrates America’s “world-leading expertise in weapons-relevant technologies” while continuing “to show our allies that we know what we’re doing,” Adams said.
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House GOP leadership is urging Republicans to vote against a short-term government funding bill lawmakers are hoping to quickly pass ahead of a looming shutdown deadline.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) office sent out a notice to members on Tuesday evening recommending a “no” vote on the stopgap funding bill unveiled earlier Tuesday that leaders are expected to bring to the floor this week.
“Once again, House Democrats failed to meet the fundamental duty of funding the government despite spending most of the year passing trillions in wasteful spending that has fueled inflation and driven up our debt,” the notice said.
“This one-week continuing resolution is an attempt to buy additional time for a massive lame-duck spending bill in which House Republicans have had no seat at the negotiating table,” the notice added.
Funding runs out on Friday at midnight, and the stopgap bill would keep the government running through Dec. 23 while negotiators try to hash out funding for a larger omnibus spending package.
Republicans pushing for the shutdown deadline to be punted through next month say it’s necessary to allow the incoming GOP-led House more say in how the government should be funded. But other Republicans have pressed for an omnibus to be enacted sooner to ensure adequate funding for defense and national security.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters on Tuesday that lawmakers are “very close” to a bipartisan deal on an omnibus this month.
“I think we’re very close to getting an omnibus appropriations bill,” McConnell said while also setting the timeline for passage by Dec. 22.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smart tracker market insights -
- Vendors: 15+, Including Adero Inc., Beijing Zizai Technology Co. Ltd., Chipolo doo, Elios Inc., Findster Technologies SA, Innova Technology LLC, Kaltio Technologies Oy, Lugloc Inc., Mars Inc., PB Inc., Pitpatpet Ltd., Qorvo Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Smart Tracking Technologies LLC, Tago LLC, Tile Inc., Traxbean Technology Ltd. Co., Wistiki SAS, and XY The Persistent Co. among others
- Coverage: Parent market analysis; key drivers, major trends, and challenges; customer and vendor landscape; vendor product insights and recent developments; key vendors; and market positioning of vendors
- Segments: Application, technology, and region
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In 2017, the smart tracker market was valued at USD 621.83 million. From a regional perspective, APAC held the largest market share, valued at USD 151.17 million. The smart tracker market size is estimated to grow by USD 461.63 million from 2022 to 2027 at a CAGR of 8.68%, according to Technavio.
Smart tracker market- Customer landscape
To help companies evaluate and develop growth strategies, the report outlines –
- Key purchase criteria
- Adoption rates
- Adoption lifecycle
- Drivers of price sensitivity
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Smart tracker market- Vendor insights
The growing competition in the market is compelling vendors to adopt various growth strategies such as promotional activities and spending on advertisements to improve the visibility of their services. Technavio report analyzes the market's competitive landscape and offers information on several market vendors including –
- Chipolo doo: The company offers smart trackers such as Chipolo One and Chipolo One Spot.
- Elios Inc.: The company offers smart trackers such as OBD II and hard-wired.
- Kaltio Technologies Oy: The company offers smart trackers such as Kaltiot Scewtag.
- Lugloc Inc.: The company offers smart trackers such as Gego GPS.
Smart tracker market - Market dynamics
Major drivers:
- Low prices will drive the adoption of smart trackers
- Rising pet population
- Growing markets in emerging countries
Key challenges:
- Poor battery backup and limited functionality
- Low penetration and awareness of smart trackers
- Inferior and counterfeit products
Drivers and challenges have an impact on market dynamics, which can impact
businesses. Find more insights in a sample report!
The smart tracker market report provides critical information and factual data, with a qualitative and quantitative study of the market based on market drivers and limitations as well as future prospects.
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Table of Content
1 Executive Summary
- 1.1 Market overview
- Exhibit 01: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Overview
- Exhibit 02: Executive Summary – Data Table on Market Overview
- Exhibit 03: Executive Summary – Chart on Global Market Characteristics
- Exhibit 04: Executive Summary – Chart on Market by Geography
- Exhibit 05: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Segmentation by Application
- Exhibit 06: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Segmentation by Technology
- Exhibit 07: Executive Summary – Chart on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 08: Executive Summary – Data Table on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 09: Executive Summary – Chart on Vendor Market Positioning
2 Market Landscape
- 2.1 Market ecosystem
- Exhibit 10: Parent market
- Exhibit 11: Market Characteristics
3 Market Sizing
- 3.1 Market definition
- Exhibit 12: Offerings of vendors included in the market definition
- 3.2 Market segment analysis
- Exhibit 13: Market segments
- 3.3 Market size 2022
- 3.4 Market outlook: Forecast for 2022-2027
- Exhibit 14: Chart on Global - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 15: Data Table on Global - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 16: Chart on Global Market: Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 17: Data Table on Global Market: Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
4 Historic Market Size
- 4.1 Global smart tracker market 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 18: Historic Market Size – Data Table on Global smart tracker market 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
- 4.2 Geography Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 19: Historic Market Size – Geography Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
- 4.3 Applicaton Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 20: Historic Market Size – Applicaton Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
- 4.4 Technology Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 21: Historic Market Size – Technology Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
- 4.5 Country Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 22: Historic Market Size – Country Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
5 Five Forces Analysis
- 5.1 Five forces summary
- Exhibit 23: Five forces analysis - Comparison between 2022 and 2027
- 5.2 Bargaining power of buyers
- Exhibit 24: Chart on Bargaining power of buyers – Impact of key factors 2022 and 2027
- 5.3 Bargaining power of suppliers
- Exhibit 25: Bargaining power of suppliers – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.4 Threat of new entrants
- Exhibit 26: Threat of new entrants – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.5 Threat of substitutes
- Exhibit 27: Threat of substitutes – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.6 Threat of rivalry
- Exhibit 28: Threat of rivalry – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.7 Market condition
- Exhibit 29: Chart on Market condition - Five forces 2022 and 2027
6 Market Segmentation by Application
- 6.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 30: Chart on Application - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 31: Data Table on Application - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.2 Comparison by Application
- Exhibit 32: Chart on Comparison by Application
- Exhibit 33: Data Table on Comparison by Application
- 6.3 Consumer products - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 34: Chart on Consumer products - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 35: Data Table on Consumer products - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 36: Chart on Consumer products - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 37: Data Table on Consumer products - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.4 Pets - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 38: Chart on Pets - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 39: Data Table on Pets - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 40: Chart on Pets - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 41: Data Table on Pets - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.5 Luggage - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 42: Chart on Luggage - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 43: Data Table on Luggage - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 44: Chart on Luggage - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 45: Data Table on Luggage - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.6 Market opportunity by Application
- Exhibit 46: Market opportunity by Application ($ million)
7 Market Segmentation by Technology
- 7.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 47: Chart on Technology - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 48: Data Table on Technology - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.2 Comparison by Technology
- Exhibit 49: Chart on Comparison by Technology
- Exhibit 50: Data Table on Comparison by Technology
- 7.3 Bluetooth - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 51: Chart on Bluetooth - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 52: Data Table on Bluetooth - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 53: Chart on Bluetooth - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 54: Data Table on Bluetooth - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.4 Cellular technology - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 55: Chart on Cellular technology - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 56: Data Table on Cellular technology - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 57: Chart on Cellular technology - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 58: Data Table on Cellular technology - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.5 GPS - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 59: Chart on GPS - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 60: Data Table on GPS - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 61: Chart on GPS - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 62: Data Table on GPS - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.6 Market opportunity by Technology
- Exhibit 63: Market opportunity by Technology ($ million)
8 Customer Landscape
- 8.1 Customer landscape overview
- Exhibit 64: Analysis of price sensitivity, lifecycle, customer purchase basket, adoption rates, and purchase criteria
9 Geographic Landscape
- 9.1 Geographic segmentation
- Exhibit 65: Chart on Market share by geography 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 66: Data Table on Market share by geography 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.2 Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 67: Chart on Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 68: Data Table on Geographic comparison
- 9.3 North America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 69: Chart on North America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 70: Data Table on North America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 71: Chart on North America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 72: Data Table on North America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.4 Europe - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 73: Chart on Europe - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 74: Data Table on Europe - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 75: Chart on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 76: Data Table on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.5 APAC - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 77: Chart on APAC - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 78: Data Table on APAC - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 79: Chart on APAC - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 80: Data Table on APAC - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.6 South America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 81: Chart on South America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 82: Data Table on South America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 83: Chart on South America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 84: Data Table on South America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.7 Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 85: Chart on Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 86: Data Table on Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 87: Chart on Middle East and Africa - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 88: Data Table on Middle East and Africa - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.8 US - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 89: Chart on US - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 90: Data Table on US - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 91: Chart on US - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 92: Data Table on US - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.9 Germany - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 93: Chart on Germany - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 94: Data Table on Germany - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 95: Chart on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 96: Data Table on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.10 Japan - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 97: Chart on Japan - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 98: Data Table on Japan - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 99: Chart on Japan - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 100: Data Table on Japan - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.11 China - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 101: Chart on China - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 102: Data Table on China - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 103: Chart on China - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 104: Data Table on China - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.12 UK - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 105: Chart on UK - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 106: Data Table on UK - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 107: Chart on UK - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 108: Data Table on UK - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.13 Market opportunity by geography
- Exhibit 109: Market opportunity by geography ($ million)
10 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
- 10.1 Market drivers
- 10.2 Market challenges
- 10.3 Impact of drivers and challenges
- Exhibit 110: Impact of drivers and challenges in 2022 and 2027
- 10.4 Market trends
11 Vendor Landscape
- 11.1 Overview
- 11.2 Vendor landscape
- Exhibit 111: Overview on Criticality of inputs and Factors of differentiation
- 11.3 Landscape disruption
- Exhibit 112: Overview on factors of disruption
- 11.4 Industry risks
- Exhibit 113: Impact of key risks on business
12 Vendor Analysis
- 12.1 Vendors covered
- Exhibit 114: Vendors covered
- 12.2 Market positioning of vendors
- Exhibit 115: Matrix on vendor position and classification
- 12.3 Adero Inc.
- Exhibit 116: Adero Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 117: Adero Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 118: Adero Inc. - Key offerings
- 12.4 Chipolo doo
- Exhibit 119: Chipolo doo - Overview
- Exhibit 120: Chipolo doo - Product / Service
- Exhibit 121: Chipolo doo - Key offerings
- 12.5 Elios Inc.
- Exhibit 122: Elios Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 123: Elios Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 124: Elios Inc. - Key offerings
- 12.6 Innova Technology LLC
- Exhibit 125: Innova Technology LLC - Overview
- Exhibit 126: Innova Technology LLC - Product / Service
- Exhibit 127: Innova Technology LLC - Key offerings
- 12.7 Kaltio Technologies Oy
- Exhibit 128: Kaltio Technologies Oy - Overview
- Exhibit 129: Kaltio Technologies Oy - Product / Service
- Exhibit 130: Kaltio Technologies Oy - Key offerings
- 12.8 Lugloc Inc.
- Exhibit 131: Lugloc Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 132: Lugloc Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 133: Lugloc Inc. - Key offerings
- 12.9 Mars Inc.
- Exhibit 134: Mars Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 135: Mars Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 136: Mars Inc. - Key offerings
- 12.10 PB Inc.
- Exhibit 137: PB Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 138: PB Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 139: PB Inc. - Key offerings
- 12.11 Pitpatpet Ltd.
- Exhibit 140: Pitpatpet Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 141: Pitpatpet Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 142: Pitpatpet Ltd. - Key offerings
- 12.12 Qorvo Inc.
- Exhibit 143: Qorvo Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 144: Qorvo Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 145: Qorvo Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 146: Qorvo Inc. - Segment focus
- 12.13 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Exhibit 147: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 148: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. - Business segments
- Exhibit 149: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. - Key news
- Exhibit 150: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 151: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. - Segment focus
- 12.14 Tago LLC
- Exhibit 152: Tago LLC - Overview
- Exhibit 153: Tago LLC - Product / Service
- Exhibit 154: Tago LLC - Key offerings
- 12.15 Tile Inc.
- Exhibit 155: Tile Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 156: Tile Inc. - Key offerings
- 12.16 Traxbean Technology Ltd. Co.
- Exhibit 157: Traxbean Technology Ltd. Co. - Overview
- Exhibit 158: Traxbean Technology Ltd. Co. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 159: Traxbean Technology Ltd. Co. - Key offerings
- 12.17 XY The Persistent Co.
- Exhibit 160: XY The Persistent Co. - Overview
- Exhibit 161: XY The Persistent Co. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 162: XY The Persistent Co. - Key offerings
13 Appendix
- 13.1 Scope of the report
- 13.2 Inclusions and exclusions checklist
- Exhibit 163: Inclusions checklist
- Exhibit 164: Exclusions checklist
- 13.3 Currency conversion rates for US$
- Exhibit 165: Currency conversion rates for US$
- 13.4 Research methodology
- Exhibit 166: Research methodology
- Exhibit 167: Validation techniques employed for market sizing
- Exhibit 168: Information sources
- 13.5 List of abbreviations
- Exhibit 169: List of abbreviations
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Online attacks against LGBTQ people have skyrocketed in recent months, rising in lockstep with proposed policies seeking to roll back LGBTQ rights and culminating in real-world violence. A House committee is set to investigate the connection on Wednesday in a first-of-its kind hearing.
“Violence against LGBTQ+ people is on the rise, and has been for years,” Olivia Hunt, policy director for the National Center for Transgender Equality, said in an emailed statement. “From bomb threats and intimidation tactics targeting hospitals and churches to attacks like the shooting at Club Q, LGBTQ+ people nationwide are living under the threat of violence.”
Last month, a 22-year-old carried a rifle into Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., and opened fire, killing five people and injuring more than a dozen others. The alleged shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, is suspected to have ties to an extremist “free speech” website that aims to “cleanse” society, according to NBC News.
“You’re seeing that kind of hate speech becoming more and more prevalent online,” Colorado state Sen. Dominick Moreno (D) told The Hill. “Social media channels obviously make it easier to distribute, but I think they also intensify the vitriol because you can say anything you want behind the veneer of a computer screen.”
Hunt, who is scheduled to testify in Wednesday’s House and Reform Oversight Committee hearing, said it is critical for Congress to “shine a bright light” on rising violence against the LGBTQ community and make clear that recent attacks have been fueled by the harmful rhetoric and policies of right-wing leaders.
“I wish this hearing wasn’t necessary, but as long as extremists are targeting our community, we have to respond loudly with the truth and demonstrate how the dangerous environment for LGBTQ+ Americans is a consequence of their actions,” she said.
Inflammatory and false rhetoric
An August report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group, found that inflammatory rhetoric aimed at LGBTQ people flourished during the first half of 2022 on mainstream social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter, which recently relaxed its hateful conduct policies under new owner Elon Musk and allowed scores of suspended users to return to the site.
The same report found that social media posts comparing LGBTQ people to “groomers” and “pedophiles” surged by more than 400 percent after a Florida education law barring teachers from engaging in classroom instruction related to sexual orientation or gender identity was passed.
In March, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) then-press secretary Christina Pushaw said in a tweet the measure — known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — would be more aptly described as the “Anti-Grooming Bill” and that anyone opposed to the legislation is “probably a groomer.”
Accusations of child “grooming” have been hurled online at prominent LGBTQ figures and elected officials in droves this year, though the consequences of claims made on a virtual plane are spilling into the real world.
San Francisco police earlier this month were dispatched to the home of California state Sen. Scott Wiener to investigate an emailed death threat that called Wiener, who is openly gay, a “pedophile” and a “groomer.”
Wiener in a statement said the threat, which police later determined to be meritless, was the result of false accusations made by GOP officials and conservative media personalities that he was “grooming” children for sexual exploitation.
Wiener is the author of several pro-LGBTQ bills, including one measure that blocks states from prosecuting or investigating the families of transgender youth that travel to California to obtain gender-affirming health care.
Attacks on gender-affirming care
Threats of violence similar to Wiener’s have been made against children’s hospitals that provide gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors. Lawmakers in more than a dozen states this year introduced measures to heavily restrict or ban such care for youth and young adults, accusing physicians of “mutilating” children.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in August introduced federal legislation seeking to make providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors a felony, punishable by up 25 years in prison.
Greene during an appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” where she announced her bill said gender-affirming care is “disgusting and appalling” and equated it to child abuse.
“This needs to be illegal,” she said.
Under standards set by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health and the Endocrine Society, gender-affirming treatment for minors that have already started puberty typically involves puberty blockers or hormones that have been prescribed by a licensed physician.
Surgery is not recommended for youth under 18, and the only acceptable treatment for prepubescent children is social transition. Gender-affirming health care for transgender people of all ages is supported by most accredited medical organizations.
During November’s midterm elections, Republican candidates funneled millions into campaign ads that propagated false or misleading information about gender-affirming health care for youth and targeted transgender athletes.
“The radical left will destroy children if we don’t stop them,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says in one social media ad, which features footage of a Drag Queen Story Hour event. “They indoctrinate children; try to turn boys into girls.”
Anti-LBGTQ state legislation
Drag events for youth have recently drawn the ire of GOP leaders, and several bills seeking to ban them have already been pre-filed ahead of the 2023 legislative session by lawmakers in Tennessee, Texas and others.
In October, more than 30 House Republicans signed on to a measure seeking to block federal funds from being used to make “sexually-oriented” materials — including those that feature “any topic” related to sexual orientation or gender identity — available to children under the age of 10.
The measure’s primary sponsor, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), in a news release said the bill — titled the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act — will put an end to a “misguided crusade” led by Democrats to expose the nation’s children to “sexual imagery and radical gender ideology.”
Such language has galvanized far-right and extremist groups like the Proud Boys, whose members have led dozens of armed protests at family-friendly drag shows and other LGBTQ youth programs across the country, often in the name of protecting children from “groomers.”
In June, authorities in Northern California launched a hate crime investigation after a children’s story hour was disrupted by protesters that hurled anti-LGBTQ slurs at a drag performer. In November, an Oklahoma doughnut shop was firebombed after hosting a drag event. Organizers of an upcoming holiday-themed drag brunch in Jacksonville, Fla., say they are reconsidering holding the event at all after receiving multiple threats from Proud Boys members.
Moreno, the Colorado state senator, said he doesn’t engage much with his critics on social media anymore. Sometimes, he’ll extend an invitation for a cup of coffee. More often than not, he said, both parties are able to come to a point of mutual respect.
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Soda ash market insights -
- Vendors: 15+, Including Ciech SA, Ciner Resources Corp., Destiny Chemicals, Genesis Energy LP, GHCL Ltd., Hydrite Chemical Co., ICI Pakistan Ltd., Lianyungang Soda Ash Co. Ltd., Nirma Ltd., OCI Co. Ltd., SHANDONG OCEAN CHEMICAL Co. Ltd., Sisecam, Solvay SA, TangShan SanYou Chemical Industries Co. Ltd., Tata Chemicals Ltd., Telford Industries, The Chemical Co., The Natrio group of companies, Tokuyama Corp., and BASF SE, among others
- Coverage: Parent market analysis; key drivers, major trends, and challenges; customer and vendor landscape; vendor product insights and recent developments; key vendors; and market positioning of vendors
- Segments: Type, application, and region
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In 2017, the soda ash market was valued at USD 32,384 thousand units. From a regional perspective, APAC held the largest market share, valued at USD 18,465 thousand units. The soda ash market size is estimated to grow by USD 37,578 thousand units from 2022 to 2027 at a CAGR of 9.85%, according to Technavio.
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- Key purchase criteria
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- Adoption lifecycle
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The global soda ash market is characterized by the presence of several global and regional vendors. Most large and established manufacturers sell and distribute their offerings to customers across the world, whereas several small manufacturers concentrate on regional markets. Manufacturers compete on parameters such as price, quality, innovation, reputation, brand identity, and distribution. Technavio report analyzes the market's competitive landscape and offers information on several market vendors, including -
- Ciech SA - The company offers soda ash that is used for various applications.
- Ciner Resources Corp. - The company offers soda ash that is used by industries such as the glass industry.
- Destiny Chemicals - The company offers soda ash that occurs in many kinds of mineral waters and in mineral deposits of certain springs and lake brines.
- Rise in demand for soda ash from the glass industry
- Growing chemical industry
- Increasing demand for soda ash in the pharmaceutical industry
- Volatility in prices of raw materials
- Threat of substitutes
- Increasing number of government regulations related to the production of soda ash
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- Thorough analysis of the market's competitive landscape and detailed information about vendors
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1 Executive Summary
- 1.1 Market overview
- Exhibit 01: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Overview
- Exhibit 02: Executive Summary – Data Table on Market Overview
- Exhibit 03: Executive Summary – Chart on Global Market Characteristics
- Exhibit 04: Executive Summary – Chart on Market by Geography
- Exhibit 05: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Segmentation by Application
- Exhibit 06: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Segmentation by Type
- Exhibit 07: Executive Summary – Chart on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 08: Executive Summary – Data Table on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 09: Executive Summary – Chart on Vendor Market Positioning
2 Market Landscape
- 2.1 Market ecosystem
- Exhibit 10: Parent market
- Exhibit 11: Market Characteristics
3 Market Sizing
- 3.1 Market definition
- Exhibit 12: Offerings of vendors included in the market definition
- 3.2 Market segment analysis
- Exhibit 13: Market segments
- 3.3 Market size 2022
- 3.4 Market outlook: Forecast for 2022-2027
- Exhibit 14: Chart on Global - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 15: Data Table on Global - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 16: Chart on Global Market- Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 17: Data Table on Global Market- Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
4 Historic Market Size
- 4.1 Global soda ash market 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 18: Historic Market Size – Data Table on Global soda ash market 2017 - 2021 ($ billion)
- 4.2 Application Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 19: Historic Market Size – Application Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ billion)
- 4.3 Type Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 20: Historic Market Size – Type Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ billion)
- 4.4 Geography Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 21: Historic Market Size – Geography Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ billion)
- 4.5 Country Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 22: Historic Market Size – Country Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ billion)
5 Five Forces Analysis
- 5.1 Five forces summary
- Exhibit 23: Five forces analysis - Comparison between 2022 and 2027
- 5.2 Bargaining power of buyers
- Exhibit 24: Chart on Bargaining power of buyers – Impact of key factors 2022 and 2027
- 5.3 Bargaining power of suppliers
- Exhibit 25: Bargaining power of suppliers – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.4 Threat of new entrants
- Exhibit 26: Threat of new entrants – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.5 Threat of substitutes
- Exhibit 27: Threat of substitutes – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.6 Threat of rivalry
- Exhibit 28: Threat of rivalry – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.7 Market condition
- Exhibit 29: Chart on Market condition - Five forces 2022 and 2027
6 Market Segmentation by Application
- 6.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 30: Chart on Application - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 31: Data Table on Application - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.2 Comparison by Application
- Exhibit 32: Chart on Comparison by Application
- Exhibit 33: Data Table on Comparison by Application
- 6.3 Glass - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 34: Chart on Glass - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 35: Data Table on Glass - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 36: Chart on Glass - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 37: Data Table on Glass - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.4 Soaps and detergents - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 38: Chart on Soaps and detergents - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 39: Data Table on Soaps and detergents - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 40: Chart on Soaps and detergents - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 41: Data Table on Soaps and detergents - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.5 Chemicals - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 42: Chart on Chemicals - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 43: Data Table on Chemicals - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 44: Chart on Chemicals - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 45: Data Table on Chemicals - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.6 Others - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 46: Chart on Others - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 47: Data Table on Others - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 48: Chart on Others - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 49: Data Table on Others - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.7 Market opportunity by Application
- Exhibit 50: Market opportunity by Application (thousand units)
7 Market Segmentation by Type
- 7.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 51: Chart on Type - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 52: Data Table on Type - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.2 Comparison by Type
- Exhibit 53: Chart on Comparison by Type
- Exhibit 54: Data Table on Comparison by Type
- 7.3 Light - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 55: Chart on Light - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 56: Data Table on Light - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 57: Chart on Light - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 58: Data Table on Light - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.4 Dense - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 59: Chart on Dense - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 60: Data Table on Dense - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 61: Chart on Dense - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 62: Data Table on Dense - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.5 Market opportunity by Type
- Exhibit 63: Market opportunity by Type (thousand units)
8 Customer Landscape
- 8.1 Customer landscape overview
- Exhibit 64: Analysis of price sensitivity, lifecycle, customer purchase basket, adoption rates, and purchase criteria
9 Geographic Landscape
- 9.1 Geographic segmentation
- Exhibit 65: Chart on Market share by geography 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 66: Data Table on Market share by geography 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.2 Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 67: Chart on Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 68: Data Table on Geographic comparison
- 9.3 APAC - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 69: Chart on APAC - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 70: Data Table on APAC - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 71: Chart on APAC - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 72: Data Table on APAC - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.4 Europe - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 73: Chart on Europe - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 74: Data Table on Europe - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 75: Chart on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 76: Data Table on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.5 North America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 77: Chart on North America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 78: Data Table on North America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 79: Chart on North America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 80: Data Table on North America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.6 Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 81: Chart on Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 82: Data Table on Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 83: Chart on Middle East and Africa - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 84: Data Table on Middle East and Africa - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.7 South America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 85: Chart on South America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 86: Data Table on South America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 87: Chart on South America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 88: Data Table on South America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.8 China - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 89: Chart on China - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 90: Data Table on China - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 91: Chart on China - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 92: Data Table on China - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.9 US - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 93: Chart on US - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 94: Data Table on US - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 95: Chart on US - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 96: Data Table on US - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.10 India - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 97: Chart on India - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 98: Data Table on India - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 99: Chart on India - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 100: Data Table on India - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.11 Japan - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 101: Chart on Japan - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 102: Data Table on Japan - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 103: Chart on Japan - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 104: Data Table on Japan - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.12 Germany - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 105: Chart on Germany - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 106: Data Table on Germany - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 (thousand units)
- Exhibit 107: Chart on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 108: Data Table on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.13 Market opportunity by geography
- Exhibit 109: Market opportunity by geography (thousand units)
10 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
- 10.1 Market drivers
- 10.2 Market challenges
- 10.3 Impact of drivers and challenges
- Exhibit 110: Impact of drivers and challenges in 2022 and 2027
- 10.4 Market trends
11 Vendor Landscape
- 11.1 Overview
- 11.2 Vendor landscape
- Exhibit 111: Overview on Criticality of inputs and Factors of differentiation
- 11.3 Landscape disruption
- Exhibit 112: Overview on factors of disruption
- 11.4 Industry risks
- Exhibit 113: Impact of key risks on business
12 Vendor Analysis
- 12.1 Vendors covered
- Exhibit 114: Vendors covered
- 12.2 Market positioning of vendors
- Exhibit 115: Matrix on vendor position and classification
- 12.3 BASF SE
- Exhibit 116: BASF SE - Overview
- Exhibit 117: BASF SE - Business segments
- Exhibit 118: BASF SE - Key news
- Exhibit 119: BASF SE - Key offerings
- Exhibit 120: BASF SE - Segment focus
- 12.4 Ciech SA
- Exhibit 121: Ciech SA - Overview
- Exhibit 122: Ciech SA - Business segments
- Exhibit 123: Ciech SA - Key offerings
- Exhibit 124: Ciech SA - Segment focus
- 12.5 Ciner Resources Corp.
- Exhibit 125: Ciner Resources Corp. - Overview
- Exhibit 126: Ciner Resources Corp. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 127: Ciner Resources Corp. - Key offerings
- 12.6 Destiny Chemicals
- Exhibit 128: Destiny Chemicals - Overview
- Exhibit 129: Destiny Chemicals - Product / Service
- Exhibit 130: Destiny Chemicals - Key offerings
- 12.7 Genesis Energy LP
- Exhibit 131: Genesis Energy LP - Overview
- Exhibit 132: Genesis Energy LP - Business segments
- Exhibit 133: Genesis Energy LP - Key offerings
- Exhibit 134: Genesis Energy LP - Segment focus
- 12.8 GHCL Ltd.
- Exhibit 135: GHCL Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 136: GHCL Ltd. - Business segments
- Exhibit 137: GHCL Ltd. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 138: GHCL Ltd. - Segment focus
- 12.9 Hydrite Chemical Co.
- Exhibit 139: Hydrite Chemical Co. - Overview
- Exhibit 140: Hydrite Chemical Co. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 141: Hydrite Chemical Co. - Key offerings
- 12.10 ICI Pakistan Ltd.
- Exhibit 142: ICI Pakistan Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 143: ICI Pakistan Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 144: ICI Pakistan Ltd. - Key offerings
- 12.11 Lianyungang Soda Ash Co. Ltd.
- Exhibit 145: Lianyungang Soda Ash Co. Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 146: Lianyungang Soda Ash Co. Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 147: Lianyungang Soda Ash Co. Ltd. - Key offerings
- 12.12 Nirma Ltd.
- Exhibit 148: Nirma Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 149: Nirma Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 150: Nirma Ltd. - Key offerings
- 12.13 OCI Co. Ltd.
- Exhibit 151: OCI Co. Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 152: OCI Co. Ltd. - Business segments
- Exhibit 153: OCI Co. Ltd. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 154: OCI Co. Ltd. - Segment focus
- 12.14 SHANDONG OCEAN CHEMICAL Co. Ltd.
- Exhibit 155: SHANDONG OCEAN CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 156: SHANDONG OCEAN CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 157: SHANDONG OCEAN CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. - Key offerings
- 12.15 Sisecam
- Exhibit 158: Sisecam - Overview
- Exhibit 159: Sisecam - Business segments
- Exhibit 160: Sisecam - Key offerings
- Exhibit 161: Sisecam - Segment focus
- 12.16 Solvay SA
- Exhibit 162: Solvay SA - Overview
- Exhibit 163: Solvay SA - Business segments
- Exhibit 164: Solvay SA - Key news
- Exhibit 165: Solvay SA - Key offerings
- Exhibit 166: Solvay SA - Segment focus
- 12.17 Tata Chemicals Ltd.
- Exhibit 167: Tata Chemicals Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 168: Tata Chemicals Ltd. - Business segments
- Exhibit 169: Tata Chemicals Ltd. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 170: Tata Chemicals Ltd. - Segment focus
13 Appendix
- 13.1 Scope of the report
- 13.2 Inclusions and exclusions checklist
- Exhibit 171: Inclusions checklist
- Exhibit 172: Exclusions checklist
- 13.3 Currency conversion rates for US$
- Exhibit 173: Currency conversion rates for US$
- 13.4 Research methodology
- Exhibit 174: Research methodology
- Exhibit 175: Validation techniques employed for market sizing
- Exhibit 176: Information sources
- 13.5 List of abbreviations
- Exhibit 177: List of abbreviations
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The Biden administration is hosting a summit this week that brings together leaders of 49 African countries, as well as heads of the African Union, to collaborate on key policy across climate change, security and trade.
Vice President Harris opened the three-day summit on Tuesday at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, where she discussed the African diaspora and young African leaders.
President Biden is expected to join the summit on Wednesday and deliver remarks on the U.S.-Africa Business Forum.
While a significant majority of African nations joined the summit this week, five were not invited.
A senior White House official this week said four of those countries — Guinea, Sudan, Mali and Burkina Faso — have changed their governments unconstitutionally and were suspended from the African Union.
Here are the five African nations that weren’t invited to Biden’s summit:
Guinea
The ruling government in Guinea was seized by a military junta in September 2021 and is now led by Col. Mamady Doumbouya.
The military junta overthrew President Alpha Condé, who had won a controversial third term for office despite term limits, which he claimed did not apply to him.
Doumbouya agreed in October to hold new elections in about two years.
Sudan
Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan toppled the government in October 2021, taking power during the northeast African nation’s transition to a democracy after three decades of authoritarian rule.
Sudan’s military leadership announced this month the first phase of an agreement to transition to a democracy, but some political groups have rejected the framework, and discussions are ongoing.
Millions of people in Sudan are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, a crisis that grew worse after the coup. Civilian demonstrators also frequently clash with security forces.
Mali
Col. Assimi Goïta seized power in Mali two years ago after leading a coup against the government.
He failed to transition the West African country into new democratic elections and has become a pariah to the international world.
Mali also recently rejected help from French humanitarian groups, affecting hundreds of thousands of Malians who are in need of emergency food and medical assistance.
Earlier this year, France, which had fought Islamic terrorist groups for nine years in Mali, completed a withdrawal of troops from the country.
Russian mercenaries in Mali have also been accused of murdering civilians in a growing concern for world leaders.
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso, located in West Africa, is in a dire humanitarian situation after suffering from two coups in less than nine months.
Troops in September ousted the ruling military leader, Lt. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had won control of the country through a January coup.
A militia leader appointed to replace him said Damiba had not done enough to control violence in Burkina Faso.
More than 3,200 people have died in the African country from January to September, and nearly 5 million are in need of emergency assistance.
Some women and children have been eating leaves and salt for weeks, the United Nations said in October.
Eritrea
The U.S. does not have formal ties with Eritrea, a country located in the Horn of Africa in the eastern region of the continent, so the nation’s leaders were not invited.
Eritrea has also been providing military support to neighboring Ethiopia, which is in the midst of a civil war against an opposing political faction in the region of Tigray.
Eritrean troops are accused of the kidnapping, looting and murder of civilians in Tigray, and the U.S. has called for the Eritrean soldiers to withdraw from the conflict.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPPI) between December 6, 2021 and September 22, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 2, 2023.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Spectrum securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Spectrum class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9455 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] or [email protected] for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 2, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, defendants made numerous materially false and misleading statements and/or omissions concerning its drug candidate poziotinib, or "pozi". Defendants were conducting a Phase 2 clinical trial called ZENITH20. The ZENITH20 trial was an ongoing, multicenter, multi-cohort, open-label, activity estimating study evaluating the anti-tumor effects, safety, and tolerability of pozi in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer that were previously treated. Additionally, the complaint alleges that during the Class Period, Defendants represented that the safety and efficacy data from the ZENITH20 trial were positive and, based on those positive results, had initiated a required confirmatory phase 3 study. This, however, was not true.
When the truth entered the market over several days, the lawsuit alleges that investors suffered serious losses.
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Talesun Solar Attends EnerGaia 2022, Paving the Way for Overseas Expansion
MONTPELLIER, France, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From December 7 to 8, EnerGaia 2022, an annual event for professionals in the renewable energy sector, was held in Montpellier, France. As a major EU country, France is in a renewable energy transition and has been hosting the show for several years.
In May of this year, the EU announced a Joint European Action that it has dubbed REPower EU, to assure more affordable, secure and sustainable energy with the aim of reducing dependence on Russia and accelerating the shift to green energy by adding more renewable sources and expanding LNG imports. For the development and utilization of photovoltaic (PV) power, the 27-country political and economic union has formulated the EU Solar Energy Strategy, a plan to grow grid-connected PV capacity to 320GW by 2025 and to 600GW by 2030. This translates into a need during the period 2022-2030 to add nearly 50GW of new PV installations per year on average. By 2030, together with non-EU countries, the installed PV capacity throughout the region is expected come close to 650GW, accounting for 31 percent of the overall energy mix.
In recent years, France has become a popular PV market. As the second largest energy consumer in Europe, the country has set out a series of policies including the multi-year energy strategy (PPE) and the French Energy Strategy for 2050, with PV installation targets of 20.1GW by 2023, 35.1-44GW by 2028, and 100GW by 2050. France is also the first country in the region to impose carbon footprint requirements on PV modules, requiring PV projects with a capacity of 100kW or more to use modules with a carbon footprint of less than 550kg eq CO2/kWp, making it a pioneer in controlling carbon emissions by tracking the PV supply chain.
The outlook for the global PV market has become more promising as China's PV sector expands internationally, in tandem with the new possibilities brought about by the country's modification of its strict pandemic controls. As part of Talesun Solar's globalization strategy, timing could not be better for the company's European team to drive global electricity towards green and clean energy as its production capacity, deliverability and product portfolio continue to be enhanced.
A stunning all-black design combined with high efficiency
Aesthetic in appearance and high performing, Talesun Solar's all-black solar PV modules are made of dark monocrystalline silicon cells integrated into a low-profile pure black design. The modules are suitable for scenarios where look and feel are important including residential rooftops, landscape enclosures, and PV carports. They can effectively meet customers' expectations in terms of design, vastly raising the acceptability among home owners, home improvement specialists and architects who had previously raised concerns about their appearance. Additionally, the modules are available in a wide range of models, with flexible application solutions, making them ideal for distributed scenarios in the European market. The modules give the home, office or factory on which they are installed a premium look in tandem with outstanding power generation performance.
Demonstrating a strong commitment to the industry and striving for excellence
The two-day event came to a successful conclusion, but Talesun Solar's technological innovation does not stop there. After a decade during which Talesun Solar gained a reputation for its innovative approach to everything that it does, the company has emerged as a world-leading PV maker, one of China's top PV power plant developers, and an entity at the forefront of PV manufacturing in China. The company's planned annual production capacity has expanded to 16GW solar PV monocrystalline high-efficiency cells and 20GW solar PV high-efficiency modules.
Looking ahead, Talesun Solar will continue to enhance its proprietary technologies in line with the development trend of the PV industry, apply the same level of attention to every unit that rolls off its production lines as it has done since the first day of operations in order to offer the best in services to European customers, and contribute its prowess and expertise to the global energy transformation.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Officials and local residents are searching for answers after multiple people noticed a creek in Michigan turn an eye-popping shade of green.
Photos from viewer Steven Littell Monday afternoon showed bright green water in Plaster Creek near Cesar E. Chavez Avenue, which is on the border of Grand Rapids and Wyoming.
The City of Grand Rapids went to check it out Monday after receiving the complaint but when workers got there, they said the green was gone.
Nexstar’s WOOD-TV also went to check out the creek Tuesday but did not see the green hue.
“My significant other and I were driving by, and she said, ‘Look at the creek.’ I stopped and it was fluorescent green. It was like almost glowing. So I got out and got a couple shots,” said Steven Littell, who sent the photos to WOOD. “Came back and checked on it for the next hour or so — it ran green for pretty close to an hour.”
“It worried me. I thought somebody was dumping something that shouldn’t have been dumped in there. It didn’t look right. This goes right to the Grand, right to Lake Michigan, so it worried me,” said Littell.
Jeff Johnston, a spokesperson with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy said staff has inspected the creek at the location Littell found the green color and found that it had already run clear.
“The color appears to have been from a dye test, likely performed near where the color was observed, and that material dissipates quickly,” said Johnston.
The Grand Rapids wastewater/stormwater maintenance superintendent agreed that it looks like the green dye that is used to determine where water is flowing.
But the city clarified that it wasn’t doing any tests Monday.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The third-party chemical distribution market size is forecast to increase by USD 121.73 million from 2022 to 2027, at a CAGR of 7.6%, according to the recent market study by Technavio. The growth of the market will be driven by the growing focus on chemical distribution, the increasing emphasis on outsourcing distribution services, and the rising demand for third-party chemical distribution from MEA and APAC.
Technavio categorizes the global third-party chemical distribution market as a part of the air freight and logistics market, which covers companies providing air freight transportation, courier, and logistics services, including package and mail delivery and customs agents.
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Technavio has extensively analyzed 15 major vendors, including Barentz International BV, Biesterfeld AG, BRENNTAG SE, HELM AG, ICC Chemical Corp., IMCD NV, Jebsen and Jessen Pte Ltd., Manuchar NV, Obegi Group, Omya International AG, Petrochem, Protea Chemicals, REDA Chemicals, Redox Ltd., and Sea Land Chemical Co. Theo Muller.
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The market is segmented by type (commodity chemicals and speciality chemicals), application (textiles, automotive and transportation, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and industrial), and geography( APAC, Europe, North America, South America, and Middle East and Africa).
Segmentation by type (Inclusion/Exclusion)
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- Commodity chemicals:
The commodity chemicals trailers segment grew gradually by USD 137.52 million in 2017 and continued to grow till 2021. The segment is driven by the rise in the manufacture of a wide range of end-user products, such as construction materials, adhesives, plastics, apparel, and tires. The increased demand for commodity chemicals in the personal care and aerospace industries is also contributing to the segment's growth.
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- Accurate predictions about upcoming trends and changes in consumer behavior
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Table of Contents:
1 Executive Summary
- 1.1 Market overview
- Exhibit 01: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Overview
- Exhibit 02: Executive Summary – Data Table on Market Overview
- Exhibit 03: Executive Summary – Chart on Global Market Characteristics
- Exhibit 04: Executive Summary – Chart on Market by Geography
- Exhibit 05: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Segmentation by Type
- Exhibit 06: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Segmentation by Application
- Exhibit 07: Executive Summary – Chart on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 08: Executive Summary – Data Table on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 09: Executive Summary – Chart on Vendor Market Positioning
2 Market Landscape
- 2.1 Market ecosystem
- Exhibit 10: Parent market
- Exhibit 11: Market Characteristics
3 Market Sizing
- 3.1 Market definition
- Exhibit 12: Offerings of vendors included in the market definition
- 3.2 Market segment analysis
- Exhibit 13: Market segments
- 3.3 Market size 2022
- 3.4 Market outlook: Forecast for 2022-2027
- Exhibit 14: Chart on Global - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 15: Data Table on Global - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 16: Chart on Global Market: Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 17: Data Table on Global Market: Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
4 Historic Market Size
- 4.1 Global third-party chemical distribution market 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 18: Historic Market Size – Data Table on Global third-party chemical distribution market 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
- 4.2 Type Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 19: Historic Market Size – Type Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
- 4.3 Distribution channel Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 20: Historic Market Size – Distribution channel Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
- 4.4 Geography Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 21: Historic Market Size – Geography Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
- 4.5 Country Segment Analysis 2017 - 2021
- Exhibit 22: Historic Market Size – Country Segment 2017 - 2021 ($ million)
5 Five Forces Analysis
- 5.1 Five forces summary
- Exhibit 23: Five forces analysis - Comparison between2022 and 2027
- 5.2 Bargaining power of buyers
- Exhibit 24: Chart on Bargaining power of buyers – Impact of key factors 2022 and 2027
- 5.3 Bargaining power of suppliers
- Exhibit 25: Bargaining power of suppliers – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.4 Threat of new entrants
- Exhibit 26: Threat of new entrants – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.5 Threat of substitutes
- Exhibit 27: Threat of substitutes – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.6 Threat of rivalry
- Exhibit 28: Threat of rivalry – Impact of key factors in 2022 and 2027
- 5.7 Market condition
- Exhibit 29: Chart on Market condition - Five forces 2022 and 2027
6 Market Segmentation by Type
- 6.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 30: Chart on Type - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 31: Data Table on Type - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.2 Comparison by Type
- Exhibit 32: Chart on Comparison by Type
- Exhibit 33: Data Table on Comparison by Type
- 6.3 Commodity chemicals - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 34: Chart on Commodity chemicals - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 35: Data Table on Commodity chemicals - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 36: Chart on Commodity chemicals - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 37: Data Table on Commodity chemicals - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.4 Speciality chemicals - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 38: Chart on Speciality chemicals - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 39: Data Table on Speciality chemicals - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 40: Chart on Speciality chemicals - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 41: Data Table on Speciality chemicals - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 6.5 Market opportunity by Type
- Exhibit 42: Market opportunity by Type ($ million)
7 Market Segmentation by Application
- 7.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 43: Chart on Application - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 44: Data Table on Application - Market share 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.2 Comparison by Application
- Exhibit 45: Chart on Comparison by Application
- Exhibit 46: Data Table on Comparison by Application
- 7.3 Textiles - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 47: Chart on Textiles - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 48: Data Table on Textiles - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 49: Chart on Textiles - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 50: Data Table on Textiles - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.4 Automotive and transportation - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 51: Chart on Automotive and transportation - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 52: Data Table on Automotive and transportation - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 53: Chart on Automotive and transportation - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 54: Data Table on Automotive and transportation - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.5 Agriculture - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 55: Chart on Agriculture - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 56: Data Table on Agriculture - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 57: Chart on Agriculture - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 58: Data Table on Agriculture - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.6 Pharmaceuticals - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 59: Chart on Pharmaceuticals - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 60: Data Table on Pharmaceuticals - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 61: Chart on Pharmaceuticals - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 62: Data Table on Pharmaceuticals - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.7 Industrial - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 63: Chart on Industrial - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 64: Data Table on Industrial - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 65: Chart on Industrial - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 66: Data Table on Industrial - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 7.8 Market opportunity by Application
- Exhibit 67: Market opportunity by Application ($ million)
8 Customer Landscape
- 8.1 Customer landscape overview
- Exhibit 68: Analysis of price sensitivity, lifecycle, customer purchase basket, adoption rates, and purchase criteria
9 Geographic Landscape
- 9.1 Geographic segmentation
- Exhibit 69: Chart on Market share by geography 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 70: Data Table on Market share by geography 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.2 Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 71: Chart on Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 72: Data Table on Geographic comparison
- 9.3 APAC - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 73: Chart on APAC - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 74: Data Table on APAC - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 75: Chart on APAC - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 76: Data Table on APAC - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.4 Europe - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 77: Chart on Europe - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 78: Data Table on Europe - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 79: Chart on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 80: Data Table on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.5 North America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 81: Chart on North America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 82: Data Table on North America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 83: Chart on North America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 84: Data Table on North America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.6 South America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 85: Chart on South America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 86: Data Table on South America - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 87: Chart on South America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 88: Data Table on South America - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.7 Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 89: Chart on Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 90: Data Table on Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 91: Chart on Middle East and Africa - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 92: Data Table on Middle East and Africa - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.8 China - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 93: Chart on China - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 94: Data Table on China - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 95: Chart on China - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 96: Data Table on China - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.9 US - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 97: Chart on US - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 98: Data Table on US - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 99: Chart on US - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 100: Data Table on US - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.10 Germany - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 101: Chart on Germany - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 102: Data Table on Germany - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 103: Chart on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 104: Data Table on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.11 India - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 105: Chart on India - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 106: Data Table on India - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 107: Chart on India - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 108: Data Table on India - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.12 UK - Market size and forecast 2022-2027
- Exhibit 109: Chart on UK - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 110: Data Table on UK - Market size and forecast 2022-2027 ($ million)
- Exhibit 111: Chart on UK - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- Exhibit 112: Data Table on UK - Year-over-year growth 2022-2027 (%)
- 9.13 Market opportunity by geography
- Exhibit 113: Market opportunity by geography ($ million)
10 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
- 10.1 Market drivers
- 10.2 Market challenges
- 10.3 Impact of drivers and challenges
- Exhibit 114: Impact of drivers and challenges in 2022 and 2027
- 10.4 Market trends
11 Vendor Landscape
- 11.1 Overview
- 11.2 Vendor landscape
- Exhibit 115: Overview on Criticality of inputs and Factors of differentiation
- 11.3 Landscape disruption
- Exhibit 116: Overview on factors of disruption
- 11.4 Industry risks
- Exhibit 117: Impact of key risks on business
12 Vendor Analysis
- 12.1 Vendors covered
- Exhibit 118: Vendors covered
- 12.2 Market positioning of vendors
- Exhibit 119: Matrix on vendor position and classification
- 12.3 Barentz International BV
- Exhibit 120: Barentz International BV - Overview
- Exhibit 121: Barentz International BV - Product / Service
- Exhibit 122: Barentz International BV - Key offerings
- 12.4 Biesterfeld AG
- Exhibit 123: Biesterfeld AG - Overview
- Exhibit 124: Biesterfeld AG - Product / Service
- Exhibit 125: Biesterfeld AG - Key offerings
- 12.5 BRENNTAG SE
- Exhibit 126: BRENNTAG SE - Overview
- Exhibit 127: BRENNTAG SE - Business segments
- Exhibit 128: BRENNTAG SE - Key offerings
- Exhibit 129: BRENNTAG SE - Segment focus
- 12.6 HELM AG
- Exhibit 130: HELM AG - Overview
- Exhibit 131: HELM AG - Product / Service
- Exhibit 132: HELM AG - Key news
- Exhibit 133: HELM AG - Key offerings
- 12.7 ICC Chemical Corp.
- Exhibit 134: ICC Chemical Corp. - Overview
- Exhibit 135: ICC Chemical Corp. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 136: ICC Chemical Corp. - Key offerings
- 12.8 IMCD NV
- Exhibit 137: IMCD NV - Overview
- Exhibit 138: IMCD NV - Business segments
- Exhibit 139: IMCD NV - Key offerings
- Exhibit 140: IMCD NV - Segment focus
- 12.9 Jebsen and Jessen Pte Ltd.
- Exhibit 141: Jebsen and Jessen Pte Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 142: Jebsen and Jessen Pte Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 143: Jebsen and Jessen Pte Ltd. - Key offerings
- 12.10 Omya International AG
- Exhibit 144: Omya International AG - Overview
- Exhibit 145: Omya International AG - Product / Service
- Exhibit 146: Omya International AG - Key offerings
- 12.11 Redox Ltd.
- Exhibit 147: Redox Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 148: Redox Ltd. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 149: Redox Ltd. - Key offerings
- 12.12 Sea Land Chemical Co.
- Exhibit 150: Sea Land Chemical Co. - Overview
- Exhibit 151: Sea Land Chemical Co. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 152: Sea Land Chemical Co. - Key offerings
- 12.13 Snetor SA
- Exhibit 153: Snetor SA - Overview
- Exhibit 154: Snetor SA - Product / Service
- Exhibit 155: Snetor SA - Key offerings
- 12.14 Stockmeier Holding GmbH
- Exhibit 156: Stockmeier Holding GmbH - Overview
- Exhibit 157: Stockmeier Holding GmbH - Product / Service
- Exhibit 158: Stockmeier Holding GmbH - Key offerings
- 12.15 Tricon Energy Inc.
- Exhibit 159: Tricon Energy Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 160: Tricon Energy Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 161: Tricon Energy Inc. - Key offerings
- 12.16 Univar Solutions Inc.
- Exhibit 162: Univar Solutions Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 163: Univar Solutions Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 164: Univar Solutions Inc. - Key news
- Exhibit 165: Univar Solutions Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 166: Univar Solutions Inc. - Segment focus
- 12.17 Wilbur Ellis Holdings Inc.
- Exhibit 167: Wilbur Ellis Holdings Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 168: Wilbur Ellis Holdings Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 169: Wilbur Ellis Holdings Inc. - Key offerings
13 Appendix
- 13.1 Scope of the report
- 13.2 Inclusions and exclusions checklist
- Exhibit 170: Inclusions checklist
- Exhibit 171: Exclusions checklist
- 13.3 Currency conversion rates for US$
- Exhibit 172: Currency conversion rates for US$
- 13.4 Research methodology
- Exhibit 173: Research methodology
- Exhibit 174: Validation techniques employed for market sizing
- Exhibit 175: Information sources
- 13.5 List of abbreviations
- Exhibit 176: List of abbreviations
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FOLSOM, La. (WGNO) — A family dog is being hailed a hero after he protected two young girls who had gotten lost in the woods behind their Louisiana home.
It happened Monday evening in the Village of Folsom, which is located north of Lake Pontchartrain and New Orleans.
Seven-year-old Abigail Bourg and her sister, 4-year-old Cecelia Bourg, were playing in their backyard when their Golden Retriever, Artemis, ran into the woods. The girls followed and eventually got lost.
“It’s feelings that no parent wants to go through, it was just a rollercoaster of emotions,” said the girls’ mother, Mary Bourg.
The community quickly rallied together. Over 100 volunteers searched the area as well as local law enforcement who deployed ATVs and helicopters.
“Everyone in this community dropped what they were doing and just on the spot – it didn’t matter, they were there for us,” said Mary.
In the end, it was Artemis barking, alerting anyone close by of where they were. The girls and dog were found around 9:30 p.m.
“He also tried to bark at the helicopter,” said Abigail. “He was trying to get help anywhere, let anyone know where y’all were!” added Mary.
It was a surreal moment the second the kids were reunited with their family.
“One thing I can say, the movies got right,” said the girls’ father, Justin Bourg.
As a token of their appreciation, Artemis was fed a special steak dinner. The family says they are holding on to each other – and their dog – a little tighter at night.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vial, a global tech-enabled CRO providing next-generation clinical trial management services, announced the addition of Veeral Sheth, MD, MBA, to Vial's scientific advisory board (SAB). Dr. Sheth will work closely with the company's leadership team to shape the scientific strategy of the Vial Ophthalmology CRO's products and services.
"We are elated for Dr. Sheth to join our SAB. We know he will provide us with masterful input and guidance on our methodology, technology platform, and other Ophthalmology CRO services," said Simon Burns, CEO and Co-Founder of Vial.
"It is a pleasure to work with Vial's passionate team. I look forward to applying my knowledge to help them reimagine the clinical research environment," said Dr. Sheth.
Dr. Sheth is the Director of Clinical Research at the University Retina and Macula Associates and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is also a board-certified vitreoretinal surgeon and has been the editor for the Shelf Life series and the Massachusetts Ear and Eye Infirmary review.
Dr. Sheth received his medical degree from the University of Illinois School of Medicine, after which he completed his residency training in Ophthalmology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Following his residency, he completed a fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Dr. Sheth's clinical and research interests include medical and surgical management of retinal pathologies, including macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. He has extensive clinical trial experience assessing and developing new treatments and drug delivery systems for retinal diseases.
To learn more about Vial, visit our website.
See the full release here.
About Vial: Vial is a tech-enabled, next-generation CRO that promises faster and higher-quality execution of trials for less cost. The Vial Contract Research Organization (CRO) delivers on the promise of more efficient trials through its innovative technology platform that powers trials end-to-end from site startup to database lock. Vial's technology platform combines modern, intuitive eSource, EDC, and ePRO into one connected system, streamlining site processes and enabling considerable efficiencies. Vial operates across multiple Therapeutic Areas (Dermatology CRO, Ophthalmology CRO, Oncology CRO, Gastroenterology CRO, Neurology CRO, and Cardiology CRO). Vial is a San Francisco, California-based company with over 125 employees.
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ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – A man shot a Kentucky Fried Chicken employee Monday evening in St. Louis, Missouri, in a dispute that intensified when the restaurant ran “out of corn,” police say.
The shooting happened around 6:30 p.m. Monday at the KFC restaurant in the 5000 block of Delmar Boulevard in the Central West End neighborhood.
Investigators say a suspect was in the drive-thru of the restaurant when he tried to place an order, and one employee informed him the business was out of corn. After that, the suspect reportedly made threats toward the employee from the speaker box.
A short time later, the suspect pulled up to a drive-thru window with a handgun, police say. A 25-year-old employee went outside to talk with the driver, then he returned to the restaurant with a gunshot wound.
Police say the victim is in critical, but stable condition and remained hospitalized Tuesday.
The suspect took off from the restaurant after the gunfire. Police say the suspect, who was last seen wearing a blue jean jacket with a gray hood and sleeves, is a Black man in his 40s or 50s, with a thin build and a scruffy beard.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is handling the investigation.
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COLLEGE STATION, TX (FOX 44) — After a stellar career in College Station, Texas A&M safety Antonio Johnson declared for the NFL Draft on Tuesday.
During his time in the Maroon and White, Johnson was one of the best playmakers on the Aggie defense. In three seasons, he recorded 164 total tackles, three forced fumbles, two sacks and an interception.
Johnson is currently projected to be a first round draft pick by multiple media outlets. He also becomes the second A&M player to declare for the draft this offseason, joining Devon Achane, who made that announcement last week.
The 2023 NFL Draft will take place from Thursday, April 27th-Saturday, April 29th in Kansas City, Missouri.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) – On Capitol Hill, Republicans have been fighting among themselves and have not managed to reach an agreement that guarantees leader Kevin McCarthy will become Speaker of the House.
House Republicans are openly clashing over who should lead the party in the next Congress.
“It is clear that they want a gun to Kevin’s head,” Rep. Crenshaw (R-TX) said.
Crenshaw is ripping into the House Freedom Caucus for trying to prevent McCarthy from becoming Speaker of the House unless he meets their demands.
“It’s this thinking like they’re more special than everyone else. All of us who worked really, really hard to get these numbers, to get people elected, to raise money for them, this group didn’t do that,” Crenshaw said.
The Conservative Freedom Caucus wants to reinstate a rule that would allow them to recall the Speaker of the House if they are unhappy with his work.
McCarthy’s party has only a slim majority in the next Congress, but he says he’s still confident the party will unite.
“I think people are in a much better place and I think we’ll all find a place to get together,” Rep. McCarthy (R-CA) said.
While it’s unlikely he could get the needed votes, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says he’s also on the ballot.
“I’m trying to get every vote that I possibly can right now on January 3 and expect that Democrats will come together,” Rep. Jeffries (D-NY) said.
And Jeffries is not ready to help Republicans.
“They have to organize on the Republican side, let’s see what happens on January 3,” Jeffries said.
But if McCarthy fails to become speaker, it may also be possible for Republicans and Democrats to vote together and select a more moderate Republican.
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Caught on camera: Deer crashes through window of Pennsylvania restaurant
Caught on camera: Deer crashes through window of Pennsylvania restaurant
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Caught on camera: Deer crashes through window of Pennsylvania restaurant
There was an unusual break-in at a restaurant in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday. A deer crashed through the window of the Blue and Gray Bar & Grill on Baltimore Street around 8:45 a.m. The incident was caught on video.Watch the moment the deer came crashing through the window in the video player above. Restaurant owner Keith Petters said there were several employees inside. The workers called the police, and officers were able to subdue the animal.Police officers, the National Parks Service and a game warden loaded the deer into a pickup truck and released it on a local farm.Petters said there was no damage other than the window, and the restaurant was able to open on time at 11 a.m.
GETTYSBURG, Pa. —
There was an unusual break-in at a restaurant in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
A deer crashed through the window of the Blue and Gray Bar & Grill on Baltimore Street around 8:45 a.m.
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The incident was caught on video.
Watch the moment the deer came crashing through the window in the video player above.
Restaurant owner Keith Petters said there were several employees inside. The workers called the police, and officers were able to subdue the animal.
Police officers, the National Parks Service and a game warden loaded the deer into a pickup truck and released it on a local farm.
Petters said there was no damage other than the window, and the restaurant was able to open on time at 11 a.m.
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Inflation is slowing, but still high. What you need to know
After reaching 40-year highs over the summer, price increases in the U.S. are now steadily easing.
Consumer inflation slowed to 7.1% in November from a year earlier and to 0.1% from October, the government said Tuesday. Stripping out volatile food and energy prices, so-called core inflation rose 6% over the past 12 months and 0.2% from October.
Though inflation is slowing, prices remain steep, especially for food and many services.
Here's what you need to know:
What's going on with inflation?
In recent months, there’s been a shift in inflation from goods to services.
In general, that means prices for goods and gas are rising more slowly than prices for things like dining out, travel, health care, financial services and hospitality. Prices for used cars, furniture, and appliances have moderated.
Food prices are an exception, driven by more expensive eggs, vegetables, and chicken.
Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide, noted that core goods prices — once you exclude food and energy — have been slowing dramatically. But services prices, excluding energy, have stayed near a 40-year high.
What is contributing to the slowing of inflation?
Average gas prices have tumbled from $5 a gallon in June to as low as $3.26 a gallon, according to AAA, below their average a year ago.
Supply chain snarls are also coming to an end. Ports have cleared ship backlogs. And the cost of shipping a cargo container from Asia has returned to its pre-pandemic price.
The Federal Reserve’s series of aggressive interest rate hikes have also created downward pressure on prices by making borrowing steadily more expensive.
Why are services prices rising more than goods prices?
Some of it is the ongoing shift from the pandemic era, when millions of Americans stayed away from restaurants, postponed vacations and stopped going to concerts or movie theaters. Now, as COVID-19 fades, people are making up for lost time by traveling and dining out again.
At the same time, spending on goods like exercise bikes, furniture, and cars spiked during the pandemic but is now declining.
Some economists point to rising wages as a primary cause of increasing service costs, as employers pass on the higher cost of labor to consumers.
Others say companies have seen that consumers are willing to absorb increasingly higher prices in recent months. As costs for things like shipping have eased, corporations have not always passed those savings on to consumers.
“If companies don’t feel the pressure and need to discount, they won’t,” Bostjancic said. “They’ve achieved some pricing power, and it’s been good for the bottom line. They’ve profited quite nicely, and they want to hold on to that pricing power as long as possible. As long as the consumer withstands those prices, they won’t change that.”
What does all this mean for interest rates?
In some ways, the Fed is better suited to combat goods inflation than services inflation. When people buy expensive items like appliances, cars, or furniture, they often borrow money to do so. A high interest rate increases the cost of borrowing, thereby slowing those purchases. The Fed has a less clear pathway to affecting the price of services.
So while inflation in the goods sector is slowing, inflation in the services sector could prove more stubborn. As people spend down savings they built up during the pandemic, demand may slow. But until those savings are meaningfully depleted, or debt reaches unmanageable levels, spending may continue.
That said, the Fed's benchmark short-term rate affects loan rates throughout the economy. The central bank has already weakened the housing market significantly with its tightened monetary policy.
Chair Jerome Powell has made clear that the Fed will raise its key rate by a smaller increment when it meets Wednesday. Investors foresee a half-point Fed hike, after four straight three-quarter-point increases.
Where does inflation go from here?
Powell has suggested that housing costs, which have been a major driver of inflation, should start to slow next year — including rent.
And Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon, suggested that the momentum behind inflation will continue to ease in 2023.
“We expect to see ongoing downward pressure on the goods front and energy-prices front in the next 12 months,” Daco said. “On the services side, we expect to see some abating pressures, with less demand for travel and leisure over time.”
Daco predicted there will be downward pressure on housing costs, too.
So how low could inflation go?
The Fed sets a target to keep annual inflation averaging around 2 percent. Before the pandemic struck, inflation was so persistently low that the central bank struggled to even raise it to 2%. (Too-low inflation can slow economic growth by causing people to delay purchases if they think they can buy a product for a lower price later.)
Some economists are now suggesting that the Fed won't be able to get inflation down to 2% again anytime soon — and might conclude instead that a somewhat higher inflation target is more realistic.
If inflation is slowing, why does it still feel painful?
Wages haven't kept up with prices, and lower-income households, which spend disproportionately more on housing, fuel and food, have been hit hardest.
“We’re not equal in the face of inflation,” Daco said. “If anything, inflation tends to exacerbate inequalities.”
These factors can lead to a “K-shaped” recovery, in which the performance of different parts of the economy diverges like the arms of the letter “K.” In this scenario, some parts of the economy may experience strong growth while others continue to decline.
“There’s a wealth effect,” said Nationwide’s Bostjancic. “Upper- and middle-income households have more pandemic-related savings. They always have more of a buffer to withstand downturns than other income groups.”
Low- and middle-income households may have already exhausted their reserves, Bostjancic noted, and now lack the savings to cope with both higher prices and higher borrowing rates.
“Even though they’ve seen wage gains, it’s lagged behind inflation,” she said. “So we’ve seen more people turning to credit. We’re not seeing outright delinquencies, but people are falling behind on payments, which indicates there’s stress on the consumer.”
Is there still risk of a recession?
Daco indicated that a recession is not looming large on the near horizon.
“We’ve seen resilience both on the part of the U.S. consumer and business executives,” he said. “Companies haven’t proceeded with broad-based layoffs. As of now, we’re not in a recession, but we’re seeing more hesitance and discretion when it comes to hiring and buying decisions.”
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N. Carolina AG to weigh charges in Meadows voter fraud case
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Updated: 6:59 PM EST Dec 13, 2022
ENGINE DEVELOPMENT. WELCOME IN TO YOUR TUESDAY AT 6:00. I’M DAVONTE MCKENITH AND I’M AUDREY BIESK. GOOD MORNING. IT IS TIME TO RISE AND SHINE AS WE THE SUN TO RISE. IT IS VERY CHILLY THERE. METEOROLOGIST BRIAN SLOCUM US NOW. THIS STRETCH IS GOING TO LAST A WHILE. COULD LAST UNTIL THE END OF THIS YEAR OR EVEN THE END OF THIS YEAR. BUT WE’RE CERTAINLY NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS AND LOOKING PRETTY CHILLY, RAISING MY POPULARITY AND I’M SURE IF YOU SAY SO. WE DO HAVE SOME DEEP CLOUDS OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING. YOU CAN SEE THE CLOUD OVER WINSTON-SALEM. AT LEAST WE CAN SEE THE WINSTON-SALEM SKYLINE THAT HAS BEEN THE CASE OF LATE WITH THE FOGGY MORNINGS THAT WE’VE HAD NORTH NORTHEAST WINDS AT FIVE ADDING TO THE CHILL FACTOR. DEW POINT NEAR 30 FEELS LIKE 30 DEGREES OUT AND ABOUT TODAY. TEMPERATURE. NEARBY IN GREENSBORO, ONE EVEN COLDER AND BELOW FREEZING IN SEVERAL AREAS MID THIRTIES IN THE FOOTHILLS SO A BUS RIDE TO SCHOOL TODAY WILL BE A COLD ONE MAKE SURE THE KIDS ARE BUNDLED UP. WE GOT A DRY FORECAST THOUGH FOR TODAY. A HIGH OF ONLY 46 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE TRIAD AND FOOTHILLS, BUT AT LEAST TODAY IS DRY IF YOU WANT TO FINISH OR IN SOME CASES START TO YOUR SHOPPING FEELING LIKE JANUARY OUT THERE TOMORROW, THOUGH, WE’RE GOING TO START TO INCREASE RAIN CHANCES AS STORM SYSTEM STARTS TO EASE SEVERE WEATHER A POSSIBILITY ACROSS THE SOUTH. WE’LL TALK ABOUT WHAT WE’RE EXPECTING HERE LOCALLY COMING UP. AT 602. AND HAPPENING NOW WITH A SUSPECT WHO FIRED A SHOT THAT GRAZED A 14 YEAR OLD REMAINS ON THE RUN THIS MORNING. THIS HAPPENED LAST ON PLEASANT STREET IN WINSTON-SALEM, ONE THAT’S NEAR WAUGHTOWN STREET. OFFICERS SAY SOMEONE PULLED UP TO THE TEEN WHO WAS WALKING ALONG THE ROAD AND STARTED SHOOTING. A BULLET GRAZED TEEN IN THEIR TORSO AS THEY WERE RUNNING AWAY. THE TEEN WENT TO THE HOSPITAL TO BE CHECKED OUT. POLICE SAID THE SUSPECT WAS INSIDE A SILVER FORD OR VEHICLE AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT. TODAY, THE SEARCH CONTINUES FOR WHAT CAUSED A HORRIFIC HOUSE FIRE IN GREENSBORO JUST TWO WEEKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. THREE YOUNG CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE FIVE LOST THEIR LIVES. VICTORIA ALUKO JOINS US THIS MORNING FROM GREENSBORO, VICTORIA. THIS IS A TRAGIC STORY FOR THAT ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD. HE HE HAD DEVONTE AND AUDREY, A TRAGIC STORY FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE FAMILY OF THE VICTIMS THEIR FRIENDS, EVERYBODY IN. AND, YOU KNOW, CITY OFFICIALS SAY THIS IS A TOUGH SEASON TO BE GOING THROUGH ANY OF THIS. AND, YOU KNOW, COUNCILWOMAN SHARON HIGHTOWER, FIRE DEPUTY CHIEF DWAYNE CHURCH, THEY WANT THE COMMUNITY TO KEEP THEIR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS IN THE FAMILY, NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS, INCLUDING FIRST RESPONDERS THEMSELVES ON. THE FIRE STRUCK THE HOME ON GRIMSLEY STREET EIGHT YESTERDAY MORNING. DEPUTY CHURCH SAYS FLAMES WERE COMING OUT OF THE WINDOWS, ATTIC AND FRONT DOORS OF THE HOUSE. REALLY A TRULY A ENGULFED FIRE, HE SAYS, WITH A FIRE LIKE THAT. FIREFIGHTERS COULD ONLY HOPE THAT NO CHILDREN WERE INSIDE. BUT WHEN THEY WENT INTO THE HOUSE, THEY FOUND THREE CHILDREN ALL UNDER FIVE UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE DEAD. CITY COUNCILWOMAN SAYS AS A MOTHER HERSELF, SHE CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE THE PAIN THE MOTHER OF THESE CHILDREN IS FACING. IT REALLY DOES BRING IT REAL. I’M A MOM. I’M A SINGLE CHILD. BUT LOSE THREE AT ONE TIME. OH, MY GOD. I DON’T EVEN CAN IMAGINE WHAT THE MOM IS AT THIS TIME. NOW, THE MOTHER WAS FOUND CONSCIOUS AND ALERT AND WAS TAKEN TO AN HOSPITAL, AND FIRE OFFICIALS HEARD WERE FOUR OTHER SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN WHO LIVED AT THE HOME. BUT THEY WEREN’T THERE AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT YESTERDAY. AND SO THE CAUSE, THIS DEADLY VIRUS IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. AND I’M IN GREENSBORO THIS MORNING. I’M METEOROLOGIST WXII 12 NEWS VICTORIOUS, A STORY THAT JUST SIMPLY BREAKS YOUR HEART. THANK YOU. AND THIS IS UNFORTUNATELY, THE SECOND FIRE INVOLVING MULTIPLE CHILDREN IN THE CITY OF GREENSBORO IN JUST THE PAST FIVE YEARS. IN MAY OF 2018, FIVE CHILDREN DIED IN AN APARTMENT ON SUMMIT AVENUE. THE CHILDREN WERE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 MONTHS AND EIGHT YEARS OLD. INVESTIGATORS SAY FOOD LEFT UNATTENDED ON THE STOVE WAS TO BLAME AND THEY LATER FOUND MULTIPLE BUILDING CODE VIOLATIONS IN THAT SAME APARTMENT COMPLEX. WE WILL BRING YOU ANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE GRIMSLEY FIRE AS WE LEARN THEM. BE SURE LOOK FOR UPDATES BOTH ON AIR AND ONLINE. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THOSE BREAKING NEWS ALERTS TURNED ON IN OUR APP. GET UP TO DATE INFORMATION. 605 IS YOUR TIME TO. SEPARATE GREENSBORO MURDER TRIALS NOW ENDED WITH GUILTY VERDICTS. A JURY FOUND JAMAL TOWNSEND OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER FOR THE SHOOTING OF 22 YEAR OLD BRANDON FRYE. THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AT STONE’S APARTMENTS IN OCTOBER OF 2017, WHEN TOWNS THAT HAD BEEN CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND ROBBERY WITH A DANGEROUS WEAPON. HE WAS SENTENCED TO A MINIMUM OF 25 YEARS. ANOTHER JURY CONVICTED, SAY, KWON JACKSON FOR THE 2018 ROBBERY AND MURDER OF RONALD MCCRAY. JACKSON SENTENCED TO LIFE WITHOUT THE POSSIBLE LIBERTY OF PAROLE. LATER THIS MORNING, WE ARE EXPECTED TO LEARN DETAILS ABOUT THE ENGINE THAT BOOM SUPERSONIC PLANS TO MAKE GREENSBORO. A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT JACKIE PASCALE JOINS US LIVE THIS MORNING AT PTI AIRPORT WITH A PREVIEW OF TODAY’S EVENT. JACKIE, GOOD MORNING. THE VANTAGE. GOOD MORNING TO YOU. THE BOOM SUPERSONIC HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR A PARTNER TO DEVELOP THIS CARBON NEUTRAL ENGINE THAT WILL GO OF ITS JETS THAT WILL BE BUILT HERE IN GREENSBORO AT PTI AIRPORT. WE ARE EXPECTING TO LEARN SOME MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE ENGINE COMPONENT OF THAT AT THAT ANNOUNCEMENT LATER ON THIS MORNING. BUT I WANT TO BRING YOU BACK TO ABOUT A YEAR AGO NOW, THE START OF THIS YEAR. THAT WAS WHEN WE GOT THAT FIRST MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT FROM BOOM ABOUT BUILDING ITS MANUFACTURING FACILITY FOR ITS SUPERSONIC PASSENGER JET. HERE AT PTI, IT ALSO ANNOUNCED TO BE INVESTING $500 MILLION HERE AND BRINGING AN ESTIMATED 2400 JOBS TO THE AREA. NOW, CONSTRUCTION HAS ALREADY BEGUN ON THE PLANT. THE GOAL IS FOR PRODUCTION TO START 2024 AND THE FIRST JETS IN THE AIR BY 2029. BUT AGAIN, THE ENGINE ELEMENT IS NECESSARY AND WHO DEVELOPS IT HAS BEEN A STICKING POINT. SO THAT BRINGS US TO TODAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT IS SET FOR 11:00 THIS MORNING. AGAIN, MAYBE SOME MORE DEVELOPMENTS ON THE ENGINE FRONT AND. WE’LL OF COURSE, BRING YOU MORE COVERAGE ON THAT AS THE DAY GOES ON. SO STICK WITH WXII FOR THE LA
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N. Carolina AG to weigh charges in Meadows voter fraud case
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said it has submitted to state prosecutors the findings of its voter fraud probe into Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, who was simultaneously registered to vote in North Carolina and two other states earlier this year.The State Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday that it has turned over the case file detailing its investigation into Meadows’ North Carolina voter registration and listed residence to Attorney General Josh Stein’s office. Prosecutors with the attorney general’s office will determine whether criminal charges are appropriate, the bureau said in a statement.Meadows, a former Republican North Carolina congressman, was removed from the state’s voter rolls in April after Stein’s office asked the bureau to examine his voter registration records. He had listed a mobile home Scaly Mountain, North Carolina, that he never owned as his physical address weeks before casting an absentee by-mail ballot in the state for the 2020 presidential election. Trump won the Southern swing state that year by just over 1 percentage point.A representative for Meadows did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Public records indicate Meadows registered to vote in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2021, a year after he registered in North Carolina and just weeks before Virginia’s pivotal gubernatorial election in which Gov. Glenn Youngkin became the first Republican to win statewide office in a dozen years.An outspoken proponent of Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, Meadows also registered to vote in South Carolina in March 2022 after he and his wife purchased a $1.6 million home on Lake Keowee, according to records for the address listed on their South Carolina voter registration forms.The Trump ally began arousing public suspicion of widespread voter fraud leading up to the 2020 general election as the polls showed Trump trailing President Joe Biden. He repeated those unfounded claims throughout the election cycle and in the aftermath of the race as Trump insisted the election was rife with fraud.Election officials from both parties, as well as judges and Trump’s own attorney general, concluded there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, noting only a few isolated incidents of intentional or unintentional voting violations common in every election.Stein’s office, which received the final case file from state investigators in November, declined to comment on its progress.
RALEIGH, N.C. —
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said it has submitted to state prosecutors the findings of its voter fraud probe into Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, who was simultaneously registered to vote in North Carolina and two other states earlier this year.
The State Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday that it has turned over the case file detailing its investigation into Meadows’ North Carolina voter registration and listed residence to Attorney General Josh Stein’s office. Prosecutors with the attorney general’s office will determine whether criminal charges are appropriate, the bureau said in a statement.
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Meadows, a former Republican North Carolina congressman, was removed from the state’s voter rolls in April after Stein’s office asked the bureau to examine his voter registration records. He had listed a mobile home Scaly Mountain, North Carolina, that he never owned as his physical address weeks before casting an absentee by-mail ballot in the state for the 2020 presidential election. Trump won the Southern swing state that year by just over 1 percentage point.
A representative for Meadows did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Public records indicate Meadows registered to vote in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2021, a year after he registered in North Carolina and just weeks before Virginia’s pivotal gubernatorial election in which Gov. Glenn Youngkin became the first Republican to win statewide office in a dozen years.
An outspoken proponent of Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, Meadows also registered to vote in South Carolina in March 2022 after he and his wife purchased a $1.6 million home on Lake Keowee, according to records for the address listed on their South Carolina voter registration forms.
The Trump ally began arousing public suspicion of widespread voter fraud leading up to the 2020 general election as the polls showed Trump trailing President Joe Biden. He repeated those unfounded claims throughout the election cycle and in the aftermath of the race as Trump insisted the election was rife with fraud.
Election officials from both parties, as well as judges and Trump’s own attorney general, concluded there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, noting only a few isolated incidents of intentional or unintentional voting violations common in every election.
Stein’s office, which received the final case file from state investigators in November, declined to comment on its progress.
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Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility have made history by successfully producing a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a breakthrough hailed by U.S. officials as a "landmark achievement" and a "milestone for the future of clean energy."Here's what you need to know about this new form of nuclear energy that could eventually turn on your lights and help end dependence on fossil fuels.What is nuclear fusion and why does it matter? Nuclear fusion is a man-made process that replicates the same energy that powers the sun. Nuclear fusion happens when two or more atoms are fused into one larger one, a process that generates a massive amount of energy as heat.Scientists around the world have been studying nuclear fusion for decades, hoping to recreate it with a new source that provides limitless, carbon-free energy -- without the nuclear waste created by current nuclear reactors. Fusion projects mainly use the elements deuterium and tritium — both of which are isotopes of hydrogen.The deuterium from a glass of water, with a little tritium added, could power a house for a year. Tritium is rarer and more challenging to obtain, although it can be synthetically made."Unlike coal, you only need a small amount of hydrogen, and it is the most abundant thing found in the universe," Julio Friedmann, chief scientist at Carbon Direct and a former chief energy technologist at Lawrence Livermore, told CNN. "Hydrogen is found in water so the stuff that generates this energy is wildly unlimited and it is clean."How is fusion different from nuclear fission? When people think about nuclear energy, cooling towers and mushroom clouds may come to mind. But fusion is entirely different.Whereas fusion fuses two or more atoms together, fission is the opposite; it is the process of splitting a larger atom into two or more smaller ones. Nuclear fission is the kind of energy that powers nuclear reactors around the world today. Like fusion, the heat created from splitting atoms is also used to generate energy.Nuclear is a zero-emission energy source, according to the Department of Energy. But it produces volatile radioactive waste that must be stored safely and carries safety risks. Nuclear meltdowns, although rare, have occurred throughout history with wide-ranging and deadly results such as at the Fukushima and Chernobyl reactors.Nuclear fusion does not carry the same safety risks, and the materials used to power it have a much shorter half-life than fission. How could nuclear fusion power eventually turn the lights on in your house? There are two main ways to generate nuclear fusion, but both have the same result. Fusing two atoms creates a tremendous amount of heat, which holds the key to producing energy. That heat can be used to warm water, create steam and turn turbines to generate power — much like how nuclear fission generates energy.The big challenge of harnessing fusion energy is sustaining it long enough so that it can power electric grids and heating systems around the globe. The successful U.S. breakthrough is a big deal, but it's still on a far smaller scale than what's needed to generate enough energy to run one power plant, never mind tens of thousands of power plants."It's about what it takes to boil 10 kettles of water," said Jeremy Chittenden, co-director of the Centre for Inertial Fusion Studies at Imperial College in London. "In order to turn that into a power station, we need to make a larger gain in energy -- we need it to be substantially more."Why is DOE's forthcoming announcement about a fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain important? This is the first time scientists have ever successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, instead of breaking even as past experiments have done.While there are many more steps until this can be commercially viable, it's essential for scientists to show that they can create more energy than they started with. Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense for it to be developed."This is very important because from an energy perspective, it can't be an energy source if you're not getting out more energy than you're putting in," Friedmann told CNN. "Prior breakthroughs have been important but it's not the same thing as generating energy that could one day be used on a larger scale."Where does the fusion take place? Several fusion projects are in the U.S., United Kingdom and Europe. France is home to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, on which thirty-five countries are collaborating — including main members China, the United States, the European Union, Russia, India, Japan and South Korea.In the U.S., much of the work is happening at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, in a building that spans the size of three football fields.The National Ignition Facility project creates energy from nuclear fusion by what's known as "thermonuclear inertial fusion." In practice, U.S. scientists fire pellets that contain hydrogen fuel into an array of nearly 200 lasers, essentially creating a series of extremely fast, repeated explosions at the rate of 50 times per second. The energy collected from the neutrons and alpha particles is extracted as heat.In the U.K. and the ITER project in France, scientists are working with huge donut-shaped machines outfitted with giant magnets called a tokamak to try to generate the same result. After fuel is put into the tokamak, its magnets are turned on and temperatures inside are raised exponentially to create plasma.Plasma needs to reach at least 150 million degrees Celsius, 10 times hotter than the core of the sun. The neutrons then escape the plasma, hitting a "blanket" lining the walls of the tokamak, and transferring their kinetic energy as heat.What are the next steps? Scientists and experts now need to figure out how to produce much more energy from nuclear fusion on a much larger scale.At the same time, they need to figure out how to eventually reduce the cost of nuclear fusion so that it can be used commercially."At the moment we're spending a huge amount of time and money for every experiment we do," said Chittenden. "We need to bring the cost down by a huge factor."Scientists will also need harvest the energy produced by fusion and transfer it to the power grid as electricity. It will take years — and possibly decades — before fusion can be able to produce unlimited amounts of clean energy, and scientists are on a race against the clock to fight climate change."This will not contribute meaningfully to climate abatement in the next 20-30 years," Friedmann said. "This the difference between lighting a match and building a gas turbine."
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility have made history by successfully producing a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a breakthrough hailed by U.S. officials as a "landmark achievement" and a "milestone for the future of clean energy."
Here's what you need to know about this new form of nuclear energy that could eventually turn on your lights and help end dependence on fossil fuels.
What is nuclear fusion and why does it matter?
Nuclear fusion is a man-made process that replicates the same energy that powers the sun. Nuclear fusion happens when two or more atoms are fused into one larger one, a process that generates a massive amount of energy as heat.
Scientists around the world have been studying nuclear fusion for decades, hoping to recreate it with a new source that provides limitless, carbon-free energy -- without the nuclear waste created by current nuclear reactors. Fusion projects mainly use the elements deuterium and tritium — both of which are isotopes of hydrogen.
The deuterium from a glass of water, with a little tritium added, could power a house for a year. Tritium is rarer and more challenging to obtain, although it can be synthetically made.
"Unlike coal, you only need a small amount of hydrogen, and it is the most abundant thing found in the universe," Julio Friedmann, chief scientist at Carbon Direct and a former chief energy technologist at Lawrence Livermore, told CNN. "Hydrogen is found in water so the stuff that generates this energy is wildly unlimited and it is clean."
How is fusion different from nuclear fission?
When people think about nuclear energy, cooling towers and mushroom clouds may come to mind. But fusion is entirely different.
Whereas fusion fuses two or more atoms together, fission is the opposite; it is the process of splitting a larger atom into two or more smaller ones. Nuclear fission is the kind of energy that powers nuclear reactors around the world today. Like fusion, the heat created from splitting atoms is also used to generate energy.
Nuclear is a zero-emission energy source, according to the Department of Energy. But it produces volatile radioactive waste that must be stored safely and carries safety risks. Nuclear meltdowns, although rare, have occurred throughout history with wide-ranging and deadly results such as at the Fukushima and Chernobyl reactors.
Nuclear fusion does not carry the same safety risks, and the materials used to power it have a much shorter half-life than fission.
How could nuclear fusion power eventually turn the lights on in your house?
There are two main ways to generate nuclear fusion, but both have the same result. Fusing two atoms creates a tremendous amount of heat, which holds the key to producing energy. That heat can be used to warm water, create steam and turn turbines to generate power — much like how nuclear fission generates energy.
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This illustration provided by the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory depicts a target pellet inside a hohlraum capsule with laser beams entering through openings on either end. The beams compress and heat the target to the necessary conditions for nuclear fusion to occur.
The big challenge of harnessing fusion energy is sustaining it long enough so that it can power electric grids and heating systems around the globe. The successful U.S. breakthrough is a big deal, but it's still on a far smaller scale than what's needed to generate enough energy to run one power plant, never mind tens of thousands of power plants.
"It's about what it takes to boil 10 kettles of water," said Jeremy Chittenden, co-director of the Centre for Inertial Fusion Studies at Imperial College in London. "In order to turn that into a power station, we need to make a larger gain in energy -- we need it to be substantially more."
Why is DOE's forthcoming announcement about a fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain important?
This is the first time scientists have ever successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, instead of breaking even as past experiments have done.
While there are many more steps until this can be commercially viable, it's essential for scientists to show that they can create more energy than they started with. Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense for it to be developed.
"This is very important because from an energy perspective, it can't be an energy source if you're not getting out more energy than you're putting in," Friedmann told CNN. "Prior breakthroughs have been important but it's not the same thing as generating energy that could one day be used on a larger scale."
Where does the fusion take place?
Several fusion projects are in the U.S., United Kingdom and Europe. France is home to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, on which thirty-five countries are collaborating — including main members China, the United States, the European Union, Russia, India, Japan and South Korea.
In the U.S., much of the work is happening at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, in a building that spans the size of three football fields.
The National Ignition Facility project creates energy from nuclear fusion by what's known as "thermonuclear inertial fusion." In practice, U.S. scientists fire pellets that contain hydrogen fuel into an array of nearly 200 lasers, essentially creating a series of extremely fast, repeated explosions at the rate of 50 times per second. The energy collected from the neutrons and alpha particles is extracted as heat.
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The west gate entrance to the US Department of Energys Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, US, on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022.
In the U.K. and the ITER project in France, scientists are working with huge donut-shaped machines outfitted with giant magnets called a tokamak to try to generate the same result. After fuel is put into the tokamak, its magnets are turned on and temperatures inside are raised exponentially to create plasma.
Plasma needs to reach at least 150 million degrees Celsius, 10 times hotter than the core of the sun. The neutrons then escape the plasma, hitting a "blanket" lining the walls of the tokamak, and transferring their kinetic energy as heat.
What are the next steps?
Scientists and experts now need to figure out how to produce much more energy from nuclear fusion on a much larger scale.
At the same time, they need to figure out how to eventually reduce the cost of nuclear fusion so that it can be used commercially.
"At the moment we're spending a huge amount of time and money for every experiment we do," said Chittenden. "We need to bring the cost down by a huge factor."
Scientists will also need harvest the energy produced by fusion and transfer it to the power grid as electricity. It will take years — and possibly decades — before fusion can be able to produce unlimited amounts of clean energy, and scientists are on a race against the clock to fight climate change.
"This will not contribute meaningfully to climate abatement in the next 20-30 years," Friedmann said. "This the difference between lighting a match and building a gas turbine."
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Triad firefighters talk about prioritizing mental health while covering difficult incidents
Greensboro Fire Department crews responded to a large house fire Monday that killed three children. They say responding to incidents like these takes a toll on their mental health.
They say taking care of their mental health is just as important as their physical health
"A lot of the things that we see in our job just like police department and ems, these are not normal situations and we want to make sure that they know that it's normal to feel the way they are," said Justice Price, a Peer Support Coordinator for the Greensboro Fire Department.
Greensboro Fire Department Officials sent Peer Support Coordinators to the scene Monday to check in on firefighters responding.
“We talk to them, find out what kind of issues are going on, if they have anything going on with them right then, and then we make contact with them later," Price said.
Monte Cockerham, a Captain with the Winston-Salem fire department, said mental health wasn’t something that was always talked about in the fire service, but now they make sure it is.
“We take our new guys, and we explain to them that we might be exposed to stressors and understand that it’s an injury that can happen. It’s not going to stay with us forever. We can get through it like any other injury, we can push through, we just got to get the resources in front of them," Cockerham said.
Cockerham said they educate them on positive coping mechanisms, highlight the negative coping mechanisms, and talk about the incidents they respond to.
“Sometimes we’re fixers, and when we can’t get there and fix it, we just go in and do enough. Then when we unwind the incident, it sort of helps us cope," Cockerham said.
Cockerham said everyone handles it differently.
“Loss of appetite, I experienced all of that. Fatigue, just couldn’t sleep. All you could think of was that call so it does take a toll and if we’re not careful, we can take it home with us, take a toll on our family life," Cockerham said.
Price said in addition to talking with them, they also offer licensed clinicians to talk with them if needed.
“This is a tough time, tough season to be going through this. Keep the first responders in your thoughts and prayers and the community," said Dwayne Church, a Deputy Chief with the Greensboro Fire Department.
The Greensboro Fire Department plans to have peer coordinators meet with the firefighters who responded on Thursday to check in on them.
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United places huge order with Boeing to replace aging planes
United Airlines said Tuesday that it ordered 100 new Boeing 787s, a large, twin-aisle jetliner, to replace planes that are nearing retirement age and allow United to expand its international flying.
United also added to its order book for the smaller Boeing 737 Max, which is used on domestic flights.
The companies did not disclose financial terms of the orders. United said it can choose among three sizes of the 787, which carry list prices ranging from $248 million to $338 million per plane, but airlines routinely negotiate deep discounts on aircraft orders.
Moody’s Investors Service estimated the value of the 787 orders at $16 billion after discounts. Other analysts said it could be worth up to $19 billion depending on the mix of 787 versions that United eventually selects.
United is scheduled to begin receiving the 787s in 2024, and it took options on 100 more.
The massive order — United called it the biggest ever by a U.S. airline for twin-aisle or “widebody” planes — is a bold move for an airline that lost money throughout the pandemic until the middle of this year. Executives at United and other airlines are sounding bullish, however, as travel demand has bounced back nearly to 2019 levels and ticket prices have surged higher than a year ago because of fewer flights.
The order also is welcome news at Boeing. The U.S. aircraft maker is still struggling to recover from two deadly Max crashes, production flaws that halted deliveries of the 787 for nearly two years, and setbacks in other programs including a contract to build two new Air Force One presidential planes. It has lost more than $21 billion since 2019.
United picked the 787 to replace its Boeing 767 jets and some of its Boeing 777s that are nearing 30 years in age — some of the 767s have already hit that milestone — and far less fuel-efficient.
The Chicago-based airline could have chosen the A350, built by Boeing's European rival, Airbus. United already has 45 A350s on order but doesn't expect to start receiving them until 2030.
United CEO Scott Kirby told reporters United went with Boeing because it already flies the 787 and did not want to add a new plane to the fleet now, when it is busy hiring pilots and trying to expand its route network.
At the same time, Boeing converted options on 44 Max jets to firm orders, and added a new order for 56 Maxes. Those 100 planes are scheduled to show up between 2024 and 2028 and will replace aging jets and allow for modest growth in United's domestic flying.
Last year, United ordered 200 Max jets and 70 single-aisle Airbus jets in a deal the airline said at the time was the biggest order in its history.
United executives said they might use cash flow to pay for all these planes, or they might finance them. With the latest orders, United now expects capital spending to rise to $9 billion next year and $11 billion in 2024.
Shares of United Airlines Holdings Inc. fell more than 6% in afternoon trading. United's closest rivals also dropped but not as sharply. Boeing Co. fell less than 1%.
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What made 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' a holiday music hit?
Video above: Things you never knew about Snoopy and the Peanuts gang
The familiar tunes of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" transport us. The opening measures make us children again, abed after Christmas dinner as the subtle sounds of the record player waft in from another room.
Though the beloved television special is unquestionably iconic today, its place in Christmas music history wasn't always assured. In 1965, when "A Charlie Brown Christmas" first aired, Christmas jazz wasn't exactly a thing. Jazz in family-friendly TV specials wasn't really a thing, either.
It took a few brilliant, wild minds — and a host of unexpected inspiration — to bring it all together. The musical formula they created didn't just make "A Charlie Brown Christmas" an instant hit. It helped change the sound of Christmas music for generations to come.
The first ingredient: Something unexpected
The man at the center of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and most other music associated with more than a dozen "Peanuts" TV specials, is Vince Guaraldi. A prominent pianist at the time, Guaraldi brought a fierce musicianship that he honed playing with some of the best jazz combos in Northern California, where he was born and based.
The idea to pair jazz with the "Peanuts" comic strip, however, began with television producer Lee Mendelson, who admired cartoonist Charles Schulz's work and was determined to bring his comic characters to the small screen. For whatever reason, Mendelson was sold on the idea that jazz would be the perfect accompaniment to a "Peanuts" special.
"It seems so absurd looking back, but jazz had a lot of strikes against it," explains Derrick Bang, speaking to CNN as a jazz expert, entertainment journalist and "Peanuts" historian.
"We're talking about the early 1960s. A major part of the country equated it with Black performers. A lot of people thought the sound was too 'out there,' and there was still a lingering sense of the genre being equated with sin and depravity," he says. "Productions that featured jazz, most famously 'The Man with the Golden Arm,' dealt heavily with vice."
In other words, it wasn't the rollicking classical music one expected from most Disney shorts or Looney Tunes. Yet still, Mendelson knew what he wanted. When he heard Guaraldi's single "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" on the radio while driving through San Francisco, he knew who he wanted it from.
Mendelson convinced Guaraldi to work with him on a 1963 documentary called "A Boy Named Charlie Brown." The work never aired, but the album that resulted — called "Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown," was a hit. It was also enough for Mendelson to call upon Guaraldi for a frantic, last minute holiday project that would become "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
The second ingredient: Something new
How did a jazz artist intend to build a musical backdrop for a group of cartoon children most people knew from the Sunday funnies — and add Christmas flair?
The answer lay in an up-and-coming sound from Brazil called "bossa nova." The term means "new wave" in Portuguese, and is characterized by syncopated samba rhythms, unusual chord progressions and laid-back percussion.
"If you pretend for a moment that you don't know these iconic cues and melodies, you would immediately recognize them as bossa nova," Bang says. "And that sound is by nature cheerful, uplifting and happy."
In the mid-1960s, it was also amassing major popularity in the U.S. "The Girl from Ipanema," one of the most well-known bossa nova songs, was also a raging hit at the time and won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1965. In fact, the song that led Mendelson to Guaraldi's work initially appeared on the B-side of "Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus," the bossa nova-inspired album that made Guaraldi famous. The musician composed and recorded the album in tribute to the Academy Award-winning French-Brazilian film, which sets the classic Greek tragedy in a Rio de Janeiro slum.
"Jazz was at a transition point," Bang says. "Bossa nova was one of the things that helped smooth its way to popularity."
In creating music for the "Peanuts" world, Guaraldi also employed a technique that wouldn't fully come on the cinematic scene for another decade.
"Guaraldi had an uncanny facility for melodic hooks that became earworms," Bang says. "So he created these melodies that became themes, and they suited individual 'Peanuts' characters perfectly." Examples of this can be also heard in subsequent "Peanuts" specials, for characters like Peppermint Patty and Snoopy's Red Baron persona.
A musical theme that indicates the appearance of a character, group or moment is called a leitmotif. While the concept has roots in orchestral and operatic music, and did appear in early films, it didn't become as prevalent in movie-making until John Williams' seminal work on the original "Star Wars" trilogy in the 1970s and '80s.
The third ingredient: Something that lasts
Finally, in the winter of 1965, after years of trying to get the "Peanuts" gang on TV — and a tight production schedule dictated by the program's sponsors — "A Charlie Brown Christmas" went to air. Those involved were not optimistic. CBS executives reportedly hated the artistic choices, hated the jazz soundtrack, and were convinced it would be the first and last Charlie Brown special ever.
Audiences did not agree. The special was an immediate hit, and its success bore the promise of a lasting tradition.
"After it aired, (the producers) thought it was over and done. The notion of a repeated holiday special was alien," Bang says. "But CBS kept playing it, year after year. And that's how tradition is established. This was before VCRs, so people knew they had to sit down and watch it at a certain time. It became a family tradition akin to decorating the tree or wrapping presents."
The musical impact of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" took longer to unfold.
"I would have to say this part of Guaraldi's career didn't resonate in larger circles during his lifetime," Bang says. "Everyone was scrambling to cover (his single) 'Cast Your Fate to the Wind,' but not his 'Peanuts' work."
To be clear, jazz musicians, especially Black artists whose work was often undervalued by the masses, had made Christmas albums before. But "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was the first time that particular combination permeated deep into American culture, and it was decades before people chose to replicate it with any kind of regularity.
The true resurgence of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" as a musical feat began in 1986, when jazz great David Benoit covered "Linus and Lucy" on his album "This Side Up." The following year, the original album appeared on the Billboard Christmas album sales chart for the very first time. A general swelling of interest in jazz over the next decade lifted the work even higher, and things entered a new realm when Cyrus Chestnut, another jazz giant, covered the entire soundtrack in 2000.
Through the 2000s, songs from the special re-entered the charts on a steady basis. The album was remastered and re-released, covered and streamed, and in 2021 it became the first jazz album to reach Billboard's Top 10 albums outside of a specialty category. In 2021, Billboard deemed "A Charlie Brown Christmas" the No. 1 Greatest Holiday 200 album of all time. This year, RIAA certified the album quintuple platinum, marking 5 million sales.
During this period, Bang notes a general increase in Christmas jazz album releases. Whether growth in the genre was influenced by "A Charlie Brown Christmas" coming back on the scene, or an expanded interest in jazz as a whole, he describes it as a definite "parallel phenomenon."
Bang, who wrote and researched the liner notes for a special expanded re-release of the album this year, says the cultural impact of the music from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is something even greater to behold.
"During that project, I had the privilege of speaking with Guaraldi's drummer, Jerry Granelli, before he died," Bang says. "There is kind of a cottage industry of jazz groups playing 'Charlie Brown' shows around the holidays now, and he had started doing so in 2013. You could hear the joy in his voice when he described families coming up after the show, sometimes three generations at a time."
"A grandfather, accompanied by his son, accompanied by his grandson, all telling him how much this music had meant to them."
The little unassuming Christmas special, with its strange music, has come a long way in 57 years. But the most enduring aspect may be that, no matter how many albums are sold or how far its impact resonates, when we turn it on, we feel like children once again.
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Ten of the best albums of the year, as selected by The Associated Press entertainment journalists.
Few would be shocked that Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” would makes our top albums list, but just because it’s low hanging fruit doesn’t negate how delicious it is. Dropping her first album in six years, Queen Bey once again proved why she’s worth the wait. Led by the multi-format dance track “Break My Soul” and the TikTok-crazed “Cuff It” which both reached No. 1 on various Billboard Charts including “Soul” reaching the top of the Hot 100, “Renaissance” boasted plenty of fan favorites including “Cozy,” “Alien Superstar,” “Church Girl,” Plastic off the Sofa” and “Virgo’s Groove.” But beyond the two-stepping and body-rolling was the messaging within the music, championing Black women and reminding the LBGTQ community they have an ally in her. Whether meticulously planned or purely coincidental her highness released the album as the coronavirus pandemic moves behind us, if her goal was to get us out of our houses and out dancing again, then mission accomplished. — Gary Gerard Hamilton
Making a low-key entry last January, “Dawn FM” is a concept album that The Weeknd likened to listening to a radio station in purgatory, hence its mix of styles and effects from the ‘70s, ’80s and ’90s mixed in with modern production. Much of it is downright weird: The fake British accent, a spoken-word interlude by Quincy Jones, the funny radio ads, narration by Jim Carrey and the singer digitally aged on the cover. It is also brilliant, a dance record with lyrics of hopelessness, with nods to Michael Jackson, New Wave, neo-soul, Prince and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. If this is what purgatory sounds like, heaven is overrated. — Mark Kennedy
Spanish singer Rosalía turned three years of anguish and home sickness into mega successful third studio album “Motomami” (“biker chick”). It was perhaps impossible not to make lemonade out of lemons for such a bold artist whose ease in playing with genres and words are her greatest strengths. Described as an alternative reggaeton record, the hefty 16-track “Motomami” delivers something for everyone and every mood. From “Candy’s” stripped down reggaeton, to “Chicken Teriyaki”’s playfulness and “Diablo”’s experimental sound, “Hentai’s” piano power ballad, or “La Fama’s” classic Latin beats, Rosalía shows her prowess as a singer. Her four Latin Grammys for the album were just the beginning. Next stop: the world. — Cristina Jaleru
ZACH BRYAN, “AMERICAN HEARTBREAK”
In the age of streaming, the musical floodgates are wide open as artists release multiple projects in a single year: EPs, double albums, deluxe albums and on and on. Country artist Zach Bryan upped the ante by dropping the 34-song album “American Heartbreak” as his major label debut in 2022. The Navy veteran’s stories span the vast landscape of his Oklahoma upbringing with coming-of-age ragers like “Heavy Eyes,” the wanderlust on “Highway Boys” and odes to the towns he’s outgrown like “Oklahoma City.” His stripped down production and confessional, narrative lyrics have earned him comparisons to Jason Isbell and Taylor Swift alike (He’s a Swiftie). But he’s at his best when he’s describing the colors of those Western vistas in the standout track, “Something in the Orange,” as he dwells in the loneliness of heartbreak. Bryan has proved he’s providing both quality and quantity. — Kristin M. Hall
LARRY JUNE, “SPACESHIP ON THE BLADE”
Drake. Kendrick Lamar. Nas. These hip-hop heavyweights released some of the best albums of the year. Some might even think Earl Sweatshirt’s “Sick” was just as top notch. But the musician who has stood above them was rapper Larry June through “Spaceships on the Blade.” It’s the San Francisco-based rapper’s 10th solo studio album and most impressive body of work since his 2018 debut. With his laid-back demeanor and infectious ad lib “Aye, Aye, Aye,” June thrives throughout on songs such as “Extra of Um” featuring Babyface Ray, “Don’t Check Me,” “Another Day, Pt. 2” and “Breakfast in Monaco.” On well-produced tracks, he takes listeners on a journey of a successful hustler who makes driving luxury cars, living in high-rise condominiums and spending $50,000 during vacation seem like an easy feat. But he also shows a deeper side of his rap persona. On “Appreciate It All,” he talks about grinding hard for his son, learning how to love from his mother and acquiring real estate in hopes of achieving generational wealth. Throughout “Spaceships,” June is a force to be reckoned with. — Jonathan Landrum Jr.
Former pop idol Jackson Wang turned solo artist turned “Magic Man” on his sophomore album. With an incisive, cohesive sound that harks back to ’90s rock mixed with ’80s synths, Wang’s record shows he’s ready for a leading role; the character he plays in “Magic Man” is a debonair, seductive stranger who likes the pleasures of life. The singer rises up to the challenge of delivering some sultry vocals off the back of classic guitar riffs in “Blow,” “Cruel” and “Champagne Cool.” But where it all takes off is the pop ditty “Drive It Like You Stole It,” which lights up the discoball section of the amygdala. Some magic stuff indeed. — Cristina Jaleru
SOCCER MOMMY, “SOMETIMES, FOREVER”
Sophie Allison and her band Soccer Mommy’s third album is a wonderfully varied mix, from the industrial harshness of “Unholy Affliction” to the eerie “Following Eyes” to the airy “With U.” The title “Sometimes, Forever,” suggests a push-and-pull of light and dark, happiness and sadness, both jumping from song to song but also within songs. One connection with another album on this list is its avant-garde producer Oneohtrix Point Never, who helped shape The Weeknd’s “Dawn FM.” He gave Soccer Mommy a layered, dark-synth gloom. One highlight is “Shotgun,” a song of devotion, with the lyric “Cold beer and ice cream is all we keep/The only things we really need.” — Mark Kennedy
BLXST, “BEFORE YOU GO”
Blxst is considered as the preeminent voice of Los Angeles R&B after the release of his mixtape album “No Love Lost” in 2020. But the singer-rapper expanded his reach with his impeccable album “Before You Go” along with his recent Grammy nominations for his feature work on Kendrick Lamar’s single “Die Hard.” On “Before You Go,” he delivers an assortment of catchy hooks and smooth melodies that earned praise from critics and fans alike. He cleverly works through the matters of handling relationships on “About You” and “Still Omw,” a fan favorite. He talks about experiencing the ocean views and driving down the Pacific Coast Highway while escaping the fake element of his hometown in “Fake Love in LA,” featuring Arin Ray. He mentions him carrying the torch of delivering quality music after the loss of Nipsey Hussle, thinking big and being blessed with a strong support system on “Couldn’t Wait for It” with Rick Ross. In all, Blxst put together a full collection of infectious songs from start to finish. — Jonathan Landrum Jr.
CHARLEY CROCKETT, “THE MAN FROM WACO”
Americana standout Charley Crockett sets the scene in his cinematic “The Man From Waco,” an album that interlinks Western filmmaking, the mythmaking of cowboy culture and the R&B and soul of the Gulf states. The Texas-born singer is a prolific independent musician with a strong hustle formed in his early street musician years. The album’s title track centers on a lonesome gunman who accidentally kills his lover in a jealous rage, with a beautiful horn section over the loping acoustic guitar. Crockett punches deep in the Stax-inspired ’70s groove on “I’m Just a Clown,” and a swinging piano and trumpet winds along in “Trinity River.” Crockett even takes a shot at completing an unfinished Bob Dylan track from outtakes of songs written for the “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” soundtrack, which Crockett transformed into “Tom Turkey.” Crockett’s old soul isn’t just a nostalgic trick, as this post-modern troubadour is creating new ties to classic themes. — Kristin M. Hall
BAD BUNNY, “UN VERANO SIN TI”
Bad Bunny is a bonafide global superstar, and if you weren’t aware previously, “Un Verano Sin Ti” snapped you into reality. Spending 13 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the Puerto Rican artist expertly blended reggaeton, pop and EDM, effortlessly transporting you to a beach on his home island for a temporary break from real world stressors. Party-ready songs such as “Tití Me Preguntó” and “Me Porto Bonito” featuring Chencho Corleone have each racked up half a billion views on YouTube, and he headlined arguably the biggest tour of the year. Despite ascending to the realm of one of the world’s biggest artists, he also used his music to criticize issues on the island such as gentrification and repeated power outages. Did it matter to me that “Un Verano Sin Ti” is mainly in Spanish? Not at all. While dancing, his music motivates you be curious and learn more, and that’s what great art does. — Gary Gerard Hamilton
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It is impossible to talk about “Avatar: The Way of Water” without sounding hyperbolic. But James Cameron’s sequel is a truly dazzling cinematic experience that will have you floating on a blockbuster high.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve spent a second of your life in the past 13 years thinking about what’s happening on Pandora or how Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) are getting on, assuming you remember their characters’ names.
“The Way of Water” will make awe-struck believers out of even “Avatar” agonistics like me, at least for three hours and 12 minutes. The film isn’t just visually compelling, either, it’s spiritually rich as well — a simple but penetrating story about family and the natural world that is galaxies better than the first.
About that run time: Three hours and 12 minutes sounds excessive, but there is something decidedly decadent about really committing that much time to a movie in a theater. When the filmmaker is purposeful with that time, as Cameron is and many others have been before him, it’s a uniquely rewarding experience.
In other words, it’s not a big ask. And you’ll forget all about checking the time from the first shot of Pandora and Jake’s earnest exposition about what’s been going on in the past decade.
He and Neytiri have three kids now, Neteyam (Jamie Flatters), Lo’ak (Britain Dalton), Tuk (Trinity Jo-Li Bliss) and an adopted teenage daughter, Kiri (Sigourney Weaver), and they’re happy living in the forest.
“Happiness is simple,” he says. “Who ever thought that a jughead like me could crack the code?”
So, of course, it can’t last. The humans are on the hunt for Jake, with a familiar antagonist leading the charge. And soon his family is on the run, taking up home in another part of Pandora, on the water with a new tribe led by Ronal (Kate Winslet) and Tonowari (Cliff Curtis) who reluctantly grant them refuge and try to teach them how to live on the water.
It’s worth noting that Cameron has not stuffed the film with mind-numbing, wall-to-wall action and needlessly complicated plot. There are long stretches of movie where we’re simply exploring the environment with the characters, delighting in the intricacies of a reef or basking in the beauty of giant sea creatures.
Sometimes we’re just sitting in the water with Kiri who is also sitting in the water. It is not advancing the action in any obvious way. It is not even really developing characters. It just is, and it’s serene. You imagine that anyone without his clout would have a hard time justifying something similar.
The action is there, too, of course, and it’s exciting because you’ve become invested in the family and worried about the kids who are never where they’re supposed to be and are often in danger because of it. And though we know there are more sequels coming, and one already wrapped, this is not the kind of franchise where anyone is guaranteed to get a fake superhero death.
Sure there is some “Avatar” silliness, including the fact that the word “bro” is uttered about 8,000 times, but there is something admirable about the straightforward dialogue and emotions at play, too. No one is snarking their way through this ordeal.
“Never doubt James Cameron” has become a bit of a rallying cry lately, at least among those left on Twitter. It’s all the more extraordinary as the once-mythical sequels had become a kind of joke in the years since the first movie.
Even as “The Way of Water” release date actually approached the “who cares?” chorus intensified. Had anyone really thought twice about “Avatar”? But Cameron knows his way around a thrilling sequel, and the water for that matter (and references his own greatest hits in this film, too).
But then people saw it and the tune change.
There is something comforting about the fact that we are capable of intense, collective cultural whiplash. That “who cares?” can turn to uncynical amazement in an instant. Is that the magic of the movies? Of continuing to push the bounds of the big screen experience? Of betting big on weird-sounding stories about giant blue environmentalists instead of superheroes every so often?
Maybe it’s just the magic of James Cameron.
“Avatar: The Way of Water,” a 20th Century Studios release in theaters Thursday, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for “partial nudity, intense action, sequences of strong violence, some strong language.” Running time: 192 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four.
MPA Definition of PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
—Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press
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Mecca Patterson-Guridy wants to learn, but for some subjects, she isn’t always comfortable asking her teachers. So she has been turning to TikTok.
Online, the 17-year-old high school junior in Philadelphia has found videos on social media platforms about protests over police shootings, civic engagement and Black and Latino history in the U.S. The accounts she checks regularly feature segments including “Fast Black History” and “Black Girl Magic Minute.”
The videos, Mecca said, address “things that get overlooked in the classroom.”
Scrutiny from conservatives around teaching about race, gender and sexuality has made many teachers reluctant to discuss issues that touch on cultural divides. To fill in gaps, some students are looking to social media, where online personalities, nonprofit organizations and teachers are experimenting with ways to connect with them outside the confines of school.
The platform has opened new opportunities for educators looking to expand students’ worldviews.
Isis Spann, for one, said she turned to developing digital content after officials in a South Carolina school system discouraged her from sharing stories about some civil rights movement figures with her kindergarten students during Black History Month. She also recalls being told by the principal’s office to remove earrings that said “Strong Black Queen” because they were deemed inappropriate.
“It didn’t sit right with me. I couldn’t help but think that if I weren’t a Black teacher I would be having a different experience,” she said.
Spann left the classroom and now runs a company, “FUNdamentals of Learning,” which provides educational materials for use in-person and online. She said she is grateful to be able to share her ideas independently from the rules of any school or administrator.
“There is no gatekeeper of sorts for social media content,” she said.
In the “Black Girl Magic Minute” videos, 19-year-old Taylor Cassidy, a host on Sirius XM’s TikTok Radio Channel, highlights the stories of women who have inspired her and shares news about Black culture.
Others who are finding audiences online for their takes on history and current events include Atlanta-based personality Lynae Bogues, who hosts a segment called “Parking Lot Pimpin” on social and political topics in the Black community. Kahlil Greene, who in 2019 became the first Black student body president at Yale University, calls himself the “Gen Z Historian” on social media. He shares stories of Black history and culture.
TikTok has encouraged more educational content on its platform. In May 2020, when most American students were still learning remotely because of COVID-19, the company announced it was investing millions of dollars and teaming with experts, public figures and educational institutions to post more learning material under the hashtag .LearnOnTikTok.
Not everything posted online is educational, to say the least.
A key to help students sort reliable, educational material from everything else — including frivolity, misinformation and conspiracy theories — is teaching them digital literacy, experts say. They need to be able to identify sources and find corroborating information.
Parents and educators should take time to learn more about TikTok in particular to understand the platform and how to reach kids where they are, said Vanessa Dennen, a professor at Florida State University. TikTok alone has about 80 million users in the U.S., and they trend young.
“Look, the thing is kids are on TikTok because the parents and adults aren’t,” Dennen said.
The videos made by good-faith actors that do pique students’ interest can be as educational as anything else they come across in a library or a lecture — as long as they have the background knowledge to put them in context, Dennen said.
Meanwhile, new laws passed in more than a dozen states over the last two years have put a chill on classroom discussion of topics that touch on racism and sexism.
The debates have extended to what books kids are reading. The American Library Association, which keeps track of book bans in the U.S., documented 729 challenges targeting 1,597 titles in 2021 across library, school, and university materials. That’s the highest recorded number of challenges since tracking began in 2000.
Kennedy McCollum, 18, said she learned a lot about history from TikTok videos while growing up in Phoenix. She still turns regularly to social media for news, to learn more about social movements and develop her personal finance skills.
“In high school, teachers didn’t really talk about current problems that are happening, especially when it comes to police brutality. That’s not talked about at all,” said McCollum, who now attends Hampton University, a historically Black institution in Virginia.
Before high school, Mecca Patterson-Guridy attended Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School, which emphasizes pride in students’ African heritage. As a student now at the Philadelphia High School for Creative & Performing Arts, where she has more white teachers, she said she senses not all are comfortable with questions related to race.
There have been discussions on Black history, she said, but they felt incomplete and based in Black trauma, so she went on social media to find more positive representations.
“A lot of times Black history, Latino history, Asian history, Indigenous history gets overlooked. Let’s talk about women’s rights, sex education and abortion as well,” she said. “I think we should talk more about the things that are directly impacting us.”
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The U.S. government charged Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, with a host of financial crimes on Tuesday, alleging he intentionally deceived customers and investors to enrich himself and others, while playing a central role in the company’s multibillion-dollar collapse.
The 13-page indictment says that, beginning in 2019, Bankman-Fried devised “a scheme and artifice to defraud” FTX’s customers and investors, diverting their money to pay expenses and debts at his crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research, and to make lavish real estate purchases and large political donations.
Bankman-Fried was arrested Monday by Bahamian authorities at the request of the U.S. government, which charged him with eight criminal violations, ranging from wire fraud to money laundering to conspiracy to commit fraud. He was also charged with making illegal campaign contributions, a notable charge as Bankman-Fried was one of the largest political donors this year.
The charges could land Bankman-Fried in jail for decades, carrying maximum penalties of 115 years, according to Nicholas Biase, a spokesperson for U.S. prosecutors.
The criminal indictment is on top of civil charges announced earlier Tuesday by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC alleges Bankman-Fried defrauded investors and illegally used their money to buy real estate on behalf of himself and family.
U.S. authorities said they will try to claw back any of Bankman-Fried’s financial gains from the alleged scheme. They are expected to request his extradition to the U.S., although the timing of that request is unclear.
A lawyer for Bankman-Fried, Mark S. Cohen, said Tuesday he is “reviewing the charges with his legal team and considering all of his legal options.”
FTX filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, when it ran out of money after the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank run.
Since FTX collapsed and before his arrest, Bankman-Fried had been holed up in his Bahamian luxury compound in Nassau. He was scheduled to appear in a Bahamian court Tuesday. The U.S. has not filed an extradition request with the Bahamas, but is expected to do so.
Bankman-Fried was one of the world’s wealthiest people on paper at one point his net worth reached $26.5 billion, according to Forbes. He was a prominent personality in Washington, donating millions of dollars toward mostly left-leaning political causes and Democratic political campaigns, though he also gave money to Republicans. FTX grew to become the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world.
That all unraveled quickly last month, when reports called into question the strength of FTX’s balance sheet. As customers sought to withdraw billions of dollars, FTX could not satisfy all the requests because it apparently had used its customers’ deposits to fund investments at Bankman-Fried’s trading arm, Alameda Research.
“We allege that Sam Bankman-Fried built a house of cards on a foundation of deception while telling investors that it was one of the safest buildings in crypto,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.
The SEC complaint alleges that Bankman-Fried had raised more than $1.8 billion from investors since May 2019 by promoting FTX as a safe, responsible platform for trading crypto assets.
Instead, the complaint says, Bankman-Fried diverted customers’ funds to Alameda Research without telling them.
“He then used Alameda as his personal piggy bank to buy luxury condominiums, support political campaigns, and make private investments, among other uses,” the complaint reads. “None of this was disclosed to FTX equity investors or to the platform’s trading customers.”
Alameda did not segregate FTX investor funds and Alameda investments, the SEC said, using that money to “indiscriminately fund its trading operations,” as well as other ventures of Bankman-Fried.
Bankman-Fried’s arrest came just a day before he was due to testify in front of the House Financial Services Committee. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., chairwoman of the committee, said she was “disappointed” that the American public, and FTX’s customers, would not get to see Bankman-Fried testify under oath.
That hearing went ahead, however, with FTX’s new CEO, John Ray III, providing withering testimony about the company’s practices.
Ray told Congress that the collapse of FTX, resulting in the loss of more than $7 billion, was the culmination of months, or even years, of bad decisions and poor financial controls.
“This is not something that happened overnight or in a context of a week,” he said.
He added: “This is just plain, old fashion embezzlement, taking money from others and using it for your own purposes. This is not sophisticated at all.”
Bankman-Fried said recently that he did not “knowingly” misuse customers’ funds, and that he believes angry customers will eventually get their money back. Bankman-Fried has also said he believes FTX was a victim of a sudden market collapse, and that customer deposits were safe up until then.
The SEC challenged Bankman-Fried’s assertion Tuesday in its complaint.
“FTX operated behind a veneer of legitimacy,” said Gurbir Grewal, director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. “But as we allege in our complaint, that veneer wasn’t just thin, it was fraudulent.”
The collapse of FTX — which followed other cryptocurrency debacles earlier this year — is adding urgency to efforts to regulate the industry.
Yesha Yadav, a law professor at Vanderbilt University who specializes in financial and securities regulation, said U.S. lawmakers and regulators have been too slow to act, but that is likely to change.
“Lawmakers are clearly under pressure to do something, given that so many people have lost their money,” she said.
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A man at a poker table went on a sudden, unprovoked attack at a casino in Washington state Monday night, stabbing or slashing four people before being arrested after a high-speed car chase, authorities said.
All four victims were expected to survive, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office in southwestern Washington.
The attack happened just before midnight at the New Phoenix and Last Frontier casinos, table game and poker establishments that share a building in the town of La Center. Several witnesses called 911 to report the stabbings and said the suspect was armed with what appeared to be a hunting knife.
Patrons and employees confronted the attacker but he was able to make it to a car and fled, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies found the vehicle and pursued it, the sheriff’s office said, with the —. Police used an “immobilization technique” to stop the vehicle and arrested the driver.
Video from the casino showed a man sitting at a poker table before reaching down, grabbing something and then standing and stabbing the man next to him five times in the head and chest “without provocation or warning,” the sheriff’s office said.
Several people tried to intervene, but the man began swinging the knife at them and then stabbed a woman sitting at the same table, police said. The suspect chased another man into the parking lot and stabbed him when he fell, then drove off.
It was not immediately clear how the fourth victim was wounded. All four were taken to a nearby hospital, and three of them were treated and released.
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office said Scott Harmier, 41, of Vancouver, Washington, is charged with four counts of felony assault. Jail records do not show if he has obtained an attorney. Harmier is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning.
In a statement on its Facebook page, the casino called the attack unprovoked and said its human resources department was researching counseling options for staff and guests.
“Our thoughts and prayers are extended for all affected,” it said.
Mass stabbings are less common than mass shootings in the U.S., but they happen. In October, an attacker with a large knife killed two people and wounded six others along the Las Vegas Strip before he was arrested.
The suspect in that case, Yoni Christian Barrios, 32, has been ordered to remain at a state psychiatric facility until doctors determine he can understand the criminal charges against him.
—Gene Johnson, The Associated Press
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A Port Alberni mother has lost her appeal in a case where she argued that an Indigenous smudging ceremony violated her children’s religious freedoms, and and will now have to pay the full legal costs for the court cases.
The B.C. Court of Appeal dismissed the petition brought forward by Candice Servatius from Port Alberni, who lost a B.C. Supreme Court Case back in 2020 against School District 70 (Pacific Rim).
Servatius sued the school district after two Indigenous cultural practices took place at John Howitt Elementary School in 2015 and 2016. The first was a Nuu-chah-nulth smudging demonstration, and the second was a hoop dancing performance where the dancer said a prayer. Servatius, an evangelical Protestant, said that her religious freedom was violated and alleged that “her children were forced to participate in a religious ceremony” in the school.
On Dec. 12, 2022, appeal court Justice Susan Griffin upheld the Supreme Court’s initial ruling that the demonstrations were not religious ceremonies, but an educational opportunity for the students, and that students were not forced to participate.
“Neither event breached the appellant’s freedom of religion or the duty of state neutrality,” the court ruled. “The trial judge did not make an error in his findings of fact that the children did not participate in the smudging or the prayer and the school did not promote or favour a set of beliefs.”
The Supreme Court originally ordered both Servatius and the school district to pay their own court fees, after Servatius argued that she and her family were “of limited means” and the school district had a “superior capacity” to pay costs.
However, a cross appeal from the school district revealed that Servatius’ complaint was actually funded by the Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).
“In my view, had the judge known this fact he would not have exercised his costs discretion in the way he did,” said Griffin in her judgment. “He was clearly influenced by the misleading assertions about Ms. Servatius’s capability of weathering the burden of paying a costs award.”
Servatius has now been ordered to pay for the school district’s court costs, as well as her own.
Judith Sayers, president of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, released a statement on Dec. 12 that she is happy with the ruling, although disappointed that Nuu-chah-nulth people have had to go all the way to the B.C. Court of Appeal over the issue.
“I am very pleased that the court ruled that Ms. Servatius cannot impose her own beliefs on what an Indigenous person is experiencing when a demonstration occurs and that it was not religious ceremony,” said Sayers. “We told the court that we do not have a religion, we have spirituality and some of it we can share in public and some is very private. The smudging demonstration was something we could share publicly.”
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Delhi airport chaos: Air India issues new travel advisory for domestic, international flyers
Air India on Tuesday issued advise requesting domestic travellers to arrive at the airport at least 3.5 hours before departure, as opposed to the 60-minute guideline for domestic flights, amid a frenzied rush and confusion at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport. International passengers, meanwhile, are urged to arrive four hours before takeoff.
Additionally, the airline has encouraged all customers to just bring one piece of carry-on luggage to ensure a smooth security check and a full web check-in for a quicker boarding process.
"Passengers are advised to reach at least 3.5 hours for domestic and 4 hours for international before their flight departure times for faster movement at the Airport," Air India tweeted.
For the past week, Delhi Airport has experienced severe congestion due to higher-than-normal foot traffic. The government acted quickly and called the CEO of Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) to discuss the situation.
To ensure a smooth flow of passengers, the civil aviation ministry has also mandated decongestion procedures and requested airlines to station enough staff at all check-in and baggage drop points.
Budget airline IndiGo urged customers earlier today to arrive at the airport at least 3.5 hours before domestic departures and bring one item of hand luggage weighing up to 7kg.
Since they were the closest to the airline's check-in desks, IndiGo also encouraged its customers to use gates 5 and 6 to enter Terminal 3 of the airport.
Jyotiraditya Scindia, the Union's minister of civil aviation, paid an unexpected visit to the Delhi Airport on Monday in response to a flurry of complaints about delays caused by the traffic on social media and elsewhere.
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Emergency crews responded to a single-vehicle collision south of Vernon Sunday afternoon, Dec. 11.
Vernon North Okanagan RCMP said a Chevrolet El Camino left Highway 97 shortly before 3 p.m. and ended up in a ditch off Birnie Road.
The driver and lone occupant was taken from the scene by B.C. Emergency Health Service personnel for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
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Buoyed by its landslide victory in Gujarat to retain power for a seventh straight term, the BJP is now staking claim to win the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Ahead of that, the party has started prepping up for the Assembly polls scheduled to be held next year, which will set the tone for the decisive battle of general elections.
In fact, 2023 may see Assembly polls in as many as ten states, including Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram. The government may also conduct the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir along with the nine states.
In this context, the elections in these 10 states next year will bring out a clear picture as to which party will have an edge in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The 10 states supposed to go to polls next year include Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan -- two of the three states where the Congress is in power. It managed to wrest power from the BJP in Himachal Pradesh recently.
Retaining power in both these states will be a big challenge for the Congress given the fact that factionalism and power tussle (between Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot in Rajasthan, and between Bhupesh Baghel and TS Singh Deo in Chhattisgarh) will be something the BJP would be looking to capitalise on.
Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh are also included in these states where the BJP currently has a government, but in the last assembly elections held in 2018 in both these states, the BJP had suffered a setback. The BJP this time does not want to miss out on getting majority in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, so it has started preparations for the elections in these two states well in advance.
In the last assembly elections held in Madhya Pradesh in 2018, the Congress ousted the BJP from power and Kamal Nath became the Chief Minister, but the Congress could not handle this mandate and a group of Congress MLAs led by Jyotiraditya Scindia broke away. After this, Shivraj Singh Chouhan of BJP again became the Chief Minister of the state. This time Jyotiraditya Scindia is a Union Minister in the Modi government and the BJP is claiming to win the elections with an absolute majority in the state.
No political party got a majority in the 2018 assembly elections in Karnataka. After the elections threw a hung assembly, B.S. Yeddyurappa was sworn in as Chief Minister by the Governor but he resigned after not being able to manage the majority.
After this Congress and JDS together formed the government in the state. Again because of the change in the political situation, the BJP formed the government in the state in 2019 and made B.S. Yediyurappa the Chief Minister, but in view of the strategy for the assembly elections to be held in 2023, the leadership in the state was changed in 2021 and B.S. Yediyurappa was replaced by Basavaraj Bommai as the Chief Minister.
But considering Yediyurappa's organisational ability and his political influence across state, the BJP high command also tried to send a clear message to the people of Karnataka by making him a member of the parliamentary board, the highest and most powerful decision-making body of the party.
This also shows that the 2023 Assembly election in Karnataka, where the BJP formed government for the first time in South India, is going to be crucial for the BJP.
Telangana currently ruled by TRS and headed by K. Chandrasekhar Rao as Chief Minister is trying to form a larger front with other opposition parties to defeat the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. But the BJP is claiming to defeat him in his own bastion Telangana in 2023.
Talking about the North-Eastern states, elections to the Legislative Assemblies are to be held in 2023 in Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram. Tripura is currently ruled by the BJP and as part of its election strategy, the BJP has changed the face of the Chief Minister in Tripura as well.
In Meghalaya and Nagaland, the BJP-backed government is in power, while in Mizoram, the Mizo National Front government is in power.
There is a direct fight between the BJP and the Congress in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. While in Karnataka, there will be a triangular contest between BJP, Congress and JDS, while in Telangana, there will be a triangular contest between TRS, Congress and BJP. In Tripura too, there is going to be a triangular fight between the BJP, the Congress and the Left Front.
BJP is also constantly trying to strengthen its mass base and organisation in Jammu and Kashmir, so that by forming a government on its own for the first time, it can give a political message to the people of the whole country.
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For the first time since people began protesting against the Coastal GasLink (CGL) natural gas pipeline where the route passes through Wet’suwet’en territory near Houston, arrests have resulted in criminal convictions.
In the Supreme Court of B.C. Monday (Dec. 12) in Smithers, five people were sentenced for breaching a court injunction, three with $500 fines and two with 25 hours of community service.
The sentences for Amanda Wong, Joshua Goskey, Nina Sylvestor, Layla Staats and Skyler Williams were the result of a joint submission by Crown and defence counsels following guilty pleas.
The five were part of a larger group arrested in November 2021 when Mounties moved into the area along the Morice River and Marten forest service roads near Houston to enforce a court injunction by removing blockades and preventing pipeline workers from accessing the work site.
READ MORE: Crown proceeds with criminal charges against 15 Coastal GasLink pipeline opponents
A tale of three injunctions
Coastal GasLink first received an interim injunction from the provincial Supreme Court’s Justice Marguerite Church in December 2018 after filing a civil lawsuit against Freda Huson and Warner Naziel (hereditary chief Smogelgem), whose Unistot’en Camp lay in the way of the company starting pre-construction activities.
In January 2019, police enforced the injunction by taking down a gate preventing workers from accessing the work site and arresting 14 people. In April of the same year, the Crown dropped charges citing insufficient evidence to support criminal contempt charges.
By December 2019, blockades of the access road had been re-established and Coastal GasLink once again applied to the court for an injunction, which was granted on Dec. 31.
Prior to enforcement, however, talks were scheduled between the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, the province and the company. While Coastal GasLink had signed agreements with all the Wet’suwet’en band councils, the hereditary chiefs have remained opposed to the project from the beginning and maintain consent for industrial projects on Wet’suwet’en territory is their purview, not that of the Indian Act band councils.
Talks were scheduled for a week, but broke down after just two days. That led to the second major round of conflict when RCMP moved in en force in February 2020 to uphold the injunction. Over the three days of the enforcement, police removed three blockades and arrested at least 22 people.
This time, the enforcement triggered a solidarity movement across the country. Protests by Indigenous people and supporters shut down the CN rail network in eastern Canada, suspended most Via Rail passenger service, and temporarily blocked traffic on streets and bridges and at ports in multiple cities.
A blockade of the CN tracks in New Hazelton led to 12 more arrests.
Again, the Crown declined to prosecute either the 22 arrested near the CGL work site or the 12 arrested in New Hazelton. In the CN case, the BC Prosecution Service (BCPS) said there was insufficient evidence nine of the defendants had prior knowledge of a separate injunction preventing rail blockades. For the other three the Crown decided prosecution was not in the public interest because there was no violence or property damage.
However, CN was unwilling to drop it and petitioned the Supreme Court to allow the company to pursue criminal contempt charges if the prosecution service was unwilling. In December 2021, Justice Ward Branch ruled that CN may proceed against three blockaders, saying that not maintaining the possibility of criminal contempt “may undermine the administration of justice.”
READ MORE: CN wins right to pursue criminal prosecution of Hazleton blockaders
Ongoing conflict
The sentencing of the five individuals Monday in Smithers, coincided with an announcement the same day that Crime Stoppers and the B.C. Independent Contractors and Businesses Association were putting up a $100,000 reward for information on the identities of approximately 20 individuals who allegedly attacked the CGL camp near Houston in February of this year.
On Feb. 17, security guards at the site reported to RCMP that 20 masked individuals, some armed with axes were attacking them and smashing their vehicle windows.
Police said when they responded the road had been blocked with burning downed trees, tar-covered stumps and boards with spikes in them.
While working through the blockade, police said people threw smoke bombs and fire-lit sticks at them, injuring one officer.
That incident, the company said, caused millions of dollars of damage to property and machinery.
No arrests have been made to date.
READ MORE: $100K reward offered for information on attack on Coastal GasLink camp near Houston
Inauspicious timing
The sentencing also coincided with the last day of four days of Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the landmark Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa Supreme Court of Canada decision.
That ruling established that Indigenous rights to their traditional lands exist and are protected under the Constitution. It also established oral testimony as valid evidence for title claims.
What it did not do was resolve the First Nations’ actual title claim of jurisdiction over roughly 58,000 square kilometres of northwest British Columbia.
In fact, Justice Church cited Delgamuukw in her original decision to grant the injunction.
“The Aboriginal title claims of the Wet’suwet’en remain outstanding and have not been resolved either by litigation or negotiation, despite the urging of the Supreme Court of Canada in Delgamuukw,” she said.
READ MORE: Legendary Gitxsan Indigenous rights leader Delgamuukw dies at age 85
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Scientists announced Tuesday that they have for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it — a major breakthrough in the decades-long quest to harness the process that powers the sun.
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California achieved the result last week, the Energy Department said. Known as a net energy gain, the goal has been elusive because fusion happens at such high temperatures and pressures that it is incredibly difficult to control.
The breakthrough will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean power, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and other officials said.
“Ignition allows us to replicate for the first time certain conditions that are found only in the stars and the sun,” Granholm told a news conference in Washington. “This milestone moves us one significant step closer” to having zero-carbon fusion energy “powering our society.”
Fusion ignition is “one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century,″ Granholm said, adding that the breakthrough “will go down in the history books.”
Appearing with Granholm, White House science adviser Arati Prabhakar called the fusion ignition achieved Dec. 5 “a tremendous example of what perseverance really can achieve” and “an engineering marvel beyond belief.”
Proponents of fusion hope it could one day displace fossil fuels and other traditional energy sources. Producing carbon-free energy that powers homes and businesses from fusion is still decades away. But researchers said the announcement marked a significant leap forward.
“It’s almost like it’s a starting gun going off,” said professor Dennis Whyte, director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a leader in fusion research. “We should be pushing towards making fusion energy systems available to tackle climate change and energy security.”
Kim Budil, director of the Livermore Lab, said there are “very significant hurdles” to commercial use of fusion technology, but advances in recent years mean the technology is likely to be widely used in “a few decades” rather than 50 or 60 years as previously expected.
Fusion works by pressing hydrogen atoms into each other with such force that they combine into helium, releasing enormous amounts of energy and heat. Unlike other nuclear reactions, it doesn’t create radioactive waste.
President Joe Biden called the breakthrough a good example of the need to continue to invest in research and development. “Look what’s going on from the Department of Energy on the nuclear front. There’s a lot of good news on the horizon,” he said at the White House.
Billions of dollars and decades of work have gone into fusion research that has produced exhilarating results — for fractions of a second. Previously, researchers at the National Ignition Facility, the division of Lawrence Livermore where the success took place, used 192 lasers and temperatures multiple times hotter than the center of the sun to create an extremely brief fusion reaction.
The lasers focused an enormous amount of heat on a miniature spherical capsule, said Marvin Adams, deputy administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, an Energy Department agency. The result was a superheated plasma environment where a reaction generated about 1.5 times more energy than was contained in the light used to produce it.
Riccardo Betti, a professor at the University of Rochester and expert in laser fusion, said there’s a long road ahead before the net energy gain leads to sustainable electricity.
He likened the breakthrough to when humans first learned that refining oil into gasoline and igniting it could produce an explosion. “You still don’t have the engine, and you still don’t have the tires,” Betti said. “You can’t say that you have a car.”
The net energy gain achievement applied to the fusion reaction itself, not the total amount of power it took to operate the lasers and run the project. For fusion to be viable, it will need to produce significantly more power and for longer periods.
Budil said people sometimes joke that the Livermore lab, known as LLNL, “stands for ‘Lasers, Lasers, Nothing but Lasers.’” But she said the lab’s motto “sums up our approach nicely: Science and technology on a mission.”
It is incredibly difficult to control the physics of stars. Whyte said the fuel has to be hotter than the center of the sun. The fuel does not want to stay hot — it wants to leak out and get cold. Containing it is a challenge, he said.
Results from the California lab exceeded expectations, said Jeremy Chittenden, a professor at Imperial College in London specializing in plasma physics.
Although there’s a long way to go to turn fusion into a usable power source, Chittenden said, the lab’s achievement makes him optimistic that it may someday be “the ideal power source that we thought it would be” — one that emits no carbon and runs on an abundant form of hydrogen that can be extracted from seawater.
One approach to fusion turns hydrogen into plasma, an electrically charged gas, which is then controlled by humongous magnets. This method is being explored in France in a collaboration among 35 countries called the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, as well as by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a private company.
Last year the teams working on those projects on two continents announced significant advancements in the vital magnets needed for their work.
Carolyn Kuranz, a University of Michigan professor and experimental plasma physicist, hoped the result would help bring “increased interest and vigor” to fusion research — including from private industry, which she and others said will be needed to get fusion energy to the grid.
“If we want to prevent further climate change, we are going to need diverse options of energy production to deploy,” Kuranz said. “And nuclear energy — both fission and fusion — really must be a part of that equation. We’re not going to get there with renewables alone.”
—Matthew Daly, Michael Phillis, Jennifer Mcdermott And Maddie Burakoff, The Associated Press
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Comox Valley resident Trevor Stone is frustrated.
The Canadian veteran has a service to provide, but in British Columbia he’s deemed unqualified.
Stone is a physician assistant who joined the military as a medic. After several years of growing his skill set and practical experience, he qualified for the physician assistant course, at that time exclusively offered through the military. The course is a 24- to 26-month curriculum that includes a year of hands-on training.
He describes the job as being “an extra set of eyes and ears for the doctors that we work under.”
“In a military setting, obviously physicians are very (stationary). They don’t have the ability to go out into the front lines, whereas we can go out closer to the front lines. We also serve in autonomous capacities on ships, submarines, service vessels deployed in northern remote locations in Canada and throughout the world. The key is that we work under the supervisory auspices of a physician.”
While the genesis of the profession in Canada is in the military, it is now practised outside the Forces. Certification courses are available in Manitoba and Ontario, including one at McMaster University, which describes the profession on its website as “health care professionals who work with physicians to provide health care. Under the overall supervision of a physician, PAs take histories, conduct physical examinations, order and interpret tests, diagnose and treat illnesses, counsel on preventive health care, and may assist in surgery.”
After retiring from the Canadian military in 2006, Stone entered the civilian workforce as a physician assistant in Manitoba. Fourteen years later he moved to Vancouver Island to be closer to family and found out his qualifications are meaningless in B.C., which doesn’t recognize PAs as qualified civilian healthcare workers.
He said his own correspondence with provincial government sources have been less than promising.
“Even when I was still in the military, we were hearing comments like ‘we can’t even get nurse practitioners to reach their scope of practice, and until that happens, we are not entertaining any other professions. It seems to go back for several decades, but that doesn’t wash with me. There have to be other reasons. But the only reason I can think of is it has to be the policy writers in the province. I personally think they are trying to somehow protect one profession over the other, and that’s wrong. That’s not teamwork.
“It’s not the rank-and-file, not the healthcare workers who don’t want us there. It’s the policy writers. That’s my theory.”
Comox PA has worked in Manitoba and Alberta
Comox resident Lisa Stewart attained her PA certification through the University of Manitoba 12 years ago.
She was a paramedic in Victoria when she made the decision to return to school. After completing the university program, Stewart began her career in Manitoba, then moved to Calgary, where she worked as a plastic surgery PA. Stewart recently returned to the Island and said her hope is to resume her career here. For now, she waits.
Stewart knew going in that the profession was not yet recognized in B.C., but was under the impression that would eventually change.
“My (Canadian Armed Forces) reserve unit was in Victoria, I knew PAs, I worked with them, and that’s what got me interested in the PA trade,” said Stewart. “At that time, everyone was very positive, back in 2010, that PAs would be recognized in B.C. So when I went to school in Manitoba, it was my hope that I would be able to move back to B.C. and start practising here. I thought, OK it might take a little longer than two years, but with all the expansion of the profession in other parts of Canada it just seemed natural that B.C. would join in. … But it still hasn’t happened. I’ve been kind of stonewalled by my own province.”
Stewart continues to advocate for PAs in the province. She sits on the board of the Canadian Association of Physician Assistants as the director for B.C.
“We have approached the minister of health in the past, but nothing has come to fruition,” she said. “We have been told that the physician assistant profession is just not a priority at this time. No formal reason has been given.”
Black Press reached out to the ministry of health for response and was told the situation is being “monitored.”
“The introduction of a new health profession requires careful consideration, management and significant resources to properly understand and address the inevitable team function issues that emerge from overlapping scopes of practice,” the ministry said in a prepared email statement.
“The ministry recognizes the contributions physician assistants make to health care delivery as physician extenders. We continue to monitor their implementation in other provinces, and appreciate the dedication to service embodied by physicians assistants who served in Canada’s Armed Forces.”
Local politicians respond
Courtenay-Comox MLA Ronna-Rae Leonard said she is working with the ministry to resolve it.
“Physician assistants are skilled and capable, and I thank them for their service in the military,” she said. “I am committed to advocating for the needs of my riding, and am regularly engaging with both PAs and the ministry of health to find solutions that fit the healthcare needs of Courtenay-Comox.”
North Island-Powell River MP Rachel Blaney, who serves as the veteran affairs critic, said a resolution is needed.
“These are folks who are extremely highly trained… across the planet, people have great things to say about our military’s level of training. I think this needs to be explored… We know that the need is so high, across all of Canada. I hope this comes together quickly, because these are some of the most highly trained people we have in our country, and we desperately need help in terms of our healthcare system, so let’s make it work.
“Having worked with so many veterans, and also just being at the 19 Wing and doing activities there, these people are so efficient and well trained. We should be using them … they are so needed.”
Waiting it out
In the meantime, certified healthcare workers sit on the sidelines in this province knowing their skill sets are accepted elsewhere in the country.
“I can’t put it into words how frustrating it is that we are still not able to work,” said Stone. “There is a problem here, and I and my colleagues deserve to be working anywhere we can in this province, alongside nurse practitioners, physicians, and other healthcare workers. There has been nothing more demoralizing for me and my colleagues … we can’t even give immunizations.”
Stewart concurred with Stone’s sentiments.
“When I look around and I see the need for even just one healthcare provider (in a given situation), it is incredibly frustrating,” echoed Stewart. “To know the skills that a PA has, to know how positive this profession has been in bridging the gap in other provinces, knowing that we can do the same thing here and B.C. … why are we not working?”
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Part two of this series will look into specifics regarding how, and where, PAs could be of immediate help in alleviating the healthcare crisis in B.C.
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The steps leading up to a trial in BC Supreme Court in Kamloops involving a Shuswap man charged in the death of Ashley Simpson are slowly being completed.
After a series of court appearances aimed at setting a date for the murder trial to proceed, on Dec. 12 a date was set for jury selection. Jury selection will begin on Sept. 4, 2023.
Derek Lee Matthew Favell, 39, was charged in late 2021 with second-degree murder.
Ashley Simpson was 32 when she went missing in April 2016 from the North Okanagan-Shuswap. Her remains were found in November 2021.
Although previous court dates were held at the Salmon Arm Law Courts, the trial will proceed in Kamloops because Favell opted for trial by judge and jury. The courthouse in Salmon Arm does not have a courtroom that can accommodate a jury.
In Provincial Court in Salmon Arm on Oct. 20, 2022, Judge George Leven declared that the preliminary inquiry had provided sufficient evidence for the case to go to trial. Because there is a ban on publication of preliminary inquiries, no details of the evidence can be published until after a trial has concluded.
Read more: Preliminary inquiry around death of Ashley Simpson continues in Salmon Arm court
Read more: Emaciated pet survives -20 C, no food in his search for South Shuswap home
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The defence lawyer for one of the men accused of killing Martin Payne called on a jury to acquit his client as he called the Crown’s argument against James Lee Busch weak and speculative.
The Crown on Monday tasked the jury with finding Busch guilty of first-degree murder, but Ryan Drury said the evidence presented over the last month shows there would be a reasonable doubt the escaped inmate could’ve committed the July 2019 killing.
Busch and Zachary Armitage were charged with first-degree murder following their William Head prison escape, but the latter of the accused men was removed from the trial as the jury heard he’s been dealt with in a separate way.
The evidence showing Busch was an active participant and assailant is inconclusive and the Crown’s narrative of what transpired in Payne’s Metchosin home is circumstantial, Drury argued in his closing address.
He presented a four-part defence on Dec. 13 and 14, which includes: the case is built on circumstantial evidence; there’s insufficient evidence to meet first-degree murder requirements; there was minimal evidence forensic evidence against Busch but an overwhelming case supporting Armitage committing the murder alone; and the Crown fell short of showing Busch was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Drury ultimately drew three possible conclusions from evidence: that Busch was never in the home; that he was at the home but had no involvement in the murder and he was just “in the wrong place at the wrong time”; and that his only role was assisting in cleaning up a crime scene that Armitage had solely committed.
His “circumstantial” argument seemingly relied on how there could be no direct eyewitness since the victim was killed.
“No one has given any evidence that they saw Mr. Busch do anything at Mr. Payne’s residence, no one has even given any evidence that they saw Mr. Busch inside Mr. Payne’s residence,” Drury said.
While the Crown said the jury could use evidence to draw inferences that connect how a planned ambush played out, Drury said the same evidence that could lead to inferences that Busch was innocent.
The lawyer pointed to Armitage’s fingerprints and DNA being found in the home and witnesses testifying how he was making calls from Payne’s landline, while the only thing placing Busch at the home was DNA on some underwear and shoes.
READ: Crown says inmates worked together to murder Metchosin man
That related to Drury’s third argument, where he concluded the evidence was overwhelming that Armitage alone was responsible for Payne’s death. He recalled how Armitage’s DNA was found on the inside of bloody clothing, Asics shoes and on chewed gum left in the main bathroom where a hatchet and bowie knife were found.
A major crutch of Drury’s argument was that the Asics shoes had much more blood all over them compared to a pair of New Balance’s – which held Busch’s DNA and were linked to a footprint left in the ensuite’s bloody floor. He said the shoes prove Busch couldn’t be in close proximity to Payne when the 60-year-old was being struck.
“Do you think for a moment that these shoes would be so utterly lacking in blood if Mr. Busch was wearing them when he had committed a homicide, hitting Mr. Payne in the head with a hatchet or stabbing him with a knife?”
Defence said the New Balance shoes alone prove a reasonable doubt and are a “roadblock to convicting Busch.”
Crown said the bigger Payne could not have been attacked by a lone assailant as witnesses said his wounds came from the front and back, with at least three weapons. Drury refuted that, saying Armitage – armed with the multiple suspected murder weapons – could have overcome Payne and inflicted the myriad of wounds.
“We say the evidence simply does not allow you to figure out what happened,” Drury said.
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It was Santa that came to the rescue Sunday (Dec. 11) when a dog fell through the ice of Okanagan Lake near downtown Kelowna.
Wayne Dorman, owner of Dogzies Pet Services, was dressed as Mr. Claus for the Dogzies annual festive walk.
He says he originally thought it was a client’s dog, but it turned out to be a canine belonging to a couple out for a walk by Dolphins statue on Water Street.
“I saw a dog battling to get out, it had fallen through the ice,” he said.
Dorman says it was the call of the wild that took over and he jumped in.
“He was going underneath the whole time. He was trying to climb out of the ice, but I was able to call him to me. Then I just went in…and I just grabbed him.”
Dorman says he’s done rescues before, like pulling people from a burning house, but he’s never had to do an ice rescue for a dog.
“In those instances you always worry about them biting you or freaking out,” said Dorman, who has dedicated his life to working and training dogs.
For Dorman, the incident was a great reminder for his clients that rules should be followed, like keeping dogs leashed in designated areas and making sure the animal has strong recall.
“If you allow your dog to chase and run after animals and after birds, chase a ball without a wait or recall or ‘leave it’ you can end up in that situation. It’s scary. We see stories like this all the time.”
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A man with a gun was arrested after being convinced to surrender near a school in Kamloops.
RCMP responded to a weapons call on the 500-block of Tod Mountain Road at approximately 2:10p.m. on Dec. 12.
A nearby school was placed on a brief hold and secure after it was confirmed that the man had a firearm.
Police officers were able to arrest the man without incident.
The man was then released with a scheduled court date related to firearms offences.
Anyone with information related to this investigation is asked to contact the Kamloops RCMP Detachment at 250-828-3000 and reference file 2022-44065.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is trying to find the dividing line between guns suitable for hunting and ones that have no place in society because they pose significant dangers in the wrong hands.
While the effort is sparking debate, it’s up to society to figure out “where that line is going to be,” Trudeau said in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press.
“There isn’t a single Canadian anywhere out there that doesn’t want to see less gun crime, that doesn’t want to see safer communities. We’re all united on that,” he said. “There are disagreements on how to go about it the best possible way.”
The government wants to reinforce a May 2020 regulatory ban on an array of guns it considers assault-style firearms by enshrining a comprehensive definition in a bill being studied by the House of Commons public safety committee.
Among other technical specifications concerning bore diameter and muzzle energy, the proposed definition includes a centrefire semi-automatic rifle or shotgun designed with a detachable magazine that can hold more than five cartridges.
MPs are sifting the latest list of firearms that would fall under the proposed definition, which runs into the hundreds of pages.
There is confusion over exactly what is included and what is not, because the definition applies only to some variations of certain models that meet the criteria — guns the government considers inappropriate for civilian use.
The planned amendment has prompted applause from gun-control advocates as a step forward, but howls of protest from Conservative MPs and gun-rights groups who say it targets commonly used hunting rifles and shotguns.
Trudeau said he intends to follow through on his promise to outlaw firearms designed to kill as many people as quickly as possible while respecting the legitimate needs of hunters and others who rely on rifles and shotguns.
“Obviously there are people who will have, right now, guns that are on the line, that are probably more powerful or more convenient than you’d really need for hunting,” he said.
“And as a society, we have to figure out where that line is going to be. And no matter where you draw that line there’s going to be people on one side or the other who feels it should have been one way or the other.”
The government’s approach was the right one to take, he said. “But I’m always open to tweaks.”
Trudeau acknowledged there is more work to do on refining the definition, as his minority government requires the support of at least one other party to ensure passage of the measures.
The public safety committee planned to meet Tuesday to discuss a proposal to hear witnesses on the matter, an idea suggested by Kristina Michaud of the Bloc Québécois.
—Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press
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The federal and provincial governments appear deadlocked in their negotiations on the future of health care in Canada, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest comments suggests he will not be the one to blink first.
In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press Monday, Trudeau said he’s not willing to kick health-care reform down the road any further, even as provincial premiers clamour for more federal funds to bolster their ailing health systems.
“It wouldn’t be the right thing to do to just throw more money at the problem and sit back and watch the problem not get fixed because we didn’t use this moment to say, ‘No, no, no, it’s time to improve the system,’” Trudeau said.
The stalemate is happening while children’s hospitals across the country are inundated with kids suffering from respiratory diseases. In some cases hospitals have been overwhelmed by the calamitous combination of record numbers of sick patients and critically low numbers of staff to treat them.
The problem goes back more than a year, when provinces first demanded a sit-down with the prime minister to talk about long-term and sustainable funding increases after pandemic strain left them with large backlogs and a burnt-out workforce.
They want to see Ottawa cover 35 per cent of health-care costs across the country, up from the current 22 per cent, by increasing the Canada Health Transfer.
Trudeau told them those discussions should wait until after the pandemic, but dedicated $2 billion in one-time funding to tide them over during the Omicron wave.
Now the prime minister says the system needs reform, and he’s not going to give up the money unless the provinces commit to change.
“Canadians are right to look at all orders of government and say, ‘This is terrible, you guys really need to solve this,’” Trudeau said.
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos made an overture to the provinces last month, offering an increase to the federal health transfer in exchange for improved data sharing across the country.
The meeting ended without progress.
Imposing performance measures on the Canada Health Transfer to provinces is more or less unheard of, said Haizhen Mou, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan who studies health policy.
It’s understandable that provincial leaders don’t want to change that precedent, she said in an interview Tuesday.
“I don’t think the federal government has the right to impose such performance indicators on the broad kind of health transfer,” she said, but added that she understands why the Liberals don’t want to continue to put money toward a system that’s not working.
A more politically palatable situation might be to offer targeted funds for specific priorities and sign individual agreements with each province, she said, rather than treating with them as a group.
That’s what the Paul Martin government did in 2005 to address wait times, and what Trudeau did in 2016 to fund mental health and homecare services in the face of similar circumstances.
In 2016 the provinces were united as they pushed for an unconditional increase to the health transfer, “but in the end they broke apart, the alliance broke,” Mou said.
The government signed a bilateral agreement with New Brunswick and other provinces followed suit. Mou thinks its only a matter of time before that happens again.
“I’m not sure how long they can hold out because the revenue, the power of the fiscal capacity, is still in the federal government’s hands,” she said.
Health-care advocates, including nurses and doctors’ associations, have echoed Trudeau’s call for a plan to transform Canada’s broken system and to do it quickly.
“Patient care is suffering while health-care working conditions for nurses and other health workers deteriorates,” said Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions president Linda Silas, after talks between health ministers ended last month.
“It is absolutely critical that we put aside politicking and get down to productive discussions around concrete solutions to the health-care staffing crisis.”
Trudeau was asked Monday how he plans to kick-start the negotiations if he won’t sit down with premiers, but he appears to feel it’s up to provincial and territorial leaders to take the next step.
“We’re absolutely willing to invest much more in health care, but there has to be clear commitments and results that are going to change things for Canadians,” he said.
—Laura Osman, The Canadian Press
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The woman who entered a Castlegar home and stabbed two teen girls on Feb. 21, 2021, was sentenced to six years in custody by Judge Robert Brown at the Castlegar Courthouse on Dec. 13.
Sasha Prokaski, 31, was originally charged with two counts of attempt to commit murder, two counts of uttering threats and one count of break and enter for the attacks. She was later charged with several counts of breaching bail conditions. In May of this year, she pleaded guilty to two lesser counts that included aggravated assault and assault with a weapon.
Brown ordered six years for the aggravated assault charge, three years for assault with a weapon and 30 days for the breach of conditions charge, with all sentences to be served at the same time.
Prokaski has already served 236 days and with the standard credit of 1.5 times the days served added she was credited with 354 days, leaving five years and 11 days left on her sentence.
The mother of one of the victims says the sentence is disappointing, as she was hoping for at least seven years.
“Hopefully, at least there is some closure with this portion of it,” the mother, who can not be named due to a publication ban, told reporters in a post-decision interview.
She also talked about sharing their experiences during the sentencing hearing that took place on Nov. 23.
“It was nice to be heard and for all of us to be seen and to face her. It was difficult, but I would do it every time — she needs to hear what she has done to us, what she has done to my daughter, what she has done to our family, what she has done to our friends, what she has done to this community.”
The night of the attack, Prokaski entered a home where the two teenagers were sleeping. An altercation ensued with both teens being stabbed, and one of the pair receiving multiple serious stab wounds. Prokaski and the victims, whose identities are protected under a publication ban, did not know each other.
The courtroom was filled with the victims, their families and friends. Prokaski appeared via video link.
Before reading his sentence, Brown recounted the events of the night the attacks occurred.
Prokaski began showing signs of aggression at The Way Out Shelter, where she was staying at the time. Shelter employees heard her making statements about the world ending, that she was going to die, and was behaving in an agitated manner. Prokaski then tried to access the shelter’s knives.
Shelter employees asked her if she would be willing to go to the hospital and when she agreed, they called an ambulance. But Prokaski left the shelter before the ambulance arrived and began knocking on doors at a nearby senior’s complex.
Prokaski then moved down the block to a set of townhouses. She found an unlocked door at the home where the two victims were sleeping on couches in the living room.
Once inside, Prokaski began ranting about people knowing too much, that she needed to kill herself and that the teens needed to kill themselves.
Prokaski then stabbed one of the victims in the chest, but the knife hit the underwire of the victim’s bra instead of flesh and the victim was able to escape out of the house and went to seek help.
The second victim was also able to get out of the house, but Prokaski knocked her down and got on top of her. She held the knife over her head saying, “Die, die, die.”
The victim fought back, but received stab wounds on her neck, face, hands, shoulder, forearm, leg and near her ninth rib.
Police found Prokaski near Kinsmen Park, about a block from were the attack took place, with the knife and clothing hid nearby.
The judge also reviewed the toll that the attacks had had on the victims and their families.
The victim with the most severe injuries was left with a permanent disability. Before the attack the teen was a competitive gymnast, but the injuries have left her with mobility issues and no hopes of rejoining the sport.
Both girls continue to struggle with the mental and emotional consequences of the attack including anxiety, sleep problems, flashbacks and difficulties with social interactions. Their parents and grandparents have also been gravely affected.
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In explaining the reasons for his sentence, Brown stated that the unprovoked attacks had turned “a sleepover into a nightmare,” causing debilitating physical and emotional injuries and significantly altering the lives of the victims.
He said the prolonged attacks aimed at vital areas of the body and their potential to be life-threatening were aggravating factors in determining the sentence.
He also said he thought Prokaski has a risk of relapse into the drug use that precipitated the attacks, partially based on her breaking bail conditions on three separate occasions since her arrest.
On two occasions Prokaski left her treatment facility. On the day after she pleaded guilty to the assault charges, she broke a requirement to stay at least 25 kilometres outside of Castlegar, attempted to disable her monitoring device and was found in the company of someone with a known substance-use disorder.
Brown said Prokaski had not exhibited a genuine commitment to treatment and that she has a risk of re-offending or causing harm again.
He cited several mitigating factors to his sentence including inter-generational trauma through Prokaski’s parents and her Indigenous background. Prokaski’s mother attended a residential school and had substance-abuse issues.
Prokaski was also a victim of violence, becoming pregnant as a teen after a sexual assault. She has four children between the ages of six and 15, but does not have custody of any of them.
It was after she was separated from her youngest child that she became homeless and became addicted to crystal meth.
Brown said the mitigating factors “result in a reduction of moral blame worthiness.”
Brown said Prokaski reports she does not remember the attacks or gave any reasons for committing them, but does recognize the affects they had on the victims.
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The last few decades have shown an unmistakable link in Canada between low increases in productivity (real GDP per hour worked) and low real income growth per capita. The OECD predicts that from 2020-2030, Canadian productivity growth will be near last of 40 advanced economies and income growth will be absolutely last. The OECD predicts from 2030-2060, Canada will be absolutely last in both measures.
However, there is opportunity to do better if, and likely only if, governments reform key policies. Broadly, our archaic, inefficient and extremely complex taxation system demands comprehensive reform, something last achieved in the 1960’s. And another long-standing problem, interprovincial trade barriers, remain present and serious, and need to be finally and decisively eliminated.
Increases in productivity ultimately result from private sector investment in better facilities, equipment and training. To invest, companies request simpler and less onerous regulation and more competitive taxation. For resource and energy projects, experts advocate for swift and predictable project reviews. Governments have ignored these calls, instead relying primarily on financial incentives and giveaways.
In an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail, Jackie Forrest, Executive Director of the ARC Energy Research Institute, in a different context, argues that for Canada, “to achieve its ambitious emission-reduction goals, the review process must become more streamlined, fast and predictable. If not, companies will not invest in Canada, and the country’s climate goals will not be met.” Construction of major projects in Canada is a lengthy process, she says. “It can take more than 10 years from start to finish – if it begins.”
She offers four examples where the review process was demonstrably not, “streamlined, fast and predictable”. The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, the Teck Frontier Oilsands project and Pacific Northwest LNG, she says, illustrate the risk. Each project “undertook a four-to eight-year regulatory process”, only to have approval denied or to be forced to withdraw after incurring $500 million to $1 billion in costs. And the risk is not restricted to oil and gas, says Forrest; it also afflicts clean energy projects and mines like the New Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine, denied approval after a multiyear review.
The clean (hydro-powered) LNG project, Energie Saquenay, in Quebec, was rejected in 2021 by both the Federal Liberal Government and the Quebec CAQ Government. Quebec argued the project would not aid the transition to greener energy or reduce greenhouse gas emissions. If this argument was not parochial and irresponsible then, it undoubtedly is in 2022. After the German Chancellor in vain tried to secure Canadian LNG, Quebec’s Economy Minister, in November, confirmed the LNG project is “dead”. Germany is being forced to reopen five lignite coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest power plants of all.
Development in the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontario – an area rich in the minerals required for battery production and electrification – is stalled. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent by mining companies since 2006, reports the Globe and Mail, but no mine has opened. Wyloo, an Australian mining company, is seeking to develop a mine for battery-grade nickel. Wyloo’s chief executive said in November that it, “should be a national priority to get the Ring of Fire developed.” He is right. China dominates supply of many critical minerals. Canada and our allies urgently need an alternate source.
A major road is required to open the Ring of Fire region for development. Incredibly, six environmental and road studies are evaluating that one road project. The Globe and Mail says an Ontario First Nation leading one study has applied to extend it to early 2029. As well, in 2020 the Federal Natural Resources Minister ordered an environmental study on the impact of mining on the whole region. Two years later, it has not begun, because the stakeholders cannot agree on the terms of the study. The review process is undeniably broken. It is a juggernaut, which effectively prevents major projects being built in Canada.
Various ministers, including Prime Minister Trudeau, have spoken of the importance of “fast tracking” the production of critical minerals and energy projects. But they have done nothing. What company will seek to build such projects in the future? The final decision is often made by the cabinet, Forrest says; the decision is political, and thus is not predictable and comes with great risks, many years later. Finally, the process is inordinately expensive. The federal government needs to fix this mess, now!
If Canada is to avoid the abysmal pattern shown in the OECD productivity and income forecasts, provincial and federal governments must substantially restructure taxation, regulatory and project assessment policies. Canadians’ standard of living depends upon it.
Bruce W Uzelman
I grew up in Paradise Hill, a village in Northwestern Saskatchewan. I come from a large family. My parents instilled good values, but yet afforded us, my seven siblings and I, much freedom to do the things we wished to do. I spent my early years exploring the hills and forests and fields surrounding the village, a great way to come of age. My parents owned a successful general store. My siblings and I were required to help out in the business, no choices allowed there!
I attended the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. I considered studying journalism at one point, but did not ultimately pursue that. However, I obtained a Bachelor of Arts, Advanced with majors in Economics and Political Science in 1982.
My career has consisted exclusively of small business, primarily restaurant and retail. I was originally based in Alberta, and then BC, first in Summerland, then Victoria and finally Kelowna (for over 20 years). I was married in Alberta, and we have two daughters, who have returned to Alberta as adults for career reasons, as did my now ex-wife. My daughters are successful, and now have families of their own.
I have maintained a healthy interest in politics throughout my adult years, and wish to put that and my research skills to work as a political columnist.
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With surging runs and a striker’s instinct, Julián Álvarez carried Argentina into another World Cup final.
Lionel Messi and the 22-year-old Álvarez were a pair of 5-feet-6 (1.70-meter) predators in a partnership that put to rest any hopes Croatia had of reaching back-to-back finals.
The younger of the pair rose to the challenge on soccer’s biggest stage with a huge performance on Tuesday, earning a penalty kick converted by the 35-year-old Messi before scoring twice to maybe even outshine his teammate — one of the greatest players the game has ever seen — in a 3-0 victory at Lusail Stadium.
Álvarez became the youngest player to score twice in a World Cup semifinal match since a 17-year-old Pele scored a hat trick for Brazil in 1958.
No wonder Messi held Álvarez in a playful headlock after his first goal and hugged him hard after the second.
A tight-fought first half-hour was entirely turned upside down by Álvarez’s runs, barreling at speed into and through challenges in a devastating five-minute spell. When it was over, Croatia’s players had been left strewn behind him on the turf, trailing by two goals, with their hopes of another World Cup final in ruins.
Instead, Argentina gave Messi a second chance to play for a World Cup title. He and his teammates lost to Germany in the 2014 final.
Until Álvarez changed the game, Croatia controlled much of the play with its usual neat passing in and around midfield, leaving Argentina’s attack little to work with.
Álvarez was suddenly alert to creating danger when Croatia midfielder Luka Modric got in a tangle and the ball came loose for Enzo Fernández to loop a high pass over the defense.
Álvarez was quickly clear and bearing down on goalkeeper Dominik Livaković, an imposing figure at any time and yet more so rushing from his goal. Although a deft shot past Livaković did not reach the goal, Álvarez drew a foul to earn the penalty which Messi converted.
Minutes later, Álvarez sparked to life when Argentina cleared a Croatia corner, took the ball in his stride just before halfway and ran directly at the defense. The surging run seemed to surprise Croatia’s fullbacks as first Josip Juranović and then Borna Sosa fell backwards while taking swipes at the ball as Álvarez ran through them and once more at Livaković.
This time, the Croatia keeper stayed back and Álvarez lashed his shot into the net from close range with a momentum that took him over Livaković’s body.
Álvarez ran toward the corner to celebrate and Messi chased him down, grabbing him a headlock like a playful big brother.
The pair teamed up again in the 69th minute, needing only each other to pass five defenders, mostly because of Messi’s intricate dribble to the endline for a pass into Álvarez’s path for a simple finish.
Messi joined Kylian Mbappe with a tournament-leading five goals. Mbappe will get a chance for more on Wednesday when France plays Morocco in the other semifinal match.
Álvarez now has four goals — not bad for a player who didn’t even make the starting lineup until Argentina’s third game in the group stage.
He will surely be by Messi’s side again on Sunday when they return to Lusail Stadium for the final.
—Graham Dunbar, The Associated Press
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The North Okanagan Knights can move into a second-place tie with Osoyoos as they entertain the Coyotes tonight (Tuesday, Dec. 13) in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League play at Armstrong’s Nor-Val Sports Centre.
Game time is 7 p.m.
Both teams have 14 wins on the season (North OK, 14-11-1-0; Osoyoos, 14-7-3-0) but the Coyotes have played two fewer games and have two more points (31-29).
Osoyoos trails the Bill Ohlhausen Division-leading Princeton Posse (18-4-1-3) by nine points. The Posse, owners of the league’s best record, host the fifth-place Kelowna Chiefs Tuesday.
The Knights are four points ahead of the idle fourth-place Summerland Steam.
The Coyotes have won two of three meetings with North Okanagan this season, both on home ice; a 7-2 decision Oct. 19, and a 6-5 victory Nov. 27. The Knights were 5-2 winners in Armstrong Nov. 16.
The Knights and Osoyoos have each won four of its last five games.
North Okanagan will close out the first half of the schedule Saturday, Dec. 17, with its annual Teddy Bear Toss game, with the Posse being the visitors.
Fans are asked to bring a stuffed toy for charity and toss onto the ice after the Knights’ opening goal of the game.
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A tiny warbler spotted flying in a Vancouver parking garage is not only on the wrong side of the country, it’s on the wrong continent for this time of year.
The Wildlife Rescue Association says it captured the prothonotary warbler without incident out of concern for its health.
It’s only the 11th time the bright yellow bird has been spotted in B.C., and association manager Jackie McQuillan says the species would normally migrate in summers to Quebec and Ontario.
The bird, which is an endangered species, should be in South America or around the Gulf of Mexico right now.
McQuillan says they aren’t sure how it got here, but they want to be careful how they release it and believe it might struggle to survive a long plane ride to its wintering grounds.
Instead, she says they think it would be best to overwinter the bird in their centre, then release it to join a flock of local warblers when they return in the spring.
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The Biden administration has announced a breakthrough on nuclear fusion, fueling hopes of further progress toward clean energy.
Nuclear fusion — the process in which atoms are fused together to create energy — has long been studied as a potential power source.
But various hurdles have prevented the reaction from being a viable option for clean energy, and a commercial effort is still likely decades away.
Here’s what you should know about the Energy Department’s announcement:
1. It’s the first time a net energy gain has come from fusion
The crux of Tuesday’s news is that scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California were able to produce more energy via fusion than they put in. They put in 2.05 megajoules of energy and got out 3.15 megajoules.
This is the first time scientists in a lab were able to create a net energy output through fusion, demonstrating that it is possible to do so.
“It’s the first time it has ever been done in a laboratory anywhere in the world. Simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told reporters at a press conference.
While the technology isn’t ready to be commercialized yet, the successful experiment raises the prospects of larger-scale deployment of fusion energy.
Previously, the lab came relatively close to breaking even when it generated 70 percent of the energy it put into a fusion reaction last year.
2. It’s seen as another potential source of carbon-free energy
If fusion can become a large-scale power source, it will provide another way of generating carbon-free energy as the world looks to transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels.
U.S. officials have said they hope to broadly have an entirely clean electric grid by 2035 and commercially viable fusion power within a decade.
Like wind, solar and traditional nuclear energy — where an atom is split apart instead of fused together — nuclear fusion doesn’t emit any planet-warming gasses or air pollution.
“This milestone moves us one significant step closer to the possibility of zero-carbon, abundant fusion energy powering our society,” Granholm said.
“We can use it to produce clean electricity, transportation fuels, power heavy industry [and] so much more,” she added. “It would be like adding a power drill to our toolbox in building this clean energy economy.”
Unlike traditional nuclear energy, called fission, fusion doesn’t generate radioactive waste that requires long-term storage. And unlike traditional hydropower dams, it doesn’t require finding — and flooding — a new reservoir.
The main place that fusion power would be useful if plugged into the current American grid would be as what is called “base load” power: a stable constant amount of electricity that current grids rely on.
In the U.S., about 19 percent of electricity comes from nuclear power, while 60 percent comes from fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas and petroleum, and the rest is from renewables, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Carolyn Kuranz, associate professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences at the University of Michigan, told The Hill on Monday that nuclear fusion does create byproducts that have small amounts of radioactive material, but she said the material can stay on the power plant site and be used to fuel future fusion reaction instead of needing to go elsewhere.
Paul Dabbar, who was the Energy Department’s under secretary for science during the Trump administration, also pointed to some advantages that fusion could have over wind and solar in an interview with The Hill this week.
“It needs to be windy, it needs to be sunny, it takes a lot of land,” he said of the other energy sources, though he noted that battery technology could be used to improve on the intermittency issue.
However, fusion comes with its own drawbacks. A future fusion industry built around large, expensive individual plants would be dependent on an expanded, high-capacity electric grid to move power across the region or country — something that feels almost as far away at this point as commercial fusion power.
3. Breakthrough positions US as leader in global quest for fusion
The successful net power-producing experiment is a clear mark of success for America’s burgeoning public and private investment into fusion energy — particularly as the European Union, China and South Korea build out their own programs.
In January, China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) sustained a record 17-minute fusion reaction, Smithsonian reported.
And the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in southern France will be the largest fusion facility in the world when it begins experiments in 2025, according to a statement.
In March, the Energy Department released a decadelong roadmap to bring commercial fusion to electricity markets.
That initiative touted the $2.5 billion that the private sector poured into fusion last year — about 3.5 times what the government spends directly.
An April White House summit also promoted the fact that two-thirds of private fusion companies and suppliers are based in the U.S. — and that American companies are the main recipients of international fusion funding.
But while it is tempting to think of fusion in terms of a “race” between countries, the drive for fusion power is highly international and collaborative.
U.S. companies built the central solenoid magnet for the ITER tokamak — necessary to create the magnetic fields that power and control the superheated plasma during a fusion reaction, according to the U.S. government.
And the Energy Department in November announced nearly $50 million for fusion research — of which part will go to support U.S. researchers at ITER and EAST, as The Hill reported.
4. Fusion still years off from becoming a mainstream energy source
The development was a major step toward fusion energy, but you’re not likely to be using this type of energy to turn on your lights anytime soon.
Granholm told reporters the administration hopes to see commercial fusion within a decade.
“The president has a decadal vision to get to a commercial fusion reactor within, obviously, 10 years, so we’ve got to get to work,” she told reporters.
Kim Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where the breakthrough occurred, said it could be even longer, taking “decades” before the technology is commercialized.
“There are very significant hurdles” in both science and technology, Budil said.
Dabbar told The Hill this week that he thinks the first commercial demonstration fusion reactors could crop up between 2030 and 2035 and that large-scale deployment could come a few years after that.
“It takes a long time for energy systems to go from testing to full-scale deployment,” he said.
5. It has military implications
The applications of this discovery — like the experiment itself — go well beyond peacetime.
While the ultimate implications of this test are a milestone on the road to clean energy, the “more immediate” implications were military, said Marvin Adams, deputy administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
So are the program’s roots: The National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory uses extremely powerful lasers to “ignite” hydrogen and cause a self-sustaining explosion — a system developed in part to test advanced nuclear weapons without having to detonate an entire bomb.
“You start with a little spark, and then the spark gets bigger and bigger and bigger, and then the burn propagates through,” physicist Riccardo Betti of University of Rochester told public radio station WBUR.
This is a tiny-scale version of the same process used to kick off a hydrogen or “thermonuclear” bomb — which uses fusion power to release 1,000 times as much energy as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, Time reported.
Fusion reactors don’t contain nearly enough fuel to produce that kind of explosion — and a thermonuclear bomb requires a separate atomic explosion to trigger ignition, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
But U.S. officials hinted at military applications. Fusion is “an essential process in modern nuclear weapons” and a milestone like this one was a strong argument for American military power, Adams noted.
The successful test demonstrates America’s “world-leading expertise in weapons-relevant technologies” while continuing “to show our allies that we know what we’re doing,” Adams said.
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House GOP leadership is urging Republicans to vote against a short-term government funding bill lawmakers are hoping to quickly pass ahead of a looming shutdown deadline.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) office sent out a notice to members on Tuesday evening recommending a “no” vote on the stopgap funding bill unveiled earlier Tuesday that leaders are expected to bring to the floor this week.
“Once again, House Democrats failed to meet the fundamental duty of funding the government despite spending most of the year passing trillions in wasteful spending that has fueled inflation and driven up our debt,” the notice said.
“This one-week continuing resolution is an attempt to buy additional time for a massive lame-duck spending bill in which House Republicans have had no seat at the negotiating table,” the notice added.
Funding runs out on Friday at midnight, and the stopgap bill would keep the government running through Dec. 23 while negotiators try to hash out funding for a larger omnibus spending package.
Republicans pushing for the shutdown deadline to be punted through next month say it’s necessary to allow the incoming GOP-led House more say in how the government should be funded. But other Republicans have pressed for an omnibus to be enacted sooner to ensure adequate funding for defense and national security.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters on Tuesday that lawmakers are “very close” to a bipartisan deal on an omnibus this month.
“I think we’re very close to getting an omnibus appropriations bill,” McConnell said while also setting the timeline for passage by Dec. 22.
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Online attacks against LGBTQ people have skyrocketed in recent months, rising in lockstep with proposed policies seeking to roll back LGBTQ rights and culminating in real-world violence. A House committee is set to investigate the connection on Wednesday in a first-of-its kind hearing.
“Violence against LGBTQ+ people is on the rise, and has been for years,” Olivia Hunt, policy director for the National Center for Transgender Equality, said in an emailed statement. “From bomb threats and intimidation tactics targeting hospitals and churches to attacks like the shooting at Club Q, LGBTQ+ people nationwide are living under the threat of violence.”
Last month, a 22-year-old carried a rifle into Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., and opened fire, killing five people and injuring more than a dozen others. The alleged shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, is suspected to have ties to an extremist “free speech” website that aims to “cleanse” society, according to NBC News.
“You’re seeing that kind of hate speech becoming more and more prevalent online,” Colorado state Sen. Dominick Moreno (D) told The Hill. “Social media channels obviously make it easier to distribute, but I think they also intensify the vitriol because you can say anything you want behind the veneer of a computer screen.”
Hunt, who is scheduled to testify in Wednesday’s House and Reform Oversight Committee hearing, said it is critical for Congress to “shine a bright light” on rising violence against the LGBTQ community and make clear that recent attacks have been fueled by the harmful rhetoric and policies of right-wing leaders.
“I wish this hearing wasn’t necessary, but as long as extremists are targeting our community, we have to respond loudly with the truth and demonstrate how the dangerous environment for LGBTQ+ Americans is a consequence of their actions,” she said.
Inflammatory and false rhetoric
An August report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group, found that inflammatory rhetoric aimed at LGBTQ people flourished during the first half of 2022 on mainstream social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter, which recently relaxed its hateful conduct policies under new owner Elon Musk and allowed scores of suspended users to return to the site.
The same report found that social media posts comparing LGBTQ people to “groomers” and “pedophiles” surged by more than 400 percent after a Florida education law barring teachers from engaging in classroom instruction related to sexual orientation or gender identity was passed.
In March, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) then-press secretary Christina Pushaw said in a tweet the measure — known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — would be more aptly described as the “Anti-Grooming Bill” and that anyone opposed to the legislation is “probably a groomer.”
Accusations of child “grooming” have been hurled online at prominent LGBTQ figures and elected officials in droves this year, though the consequences of claims made on a virtual plane are spilling into the real world.
San Francisco police earlier this month were dispatched to the home of California state Sen. Scott Wiener to investigate an emailed death threat that called Wiener, who is openly gay, a “pedophile” and a “groomer.”
Wiener in a statement said the threat, which police later determined to be meritless, was the result of false accusations made by GOP officials and conservative media personalities that he was “grooming” children for sexual exploitation.
Wiener is the author of several pro-LGBTQ bills, including one measure that blocks states from prosecuting or investigating the families of transgender youth that travel to California to obtain gender-affirming health care.
Attacks on gender-affirming care
Threats of violence similar to Wiener’s have been made against children’s hospitals that provide gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors. Lawmakers in more than a dozen states this year introduced measures to heavily restrict or ban such care for youth and young adults, accusing physicians of “mutilating” children.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in August introduced federal legislation seeking to make providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors a felony, punishable by up 25 years in prison.
Greene during an appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” where she announced her bill said gender-affirming care is “disgusting and appalling” and equated it to child abuse.
“This needs to be illegal,” she said.
Under standards set by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health and the Endocrine Society, gender-affirming treatment for minors that have already started puberty typically involves puberty blockers or hormones that have been prescribed by a licensed physician.
Surgery is not recommended for youth under 18, and the only acceptable treatment for prepubescent children is social transition. Gender-affirming health care for transgender people of all ages is supported by most accredited medical organizations.
During November’s midterm elections, Republican candidates funneled millions into campaign ads that propagated false or misleading information about gender-affirming health care for youth and targeted transgender athletes.
“The radical left will destroy children if we don’t stop them,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says in one social media ad, which features footage of a Drag Queen Story Hour event. “They indoctrinate children; try to turn boys into girls.”
Anti-LBGTQ state legislation
Drag events for youth have recently drawn the ire of GOP leaders, and several bills seeking to ban them have already been pre-filed ahead of the 2023 legislative session by lawmakers in Tennessee, Texas and others.
In October, more than 30 House Republicans signed on to a measure seeking to block federal funds from being used to make “sexually-oriented” materials — including those that feature “any topic” related to sexual orientation or gender identity — available to children under the age of 10.
The measure’s primary sponsor, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), in a news release said the bill — titled the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act — will put an end to a “misguided crusade” led by Democrats to expose the nation’s children to “sexual imagery and radical gender ideology.”
Such language has galvanized far-right and extremist groups like the Proud Boys, whose members have led dozens of armed protests at family-friendly drag shows and other LGBTQ youth programs across the country, often in the name of protecting children from “groomers.”
In June, authorities in Northern California launched a hate crime investigation after a children’s story hour was disrupted by protesters that hurled anti-LGBTQ slurs at a drag performer. In November, an Oklahoma doughnut shop was firebombed after hosting a drag event. Organizers of an upcoming holiday-themed drag brunch in Jacksonville, Fla., say they are reconsidering holding the event at all after receiving multiple threats from Proud Boys members.
Moreno, the Colorado state senator, said he doesn’t engage much with his critics on social media anymore. Sometimes, he’ll extend an invitation for a cup of coffee. More often than not, he said, both parties are able to come to a point of mutual respect.
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The Biden administration is hosting a summit this week that brings together leaders of 49 African countries, as well as heads of the African Union, to collaborate on key policy across climate change, security and trade.
Vice President Harris opened the three-day summit on Tuesday at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, where she discussed the African diaspora and young African leaders.
President Biden is expected to join the summit on Wednesday and deliver remarks on the U.S.-Africa Business Forum.
While a significant majority of African nations joined the summit this week, five were not invited.
A senior White House official this week said four of those countries — Guinea, Sudan, Mali and Burkina Faso — have changed their governments unconstitutionally and were suspended from the African Union.
Here are the five African nations that weren’t invited to Biden’s summit:
Guinea
The ruling government in Guinea was seized by a military junta in September 2021 and is now led by Col. Mamady Doumbouya.
The military junta overthrew President Alpha Condé, who had won a controversial third term for office despite term limits, which he claimed did not apply to him.
Doumbouya agreed in October to hold new elections in about two years.
Sudan
Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan toppled the government in October 2021, taking power during the northeast African nation’s transition to a democracy after three decades of authoritarian rule.
Sudan’s military leadership announced this month the first phase of an agreement to transition to a democracy, but some political groups have rejected the framework, and discussions are ongoing.
Millions of people in Sudan are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, a crisis that grew worse after the coup. Civilian demonstrators also frequently clash with security forces.
Mali
Col. Assimi Goïta seized power in Mali two years ago after leading a coup against the government.
He failed to transition the West African country into new democratic elections and has become a pariah to the international world.
Mali also recently rejected help from French humanitarian groups, affecting hundreds of thousands of Malians who are in need of emergency food and medical assistance.
Earlier this year, France, which had fought Islamic terrorist groups for nine years in Mali, completed a withdrawal of troops from the country.
Russian mercenaries in Mali have also been accused of murdering civilians in a growing concern for world leaders.
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso, located in West Africa, is in a dire humanitarian situation after suffering from two coups in less than nine months.
Troops in September ousted the ruling military leader, Lt. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had won control of the country through a January coup.
A militia leader appointed to replace him said Damiba had not done enough to control violence in Burkina Faso.
More than 3,200 people have died in the African country from January to September, and nearly 5 million are in need of emergency assistance.
Some women and children have been eating leaves and salt for weeks, the United Nations said in October.
Eritrea
The U.S. does not have formal ties with Eritrea, a country located in the Horn of Africa in the eastern region of the continent, so the nation’s leaders were not invited.
Eritrea has also been providing military support to neighboring Ethiopia, which is in the midst of a civil war against an opposing political faction in the region of Tigray.
Eritrean troops are accused of the kidnapping, looting and murder of civilians in Tigray, and the U.S. has called for the Eritrean soldiers to withdraw from the conflict.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – There’s a push in Albuquerque to designate what looks like a normal little neighborhood in the Northeast Heights as historic to save it from any further demolition. It was the first subdivision in the city built by Black people for Black families.
“I remember and hearing from others that have lived in the neighborhood that it was one of the first Black historical neighborhoods in the city that was [sic] predominately Black back in the early, early days,” says David Walker, current resident of the East End Addition neighborhood.
“I have been here since 1984,” says Princess Coleman Walker, who also lives in the neighborhood. She says in her time living there, she’s seen the neighborhood change dramatically. “Well, I know that my grandmother, Princess Bryant, this was the first house on this neighborhood,” Coleman Walker says.
The East End Addition neighborhood – located on Virginia Street between Lomas and Marble – was originally developed in the early 1950s when there wasn’t much else there. “We have pictures where it was just this house, and then nothing but the land…Hayes Middle School wasn’t here. We used to play in that lot over there when we would come visit in the summer,” Coleman Walker says.
“It started in the early 1900s with some purchase that was made by the Fraternal Aid Society which was a Black businessman’s group who had bought 144 acres out there and wanted to see this Black community thrive,” says Leslie Naji, principal planner with the City of Albuquerque Historic Preservation.
The original developer Virginia Ballou – adoptive daughter of Henry Outley who originally platted the land on behalf of the Fraternal Aid Society in 1938 – put in 22 houses to create the neighborhood. They were largely African American owned, and more were added throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
“The mission was to build middle-class housing for African American families. So that was the mission of Mrs. Ballou,” Coleman Walker says.
The footprint of that legacy is smaller now: only ten houses are left, and there is a fear that without protections, this piece of Albuquerque history could be lost. “I think it’s very important we preserve this section. This is the last section of the community that is still relevant and still available today. So I think it’s very, very important that we preserve that,” Walker says.
“Yes, there’s a danger because we’re in a prime location here, and with the car dealerships, their mission seems to be right now just to purchase the land for whatever purpose they’re going to use it for,” Coleman Walker says. “We’ve shrunk a bit, but the neighborhood is very close, and everybody is onboard recognizing the importance of this becoming a historical landmark for African American ownership.”
Wednesday, the application to make this neighborhood a Historic Protection Overlay Zone will go before the Landmarks Commission. “It’s just to protect new development that goes in there, demolitions that take place, as well as some review over like changes that people might make onto their property including making additions,” Naji says.
Those News 13 spoke with are on board with the effort, because: “Once it’s gone, it’s gone,” Naji says.
If approved by the Landmarks Commission, the city council would vote on it and could make it the city’s smallest Historic Protection Overlay Zone.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque mother accused of leaving her young children to fend for themselves, exposing one of them to meth and even shooting one of them in the foot, went before a judge to plead guilty to some of those crimes.
Court records show 29-year-old Samantha Sanchez has had at least six CYFD cases. On Tuesday, she pleaded guilty to three counts of child abuse. In court, Judge Bruce Fox asked Sanchez, “Do you understand if running these three counts consecutively, that would give you exposure of nine years and could sentence you to the department of corrections from the six of those years, do you understand that?”
According to another criminal complaint in January, the Albuquerque mom took her one-year-old child to UNMH and a doctor told law enforcement the child’s symptoms were consistent with being exposed to meth.
Then in May, Sanchez was arrested for shooting her toddler in the foot. She claims she accidentally shot the toes off her son while she was fighting with her boyfriend.
Sanchez is not in custody, she was released under strict conditions including no unsupervised contact with her kids. “I don’t think we should have a problem. You’ve been doing fine the last six or eight months under the conditions of release,” said Judge Fox.
Sanchez pled guilty on Tuesday to the child abuse charges related to the shooting and meth exposure cases. Sanchez should be sentenced within the next couple of months.
Each of those three counts carries up to three years. A judge will also decide if those sentences will run back to back, or at the same time.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Officials and local residents are searching for answers after multiple people noticed a creek in Michigan turn an eye-popping shade of green.
Photos from viewer Steven Littell Monday afternoon showed bright green water in Plaster Creek near Cesar E. Chavez Avenue, which is on the border of Grand Rapids and Wyoming.
The City of Grand Rapids went to check it out Monday after receiving the complaint but when workers got there, they said the green was gone.
Nexstar’s WOOD-TV also went to check out the creek Tuesday but did not see the green hue.
“My significant other and I were driving by, and she said, ‘Look at the creek.’ I stopped and it was fluorescent green. It was like almost glowing. So I got out and got a couple shots,” said Steven Littell, who sent the photos to WOOD. “Came back and checked on it for the next hour or so — it ran green for pretty close to an hour.”
“It worried me. I thought somebody was dumping something that shouldn’t have been dumped in there. It didn’t look right. This goes right to the Grand, right to Lake Michigan, so it worried me,” said Littell.
Jeff Johnston, a spokesperson with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy said staff has inspected the creek at the location Littell found the green color and found that it had already run clear.
“The color appears to have been from a dye test, likely performed near where the color was observed, and that material dissipates quickly,” said Johnston.
The Grand Rapids wastewater/stormwater maintenance superintendent agreed that it looks like the green dye that is used to determine where water is flowing.
But the city clarified that it wasn’t doing any tests Monday.
The mystery of the green water continues.
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FOLSOM, La. (WGNO) — A family dog is being hailed a hero after he protected two young girls who had gotten lost in the woods behind their Louisiana home.
It happened Monday evening in the Village of Folsom, which is located north of Lake Pontchartrain and New Orleans.
Seven-year-old Abigail Bourg and her sister, 4-year-old Cecelia Bourg, were playing in their backyard when their Golden Retriever, Artemis, ran into the woods. The girls followed and eventually got lost.
“It’s feelings that no parent wants to go through, it was just a rollercoaster of emotions,” said the girls’ mother, Mary Bourg.
The community quickly rallied together. Over 100 volunteers searched the area as well as local law enforcement who deployed ATVs and helicopters.
“Everyone in this community dropped what they were doing and just on the spot – it didn’t matter, they were there for us,” said Mary.
In the end, it was Artemis barking, alerting anyone close by of where they were. The girls and dog were found around 9:30 p.m.
“He also tried to bark at the helicopter,” said Abigail. “He was trying to get help anywhere, let anyone know where y’all were!” added Mary.
It was a surreal moment the second the kids were reunited with their family.
“One thing I can say, the movies got right,” said the girls’ father, Justin Bourg.
As a token of their appreciation, Artemis was fed a special steak dinner. The family says they are holding on to each other – and their dog – a little tighter at night.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) – On Capitol Hill, Republicans have been fighting among themselves and have not managed to reach an agreement that guarantees leader Kevin McCarthy will become Speaker of the House.
House Republicans are openly clashing over who should lead the party in the next Congress.
“It is clear that they want a gun to Kevin’s head,” Rep. Crenshaw (R-TX) said.
Crenshaw is ripping into the House Freedom Caucus for trying to prevent McCarthy from becoming Speaker of the House unless he meets their demands.
“It’s this thinking like they’re more special than everyone else. All of us who worked really, really hard to get these numbers, to get people elected, to raise money for them, this group didn’t do that,” Crenshaw said.
The Conservative Freedom Caucus wants to reinstate a rule that would allow them to recall the Speaker of the House if they are unhappy with his work.
McCarthy’s party has only a slim majority in the next Congress, but he says he’s still confident the party will unite.
“I think people are in a much better place and I think we’ll all find a place to get together,” Rep. McCarthy (R-CA) said.
While it’s unlikely he could get the needed votes, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says he’s also on the ballot.
“I’m trying to get every vote that I possibly can right now on January 3 and expect that Democrats will come together,” Rep. Jeffries (D-NY) said.
And Jeffries is not ready to help Republicans.
“They have to organize on the Republican side, let’s see what happens on January 3,” Jeffries said.
But if McCarthy fails to become speaker, it may also be possible for Republicans and Democrats to vote together and select a more moderate Republican.
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