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Updated May 25, 2023 at 4:21 PM ET
After immigrating to New York, Kenneth Lin's parents thought they had it all figured out: their son would become a doctor or a lawyer. But Lin rejected that particular view of "success" and the ever-elusive American Dream. Instead, he pursued his own dreams to write for a living.
"What makes you think you can forbid me anything?" Lin recalls telling his father, who initially opposed the future playwright's aspirations, as a young man. "I just watched him crumble." It took many years and successes before Lin finally received broader family backing.
Lin has won awards and acclaim for his work on projects like House of Cards, Fallow and Said Saïd. Now, he's drawing on something new: his own roots. Theater company Arena Stage commissioned his play, Exclusion, running through June 25 in Washington, D.C. as part of a series of works on the concept of power.
"In so many of the rooms that I was in, I was the first Asian person to ever get a play produced here, the first Asian person to ever win this award, the first and only Asian person in this writer's room," Lin tells NPR's Morning Edition host Michel Martin. "So people were just a little bit confused because they would look at me and say, 'You don't comport with what we think a writer is supposed to look like.'"
The plot revolves around the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States until the law was repealed during World War II in 1943. While other discriminatory measures were in place, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the country's first major law restricting immigration. Other prohibitions and quotas preceded and followed the measure as well.
Prior to the 1882 law's enactment, as many as 20,000 Chinese laborers helped build America's transcontinental railroad, yet their contributions to the nation's growth were met with vicious, racist attacks. In one particularly bloody event that's referenced in the play, a mob killed nearly 20 people in the Los Angeles Chinatown area in 1871, which was about 10% of the city's Chinese population at the time.
As tragic as this history may be, Lin managed to wrestle a comedy out of it, one that pokes fun at Hollywood's obsession with profit and with feeding an insatiable content machine while writers are thrown by the wayside.
"I didn't start writing a comedy. I had been trying to write a very dutiful historical accounting," Lin says. "But my heart said, you need to stop. You need to figure out what your job is as a dramatist, and you need to serve that... I very nearly called Molly Smith, the artistic director of the theater, and said, 'I can't write this play. I've tried so many drafts of it. And, my God, they they're painful to me.'"
In the play, a historian's award-winning book on the Chinese Exclusion Act gets optioned for a TV miniseries. Katie, the author played by Karoline (who goes by that mononym), then spends the rest of the story fighting an uphill battle to maintain the authenticity of her script. Hollywood heavyweight Harry (Josh Stamberg) – who displays a huge poster of Basic Instinct above his desk – and his acolytes manage to fill the text with racist stereotypes and historical inaccuracies.
Karoline is delightfully awkward as Katie, who navigates the treacherous twists and bends of Hollywood. She grows from timid to horrified to determined in her quest. At home, she gets support from husband Malcolm (Tony Nam), an aspiring director with a weed habit. Katie's views on the miniseries differ from those of actress Viola (played by Australia's Michelle Vergara Moore), but both women are frustrated and eventually find common ground.
Lin says he deliberately broke stereotypes about Asian people (the leads are all Asian apart from Harry). "I made a checklist for myself, and I wrote it down, and the checklist was, 'What do other actors get to do that Asian actors never get a chance to do', right?" he says. "So I was like, I want an Asian woman to be able to take the stage from the first moment of the play to the last moment. Check. I want an Asian guy to just be a guy that doesn't necessarily have to know kung fu or be great at math. Check. I wanted an Asian actor to get to have an accent."
This may be satire, but it's also very human, probing some of the darkest recesses of Lin's own struggles with racism and racist stereotypes in America. Exclusion is compelling precisely because it wrestles with lived pain.
"This is my life now. This is my job now, and I've gotten good at it. I always felt like I was pretending a little bit before. And I feel like this is a very complete play," Lin says. "And I've discovered my complete voice as a writer, the voice that I've been sort of fighting to cultivate for a long time now. I really feel like this is me on the stage. And I don't know that I've ever totally felt that way before."
Chad Campbell produced the audio version of this story. Erika Aguilar edited the digital version.
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HEFEI, China, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From May 27 to 28, Gotion High-Tech, a renowned manufacturer of power batteries in China, convened its 11th Technology Conference. The Company launched several new products at the Conference, including the semi-solid flow battery with a capacity density of 360Wh/kg, the JTM+ Gotion power exchange technology named Leishi and the EPLUS intelligent mobile energy storage charging pile.
Semi-solid-state batteries will be loaded this year. For models equipped with semi-solid-state batteries, the battery pack will reach 160 kWh, with a driving mileage of 1,000 km, and an acceleration time of only 3.9s per 100 km. The Company has developed the prototype sample of NCM semi-solid-state batteries with a capacity density of 400Wh/Kg in its laboratory. It will accelerate the transition from liquid batteries to semi-solid flow ones and finally complement all-solid-state batteries through technological innovation of silicon-based anode iteration, lithium metal anode and pre-lithium technology.
By carrying the LFP cell with a capacity density of 210Wh/kg on its independently developed JTM system and integrating it with Gotion power exchange technology named Leishi, the Company has entered the field of power exchange to realize the integration of charging, exchange and storage of batteries. Products carrying this technology have received bulk orders and will soon be listed in the Announcement of New Vehicle Catalog issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China.
The EPLUS intelligent mobile energy storage charging pile is the first self-developed product of Gotion High-Tech in the field of mobile energy storage and charging for ordinary consumers. It features easy layouts, multiple scenarios, large capacity and high power, and is the best solution for the integration of distributed storage and charging in cities.
Gotion will continuously deepen its cooperation with Volkswagen. There are more than 100 members in the joint project team of Volkswagen and Gotion, covering all functional areas such as cell R&D, manufacturing process, project management, quality control, and performance testing. Volkswagen has signed a purchase agreement with Gotion High-Tech on its self-developed NCM batteries and LFP Unified Cells.
With the theme of "Upholding Innovation and Going Global", the 2022 Gotion Technology Conference has attracted many experts and scholars from top research academies, research institutions, and colleges and universities around the world, including 15 academicians, to deliver speeches.
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Inducted into this Year's Consumer Tech Category Among a Cohort of Game-changing Entrepreneurs, the Creators of Evvy are Actively Working to Discover and Leverage Overlooked Female Biomarkers
NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Evvy is on a mission to close the gender health gap by discovering and leveraging overlooked biomarkers in the female body — starting with the vaginal microbiome. The brand is pleased to announce the induction of its co-founders, Priyanka Jain and Laine Bruzek, into the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Consumer Technology category.
In less than a year, Evvy has created a testing community of over 10,000 members; become a leading voice for vaginal health; launched a first-of-its-kind clinical study; created the first-ever Equal Research Day; and more. The women's healthcare company has also built the largest real-world dataset on the vaginal microbiome combining metagenomics and health profile metadata, and assembled an industry-leading advisory board of OB-GYNs and researchers to help leverage the platform to build a new standard of care.
"We're so honored to be named to 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 and represent the mission of the entire Evvy team," said Priyanka Jain, co-founder, and CEO of Evvy. "We're excited to continue radically reinventing how we understand and treat the female body as a whole, and we hope to inspire everyone — doctors, educators, lawmakers, researchers, and patients — to close the gender health gap for good."
"Even though vaginal discomfort is the one of the most common reasons women seek healthcare advice, vaginal health is still an incredibly misunderstood and taboo topic," said Evvy Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer Laine Bruzek. " At Evvy, we're building a world where female health is finally understood; where conditions are detected early and treated precisely; and where talking about vaginal health is as normal as talking about skincare."
The 28-year-olds lead a team of 10 and have secured over $6.5 million in funding from General Catalyst, Box Group, Virtue VC, Human Ventures, BBG Ventures, and G9 Ventures, among others.
Evvy is on a mission to close the gender health gap by discovering and leveraging female-specific biomarkers, starting with the vaginal microbiome. Evvy's first product — the Evvy Vaginal Health Test — is the first-ever at-home vaginal microbiome test to use metagenomic sequencing to tell you what's up down there, why it matters, and what you can do about it. Simultaneously, Evvy is uncovering how female biomarkers can be better leveraged to diagnose, treat, and predict risk for complex health conditions in the female body.
Founded by Stanford alums Priyanka Jain and Laine Bruzek, the Evvy team includes scientists, designers, doctors, and entrepreneurs, including a group of leading OBGYNs and vaginal microbiome researchers with decades of experience at organizations like UCSF, Stanford, Harvard, Cleveland Clinic, and more.
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Updated May 24, 2023 at 12:59 PM ET
Yellowstone National Park rangers euthanized a newborn bison calf after a visitor touched the animal, trying to help it catch up with its herd, the National Park Service said on Tuesday.
The herd had been crossing the Lamar River on Saturday evening when the calf got separated from its mother on the river bank, according to a press release from the agency. A man observing the scene approached the animal with apparent rescue intentions.
"As the calf struggled, the man pushed the calf up from the river and onto the roadway," NPS said. "Visitors later observed the calf walk up to and follow cars and people."
Park rangers repeatedly tried to reunite the calf with the herd, but the herd resisted.
The rangers later euthanized the calf, saying its persistence in approaching cars posed a hazard to guests, according to NPS.
NPS is investigating the incident and asking the public to share any relevant information to a tip line. The agency has yet to identify the man behind the incident, describing him as a "white male in his 40-50's, wearing a blue shirt and black pants."
Pending the outcome of the investigation, he could be charged with Class B misdemeanors, including disturbing wildlife, disorderly conduct (creating a hazardous condition) and approaching wildlife, according to Morgan Warthin, a spokesperson for Yellowstone National Park.
If found guilty of those charges, the man could face up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine, Warthin told NPR.
Yellowstone requires that visitors stay at least 25 yards away from its two breeding bison herds, which collectively contained 5,900 animals at the last count in 2022. The park is the only place in the contiguous U.S. to have maintained a continuously free-ranging bison population since prehistoric times.
Yellowstone's herds were nearly poached to extinction in the late 1800s. Today, park guests can spot the animals nearly year-round and from the roadway in places like Wyoming's Lamar Valley, a confluence of rivers in the park's northeast corner.
NPS has frequently defended its policy of not interfering in the natural death of animals on public lands, including orphaned offspring.
"Our focus is on sustaining viable populations of native wildlife species, rather than protecting individual animals," reads an NPS webpage on the policy. "An animal's survival depends on its own daily decisions and natural selection."
Another Yellowstone bison calf was euthanized following human interference in 2016. Edward O'Brien of Montana Public Radio reported that two tourists placed the calf in their car and drove it to a nearby park facility because they "thought the animal looked cold and uncomfortable."
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You know all the things Yankee fans don’t like about their team, and the way the season has gone so far, starting with what really has become the most famous stubbed toe maybe in baseball history. It’s the one belonging to Aaron Judge. Big toe for the big guy, big problem for the Yankees, probably you’ve noticed.
So go ahead and start there, and then move quickly to a Yankee offense that is scoring about as well lately as New York City FC. Then there’s the roster, one that never really had a leftfielder coming into the season, and still had Josh Donaldson on it. You can throw in Giancarlo Stanton, the other big guy, who moves up on the Fourth of July in baseball barely hitting more than Domingo German’s weight.
Sometimes you get the idea that the only thing making Yankee fans happy at this point in the season is that they’re not rooting for the Mets.
But as mad as they are at Hal Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman, as mad as they constantly are with a manager who happens to be doing a very good job every time they don’t like a pitching change, Yankee fans need to realize something:
Things could be a lot worse.
And might be about to get better, and not just because they just took two out of three from the Rangers, and came back on the Rangers in the late innings the way they did on Sunday afternoon, this on a day when Gerrit Cole didn’t make it all the way through the fifth inning.
The Yankees had taken the lead in the eighth on Sunday when Stanton, who has done nothing since coming off the Injured List, lined a hard single to left to score the Yankees’ fifth run. Here is what Stanton said after the game:
“I’ve got a lot to do. It’s good for now, but that doesn’t clear it for me.”
The Yankees haven’t cleared anything by simply hanging around and hanging in there since Judge got hurt. They haven’t cleared anything, either. But things really could have gotten a lot worse for them than the 8-10 record they have put together since Judge’s injury. The Rays could have run away. But have not. The Yankees were 35-25 the night Judge hurt his toe. They were six games behind the Rays in the loss column. They head out to Oakland now for a three-game series against the Double A’s eight games behind Tampa Bay.
They still aren’t hitting. But at a time when the Rays really could have further stretched out their lead in the AL East, they have not. The Yankees are still behind the Orioles, and the Jays are right there behind them. But Judge is going to come back eventually, even if no one is quite sure when. It is difficult to believe that as bad as Stanton has looked at the plate he is going to continue to fight it out with Anthony Volpe for the batting title south of the Mendoza Line. Carlos Rodon is close to making his first Yankee start, after a brief, but impressive rehab start on Sunday. Nestor Cortes will be throwing off a mound in a week. It is unlikely Aaron Boone’s stout bullpen is going anywhere.
In addition to all that, maybe the Yankees finally do have a leftfielder in Billy McKinney, who has been the most important hitter they’ve had in Judge’s absence.
Are the Rays better? They’ve been a lot better so far. But Drew Rasmussen, one of their pitching stars, went to the 60-game Injured List with a flexor strain in May. Shane McClanahan, another of their stars, has been troubled recently by a bad back. As much early speed as they’ve shown, they’re 5-5 over their last 10 games and only two games in the loss column better than the Orioles. Who are just six ahead of the Yankees.
The Yankees come home next week for a four-game series against the Orioles at the Stadium. But before then come three with the Double A’s, three with the Cardinals, and then a series at home against the Cubs going into the All-Star Break. Even without Judge, there is a chance for them to pick up ground on both of the teams in front of them if they hit just a little. Or a little more, put it that way. We know they’ve been hitting a little for a while.
A lot has happened with the Yankees so far. There have been stretches where they have hit about as hard as Pickle Ball. You know there’s been more bad than good when they’ve faced the AL East (11-15). But we’re still not at the Fourth of July, the first real mile marker to the season. There’s a chance between now and the Break for them to make a move, even if it’s not a big one.
They don’t reach the official halfway point of their season until they leave Oakland. Maybe it turns out this is all they are. But maybe not. All we know for sure right now is they’re not the Mets.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — After watching Jesús Aguilar and Jesús Sánchez hit late-inning home runs to win games for the Miami Marlins over the weekend, Bryan De La Cruz was happy to get a similar chance Monday.
He made the most of it.
De La Cruz hit a two-run homer off the foul pole in the 10th inning to keep the Miami’s domination of the Washington Nationals going with a 3-2 victory.
“Just being able to do that with one swing, just put your team ahead, it’s a wonderful feeling,” he said through an interpreter. “It feels great just to do it for the whole team.”
The Marlins won the rare 11:05 a.m. start by beating the Nationals for the 12th time in 13 games this year, including seven in a row. They extended their winning streak to five and moved two games back of .500 at nearly the halfway point despite going 26-39 against everyone else.
“Essentially it seems that we’ve scored with these guys,” manager Don Mattingly said. “We seemed to have getting the outs we need to and getting some big hits when we need to.”
De La Cruz became the latest Miami player to come up with a big hit during this run, after Sánchez hit a go-ahead two-run home run in the ninth Sunday and Aguilar homered and doubled Saturday. His fifth homer this season came off Tanner Rainey (1-3), who also gave up Sánchez’s shot to right less than 24 hours earlier.
It was the first time De La Cruz homered in the ninth inning or later in his major league career.
Miami’s Braxton Garrett cruised through seven innings on 61 pitches before things got away from him in the eighth. His first and only walk proved costly when Ehire Adrianza stole second and scored on Luis Garcia’s RBI single that sent Garrett to the showers.
“I was just efficient early,” Garrett said. “I was 0-1 a lot. And also our bullpen’s a little taxed. Our late-game guys have gone I think it was three days in a row, and it was in the back of my mind to try and get a few more innings out just for the bullpen.”
With top relievers Anthony Bass, Steven Okert and Tanner Scott unavailable after each pitching three days in a row, Mattingly pieced together eight outs with Zach Pop, Jimmy Yacabonis and Dylan Floro. Yacabonis (1-1) got the win after pitching a scoreless ninth, and Floro picked up his second save in as many days — his first two this season.
Washington’s Patrick Corbin made quick work of the Marlins for much of his seven innings, scattering eight hits and striking out four with one walk. The only run he gave up came in the third, when Luke Williams reached on a bunt single, advanced on Billy Hamilton’s sacrifice and scored on Jesús Aguilar’s single.
Corbin, one of baseball’s worst pitchers earlier this season, has a 2.37 ERA and 22 strikeouts in 19 innings over his past three starts.
“He’s been attacking the strike zone,” manager Dave Martinez said. “He’s actually throwing the slider a little harder, and it looks like his fastball coming in, so it’s been very effective.”
PATRIOTIC CRUZ
While Garrett was fired up to pitch on the Fourth of July, Washington’s Nelson Cruz celebrated the holiday in style with red, white and blue Stars and Stripes cleats.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
The Nationals grounded into three double plays, adding to their major league-leading total of 80 this season. One of those scored a run in the 10th, with second baseman Joey Wendle making a backhand flip from his glove to shortstop Miguel Rojas while falling after nabbing Garcia’s grounder.
SOTO PINCH-HITS
While Juan Soto was not in the Nationals lineup, the superstar outfielder pinch-hit in the eighth inning and drew a walk a day after leaving the game with tightness in his left calf. He was pulled immediately for a pinch-runner.
“He felt good enough to hit, but he couldn’t run and we didn’t want him to run,” Martinez said. “He got on base for us, and we had to get him out of there.”
Soto said an MRI did not show damage, and he figures he’ll take it day by day.
“Everything was fine,” Soto said. “They said it’s just a little tight, so just going to take a couple days and see how it goes.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Marlins: 1B Garrett Cooper was not in the lineup after taking misstep during the game Sunday. … Wendle, on an every-other-day playing schedule since returning Friday from a monthlong absence with a strained right hamstring, pinch hit.
Nationals: While Soto’s MRI showed good news, a look at Jackson Tetreault’s sore right throwing shoulder showed a stress fracture. The team put him on the 15-day inured list and called up RHP Jordan Weems.
UP NEXT
Marlins: RHP Sandy Alcantara (8-3, 1.95 ERA) makes his first start in July after being named NL pitcher of the month for June against RHP Noah Syndergaard (5-6, 3.86) and the Los Angeles Angels Angels on Tuesday in the opener of a two-game series in Miami.
Nationals: RHP Paolo Espino (0-1, 2.80) starts at LHP Christopher Sanchez and the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday in the start of a three-game series.
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One of the worst hit parts of the earthquake zone, is the southern Turkish city of Antakya. Building after building is flattened, and one of the city's hospitals is on its side.
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A federal judge agreed on Wednesday to postpone a trial for the former leader of the Proud Boys and other members of the extremist group charged with attacking the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory.
U..S. District Judge Timothy Kelly postponed the start of the trial from Aug. 8 to Dec. 12 after attorneys for several of the men argued that their clients couldn't get a fair trial by an impartial jury in the midst of televised hearings by the House committee investigating the Capitol attack. They're also waiting for the committee to share documents that could become trial evidence.
Former Proud Boys national chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and four other men are charged with seditious conspiracy for what authorities say was a plot to forcibly oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power during the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
Tarrio, 38, of Miami, and his co-defendants — Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola — have been in federal custody for months.
Their trial is expected to last four to six weeks, stretching into next year.
Biggs, Pezzola and Rehl asked for the trial to be postponed. Biggs' lawyer, J. Daniel Hull, noted that the House committee isn't expected to release hundreds of deposition and interview transcripts until after an August trial would have started.
“The transcripts are must-haves for trial preparation,” Hull wrote.
Justice Department prosecutors consented to the delay. They said the House committee's failure to share the deposition and interview transcripts is also hampering their ability to investigate and prosecute Jan. 6 defendants.
Tarrio was opposed to delaying the trial.
“Tarrio believes that an impartial jury will never be achieved in Washington, D.C., whether the trial is in August, December, or next year,” his lawyers wrote.
Nordean’s attorneys objected to postponing the trial for months while keeping Proud Boys leaders locked up in pretrial detention.
Police arrested Tarrio in Washington two days before the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and charged him with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church during a protest in December 2020. Tarrio wasn’t in Washington when the riot erupted, but authorities say he helped put into motion the violence that disrupted Congress from certifying Biden's victory over President Donald Trump.
The seditious conspiracy indictment alleges that the Proud Boys held meetings and communicated over encrypted messages to plan for the attack in the days leading up to Jan. 6. On the day of the riot, Proud Boys members carried out a coordinated plot to storm past police barricades and attack the building with a mob of Trump supporters, the indictment says.
Nordean, 31, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter president. Biggs, 38, of Ormond Beach, Florida, was a self-described Proud Boys organizer. Rehl, 36, was president of the Proud Boys chapter in Philadelphia. Pezzola, 44, was a Proud Boys member from Rochester, New York.
Two other Proud Boys members — Matthew Greene, of Syracuse, New York, and Charles Donohoe, of Kernersville, North Carolina — have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department.
Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, who founded the Proud Boys in 2016, sued the Southern Poverty Law Center for labeling it a hate group. Proud Boys members call it a politically incorrect men’s club for “Western chauvinists.” They have frequently brawled with antifascist activists at rallies and protests.
Approximately 40 Proud Boys leaders, members or associates have been charged in the Jan. 6 siege. More than 800 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the riot.
Also on Wednesday, prosecutors in the seditious conspiracy case against members of another extremist group — the Oath Keepers — asked the judge to look into whether the payment of at least some of the defense lawyers by an organization controlled by lawyer Sidney Powell runs afoul of court rules.
Prosecutors pointed to articles from Mother Jones and BuzzFeed that said Powell’s group, Defending the Republic, is paying some defense attorneys' fees. Powell was part of Trump’s legal team that pushed unfounded conspiracy theories alleging voter fraud in an effort to keep the Republican president in office following the 2020 election.
Prosecutors say such an arrangement may violate a rule that says lawyers shouldn’t accept money for representing a client from anyone other than the client unless three conditions are met, including that “there is no interference with the lawyer’s independence of professional judgment or with the client-lawyer relationship.”
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MOSCOW (AP) — Belarusian air force crews have completed their training for using tactical nuclear weapons as part of Russia's plan to deploy the weapons to its ally Belarus amid the fighting in neighboring Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.
The ministry released a video in which a Belarusian pilot said that the training course in Russia had given the crews of the Belarusian air force's Su-25 ground attack jets the necessary skills for using the weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared last month that Moscow planned to put some of its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. It was another attempt by the Kremlin leader to dangle the nuclear threat to discourage the West from supporting Ukraine.
Russia has a union agreement with Belarus that envisions close political, economic and military ties. Russian troops used Belarusian territory to roll into Ukraine from the north in February 2022 and have maintained a presence in Belarus.
The deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus would put them closer to potential targets in Ukraine and NATO members in Eastern and Central Europe. Belarus shares a 1,250-kilometer (778-mile) border with NATO members Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
Such weapons are intended to destroy enemy troops on the battlefield. They have a relatively short range and much less power compared with nuclear warheads fitted to long-range strategic missiles, which are capable of obliterating whole cities.
Putin said that construction of storage facilities for tactical nuclear weapons would be completed in Belarus by July 1. Russia also has helped modernize Belarusian warplanes to adapt them to carrying nuclear weapons and provided the country with Iskander short-range missiles that could be fitted with a nuclear warhead.
Putin has emphasized that Russia would retain control over any nuclear weapons deployed to Belarus, just as the U.S. controls its tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of its NATO allies.
The authoritarian president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has suggested that some of Russia’s strategic nuclear weapons might also be deployed to Belarus along with part of Moscow’s tactical nuclear arsenal.
Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin again mentioned the possibility Friday, saying “it could be the next step,” if the West continued what he described as its hostile course.
“We will respond to force only with force. Otherwise, they don't get it in the West,” Khrenin said. “We are already preparing the sites that we have.”
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There is a real possibility that gas prices at the end of 2022 will be lower than at the start of the year.
According to AAA, gas prices are now cheaper than this day a year ago. On Thursday, the average price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.33, down 1 cent from this time a year ago.
Gas prices have fallen considerably after reaching a peak in June of over $5 a gallon.
The last month has featured a dramatic fall in gas prices. This time a month ago, a gallon of regular gas cost $3.80.
Many southern states now have gas averaging below $3 a gallon, while Hawaii is the only state to average above $5 a gallon.
The cuts have come despite a drop in supply from OPEC+ nations.
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Democrats claim the GOP is withholding evidence contradicting claims in Hunter Biden probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are demanding the release of a transcript from a new FBI witness that they say contradicts Republicans’ claims in the expanding congressional inquiry into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on House Oversight Committee, sent a letter Friday to Rep. James Comer, the Republican chair of the committee, asking him to produce the transcribed interview this month with an FBI agent who worked on the investigation into the younger Biden’s taxes and foreign business dealings. The witness was interviewed on July 17.
“This failure to release a transcript is the latest in your troubling pattern of concealing key evidence in order to advance a false and distorted narrative about your ‘investigation of Joe Biden’ that has not only failed to develop any evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden but has, in fact, uncovered substantial evidence to the contrary,” Raskin wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
The Maryland lawmaker claimed the closed-door interview with the unidentified agent conducted by committee staff “directly undermined” testimony released by Republicans last month from two IRS whistleblowers who allege that the Justice Department interfered with their yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden.
Republicans said the transcript will be released but is not yet ready. “The transcript is going through the normal review process where the witness reviews it and makes any corrections needed,” the GOP majority tweeted Thursday night. “Once that process has been completed, we will release it.”
House rules allow only the majority party to release transcribed interviews from a committee investigation, meaning minority Democrats have no direct power over the matter.
Raskin says in the letter that it is unusual for the release of a transcript to take this long. However, it is not unusual for committee staff to handle whistleblowers cautiously and keep sensitive information tightly held.
The letter from Raskin comes days after Hunter Biden’s plea deal in a criminal case unraveled during a court hearing. A federal judge in the case raised concerns about the terms of the agreement. Republicans like Comer claimed vindication, having slammed the agreement as a “sweetheart deal.”
“The judge did the obvious thing, they put a pause on the plea deal, so I think that was progress,” Comer said Wednesday. “I think it adds credibility to what we’re doing.”
The president’s youngest son was charged last month with two misdemeanor crimes of failure to pay more than $100,000 in taxes on over $1.5 million in income in both 2017 and 2018. He had been expected to plead guilty Wednesday after he made an agreement with prosecutors, who wanted two years of probation.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that Hunter Biden remains under active investigation, but would not reveal details.
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Attackers exploit weak WiFi, remote endpoints, and the cloud, costing 43% of organizations over $1 million in breach damages
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infoblox, the leader in DNS management and security services, today unveils a global report examining the state of security concerns, costs, and remedies. As the pandemic and uneven shutdowns stretch into a third year, organizations are accelerating digital transformation projects to support remote work. Meanwhile, attackers have seized on vulnerabilities in these environments, creating more work and larger budgets for security teams.
1,100 respondents in IT and cybersecurity roles in 11 countries – United States, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Australia, and Singapore – participated in the survey.
Key findings include:
- The surge in remote work has changed the corporate landscape significantly – and permanently. 52% of respondents accelerated digital transformation projects, 42% increased customer portal support for remote engagement, 30% moved apps to third party cloud providers, and 26% shuttered physical offices for good. These changes led to the additions of VPNs and firewalls, a mix of corporate and employee owned devices as well as cloud and on-premises DDI servers to manage data traffic across the expanded network.
- The hybrid workforce reality is causing greater concerns with data leakage, ransomware and attacks through remote access tools and cloud services. Respondents indicate concerns about their abilities to counter increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks with limited control over employees, work-from-home technologies, and vulnerable supply chain partners. The sophistication of state-sponsored malware also is a source of worry for many.
- Organizations have good reason to worry: 53% of respondents experienced up to five security incidents that led to at least one breach. Though ransomware often grab headlines, phishing is the most common conduit for illegal entry. Attacks tended to originate on WiFi access points, employee-owned endpoints, or the cloud. Overall, 43% suffered at least $1 million in direct and indirect losses.
- Organizations are buying cloud-first security tools to protect their hybrid environments. 59% of respondents saw bigger budgets in 2021 and nearly 75% anticipate an increase in 2022. They are creating a defense-in-depth strategy using everything from endpoint and network security to cloud access security brokers, DNS security, and threat intelligence services to defend their expanded attack surface. Network data is taking center stage for threat hunting. 40% mostly relied on network flow data, 39% on systems-specific vulnerability information, 39% DNS queries, and 37% outside threat intelligence services.
- Interest in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) frameworks is accelerating. As assets, access and security move out of the network core to the edge with the push for virtualization, 53% have already partially or fully implemented SASE and another 28% intend to do so.
"The pandemic shutdowns over the past two years have reshaped how companies around the world operate," said Anthony James, VP of Product Marketing at Infoblox. "Cloud-first networks and corresponding security controls went from nice-to-have features to business mainstays as organizations sent office workers to work from home. To address the spike in cyberattacks, security teams are turning to DNS security and zero trust models like SASE for a more proactive approach to protecting corporate data and remote devices."
The full report is available for download here.
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Infoblox is the leader in next generation DNS management and security. More than 12,000 customers, including over 70% of the Fortune 500, rely on Infoblox to scale, simplify and secure their hybrid networks to meet the modern challenges of a cloud-first world. Learn more at https://www.infoblox.com.
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AP source: Aaron Judge, Yankees reach $360M, 9-year deal
By RONALD BLUM and JAY COHEN
AP Baseball Writers
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Aaron Judge has issued his ruling: Court remains in session in the Bronx.
Judge is staying with the New York Yankees on a $360 million, nine-year contract, according to a person familiar with baseball’s biggest free agent deal ever.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday on condition of anonymity because the AL MVP’s contract had not been publicly announced.
New York general manager Brian Cashman declined to confirm the agreement. But he said he was “optimistic that we’re in a good place,” and he credited Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner for the team’s position while making reference to Hal’s late father, George.
“I’ve been here a long time,” said Cashman, who has been the Yankees’ GM since 1998, “and I know how George Steinbrenner did business and how he went about doing business, in recruiting free agents and retaining free agents, and he was intimately involved. And I saw a lot of that in this process, too.”
Cashman said he didn’t get any sleep Tuesday night. He texted with Judge, and Hal Steinbrenner and manager Aaron Boone spoke with the slugger on the phone.
“I wanted to talk to him and make sure he knew, certainly, how I felt about him, but how we felt about him, too,” Boone said.
Judge, who hit an American League-record 62 homers last season, will earn $40 million per year, the highest average annual payout for a position player. The contract trails only Mike Trout’s $426.5 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels and Mookie Betts’ $365 million pact with the Los Angeles Dodgers for biggest in baseball history. Trout and Betts were already under contract when they signed those deals.
The Yankees made a long-term offer to Judge before last season that was worth $213.5 million over seven years from 2023-29. But the outfielder turned it down in the hours before opening day in April.
The 6-foot-7 Judge bet on himself — and won.
Judge surpassed Roger Maris’ AL home run mark while powering New York to an AL East title. He also tied for the major league lead with 131 RBIs and just missed a Triple Crown with a .311 batting average.
New York was swept by Houston in the AL Championship Series, but Judge became the first AL MVP for the Yankees since Alex Rodriguez in 2007.
“He’s an amazing player and an amazing person that certainly has the respect of everyone in that room,” Boone said, “and guys look to him, look up to him.”
By rejecting the Yankees’ preseason offer, Judge gained $146.5 million and an extra two guaranteed seasons. The Northern California native also visited with the San Francisco Giants last month, and there likely were more teams monitoring the market for the slugger who turns 31 in April.
With his new long-term deal, Judge could be in line to become New York’s first captain since Derek Jeter retired after the 2014 season. Cashman said any decision on a captain would be made by Hal Steinbrenner and his family.
“I’m for anytime a decision like that they want to make, I support that decision 110%,” he said.
There was an erroneous Twitter report Tuesday that had Judge nearing a deal with the Giants, and Boone said it was “a long, rough day in a lot of ways.”
“Kind of that pit in my stomach all day,” Boone said at baseball’s winter meetings in San Diego.
Judge’s decision will have a domino effect on several teams and free agents. His status held up at least some of New York’s offseason plans — given the size of the contract — but Cashman made it clear his team would wait patiently while Judge contemplated his options.
In the end, that approach worked.
“The hope is that (Hal Steinbrenner) is the Mariano Rivera of these negotiations and was able to close something out, put us in a great position,” Cashman said. “But I can’t officially say that’s happened just yet.”
Judge was selected by New York in the first round of the 2013 amateur draft and made his big league debut in 2016, homering in his first at-bat.
A year later, he was one of baseball’s breakout stars. He hit .284 with 52 homers and 114 RBIs in 2017, winning the AL Rookie of the Year award. The four-time All-Star has 220 homers and 497 RBIs in seven big league seasons.
The average annual value of Judge’s deal trails only New York Mets pitchers Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, at $43.3 million. Verlander’s deal was reached Monday and hasn’t been announced, but a person familiar with it told the AP he would earn $86.7 million over two years.
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- Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial found Mitopure™ Urolithin A improves muscle strength and exercise performance in middle-aged adults
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nestlé Health Science, a globally recognized leader in the field of nutritional science, announced the publication of results from the ATLAS Trial in Cell Reports Medicine. The data show improvements in leg muscle strength in those who consumed a Mitopure supplement daily for four months. Mitopure, a proprietary form of Urolithin A made by Amazentis, works by supporting the cells' ability to renew their powerplants, the mitochondria. Declines in mitochondrial function occur during aging and are associated with declines in physical performance like slower walking speed, muscle fatigue and loss of strength. Using nutritional supplementation to support mitochondrial health is a new approach to help address age-associated declines in muscular and cellular health.
"It's very promising that we have more robust clinical data to support the benefit of Mitopure supplementation on muscle health and exercise-performance potential as we age," said Anurag Singh, Chief Medical Officer at Amazentis and study co-author. "Until recently, interventions to counteract age-associated muscle declines have been limited. Exercise and dietary approaches like higher protein intake are the most studied ways to help mitigate such declines, but we know that people don't always adhere closely to such regimens. What's particularly important is we're seeing Mitopure improve physical performance outcomes in the absence of an exercise regimen. These studies highlight the potential of Mitopure supplementation as a novel nutritional solution to help maintain muscle function in middle-aged adults."
As people age, a gradual decline in muscle mass and strength is natural, and environmental factors such as diet and exercise can affect the rate at which these declines occur. Stimulating mitophagy, the removal and recycling of dysfunctional mitochondria to promote mitochondrial synthesis, can help improve mitochondria function and promote overall cellular health. Previous research shows that Mitopure - which is molecularly identical to the natural gut microbiome-derived metabolite produced from foods like pomegranates, nuts, and berries - activates mitophagy.
The ATLAS Trial was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study that examined the impact of daily supplementation with Mitopure (500 mg or 1000 mg) or placebo for 4 months on muscle performance in 88 sedentary adults aged 40-64 years. The trial endpoints included muscle strength, exercise tolerance and physical performance. The results are an important discovery in muscle health research and were as follows:
- Improvements in hamstring muscle strength were significantly greater among participants who consumed Mitopure daily at either the 500 mg (12% increase vs. baseline) or 1000 mg (10% increase vs. baseline) level compared to placebo. This is key, as maintaining muscle strength is important for healthy aging.
- Individuals consuming 1000 mg of Mitopure daily experienced clinically meaningful improvements in aerobic endurance (10% increase in peak oxygen consumption [VO2]) and physical performance (33 meter improvement in the 6 minute walk test), from baseline to 4 months.
- Mitopure supplementation enhanced cellular health as it relates to mitochondrial efficiency and reduced markers of inflammation, both important for optimal muscle function.
- Mitopure supplementation was also found to be safe and well-tolerated.
What's more, the ATLAS findings further build on data from recent trials studying the benefits of Mitopure supplementation. A randomized, crossover trial demonstrated improved bioavailability of Mitopure compared to food sources of Urolithin A, given that two-thirds of individuals do not have the appropriate microbiome to make UA from their diet alone. A randomized, controlled trial of adults aged 65-90 years found that daily supplementation of 1000 mg Mitopure significantly improved hand and leg muscle endurance at two months. Taken together, these studies show that Mitopure can positively impact muscle and cellular health in middle-age and older adults, which is impactful given that age-related declines in muscle mass and strength can start as early as age 40 years.
"We want to empower people to take control of how they're aging, and we continue to see the positive impact that Mitopure supplementation can have on muscle function and cellular health," said Rick Jentis, Global Category Head for Cellular Nutrition at Nestlé Health Science. "Celltrient Cellular Strength, which contains this proprietary form of Urolithin A, provides an accessible solution to help support muscle health as people age. Our goal is to continue rewriting the trajectory of aging by providing scientifically studied cellular nutrition options like Urolithin A."
The full study is registered on clinicaltrials.gov as: NCT03464500.
Urolithin A (UA) is a cellular nutrient that activates mitochondrial renewal to support efficient mitochondrial function, which is important for muscle strength and endurance. UA is formed by gut bacteria when foods containing ellagitannins, a beneficial plant compound, are consumed. However, about two-thirds of adults are not able to produce UA in this way, which is why supplementation may be beneficial.
Nestlé Health Science has introduced Celltrient™ Cellular Nutrition, a specialized range of nutritional solutions designed to support cellular health. Celltrient Cellular Strength offers Mitopure™, a proprietary form of UA. For more information on Celltrient Cellular Nutrition, visit www.celltrient.com.
Nestlé Health Science is a leader in the science of nutrition and a globally managed business unit of Nestlé. We believe in empowering healthier lives through nutrition and are committed to redefining the management of health, offering an extensive portfolio of science-based active lifestyle nutrition, medical nutrition and pharmaceutical solutions. Our extensive research network, both within Nestlé's R&D centers as well as with external partners, provides the foundation for products that can help people to live their healthiest lives. Headquartered in Switzerland, we have more than 11,000 employees around the world, with products available in more than 140 countries. www.nestlehealthscience.us
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MINNETONKA, Minn. (AP) _ UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) on Friday reported third-quarter earnings of $5.26 billion.
On a per-share basis, the Minnetonka, Minnesota-based company said it had net income of $5.55. Earnings, adjusted for amortization costs, came to $5.79 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $5.45 per share.
The largest U.S. health insurer posted revenue of $80.89 billion in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $80.72 billion.
UnitedHealth expects full-year earnings in the range of $21.85 to $22.05 per share.
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Both in-person attendees and TV viewers to receive the free commemorative NFT download
LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Autograph, the Web3 brand co-founded by Tom Brady, today announced the launch of a commemorative NFT to celebrate Autograph's presence at Capital One's The Match. The premier live golf event series will take place Wednesday, June 1, at the Wynn Las Vegas, where Brady and Aaron Rodgers will team up to face off against Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen.
Autograph's Capital One's The Match '22: The Cart commemorative NFT can be redeemed for free by all Capital One's The Match attendees and TV viewers on May 31, beginning at 9 AM ET. The NFT release on TV and on-site marks one of the most expansive free NFT drops to date.
During Capital One's The Match, Hole #6 will be branded exclusively by Autograph, and a QR code will be displayed on-site and on-screen during the simulcasts on TNT, truTV, and HLN. Collectors can follow the link to redeem the commemorative NFT. Fans who redeem will have exclusive access to a video message from Brady.
"The Match is one of my favorite events of the year, and we created a commemorative NFT so viewers and fans could share in the experience and take away their own unique piece of the event," said Tom Brady.
Additionally, Autograph is providing exclusive VIP access to Capital One's The Match for some of its top collectors. In addition to attending the event, ten VIPs will receive complimentary hotel, flights, and ground transportation to and from Las Vegas and the opportunity to play a round of golf at The Wynn. Autograph will also host additional Autograph community collectors at a private event in Las Vegas and provide each with a general admission ticket to Capital One's The Match, from the limited number available to the public.
Capital One's The Match attendees and TV viewers can redeem Capital One's The Match '22: The Cart commemorative NFT starting May 31 at 9 a.m. ET at Autograph.io. The NFT can also be redeemed by scanning the QR code in person at Capital One's The Match or by scanning the QR code on screen during the simulcasts on TNT, truTV, and HLN at 3:30 p.m. PST / 6:30 p.m. EST.
For more information on Autograph and Capital One's The Match collection, please visit: www.autograph.io.
Autograph is an NFT platform that brings together the most iconic brands and legendary names in sports, entertainment, and culture to create unique digital collections and experiences for users around the world. Notable Board of Director members include Sam Bankman-Fried, Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd, Peter Mattoon and Michael Meldman. Co-founded by Tom Brady and headquartered in Los Angeles, Autograph is ushering in a new era of collecting through a streamlined and inclusive process, authentic and creative products, and exclusive partnerships. Members of the star-studded Advisory Board have dropped their first collection that all sold out in record time with drops from Wayne Gretzky, Derek Jeter, Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles, Tony Hawk, Tiger Woods and more.
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CHILLICOTHE — Someone was bound to break through in the Division III, Region 11 softball semifinal between Southern Ohio Conference Division II opponents South Webster and West.
After a scoreless first five innings by both sides, it was the Lady Jeeps who plated three runs in the top of the sixth — ultimately fending off the Lady Senators 3-2 to advance to the Region 11 final for the third time in program history.
A two-out RBI single by sophomore Lauren Kaltenbach in the sixth put South Webster ahead 1-0 before two West errors allowed an additional two SW runs to score — making it 3-0 Lady Jeeps well into the game.
“The important thing was trying to get the ball in play, (Sydney) McDermott’s a tough pitcher and has been for years,” South Webster coach Andy Messer said. “Finally got the ball in play, unfortunate for them we’re able to score off their errors. We tried to play aggressively, it cost us earlier in the game. Finally was able to cash in in the sixth.”
“We had some key errors right there, big let down defensively. We just didn’t execute properly on those defensive plays,” West coach Dani Coleman said. “We hit the ball well I thought, sometimes just right at them. In some clutch situations we left runners on base.”
Junior Skylar Zimmerman scored the Lady Jeeps’ first run on Kaltenbach’s single after reaching with one out on a fielder’s choice — and advancing to third on a single by junior Bella Claxon.
It was Claxon and Kaltenbach who scored on West’s two errors.
West rallied for a pair of runs in their turn at the dish in the sixth — as juniors Emily Moore and Kaylor Pickelsimer connected on a pair of solo home runs with two outs.
“That was big, and that’s just them on any given day,” Coleman said. “Wish we had another runner on base at that time. Our quality of bats were really good, good contact rate. Kudos to them, they’re just as gritty of a team as we are. They executed defensively.”
SW freshman Jaiden White earned the win in the circle for the Lady Jeeps, allowing two runs on six hits, issuing one walk, and finishing with a pair of strikeouts.
“Jaiden was sharp, one of the sharpest games she’s thrown all year,” Messer said. “We threw some different pitches today that she’d been working on. She felt comfortable, and as it heats up she’s gotten better. We had a couple of ground ball double plays, to get two of those in a game is awesome. We rely on our defense and they played very well today.”
West senior Sydney McDermott allowed just one earned run on five hits and a walk, while striking out nine South Webster batters in the final start of her outstanding high school career.
McDermott and fellow senior Kylie Osborne helped the Lady Senators win back-to-back Division III district championships during their junior and senior seasons at West.
“Sydney’s rolled with us for three years, she’s set a legacy with us just with her heart and desire. Kylie’s been a great team player who has been a big part of our team for three years,” Coleman said. “West softball historically has been great, and this adds to that with back to back district championships. It was a great run for us and I’m really proud of them.”
South Webster went on to face Wheelersburg in the Division III, Region 11 Final at Unioto High School.
“First time in modern history, it’s a good thing for these girls,” Messer said. “Got cut short early last year facing Strasburg-Franklin. These girls want to keep going and keep battling.”
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BOX SCORE
South Webster 000 003 0 — 3 5 2
West 000 002 0 — 2 6 2
W: Jaiden White (SW) 7IP, 6H, 2ER, 1BB, 2K; L: Sydney McDermott (PW) 7IP, 5H, 1ER, 1BB, 9K
South Webster hitting
Addi Claxon 1-3
Skylar Zimmerman 0-2, R
Bella Claxon 1-3, R
Lauren Kaltenbach 2-3, R, RBI
Laiken Lancaster 1-3
Portsmouth West hitting
Myla Mead 1-3
Emily Moore 2-3, R, RBI, HR
Kaylor Pickelsimer 1-3, R, RBI, HR
Maci Bradford 1-2, BB
Ava Potters 1-3
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One GI, the home for independent gastroenterology, continues its Tennessee market expansion with Skyline Gastroenterology and Skyline Endoscopy partnerships.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- One GI announced two new gastroenterology partnerships which further develop its already extensive Tennessee presence. Skyline Gastroenterology of West Tennessee and Skyline Endoscopy of West Tennessee joined One GI on 12/20/2022.
Focusing on the Eastern US, One GI partners with leading gastroenterology practices that are seeking a strategic alliance to provide capital and state of the art resources to help foster growth and drive economies of scale while delivering the highest quality of care to patients.
Skyline Gastroenterology and Skyline Endoscopy have a dominant presence in western Tennessee and is the largest group outside of Memphis and is poised for dramatic future growth.
Robbie Allen, One GI CEO, remarked, "The two Skyline partnerships deepen our core Tennessee presence and, at the same time, continue our commitment to providing the highest quality of care in every OG™ location.
Brittain Little, MD, Skyline Gastroenterology senior physician, shared his perspective on the partnership, "Joining One GI provides the resources for elevating our practice in several arenas, and I am excited about my inclusion in the partnership of 225 OG™ providers.
One GI®, created by physicians in April 2020 has established a unique physician led culture with an integrated network of world class GI practices supported by best-in-class executive leadership.
Skyline Gastroenterology of West Tennessee provides both clinical services and advanced endoscopic diagnostic and interventional medicine to patients throughout central and western Tennessee.
For more information about One GI®, please visit our website www.OneGI.com, follow us on Instagram, and visit One GI® on LinkedIn .
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Uniti: Q4 Earnings Snapshot
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Uniti: Q4 Earnings Snapshot
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Stacy Brooks Whatley Joins ACA
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Counseling Association (ACA) has named Stacy Brooks Whatley as chief communications and marketing officer (CCMO) effective Feb. 13.
An award-winning communications, marketing and content strategist, Brooks Whatley has more than 20 years of experience in association communications. As a member of the Executive team, Brooks Whatley will join in the ongoing work to strengthen the organization's value proposition.
"I look forward to working with Stacy in building critical communications and marketing strategies to advance ACA's mission and purpose," said CEO Shawn Boynes. "Her well-rounded expertise will contribute to elevating ACA's profile as well as more effectively position professional counselors to address the global mental health crisis."
"I am thrilled to join ACA at a time when the public conversation around mental health continues to gain momentum," said Brooks Whatley. "As a society, we're putting a new focus on facing our challenges — uncertainty, stress, trauma, loss — both collectively and as individuals. The perspective of professional counselors can inform discussions around how we confront these challenges and improve our mental health and well-being."
Brooks Whatley added that she looks forward to working with ACA members and leadership to ensure that the voice of the counseling profession is present and heard, that counselors are recognized for the critical role they play as part of the health care team, and that all in need of professional counseling have access to it "without stigma and red tape."
ACA's new CCMO most recently served as the director of marketing and communications for the American Physiological Society, overseeing strategic marketing, media relations, social media, website content strategy and overall communications outreach. Prior to that time, she worked for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and at Ogilvy Public Relations.
She also brings to ACA her experience as the editor in chief of a member-focused magazine and helping researchers better communicate their work to the media, the public and other researchers. She currently serves as president of Associations, Media and Publishing Network's Associations Council – a key membership organization for association publishers and content creators.
About ACA
Founded in 1952 and based in Alexandria, Virginia, the American Counseling Association is the largest member organization of counseling professionals in the world. Our 54,000 plus members work in various settings, such as private practice, schools and universities, community clinics and government agencies. Our mission is to promote the professional development of counselors, to advocate for counselors, and to ensure that ethical and culturally inclusive practices protect our members' clients and all people who seek counseling services. We work to raise awareness about the myriad benefits provided by counseling and counseling professionals, such as marriage and family counseling, career counseling, addiction counseling and support for individuals who are facing mental health struggles and the challenges posed by everyday life in our fast-paced and sometimes stressful society. We believe everyone can benefit from the power of counseling.
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TAIPEI, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NEXCOM, a leading supplier of network appliances, introduces two commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems from its new NVR product series: PNSA 3171 and PNSA 3171A. With support for 8 and 24 PoE switch ports respectively, these 1U rackmounts are powered by the Intel® Core™ processor family to provide ample computing power to process data. PNSA 3171 and PNSA 3171A are software- and hardware-ready platforms, designed to reduce the complexity of cabling and maintaining surveillance systems, saving time, money, and resources.
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NEW YORK, July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantic Group, a leading staffing and recruitment agency headquartered in New York City, is excited to announce the launch of its Legal & Compliance Division with the hiring of Melanie Marshak. This move further enhances Atlantic Group's capabilities to provide tailored recruitment solutions for their clients in the Asset Management space.
Melanie brings a wealth of experience in legal and compliance recruitment, having successfully placed hundreds of professionals in prominent roles throughout her career within Financial Services and specifically the Asset Management space. With her extensive network and industry expertise, Melanie will provide immediate coverage for Atlantic Group's current client base as well as build and manage a Legal & Compliance team from the NYC office with a particular focus on placing top talent within the Hedge Fund, Private Credit, Private Equity, Real Estate and Asset Management space in the following areas:
- CCO and GC roles
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- Associate General Counsels and Legal Counsels
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The Legal & Compliance Division of Atlantic Group aims to provide a tailored approach to recruitment, matching candidates' specific skill sets with the unique requirements of clients. By focusing solely on legal and compliance positions, the division can provide a specialized level of service and precision unmatched by generalist recruitment firms. Whether clients are seeking attorneys, compliance officers, or other legal professionals, Atlantic Group's Legal & Compliance Division has the resources and expertise to identify the right talent for every role.
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CLEVELAND (WJW) — It’s been 14 years since the first “Twilight” movie hit theaters, but starting this Friday you can catch the entire series on the big screen once more.
Cinemark is bringing back the beloved (and also hated-on) films for an event they’re calling the “‘Twas the Twilight Before Christmas” marathon.
“Whether you’re Team Edward, Team Jacob, or team nostalgia, prepare to sink your teeth into this immortal saga once again,” the company said in a statement.
When originally released, the films made billions of dollars and turned actors Robert Pattinson (Edward), Kristen Stewart (Kristen) and Taylor Lautner (Jacob) into overnight stars.
Here is the schedule for the screenings, in order (times vary):
- “Twilight” on Dec. 2
- “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” on Dec. 3
- “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” on Dec. 4
- “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1” on Dec. 5
- “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2” on Dec. 6
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(From left) Natrona County girls wrestling coach Jessica Brenton and Fillies' wrestlers Addison Bauer, Andraya Canchola and Josie Mares listen to NC head coach Scott Russell during practice on Feb. 9 in the Natrona County wrestling room.
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Natrona County senior Andraya Cancholatakes a moment to catch her breath during a wrestling practice on Feb. 9 in the NC wrestling room.
In 2008, Jessica Brenton became one of the first girls to compete at the Wyoming State High School Wrestling Championships when she was a freshman at Natrona County.
Fifteen years later, Brenton will be on the sidelines as the Fillies’ head coach for the inaugural girls’ state wrestling tournament.
“It’s very exciting,” Brenton admitted during a break in a Natrona County wrestling practice last week. “When WHSAA sanctioned the sport I definitely cried a lot. I was just very happy to hear the news.”
The Wyoming High School Activities Association sanctioned girls wrestling on April 28, 2022, clearing the way for the sport to be a state-sanctioned event. In previous years, girls had always competed against boys during the season and at the state tournament. This weekend, however, more than 200 girls from around the state are scheduled to get their turn in the spotlight at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper.
Although road conditions around the state and in Casper are expected to delay Thursday’s start time, by Friday night there will be 14 individual girls’ champions and a girls’ team champion.
“I’m so excited,” Kelly Walsh senior Olivia Smith said. “It’s amazing to see this sport grow from having just one or two girls in the room. I’m more excited for the turnout.”
The sport has undergone a groundswell in recent years, with tournaments such as the Ron Thon Memorial, the Charlie Lake Invitational and the Moorcroft Invite holding girls’ brackets in addition to boys’ brackets. At the time the WHSAA made girls’ wrestling a state-sanctioned sport Wyoming became the 36th state to sanction the sport.
The beginning
In 1998 Sarah Tolin, then a junior at Kelly Walsh, was the first girl allowed to wrestle against boys in competition. Ten years later it was Brenton’s turn to take the mat.
“I was the first girl to ever make varsity here,” Brenton said. “At that time I was the only girl wrestling in the state. I started wrestling when I was 5 and loved it. I didn’t care if it was girls versus boys or not, I just wanted to wrestle.”
Russell, who has coached the Mustangs to the past two Class 4A state titles, remembers how Brenton was unafraid to compete against the boys in the wrestling room.
“For her to come out here and compete against these boys on a daily basis was quite impressive,” he said. “And she was good, especially at the lighter weights. She had the talent, she was fun to watch and she could do everything the boys could do.”
Brenton credits her brother Briston, a two-time state champ (2007-08) at Natrona County, for sparking her interest in the sport.
“What drew me to it was my older brother wrestled and then after practice they would let me play the games with them. I got to be on the mats and I was a gymnast back then so I used to be stronger than all the boys. My favorite part was making the boys cry.”
Brenton earned a full-ride scholarship to the University of Winnipeg, where she competed on the girls’ wrestling team before returning to Wyoming. For the past eight years she has served as the Director of Female Wrestling for the Wyoming Amateur Wrestling Association.
When girls’ wrestling became a state-sanctioned sport, Natrona County head coach Scott Russell and Kelly Walsh head coach Travis Peak both approached Brenton about coaching their girls’ team. Brenton made the obvious decision to return to her roots.
The present
Two years ago, Emma Karhu from Powell became the first girl to place twice at the state tournament. She finished fifth at 106 pounds in Class 3A in 2018 and fifth at 126 in 2021. While there have been multiple girls competing at state in recent years, the brackets for this weekend prior to the snowstorm showed 211 girls from 44 schools competing in weight classes ranging from 100 pounds to 235 pounds.
Natrona County will have six girls competing, with 11 scheduled to compete for Kelly Walsh.
“I’m nervous, but I’m very excited to have my own girls’ team since I’m the captain,” said NC senior Andraya Canchola, who competed at 120 pounds at last year’s state meet.
Canchola, who enters this weekend with a 21-3 record at 125 pounds, said she is still adjusting to just competing against girls.
“I always get scared wrestling girls because it’s just different,” she explained. “Boys are stronger, but girls have way more flexibility. I’ve had to learn how to deal with their flexibility because they can just slip their arms out when I do arm bars. And in leg riding I have to put different pressure in different areas because girls have stronger hips.
“Jessica has helped all of so much with that.”
The Kelly Walsh girls’ team hasn’t had the luxury of having its own coach, but Peak and his assistants have always done an impressive job of integrating girls into the lineup. This year, there just happens to be more than usual.
“You can tell the ones that have been here before,” Peak said. “They’ve wrestled boys the last two or three years and they’re just tougher and they’re more confident in themselves. Their ability to work hard and just grind out matches against other girls has done them a lot of good. It’s cool to see them get a chance to do that against all girls.”
Smith, who has established herself as one of the state’s top wrestlers at 170 pounds, has been doubly blessed during her time with the Trojans.
“I got softball my sophomore year and wrestling my senior year and it’s been amazing,” she exclaimed. “It’s like a dream.
“When I heard there was going to be girls wrestling I honestly thought it was a joke. I thought someone was trying to prank me. Now that it’s here I’m going to be nervous, but it’s going to be exhilarating.”
The future
As with most inaugural state tournaments there have been problems to overcome. And it goes beyond the weather.
“The WHSAA board first put out a statement that the girls were only going to have a single-elimination tournament if there was a 16-person bracket,” Brenton said, “but I know the parents were not happy about that so they quickly changed that. Now we’ll compete Thursday and Friday, which is what these girls deserve.”
Brenton admits there has been some pushback from some old-guard members of the wrestling community.
“Everybody is still figuring this out little by little,” she said. “There’s still some tough-headedness with a lot of people and coaches that don’t want to support us, but it’s here and they’re going to have to suck it up because we’re here and these girls aren’t going anywhere. And next year there is going to be double or triple the numbers.”
Both Brenton and Peak said they had girls approach them throughout the season asking to join the team. They expect the interest to only increase after this weekend.
“I’m glad the state finally figured this out,” Brenton said. “And I’m excited to see those girls up on the podium where they belong. It’s going to be awesome.”
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THURSDAY-FRIDAY: Wyoming State High School Girls Wrestling Championships, Ford Wyoming Center in Casper.
FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME: The inaugural girls state tournament is expected to have more than 200 girls from around the state competing in 14 weight classes.
SHE SAID IT: “When WHSAA sanctioned the sport I definitely cried a lot. I was just very happy to hear the news.” -- former Natrona County wrestler and current NC girls' coach Jessica Brenton.
Jack Nowlin returned to the Star-Tribune in 2007 after eight years covering Michigan State University athletics. A Wyoming native, and a graduate of Jeffrey City High School and the University of Wyoming, Jack serves as the Star-Tribune’s sports editor.
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Johansen, who went on to perform under the persona of the lounge singer Buster Poindexter, is the subject of a new Showtime documentary co-directed by Martin Scorsese. Originally broadcast in 2004.
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United Methodists lose one-fifth of U.S. churches in schism driven by growing defiance of LGBTQ bans
More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination.
Those figures emerge following the close of regular meetings in June for the denomination's regional bodies, known as annual conferences. The departures began with a trickle in 2019 — when the church created a four-year window of opportunity for U.S. congregations to depart over LGBTQ-related issues — and cascaded to its highest level this year.
Church law forbids the marriage or ordination of “self-avowed, practicing homosexuals,” but many conservatives have chosen to leave amid a growing defiance of those bans in many U.S. churches and conferences.
Many of the departing congregations are joining the Global Methodist Church, a denomination created last year by conservatives breaking from the UMC, while others are going independent or joining different denominations.
Some 6,182 congregations have received approval to disaffiliate since 2019, according to an unofficial tally by United Methodist News Service, which has been tracking votes by annual conferences. That figure is 4,172 for this year alone, it reported.
Some annual conferences may approve more departures at special sessions later this year, according to the Rev. Jay Therrell, president of the Wesleyan Covenant Association, a conservative caucus that has advocated for the exiting churches. While most UMC congregations are remaining, many of the departing congregations are large, and denominational officials are bracing for significant budget cuts in 2024.
The numbers of exiting churches are higher than conservatives originally estimated, Therrell said.
Legal wrangles have largely been resolved over how much compensation the departing congregations must pay for their property and other financial obligations.
“For the most part, bishops and other annual conference leaders have been very gracious, and I deeply appreciate that,” Therrell said. “There have been some small exceptions to that, and those are unfortunate, but we’re grateful that cooler and calmer heads have prevailed.”
Bishop Thomas Bickerton, president of the UMC’s Council of Bishops, said the departures were disappointing.
“I don’t think any of us want to see any of our churches leave,” he said. “We're called to be the body of Christ, we're called to be unified. There’s never been a time when the church has not been without conflict, but there’s been a way we’ve worked through that.”
But for those who want “to go and live out their Christian faith in a new expression, we wish God’s blessings on them,” he said.
The split has been long in the making, mirroring controversies that have led to splits in other mainline Protestant denominations. United Methodist legislative bodies, known as general conferences, have repeatedly reinforced bans on LGBTQ marriage and ordination, on the strength of coalitions of conservatives in U.S. and overseas churches.
But amid increased defiance of those bans in many U.S. churches, many conservatives decided to launch the separate Global Methodist Church, saying they believed the sexuality issues reflected deeper theological differences.
The departures have been particularly large in the South and Midwest, with states such as Texas, Alabama, Kentucky and Ohio each losing hundreds of congregations.
In some areas, United Methodists have designated “lighthouse” or similarly named congregations, with a mission for receiving members who wanted to stay United Methodists but whose churches were leaving. The GMC has begun planting new churches, including in areas where United Methodist congregations have remained in that denomination.
With these departures, progressives are expected to propose changing church law at the next General Conference in 2024 to allow for same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ people.
The United Methodist Church has about 6.5 million members in the United States and at least that many abroad, according to its website. The U.S. membership has been in steady decline, while the overseas membership has grown, particularly in Africa.
Therrell said there will be efforts at the 2024 General Conference to provide overseas churches a legal way to disaffiliate, similar to what U.S. congregations have had.
The GMC says about 3,000 churches so far have affiliated with the new denomination, with more expected.
Bickerton said it's time for United Methodists remaining in the denomination to refocus their work.
“Quite often, when you’re pressed, you begin to exhibit creativity,” he said. “We’re pivoting away from what we were into what our next expression is going to be." Budgets will be smaller, but "this is our opportunity to refashion the church for relevance in the 21st century and really focus on evangelism.” | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/2023/07/08/how-united-methodists-lost-one-fifth-of-u-s-churches/70394377007/ | 2023-07-08 16:44:05 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/2023/07/08/how-united-methodists-lost-one-fifth-of-u-s-churches/70394377007/ |
Democrats launch dads caucus to focus on family issues, push for paid leave
Posted/updated on: January 26, 2023 at 3:30 pm(WASHINGTON) -- Four House Democrats launched the Congressional Dads Caucus on Thursday, joining together around a legislative agenda that includes expanding parental leave, the child tax credit and other family-first initiatives.
Reps. Jimmy Gomez of California, Andy Kim of New Jersey and Dan Goldman of New York -- all fathers -- announced the formation of the caucus alongside Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a member of the Moms in the House.
"The formation of this caucus is rooted in a simple idea that dads need to do our part in advancing policies that will make a difference in the lives of so many working families across the country," Gomez said.
The group, which is hoping to grow its membership, will work to advance legislation that they say supports working families, like expanding parental leave, the child tax credit and child care.
Efforts to boost paid leave have previously stalled in the Democratic Senate and appear unlikely to advance in the current Republican House.
"In addition to supporting legislation that advance these solutions, the Caucus will host briefings and events designed to educate and inform Members of Congress and the public about the needs of working parents, including a national paid family and medical leave program and affordable childcare," Gomez's office said in a news release.
Gomez made waves on social media earlier in the month when he brought his infant son, Hodge, to the Capitol during Kevin McCarthy's fight for the speakership.
"I realized I wanted to bring him to the [House] floor to have him witness history, but also to recognize that he is what we're fighting for," Gomez told ABC News' Jay O'Brien during the speaker election.
"He represents the millions of kids that don't have the privilege to be on the floor," Gomez said then.
The launch of the dads caucus comes as three House Republicans and three Democrats establish a working group on paid family leave, two of its members said during a Washington Post Live event on Wednesday.
But as that bipartisan group prepares to commence meeting in the coming weeks, the dads caucus has launched without Republican members.
"One of the things I didn't want to do is wait for the bipartisan, bicameral strategy in order to start the dads conference because that's been tried before," Gomez said Thursday.
"If there's a Republican who believes in a national paid family leave or expanding the child tax credit or affordable child care, let's have this discussion," he told reporters.
Republicans on board with those policy proposals would be "more than welcome to join," he added.
However, such an agenda has been a tough pill to swallow for even some Democrats. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, seen as one of the most conservative members of his party, opposed major parts of President Joe Biden's social spending package known as the Build Back Better plan and paid family leave was ultimately stripped out.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Gaining the right to host next year’s Under-20 World Cup was a major milestone in Indonesia’s soccer development, raising hopes that a successful tournament would turn around long-standing problems that have blighted the sport in this country of 277 million people.
The death of at least 125 people at a league game between host Arema FC of East Java’s Malang city and Persebaya Surabaya on Saturday is a tragic reminder, however, that Indonesia is one of the most dangerous countries in which to attend a game.
“Do remember that the FIFA U-20 World Cup will be the worldwide spotlight since the event will be joined by 24 countries from five continents,” Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo said last month as he pushed for thorough preparations for the tournament.
Since Saturday, the domestic league has been suspended. Widodo has ordered the sports minister, the national police chief and the soccer federation to conduct a thorough investigation into the deadly stadium crush.
Indonesia was the first Asian team ever to play at a World Cup — participating in 1938 as Dutch East Indies — but despite an undoubted national passion for the sport, it has never returned to the global stage because of years of corruption, violence and mismanagement.
Data from Indonesia’s soccer watchdog, Save Our Soccer, showed 78 people have died in game-related incidents over the past 28 years.
Those accused are often associated with supporter groups that attach themselves to clubs, with the biggest boasting hundreds of thousands of members.
Arema’s intense rivalry with Surabaya meant that no visiting fans were allowed in the stadium on the weekend. Yet violence broke out when the home team lost 3-2 and some of the 42,000 Arema fans, known as “Aremania,” threw bottles and other objects at players and soccer officials.
Restrictions on visiting fans also have failed in the past. In 2016, despite Persib Bandung supporters being banned from a game with bitter rival Persija Jakarta, they were blamed for the death of a Jakarta supporter.
A month earlier, a Persib fan had been beaten to death by Jakarta followers.
In 2018, local media reported a seventh death in six years related to Indonesia’s biggest soccer rivalry.
Soccer fans have accused security officials of being heavy-handed in the past and on the weekend, with witnesses describing officers beating them with sticks and shields before shooting tear gas canisters directly into the crowds. In 2016, police were accused of killing 16-year-old supporter Muhammad Fahreza at a game between Persija and Persela Lamongan, resulting in mass demonstrations demanding an end to police brutality.
“The police who were in charge of security violated FIFA stadium safety and security regulations,” soccer analyst Akmal Marhali told Indonesian media on Sunday, referring to the use of tear gas on Malang fans who entered the pitch after their team’s defeat. That sparked a rush for exits in an overcrowded stadium.
“The Indonesia Football Association may have been negligent for not informing the police that security procedures at a football match are not the same as those at a demonstration.”
FIFA, soccer’s world governing body, advises against the use of tear gas at stadiums by on-field security or police who control and have responsibility for safety operations.
Indonesia’s national soccer association, known locally as PSSI, has long struggled to manage the game domestically.
In 2007, Nurdin Halid was imprisoned on corruption charges but was able to continue as the organization’s president until 2011. After Halid was banned from running for another term, a rival league, federation and national team emerged.
But chaotic administration continued until FIFA suspended Indonesia in 2015, a sanction that was lifted the following year.
In 2019, when FIFA awarded Indonesia hosting rights for the Under-20 World Cup, it was seen as a vote of confidence.
In June, a FIFA panel inspected the country’s soccer facilities and planning for the May 20-June 11 tournament and proclaimed its satisfaction.
“We are very pleased to see the preparations in Indonesia,” Roberto Grassi, Head of Youth Tournaments for FIFA said. “A lot of refurbishment work has been done already. We have had an encouraging visit and are confident of support from all stakeholders involved.”
Kanjuruhan Stadium, the site of the disaster on Saturday, is not among the six venues listed for the Under-20 World Cup, although nearby Surabaya Stadium is scheduled to host games.
FIFA has not yet commented on any potential impact on the Under-20 World Cup but the weekend tragedy is likely to damage Indonesia’s bid to host the 2023 Asian Cup. It is vying with South Korea and Qatar to become host of the continental championship after China relinquished its staging rights in May.
Indonesia has already co-hosted the tournament, sharing the event in 2007 with Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam and hosting the final in Jakarta, where Iraq beat Saudi Arabia for the title.
That was the last time Indonesia staged a major international soccer tournament. The Asian Football Confederation is expected to announce its decision on the 2023 tournament on Oct. 17.
There is unlikely to be any soccer played before then as people in Indonesia, and football followers around the globe, come to terms with one of the deadliest disasters ever at a sporting event.
Families and friends of some of the people who died after the match wailed in grief as the bodies of the victims were returned home Monday. Seventeen children were among the dead.
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Duerden covers soccer in Asia for The Associated Press.
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Authorities say New Mexico gunman who killed 3 was local high school student; still seek motive
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The gunman who killed three people and wounded six others while roaming through his northwestern New Mexico neighborhood and apparently firing at random targets was a local 18-year-old high school student, authorities said Tuesday, noting they were still trying to determine a motive for the attack.
Beau Wilson lived in the Farmington neighborhood where he opened fire Monday, killing three women, authorities said at a news conference. The three were 97-year-old Gwendolyn Schofield, her 73-year-old daughter, Melody Ivie, and 79-year-old Shirley Voita, police said.
Witnesses and police say Wilson walked through the neighborhood a short drive from downtown Farmington spraying bullets until police arrived at the scene within minutes and shot and killed him.
Deputy Police Chief Baric Crum said Wilson was indiscriminately shooting at vehicles, but that some rounds also hit homes.
Authorities are still trying to determine a motive, but Deputy Police Chief Kyle Dowdy said there is nothing yet leading investigators to believe Wilson knew any of the people he shot.
Wilson legally purchased at least one of the guns he used in November, Dowdy said.
“The amount of violence and brutality that these people faced is unconscionable to me,” Dowdy said. “I don’t care what age you are, I don’t care what else is going on in your life, to kill three innocent elderly women that were just absolutely in no position to defend themselves is always going to be a tragedy.”
Four officers fired a total of 16 rounds at Wilson, including one of the two officers who were wounded Monday, said San Juan County Sheriff Shane Ferrari.
Mayor Nate Duckett said Tuesday both wounded law enforcement officers — a local Farmington officer and a state police officer — were treated and released from a hospital.
Officers began receiving reports of gunshots at around 10:57 a.m. and the first one arrived at the scene at 11:02 a.m., Police Chief Steve Hebbe said Monday in a video statement. Three minutes later, the gunman had been killed.
Joseph Robledo, a 32-year-old tree trimmer, said he rushed home after learning that his wife, Jolene, and their year-old daughter had sought shelter in the laundry room when gunshots rang out. A bullet went through his daughter’s window and room, without hitting anyone.
Jolene Robledo said she and her daughter had just finished breakfast when she heard “pop, pop, pop, pop,” which she first thought was a car backfiring. She said they were going to run out the back door until she heard a male voice that sounded right outside the home say the f-word, so she quietly shut the door and hid with her daughter between the washing machine and dryer.
“I mean it was crazy. I called my husband and he could hear the gunshots over the phone,” she said. “He was freaking out and I was like ‘don’t hang up, don’t hang up!’”
Joseph Robledo said he jumped a fence to get in through the back door. Out front, he found an older woman in the street who had been wounded while driving by. She appeared to have fallen out of her car, which kept rolling without her, he said.
“I went out to see because the lady was just lying in the road, and to figure just what the heck was going on,” Robledo said. He and others began to administer first aid.
Neighbors directed an arriving police officer toward the suspect.
“We were telling (the officer), ‘He’s down there.’ … The cop just went straight into action,” Robledo said.
Robledo’s own family car was perforated with bullets.
“We’ve been doing yard work all last week. I just thank God that nobody was outside in front,” he said. “Obviously, elderly people — he didn’t have no sympathy for them.”
Downtown Farmington, which is a short drive from the residential neighborhood where the attack happened, has undergone a transformation of sorts in recent years, with cafes and breweries cropping up alongside decades-old businesses that trade in Native American crafts from silver jewelry to wool weavings.
Nick Akins, a middle school teacher who lives in the area where the attack occurred, said it’s a great place to live, with a mix of homes, short-term rental apartments and churches.
“You never think it’s going to happen here, and all of a sudden, in a tiny little town, it comes here,” Akins said.
On Tuesday, orange circles of spray paint still marked the ground where police had collected evidence in the shootings. Authorities were using metal detectors to search the grass in front of one of the churches along the street where gunfire erupted.
As night approached Monday, dozens of people gathered at Hills Church, a few miles (kilometers) from the attack scene, to pray at the base of a tall metal cross. Lead pastor Matt Mizell talked about living in a “dark and broken world” but told the crowd there was still hope and asked God to provide them strength.
Politicians also weighed in about the attack.
Mayor Nate Duckett said in a statement that the shooting “has left us reeling in anguish and disbelief.”
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a statement that she was praying for the families of those killed and that it “serves at yet another reminder of how gun violence destroys lives in our state and our country every single day.”
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, a Democrat who represents the area in Congress, said in a Facebook post that “our beautiful Nuevo Mexico is not immune to the mass shootings that occur across the country — Every. Single. Day.”
“I praise the heroes who drove to danger to stop the violence. I pray for the quick recovery of the wounded and for the families of those we lost,” she said.
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Ritter reported from Las Vegas, Nevada, and Lee from Santa Fe. Associated Press writer Terry Tang in Phoenix contributed.
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Child dies after being found unresponsive in pool at Missouri water park
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) – A child has died from her injuries a week after she was found unresponsive in a pool at a Missouri water park.
The girl was at Oceans of Fun in Kansas City on July 5 when she was found unresponsive in the Coconut Cove pool.
According to a statement from the park’s spokesperson, a lifeguard pulled the child out of the pool, and the park’s EMS workers began CPR.
The Kansas City Fire Department quickly arrived on the scene and transported the girl to a local hospital.
Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, which owns the theme park complex, confirmed Tuesday morning that the girl has died from her injuries.
“On July 5, 2022, Oceans of Fun aquatics and safety (EMT) staff, as well as the Kansas City Fire Department, responded to and cared for a young female guest in distress. We are deeply saddened to learn of her passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family during this difficult time,” the statement read.
The child has not been identified, but law enforcement said she was younger than 10 years old.
Police did not give further information.
Oceans of Fun is part of the Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City.
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CVS Health beat first-quarter expectations on a jump in revenue from its pharmacy benefits management business but chopped the 2023 earnings projections it issued in the fall.
The drugstore chain, pharmacy benefit manager and insurer said Wednesday that it now expects adjusted earnings of $8.50 to $8.70 per share for the year. That’s down 20 cents on both ends of the range from a forecast it debuted in November and reaffirmed in February, and short of the $8.76 Wall Street had been projecting, according to a poll of analysts by FactSet.
In the third quarter, adjusted earnings totaled $2.20 per share, on $85.3 billion in total revenue.
Analysts predicted earnings of $2.09 per share on $80.79 billion in revenue.
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ODESA, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited one of Ukraine’s main Black Sea ports Friday, a week after a deal was struck with Russia, Turkey and the United Nations to create safe corridors for ships to export grains that have been trapped in the country since the war began five months ago.
His visit to a port in the Odesa region comes as workers were seen preparing terminals for grain exports, which are relied on by millions of impoverished people worldwide facing hunger.
“The first vessel, the first ship is being loaded since the beginning of the war,” Zelenskyy said.
He said the export of grain will begin with the departure of several ships that were loaded but could not depart the Ukrainian ports after the Russian invasion.
“Our side is fully prepared. We sent all the signals to our partners — the U.N. and Turkey, and our military guarantees the security situation,” he said, adding “it is important for us that Ukraine remains the guarantor of global food security."
The visits to the ports are part of a broader push by Ukraine to show the world they are nearly ready to export millions of tons of grains to the world again after last week’s breakthrough agreement.
The complexities of the agreement and concerns about the safety of shipping crews has set the deal off to a slow, cautious start. It's been a week since it was signed, and no grains have yet left ports. But the sides are facing a ticking clock — the deal is only good for 120 days.
It comes a week after Russian missiles struck Odesa, throwing into question Moscow’s commitment to the deal signed only hours earlier. The sides agreed to facilitate the shipment of Ukrainian wheat and other grains from Black Sea routes blocked by five months of war, as well as fertilizer and food from Russia.
The goal over the next four months is to get some 20 million tons of grain out of three Ukrainian sea ports blocked since the Feb. 24 invasion. That provides time for about four to five large bulk carriers per day to transport grain from the ports to millions of impoverished people worldwide facing hunger.
“We are ready,” Ukraine’s minister of infrastructure, Oleksandr Kubrakov, told reporters at the port of Odesa on Friday.
But he said Ukraine is waiting on the U.N. to confirm the safe corridors that will be used by ships navigating the waters, which have been mined with explosives. In the meantime, a ship at the port of Chernomorsk was being loaded with grains, he said.
Martin Griffiths, the U.N. official who mediated the deal, said the first shipment of grains could depart Ukrainian ports as early as Friday but cautioned that work is still being done to finalize the exact coordinates of the safest routes, saying this must be “absolutely nailed down.”
Lloyd’s List, a global publisher of shipping news, noted Friday that while U.N. officials are pushing for the initial voyage this week to show progress in the deal, continued uncertainty on key details will likely prevent an immediate ramping-up of shipments.
“Until those logistical issues and detailed outlines of safeguarding procedures are disseminated, charters will not be agreed and insurers will not be underwriting shipments,” wrote Bridget Diakun and Richard Meade of Lloyd’s List.
They note, however, that U.N. agencies, such as the World Food Program, have already arranged to charter much of the grain for urgent humanitarian needs.
Getting wheat and other food out is critical to farmers in Ukraine, who are running out of storage capacity amid a new harvest. Those grains are vital to millions of people in Africa, parts of the Middle East and South Asia, who are already facing food shortages and, in some cases, famine.
Since the deal was signed a week ago, shipping companies have not rushed in because explosive mines are drifting in the waters, ship owners are assessing the risks and many still have questions over how the agreement will unfold.
Ukraine, Turkey and the U.N. have been keen to show the deal is in action since it was signed one week ago. Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar told Al Jazeera on Thursday that “the deal has started in practice” and that the first ship leaving Ukraine with grains is expected to depart “very soon.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu expressed similar optimism in a press briefing, framing the deal as a significant step forward between the warring sides.
“This is not just a step being taken to lift the hurdles in front of the export of food. If implemented successfully, it will be a serious confidence-building measure for both sides,” he said.
The deal stipulates that Russia and Ukraine will provide “maximum assurances” for ships that brave the journey through the Black Sea to the Ukrainian ports of Odesa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny.
For ships heading to Ukraine’s three ports, smaller Ukrainian pilot boats will guide the vessels through approved corridors. The entire operation will be overseen by a Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul staffed by officials from Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations.
Once ships reach port, they will be loaded with tens of thousands of tons of grains before departing back to the Bosphorus Strait, where they will be boarded to inspect them for weapons. There will likely be inspections for ships embarking to Ukraine as well.
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AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — The Latest from the World Cup semifinal match between France and Morocco:
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France has beaten Morocco 2-0 to reach the World Cup final against Argentina.
Theo Hernandez scored in the fifth minute and Randal Kolo Muani added a second in the 79th.
The defending champion plays Lionel Messi’s Argentina on Sunday.
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Kolo Muani has scored in the 79th minute to give France a 2-0 lead over Morocco in the World Cup semifinals.
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Speaking before dozens of African leaders gathered in Washington, President Joe Biden joked that he knew what they were thinking when he took the stage.
“Make it short, Biden, there’s a semifinal game coming up,” he said.
Biden thanked the leaders, noting to big cheers from the room that Morocco, which sent its prime minister to the three-day summit, was about to play as the first “African nation in the semifinals.”
After the president was done speaking, the big screens in the conference center switched over to the World Cup match between Morocco and France.
The president watched the match with Moroccan Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch and other leaders.
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Theo Hernandez scored in the fifth minute to give France a 1-0 lead over Morocco at halftime in the World Cup semifinals.
The left back scored from close range after Kylian Mbappé’s goal-bound shot deflected off teammate Olivier Giroud and into the path of Hernandez.
It was the first goal Morocco has conceded by an opposition player in the tournament. The other goal the team allowed was an own-goal.
Morocco has had to replace two center backs, Nayef Aguerd and Romain Saiss. Aguerd took part in the warmup but didn’t start the game and Saiss came off in the 21st with a hamstring injury.
Jawad El Yamiq hit the post for Morocco with an overhead kick in the 44th minute at Al Bayt Stadium.
The winner will play Argentina in in the final on Sunday at Lusail Stadium.
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Kylian Mbappe attended to a fan who was apparently struck by a stray practice ball ahead of the World Cup semifinal match between France and Morocco on Wednesday.
Mbappe was seen checking on the welfare of the France supporter, who appeared to be dazed, after the incident at Al Bayt Stadium.
The French players had been warming up on the field before the match started. It is not clear if Mbappe was the one who hit the errant shot into the stands, but he quickly went over to check on the man, who was also being helped by fellow fans.
France is looking to win back-to-back World Cup titles. Morocco became the first African nation to make it to the World Cup semifinals and was trying to become the first team from outside Europe or South America to reach the final.
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Morocco made a late change to its starting lineup. Achraf Dari started in defense instead of Nayet Aguerd.
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Theo Hernandez has scored in the fifth minute to give France a 1-0 lead over Morocco in the World Cup semifinals.
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French President Emmanuel Macron is attending the World Cup semifinal match between France and Morocco.
Macron was standing beside FIFA president Gianni Infantino after the national anthems for both countries were played at Al Bayt Stadium.
Macron earlier visited the Souq Waqif bazaar in the Qatari capital and then traveled to the stadium. ___
The World Cup semifinal match between France and Morocco has started at Al Bayt Stadium.
The winner will face two-time Argentina on Sunday in the final at Lusail Stadium.
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Kylian Mbappé will start in a three-man attack for France, which has made two changes from the win over England in the quarterfinals.
Ibrahima Konaté replaces Dayot Upamecano at center back and Youssouf Fofana comes into midfield in place of Adrien Rabiot.
Morocco is at full strength after center backs Nayef Aguerd and Romain Saiss overcame injuries. Saiss was carried off on a stretcher with a left hamstring injury during the win over Portugal in the quarterfinals.
Morocco coach Walid Regragui has reverted to a 5-4-1 formation.
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French President Emmanuel Macron visited a bazaar in Doha before the World Cup semifinal match between France and Morocco.
Macron walked through a crowd at Souq Waqif wearing a scarf with the colors of the Qatari flag before getting into a car amid heavy security.
The French leader is expected to attend the match at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, which is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Doha. The winner will play Argentina in the final on Sunday.
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Lineups for the World Cup semifinal match between France and Morocco:
France: Hugo Lloris; Jules Koundé, Raphael Varane, Ibrahima Konaté, Theo Hernandez; Aurélien Tchouaméni, Antoine Griezmann, Youssouf Fofana; Ousmane Dembélé, Kylian Mbappé, Olivier Giroud.
Morocco: Yassine Bounou, Achraf Hakimi, Nayet Aguerd, Romain Saiss, Jawad El Yamiq, Noussair Mazraoui; Azzedine Ounahi, Sofyan Amrabat, Hakim Ziyech, Sofiane Boufal; Youssef En-Nesyri.
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Morocco’s history-making run at the World Cup is about to get its ultimate test.
Africa’s first World Cup semifinalist will play defending champion France and striker Kylian Mbappé, the leader of a new wave of soccer superstars coming out of an era dominated by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
The match has cultural and political connotations because Morocco was under French rule from 1912-56 and the outcome is far from a foregone conclusion.
Morocco has exceeded all expectations in Qatar by beating second-ranked Belgium in the group stage and then eliminating European powerhouses Spain and Portugal in the knockout phase to reach the semifinals.
No African or Arab nation has ever gotten this far before.
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Morocco’s players are sharing the World Cup spotlight with some of their most ardent fans: their mothers.
Many of the players have brought their mothers and other family members to Qatar and celebrated with them in the stadiums after the team’s impressive string of victories.
Midfielder Sofiane Boufal was dancing with his mother on the field after Morocco beat Portugal 1-0 on Saturday to become the first African and Arab nation to reach the World Cup semifinals. They held hands and danced in circles to the delight of the crowd.
Defender Achraf Hakimi posted images on social media of his mother giving him a kiss on the cheek after he scored the winning penalty against Spain in the round of 16 last week. “I love you mom,” he wrote.
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Morocco’s national carrier says seven flights that were meant to take soccer fans to Qatar for the World Cup semifinal match against France have been canceled because of restrictions by local authorities.
Royal Air Maroc earlier this week announced it would organize 30 flights between Casablanca and Doha on Tuesday and Wednesday for fans to attend the game. But the airline says seven of those flights operated by Qatar Airways were canceled.
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Which dip belt is the best?
Has your workout routine stopped giving you the results you’re after? The best way to bust out of a fitness plateau is to increase the intensity of your workout, not its frequency. With a dip belt, you can increase the weight when you do exercises such as squats and dips to give you more of a challenge.
A dip belt is wide enough to distribute weight evenly across your hips to prevent injury, and sturdy enough to hold up to the weight you attach for truly effective workouts. The best is the Dark Iron Fitness Leather Dip Belt, made with enough padding in the hips to ensure a comfortable fit.
What to know before you buy a dip belt
Size
A dip belt fits around your waist so your hips can support the weight you attach, which pulls on the belt to tighten it and prevent it from slipping off. That’s why a one-size-fits-all belt works well for most people. Some belts have a buckle that lets you adjust the fit, which can be helpful if you have a smaller frame.
Maximum weight
You don’t necessarily need to add lots of weight to a dip belt to see results, so most belts can hold the weight you want to add. It’s still a good idea to check a belt’s maximum weight load to be sure it can handle the amount you usually work out with.
What to look for in a quality dip belt
Material
Dip belts are usually made of nylon, neoprene or leather. Nylon belts are lightweight but not as durable as the other options. Neoprene models are comfortable and budget-friendly, but don’t last as long as leather belts. Leather is extremely durable, but you usually need some time to break the belt in.
Some belts have a metal chain that attaches to the weight, but others use fabric straps to hold it. While the fabric is usually heavy-duty, straps don’t hold up as well as chains, with many fraying over time.
Belt style
For the most comfortable fit, a dip belt should be fairly wide so it distributes the weight more evenly across your midsection. Many belts don’t enclose the waist completely, but you can find some that fully wrap around your waist, offering a more secure fit.
Chain
A dip belt with a chain offers the most durable, secure connector for the weight. Choose a model that features a steel chain and reinforced stitching to connect it to the belt. It’s important to pick a belt with a chain long enough to thread through the weight plates you want to connect to it. If the chain is too short, you may not be able to connect all the weight you want.
Connectors
To connect the chain or strap to the dip belt, heavy-duty carabiners are usually the sturdiest option. Some belts come with extra steel hooks that let you adjust where you place the weights on the belt.
Versatility
You can use your dip belt for a variety of exercises, including dips and squats. Some belts can also be used as a weight belt or a sled harness to increase their versatility in your fitness routine.
How much you can expect to spend on a dip belt
You can expect to pay $12-$50 for a dip belt. A one-size-fits-all belt made of neoprene generally goes for $12-$20, while more durable belts cost $15-$25. If you want an extra-wide belt with multiple connectors, you can pay $25-$50.
Dip belt FAQ
What’s the maximum weight a dip belt can handle?
A. It depends on the belt. Many can handle up to 200 or 250 pounds, which is more than enough for the average person.
What’s proper form when you’re wearing a dip belt?
A. Maintain a straight back and an upright head. It’s also important to keep your core tight and use slow, steady movements through your exercises to prevent injuries.
What’s the best dip belt to buy?
Top dip belt
Dark Iron Fitness Leather Dip Belt
What you need to know: This leather belt with sturdy hardware will last through years of workouts.
What you’ll love: It features padding in the hips to keep the belt from digging into your midsection. The straps have a maximum weight load of 270 pounds. It offers a metal buckle to keep the belt in place even during the most strenuous workouts.
What you should consider: The metal components may bend over time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top dip belt for the money
DMoose Fitness Premium Dip Belt
What you need to know: This well-made, affordable dip belt comes in five colorful designs.
What you’ll love: It’s constructed with durable, high-quality materials that offer a comfortable fit, and its 36-inch steel chain can hold a significant amount of weight.
What you should consider: It’s made mostly of neoprene, so it isn’t as long-lasting as leather belts.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Iron Bull Strength Advanced Dip Belt
What you need to know: This high-quality belt offers plenty of versatility because it can be used for weightlifting or as a sled harness.
What you’ll love: Made of lightweight nylon, it has reinforced stitching and steel hooks for durability. It comes with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
What you should consider: Despite its construction, the nylon strap can fray due to the friction of the weight sliding over it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Coupang, Inc. (NYSE: CPNG).
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According to a filed complaint, Coupang, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) Coupang was engaged in improper anti-competitive practices with its suppliers and other third parties in violation of applicable regulations, including: (i) pressuring suppliers to raise prices of products on competing e-commerce platforms to ensure Coupang's prices would be more competitive; (ii) coercing suppliers into purchasing advertisements that would benefit Coupang financially; (iii) forcing suppliers to shoulder all expenses from sales promotions; and (iv) requesting wholesale rebates from suppliers without specifying any terms relating to rebate programs, all of which served to artificially maintain Coupang's lower prices and artificially inflate Coupang's historical revenues and market share; (b) Coupang had improperly adjusted search algorithms and manipulated product reviews on its marketplace platform to prioritize its own private-label branded products over those of other sellers and merchants, to the detriment of consumers, merchants, and suppliers; (c) unbeknownst to its Rocket WOW members, Coupang was selling products to non-member customers at lower prices than those offered to its Rocket WOW members; (d) Coupang subjected its workforce to extreme, unsafe, and unhealthy working conditions; (e) all of the above illicit practices exposed Coupang to a heightened, but undisclosed, risk of reputational and regulatory scrutiny that would harm Coupang's critical relationships with consumers, merchants, suppliers, and the workforce; and (f) Coupang's lower prices, historical revenues, competitive advantages, and growing market share were the result of systemic, improper, unethical, and/or illegal practices, and, thus, unsustainable.
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Kelly Ripa has worked with several co-hosts in her reign on daytime TV, most recently Ryan Seacrest, who sits alongside her for Live With Kelly and Ryan.
Seacrest, 47, joined the show in 2017 following Michael Strahan's feud-filled exit, and the pair seem to get along well. But on Thursday's Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Ripa, 51, was asked by some fans who her second picks for co-host were at the time.
"It's so much a deeper discussion, and it has so little, actually, to do with me," Ripa said of the selection process, which took a year before Seacrest was chosen.
Referencing her longtime friends and fellow TV personalities, Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper, Ripa said, "I love my ACs, of course, but they have jobs."
She also mentioned her actor husband, Mark Consuelos, saying, "My MC I love, but he had a job too. At the time he was working in California and then in Vancouver."
Cohen reminded Ripa that she had previously expressed interest in having a female co-host to work alongside her.
"I would have had a woman in a heartbeat. Like I said, it's a decision that's not... I don't make that decision," she shared. "But I have always found the idea of two women hosting a show very appealing."
She jokingly added, "That way they can share the blame."
Ripa's first co-host on Live was the late Regis Philbin, whom she worked alongside at the start of her daytime career. She talks about their forced relationship in her new memoir, Live Wire.
"I had and still have enormous respect, admiration and reverence for Regis," Ripa recently told ET of the late TV personality, who died in 2020. "I, like most of the viewing public, felt like I knew him, but to expect two people from such different generations to have some sort of weird, forced friendship when they never knew each other is a very strange thing to put on one person. It was only put on one person and that is how I describe it [in the book]."
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A look at the legacy of Harry Coleman, Peabody head coach
ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - The era of Peabody’s Head Coach Harry Coleman may have started last year here in Alexandria, but his legacy was already known across the state.
Coleman was born in Baldwin, Louisiana, having dreams of playing on the biggest game stages on the college and pro level.
In high school, he was able to create a name for himself playing sports, but was well know on the football field.
Coleman said there were a lot of schools after him, but the right choice was to stay home.
”I had every school in the Southeast conference offer me,” said Coleman. ”I had an Clemson offer as well but I knew LSU would be the right choice, so I signed there.”
At LSU, he signed to play the safety position, but was moved to Linebacker, where he thrived.
Coleman finished his career with 189 tackles and four sacks with the Tigers. But more importantly, he played and won the national championship with LSU in 2009.
Coleman said that moment of him hoisting the trophy still gives him goosebumps.
”To think about the moment in the national championship game still feel surreal,” said Coleman. ”I remember seeing my family in the stands. and when I seen the trophy, that moment stuck with me forever, because a small town kid gets to say he is a national champion.”
After Coleman finished his college career, he went to play for the Saints. His tenure there didn’t last long.
So he went to play in Canada, and after that, he returned home to and started to coach.
Dwaylen Spain said that when Coleman came back and coached and mentored him, it meant a lot.
”Coleman was my defensive of line coach,” said Spain. “That meant to the world to me because you grew up watching this guy and he come back to help others like trying to accomplish their dream. Meant a lot to not just me, but the community.”
Years later, Coleman got his shot to be a head coach. He was sitting on the bench at a Peabody basketball game and Principal Dennis Stewart and basketball Head Coach Charles Smith were introduced to Coleman.
After the interview, they knew that was the man they needed to help turn their program around, so they hired him. Coleman had a few guys that were eager like him to coach football. Robert Martin said when he got the phone call, he was honored and did not hesitate to accept the job.
”Coleman called me and said he a spot for me on his staff as soon as he hang up my bags were packed,” said Martin. ”It was an honor to be a thought of sharing the field with him and I couldn’t wait to get things started.”
Coleman went from Baldwin to play for the LSU Tigers, then went pro to play for the New Orleans Saints. Then he would head home to give back in the way he knows how, with the game of football. Coleman said every step was worth it and he do everything the same way of he could.
”I wouldn’t change nothing,” said Coleman. “My mom raising me the way she did, Choosing LSU the workouts. It made me who I am today.”
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Avera Race Against Cancer: Cordell Wright
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Follow updates as Cordell Wright trains to run with the Dakota News Now team in the Avera Race Against Cancer May 13.
Cordell Wright, Weekend Anchor, 25
I had a pretty standard fitness journey. Competing in sports all throughout high school naturally came with various practices and workouts. I did transition into a much heavier strength training program for shotput and discus during my senior year in preparation for state track and field.
I continued a pretty healthy regime during my first two years in college and actually lost about 20 pounds from my graduation weight.
It wasn’t until I tore my ACL playing amateur football in 2018 that I started to put on weight. I was never really able to find the motivation to get back into the gym and put on about 40 pounds.
Starting this training for the Avera Race Against Cancer has felt great. This first week has flown by and I can already feel how working out again is benefiting my health physically, but even more so mentally.
I aim to really take advantage of the training that Avera is providing to us and hope to beat my fellow co-workers in the 5k 😊.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A man who escaped from a minimum-security lockup in Bismarck has been arrested in South Dakota.
David Corn, 35, was arrested by the Aberdeen Police Department on Wednesday night, the Bismarck Tribune reported.
An Aberdeen woman authorities say helped him flee from the Missouri River Correctional Center south of Bismarck was arrested earlier Wednesday.
The 35-year-old woman picked up Corn at the center Tuesday morning, according to North Dakota Highway Patrol documents. She is facing charges of felony conspiracy to commit escape and accomplice to escape, court records show.
Corn pleaded guilty in April to fleeing police, drug possession with intent to deliver, and unauthorized use of a vehicle. The charges were filed in Dickey County in November 2021.
A judge sentenced him to three years in prison and three years on probation, court records show. He’d been at the Bismarck correctional facility since May 26. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Escaped-North-Dakota-inmate-arrested-in-South-17290244.php | 2022-07-07 17:35:57 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Escaped-North-Dakota-inmate-arrested-in-South-17290244.php |
Paul Pogba’s brother in custody in alleged extortion case
PARIS (AP) — French officials say soccer star Paul Pogba’s brother is in police custody along with four other people as part of an extortion investigation. Investigators are examining allegations that Mathias Pogba and childhood friends attempted to extort millions from Paul Pogba, a World Cup winner. Mathias Pogba came to see police about the probe Wednesday afternoon and was held for questioning, according to an official close to the investigation. He is among four people put under police custody Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the investigation, the official said. Mathias Pogba has denied taking part in extortion attempts against his brother. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/09/14/paul-pogbas-brother-in-custody-in-alleged-extortion-case/ | 2022-09-15 10:19:48 | 1 | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/09/14/paul-pogbas-brother-in-custody-in-alleged-extortion-case/ |
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — VMware Inc. (VMW) on Thursday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $494 million.
On a per-share basis, the Palo Alto, California-based company said it had net income of $1.15. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, were $2.13 per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.98 per share.
The cloud computing company posted revenue of $3.71 billion in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $3.64 billion.
For the year, the company reported profit of $1.31 billion, or $3.09 per share. Revenue was reported as $13.35 billion.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
0-0-8
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The NFL’s decision to cancel the Bills-Bengals game has major playoff implications for several teams.
The league is changing the rules for the postseason to accommodate the cancellation after owners voted in a special meeting Friday in favor of a resolution recommended by Commissioner Roger Goodell and approved by the competition committee a day before.
Goodell said in a statement that the hope is to “limit disruption across the league and minimize competitive inequities.”
The Bills-Bengals game was suspended Monday night after Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin collapsed and went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated on the field. The 24-year-old was breathing on his own and able to talk Friday morning after having his breathing tube removed, and physicians said Thursday he was making “remarkable improvement.”
Buffalo (12-3) entered Monday night needing a win to maintain the AFC’s No. 1 seed. The Kansas City Chiefs (13-3) now hold that spot. Cincinnati (11-4) had a chance to earn the top seed with two more wins and a loss by the Chiefs.
WHY DID THE NFL CANCEL THE BILLS-BENGALS GAME?
Not playing the game to its conclusion will have no effect on which teams qualify for the postseason. No team would qualify for the postseason or be eliminated based on the outcome of the game.
Resuming the game would impact the 12 other teams in the postseason field because it would force the league to push the start of the playoffs back one week. The decision to cancel one game has the least effect on the majority of the league.
WHAT ARE THE RULES CHANGES?
Instead of canceling the game and awarding playoff seeding by winning percentage, the NFL implemented several changes.
The AFC championship game will be played at a neutral site if the participating teams played an unequal number of games and both could have been the No. 1 seed and hosted the game had all AFC clubs played a full 17-game regular season.
Those circumstances involve Buffalo or Cincinnati qualifying for the game as a road team. If Buffalo and Kansas City both win or tie this weekend, a Bills-Chiefs AFC title game would be at a neutral site.
If Buffalo and Kansas City both lose and Baltimore wins or ties, a Bills-Chiefs AFC title game would be at a neutral site.
If Buffalo and Kansas City both lose and Cincinnati wins, Bills or Bengals against Kansas City in the AFC title game would be at a neutral site.
Also, if Baltimore defeats Cincinnati in Week 18, the Ravens would have two wins over the divisional opponent Bengals but would not be able to host a playoff game because Cincinnati will have a higher winning percentage for a 16-game schedule than Baltimore with a 17-game schedule.
Therefore, if Baltimore defeats Cincinnati and if those two clubs are scheduled to play a wild-card game against each another, the site for that game would be determined by a coin toss.
But if the Bengals win this weekend or if Baltimore and Cincinnati are not scheduled to play each other in the wild-card round, the game sites would be determined by the regular scheduling procedures.
WHICH TEAMS ARE IMPACTED MOST BY THE CANCELLATION?
The Bills, Bengals, Chiefs and Ravens, because of three neutral-site possibilities for the AFC championship game and the coin-flip option for home-field advantage for a potential Ravens-Bengals wild-card matchup.
WHAT WAS THE NFL’S ALTERNATIVE?
It’s the first time since 1935 that every team will not play an equal number of games. The NFL’s 2022 policy manual for game operations states “a team’s standing in its division or in its conference” will be determined by winning percentage if a game is canceled. Due to the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the canceled game, the league proposed new rules.
WHICH NEUTRAL SITE WOULD HOST THE AFC TITLE GAME?
The league is exploring several options, including indoor and outdoor stadiums. Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts, has a potential conflict because of a volleyball tournament.
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NEW YORK (AP) — In a memoir Anne Heche worked on over the past year, the actor shared candid thoughts on her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s, when they were among Hollywood’s first openly gay couples.
“I was labeled ‘outrageous’ because I fell in love with a woman. I had never been with a woman before I dated Ellen,” Heche wrote in “Call Me Anne,” which Start Publishing has scheduled for January. Heche, whose films included “Donnie Brasco” and “Wag the Dog,” died Aug. 14 at age 53 after a car crash in Los Angeles.
In her lifetime, Heche said that Hollywood effectively blacklisted her because of her being with DeGeneres, who around the same time made television history by having her character in the sitcom “Ellen” come out as gay.
“I did not, personally, identify as a lesbian. I simply fell in love! It was, to be clear, as odd to me as anyone else. There were no words to describe how I felt,” Heche wrote in her book, a sequel to the memoir “Call Me Crazy,” published in 2001. “Gay didn’t feel right, and neither did straight. Alien might be the best fit, I sometimes thought. What, why, and how I fell in love with a person instead of their gender, I would have loved to have answered if anyone had asked, but as I said earlier, no one ever did. I am happy that I was able to tell you in this book — once and for all.”
Start, an independent publisher based in Hoboken, New Jersey, shared the excerpt this week with The Associated Press. The book’s publisher, Jarred Weisfeld, says that he signed a deal with Heche in May and that she had turned in a manuscript shortly before she died. She will also write about having Harrison Ford as a mentor, along with stories about Alec Baldwin, Ivan Reitman and Oliver Stone, among others.
The book’s release was first announced by Publishers Weekly. Heche had mentioned writing a memoir during a podcast earlier this year, in which she promised that “some of the truths” about her and DeGeneres would be included. | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-anne-heche-memoir-call-me-anne-scheduled-for-january/ | 2022-09-15 23:08:02 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-anne-heche-memoir-call-me-anne-scheduled-for-january/ |
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While promoting his latest movie, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” Daniel Craig said dancing doesn’t come naturally to him — but he couldn't resist a pitch from “Thor: Love and Thunder” director Taika Waititi.
The pair collaborated on a recent Belvedere vodka ad, which was the James Bond actor swinging his hips and shimmying down hotel corridors while showing off tattooed biceps and a devastating pout.
“It was hard work because I don’t dance. So, the fact is, we had an amazing choreographer to JaQuel Knight who came in and I worked with him for a couple of days," Craig told The Associated Press. "I just went for it. You don’t get chances like that very often.”
“In for a penny, in for a pound” he added.
His latest acting project, “Glass Onion,” follows a party of sycophants and friends of billionaire Miles (Ed Norton) who find themselves trapped on an island with a murderer on the loose.
As with the first “Knives Out” movie, director Rian Johnson has assembled an all-star cast including Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr., and Dave Bautista.
Craig’s detective Benoit Blanc is the only returning character — with the British actor saying he works as hard as he can to get back into the headspace of the Southern sleuth. Especially given Blanc’s trademark accent.
“I’m on it all the time, all the time,” he joked. “I have to work really hard at it, but once it’s in, it’s in and then it is part of me.”
And does this include slipping into character and adopting Blanc’s Southern drawl round the dinner table with his family which includes wife Rachel Weisz? Not a chance.
“My family’s not that nice, I’m not allowed to do that,” he laughs.
The film, which also stars Kathryn Hahn, Jessica Henwick and Madelyn Cline, will receive a limited theatrical release this week before screening internationally on Netflix on Dec. 23. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/I-don-t-dance-Daniel-Craig-nonetheless-has-17604357.php | 2022-11-22 19:10:57 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/I-don-t-dance-Daniel-Craig-nonetheless-has-17604357.php |
Idaho House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel speaks at a press conference in the Capitol rotunda on Thursday. From left are Boise Democratic Sens. Carrie Semmelroth, Melissa Wintrow and Janie Ward-Engelking.
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Idaho House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel speaks at a press conference in the Capitol rotunda on Thursday. From left are Boise Democratic Sens. Carrie Semmelroth, Melissa Wintrow and Janie Ward-Engelking.
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Rep. Megan Blanksma speaks in the House of Representatives at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise on March 16.
BOISE — Idaho House Republicans are vowing to fight a preliminary injunction partially enjoining Idaho’s abortion “trigger” law with respect to hospital emergency-room care, saying “some preborn children may die because of this injunction.”
Meanwhile, Idaho House and Senate Democrats called it a “cruel, poorly written law,” and held a press conference Thursday afternoon to call on the Legislature and the Idaho Attorney General’s office to “stop burning taxpayer dollars on groundless legal appeals.” House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel, D-Boise, called the state’s position “legally and morally bankrupt — that women’s health does not merit protection.”
The judge’s preliminary injunction, issued Wednesday evening, only applies to emergency rooms at hospitals that receive Medicare funding, which are required by federal law to provide emergency care to patients whose health is threatened. Idaho’s abortion trigger law has no health exemption.
The law makes all abortions, at all stages of pregnancy, felonies punishable by two to five years in prison for the doctors who perform them. It permits doctors who are prosecuted to assert an “affirmative defense” against prosecution in cases of rape or incest where the doctor was provided with copy of a police report; or when the abortion was necessary to “prevent the death” of the pregnant woman from causes other than suicide.
The law, first passed in 2020, took effect Thursday statewide, except for the narrow emergency-room exemption covered by the preliminary injunction. The injunction is temporary, and will be in place while litigation proceeds in U.S. District Court in Boise. The law also is under challenge in the Idaho Supreme Court, but that court opted not to stay it from taking effect while it considers that and two related cases.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued Idaho over the law, in the first federal challenge to a state “trigger” law since the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that established a constitutional right to abortion nationwide. Idaho’s law was “triggered” to take effect 30 days after the formal judgment was filed in that case, which is why it took effect on Thursday.
The Idaho Attorney General’s office declined to comment Thursday.
“Idahoans have a strong, shared concern for and high value on the life of Idaho’s preborn children,” said the House GOP statement, sent out by House GOP Caucus Chair Megan Blanksma, R-Hammett. “The death of even one preborn child in these circumstances is a tragedy, yet such deaths are the purpose and consequence of the current federal administration’s case against Idaho and the Idaho law. To protect the lives of as many of these children as possible, the Idaho Legislature will pursue all legal means to bring this injunction to an end as quickly as possible. The Idaho House Republican Caucus is confident that a lower or a higher appellate court will hold the federal administration’s case to be without merit.”
Blanksma said House Republicans were meeting with their attorneys to discuss “what the options are going forward.”
Rubel, said, “This law should never have been passed in the first place. It is an outrage that GOP legislators voted to deny a woman an abortion even where continuing the pregnancy will cause her paralysis, serious organ damage, lifelong infertility or amputation. Maybe they thought Roe would prevent it from ever taking legal effect, but in the wake of the Dobbs decision, the monster they created is coming to life and jeopardizing the lives of Idaho women.”
Idaho Family Policy Center President Blaine Conzatti said in a statement, “The trigger law is a great next step toward ensuring the legal protection of all preborn babies, but it’s not our final goal. We’re going to keep pushing until every preborn child, regardless of the circumstances of their conception, receives equal protection in every area of state law.”
Meanwhile, Idaho Democratic Party Chair Lauren Necochea, who also is a Democratic state representative from Boise, said, “I am relieved to see the court take this step to ensure that every Idahoan receives necessary medical care in an emergency. Governor Little and Idaho’s Republican legislators were warned about the harm their extreme abortion ban would cause to patients, but they didn’t care. Under the GOP ban, a doctor can either risk prison time to provide care for a nonviable ectopic pregnancy or allow it to go untreated, causing life-threatening internal bleeding.”
Idaho’s trigger law, unlike a Texas trigger law that won a favorable preliminary ruling in federal court there a day earlier in an unrelated lawsuit filed by the state of Texas, has no exemption for cases of ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage, neither of which can result in a live birth.
Necochea said, “There is not a single Republican on the ballot this November who has stood up for our reproductive freedoms. We must vote these dangerous, extreme politicians out of office before their cruel quest for control kills Idahoans.”
The trigger law, which was SB 1385 in 2020, passed the Idaho Senate on a straight party-line vote with all Republicans in favor and all Democrats opposed. In the House, it passed 49-18; six Republicans joined Democrats in opposing it, with five of them maintaining the bill didn’t go far enough to ban abortion because of the provisions regarding rape and incest. The sixth didn’t seek reelection this year.
Gov. Brad Little signed the bill into law in March 2020.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland praised the judge’s ruling, saying it “ensures that women in the State of Idaho can obtain the emergency medical treatment to which they are entitled under federal law. This includes abortion when that is the necessary treatment. … The Department of Justice will continue to use every tool at its disposal to defend the reproductive rights protected by federal law.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/house-gop-vows-to-fight-idahos-trigger-law-injunction-dems-call-the-law-cruel/article_e0083924-24ce-11ed-98b9-73e5a853aef8.html | 2022-08-26 06:40:24 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/house-gop-vows-to-fight-idahos-trigger-law-injunction-dems-call-the-law-cruel/article_e0083924-24ce-11ed-98b9-73e5a853aef8.html |
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s independent vaccine advisory panel is recommending that shots against monkeypox be prioritized for people recently exposed to the virus that causes the disease.
The panel, known by its German acronym STIKO, circulated a draft recommendation Thursday in which it said that due to limited supply, the smallpox vaccine Imvanex should be made available first to people who were exposed to the virus in the previous 14 days.
Two shots should be given at least 28 days apart to people not previously vaccinated against smallpox, while a single dose is enough for those who had received a smallpox shot before, the advisory panel said. Monkeypox is a rare disease, related to the same virus family as smallpox.
The panel said that people at heightened risk of contracting monkeypox should be given second priority for the vaccine. This includes men who have sex with changing male partners; all of the more than 130 monkeypox cases in Germany so far have involved individuals in that group.
Staff in specialist laboratories who work with infectious samples that contain monkeypox may also belong to the high-risk category, it said.
STIKO’s recommendations are not legally binding but usually followed by German authorities.
Health authorities in Europe, North America, Israel and Australia have identified more than 100 cases of monkeypox. The disease has long been endemic in Africa.
While the virus spreading outside of Africa has caused concern, experts believe the risk to the general public remains low. | https://cw33.com/health/ap-health/german-panel-recommends-vaccines-after-exposure-to-monkeypox/ | 2022-06-09 14:20:30 | 1 | https://cw33.com/health/ap-health/german-panel-recommends-vaccines-after-exposure-to-monkeypox/ |
REGINA - Sloan Stanick scored three times and Ryder Ritchie added two assists as the visiting Prince Albert Raiders knocked off the Regina Pats 5-3 in Western Hockey League action on Saturday.
Aiden Oiring and Evan Herman also scored for the Raiders (28-37-3-0), who were outshot 32-30.
Stanislav Svozil, Tanner Howe and Connor Bedard scored for the Pats (34-30-3-1), who trailed 1-0 after the first period and 3-0 after 40 minutes. Alexander Suzdalev chipped in with two assists.
Elsewhere in the WHL:
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HITMEN 3 OIL KINGS 2
EDMONTON, Alta. — Carter Yakemchuk's second goal of the game, scored at 14:22 of the third period, proved to be the winner as the visiting Calgary Hitmen edged the Edmonton Oil Kings 3-2.
Riley Fiddler-Schultz also scored for the Hitmen (31-28-5-3).
Loick Daigle and Mason Finley scored for the Oil Kings (9-54-4-0), who were outshot 45-25.
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ICE 5 WHEAT KINGS 3
WINNIPEG, Man. — Conor Geekie scored three goals as the Winnipeg ICE beat the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings 5-3.
Connor McClennon added two goals for the ICE (57-10-1-0).
Roger McQueen, Rylen Roersma and Calder Anderson scored for the Wheat Kings (26-33-8-1).
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COUGARS 3 BLAZERS 2 (SO)
PRINCE GEORGE — The Prince George Cougars scored twice in a three-round shootout to defeat the visiting Kamloops Blazers 3-2.
Hudson Thornton and Riley Heidt scored in regulation time for the Cougars (37-24-6-1), who were outshot 45-17. Cougars goaltender Tyler Brennan stopped 43 of 45 shots.
Emmitt Finnie and Ashton Ferster scored for the Blazers (48-13-4-3).
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BLADES 6 WARRIORS 3
MOOSE JAW, Sask. — Trevor Wong scored twice and Spencer Shugrue chipped in with two assists as the visiting Saskatoon Blades beat the Moose Jaw Warriors 6-3.
Brandon Lisowsky, Jayden Wiens, Justin Lies and Rowan Calvert also scored for the Blades (48-15-4-1).
Atley Calvert scored twice and added an assist for the Warriors (41-24-0-3), while Logan Dowhaniuk netted a single.
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REBELS 5 HURRICANES 1
RED DEER, Alta. — Hunter Mayo scored a goal and added an assist as the Red Deer Rebels defeated the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes 5-1.
Talon Brigley, Christoffer Sedoff, Frantisek Formanek and Kalan Lind also scored for the Rebels (43-19-3-3).
Tyson Zimmer scored for the Hurricanes (36-26-3-3).
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TIGERS 4 BRONCOS 3
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — Cayden Lindstrom scored six minutes into the third period and the goal stood as the winner as the Medicine Hat Tigers edged the visiting Swift Current Broncos 4-3.
Oasiz Wiesblatt, Dallon Melin and Tyler MacKenzie also scored for the Tigers (30-29-8-1).
Josh Filmon, Connor Hvidston and Josh Davies scored for the Broncos (31-33-1-3).
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SILVERTIPS 4 ROYALS 3 (SO)
VICTORIA, B.C. — The Everett Silvertips scored the lone goal of a three-round shootout to edge the Victoria Royals 4-3.
Jesse Heslop, Jackson Berezowski and Carter Bear scored for the visiting Silvertips (33-32-2-1).
Brayden Schuurman, Tanner Scott and Matthew Hodson scored for the Royals (17-43-6-2).
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WINTERHAWKS 3 THUNDERBIRDS 1
SEATTLE, Wash. — Josh Zakreski scored a goal and added an assist as the visiting Portland Winterhawks defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 3-1.
Luke Schelter and Ryan McCleary also scored for the Winterhawks (40-20-5-3).
Dylan Guenther scored for the Thunderbirds (54-11-1-2).
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ROCKETS 5 GIANTS 4
KELOWNA, B.C. — The Kelowna Rockets scored the first four goals then hung on to beat the visiting Vancouver Giants 5-4.
Gabriel Szturc scored twice for the Rockets (27-37-4-0), with singles netted by Carson Golder, Max Graham and Turner McMillen.
Julian Cull, Skyler Bruce, Ty Halaburda and Colton Roberts scored for the Giants (28-32-5-3), who were outshot 31-22.
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AMERICANS 2 CHIEFS 1 (SO)
SPOKANE, Wash. — Lukas Dragicevic scored in the fifth round of the shootout to give the visiting Tri-City Americans a 2-1 victory over the Spokane Chiefs.
Parker Bell scored for the Americans (34-26-5-3) in regulation time.
Kooper Gizowski scored for the Chiefs (15-43-4-6) in regulation.
The Chiefs led 1-0 after the first period and the teams were tied 1-1 heading into the third. The Chiefs outshot the Americans 31-29.
* This roundup was generated automatically with a CP-developed application.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Two new water wells are officially online creating more than one million gallons of water for Fort Myers, sent to the water treatment plant than to resident homes.
“It’s still enough to fill about an Olympic-sized swimming pool every single day,” said Fort Myers Utilities Senior Project Manager Alan J. Gil.
The new wells join 16 others already in use across the city. Construction for the well project was completed four months earlier than the expected 18 months.
“We realized we’re going to need more. So more data started coming and we realized we are going to need more source water,” said Gil.
“They are doing something that is supplying an essential item to our community which is water. Something that we know some of our residents have struggled with,” said Fort Myers spokesperson Liz Bello-Matthews.
The wells are a relief as more people stay long term and even more are moving to the city, adding strain to the water treatment plant and city planners make sure there is enough water for future developments.
“This is a priority for the city and we want to make sure that our municipal partners DEP and DOH know that we are serious on moving forward and we are not dropping the ball on this,” said Bello-Matthews.
“Right now, we’re trying to beat that demand and get ahead of that demand,” said Gil.
Additionally, Fort Myers City Council plans to look at proposals to expand the water treatment family at a council meeting on Monday, May 16. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/05/13/fort-myers-adds-two-new-water-wells-to-create-millions-of-gallons-per-day/ | 2022-05-14 03:11:20 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/05/13/fort-myers-adds-two-new-water-wells-to-create-millions-of-gallons-per-day/ |
The heat will continue into Thursday afternoon when Albuquerque will once again climb to around 100°. Temperatures stay above average for the next several days.
It is once again one of the hottest days of the year across New Mexico Wednesday. Albuquerque saw its hottest day so far this year making it to 99°. Severe storms are ending tonight and we will see quieter weather overnight.
Another hot day is on the way Thursday with Albuquerque once again making it to around 100°. Thursday will be a drier day too, with a couple isolated storms possible over the Sacramento Mountains again and even over the western higher terrain. Temperatures will be a degree or two cooler Friday and Saturday across the state thanks to an increase in cloud cover. We will also see a couple spotty afternoon storms, mainly over the mountains and adjacent higher elevations through Sunday.
Temperatures start climbing again on Sunday as high pressure moves back over New Mexico and gains strength. This will bring a stretch of even hotter temperatures next week across New Mexico, with multiple days of triple-digit high temperatures possible in Albuquerque. | https://www.krqe.com/weather/video-forecast/albuquerques-first-100-day-of-the-year-possible-thursday/ | 2023-07-06 05:10:08 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/weather/video-forecast/albuquerques-first-100-day-of-the-year-possible-thursday/ |
DETROIT (AP) — Tony Finau ran away with the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday at Detroit Golf Club to become the first PGA Tour player in three years to win consecutive regular-season events.
Finau closed with a 5-under 67 for a five-shot victory and a tournament-record 26-under 262 total. Taylor Pendrith (72), Patrick Cantlay (66) and rookie of the year front-runner Cameron Young (68) tied for second.
Finau coasted to his fourth career victory, a third title in 11-plus months. He was the 3M Open winner last week in Minnesota, where he rallied from five strokes back to win by three. Brendon Todd was the last to win two straight in the regular season, doing it in 2019.
Finau, the Salt Lake City native with Tongan-Samoan heritage, began his stretch of success last August at The Northern Trust, where he had his first victory in five years and 142 PGA Tour starts.
Finau stopped another drought in Detroit, winning for the first time in six attempts when he had or shared the 54-hole lead in a PGA Tour event. With his sixth birdie at No. 17 and a closing par, he broke Nate Lashley’s tournament record of 25 under set in 2019 during the inaugural PGA Tour event.
The PGA Tour will close the regular season at the Wyndham Championship, with the North Carolina event opening Thursday. Players on the bubble will have one last shot to finish in the top 125 of the FedEx Cup standings to earn a spot in the playoffs and a full card next season.
Finau and Pendrith started Sunday tied and their potential duel in Detroit turned out to be a dud.
Pendrith had his first lackluster round of the tournament after he shared the first-round lead with Finau, led him by one shot after the second and matched his 21-under total through three rounds.
The 31-year-old PGA Tour rookie from Canada hit an errant tee shot on the second hole to the right in the rough behind tree branches — after being distracted by a fan running across the fairway — and later pulled a 9-foot to lose the lead for good.
Cantlay, No. 4 in the world ranking, had his third straight round in the mid-60s after opening with a 70. Young bounced back from a first-round 71 to finish second for the fifth time.
Pendrith struggled in the final round just as he did the only other time he had a 54-hole lead. He led the Bermuda Championship last October by three shots before a 76 dropped him into fifth place, which was his best finish before his showing in the Motor City. Pendrith played in his third tournament after missing nearly four months with a broken rib.
Finau began to pull away from Pendrith with an 11-foot birdie putt at No. 4 and a tap-in for birdie at No. 7.
He made a 21-foot putt for birdie at No. 10 for his third birdie. After his first bogey in the tournament at No. 11, Finau made a 31-foot putt with a break from right to left at No. 12 and Pendrith missed an 11-foot putt on the same hole to fall four shots back.
Cantlay surged within three shots of the lead with a 5-foot eagle putt at the par-5 14th. On the same hole, Finau made his fifth birdie of the final round to lead by four shots.
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson said in an interview released Monday that his “hatred” of liberals led to his inaccurate predictions of a red wave in November’s midterm elections.
“That loathing clouded my judgment,” Carlson told Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, in an interview released on Monday. “I was like, ‘I dislike these people so much. What they’re doing is so wrong. It is helping so few people and hurting so many. It’s so immoral on every level that I just want it to be repudiated.’”
“And I wanted that so much, not because I like the Republicans — I really dislike them more than I ever have — but I dislike the other side more,” he added, saying, “I did learn that, like, I have no freaking idea what goes on in American politics.”
Carlson was one of several pundits and politicians who predicted sweeping GOP victories in the midterms that never materialized. While Republicans managed to secure a slim majority in the House, the GOP lost ground in the Senate with Democrat John Fetterman’s win in Pennsylvania.
The Fox News host acknowledged his flawed predictions at a Turning Point event last month, saying he’s “never gotten anything wronger in my life.”
However, Carlson told Kirk in the mid-December interview released this week that he thinks Republicans will eventually find a silver lining in their disappointing performance.
“I look at 2016 in the opposite way,” he added. “We thought this was the ultimate triumph. We really did. And I was thrilled by it … and then I spent, you know, four years feeling like really disappointed and sad.” | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/tucker-carlson-hatred-of-liberals-clouded-my-judgement-before-midterms/ | 2023-01-05 00:38:02 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/tucker-carlson-hatred-of-liberals-clouded-my-judgement-before-midterms/ |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Suspected militants ambushed a vehicle carrying a senior military intelligence officer in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing him and his driver, security officials and police said.
Brig. Mustafa Burki, who had been deeply involved in operations against the Pakistani Taliban in recent years, was “martyred” along with his driver as he traveled in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, three security officials said. The province bordering Afghanistan is a former stronghold of militants.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to media on the record.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack on Burki.
It was the second major assault on intelligence officers since January, when Pakistani Taliban killed another senior officer and his colleague in Punjab province. Burki and the officers killed in January were known for gathering information about militants and supervising raids on insurgents.
Separately, the military said in a statement Tuesday that three soldiers and three militants were killed in a shootout Monday in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It provided no details about the slain insurgents. However, Pakistani Taliban often target troops in the northwest and elsewhere.
The military did not mention the second attack, in which Burki and his driver were killed.
The Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, are a separate group but allied with the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in their country as the U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their pullout from Afghanistan in August 2021.
The Taliban in Afghanistan last year brokered a cease-fire between the Pakistani Taliban and Islamabad's government but the insurgents later ended the truce. Since then, Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant attacks in the country. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/pakistani-intelligence-officer-driver-killed-17851887.php | 2023-03-21 17:37:03 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/pakistani-intelligence-officer-driver-killed-17851887.php |
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You know when something happens in a scary movie and it makes you jump from your seat? That's known as a jump scare. Series creator Mike Flanagan created a record 21 jump scares in a single episode.
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(NEXSTAR) – When it comes to air travel within the U.S., your ticket might get cheaper just based on where you depart from.
Data from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation show the average cost of a domestic flight departing from 45 of the nation’s busiest airports – valuable information in 2022 as airplane ticket costs continue to march higher.
In April, airfares soared a record 18.6%, the largest monthly increase since record-keeping began in 1963. And hotel prices jumped 1.7% from March to April.
Southwest Airlines said last month that it foresees much higher revenue and profits this year as Americans flood airports after having postponed travel for two years. Southwest said its average fare soared 32% in the first three months of the year from the same period last year.
When it comes to the cheapest average fare, it pays to fly out of Florida. Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, took the top spot with an average cost of $233.36. Orlando International Airport came in second, at $241.01. Miami International ($236.76) and Tampa International (270.88) rounded out the top five after Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas ($247.53).
Fares are based on the total ticket value, including the price set by the airlines as well as any taxes and fees charged by an outside entity at purchase. The cost doesn’t include the price of optional services, such as baggage fees or frequent flyer and excludes any frequent-flyer or “zero” fares.
Based on the latest available data from the last quarter of 2021, these are the 10 cheapest airports:
The top three most expensive airports to fly from are Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C. ($408.08), followed by San Francisco International Airport ($400.66) and Detroit Metro Airport ($364).
While it certainly isn’t always practical to change one’s departure airport, for those who are lucky enough to have multiple airports to choose from a little planning might save a substantial amount of cash.
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Grand jury indicts man in Buffalo supermarket shooting
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Relatives of the 10 Black people massacred in a Buffalo supermarket pleaded with the nation Thursday to confront and stop racist violence, their agony pouring out in the tears of a 12-year-old child, hours after the white man accused in the killings silently faced a murder indictment in court.
Jaques “Jake” Patterson, who lost his father, covered his face with his hands as his mother spoke at a news conference. Once she finished, Jake collapsed into the arms of Rev. Al Sharpton, the veteran civil rights activist, and cried silently, using his T-shirt to wipe his tears.
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“His heart is broken,” said his mother, Tirzah Patterson, adding that her son was having trouble sleeping and eating.
“As a mother, what am I supposed to do to help him get through this?” she said.
Her ex-husband, Heyward Patterson, a 67-year-old church deacon, was gunned down Saturday at Tops Friendly Market. So was Robin Harris’s 86-year-old mother and best friend, Ruth Whitfield, on a day when they were supposed to go see the touring Broadway show “Ain’t Too Proud.”
“That racist young man took my mother away,” Harris said, trembling and stomping her feet as she spoke.
“How dare you!” Harris shouted viscerally.
“I need this violence to stop,” she added. “We need to fix this, and we need to fix it now.”
Earlier in the day in another part of town, accused gunman Payton Gendron, 18, appeared briefly in court to hear that he was indicted in the killings.
“Payton, you’re a coward!” someone shouted the courtroom gallery as he was led away.
Gendron, whose lawyer entered a not guilty plea for him at an earlier court appearance, didn’t speak. His attorneys later declined to comment. He is being held without bail and is due back in court June 9.
Authorities are investigating the possibility of hate crime and terrorism charges against Gendron, who apparently detailed his plans for the assault and his racist motivation in hundreds of pages of writings he posted online shortly before the shooting. It was livestreamed from a helmet-mounted camera.
“We need to hold all that have aided and abetted the hate in this country accountable,” Sharpton said at the news conference outside Buffalo’s Antioch Baptist Church. The civil rights activist’s group, the National Action Network, plans to cover funeral expenses for those killed.
The carnage at the Tops supermarket was unsettling even in a nation that has become almost numb to mass shootings. Thirteen people were shot in total, all but two of them Black. Gendron’s online writings said he planned the assault after becoming infatuated with white supremacist ideology he encountered online.
“I constantly think about what could have been done,” Mark Talley said at the families’ news conference, holding a photo of his slain mother, Geraldine Talley, 62. Her fiancé, who survived the shooting, saw her get shot to death, her son said.
Inaction on the threat of white supremacist violence, Talley said, led to last weekend’s bloodshed.
“It’s like Groundhog’s Day. We’ve seen this over and over again,” he said.
Stephen Belongia, the FBI’s lead agent in Buffalo, said at a news briefing that agents were still working to piece together Gendron’s motives and how he came to his extremist views. Investigators have been examining the online documents, which included a private diary on the chat platform Discord.
The diary said Gendron planned his attack in secret, with no outside help. A half-hour before opening fire, he invited a small group of people to see his writings, Discord said.
Fifteen Discord users accepted, according to a person familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to speak about it publicly.
It wasn’t clear how quickly those people saw what he’d written or whether any tried to alert law enforcement.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has authorized the state’s attorney general, Letitia James, to investigate whether social media companies that Gendron used were liable for “providing a platform to plan and promote violence.”
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Thursday that social media users can also play a role by speaking up when they see people posting violent or threatening content.
“You need to out these people,” he said at a briefing. “Expose those that are putting out those types of extreme views, and let us root them out.”
At the families’ news conference, Tirzah Patterson had another request.
“I need the village to help me raise and be here for my son,” she said, asking people to pray “that God gives us strength to go through this.”
“We are the village,” civil rights attorney Ben Crump chanted, encouraging the other victims’ family members to join in.
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PLEASANTON, Calif., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cowbell Cyber the leading provider of cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), is proud to announce that Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry's leading electronic information security magazine has named Cowbell the "Best Product in Cyber Insurance" in it's 10th Annual Global InfoSec Awards. Cyber Defense Magazine named Cowbell a winner on the opening day of the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
"Cowbell Cyber is dedicated to not only providing cyber insurance to businesses of all sizes but arming them with the tools needed to prevent cyber attacks in the first place," said Isabelle Dumont, SVP of Marketing and Technology Partners at Cowbell Cyber. "This recognition from Cyber Defense Magazine is proof that we are achieving our goal of providing the best cyber insurance product on the market for all businesses."
Cowbell's solution is built on the foundation of AI-based, continuous risk assessment. The process informs underwriting for cyber and every finding is shared with the customers so they benefit from insights provided to mitigate any security weakness. The result is policies aligned with the evolving cyber risk exposures of the customers due to ever-evolving threats and expanded digital footprints.
"Cowbell Cyber embodies three major features we judges look for to become winners: understanding tomorrow's threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach," said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.
The judging panel consists of CISSP, FMDHS, CEH, and other certified security professionals who voted based on their independent review of the company submitted materials on the website of each submission including but not limited to data sheets, white papers, product literature and other market variables.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — As Sri Lanka’s crisis reached its climax this weekend, two men in the center of the turmoil brought about by the country’s economic collapse promised they would heed the call of tens of thousands of angry protesters and resign.
One is President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the last of six members of the country’s most influential family who was still clinging to power.
The other is Rajapaksa’s chosen prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, a seasoned opposition politician who was brought in to steer the country out of the abyss.
On Saturday, massive crowds descended on the capital, Colombo, broke into Rajapaksa’s official residence and occupied his seaside office. Hours later, as leaders of political parties in Parliament called for both leaders to step down, protesters also stormed Wickremesinghe’s residence and set it on fire.
The culmination of monthslong protests on Saturday led to both of them agreeing to step down. Rajapaksa, whose whereabouts are unknown, said he would leave office on Wednesday, according to the parliamentary speaker. Wickremesinghe said he would depart as soon as opposition parties agree on a unity government.
Here is a closer look at their rise and fall:
GOTABAYA RAJAPAKSA
For decades, the powerful land-owning Rajapaksa family had dominated local politics in their rural southern district before Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected president in 2005. Appealing to the nationalist sentiment of the island’s Buddhist-Sinhalese majority, he led Sri Lanka into a triumphant victory over ethnic Tamil rebels in 2009, ending a 26-year brutal civil war that had divided the country. His younger brother, Gotabaya, was a powerful official and military strategist in the Ministry of Defense.
Mahinda remained in office until 2015, when he lost to the opposition led by his former aide. But the family made a comeback in 2019, when Gotabaya won the presidential election on a promise to restore security in the wake of the Easter Sunday terrorist suicide bombings that killed 290 people.
He vowed to bring back the muscular nationalism that had made his family popular with the Buddhist majority, and to lead the country out of an economic slump with a message of stability and development.
Instead, he made a series of fatal mistakes that ushered in an unprecedented crisis.
As tourism plunged in the wake of the bombings and foreign loans on controversial development projects — including a port and an airport in the president’s home region — needed to be repaid, Rajapaksa disobeyed economic advisers and pushed through with the largest tax cuts in the country’s history. It was meant to spur spending, but critics warned it would slash the government’s finances. Pandemic lockdowns and an ill-advised ban on chemical fertilizers further hurt the fragile economy.
The country soon ran out of money and couldn’t repay its huge debts. Shortages of food, cooking gas, fuel and medicine stoked public anger at what many saw as mismanagement, corruption and nepotism.
The family’s unravelling began in April, when growing protests forced three Rajapaksa relatives, including the finance minister, to quit their Cabinet posts and another to leave his ministerial job. In May, government supporters attacked protesters in a wave of violence that left nine dead. The anger of the protesters turned to Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was pressured to resign as prime minister and took refuge on a heavily fortified naval base.
But Gotabaya refused to go, triggering chants in the streets of “Gota Go Home!” Instead, he saw his savior in Ranil Wickremesinghe.
RANIL WICKREMESINGHE
A six-time prime minister, Wickremesinghe’s latest stint was arguably the most challenging. Appointed in May by Rajapaksa, he was brought in to help restore international credibility as his government negotiated a bailout package with the International Monetary Fund.
Wickremesinghe, who also was the finance minister, became the public face of the crisis, delivering weekly addresses in Parliament as he kicked off difficult negotiations with financial institutions, lenders and allies to fill the coffers and give some relief to impatient citizens.
He raised taxes and pledged to overhaul a government that had increasingly concentrated power under the presidency, a model many say tipped the country into crisis.
In his new job, he left little doubt about the grave future ahead. “The next couple of months will be the most difficult ones of our lives,” he told Sri Lankans in early June, a few weeks before he said in Parliament that the country had hit rock bottom. “Our economy has completely collapsed,” he said.
Ultimately, observers say, he lacked both political heft and public support to get the job done. He was a one-man party in Parliament – the only lawmaker from his party to hold a seat after it suffered a humiliating defeat in a 2020 election.
His reputation had already been sullied by his previous stint as prime minister, when he was in a difficult power-sharing arrangement with then-President Maithripala Sirisena. A communication breakdown between them was blamed for intelligence lapses that led to the 2019 terror attack.
With no respite for people waiting in line for fuel, food and medicine, Wickremesinghe became increasingly unpopular. Many of the protesters say his appointment simply put off pressure on Rajapaksa to resign. But analysts are doubtful whether a new leader can do much more, instead fearing that the political uncertainty will only intensify the crisis. | https://www.wowktv.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/president-and-pm-2-men-at-heart-of-sri-lankan-crisis/ | 2022-07-10 17:40:31 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/president-and-pm-2-men-at-heart-of-sri-lankan-crisis/ |
UCLA Center for SMART Health convenes national experts to address key issues in healthcare data science
LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hearst Health, in partnership with the UCLA Center for SMART Health, today announced that the judges for the 2023 Hearst Health Prize will be featured in a panel discussion at UCLA Health Data Day on May 11, 2023. To attend this event, register at: https://it.uclahealth.org/ucla-health-data-day-2023
The Hearst Health Prize is an annual award that recognizes data science projects and programs demonstrating improved health outcomes for U.S. populations. The competition attracts a diverse set of applications from across the nation, which are evaluated by UCLA reviewers and a distinguished panel of judges. Submissions are scored based on each program's:
- Health impact or outcome
- Data science approach
- Operational and financial sustainability
- Scalability and generalizability
- Mitigation of bias
- Significance of the problem and solution
The 2023 Hearst Health Prize judges, who will be featured panelists at UCLA Health Data Day, include:
- Ivelyse Andino, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Radical Health: A nationally recognized leader in patient advocacy, Andino is a health equity strategist building community at the intersection of health, equity, and technology. Her work has helped bridge the gap between systemically marginalized communities and the medical system. www.radical-health.com/ivelyse
- Alex Bui, PhD, Co-director of the UCLA Center for SMART Health: Bui is a Professor of Radiological Sciences, Bioengineering, and Bioinformatics and holds the David Geffen Chair in Informatics. His primary research interests include distributed health information systems, including mHealth; methods using observational data sources, including translational applications and evaluation of AI-based methods for healthcare; and data visualization. smarthealth.ucla.edu/people/alex-bui
- Arash Naeim, MD, PhD, Co-director of the UCLA Center for SMART Health: Naeim is a clinical oncologist and informaticist, and among his leadership roles, he is a professor at UCLA's engineering and medical schools. His research interests included outcomes research, cost-effectiveness analysis, modeling of health and frailty, and clinical trial design. smarthealth.ucla.edu/people/arash-naeim
- Jennifer K. Wagner, JD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Law, Policy, and Engineering at Penn State: Wagner is a multidisciplinary expert whose research has been focused on the international human right to science, including human-centered design and matters of nondiscrimination, privacy, and equity with genomics and digital health technologies. pennstatelaw.psu.edu/faculty/wagner
The panel will be moderated by Gregory Dorn, MD, MPH, president of Hearst Health. "Every year, we are encouraged by the advancements made in data science in healthcare, and we are honored for these premier experts to serve as judges for the Hearst Health Prize."
"As advanced technologies emerge and new use cases are explored, it is more important than ever that we understand the health impact these technologies can have," said Bui. Naeim added, "We are excited about the great lineup of speakers and panelists at our annual symposium and look forward to hearing more about the achievements and progress in this field."
"Interdisciplinary collaborations are important as data science is adopted," said Andino. "Thoughtfulness and great intentionality must be applied to new technologies to ensure consumers of all backgrounds have access to the best healthcare experience and outcomes."
"As we consider the scale and impact of data science in healthcare, we are circumspect of the ethical considerations for individuals and groups," said Wagner. "Sharing learnings and best practices in a national forum is important for advancing the science while staying true to the mission of healthcare."
The Hearst Health Prize is offered in partnership with the UCLA Center for SMART Health, and identifies and rewards data science programs making a measurable difference in human health; it is not a grant program. The winner of the 2023 Hearst Health Prize will be announced at UCLA Health Data Day and will be awarded $100,000. To attend UCLA Health Data Day, register at: https://it.uclahealth.org/ucla-health-data-day-2023
For more information about the Hearst Health Prize, visit: https://go.hearsthealth.hearst.com/Hearst-Health-Prize-23jdg
About UCLA Health Data Day
The UCLA Center for SMART Health and UCLA Health Office for Health Informatics and Analytics are pleased to collaborate in offering an annual symposium showcasing compelling advancements and applications of data science in clinical care. The conference is open to professionals and researchers in healthcare data science and clinical informatics. To view the agenda and register for this free event, visit: https://smarthealth.ucla.edu/ucla-health-data-day-2023
About Hearst Health
The mission of Hearst Health is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person's health journey. Care guidance from Hearst Health reaches the majority of people in the U.S. The Hearst Health network includes FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health, MCG, Homecare Homebase and MHK. Hearst also holds a minority interest in the precision medicine and oncology analytics company M2GEN. Follow Hearst Health on Twitter @HearstHealth and LinkedIn @Hearst-Health.
About the UCLA Center for SMART Health
The UCLA Center for Systematic, Measurable, Actionable, Resilient, and Technology-driven (SMART) Health is a campus-wide collaborative that looks to the integrated transformation of healthcare through emergent data and technologies. A joint effort between the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the Institute for Precision Health (IPH), and the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences that brings together UCLA's experts to shape how digital and data-driven healthcare technologies will help to manage risk, reliability, resilience, uncertainty, and precision in future biomedical research and clinical care.
Contacts
- Rochelle Cross, Hearst Health, rcross@hearst.com
- David Sampson, UCLA Health, dsampson@mednet.ucla.edu
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MCKINNEY, Texas, March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Globe Life Inc. (NYSE: GL) today announced it will renew its endowment to UT Southwestern Medical Center, one of the premier academic medical centers in the nation. As part of its purpose-driven mission to help Make Tomorrow Better, Globe Life has pledged $300,000 in support of the organization. Since 2013, Globe Life has provided an endowment in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UT Southwestern.
Endowment deposits are placed in the Globe Life Community Medicine Fund and are used for funding family medicine initiatives led by UT Southwestern.
"At age 40, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer. With the support of my colleagues at Globe Life and the excellent care I received at UTSW, I beat cancer and have been in remission for over ten years. I am truly grateful for the caring physicians, nurses, and support staff who make UTSW such an outstanding facility," said Joel Scarborough, Corporate Senior Vice President, Legal and Compliance, Globe Life.
The commitment of UT Southwestern to education, research, and patient care is remarkable and Globe Life has been proud to play a part in those efforts.
About Globe Life
Globe Life Inc. is a holding company specializing in life and supplemental health insurance for lower-middle to middle-income Americans marketed through multiple distribution channels including direct-to-consumer and exclusive and independent agencies. With a mission to Make Tomorrow Better, Globe Life is the top volume issuer of ordinary individual life insurance policies in the U.S. and has more life insurance policies in force than any other insurance company.* Globe Life's insurance subsidiaries include American Income Life, Family Heritage Life, Globe Life And Accident Company, Liberty National Life, and United American. More information is available at GlobeLifeInsurance.com.
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TUCSON, Ariz., May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXDX) announced today that Chief Executive Officer, Jack Phillips, will present at the 42nd Annual William Blair Growth Stock Conference on Thursday, June 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM Central Time.
A live audiocast of the session will be accessible through the company's investor relations website at ir.axdx.com. A replay of the audiocast will be available for at least 30 days following the conference.
About Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.
Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. is an in vitro diagnostics company dedicated to providing solutions for the global challenges of antimicrobial resistance and sepsis. The Accelerate Pheno® system and Accelerate Arc™ system are designed to reduce the time clinicians must wait to determine the most optimal antibiotic therapy for bacteremic patients. These diagnostic systems are designed to serve clinical laboratories with automated solutions to expedite time to identification and antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) results directly from positive blood culture samples. Multiple external studies have proven that Accelerate solutions deliver results 1 to 2 days faster than existing methods, enabling clinicians to optimize antibiotic selection and dosage specific to the individual patient's infection, days earlier.
The "ACCELERATE DIAGNOSTICS" and "ACCELERATE PHENO" and "ACCELERATE PHENOTEST" and "ACCELERATE ARC" and diamond shaped logos and marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. For more information about the company, its products and technology, or recent publications, visit axdx.com.
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LCU announces new Worship Arts and Production degree
PINEVILLE, La. (LCU) - The Department of Music at Louisiana Christian University is pleased to announce a new degree program beginning Fall 2023: a Bachelor of Arts with an Emphasis in Worship Arts and Production.
This new degree is designed to prepare majors to be successful in music ministry, both during and between church services.
“In addition to receiving instruction of core music knowledge and working in ministry, coursework includes specialized classes that prepare students to work with musicians in worship contexts,” said Jacob Wittkopp, chair of the Division of Fine Art. “Through newly created music courses, students will gain experience working with sound equipment, recording and editing with digital music software, and creating digital music media.”
This degree program is unique from previous programs in that it equips students to use music technology and to implement multiple facets of music production, which are becoming increasingly valuable skills in a 21st-century landscape. The degree is an ideal fit for those who seek to lead church ministry, be involved with live sound and production, or to those seeking to become more involved with digital and recorded music media.
Media Production Associate Professor Jeff Young said almost every church has transitioned into the electronic age of worship. Young, who is also LCU’s director of technical production, said this degree will enable students to be well-versed in lighting, sound, graphics and video production.
“When a student learns to direct music and couples it with an understanding of the technical arts, there is a higher opportunity of success in the local church,” Young said.
To create this degree, LCU invited input from worship leaders. Caleb Willis, a 2016 LCU graduate and worship minister at Fairview Baptist Church in Alpha, served on the advisory committee.
“In our state, there is a great need to raise up a new generation of worship leaders,” Willis said. “A few years ago, I read a book that talked about a study of the fastest-growing churches in America. One of the common denominators was ‘Celebration Worship.’ In all these churches, people were gathering in a corporate worship service and passionately worshipping the Lord with one voice.”
LCU is uniquely equipped to educate and train worship leaders to have a generational impact.
“We are praying that God would use this program to equip a wide range of churches that exist in our state,” Willis said. “From the faithful country church to the sprawling urban church, we need leaders that will challenge people to worship with their heart, soul, mind, and strength.”
President Dr. Rick Brewer said LCU’s Worship Arts and Production program will equip future worship leaders with the requisite skills to effectively respond to the needs of the local church today and into the future.
“We have intentionally designed this program to offer a solid blend of technology, music and theology amplifying our commitment to academic excellence in a Christ-centered environment,” Brewer said. “Church leaders can confidently send future worship leaders to LCU for relevant training and spiritual development.”
For more information about this program, email music@lcuniversity.edu.
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‘Deep sadness’: Deputy on life support after suffering brain injury while training
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) - Authorities in Florida say a deputy is on life support after recently suffering a serious brain injury.
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Michael Milmerstadt developed a severe headache on Monday after a training session at the gym.
Authorities said Milmerstadt’s headache was later determined to be a serious brain injury.
On Thursday, the sheriff’s office shared an update on Milmerstadt’s condition stating that his family has said goodbye to him while he remains on life support.
“It is with deep sadness that we inform you Deputy Milmerstadt’s family has said goodbye to him. Mike remains on life support because it’s his wish and their wish that he provides a chance at life to others through organ donation,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Office shared.
The sheriff’s office said a GoFundMe has been created for Milmerstadt and his family.
Authorities said Milmerstadt has been with the sheriff’s office for seven years. He has worked as a deputy and as a member of the SWAT team.
Milmerstadt is reportedly the main source of income for his wife, Melanie, and their three young boys.
“Please keep his wife, their boys, and his loved ones in your thoughts,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Office shared.
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an improved attachment for an excavator that can be used to drive pilings for blow counts," said an inventor, from Yazoo City, Miss., "so I invented THE LEADER. My design would provide peace of mind for safety-conscious workers while avoiding major expenses related to an accident on a railroad bridge project."
The invention provides an effective attachment for an excavator. In doing so, it can be used to drive pilings for railroad bridgework. As a result, it increases safety, efficiency, and accuracy. It also reduces safety hazards associated with using a crane. The invention features a durable design that is easy to operate in conjunction with an excavator so it is ideal for the construction industry. Additionally, a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Jackson sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-JTK-161, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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IndyGo hosts first back-to-school night to sign students up for MyKey cards
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — IndyGo held its first back-to-school night to help families learn about the transit system and sign students up for the MyKey card.
Any student 18 or younger can get a MyKey card and ride the bus for half-price, and a second group of students can ride for free through a partnership with their high schools.
Younger students like Lillana Scruggs are still riding a traditional yellow school bus to elementary school every day, but has a my key card to ride the city bus with family for half-price.
“I like all the people on the bus and the bus drivers,” Scruggs said. “It makes me happy because it makes my heart feel great.”
Her mom, Latonya Barnett, said only paying half of the fare is an important cost-saving measure.
“That’s a bonus value for our family because we ride the bus often and we’re prepared while we’re riding the bus,” Barnett said.
Some schools in the city partner with IndyGo to transport older students to both school and other activities on the city bus for free.
“The card is gonna really help me get through all of my stuff and get to school, and everything,” Brandon Jordan, a 9th grade student at Purdue Poly Tech, said. “And I get to see a lot of things to do after school.”
Students with the free-fare card can use it outside of riding to and from school. Jordan Batterson, manager of special programs at IndyGo, said this gives high school students the freedom to get to extracurricular activities.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Kihei Clark sat in the locker room watching video on his phone, trying to figure out how Virginia could have avoided another early exit from the NCAA Tournament.
Five years to the day after losing as a No. 1 seed to 16th-seeded UMBC, the Cavaliers were eliminated in the first round as the higher-seeded team again Thursday — this time, falling 68-67 to 13th-seeded Furman.
Virginia hasn’t won an NCAA Tournament game since its 2019 triumph over Texas Tech for the title. Clark’s bad pass was intercepted by Garrett Hien in the closing seconds, leading to a wide-open 3-pointer that JP Pegues sank without hesitation.
Clark starred as a freshman on Virginia’s 2019 national title-winning team. His long career with the Cavaliers had a much more unsatisfying conclusion.
So, what would he have done differently?
“Call timeout, maybe could have threw it to Armaan (Franklin) on the right wing maybe,” Clark said. “He was open. Couldn’t see. It was a good trap.”
Coach Tony Bennett wasn’t surprised Clark patiently answered questions from reporters.
“This is part of the game. I’ve used this line before, but when you step between the lines, you take the good and you take the hard with it. You try to handle them both with dignity and respect,” Bennett said.
“I’ve loved coaching him in his career. He had the most amazing assist to get us to a Final Four. We would not be in this spot without him, all the success,” Bennett added. “He’s had an unbelievable career. You always look to that last moment, and there’s so many what-ifs and who knows.”
Making their first trip to the NCAA Tournament in 43 years, the Paladins (28-7) advanced to the second round in the South Region, where they will play fifth-seeded San Diego State (28-6) on Saturday. The Aztecs held off No. 12 seed Charleston 63-57.
“All year we’ve been saying that this team just knows how to win. … It’s an unbelievable moment,” Furman coach Bob Richey said.
“This game is — interesting might be the word I’d use,” Bennett said. “You feel like, we got it, we got it, and then all of a sudden in a moment’s notice, it changes at the end. That’s tough.”
Furman earned its first tournament berth since 1980 by beating Chattanooga for the Southern Conference title, capping a season-long quest to redeem itself after losing the league’s automatic berth to the Mocs in overtime on a 35-foot buzzer-beater last year.
“I couldn’t help but go back when I saw the shot in the air to a year ago. It’s just a reminder, like we said it all year, count on joy, and you don’t know timing of things. … This team has persevered, and they did it today,” Richey said. “It’s a microcosm of what they learned, and they just keep reliving the lesson and keep finding ways.”
In the aftermath of last year’s disappointment, Jalen Slawson and his best friend, Mike Bothwell, both decided to return for their fifth seasons with the Paladins. Slawson took over the game when Bothwell fouled out with just over six minutes remaining, scoring nine consecutive points to turn a 54-48 deficit into Furman’s first lead of the game, 57-54, with 5:02 to go.
Slawson, the Southern Conference player of the year, finished with 19 points, 10 rebounds and four assists.
“I told Mike that we weren’t going to let today be his last time putting a jersey on, and I know if roles were reversed, the same thing would have happened,” Slawson said. “It didn’t have to just be me. But the game was up there for the taking, and these guys told me they believed in me and told me I was being a little bit passive, told me to be a little bit more aggressive.”
The winning shot was Pegues’ only 3 of the game.
“As soon as I saw it go into Garrett Hien’s hands, I was like, I want the ball. I feel like those are moments I’ve created my whole life, and I feel like I’m built for,” Pegues said. “I had full belief that it was going in, and it did.”
Reece Beekman’s deep 3-pointer at the buzzer bounced off the rim and Virginia (25-8) was eliminated in the first round as the higher-seeded team for the third time in its past four NCAA tournaments. The Cavaliers were also a No. 4 seed two years ago, when they were beaten by 13th-seeded Ohio.
Kadin Shedrick led the Cavaliers with 15 points, 13 rebounds and four blocks. Beekman scored 14 and Isaac McKneely added 12.
Marcus Foster scored 14 points and Pegues and Bothwell both finished with 11 for Furman.
WHAT’S GOING ON
Pegues’ shot sent shock waves throughout the tournament.
Gradey Dick was shooting free throws late in the first half in Des Moines, Iowa, when the crowd roared, startling the Kansas freshman. Fans were reacting to the final seconds of the Furman-Virginia game being shown on the center-court video board. Dick made the first free throw, turned around and looked up at the video board to see what the commotion was about, and then sank the second. Another loud roar went up when time expired on the Furman upset, but it didn’t disrupt Kansas’ win over Howard because the teams were in a timeout.
UP NEXT
Furman: The Paladins made six appearances in the tourney between 1971 and 1980. Their only other victory came against South Carolina in 1974. Slawson doesn’t see any reason why the Southern Conference champions can’t win again.
“This team has done a great job making history all year,” Slawson said, “so you know, Saturday is going to be another chance to make history.”
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AP Sports Writer Eric Olson in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
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BREA, Calif., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Service Champions Group a national leading platform provider of Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning services today announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which it has agreed to acquire locally owned and family operated M and M Heating, Cooling, Plumbing and Electrical of Longmont, Colorado. Established in 1998 by Eric Meiers, M and M specializes in innovative and effective strategies to provide indoor air quality solutions for residential and commercial properties. This acquisition marks Service Champions' continued expansion and strengthened market position in the Denver metropolitan area adding to its 2021 acquisition of Swan Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. an established player in the Loveland and Denver metro areas.
Frank DiMarco, Service Champions' CEO continues to be firmly focused on the future and speaks of the M and M acquisition as well as new business opportunities with genuine excitement. "There is a common thread running through all the things we focus on at Service Champions and the companies we look to acquire. Growing our national footprint with the right partners is a must. The dedicated customer experience is paramount. Being the best in the business is in our DNA. There is a real meaning about what differentiates you and what makes you authentic. We look for those qualities and practices in the companies we look to partner with. M and M has been built from the ground up on those principles. Their day-to-day high standards of operation echo our culture and operating philosophy. The acquisition of M and M expands our ability to better deliver compelling services to more consumers in greater Denver. Our collective goal is to provide the best service to every homeowner in our served markets. M and M is a trusted brand with that shared purpose. We are proud to add M and M to the growing list of brand names operating under the Service Champions umbrella of businesses," said DiMarco.
M and M founder and president, Eric Meiers is honored by the Service Champions partnership. "We have long been admirers of Service Champions and have seen first-hand the level of service and professionalism surrounding their work. Their teams continually strive to provide effective strategies to ensure immediate and long-term improvement to the homes of their customers. They also take care of their own. It's about respecting and honoring, but also about what drives the future. We carefully thought-through possible partners and did our due diligence when considering this acquisition. The Service Champions history, mission, values and culture speaks for itself. This is the right company at the right time. We look forward to playing a role in the future growth of this exceptional organization. It's a privilege to join Frank DiMarco, his team and the impressive legacy of Service Champions," said Meiers.
The acquisition of M and M continues Service Champions' commitment as a premiere home services company to further enhance and grow its national footprint providing best in class service to customers and communities throughout the United States. Service Champions is a portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners. Clew Partners originated the transaction and served as advisor to Service Champions.
Based in Orange County, CA, Service Champions is a leading provider of essential home services specializing in heating, air conditioning and plumbing services. With the mission to maintain long term relationships with its customers, Service Champions is dedicated to delivering timely, high-quality services across a comprehensive suite of HVAC and plumbing products. Service Champions goes to market with several trade names including Adeedo!, ASI, Bell Brothers, HELP, Hobaica, Howard Air, Jet, JW Plumbing Heating and Air, Moore Home Services, ProSkill Services, Scottsdale Air, Service Champions, Service Wizard, Sierra Air, Swan Heating & Air Conditioning and Timo's Air Conditioning & Heating. For more information, please visit https://partnerships.servicechampions.com.
Odyssey Investment Partners, with offices in New York and Los Angeles, is a leading private equity investment firm with more than a 25-year history of partnering with skilled managers to transform middle-market companies into more efficient and diversified businesses with strong growth profiles. Odyssey makes majority-controlled investments in industries with a long-term positive outlook and favorable secular trends. For further information about Odyssey, please visit www.odysseyinvestment.com.
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro clashed in their first one-on-one debate Sunday, two weeks before the presidential election’s runoff.
Debates in the election’s first round featured several other candidates, none of whom garnered more than 5% of the Oct. 2 vote. During the debates, they were largely distractions from the two obvious frontrunners.
On Sunday, the two repeatedly called each other liars during an encounter lasting about 1 ½ hours. The term was used more than a dozen times by each of the candidates in the TV Band debate that, otherwise, was less aggressive than many analysts had expected.
“You are a liar. You lie every day,” da Silva said during one exchange. Bolsonaro frequently said: “You can’t come here to tell people these lies.”
Earlier this month, da Silva, who is universally known as Lula, won the election’s first round with 48% of the vote compared to Bolsonaro’s 43%. Polls indicate the leftist former president, who governed between 2003-2010, remains the frontrunner, though his lead has shrunk considerably.
Each candidate focused on the issues that, according to polls, represent their adversary’s weak points: for Bolsonaro, the COVID-19 pandemic that killed 680,000 Brazilians, and for da Silva, corruption scandals involving his Workers’ Party.
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- Fast Track designation granted by U.S. FDA for evaluation of darovasertib in combination with crizotinib in adult patients being treated for metastatic uveal melanoma (MUM)
- Enables darovasertib / crizotinib development program to access expedited regulatory review processes, including potential eligibility for accelerated approval / priority review
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEAYA Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDYA), a synthetic lethality focused precision medicine oncology company committed to the discovery and development of targeted therapeutics, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to IDEAYA's development program investigating darovasertib, a potential first-in-class protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor, for use in combination with crizotinib, an investigational cMET inhibitor, for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic uveal melanoma.
"We are extremely pleased to receive the U.S. FDA Fast Track designation as we prepare to initiate a potential Phase 2/3 registrational trial to evaluate the darovasertib and crizotinib combination in patients with MUM. The Fast Track designation acknowledges MUM as a serious condition and the potential for the darovasertib / crizotinib combination to treat this unmet medical need," said Dr. Darrin Beaupre, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at IDEAYA Biosciences.
Fast Track is a U.S. FDA process designed to facilitate the development and expedite the review of drugs to treat serious conditions and fill an unmet medical need. Under the Fast Track designation, the darovasertib / crizotinib development program in MUM is eligible for various expedited regulatory review processes, including generally more frequent FDA interactions (e.g., meetings, written communications), potential eligibility for rolling review of a New Drug Application (NDA) and potential accelerated approval and priority review of an NDA.
Darovasertib was previously also designated as an Orphan Drug by the U.S. FDA in Uveal Melanoma (UM), including in MUM, entitling IDEAYA to certain potential tax credits, exemptions from user fees, and statutory marketing exclusivity.
IDEAYA is targeting initiation of a potential registration-enabling trial for the darovasertib and crizotinib combination in MUM in Q1 2023, subject to FDA feedback and guidance.
IDEAYA is also planning to initiate a company-sponsored Phase 1 clinical trial in Q4 2022 to evaluate darovasertib monotherapy in neoadjuvant UM patients. The preliminary development approach contemplates clinical endpoints such as organ preservation and/or vision preservation proximal to primary interventional treatments. Additional information on the company's plans to evaluate darovasertib, including scientific insights and clinical development opportunities in the neoadjuvant setting, will be highlighted in an Investor R&D Day webcast being hosted by IDEAYA on December 12, 2022, at 8:00 am - 9:30 am ET. Registration is available at https://ir.ideayabio.com/events or https://lifescievents.com/event/ideaya-rd-day/.
IDEAYA is a synthetic lethality-focused precision medicine oncology company committed to the discovery and development of targeted therapeutics for patient populations selected using molecular diagnostics. IDEAYA's approach integrates capabilities in identifying and validating translational biomarkers with drug discovery to select patient populations most likely to benefit from its targeted therapies. IDEAYA is applying its early research and drug discovery capabilities to synthetic lethality – which represents an emerging class of precision medicine targets.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements related to (i) the timing of initiating a potential registration-enabling trial for the darovasertib and crizotinib combination in MUM, (ii) the timing of initiating a company-sponsored Phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate darovasertib monotherapy in neoadjuvant UM patients, and (iii) the timing and content of IDEAYA's Investor R&D Day webcast. IDEAYA undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to the business of IDEAYA in general, see IDEAYA's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 8, 2022, and any current and periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Hong Kong and Macao will fully reopen borders with mainland China
By Michelle Toh and Wayne Chang, CNN
China will fully reopen borders with its special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao next week, in what is expected to be a major boost for the economies of the two cities.
From Monday, travelers entering mainland China from Hong Kong or Macao will no longer need to provide proof of negative Covid tests, as long as they have not traveled abroad in the previous week, the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office said in a Friday statement. Daily quotas on the number of travelers will also be scrapped.
The resumption of normal travel is expected to provide much support to the battered economies of the two cities. Hong Kong is a major international financial center, and, before the pandemic, Macao was the world’s casino capital.
Hong Kong’s economy contracted last year, according to preliminary government data, shrinking by 3.5% compared to 2021. The city’s GDP fell 4.2% in the fourth quarter, significantly more than economists’ forecasts.
Over the past three years, limited cross-border travel to mainland China has been listed as the top concern for businesses across the city, according to industry groups.
Businesses began seeing some relief last month, when residents of Hong Kong and mainland China were permitted to resume two-way, quarantine-free travel.
Under the partial reopening, travelers were required to test negative for Covid-19 and make online bookings for trips in advance under a daily quota system.
That is now no longer required, Hong Kong Chief Secretary Chan Kwok-ki said at a press conference Friday, adding that both sides would soon be able to get back to “normal travel.”
With restrictions removed, Hong Kong could ultimately see a boost of 3% or 4% to economic growth, according to Frederic Neumann, HSBC’s chief Asia economist, citing spending by mainland Chinese tourists.
Goldman Sachs analysts are also expecting the city to turn a corner soon.
“We stay optimistic on Hong Kong’s economic recovery,” they wrote in a note this week, adding that they were expecting 3.5% growth this year due to the “border reopening with mainland China and removal of most social distancing measures.”
Hong Kong is working to rebuild its status as a global business hub.
On Thursday, the city’s leader John Lee announced the government would give away as many as 500,000 free airline tickets to bring back tourists, in what he called “the world’s biggest welcome ever.”
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Vibrant African clothes, both traditional and contemporary, enlivened the catwalk in Burkina Faso’s fashion week.
Designers say they are striving to make the West African country become known as an emerging fashion hub, to offset its reputation for its recent coup and ongoing conflict with Islamic extremists. Some of the shows were staged on a central street of Ouagadougou, the capital, where residents lined up to see models strut designs for women and men.
The small West African nation hosted its third Ouaga Fashion Week — the first since the pandemic forced its delay. The colorful four-day show closed Sunday amid surging jihadi violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group that’s killed thousands.
When the capital was hit by frequent power cuts, models and designers used the lights of their cell phones to put on makeup and fix their hair.
Some 35 designers — chosen from about 200 applicants — from West Africa and Europe, showcased their clothes in the capital, Ouagadougou. For the first time the majority of designers, about 75%, were from Burkina Faso, said Alex Zabsonre, director of the event.
“Burkina is one of the African countries that has a lot of potential to offer as far as fashion is concerned … That is the reason why I set this project up, to expose Burkina designers and get them recognized at the international level,” he said.
Many of the designs featured Burkina Faso’s traditional, handwoven Faso Dan Fani cloth made from cotton, which Zabsonre says has been worn by celebrities including singer Beyonce and fashion designer, Stella McCartney. The country is one of the top 10 cotton exporters in the world accounting for an average of 3% of global exports since 2000, according to the U.N.
Fashion in the country has evolved in recent years so that people have become more clothes-conscious, said Korotimi Dao, fashion designer and founder of Koro DK Style.
“Fashion week is not a challenge, it’s an opportunity to hope that everything can become right again,” she said.
Since 2017 the European Union has given $10 million to the Ethical Fashion Project, which has created hundreds of jobs for marginalized women and helps professionalize the textile and creative industry by connecting Burkina Faso producers and designers to the distinguished fashion and interior designers, Wolfram Vetter, ambassador to the European Union in Burkina Faso told The Associated Press.
“It’s time for these unrecognized artisans to play a part in the global fashion arena so that these crafts, traditions and cultures stay alive,” said Mallika Chaudhuri, founder and director of INDOI, a Britain-based womenswear brand. “We need to celebrate, revive and maintain local craft where designers and makers work together so that we move towards a more ethical and sustainable fashion industry.” | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/burkina-faso-fashion-designers-more-to-nation-than-conflict/ | 2022-05-17 05:02:17 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/burkina-faso-fashion-designers-more-to-nation-than-conflict/ |
LINCOLN, Neb. — A Nebraska man was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison for making online threats against Colorado’s top elections official, one of the first cases brought by a federal task force devoted to protecting elections workers nationwide from rising threats.
The sentence came the same day an Iowa man was arrested for allegedly leaving voicemail threats for an Arizona official and the Arizona’s Attorney General’s Office.
In Nebraska, Travis Ford was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, where he lives. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to sending threats to Secretary of State Jena Griswold on social media. It was the first guilty plea obtained by the U.S. Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force, launched last year after the 2020 presidential contest amid concerns about the potential effect on democracy of threats against election officials and workers.
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A national advocate for elections security, Griswold has received thousands of threats over her insistence the 2020 election was secure despite false claims by former President Donald Trump it was stolen.
Ford must report to a federal prison Jan. 11 and later complete a year of post-prison supervision.
Ford told the court Thursday he accepts responsibility for his actions and understands they were wrong. “I’m ashamed, and I’m embarrassed for not only putting myself but my family through this,” he said.
Griswold said violent threats cannot become an accepted norm.
“People who threaten election officials must be held accountable,” her statement said. “Threats are being used to try to intimidate election officials from doing their jobs in an effort to destabilize democracy.
Attorney General Merrick Garland also released a statement declaring, “This sentence makes clear that those who illegally threaten election workers should be prepared to face meaningful penalties.”
Federal prosecutors had sought a two-year prison sentence, citing “a genuine need for general deterrence here.” Investigators discovered Ford made the threats numerous times last year over an Instagram account started by his brother to which Ford gained access. Prosecutors also said Ford made death threats against President Joe Biden and an unspecified technology company CEO. Ford was not charged for those allegations.
His attorney, Jason Troia, had sought a shorter sentence. He said Ford had a favorable employment record, the threats were out of character and that Ford made them under duress because COVID-19 vaccine mandates fueled his antigovernment sentiment.
U.S. District Judge John M. Gerrard rejected those pleas, saying there’s “nothing special” about being steadily employed and noting Ford made 18 serious threats over three months. He called arguments over vaccine mandates “complete nonsense.”
Prosecutors said Ford sent Griswold a series of threatening messages over Instagram in August. One read, “Do you feel safe? You shouldn’t.” Another read: “Your security detail is far too thin and incompetent to protect you. This world is unpredictable these days … anything can happen to anyone.”
Federal officials said there was little to explain why Ford made such threats, noting he has a loving relationship with his family and fiancé, is in good health and earned a good living.
“Although the government does not currently have reason to believe that defendant will commit similar offenses here in the future, threats to elections workers across the country are an ongoing and very serious problem,” prosecutors said.
They added one recent survey found one in six election officials have experienced threats because of their job, and 77 percent said they feel the volume of threats has increased in recent years.
The judge said he reduced Ford’s sentence to 18 months only because he has no criminal history and his remorse appears genuine.
Also Thursday, the Justice Department announced the arrest of Mark Rissi, 64, of Hiawatha, Iowa, on suspicion of leaving a voicemail in September 2021 for Republican Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman. Prosecutors say Rissi’s message threatened to lynch Hickman.
“This wasn’t a prank call. This wasn’t protected speech. This was a serious threat to me and my family,” Hickman said Thursday in a statement, which called out other Arizona leaders for what he called their silence as election officials endured two years of threats.
Prosecutors say Rissi left a voicemail weeks later with the Arizona Attorney General claiming the 2020 general election in Arizona was fraudulent and telling prosecutors, “Do your job ... or you will hang with those (expletive) in the end. We will see to it. Torches and pitchforks. That’s your future.”
Election officials in Arizona and other battleground states have been subjected to threats and intimidation by some Trump supporters since the 2020 election.
Rissi — who was to appear in an Iowa federal court Thursday — faces up to five years in prison if convicted of each of two counts of making a threatening interstate communication and up to two years for a single count of making a threatening telephone call.
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Destrehan, Louisiana couple recognized for commitment to healthy, active living
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SilverSneakers® by Tivity Health®, the nation's leading community fitness program for older Americans, announced today the national winner of its 18th annual SilverSneakers Member of the Year Award. The award honors a SilverSneakers member or members who inspire and motivate other seniors through health, physical activity, and community.
This year's recipient is a couple—Mary and Larry St. Germain of Destrehan, LA. The St. Germains are recognized for their embodiment of wellness through movement, social engagement and community involvement.
Married for 59 years, the couple is committed to staying active through SilverSneakers because of Larry's family history of heart disease and his suffering a heart attack at only 42 years old. The St. Germains have been SilverSneakers members for ten years and attend multiple classes a week at Destrehan Anytime Fitness. The couple attends SilverSneakers classes as a benefit through Humana, their Medicare Advantage plan.
"Mary and Larry St. Germain represent the great group of Member of the Year nominees who inspire and encourage others to improve their health through physical activity. We are thrilled to honor them as SilverSneakers' Member of the Year," said Richard Ashworth, president and CEO of Tivity Health. "The St. Germains exemplify the tremendous strength and commitment our members have to maintain their health and vitality."
Larry loves community engagement and often dresses up as Batman to entertain children at schools and church fairs, even working with Make-A-Wish Foundation to help make a local boy's wish come true. Recently, Mary had a knee replacement. Her doctor attributed her ability to bounce back quickly to her activity with SilverSneakers and encouraged her to get back to working out as soon as she could.
"The past 11 years have meant a lot to us. Experiencing a heart attack at 42 was a wake-up call, and I owe everything to SilverSneakers for allowing me to be as active as I am in my health right now," said Larry St. Germain. "If we can change one person's idea about being active at our age, then we did our job of making a difference."
"It's such an unbelievable, amazing feeling to receive such an honorable award – it really means the world to us," said Mary St. Germain. "Our fellow gym members and teachers are family, and their votes and support made this possible."
The St. Germains will be honored alongside nine other SilverSneakers members who were selected as finalists for the award. A public online vote determined the national winner. Read more about the SilverSneakers Member of the Year winner and finalists: SilverSneakers.com/MOYAward.
Over the past two years, many SilverSneakers members have transitioned to live, instructor-led and On-Demand virtual classes to help them stay connected and keep active while also staying safe. SilverSneakers currently offers thousands of live virtual classes each week in addition to a network of over 22,000 fitness locations nationwide.
Currently, more than 18 million Americans are eligible for SilverSneakers at no additional cost through Medicare Advantage, group retiree and Medicare Supplement plans. SilverSneakers encourages members to participate in health and fitness programs through a wide variety of offerings that include strength training, aerobic workouts, and flexibility exercises designed specifically for a Medicare-eligible population. SilverSneakers members have free access to classes for all fitness levels led by SilverSneakers instructors, as well as opportunities to engage socially to help achieve optimal health.
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SilverSneakers®, by Tivity Health®, is the nation's leading community fitness program for Medicare eligible Americans. The program was founded in 1992 and is available to more than 18 million Americans through many Medicare Advantage plans, Medicare Supplement carriers, and group retiree plans. For more information, to check eligibility or to enroll in the program or sign up for a SilverSneakers newsletter, go to silversneakers.com.
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Tivity Health® Inc., is a leading provider of healthy life-changing solutions, including SilverSneakers®, Prime® Fitness and WholeHealth Living®. We help adults improve their health and support them on life's journey by providing access to in-person and virtual physical activity, social, and mental enrichment programs, as well as a full suite of physical medicine and integrative health services. We continue to enhance the way we direct members along their journey to better health by delivering an insights-driven, personalized, interactive experience. Our suite of services supports health plans nationwide as they seek to reduce costs and improve health outcomes. At Tivity Health, we deliver the resources members need to live healthier, happier, more connected lives. Learn more at www.tivityhealth.com.
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- Dataminr's partner ecosystem currently includes Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation, Esri, TD SYNNEX, and more
- The program will further accelerate global product adoption of Dataminr, more seamlessly integrate Dataminr alerts into enterprise workflows and offer the flexibility for corporations to procure Dataminr's products through trusted channel and reseller partners
NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dataminr, the world's leading real-time information discovery platform, today launched its global partner ecosystem, the Dataminr Partner Program. The program will dramatically expand Dataminr's customer reach across the corporate market, while also providing better enterprise workflow integration and the flexibility to procure Dataminr's products through trusted partners.
Dataminr's partner program makes it easier for corporations to operationalize Dataminr's AI Platform across their organization and more seamlessly integrate Dataminr alerts into their workflow. Additionally, this initiative will open up Dataminr's offerings to corporate enterprises in a growing set of commercial sectors and geographic regions through Channel Partners, and provide our signals to Platform Partners to power products for new corporate use cases including supply chain, logistics, fleet management, insurance and many more.
"The Dataminr Partner Program broadens our scale and reach through channel partners and reseller networks, delivers more value for our customers, and powers global sales through partners that can sell the Dataminr solution in their local region," said Aharon Weiner, SVP Global Partnerships, Dataminr. "The program will accelerate Dataminr's customer growth, optimize workflow integration, unlock new corporate use cases for our AI Platform, and also feature numerous benefits and incentives for partnerships with comprehensive partner resources."
Leading merchants and businesses including Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, TD SYNNEX, NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation—and long-time partner ESRI—are new participants in the partner ecosystem.
"We are proud to have the opportunity to be one of the first participants in the Dataminr Partner Program," said Cheryl Neal, Vice President of New Vendor Acquisition at TD SYNNEX. "Together with Dataminr, we will be able to enrich the breadth and depth of our offerings, ultimately maximizing the value of our customers' information and IT investments and unlocking growth for the future."
For new partners, comprehensive program benefits include:
- Flexible compensation models with competitive margins and margin protection
- Co-selling benefits such as joint business planning and joint account mapping
- Market development funds to drive demand and pipeline growth
- A library of resources that includes training and enablement, sales tools, marketing assets and more.
More information about the Dataminr Partner Program related resources can be found on Dataminr's Partner homepage. The program will continue to accept new partners and add resources to support a growing ecosystem that customers and partners can rely on.
Dataminr delivers the earliest warnings on high impact events and critical information far in advance of other sources. Recognized as one of the world's leading AI businesses, Dataminr enables faster response, more effective risk mitigation and stronger crisis management for public and private sector organizations spanning global corporations, first responders, NGOs, and newsrooms. Recently valued at $4.1B, Dataminr is one of New York's top private technology companies, with 900+ employees across eight global offices.
Since its founding in 2009, Dataminr has created the world's leading real-time information discovery platform, which detects digital patterns of emerging events and critical information from public data signals. Today, Dataminr's leading AI platform performs trillions of daily computations across billions of public data inputs from over 300,000 unique public data sources. The company has been recognized for its groundbreaking AI platform and rapid revenue growth by Forbes AI 50 and Deloitte Fast 500, and has been named to Forbes Cloud 100 for six consecutive years.
Alongside Dataminr's corporate product, Dataminr Pulse, the company provides public sector organizations with its First Alert product for first response, including the United Nations, which relies on First Alert in over 100 countries. Dataminr for News is used by more than 650 newsrooms and by over 30,000 journalists worldwide.
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LITCHFIELD PARK, AZ — A man is dead and three others, including a child, are hurt after what the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is calling an "assault" at a home in the West Valley.
MCSO officials say they received a call about a possible assault at a home near Dysart and Camelback roads just after midnight Sunday morning.
When deputies arrived, they found the suspect had assaulted a man, two women and a child.
Deputies forced their way into the home and took the suspect into custody.
While firefighters on scene were providing medical treatment to the victims, the man assaulted in the incident succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
One woman was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Another woman and a child were transported to the hospital for minor injuries.
No information has been released about the suspect, or what charges that person will be facing.
It's unclear what relationship the victims had with the suspect.
MCSO homicide detectives are investigating what led up to this incident. | https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/man-killed-three-others-hurt-in-assault-at-west-valley-home | 2023-05-28 14:39:02 | 1 | https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/man-killed-three-others-hurt-in-assault-at-west-valley-home |
A man was fatally shot Sunday night in Prince George’s County.
He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His identity was not released, pending notification of his family.
Police said they are looking for a suspect or suspects and trying to determine a motive in the case. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/20/man-shot-in-prince-georges-county/ | 2022-06-20 10:52:12 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/20/man-shot-in-prince-georges-county/ |
The Allen Police Department released footage Wednesday from the body camera worn by the officer who fatally shot the mass shooter who killed eight people last month at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas.
Mauricio Garcia, 33, started firing an AR-15-style rifle in the parking lot of Allen Premium Outlets on May 6 before making his way through the complex as shoppers and employees ran for cover, authorities said. An Allen police officer on a nearby call responded and fatally shot Garcia.
NOTE: The video in the media player is from a previous report.
"This video shows how quickly a routine interaction with the public turned into a life-and-death situation," Allen Police Chief Brian Harvey said in a statement released Wednesday. "The officer recognized the danger, ran toward the gunfire and neutralized the threat - and for his actions, the Allen community is forever grateful."
The video, just over five and a half minutes long, begins with an officer interacting with a family and telling children to remember to wear their seat belts when they hear shots being fired.
The officer quickly responds by calling in for backup as the family hurries away.
"I think we got shots fired at the outlet mall," the officer is heard saying. "People running."
The video then shows the officer returning to his vehicle to retrieve a rifle and then running toward the gunfire, warning people to leave.
"Go, go, get moving," he yelled. "Get out of here!"
As he moves closer to the sound of gunfire, the officer communicates through his radio that there was a mass shooter.
"145, I believe we've got a mass shooter," he said.
The officer could be heard on the video yelling for the shooter to drop his weapon as shots were being fired.
"I'm passing injured," he said.
Video shows the out-of-breath officer making his way close to the sounds of gunshots when he stops and fires his weapon multiple times.
"Shots fired by police, I got him down," he said. He continues firing and yells for the shooter to drop the gun.
The officer moves toward the downed shooter, and a second officer says, "He's dead."
The footage was released following a grand jury hearing Tuesday where a "no bill" was returned indicating that the use of force by police was justified under Texas law.
The video was edited by police to blur out the faces of civilians and victims, and some language has been removed, according to the statement.
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To be launched soon, the prepaid debit card will offer cash back with sustainable brands, charitable giveback, and eco-friendly rewards.
RALEIGH, N.C. , June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Karma Wallet, a sustainable fintech platform, today announced a partnership with Marqeta, a global modern card issuing platform, to launch a prepaid debit card solution, which will empower consumers to make a positive impact on the world while managing their finances.
The planned card will revolutionize the way conscious consumers interact with their money, providing them with a unique set of benefits that contribute to a more sustainable future. The reloadable Karma Wallet Card will offer cash back with local, ethical, and sustainable merchants, provide eco-friendly rewards, and educate consumers about the social and environmental impact of the companies they shop with.
What will set the Karma Wallet Card apart is its integration with Karma Wallet's impact data platform. The platform combines 30+ data sources, millions of data points, AI algorithms, and human researchers to rate 15,000+ brands on their social and environmental initiatives. This data-driven approach allows consumers to make informed purchasing decisions that are aligned with their values, enabling them to take action with their dollars and drive positive change.
"We live in an economy that puts profit above all else. We're proud to be building a financial product in which people, planet, and profit go hand-in-hand," said Kedar Karkare, Co-Founder at Karma Wallet. "Marqeta has the experience and scale to help us bring our innovative technology to more consumers, and we look forward to continuing our work together."
The financial industry has seen many shifts recently, marked by the rise of conscious consumerism and rising purchasing power of consumers that care more about social and environmental issues.
Through a seamless user experience, secure transactions, and sustainability rewards made possible by Marqeta's platform, the Karma Wallet Card will help users take control of their financial decisions and contribute to the change they want to see in the world.
"We are proud to partner with Karma Wallet to support the launch of a sustainable prepaid debit card, enabling them to create customized payments experiences for their customers with Marqeta's flexible platform," said Todd Pollak, Chief Revenue Officer, Marqeta. "This partnership reflects our deep appreciation and support of eco-conscious solutions and empowering individuals to make a positive impact on the environment while managing their finances."
About Karma Wallet: Karma Wallet is a financial platform that leverages cutting-edge technology and impact data to give consumers tools to be sustainable. The company evaluates thousands of companies on their social and environmental impact. Through Karma Wallet consumers can get personalized data around their carbon footprint, insights into their shopping habits, cash back, and sustainable rewards. Visit karmawallet.info or contact us at juliet@theimpactkarma.com for more information.
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IRVINE, Calif., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Starboard Realty Advisors is pleased to announce the $2.85 million sale of a newly constructed Kentucky Fried Chicken at 1440 E. Main Street, in Barstow, California. Starboard was represented by Matthew Mousavi of SRS National Net Lease Group, and Jeff Lin of Colliers International represented the Buyer.
The property is located on E. Main Street in Barstow, California, near the I-15, a major corridor between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Neighboring tenants include Dutch Bros Coffee, Taco Bell, McDonald's, and Burger King among others.
The property was a built-to-suit construction with a drive-through and opened for business in February 2022.
Starboard Realty Advisors, LLC, headquartered in Irvine, California, acquires, manages, develops and operates multi-family, multi-tenant retail shopping centers and single tenant triple net properties. Starboard is a privately held, fully integrated real estate firm, whose principals have more than 30 years of hands-on, cycle-tested experience in acquiring, developing, leasing, repositioning, managing, financing, and disposing of retail, multifamily, office and industrial real estate during which they have developed a network of relationships with brokers, sellers, retailers, and an array of other tenants. For more information, please visit www.starboard-realty.com.
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An angler works the waters of Harveys Creek Saturday as his bait bucket sits on the bank of the creek on the opening day of trout season.
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Fishermen wet their lines in the waters of Harveys Creek in West Nanticoke on the opening day of trout Saturday.
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John Reimard, 58, of Hunlock Creek pulls in a trout as he sat on a large rock on the bank of Harveys Creek in West Nanticoke. Reimard said he sat on that rock through a downpour early in the morning. He released most of the trout he caught, but he kept a 19 incher because of the size.
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Several trout are seen in the shallow water along the shoreline of Harveys Creek in West Nanticoke
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Trevor Hunsiker, 35, of Kingston works the waters of Harveys Creek in West Nanticoke under a light rain Saturday.
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Crowe report highlights financial challenges healthcare providers are currently facing
CHICAGO, Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare systems have found themselves in precarious financial standing due to a dramatic increase in the number of inpatient claims being denied by health insurers based on the lack of medical necessity, according to data collected by Crowe LLP. Crowe is a public accounting, consulting and technology firm in the U.S. with offices around the world. A new benchmarking report, "Who's Picking Up the Check?," analyzes information pulled by Crowe Revenue Cycle Analytics (RCA) software and reveals the financial implications of these level-of-care reimbursement disputes, which are particularly rising in frequency among the Medicare Advantage (MA) payor group.
Crowe RCA software monitors every patient financial transaction from more than 1,700 hospitals and 200,000 physicians for the purposes of automating hindsight, providing accounts receivable valuations and analyzing net revenue. Crowe leverages data gathered from clients on the Crowe RCA platform to monitor payor behaviors both within specific markets and nationally. Insights gleaned from this data aim to arm providers with actionable insights to support targeted performance discussions with their payors.
One of the most straightforward payor categories when it comes to assigning the appropriate level of care is traditional Medicare. MA plans, on the other hand, have adopted more restrictive criteria commonly used by commercial health insurance carriers and, according to the Crowe report, deny more inpatient hospital claims than all other payor types. Through November of 2022, the initial inpatient level-of-care claim denial rate for MA plans was 5.8% compared with 3.7% for all other payor categories. When isolating just the payors within the MA plan population, providers wrote off 8.5% of their inpatient revenue as uncollectible in comparison to 4.7% in 2021.
"In 2022 alone, clients in our benchmarking database wrote off $535.4 million on account of Medicare Advantage plan denials based on lack of medical necessity," said Colleen Hall, managing principal of the healthcare group at Crowe. "Given the immense popularity of these plans, healthcare providers will have to adjust their clinical operations and should ensure their revenue cycle and care management teams are in alignment on which denied claims should be prioritized when managing appeals."
The Crowe report also revealed:
- In 2021, providers wrote off 3.6% of their inpatient revenue as uncollectible. Through November 2022, that number jumped to 5.9% – a 64% increase.
- Through November 2022, the dollar value of initial clinical denials by payors represented 4.2% of billed inpatient dollars. That percentage is 18.5% higher than in 2021.
"One step that providers can take to try to prevent these reimbursement issues is to implement a physician adviser program to verify patient status and allow for peer-to-peer reviews to be completed when payors offer them," said Hall. "This could help alleviate the administrative burden placed on them to defend the level of care, so hospitals can allocate more of their resources to caring for their patients."
To download a copy of the latest Crowe RCA report, please visit "Who's Picking Up the Check?"
About Crowe Revenue Cycle Analytics (Crowe RCA) benchmarking data
Over 1,700 hospitals and more than 200,000 physicians use the Crowe RCA solution to capture every patient transaction for purposes of automating hindsight, providing accounts receivable valuations and analyzing net revenue. Crowe developed this proprietary benchmarking solution that monitors revenue cycle performance through normalized key performance indicators at healthcare organizations across 47 states and tracks over $800 billion in combined annual gross revenue.
About Crowe
Crowe LLP is a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities. The firm and its subsidiaries also help clients make smart decisions that lead to lasting value with its tax, advisory and consulting services, helping businesses uncover hidden opportunities in the market – no matter what challenges the markets present. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the best places to work in the U.S. As an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world, Crowe serves clients worldwide. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.
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Some evening and overnight wintry weather slid through the area but should not lead to any travel troubles with morning commuters. Light snow showers have moved out of the area and we have more sunshine on the way.
It will be cold sunshine with afternoon highs resembling early morning lows. A northwest breeze will continue to pump unseasonable cold into the area and Wednesday will also be a bit colder than yesterday.
Our next chance of wintry weather begins late tonight and early Thursday morning. As temperatures once again settle well below the freezing mark, snow showers will be getting started to the northwest.
Another potent cold front moving in will originate from the north which is why this next round will begin by impacting areas along and north of I-70. As the front slides south, a few of our Central Kansas counties will be impacted into the afternoon. By this time, temperatures should be above freezing so some rain will mix with the snow.
Areas farther south will be included in this chance by Thursday evening and during the overnight.
Most of this wintry weather will wrap up by early Friday morning. We may need to keep an eye on the commute but any snow accumulations should be less than an inch. Possibly up to an inch to the northwest where snow will start. Even though conditions will be drier by Friday, there will be a reinforcing blast of arctic air behind the front.
Friday will be the coldest day of the week but a nice warming trend will begin after that. Saturday will still be a chilly day but some highs will return to the 50s by Sunday.
The warmup continues into early next week and with the Sunflower State staying dry, any early local traveling for Thanksgiving should not include active weather. There may be some moisture nearby after Tuesday with temperatures staying close to average.
KSN Storm Track 3 Forecast from Meteorologist Ronelle Williams:
Wichita:
Today: Mostly sunny, breezy. Hi: 36 Wind: NW 10-20
Tonight: Mostly clear to partly cloudy. Lo: 21 Wind: W/SW 5-15
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy, breezy. 10% chance of light snow. Hi: 42 Wind: SW/N 10-20
Tomorrow Night: Mostly to partly cloudy. 10% chance of light snow. Lo: 19 Wind: N 5-15
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Fri: Hi: 30 Lo: 18 Partly cloudy, breezy.
Sat: Hi: 42 Lo: 23 Mostly sunny, breezy.
Sun: Hi: 48 Lo: 30 Mostly sunny, breezy.
Mon: Hi: 53 Lo: 32 Mostly sunny, breezy.
Tue: Hi: 54 Lo: 34 Partly cloudy, breezy.
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WASHINGTON — The Jan. 6 committee is set to highlight the way violent far-right extremists answered Donald Trump’s “siren call” to come to Washington for a big rally, as some now face rare sedition charges over the deadly U.S. Capitol attack and effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol siege convenes Tuesday for a public hearing probing what it calls the final phase of Trump’s multi-pronged effort to halt Joe Biden’s victory. As dozens of lawsuits and false claims of voter fraud fizzled, Trump tweeted the rally invitation, a pivotal moment, the committee said. The far-right Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and others now facing criminal charges readily answered.
“We will lay out the body of evidence that we have that talks about how the president’s tweet on the wee hours of December 19th of ‘Be there, be wild,’ was a siren call to these folks,” said one panel member, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., over the weekend on “Meet the Press.” In fact, Trump tweeted, “Be there, will be wild!”
Among those expected to testify is Stephen Ayres, who pleaded guilty last month to disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building. He admitted that on Jan. 2, 2021, he posted an image stating that Trump was “calling on us to come back to Washington on January 6th for a big protest.” Another witness is Jason Van Tatenhove, an ally of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes. The witnesses were confirmed by someone familiar with the testimony who spoke on condition of anonymity because the witnesses had not yet been announced.
This is the seventh hearing in a series that has presented numerous blockbuster revelations from the Jan. 6 committee. Over the past month, the panel has created a stark narrative of a defeated Trump “detached from reality,” clinging to his false claims of voter fraud and working feverishly to reverse his election defeat. It all culminated with the deadly attack on the Capitol, the committee said.
What the committee intends to probe Tuesday is whether the extremist groups, including the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and QAnon adherents who had rallied for Trump before, coordinated with White House allies for Jan. 6. The Oath Keepers have denied there was any plan to storm the Capitol.
The panel is also expected to highlight new testimony from Pat Cipollone, the former White House counsel, who “was aware of every major move” Trump was making, said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who will lead the session.
It’s the only hearing set for this week, as new details emerge. An expected prime-time hearing Thursday has been shelved for now.
This week’s session comes after former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson provided stunning accounts under oath of an angry Trump who knowingly sent armed supporters to the Capitol on Jan. 6 and then refused to quickly call them off as violence erupted, siding with the rioters as they searched menacingly for Vice President Mike Pence.
Trump has said Cassidy’s account is not true. But Cipollone at Friday’s private session did not contradict earlier testimony. Raskin said the panel planned to use “a lot” of Cipollone’s testimony.
The panel is expected to highlight a meeting on Dec. 18, 2020, at the White House in which former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, one-time Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and others floated ideas for overturning the election results, Raskin told CBS over the weekend.
This was days after the Electoral College had met on Dec. 14 to certify the results for Biden — a time time when other key Republicans were announcing that the election and its challenges were over.
On Dec. 19, Trump would send the tweet beckoning supporters to Washington for the Jan. 6 rally, the day Congress was set to certify the Electoral College count: “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
The Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, extremist far-right groups whose leaders and others are now facing rare sedition charges for their roles in the attack, prepared to come to Washington, according to court filings.
On Dec. 29, the Proud Boys chairman posted a message on social media that said members planned to “turn out in record numbers on Jan. 6th,” according to a federal indictment.
The group planned to meet at the Washington Monument, its members instructed not to wear its traditional black and yellow colors, but be “incognito.”
The Proud Boys have contended that membership grew after Trump, during his first debate with Biden, refused to outright condemn the group but instead told them to “stand back and stand by.”
The night before Jan. 6, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio met with Rhodes at an underground parking garage, according to court filings along with images a documentary filmmaker trailing the group provided to the panel.
The Oath Keepers had also been organizing for Jan. 6 and established a “quick response force” at a nearby hotel in Virginia, according to court filings.
After the Capitol siege, Rhodes called someone with an urgent message for Trump, another group member has said. Rhodes was denied a chance to speak to Trump, but urged the person on the phone to tell the Republican president to call upon militia groups to fight to keep the president in power.
An attorney for Rhodes recently told the committee that their client wants to testify publicly. Rhodes was already interviewed by the committee privately, and it’s unlikely the panel will agree.
The panel also intends to discuss the way many of the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 appeared to be QAnon believers. Federal authorities have explicitly linked at least 38 rioters to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory, according to an Associated Press review of court records.
One of the most recognizable figures from the Jan. 6 attack was a shirtless Arizona man who called himself the “QAnon Shaman,” carried a spear and wore face paint and a Viking hat with fur and horns.
A core belief among QAnon followers is that Trump was secretly fighting a cabal of deep state operatives, prominent Democrats and Hollywood elites who worship Satan and engage in sex trafficking of children.
The panel has shown, over the course of fast-paced hearings and with eyewitness accounts from the former president’s inner circle, how Trump was told “over and over” again, as Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said, that he had lost the election and his false claims of voter fraud were just not true. Nevertheless, Trump summoned his supporters to Washington and then sent them to the Capitol in what Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., has called an “attempted coup.”
Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo, Farnoush Amiri and Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington and Michael Kunzelman in College Park, Maryland, contributed to this report. | https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-capitol-riot-investigation-20220712-pzq2vp5s4fb7vdzf2cthdvws4a-story.html | 2022-07-12 16:42:34 | 1 | https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-capitol-riot-investigation-20220712-pzq2vp5s4fb7vdzf2cthdvws4a-story.html |
ATLANTA (AP) — The prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking information about the alleged involvement of a Trump ally in the breach of voting equipment at a county roughly 200 miles south of her Atlanta office.
The widening of the probe highlights the latest instance in which unauthorized people appear to have gained access to voting equipment since the 2020 election, primarily in battleground states lost by Trump. Election experts have raised concerns that sensitive information shared online about the equipment may have exposed vulnerabilities that could be exploited by people intent on disrupting future elections.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking to have attorney Sidney Powell, who tried persistently to overturn Trump’s loss, testify before a special grand jury seated for the investigation into possible illegal election interference. In her court petition filed Thursday, Willis said Powell is “known to be affiliated” with Trump and the Trump campaign and has unique knowledge about her communications with them and others “involved in the multi-state, coordinated efforts to influence the results of the November 2020 elections in Georgia and elsewhere.”
The scope of Willis’ criminal investigation has expanded considerably since it began, prompted by a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call in which Trump suggested Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger could “find” the votes needed to overturn Trump’s narrow election loss in the state. Among other things, Willis wrote that she wants to ask Powell about rural Coffee County, where Trump beat President Joe Biden by nearly 40 percentage points.
Emails and other records first reported this month by The Washington Post and also obtained by The Associated Press show that Powell was involved in arranging for a team from data solutions company SullivanStrickler to travel to the county’s elections office.
The records were produced in response to subpoenas issued by plaintiffs in a long-running lawsuit that alleges Georgia’s voting machines, which are manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems, are vulnerable to attack. The plaintiffs want the machines replaced by a system that uses hand-marked paper ballots.
The lawsuit filed by the Coalition for Good Governance and individual voters long predates and is unrelated to false allegations of widespread election fraud pushed by Trump and his allies.
Dominion has filed defamation lawsuits against high-profile Trump supporters, including Powell, who made false claims about Dominion voting machines being used to steal the 2020 election.
In an email sent to Powell on Jan. 7, 2021, SullivanStrickler COO Paul Maggio said he and his team were “on our way to Coffee County Georgia to collect what we can from the Election/Voting machines and systems.” He included an invoice for an “initial retainer” of $26,000 to pay for a team of four people for one day. The subject of the invoice is “Voting Machines Analysis.”
“Everything went smoothly yesterday with the Coffee County collection. Everyone involved was extremely helpful,” Maggio wrote in an email the next day. “We are consolidating all of the data collected and will be uploading it to our secure site for access by your team.”
A document listing the contents of Maggio’s hard drive shows that it includes forensic images of an election management system server, a precinct tabulator, compact flash cards and thumb drives used to program tabulators and touchscreen voting machines, a computer used to check in voters and a laptop computer supplied by Dominion. It also includes scanned images of paper ballots from the January 2021 U.S. Senate runoff election.
The company defended its actions in a statement sent by its attorney, Amanda Clark Palmer.
“SullivanStrickler was retained by and took direction from licensed, practicing attorneys to preserve and forensically copy the Dominion Voting Machines used in the 2020 election,” the statement said. “The firm had no reason to believe that, as officers of the court, these attorneys would ask or direct SullivanStrickler to do anything either improper or illegal.”
The attorneys told the firm to contact county election officials to access certain data and then to distribute it to certain other people, the statement said. The company maintains that “at the time they engaged in that work, they were operating under the good faith belief that their client was authorized to access the voting machines and servers.”
“With the benefit of hindsight, and knowing everything they know now, they would not take on any further work of this kind,” the statement said, adding that the company intends to fully cooperate with any investigation.
Willis noted that there also is “evidence in the public record” that Powell was involved in similar efforts in Michigan and Nevada around the same time. A lawyer representing Powell didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
Ryan Germany, general counsel for the Georgia secretary of state’s office, said in a declaration filed in court on Aug. 2 that the office opened an investigation in mid-March and brought in an expert to perform a forensic inspection of the Coffee County election server. The next steps, he said, are to complete the forensic investigation and interview witnesses.
The secretary of state’s office requested help earlier this month from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which on Aug. 15 opened “a computer trespass investigation of a Coffee County elections server,” spokesperson Nelly Miles said in an email.
The Coffee County case appears similar to breaches of voting equipment elsewhere. In addition to Georgia, these include local election offices in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Colorado.
During an event last summer held by Trump ally Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO who has sought to prove voting machines are being manipulated, copies of voting systems from Mesa County, Colorado, and Antrim County, Michigan, were distributed and made available online.
A month earlier, Pennsylvania election officials decertified voting equipment used in one county — also named Fulton — after officials there allowed an outside firm access to “certain key components of its certified system, including the county’s election database, results files, and Windows systems logs.” The firm also was allowed to make copies of voting system hard drives.
In Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters and her deputy were indicted in connection with a May 2021 security breach at the election office. Prosecutors allege the pair were part of a “deceptive scheme” to provide access to their voting system technology to unauthorized individuals.
This week, the deputy clerk, Belinda Knisley, pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Peters, who has denied wrongdoing and claimed she had an obligation to investigate.
Also in Colorado, state election officials have been investigating a potential breach in Elbert County, where they say the clerk made two copies of the county’s voting system and provided them to two attorneys not authorized to have them.
In Antrim County, Michigan, a judge had allowed a forensic exam of voting equipment after a brief mix-up of 2020 election results led to a lawsuit alleging fraud. The lawsuit was dismissed, but somehow a copy of the voting system ended up being distributed publicly at the Lindell event, according to attendees.
Michigan authorities also are investigating security breaches at four local election offices that are alleged to have occurred between March and late June 2021. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/politics/ap-trump-election-probe-in-georgia-cites-voting-system-breach/ | 2022-08-27 12:07:24 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/politics/ap-trump-election-probe-in-georgia-cites-voting-system-breach/ |
Computer in Russia breached D.C. transit system, watchdog finds
A former contractor for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) was able to remotely access sensitive WMATA data from a computer in Russia because his supervisor failed to revoke his high-level administrative access, a new watchdog memo says.
A memo released Wednesday by the WMATA Office of Inspector General says the office opened a cyber investigation in early 2023 when it was alerted that WMATA’s cyber group had detected abnormal network activity originating in Russia in January.
The agency found that the credential of a contractor no longer working for the agency had been used in Russia to access a sensitive directory. The former contractor’s supervisor had allowed the man to retain his access to WMATA systems and networks in hopes that his contract would be renewed, the report said.
“The computer in Russia was turned on at the direction of the former contractor who remotely accessed his computer in Russia,” the report said. “Since the former contractor’s high-level administrative access had not been revoked, he was able to remotely access his personal computer in Russia to log into WMATA systems containing critical and sensitive WMATA data.”
WMATA hired the former contractor through a U.S.-based company. The memo doesn’t say whether the individual is a Russian national, but it warned of the contractor’s access to sensitive data. It also noted that the contractor worked on the SmarTrip app, which is used by riders to pay for their fares.
The inspector general’s office also warned that Metro’s security failures leave the Metrorail system vulnerable to threats, since it carries about 262,000 people — including some of the world’s most powerful people — every day.
It raised concern about a contract signed by WMATA in 2020 for recruiting with a company whose staff operated outside the U.S. It was awarded without cybersecurity provisions or “an assessment of how WMATA’s sensitive data would be accessed or protected.”
The agency’s cybersecurity team prepared a memo outlining all of the risks the office would face in executing the contract, but was apparently overruled. The inspector general “continues to assess how these employees are connecting to WMATA data systems from outside the United States, as it does not appear they have ever been issued WMATA owned devices.”
And the inspector general also identified a “disconnect” between WMATA IT and cybersecurity staff that it says has endangered its cybersecurity.
“The disconnect is so large that it has frustrated the cyber team, caused delays in implementation of important cybersecurity changes and threatens WMATA’s ability to protect its critical/sensitive data, networks, and assets,” according to the report. Some of the IT team belongs to a labor union, the report notes, which has declined to put into place some of the changes because of its collective bargaining agreement.
The inspector general has for years informed WMATA of its vulnerability to security threats and noted Metro failed to act on 51 cybersecurity-related recommendations from oversight agencies, some of which were issued as early as 2019.
The IG pointed out that the agency’s own internal audit and compliance group had recommended that all laptops used by WMATA have “full disk encryption installed” to protect critical and sensitive information.
“To date this recommendation remains unimplemented and WMATA’s mobile devices are issued and deployed without encryption,” the report says.
“Given the current threat environment, the report stated that it can be assumed vulnerabilities do or will exist within WMATA’s systems,” the inspector general said. “These vulnerabilities, if left unaddressed and subsequently become exploited by a threat, could render WMATA susceptible to unacceptable outcomes.”
In a response to the inspector general, WMATA acknowledged it has room to grow, but defended its handling of cybersecurity, arguing that the inspector general’s report failed to recognize improvements the IT department has made. WMATA chief information officer Torri Martin and chief audit and risk officer Elizabeth Sullivan also said there was no “concrete indication” that the contents of the OneDrive were downloaded in Russia. | https://www.wsgw.com/computer-in-russia-breached-d-c-transit-system-watchdog-finds/ | 2023-05-17 21:40:27 | 1 | https://www.wsgw.com/computer-in-russia-breached-d-c-transit-system-watchdog-finds/ |
GLEN ALLEN, Mo. (AP) — Authorities raise the death toll from a predawn Missouri tornado to five, say an unknown number were also hurt.
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WA Marine Warnings and Forecast for Tuesday, July 26, 2022
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SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Seattle WA
249 AM PDT Tue Jul 26 2022
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
11 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 15 to 25 kt.
* WHERE...Central U. S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca and East
Entrance U. S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca.
* WHEN...From 5 PM this afternoon to 11 PM PDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Small Craft Advisory means that wind speeds of 21 to 33 knots
and/or seas 10 feet or higher are expected to produce hazardous
wave conditions to small craft. Inexperienced mariners,
especially those operating smaller vessels should avoid
navigating in these conditions.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands told a federal judge Monday that it can't find billionaire Elon Musk to serve him with a subpoena for documents in its lawsuit seeking to hold JPMorgan Chase liable for sex trafficking acts committed by businessman Jeffrey Epstein. It wants to serve his electric vehicle company instead.
Lawyers asked Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan in a court filing to let it serve the subpoena on Tesla Inc. because it has not been able to give the papers to Musk or his lawyers since it issued the subpoena on April 28.
They said they hired an investigative firm to search public records databases for possible addresses for Musk and reached out to one of his lawyers by email but received no response.
A message sent to a lawyer for Musk seeking comment Monday was not immediately returned.
The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands said it believes Epstein may have referred or tried to refer Musk to JPMorgan.
It sued JPMorgan last year, saying its investigation has revealed that JPMorgan enabled Epstein's recruiters to pay victims and was “indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise.”
The subpoena sought documents from Jan. 1, 2002, to the present reflecting communications between Musk and JPMorgan or Musk and Epstein regarding Epstein or Epstein’s role in Musk’s accounts, transactions or financial management.
It also sought all documents reflecting or regarding Epstein’s involvement in human trafficking and his procurement of girls or women for commercial sex.
And it sought information about fees Musk might have paid to Epstein or JPMorgan and any documents concerning communications between Musk, Epstein and JPMorgan regarding accounts, transactions or the relationship at JPMorgan.
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The story of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is infused with World War II flashbacks — references to Nazism and fascism on both sides, the same toponyms from 80-year-old war dispatches, remnants of the strategic and tactical schemes developed for last century’s battles, even the role played by the HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems that’s reminiscent of the 1942 success of the Katyusha MLRS, known among Germans as Stalinorgel, the Stalin organ.
Among the nastiest echoes of the bygone great war is the treatment of prisoners in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
There’s evidence that in the spring, in towns such as Irpin and Bucha, Russians summarily executed prisoners suspected of cooperating with the Ukrainian military. In July, dozens of Ukrainian prisoners died in an explosion at a camp where they had been kept; the Russian side blamed a Ukrainian HIMARS strike, while Ukrainians insisted the damage was inconsistent with this version and spoke of Russian revenge on the heroic defenders of Mariupol among the victims. Most recently, fingers have been pointed at the Ukrainian side in two equally disturbing incidents: the return in a prisoner exchange of a Russian convict who apparently had voluntarily surrendered to the Ukrainians and what appears to be an execution of at least 11 Russian POWs in Makiivka, in the Luhansk region.
The convict, Yevgeny Nuzhin, had been among the many recruited by the Wagner private military company in Russia’s penal colonies, no doubt with the Kremlin’s permission. While in captivity, he gave interviews to Ukrainian journalists claiming he planned from the start to surrender and fight on Kyiv’s side. Then, a video of his extrajudicial execution by unknown Russians — with a sledgehammer blow to his head — surfaced on Telegram. It transpired that he had been traded to Russia in a prisoner exchange. An aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy claimed Nuzhin had agreed to be exchanged.
From Makiivka, videos circulating on social networks show Russian POWs lying on the ground, first alive and then, soon afterward, killed — apparently at close range. The Ukrainian side says it’s investigating the incident, but officials, including a presidential aide and Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, also have claimed that the Russians had been shot because they only pretended to surrender, as a Russian soldier emerged from a nearby building and opened fire and the others may have attempted to flee.
It’s clear why both of these stories, given the right spin, play into the Kremlin’s hands: They contravene Zelenskiy’s explicit guarantee of humane treatment for Russian POWs. But Western media have done the right thing in reporting the hard facts despite their potential value to Russian propaganda. Truth about the war must be told, even if it doesn’t fit the glossy narrative of Ukrainian elves versus Russian orcs.
Part of that truth is that the Russia-Ukraine conflict is not a gentlemanly one — and, as it goes on, the likelihood diminishes that it will ever be prosecuted according to any humanistic rules or conventions.
The facile explanation would be that this is a war between two post-Soviet nations with powerful gangland traditions overlaid on a long history of POW mistreatment, dating back to the Russian Civil War, which followed the 1917 revolution and was fought in many of the same places as the current conflict — and, of course, to World War II, when Russians and Ukrainians were part of the same, often unimaginably brutal army.
The Soviet Union did not recognize the Geneva or Hague conventions on POWs but had its own written, humane POW policy, which Soviet propaganda often used to induce Germans to surrender — in the same way as Zelenskiy has done for Russian soldiers. But the real-life rules were handed down by Joseph Stalin himself. “Don’t believe prisoners of war too much,” the dictator told one of his top commanders, Georgy Zhukov, according to the transcript of a conversation quoted in Australian historian Mark Edele’s “Take (No) prisoners! The Red Army and German POWs, 1941-1943.” “Investigate them under duress and then shoot them.”Summary executions of German prisoners were often framed as retaliation for Nazi atrocities. Stalin’s representative on the Crimea front, Lev Mekhlis, wrote to his son in 1942: “In the city of Kerch up to seven thousand corpses of civilians (including children) [were found], all shot by the fascist monsters… One’s blood runs cold from anger and the thirst for revenge. I order the killing of the fascist prisoners.”
Needless to say, Ukrainian Telegram channels are full of similar emotions following reports of Russian atrocities and the devastation that the invasion has wrought — but neither that nor the brutal gloating at Ukrainian deaths on Russian Telegram is evidence of a specifically Russian or Ukrainian culture of prisoner mistreatment. Indeed, some US soldiers during World War II were sentenced for killing prisoners — and claimed that they had acted on direct orders from General George Patton, an accusation that didn’t stick at the time but survives to this day. Edele wrote:
“Wartime barbarism does not rely upon a preexisting ‘culture’ or ‘civilization’ of violence, upon political religions dehumanizing the enemy, or upon dictatorships forcing their soldiers into battle. The dynamics of warfare itself, if not checked by politics, law and morality, tend toward greater and greater force, and prisoners (or, for that matter, civilians) are not excluded from this maelstrom.”
The dynamics Edele refers to are those of revenge for accumulated wrongs. In June through September 1941, according to official statistics cited in Edele’s work, the Soviet Union took an average of 77 German POWs a day; in October through December, that number dwindled to 27, even as Soviet military fortunes turned somewhat for the better and Nazi troops were being pushed back from Moscow. The longer a war goes on, the heavier the mixture of nervous exhaustion, emotional hardening and hatred for the enemy that causes the mistreatment of prisoners. And, of course, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is in its ninth month now — we’re just about at the point where the Soviet soldiers in World War II appeared to get tired of taking prisoners.
World War II was, in hindsight, a conflict of blinding moral clarity, a war of good and evil. In the current conflict, too, there’s hardly any doubt as to which side is in the right. The war is being fought on Ukrainian territory, the country has been devastated, and it still fights on for the right not to live under the Putin regime. Yet while good and evil will look sharply delineated in history books, the warriors of good and evil are muddy, angry, exhausted soldiers in hopeless trenches and burned-out forests. They can only take so much before they become indistinguishable from each other — and once they do, historians record it, too, if only as an aside to the dominant narrative.If these asides make for hard reading, it is because they speak to an abiding ugly truth: War, just or unjust, is inhuman — and the more so the longer it goes on.
More from Bloomberg Opinion:
• Will Russians Choose Truth or Lies? Ukraine’s Fate Depends on Them: Andreas Kluth
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The Wishful Theory of ‘Strategic Russian Defeat’: Leonid Bershidsky
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Vladimir Putin’s Guide to Alienating Allies: Clara Ferreira Marques
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Uranium Energy Corp. (NYSE American: UEC) ("UEC" or the "Company") invites investors and shareholders to attend the Company's presentation at the TD Securities Virtual Uranium Roundtable on Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 at 2:10PM EST.
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The presentation recording will be made available on the company's website for 90 days after the conference.
Uranium Energy Corp is the fastest growing supplier of the fuel for the green energy transition to a low carbon future. UEC is the largest, diversified North American-focused uranium company, advancing the next generation of low-cost, environmentally friendly ISR mining uranium projects in the United States and high-grade conventional projects in Canada. The Company has two production-ready ISR hub and spoke platforms in South Texas and Wyoming. These two production platforms are anchored by fully operational central processing plants and served by seven U.S. ISR uranium projects with all their major permits in place. Additionally, the Company has diversified uranium holdings including: (1) one of the largest physical uranium portfolios of U.S. warehoused U3O8; (2) a major equity stake in Uranium Royalty Corp., the only royalty company in the sector; and (3) a Western Hemisphere pipeline of resource stage uranium projects. The Company's operations are managed by professionals with decades of hands-on experience in the key facets of uranium exploration, development and mining.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 23, 2023
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
627 PM PST Sun Jan 22 2023
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST MONDAY...
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST
TONIGHT...
* WHAT...For the Beach Hazards Statement, minor beach erosion and
minor tidal overflow. For the High Surf Advisory, large breaking
waves of 8 to 10 feet with local sets to 13 feet, and
dangerous rip currents.
* WHERE...San Luis Obispo County Beaches and Santa Barbara
County Central Coast Beaches.
* WHEN...For the High Surf Advisory, until 10 PM PST Monday. For
the Beach Hazards Statement, until midnight PST tonight.
* IMPACTS...Pooling of sea water is possible around high tide at
beach and harbor areas that is uncommon with normal tidal
ranges. Minor beach erosion is also possible. No significant
damage is expected. There is an increased risk for ocean
drowning. Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to
sea. Large breaking waves can cause injury, wash people off
beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats near shore.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The time of greatest concern will be
during morning high tide which will range between 7.0 and 7.3
feet between 730 AM and 900 AM this weekend.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions, or stay
near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly in
such conditions, stay off the rocks.
Remain out of the water due to hazardous swimming conditions, or
stay near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly
in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
* WHAT...Minor beach erosion and minor tidal overflow.
* WHERE...Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands, Santa Barbara
County Southwestern Coast, Santa Barbara County Southeastern
Coast, Malibu Coast and Los Angeles County Beaches.
* WHEN...Until midnight PST tonight.
damage is expected.
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