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SHANGHAI and HANGZHOU, China and WILMINGTON, Del., June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Minghui Pharmaceutical, Inc., a leading clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the first dosing has been completed in two phase 1 clinical studies evaluating MHB036C and MHB088C. The studies aim to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D), as well as assess the pharmacokinetics and preliminary efficacy of the ADCs in patients with selected types of advanced or metastatic solid tumors.
MHB036C and MHB088C, the two antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) targeting TROP-2 or B7-H3, respectively, are generated through Minghui's cutting-edge proprietary SuperTopoiTM ADC platform, which incorporates a highly potent topoisomerase (TOPO) 1 inhibitor linked through a cleavable linker. This novel payload significantly enhances the therapeutic potency of the ADCs, especially against cancer cells with moderate or low tumor-associated antigen expression.
Comprehensive in vitro and in vivo studies across a variety of cancer types demonstrated the exceptional efficacy of MHB036C and MHB088C, exhibiting 3 to 10 times more potent in killing tumor cells compared to their DXd counterparts. Additionally, preclinical GLP tox studies demonstrated an excellent safety profile, with no unique toxicities observed, particularly no severe pulmonary toxicities.
"We are delighted to announce the successful dosing of the first patient in our two ADC programs" stated Guoqing Cao, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer at Minghui Pharmaceutical. "MHB036C and MHB088C epitomize the tremendous potential of Minghui's SuperTopoiTM platform. These novel ADCs have undergone extensive research and development, showcasing remarkable efficacy and safety in preclinical studies. MHB036C and MHB088C hold great promise in the fight against various human solid tumors and we look forward to the results from the phase 1 studies, anticipated to conclude in early 2024. "
About MHB036C
MHB036C is an antibody drug conjugate (ADC) composed of a humanized anti-TROP-2 monoclonal antibody conjugated to Minghui's proprietary DNA topoisomerase I inhibitor via a cleavable linker.
About MHB088C
MHB088C is an antibody drug conjugate (ADC) composed of a humanized anti-B7-H3 monoclonal antibody conjugated to Minghui's proprietary DNA topoisomerase I inhibitor via a cleavable linker. The antibody has also shown more potent antigen binding and higher endocytosis efficiency.
About Minghui Pharmaceutical
Minghui Pharmaceutical Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative medicines for unmet medical needs in oncology and autoimmune diseases. Leveraging the expertise in medical science and the proprietary technology platforms, the company is developing a rich clinical-stage pipeline including a variety of first-in-class or best-in-class product candidates. For more information, please visit www.minghuipharma.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release provided by Minghui Pharmaceutical Inc. (the "Company") contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which may be accompanied by such words as "aim," "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "intend," "may," "plan," "potential," "possible," "predict," "should," "will," "would" or words of similar meaning. These statements are based on the Company's current beliefs and expectations and subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements herein. Risks and uncertainties include but not limited to: general industry conditions and competition; changes in economic and financial conditions of the Company's and the collaborators' businesses; the risk that clinical trials are discontinued or delayed for any reasons, including for efficacy, safety, enrollment, or manufacturing; the risk that success in early stage clinical trials may not be predictive of results in later stage trials or trials of other potential indications; the risk that positive results in a clinical trial may not be replicated in subsequent or confirmatory trials; expectations for regulatory approvals; challenges to obtain, maintain and enforce patents and other intellectual property protection for the Company's product(s) and product candidate(s). These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are posted to this website, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained herein.
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It's time to file your tax return, and many of us are facing smaller refunds, shrunken tax credits and deductions — right as inflation and higher debt loads are biting into our budgets.
The IRS starts accepting tax returns for 2022 earnings on Jan. 23, and it will issue tax refunds in the weeks and months that follow.
And some of us could be in for a surprise.
"People should absolutely expect smaller tax refunds this year. And frankly, some people might even owe the government money," financial expert Lynnette Khalfani-Cox told NPR.
"There's really four main reasons why," she said. "The first is: no more stimulus checks. The second is that what was called the enhanced child credit — that's gone."
A special pandemic-era tax break for charitable deductions was also nixed, Khalfani-Cox said. And even after a volatile year on the stock market, some people might face taxes on investment gains, especially if they own mutual funds that had to sell off stocks.
To answer some of the most frequent questions about this tax season, we asked Khalfani-Cox, the financial expert also known as the Money Coach, for guidance and advice.
File online, or face the dreaded backlog
"In 2023, you absolutely need to file your federal tax return electronically," Khalfani-Cox said.
The IRS says people who file electronically should expect to get their refund within around 21 days if they choose direct deposit and their return has no issues. "So that's fabulous," Khalfani-Cox said.
The other option is less fab: People who submit returns on paper are more likely to join the agency's large backlog.
"The IRS told us all in late 2022 that they have something like 9 million unprocessed tax returns," Khalfani-Cox said. "And it turns out that 7 million of them were paper returns."
The stimulus giveth ... and now it's gone
Because of the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans got a $1,400 stimulus check in 2021, the third of such payments.
"But a whole bunch of taxpayers actually received what's called a recovery rebate credit," Khalfani-Cox said. "And they got $1,400 per person on their 2021 taxes," plumping their tax refund or lowering their bill.
"But now that's gone" for people dealing with 2022 taxes, Khalfani-Cox said.
How did the child tax credit change?
For this tax season, many families with two children under 6 years old won't be able to count on an extra $3,200 worth of tax credits that helped them last year. That's because while pandemic legislation provided $7,200 in combined tax credits for two kids under 6 in the last tax season, that same family is now looking at $4,000 in credits.
"In 2021, parents were getting what folks call the enhanced child tax credit," Khalfani-Cox said. "It was either $3,000 for children under 18 or $3,600 for kids under 6 years old."
The child tax credit and related pandemic policies had a large impact — the U.S. Census Bureau said the measures sent child poverty rates down "46% in 2021, from 9.7% in 2020 to 5.2% in 2021," to the lowest child poverty rate on record, based on the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which was introduced just over a decade ago.
"In 2022, now that child tax credit is going back down," Khalfani-Cox said. "It's reverting back to the $2,000 level."
A special charitable deduction break also lapsed
In general, taxpayers can only deduct donations to charity from their taxes if they itemize deductions, rather than take a standard deduction. A special temporary tax break changed that for returns covering 2021.
"It was a $300 deduction for people who don't itemize and a $600 deduction for married couples," Khalfani-Cox said. "But Congress didn't extend this deduction in 2022."
Investment gains can add a painful bit of irony
"On the investment gains front, 2022 was a wild year, obviously, on Wall Street and the Dow was down, the Nasdaq was down," Khalfani-Cox said. "So people might be thinking, 'Why am I having a bigger tax bill to pay because of investment gains? I didn't have any investment gains.' "
But the markets' volatility forced many mutual funds to sell more holdings than they normally would, including profitable ones. They then distributed those gains. And if investors hold the fund directly, rather than in a tax-sheltered account like a Roth IRA, they'll have to pay taxes on their gain.
"So yeah, your investment portfolio might have actually declined, but your tax bill nonetheless got bigger," Khalfani-Cox said.
Anyone in that position, she added, should try to offset their capital gains. It would help if they sold any losing stocks, to balance out the winners.
"Under tax law, you can use tax losses like those to offset up to $3,000 worth of ordinary income," she said.
Do I need to worry about Venmo, PayPal and Cash App?
Millions of Americans could be excused for freaking out a bit when the government announced it would start requiring Venmo and other peer-to-peer payment apps to report income for goods and services worth $600 or more annually — a sharp drop from the previous threshold of $20,000.
Things eased a bit last month, when the IRS postponed the plan. But as financial experts note, taxpayers are still obligated to report their full income on their tax returns, whether they've received a 1099-K form or not.
"You know, we're in a gig economy," Khalfani-Cox said. "We've got a ton of people who are freelancers and 1099 workers, contractors, consultants, people who do side hustles, etc."
It's understandable for those workers to feel relief about the delay, she said, but they should use this year to get used to the idea that the rules are changing.
What can regular people do to help themselves?
The general deadline to file your 2022 tax returns is Tuesday, April 18. That's because Washington, D.C.'s Emancipation Day holiday falls on April 17. If you know you won't make the deadline, do yourself a favor and ask for more time.
"I can't stress this enough to people, but if you need an extension, just go ahead and file that form 4868 with the IRS," Khalfani-Cox said. "That will give you an extra six months and then you'll have until Monday, Oct. 16, to actually submit your taxes."
Reciting the litany of problems that can stack up without an extension, Khalfani-Cox notes that failure-to-file and failure-to-pay penalties can accrue each month, with interest added on to any unpaid tax amounts.
"It kind of is always shocking to me that so many people don't do this when they know they're going to wait until the very last minute," she said. "But, you know, you really don't want to play around with Uncle Sam on this one."
If you find yourself in over your head, help is available — and much of it is free.
"If you go to IRS.gov, if you made less than $73,000 in 2022, you can use IRS Free File ... it basically does your taxes for you at no cost," Khalfani-Cox said.
And even if you're 25 instead of 65, the American Association of Retired Persons can give advice, she added, saying the AARP "has trained experts who will help people to prepare and to do their taxes or to answer tax questions."
Another option is to look for local community-based organizations.
"If you just even do a Google search in your area, about 'free nonprofit credit counselors, free nonprofit tax counseling agencies near me,' you're likely to find agencies that can provide you with some assistance and support."
What should we expect in 2023?
"So 2023, unfortunately, is already shaping up to be quite a financial 1-2-3 punch for the average American family," Khalfani-Cox said. "Not only do we still have high inflation, but we've still got a crazy stock market and a lot of volatility, rising interest rates — all of which are contributing to layoffs."
Add in the potential for smaller tax refunds, and "it kind of feels like this is just way too much," she added. "You know, I don't even know if it's a 1-2-3 whammy or like a 1-2-3-4-5."
The challenges make it crucial to pay close attention to our finances and how we spend and save money in 2023, Khalfani-Cox said.
She also notes that the IRS has already announced a change to its standard deduction for 2023 — raising it to $13,850 for individual filers (a $900 increase) and $27,700 for couples filing jointly (a $1,800 increase).
While many of us focus on finances during tax time, Khalfani-Cox urges us to plan ahead.
"You may do some forecasting using tax software or using a paid professional or even a free tax help source to be able to say, what is my tax situation likely to look like in 2023?" she said.
How's the IRS doing this year?
Overall, the IRS is in a better position now than one year ago — but customer service and lingering effects of a backlog are "the elephant in the room." That's according to National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins, who heads the official IRS watchdog agency.
Here's what that elephant looks like:
"The good news is that since the close of the 2022 filing season, the IRS has made considerable progress in reducing the volume of unprocessed returns and correspondence," Collins said last month, in her annual report to Congress.
"We have begun to see light at the end of the tunnel. I am just not sure how much further we need to travel before we see sunlight," she added.
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AP source: Jets agree on deal to acquire Aaron Rodgers
(AP) - After six weeks of waiting, Aaron Rodgers is leaving behind his brilliant legacy in Green Bay and heading to the bright lights — and massive expectations — of the Big Apple.
The New York Jets agreed on a deal Monday to acquire the four-time NFL MVP from the Packers, according to a person with knowledge of the trade.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the teams have not officially announced the deal.
The Jets will receive Rodgers, the No. 15 overall pick and a fifth-rounder this year from the Packers, according to another person with knowledge of the trade. In exchange, Green Bay will get the 13th overall selection, a sixth-rounder and a conditional 2024 second-round pick that can become a first-rounder if Rodgers plays 65% of plays for New York next season.
The 39-year-old Rodgers spent a few days in February contemplating his life and playing future during an isolation retreat in Oregon – while fans and media speculated about what he would decide.
He emerged and deliberated some more before deciding on March 10 he intended to play again — and for the Jets.
And then he and the sports world waited — and waited — for the Packers and Jets to finally complete a deal.
“I’ve made it clear that my intention was to play and my intention was to play for the New York Jets,” Rodgers said during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on YouTube and Sirius XM on March 15.
The Jets sent a contingent that included owner Woody Johnson, coach Robert Saleh and general manager Joe Douglas to Rodgers’ home in Southern California in early March. A few days later, Rodgers decided he wanted to continue his playing career by joining the Jets.
Several weeks of negotiations appeared to be stalled at times, with fans — and the teams — wondering when or if the trade would be completed.
“We’re anxious,” Johnson told reporters at the league’s annual meetings on March 28. “I guess, as we look forward, we’re optimistic. But we have a plan, so we’re willing to stick with our plan. And I don’t think anybody is hyperventilating at this point.”
It took a while, but the sides were finally able to agree on compensation. And the deal puts the one-time Super Bowl champion in New York after Zach Wilson, the No. 2 overall draft pick in 2021, struggled mightily in his first two seasons.
New York was 7-10 last season, finishing on a six-game losing streak that extended the NFL’s longest active playoff drought to a franchise-record 12 straight years.
With the Jets, Rodgers reunites with offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett to try to jumpstart an offense that was among the NFL’s worst under coordinator Mike LaFleur, the younger brother of Matt, Rodgers’ coach in Green Bay the past four years. Rodgers joins some promising young playmakers on offense, such as wide receiver Garrett Wilson, the AP offensive rookie of the year, and running back Breece Hall.
“There’s a lot of reasons why the Jets are attractive,” Rodgers said during his appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show.” “But there’s one coach that has meant as much to me as any coach I’ve ever had. And he happens to be the coordinator there.”
Saleh acknowledged a few times this offseason that the Jets were looking for a veteran quarterback to add to a team that features a top-five defense. And Johnson said he was “absolutely” on board with paying an established signal caller — “the missing piece,” he called it — if Douglas could get him.
They ended up getting one of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks.
Rodgers said shortly after the season ended that he was making up his mind on whether he wanted to return to the Packers for a 19th season, retire or request a trade. Meanwhile, the Jets explored a few quarterback options, including meeting with free agent Derek Carr at their facility and then again at the NFL combine in Indianapolis.
But after Carr agreed to terms to sign with New Orleans, it became even more apparent that New York would be all in on Rodgers — as long as he wanted to play there.
It’s reminiscent of the stunning trade the Jets made in 2008, when they acquired Brett Favre — who also turned 39 a few months later — from the Packers. And, coincidentally, clearing the way for Rodgers to start in Green Bay.
Rodgers was the league MVP in 2020 and 2021, but didn’t perform as well last season while playing with a broken right thumb and dealing with the absence of star wideout Davante Adams, who was traded to Las Vegas. He had his lowest passer rating as a starter (91.1) and threw 12 interceptions, his highest total since 2008. The Packers went 8-9 and missed the playoffs to end a string of three straight NFC North titles.
Rodgers led the Packers to their last Super Bowl title in the 2010 season. Rodgers never got the Packers back to the Super Bowl, but he helped make them annual contenders. The Packers have lost in the NFC championship game four of the last nine seasons.
“I’ve got nothing but love and appreciation for what Aaron has done for so many in our organization,” Matt LaFleur said last month during the NFL meetings in Phoenix.
Rodgers’ departure marks a sea of change for the Packers after they’ve had about three decades of Hall of Fame-level quarterback production in Favre and Rodgers. Next in line is Jordan Love, a 2020 first-round pick who has made only one career start.
Rodgers acknowledged the move caught him by surprise. He skipped the Packers’ 2021 mandatory minicamp in a standoff with team management before reporting to camp and producing a second straight MVP season. (He also won the award for 2011 and 2014.) But the sides had patched things up afterward.
When he was asked last June at the Packers’ mandatory minicamp whether he expected to finish his career in Green Bay, Rodgers replied: “Yes. Definitely.”
Then came a 2022 season that didn’t go according to plan.
Rodgers now will be tasked with leading a franchise that hasn’t been in the Super Bowl since Joe Namath led the franchise to a victory in its only appearance in January 1969.
And quarterback issues have often been among the key culprits in the struggles since. That has especially been the case during the Jets’ current playoff drought.
Saleh said the Jets remain committed to developing Wilson, the second overall pick in 2021. But the 23-year-old will do so as a backup to Rodgers, who was Wilson’s idol while growing up in Utah.
Wilson joked the day after the season ended that he’d welcome a veteran starter coming in to claim his job and said he plans to “make that dude’s life hell in practice every day.”
Little did he know then “that dude” would be the quarterback he tried to emulate as a youngster — who’ll now be in New York trying bring the Jets to another long-awaited Super Bowl.
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AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi and AP Sports Writer Steve Megargee contributed.
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Purdue’s Zach Edey decided it was the right call to go back to school instead of staying in the NBA draft. His predecessor as national player of the year, Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe, is sticking with his pro pursuit.
And Connecticut’s reign as NCAA champion will begin with multiple starters having left for the NBA draft and one returning after flirting with doing the same.
The 7-foot-4 Edey and UConn guard Tristen Newton were among the notable names to announce that they were withdrawing from the draft Wednesday, the NCAA’s deadline for players who declared as early entrants to pull out and retain their college eligibility.
Edey’s decision came Wednesday night, in social media posts from both the center and the Boilermakers program that earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament behind Edey, The Associated Press men’s national player of the year.
But Tshiebwe announced late in the afternoon that he would remain in the draft after a college career that included being named the AP national player of the year in 2022.
For the current champions, Newton (10.1 points, 4.7 assists, 4.5 rebounds) is returning after being one of four Huskies to declare for the draft after a run to UConn’s fifth national championship in early April. He scored a game-high 19 points to go with 10 rebounds in the victory over San Diego State in the title game.
The others were Final Four Most Outstanding Player Adama Sanogo, wing Jordan Hawkins and versatile guard Andre Jackson Jr. Sanogo (17.8 points) and Hawkins (16.3) have made it clear they have closed the door on their college careers, while team spokesman Phil Chardis said Wednesday night that Jackson (6.1 points, 5.8 rebounds, 4.6 assists) would remain in the draft.
The Huskies have 247sports’ No. 3-ranked recruiting class for next year to restock the roster, led by McDonald’s All-American point guard Stephon Castle.
The NBA’s withdrawal deadline is June 12, but is moot when it comes to college players returning to school due to the NCAA’s earlier timeline to retain playing eligibility.
STAYING IN SCHOOL
TREY ALEXANDER: Creighton gets back a 6-4 guard who averaged 13.6 points and shot 41% from 3-point range in his first full season as a starter.
ADEM BONA: The 6-foot-10 forward and Pac-12 freshman of the year is returning to UCLA after starting 32 games as a rookie and averaging 7.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.7 blocks — with coach Mick Cronin praising his toughness for “competing through multiple injuries for as long as he could” in a statement Wednesday.
EDEY: He averaged 22.3 points, 12.9 rebounds, 2.1 blocks and 1.5 assists while shooting 60.7% from the field. His presence alone helps Purdue be a factor in the Big Ten race.
JOSIAH-JORDAN JAMES: The 6-6 guard went through the NBA G League Combine and had workouts with multiple teams before opting to return to Tennessee for a fifth season alongside teammate Santiago Vescovi.
JUDAH MINTZ: The 6-3 freshman averaged 16.3 points and 4.6 assists for Syracuse, ranking third among Division I freshmen in scoring behind only Alabama’s Brandon Miller and Lamar’s Nate Calmese.
OWLS’ RETURNEES: Florida Atlantic got good news after its surprise Final Four run with the return leading scorers Johnell Davis (13.8) and Alijah Martin (13.4). ESPN first reported their decisions, while Martin later posted a social media statement.
TERRENCE SHANNON JR.: Illinois got a big boost with Shannon announcing his return Wednesday night in a social media post. The 6-6 guard is returning for a fifth college season after averaging 17.2 points.
SPARTANS’ RETURNEES: Michigan State announced that guards Jaden Akins and A.J. Hoggard have withdrawn from the NBA draft. Standout guard Tyson Walker had previously withdrawn in April, setting up Tom Izzo to have five of his top scorers back.
GOING PRO
KOBE BROWN: Missouri’s 6-8 swingman opted against returning for a fifth college season after being an AP first-team all-Southeastern Conference pick averaging 15.8 points last season.
JAYLEN CLARK: The third-year UCLA guard averaged 13.0 points and 6.0 rebounds while leading the Pac-12 with 2.6 steals en route to being named Naismith national defensive player of the year. Cronin called him a winner with strong intangibles who made UCLA “a better program because he chose to be a Bruin.”
BRICE SENSABAUGH: The Ohio State freshman averaged 16.3 points and 5.4 rebounds in 31 games before missing his final two in the Big Ten Tournament due to a knee injury. He’s a potential first-round prospect.
TSHIEBWE: The 6-9, 260-pound forward is a tough interior presence who led the country in rebounds for two straight seasons (15.1 in 2022, 13.7 in 2023) while racking up 48 double-doubles. But he faces an uncertain next stop and is projected at best as a second-round prospect.
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AP Sports Writers Gary B. Graves, Pat Eaton-Robb, Beth Harris, Larry Lage, Teresa M. Walker and Tom Withers contributed to this report.
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Derek Epp, The University of Texas at Austin and Megan Dias, The University of Texas at Austin
(THE CONVERSATION) The killing of Tyre Nichols has raised questions about the use and risks of a routine part of U.S. policing: the traffic stop.
Nichols died in the hospital on Jan. 10, 2022, from injuries sustained in a beating by five officers three days earlier. The violence occurred after the 29-year-old Black man was pulled over while driving in Memphis, Tennessee. The officers, all of whom are also Black, have since been fired and face charges of second-degree murder.
While not all traffic stops result in violent encounters – indeed studies suggest that relatively few do – the case of Nichols highlights that such encounters can become sites of police violence. And this isn’t an isolated incident. Before Nichols came Patrick Lyoya, Philando Castile and Sandra Bland, to name just a few high-profile cases. All were killed by police in incidents that began with a traffic stop.
We have analyzed a data set of more than 20 million traffic stops as part of research into the effectiveness of this routine part of police life. What we have found is that, even by its own standards, the return on this high-contact form of policing is slim – it rarely leads to criminal charges or convictions. Moreover, the negative consequences are far-reaching. Law enforcement traffic stops are prone to racial bias and cause harm to communities and individuals disproportionate to any benefit that they bring, our research suggests.
‘Broken taillight’ theory?
Traffic stops represent the most common nonvoluntary interaction between citizens and police officers in the U.S. Every year, around 20 million stops are recorded.
Some of these stops are for legitimate public safety reasons – drunken drivers, for example, are an obvious risk to other road users. But police officers have huge discretion when it comes to conducting traffic stops for a whole slew of driving infractions, from a broken taillight to speeding. They can also, in most states, initiate a traffic stop as the pretext to investigating other crimes. This right was confirmed by the Supreme Court in 1996 in Whren vs. United States. The ruling stated that it is not unconstitutional for officers to use any traffic violation, no matter how minor, as a reason to search the vehicle for other suspected crimes – for example, the possession of illegal drugs – if they have reasonable cause.
These pretextual stops, stopping cars for minor infractions as an opportunity to look for evidence of drug-related or violent crime, can be thought of as the roadside equivalent to “stop and frisk” – the practice of allowing officers to search someone on the streets if they have “reasonable” suspicion of criminal activity.
Both form part of what is called the “broken windows” theory of policing. This idea, which rose to prominence in the 1990s, holds that minor instances of disorder in a neighborhood create an environment that will eventually lead to more serious instances of crime, and that by focusing on smaller infractions police can root out more serious offenses.
The SCORPIAN unit that pulled over Nichols exemplifies the type of high-contact, proactive, and aggressive policing that often characterizes broken windows tactics. The officers who killed Nichols gave him more than 70 orders in just a few minutes.
Broken windows policing has long been debunked by many criminologists who find that it fails to achieve its objectives, at the detriment of communities. Our research suggests that traffic stops yield few results when it comes to serious crimes. Analysis of 9.5 million traffic stops in North Carolina between 2013 and 2019 shows that just 1.2% led to felony charges. The felony conviction rate resulting from pulling over a driver was 0.23%.
Driving while Black
While the effectiveness of traffic stops as a tool to apprehend serious criminals appears tenuous at best, what is clear is that pulling over drivers has the potential for negative, sometimes violent, outcomes – especially for Black drivers.
It can also affect entire communities. Ferguson, Missouri, is just one well-known example of how widespread racially biased traffic stops can erode trust in the police.
In places like Ferguson, evidence has shown that intensely policing minor traffic infractions, while legally permissible, can drown communities in fines, fees and administrative burdens. And Ferguson isn’t alone. Funds from penalty fines are used to help fund police and local governments across the U.S. A 2019 study found that in 600 jurisdictions across the U.S. fines made up more than 10% of funds. In almost half of those governments, money from ticketing accounted for more than 20% of funding.
This financial burden falls disproportionately on Black drivers. A 2021 New York Times analysis of 4,000 traffic citations handed out in Newburgh Heights, Ohio, a small town just south of Cleveland, found that 76% of license and insurance violations and 63% of speeding tickets were handed to Black drivers. Black residents made up just 22% of the town’s population.
Racial bias has long accompanied traffic stops. In the largest study of its kind, Stanford researchers in 2020 analyzed 100 million traffic stops and concluded that “persistent racial bias” existed. The study found that during daylight hours Black drivers are more likely to be pulled over than their white counterparts. But at nighttime, when the “veil of darkness” makes it harder for officers to racially identify drivers, white drivers are stopped more often than Black drivers.
This concurs with our own findings on traffic stop data from North Carolina: Black men are far more likely to be searched by cops than their white counterparts – at a rate of just under two to one – despite being less likely to be found with any illegal substances.
Traffic stops can also be a precursor to violent and deadly encounters, such as in the case of Nichols’ killing. The New York Times in 2021 found that over a five-year period, police officers in the U.S. killed more than 400 drivers or passengers not brandishing a gun or knife and not being pursued over a violent crime. Black Americans were disproportionately represented among those killed by officers, the newspaper found.
Taking a new route
Using the traffic code to raise funds for jurisdictions or as a pretext to investigate serious crime produces only dubious public safety benefits and comes at a heavy costs, research indicates.
It has prompted some policymakers to look at other options, such as scaling back the types of infractions that can provide a basis for a traffic stop. In 2020, Virginia became the first state to ban officers from conducting traffic stops for low-level violations, such as a broken taillight or illegal tinted windows. A year earlier, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that it is impermissible for police officers to use a routine traffic stop as a springboard for broader criminal investigations by asking if they can search a vehicle without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.
Such moves will limit the number of interactions police have with motorists. They could also save lives.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/police-traffic-stops-can-alienate-communities-and-lead-to-violent-deaths-like-tyre-nichols-is-it-time-to-rethink-them-181546. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/police-traffic-stops-can-alienate-communities-and-17761600.php | 2023-02-03 14:50:47 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/police-traffic-stops-can-alienate-communities-and-17761600.php |
RUFUS, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of a rural Oregon town is facing accusations of attempted murder following a road rage incident Monday night.
The Hood River County Sheriff’s Office said Rufus Mayor Dowen Jones was arrested Tuesday for allegedly firing multiple rounds from a handgun at a passing vehicle near Parkdale, KPTV reported.
Deputies said two adults and two children at about 8:45 p.m. were traveling south of Hood River on Highway 281 following an SUV that was driving erratically. The SUV then abruptly pulled over.
Deputies said the family’s vehicle slowed to get a description to report to authorities but Jones stepped out of the vehicle and fired the weapon at the family’s car, damaging it. No one was hurt.
It wasn’t immediately known if Jones has a lawyer to comment on his behalf. Jones was identified as the suspected shooter and arrested Tuesday in Rufus by deputies with the Sherman County Sheriff’s Office.
Jones was lodged into the Northern Oregon Regional Corrections in The Dalles on one count of attempted murder and four counts of first-degree attempted assault.
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If you've heard American veterans celebrating one thing about the PACT Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law Wednesday, it likely has to do with burn pits.
These were massive piles of uniforms, equipment, computers, and other things the U.S. military incinerated to prevent them from falling into the hands of the wrong people.
American veterans, including those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, will be able to access VA support for a variety of medical problems they likely suffered because of their exposure to burn pits.
But soldiers aren't the only people still struggling with their damaging effects.
Kali Rubaii is an assistant professor of anthropology at Purdue University and studies the toxic legacies of the U.S. war in Iraq.
While the U.S. military has used burn pits in other conflicts, Rubaii said they were exceptionally large in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Taxpayers funded the U.S. occupation, but the people who were actually spending that money were private contractors and they had no bid contracts," she said. "That means that when a computer or a tank or a uniform was damaged, it was more profitable to actually throw the whole thing into a burn pit, then sell a brand new one to the U.S. military."
While the PACT Act opens new possibilities for American veterans seeking treatment for medical problems they sustained after serving near burn pits, it does not address the harm suffered by civilians living in areas close by.
Rubaii's research has brought her in contact with Iraqis who are struggling with the intergenerational impacts of their exposure.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On how Iraqis were impacted by burn pits
Veterans saw acute short-term exposure, and they were at peak health. Iraqi people were in all stages of their life course when they were exposed to burn pits, and they were exposed for over 10 years. Even those who live at a distance and downwind face a lot of health effects, and they're varied.
Farmers who live downwind noticed a lot of birth defects and fertility issues with their crops and their livestock. And then children report symptoms of dizziness, balance problems. There have been many cases of brain cancer near and around burn pits.
On possible intergenerational impacts
In a way, burn pits are the least of the violence done to Iraqi people. For example, in 2004, around 70% of Fallujah was leveled. That means no water, no electricity, no hospital, massive injury and death, lots of pollution released into the air. So in Fallujah today, the longstanding effects of that level of bombardment are there is still only a few hours of electricity. My tap water living there is brown. It's undrinkable. The hospitals still lack essential equipment.
So it's in the wake of all of this destruction that doctors at Fallujah Hospital started noticing, around 2004, all of these babies that were born with birth defects. And they started cataloging it, because it just was anecdotally noteworthy that there were more and more. And the tragedy here is that it's unclear what the cause is, but it definitely indicates there's an environmental factor and people notice that the timeline indicates something about U.S. occupation.
On the damage of war when it comes to environment
One of the common problems that people face is that during sandstorms, the air quality is very poor and every single micro particle that can be picked up into the wind is entering people's lungs, lining your teeth, and it's everywhere. And this is a climate change issue. Of course, we have more and more sandstorms and dust storms in Iraq. And the more war detritus that is lying around, the more people are inhaling war. They're inhaling the past of war.
On the families that she has met and the impact that war has had on their lives
I had to watch a child die a few months ago. And she was just this dynamic, inquisitive baby who was born in Fallujah with multiple congenital anomalies. Some of her organs were outside of her body. She had a gap in her heart. She lived for about a week. She made really deep eye contact with everyone, and she was really fighting for her life.
The cause of her birth defects were likely environmental and linked with burn pits, but the cause of her death was the destroyed hospital infrastructure. Had she been in a place where the hospital hadn't been bombed several times, it's possible that she would have survived her birth defects. And I think maybe one of the toughest legacies in Iraq is that environmental damage to people's bodies doesn't have to be fatal if there is also infrastructure to contend with it.
I feel that now that the PACT Act has been passed, it would be up to U.S. health justice organizers to reach out to Iraqi people who are managing incredible burdens and who would be very keen to engage in a joint struggle for extending the kind of reparative care that's available to veterans now to the Iraqi people who've been living in the wake of these burn pits.
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The Addition of Ryan Financial, Inc. Increases Wealth Enhancement Group's Presence in Denver, Colorado
MINNEAPOLIS, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wealth Enhancement Group, a national independent wealth management firm with more than $67.2 billion in total client assets, announced the acquisition of Ryan Financial, Inc., a hybrid RIA located in Denver, Colorado. The team at Ryan Financial Inc., led by Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Robert Ryan, and President, Erik Anderson, oversee more than $200 million in client assets.
"We are excited to announce that Ryan Financial, Inc. has chosen to join Wealth Enhancement Group," said Jeff Dekko, Chief Executive Officer of Wealth Enhancement Group. "Taking care of our clients is both an honor and great responsibility. Ryan Financial and Wealth Enhancement Group share many core values and a similar culture. We know that their team-based approach will provide increased benefits to the entire firm and will continue their success at Wealth Enhancement Group."
Founded in 2000 by Robert Ryan, Ryan Financial, Inc. primarily focuses on offering qualified retirement plan support, financial planning, and asset management. The team at Ryan Financial, Inc. is committed to its clients' success, which aligns with Wealth Enhancement Group's mission of always putting clients first.
Mr. Ryan shared, "After 23 years as a private, independent firm, the partners and advisors at Ryan Financial, Inc. are eager to join forces with Wealth Enhancement Group. We are aligned with the firm's values, and this partnership will allow us to offer our clients additional services through Wealth Enhancement Group's Roundtable™ team of specialists."
Jim Cahn, Chief Investments & Business Development Officer at Wealth Enhancement Group shared, "We are excited to be expanding our presence in the Denver metro-area. Robert, Erik and the team will help us accelerate growth in the market."
About Wealth Enhancement Group
Wealth Enhancement Group is an independent wealth management firm with an endless passion for enriching the lives of our clients. We continually seek to perfect our craft of personalized financial planning with our team-based Roundtable™ and UniFi processes that go far beyond the standard approach. We proudly provide unique financial plans and investment management services to over 53,000 households from our 90 offices - and growing - nationwide.
Since 1997, Wealth Enhancement Group has tirelessly raised the standard of wealth management with specialized knowledge and more attentive service that helps every client craft their future. For more information, please visit www.wealthenhancement.com.
Advisory services offered through Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services, LLC (WEAS), a registered investment advisor. Select investment advisor representatives (IARs) of WEAS are also registered representatives of and offer securities through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC. Wealth Enhancement Group and Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services are separate entities from LPL Financial. Wealth Enhancement Group is a registered trademark of Wealth Enhancement Group, LLC.
Wealth Enhancement Group and its Registered Investment Advisor, Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services, had $64.2 billion in client assets, including $4 billion of brokerage assets held at LPL Financial, as of March 31, 2023. Ryan Financial, Inc. had approximately $200 million in client assets, including $31 million of brokerage assets, as of June 30th, 2023. With the addition of previously announced acquisitions and the acquisition of Ryan Financial, Inc., Wealth Enhancement Group has more than $67.2 billion in client, advisory, trust and brokerage assets.
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- The Hohenstein Quality Label is issued for products that have been rigorously tested and meet defined minimum requirements. Testing criteria is based on decades of scientific research and considers practical, real-use situations. All testing is conducted in Hohenstein's accredited testing labs.
- Greenbutts has certified a biodegradable solution to the world's most littered plastic item, cigarette filters, meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #12 for Responsible Consumption and Production.
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Greenbutts LLC. ("Greenbutts") announces it has been granted the Hohenstein Quality Label for a novel biodegradable filter technology designed to replace the most littered single-use plastic item - cigarette filters.
An all-natural and fiber-based solution to cellulose acetate filters, Greenbutts' technology becomes one of few alternatives certified as biodegradable by Hohenstein Laboratories ("Hohenstein"), a distinction requiring materials to achieve complete biodegradation to achieve certification. By fully biodegrading, our novel filter technology enables multinational partners and our growing customer pipeline to address their product sustainability while materially reducing the negative impact on our oceans and communities.
"Receiving this certification of biodegradability from Hohenstein is validation of all the hard work over the past decade to develop and optimize our Greenbutts filter technology to be a truly eco-friendly replacement for cellulose acetate. We are excited to offer this certified material to a variety of filtration media products in the near future to help eradicate single-use synthetics used in the filtration industry," said Tadas Lisauskas, CEO of Greenbutts.
Luis Sanches, Chief Strategy Officer of Greenbutts, said "We have put our best minds towards delivering a transformative solution for the global tobacco industry. Our world demands high corporate responsibility coupled with measurable impact, and no matter where our customers may be, we all can do our part. At Greenbutts, we are inspired by our industry peers who are establishing bold and responsible practices towards replacing single-use plastic in their product with a better alternative.
We are dedicated to designing a bright future, inspiring the way we, our customers and our partners grow with our collective goal to lead our industry with sustainable values," Sanches continued.
Greenbutts expects with this certified technology to contribute toward solving the problem of cigarette filter pollution which continues to be one of the most widespread single-use plastic problems facing the world's waterways and environment.
On Behalf of the Board,
CEO, Director, and Chairman of the Board
Since 2010, Greenbutts has worked with R&D institutions, multinational tobacco companies, and industry experts to develop a natural filter technology, capable of replacing the most littered plastic in the world, cigarette filters. Driven by the new single-use plastic (SUP) legislation enforced by governments, the Company is actively engaged in the global commercialization of its proprietary, plastic-free and trademarked material technology, Greenbutts™, fulfilling the global industry demand for biodegradable filters. The technology utilizes fully patented material science and is biodegradable, plastic-free, and water dispersing; designed to reduce the significant environmental impact caused by plastic cigarette filter pollution. The sustainable design of the Company's filter technology includes a natural, rapidly degrading cigarette filter using a proprietary blend of food grade fiber materials. The unique blend of materials is designed to allow for a similar customer sensory experience and filter manufacturing process as acetate filters and provides a seamless transition away from plastic filters for the global tobacco industry. Greenbutts filters will disperse in water within a few minutes and will degrade in compost within days, as opposed to 10-15 years as is the case with traditional cellulose acetate filters. Greenbutts' natural filter technology is fully patented in the U.S., U.K., Canada and is patent pending in additional countries, covering key geographies in the cigarette industry. Greenbutts' fully patented biodegradable filter is one of a kind and solves the major pain-point that multinational producers suffer from: a need for an alternative filter without compromising sensory, taste, or customer experience. The Company's trademarked Greenbutts™ delivers a similar sensorial experience of traditional cigarette filters without the plastic waste left behind, offering a viable alternative to plastic filters while meeting the new SUP legislation initiatives.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tuya Inc. ("Tuya" or the "Company") (NYSE: TUYA; HKEX: 2391), a global leading IoT cloud development platform, today announced that it has regained compliance with the minimum average closing price criterion required by the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") for continued listing of the Company's American Depositary Shares ("ADSs").
As disclosed on November 3, 2022, the NYSE notified the Company on November 2, 2022 that the Company was not in compliance with the NYSE continued listing standard requiring a listed security to maintain a minimum average closing price of US$1.00 per security over a consecutive 30-trading day period pursuant to Section 802.01C of the NYSE Listed Company Manual (the "Minimum Average Closing Price Requirement").
On January 3, 2023, the Company received confirmation from the NYSE that it has regained compliance with the Minimum Average Closing Price Requirement, as the average closing price of its ADSs for the consecutive 30-trading day period ended December 30, 2022 exceeded US$1.00.
About Tuya Inc.
Tuya Inc. (NYSE: TUYA; HKEX: 2391) is a global leading IoT cloud development platform with a mission to build an IoT developer ecosystem and enable everything to be smart. Tuya has pioneered a purpose-built IoT cloud development platform that delivers a full suite of offerings, including Platform-as-a-Service, or PaaS, and Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, to businesses and developers. Through its IoT cloud development platform, Tuya has enabled developers to activate a vibrant IoT ecosystem of brands, OEMs, partners and end users to engage and communicate through a broad range of smart devices.
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DUBLIN , July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Perrigo Company plc (NYSE: PRGO), a leading provider of Consumer Self-Care Products, today announced that it will release its second quarter 2022 financial results on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. The Company will also host a conference call beginning at 8:30 A.M. (EDT).
The conference call will be available live via webcast to interested parties in the investor relations section of the Perrigo website at http://perrigo.investorroom.com/events-webcasts or by phone at 888-317-6003, International 412-317-6061, and reference ID # 4031017. A taped replay of the call will be available beginning at approximately 12:00 P.M. (EDT) Tuesday, August 9, until midnight Tuesday, August 16, 2022. To listen to the replay, dial 877-344-7529, International 412-317-0088, and use access code 3460338.
Perrigo Company plc (NYSE; PRGO) is a leading provider of Consumer Self-Care Products and over-the-counter (OTC) health and wellness solutions that enhance individual well-being by empowering consumers to proactively prevent or treat conditions that can be self-managed. Visit Perrigo online at www.perrigo.com.
Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements." These statements relate to future events or the Company's future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements of the Company or its industry to be materially different from those expressed or implied by any forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "could," "would," "should," "expect," "forecast," "plan," "anticipate," "intend," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential" or the negative of those terms or other comparable terminology. The Company has based these forward-looking statements on its current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. While the Company believes these expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections are reasonable, such forward-looking statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's control, including: the effect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its variants and associated supply chain impacts on the Company's business; general economic, credit, and market conditions; the impact of the war in Ukraine and any escalation thereof, including the effects of economic and political sanctions imposed by the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, and other countries related thereto; the outbreak or escalation of conflict in other regions where we do business; future impairment charges; customer acceptance of new products; competition from other industry participants, some of whom have greater marketing resources or larger market shares in certain product categories than the Company does; pricing pressures from customers and consumers; resolution of uncertain tax positions, including the Company's appeal of the draft and final Notices of Proposed Assessment ("NOPAs") issued by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the impact that an adverse result in any such proceedings would have on operating results, cash flows, and liquidity; pending and potential third-party claims and litigation, including litigation relating to the Company's restatement of previously-filed financial information and litigation relating to uncertain tax positions, including the NOPAs; potential impacts of ongoing or future government investigations and regulatory initiatives; uncertainty regarding anticipated regulatory approvals; potential costs and reputational impact of product recalls or sales halts; the impact of tax reform legislation and/or changes in healthcare policy; the timing, amount and cost of any share repurchases; fluctuations in currency exchange rates and interest rates; the Company's ability to achieve the benefits expected from the sale of its Rx business and the risk that potential costs or liabilities incurred or retained in connection with the transaction may exceed the Company's estimates or adversely affect the Company's business or operations; the Company's ability to achieve the benefits expected from the acquisition of HRA Pharma and the risks that the Company's synergy estimates are inaccurate or that the Company faces higher than anticipated integration or other costs in connection with the acquisition; risks associated with the integration of HRA Pharma, including the risk that growth rates are adversely affected by any delay in the integration of sales and distribution networks; the consummation and success of other announced and unannounced acquisitions or dispositions, and the Company's ability to realize the desired benefits thereof; and the Company's ability to execute and achieve the desired benefits of announced cost-reduction efforts and strategic and other initiatives, including the Company's ability to achieve the expected benefits from its supply chain reinvention program. An adverse result with respect to the Company's appeal of any material outstanding tax assessments or pending litigation, including securities or drug pricing matters, could ultimately require the use of corporate assets to pay such assessments, damages from third-party claims, and related interest and/or penalties, and any such use of corporate assets would limit the assets available for other corporate purposes. There can be no assurance that the FDA will approve the sale of daily oral contraceptives without a prescription in the United States. These and other important factors, including those discussed under "Risk Factors" in the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as well as the Company's subsequent filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release are made only as of the date hereof, and unless otherwise required by applicable securities laws, the Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Saturday's results
Saskatoon 6 Red Deer 2
Prince Albert 6 Brandon 2
Moose Jaw 6 Seattle 2
Prince George 3 Everett 1
Swift Current 6 Medicine Hat 4
Edmonton 3 Lethbridge 2 (SO)
Tri-City 6 Victoria 4
Kamloops 5 Kelowna 1
Vancouver 2 Spokane 1
Sunday's results
Regina 6 Calgary 2
Winnipeg 6 Portland 3
Tuesday's results
Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Portland at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Portland at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Portland at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Prince George at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Portland at Regina, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Sunday's games
Lethbridge at Calgary, 4 p.m.
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CANTON, Ohio, August 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty HealthShare has been awarded the GuideStar Gold Seal of Transparency by Candid, ranking it among the country's best non-profit organizations for transparency.
The Gold Seal recognizes non-profit organizations for sharing information about their finances, leadership, demographics, programs, organization and mission.
"We are thrilled to receive this recognition from Candid," said Dorsey Morrow, Liberty HealthShare chief executive officer. "It demonstrates the confidence our members and healthcare providers can place in Liberty HealthShare and our medical cost-sharing programs."
Candid's GuideStar rankings are the world's largest source of information on 2.7 million non-profit organizations. Its mission is to revolutionize philanthropy by providing information that advances transparency, enables users to make better decisions and encourages charitable giving.
Established in 1995, Liberty HealthShare is a non-profit 501(c) Christian medical cost-sharing ministry focused on members helping each other in times of need. The faith-based program is a caring community of more than 100,000 health-conscious individuals and families who choose to support one another and agree to the Christian values of stewardship to make healthcare affordable for all. Learn more about Liberty HealthShare at www.libertyhealthshare.org.
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The Des Moines International Airport was one of at least a dozen around the country whose websites were targeted by pro-Russian hackers. Woodbury County is reporting a decline in requests for absentee ballots, just a week ahead of early voting beginning in Iowa. Plus, the Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over a California animal cruelty law that could raise the cost of bacon and other pork products nationwide. | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/here-first/2022-10-11/tuesday-october-11th-2022 | 2022-10-11 11:21:01 | 0 | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/here-first/2022-10-11/tuesday-october-11th-2022 |
HOUSTON (AP) — Chicharito scored the go-ahead go in the first half and LA Galaxy defeated Houston Dynamo 3-1 on Sunday, capping a strong finish to the MLS regular season for the Galaxy.
Sebastián Ferreira gave the Dynamo a 1-0 lead in the 8th minute then Riqui Puig tied it for the Galaxy barely a minute before Chicharito gave LA the lead. Dejan Joveljic added a second-half goal for LA.
The Galaxy (14-12-8) lost only one of their final 11 matches, going 5-1-5 over that stretch. Prior to that, they lost six of eight matches.
The fourth-seeded Galaxy will host No. 5 Nashville in the opening round of the playoffs. Both teams finished with 50 points in the regular season.
Jonathan Bond saved one of the two shots he faced for the Galaxy. Steve Clark saved four of the seven shots he faced for the Dynamo (10-18-6).
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Pete Carril, the rumpled, cigar-smoking basketball coach who led Princeton to 11 appearances in the NCAA Tournament, where his teams unnerved formidable opponents and rattled March Madness with old-school fundamentals, died Monday. He was 92.
Princeton released a statement from Carril’s family, which said he died “peacefully this morning.” It did not give a cause of death.
“We kindly ask that you please respect our privacy at this time as we process our loss and handle necessary arrangements. More information will be forthcoming in the following days,” the statement said.
Carril, a Hall of Famer, schooled his teams in a distinct and throwback brand of ball — the Princeton offense, a game marked by patience, intelligence, constant motion, quick passing and backdoor cuts that often ended in layups.
It was an offense that could be played at any level of basketball — as Carril proved when he left Princeton and joined the NBA’s Sacramento Kings as an assistant.
At Princeton, Carril’s offense was performed by players often dismissed or overlooked by some of the nation’s basketball powers. Come the NCAA Tournament, however, Princeton’s unforgiving discipline could offset the disparity of talent on the floor.
During Carril’s 29 seasons as the Tigers’ coach, the system worked splendidly. His teams won 13 Ivy League titles and posted a 514-261 record without the benefit of scholarship players. Its deliberate approach draining the high octane from many opponents, Princeton led the nation in scoring defense in 14 of his last 21 seasons, including the last eight in a run that ended in 1996.
He guided Princeton to the National Invitation Tournament championship in 1975 and was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997.
Basketball fans loved to watch the headaches Carril’s teams caused in March. That was certainly the case in 1989 for Georgetown’s John Thompson, the Hall of Fame coach sweating late in the game with his trademark towel draped over his shoulder.
Princeton gave a No. 1 seeded Georgetown team featuring Alonzo Mourning and Charles Smith all it could handle, and as a No. 16 seed was on the verge of a monumental upset. The Tigers had two shots in the closing seconds at sending Thompson and his team home but were denied, losing 50-49.
Carril’s final season in 1996 was highlighted by a first-round NCAA victory over defending champion UCLA, an outcome many consider one of the biggest surprises in tournament history.
Former Princeton athletic director Gary Walters was taught civics by Carril in the classroom and played on the hardwood under Carril in high school in Pennsylvania. He later served as an assistant coach to him at Princeton and was a lifelong friend.
“His adaptability as a coach and being able to put the pieces together in a constructive way, was very, very important,” Walters told The Associated Press on Monday. “He also understood the game so well fundamentally. Very few coaches had his ability to teach fundamentals.”
There was an outpouring of sympathy and praise on social media for Carril.
“I believe that in defining greatness in coaches u must determine if they get maximum out of their TEAM personnel,” ESPN sportscaster Dick Vitale tweeted. “PETE CARRIL is a prime example of a brilliant coaching mind that got max out of his talent. May Coach RIP !”
Peter Joseph Carril was born on July 10, 1930, to Spanish immigrant parents in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He played at Lafayette College under a venerable coach in Butch Van Breda Kolff. After an Army stint, Carril coached in high school in Pennsylvania in the 1950s and ’60s before getting a college head coaching job at Lehigh. He spent the 1966-67 season there, going 11-12, and then was on his way to Princeton.
Carril was more than a basketball coach. Friends and former players say he was intelligent, philosophical, a great judge of character, honest and caring. He was not the country-club type. He was down to earth, his attire simple: open-collared shirts, wrinkled sweaters, his thinning hair never quite combed. Occasionally, there would be a sport jacket.
On the court, Carril was demanding. He worked his players hard and sought perfection. It would not be unusual for him to sit on the bench with a 20-point lead and a pained look creasing his face following a bad pass, a turnover or missed layup. It was the craft, the process that mattered, never mind the score.
If asked, he would recall what his father had told him growing up in Bethlehem, one of the country’s steel capitals.
“When you lower your standards, they can turn around and attack you,” Carril said often.
Success on the court never changed Carril. He liked his cigars. He enjoyed a drink, a coffee or just chatting with people at Andy’s Tavern in Princeton, that is until it became a sushi bar in the 1990s. Conte’s Pizza remained one of his hangouts. He would occasionally stop at the Princeton basketball office to talk hoops with Mitch Henderson, who became Princeton’s coach in 2011.
After leaving Princeton, Carril jumped to unfamiliar ground — the NBA. He spent 10 seasons as a Kings assistant, helping coach Rick Adelman’s teams win two Pacific Division titles and a spot in the 2002 Western Conference finals.
He joined the Washington Wizards’ staff in 2007 and in 2009 returned to the Kings. He retired from coaching in 2011.
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Products Fuel Business Expansion as Markerr's ARR Grows 359% Year Over Year
NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Markerr, an analytics platform providing real estate investors with unique, accurate insights and tools to streamline their workflow, announced the expansion of its RealRent product line: a machine-learning powered multifamily rent forecast and single family rent nowcast. Concurrently, the firm launched RealRank, a property and market ranking tool for research and acquisitions teams. With Markerr's revenue having grown by 359% since Q2 2021, these new products will play a major role in meeting the data needs of its growing customer base.
Accurately assessing current and future rents is critical to successful diligence and underwriting processes. But most of the insights currently available to investors, owners and operators are based on data that is stale, skewed, or hard to validate. To close this gap, Markerr has expanded its RealRent products, providing the most accurate, data-driven view of current and future rents, to include nowcasts for single family properties in 250+ MSAs and forecasts for multifamily properties.
Markerr's new RealRank dashboard streamlines the submarket scoring and selection process by unifying critical property- and market-level metrics – including nominal values and growth rates for rent, income, employment and population – into a single view. Instead of cobbling together data from multiple sources, analysts can easily get a read on their pipeline and portfolio, share the latest insights with colleagues, as well as incorporate them into Investment Committee presentations.
"Shifting market conditions and a more challenging borrowing environment require real estate investors, owners and operators to innovate and deepen their relationship with technology and data," said Brian Lichtenberger, Founder and CEO of Markerr. "Investors who can act quickly, based on an accurate, holistic perspective, continue to outperform their competition. The expansion of RealRent and the release of RealRank advance our vision of setting a higher standard for real estate decision making, as we empower our customers to work more confidently and quickly."
RealRent data is available via bulk feeds, dashboards, and reports. The RealRank dashboard is available to Markerr customers today.
As the company rolls out its new products, Markerr is proud to share the exceptional business performance driven by the current product suite:
- The expansion of existing relationships as well as the addition of new customers drove 359% ARR growth year over year
- Markerr has 111% more customers now compared to last year
- Existing customers are enthusiastic about the value of Markerr's products, as shown by 121% net retention year to date
- The company has seen nearly 40% growth in employee headcount YTD, including the addition of Adam Slackman as SVP Revenue, and Hadley Johnson as VP Data Science
Markerr is setting a new standard for real estate decision-making by providing unique insights and tools to streamline critical investment workflows. Our data feeds, dashboards, reports and forecasts are built from a network of proprietary sources, connected by MarkerrID and transformed with data science for a complete picture of opportunities. Markerr's customers include leading investors, owners and operators of multifamily, single family rental, industrial, retail and office assets. For more information, please visit www.markerr.com.
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BALTIMORE — Skies will be filled with sunshine with highs in the upper-70s. Keeping abundant sunshine around Friday and through the weekend. Temperatures will rise through the weekend, in the mid to upper-80s on Sunday. Humidity will increase into the beginning of next week with highs above normal, near 90°!
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Friday Sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind.
Friday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 61. Light and variable wind.
Saturday Sunny, with a high near 83.
Saturday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 63.
Sunday Sunny, with a high near 88.
Sunday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 65.
Monday Sunny, with a high near 89.
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Tuesday Sunny, with a high near 88.
Tuesday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 66.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of sabotaging the Russian gas pipelines to Germany.
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(NewsNation) — More people are buying electric vehicles as technology improves and gas prices are on the rise. Axios reports that electric vehicle registrations doubled over the past year, making up 5% of new cars.
But some areas are seeing more enthusiasm for these vehicles than others. For instance, the number of electric vehicle sales tends to increase on the West Coast. San Francisco has the most, with more than 20% of the electric vehicles registered in the Bay Area. According to Forbes, the city has a reported 52 charging stations per 100,000 residents.
While the East Coast has also shown interest in electric vehicles, Midwestern states such as Missouri and Oklahoma aren’t as interested, according to Axios.
Even with certain areas seeing more electric vehicles on the road, a shift to gasoline will take years to play out from Axios’ estimation. Right now, Tesla dominates the industry, Axios wrote, and accounted for 61% of all American electric vehicles registered in April. Ford also tops the list, though at a much lower percentage: 8%.
An increase in electric vehicles means a new issue for fire departments across the country. Electric vehicle fires are less common than gas-powered ones but can be much more difficult to put out, requiring 10 times as much water to extinguish. That’s because these vehicles use high-voltage lithium-ion batteries. One Tesla in a Sacramento junkyard’s batteries kept reigniting flames three weeks after it was involved in a crash. It eventually took 4,500 gallons of water to put out the blaze. In comparison, gas-powered vehicles are typically extinguished with less than 1,000 gallons.
“Once they reach this point, it takes copious volumes of water in order to cool and extinguish these types of fires. The challenge for common fire departments is that we simply do not carry that amount of water on our apparatus,” Lt. Tanner Morgan of the Grand Prairie Fire Department in Texas, said. “Right now we’re in the crux, we’re at that critical point where the consumer-driven world we live in is pushing these vehicles out, and the fire department is playing catch up.”
The National Transportation Safety Board issued a lengthy report two years ago about the safety risks to emergency responders from lithium-ion battery fires.
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to human rights activists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
OSLO, Norway - This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties, a strong rebuke to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on his 70th birthday.
Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the panel wanted to honor "three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the neighbor countries Belarus, Russia and Ukraine."
"Through their consistent efforts in favor of human values and anti-militarism and principles of law, this year’s laureates have revitalized and honored Alfred Nobel’s vision of peace and fraternity between nations, a vision most needed in the world today," she told reporters in Oslo.
Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, speaks during a press conference to announce the winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, on Oct. 7, 2022. (Photo by HEIKO JUNGE/NTB/AFP via Getty I
Bialiatski was one of the leaders of the democracy movement in Belarus in the mid 1980s and has continued to campaign for human rights and civil liberties in the authoritarian country. He founded the non-governmental organization Human Rights Center Viasna and won the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes referred to as the "Alternative Nobel," in 2020.
Bialiatski was detained following protests that year against the re-election of Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin. He remains in jail without trial.
Despite tremendous personal hardship, Mr Bialiatski has not yielded one inch in his fight for human rights and democracy in Belarus," Reiss-Andersen said, adding that the Nobel panel was calling on Belarusian authorities to release him.
She said the Nobel Committee was aware of the possibility that by awarding him the prize Bialiatski might face additional scrutiny from authorities in Belarus.
"But we also have the point of view that the individuals behind these organizations, they have chosen to take a risk and pay a high price and show courage to fight for what they believe in," she said. "We do pray that this price will not affect him negatively, but we hope it might boost his morale.
Belarus exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, visiting Paris, told The Associated Press that the award would further increase the spotlight on Belarusian political prisoners and said she felt "honored and delighted" that Bialiatski was among the laureates, calling him a "famous human rights defender in Belarus and in the world" and a "wonderful person."
"For sure, it will attract more attention to (the) humanitarian situation in our country," she said of the award.
Tsikhanouskaya, whose husband is also imprisoned, said Bialiatski "is suffering a lot in punishment cells" in prison in Belarus.
"But there are thousands of other people who are detained because of their political views, and I hope that it will raise awareness about our country and practical steps will have been done in order to release those people who sacrificed with their freedom," she told the AP.
Memorial was founded in the Soviet Union in 1987 to ensure the victims of communist repression would be remembered. It has continued to compile information on human rights abuses in Russia and tracked the fate of political prisoners in the country.
"The organization has also been standing at the forefront of efforts to combat militarism and promote human rights and government based on the rule of law," said Reiss-Andersen.
Asked whether the Nobel Committee was intentionally sending a signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who turned 70 on Friday, Reiss-Andersen said that "we always give a prize for something and to somebody and not against anyone."
"This prize is not addressing President Putin, not for his birthday or in any other sense, except that his government, as the government in Belarus, is representing an authoritarian government that is suppressing human rights activists," she said.
"The attention that Mr. Putin has drawn on himself that is relevant in this context is the way a civil society and human rights advocates are being suppressed," she added. "And that is what we would like to address with this prize."
The Center for Civil Liberties was founded in 2007 to promote human rights and democracy in Ukraine during a period of turmoil in the country.
"The center has taken a stand to strengthen Ukrainian civil society and pressure the authorities to make Ukraine a full-fledged democracy, to develop Ukraine into a state governed by rule of law," said Reiss-Andersen.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, the group has worked to document Russian war crimes against Ukrainian civilians.
"The center is playing a pioneering role with a view to holding the guilty parties accountable for their crimes," said Reiss-Andersen.
A representative of the Center for Civil Liberties, Volodymyr Yavorskyi, said the award was important for the organization, because "for many years we worked in a country that was invisible."
"This is a surprise for us," he told The Associated Press. "But human rights activity is the main weapon against the war."
The award follows a tradition of highlighting groups and activists trying to prevent conflicts, alleviate hardship and protect human rights.
Last year's winners have faced a tough time since receiving the prize. Journalists Dmitry Muratov of Russia and Maria Ressa of the Philippines have been fighting for the survival of their news organizations, defying government efforts to silence them.
They were honored last year for "their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace."
The prize carries a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out on Dec. 10. The money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, in 1895.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — A sandstorm blanketed parts of the Middle East on Monday, including Iraq, Syria and Iran, sending people to hospitals and disrupting flights in some places.
It was the latest in a series of unprecedented nearly back-to-back sandstorms this year that have bewildered residents and raised alarm among experts and officials, who blame climate change and poor governmental regulations.
From Riyadh to Tehran, bright orange skies and a thick veil of grit signaled yet another stormy day Monday. Sandstorms are typical in late spring and summer, spurred by seasonal winds. But this year they have occurred nearly every week in Iraq since March.
Iraqi authorities declared the day a national holiday, urging government workers and residents to stay home in anticipation of the 10th storm to hit the country in the last two months. The Health Ministry stockpiled cannisters of oxygen at facilities in hard-hit areas, according to a statement.
The storms have sent thousands to hospitals and resulted in at least one death in Iraq and three in Syria's east.
“Its a region-wide issue but each country has a different degree of vulnerability and weakness,” said Jaafar Jotheri, a geoarchaeologist at the University of Al-Qadisiyah in Baghdad.
In Syria, medical departments were put on alert as the sandstorm hit the eastern province of Deir el-Zour that borders Iraq, Syrian state TV said. Earlier this month, a similar storm in the region left at least three people dead and hundreds were hospitalized with breathing problems.
Dr. Bashar Shouaybi, head of the Health Ministry’s office in Deir el-Zour, told state TV that hospitals were prepared and ambulances were on standby. He said they have acquired an additional 850 oxygen tanks and medicine needed to deal with patients who have asthma.
Severe sandstorms have also blanketed parts of Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia this month.
For the second time this month, Kuwait International Airport suspended all flights Monday because of the dust. Video showed largely empty streets with poor visibility.
Saudi Arabia’s meteorological association reported that visibility would drop to zero on the roads in Riyadh, the capital, this week. Officials warned drivers to go slowly. Emergency rooms in the city were flooded with 1,285 patients this month complaining they couldn’t breathe properly.
Iran last week shut down schools and government offices in the capital of Tehran over a sandstorm that swept the country. It hit hardest in the nation’s southwest desert region of Khuzestan, where over 800 people sought treatment for breathing difficulties. Dozens of flights out of western Iran were canceled or delayed.
Blame over the dust storms and heavy air pollution has mounted, with a prominent environmental expert telling local media that climate change, drought and government mismanagement of water resources are responsible for the increase in sandstorms. Iran has drained its wetlands for farming -- a common practice known to produce dust in the region.
Alireza Shariat, the head of an association of Iranian water engineers, told Iran’s semiofficial ILNA news agency last month that he expected extensive dust storms to become an “annual springtime phenomenon” in a way Iran has never seen before.
In Iraq, desertification exacerbated by record-low rainfall is adding to the intensity of storms, said Jotheri, the geoarchaeologist. In a low-lying country with plenty of desert regions, the impact is almost double, he said.
“Because of 17 years of mismanagement of water and urbanization, Iraq lost more than two thirds of its green cover,” he said. “That is why Iraqis are complaining more than their neighbors about the sandstorms in their areas.”
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New Guest Experience Innovation Expected by the 2023/24 North American Season
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vail Resorts today announced its plan to introduce a new technology that will allow guests to store their pass or lift ticket directly on their phone – eliminating the need to carry a plastic card, visit the ticket window, or wait to receive a pass or lift ticket in the mail. With the new innovation, guests will be able to buy their pass or lift ticket online, activate it on their phone, put their phone in their pocket, and get scanned, hands free, using Bluetooth® Low Energy technology.
"As a company focused on investing in the future of skiing and riding, we believe that digital innovation, more than ever, will be key for delivering a great guest experience on-mountain," said Tim April, chief information officer of Vail Resorts. "We are excited for the more seamless arrival experience this technology will provide for our guests and look forward to unveiling it across our resorts."
The new feature will be tested during the 2022/23 North American winter season, with roll-out to guests expected for the 2023/24 season.
Once launched, guests will no longer need to wait in a line at the ticket window if they need to purchase, pick up, or reprint their pass or lift ticket. In addition to the significant enhancement in the guest experience, this technology will also reduce waste from printing plastic cards and RFID chips – supporting Vail Resorts' Commitment to Zero sustainability promise.
Even after the feature is launched, Vail Resorts will continue to make plastic cards available to any guests who cannot or do not want to use their phone as their pass or lift ticket.
As a leader in the ski industry, Vail Resorts has a long track record of investing in technological innovations to improve the guest experience, including its EpicMix app, Express Lift Ticket pick-up, and transparent lift line wait time reporting.
More details about the new technology will be shared closer to the guest-facing launch ahead of the 2023/24 season.
Vail Resorts is a network of the best destination and close-to-home ski resorts in the world including Vail Mountain, Breckenridge, Park City Mountain, Whistler Blackcomb, Stowe, and 32 additional resorts across North America; Andermatt-Sedrun in Switzerland; and Perisher, Hotham, and Falls Creek in Australia. We are passionate about providing an Experience of a Lifetime to our team members and guests, and our EpicPromise is to reach a zero net operating footprint by 2030, support our employees and communities, and broaden engagement in our sport. Our company owns and/or manages a collection of elegant hotels under the RockResorts brand, a portfolio of vacation rentals, condominiums and branded hotels located in close proximity to our mountain destinations, as well as the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Vail Resorts Retail operates more than 250 retail and rental locations across North America. Learn more about our company at www.VailResorts.com, or discover our resorts and pass options at www.EpicPass.com.
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RICHMOND, Va. — A first-grade Virginia teacher who was shot and seriously wounded by her 6-year-old student filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $40 million in damages from school officials, accusing them of gross negligence for allegedly ignoring multiple warnings on the day of the shooting that the boy had a gun and was in a “violent mood.”
Abby Zwerner, a 25-year-old teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia was shot in the hand and chest on Jan. 6 as she sat at a reading table in her classroom. She spent nearly two weeks in the hospital and has had four surgeries since the shooting.
The shooting rattled the military shipbuilding community and sent shock waves around the country, with many wondering how a child so young could get access to a gun and shoot his teacher.
The lawsuit names as defendants the Newport News School Board, former Superintendent George Parker III, former Richneck principal Briana Foster Newton and former Richneck assistant principal Ebony Parker.
Michelle Price, a spokesperson for the school board, Lisa Surles-Law, chair of the school board, and other board members did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment on the lawsuit. The former superintendent did not immediately return a message seeking comment left on his cellphone.
A message left on a cellphone listing for Ebony Parker was not immediately returned.
The Associated Press couldn't immediately find a working phone number for Newton. Her attorney, Pamela Branch, has said that Newton was unaware of reports that the boy had a gun at school on the day of the shooting.
No one, including the boy, has been charged in the shooting. The superintendent was fired by the school board after the shooting, while the assistant principal resigned. A school district spokesperson has said Newton is still employed by the school district, but declined to say what position she holds. The board also voted to install metal detectors in every school in the district, beginning with Richneck, and to purchase clear backpacks for all students.
In the lawsuit, Zwerner's attorneys say all of the defendants knew the boy “had a history of random violence” at school and at home, including an episode the year before, when he “strangled and choked” his kindergarten teacher.
“All Defendants knew that John Doe attacked students and teachers alike, and his motivation to injure was directed toward anyone in his path, both in and out of school, and was not limited to teachers while at the school,” the lawsuit states.
School officials removed the boy from Richneck and sent him to another school for the remainder of the year, but allowed him to return for first grade in the fall of 2022, the lawsuit states. He was placed on a modified schedule “because he was chasing students around the playground with a belt in an effort to whip them with it," and was cursing staff and teachers, it says. Under the modified schedule, one of the boy's parents was required to accompany him during the school day.
“Teachers' concerns with John Doe's behavior (were) regularly brought to the attention of Richneck Elementary School administration, and the concerns were always dismissed,” the lawsuit states. Often after he was taken to the office, “he would return to class shortly thereafter with some type of reward, such as a piece of candy," according to the lawsuit.
The boy's parents did not agree to put him in special education classes where he would be with other students with behavioral issues, the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit describes a series of warnings school employees gave administrators in the hours before the shooting, beginning with Zwerner, who went to the office of assistant principal Ebony Parker between 11:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. and told her the boy “was in a violent mood,” threatened to beat up a kindergartener and stared down a security officer in the lunchroom. The lawsuit alleges that Parker “had no response, refusing even to look up at (Zwerner) when she expressed her concerns.”
At about 11:45 a.m., two students told Amy Kovac, a reading specialist, that the boy had a gun in his backpack. The boy denied it, but refused to provide his backpack to Kovac, the lawsuit states.
Zwerner told Kovac that she had seen the boy take something out of his backpack and put it into the pocket of his sweatshirt. Kovac then searched the backpack but did not find a weapon.
Kovac told Ebony Parker that the boy had told students he had a gun. Parker responded his "pockets were too small to hold a handgun and did nothing,” the lawsuit states.
Another first-grade boy, who was crying, told a teacher the boy “had shown him a firearm he had in his pocket during recess.” That teacher then contacted the office and told a music teacher, who answered the phone, what the boy told her about seeing the gun.
The music teacher said that when he informed Parker, she said the backpack had already been searched and “took no further action,” according to the lawsuit. A guidance counselor then went to Parker’s office and asked permission to search the boy for a gun, but Parker forbade him from doing so, “and stated that John Doe’s mother would be arriving soon to pick him up,” it states.
About an hour later, the boy pulled the gun out of his pocket, aimed it at Zwerner and shot her, the lawsuit states.
Zwerner suffered permanent bodily injuries, physical pain, mental anguish, lost earnings and other damages, the lawsuit states. It seeks $40 million in compensatory damages.
Last month, Newport News prosecutor Howard Gwynn said his office will not criminally charge the boy because he is too young to understand the legal system and what a charge means. Gwynn has yet to decide if any adults will be charged.
The boy used his mother’s gun, which police said was purchased legally. An attorney for the boy’s family has said that the firearm was secured on a high closet shelf and had a lock on it. | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/teacher-40-million-lawsuit/507-6d5801c8-0cfc-43a7-9dcc-639d74d84287 | 2023-04-03 18:30:06 | 0 | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/teacher-40-million-lawsuit/507-6d5801c8-0cfc-43a7-9dcc-639d74d84287 |
NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man was accused of leading police on a chase that reached speeds of over 120 mph on Wednesday.
According to a Facebook post from the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, the chase ensued after deputies clocked Gary Lamar Miller, 22, going 117 mph on Interstate-75.
Deputies said they tried to pull over Miller’s SUV near Pine Ridge Road, but he allegedly sped away. He was accused of ignoring deputies’ lights and sirens, topping speeds of 120 mph before exiting the interstate at Immokalee Road.
The sheriff’s office said Miller continued to speed as he ran a red light and drove over a grassy area just north of Northbrooke Plaza Drive. The chase came to an end at the gated entrance to the Cypress Trace Community, according to the sheriff’s office.
On the drive to the Collier County Jail, Miller reportedly told a deputy that he “felt like he was in the video game Grand Theft Auto,” according to the Facebook post.
“This might have felt like a game to this individual, but in reality he put the lives of other motorists and our deputies at risk with his reckless driving and excessive speed,” Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said. “He will now be held accountable for his actions.”
Miller was charged with fleeing and eluding police, on top of traffic violations. Deputies later discovered Miller was driving on a learner’s permit at the time of the incident. | https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-man-says-high-speed-police-chase-felt-like-grand-theft-auto-video-game-ccso/ | 2023-07-21 12:15:11 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-man-says-high-speed-police-chase-felt-like-grand-theft-auto-video-game-ccso/ |
SAN DIEGO, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aethlon Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: AEMD), a medical technology company focused on developing products to diagnose and treat life and organ threatening infectious diseases, today reported financial results for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 and provided an update on recent developments.
Company Updates
Aethlon Medical is continuing the research and clinical development of the Hemopurifier®, a therapeutic blood filtration system that can bind and remove life-threatening viruses and harmful exosomes from blood. This action has potential applications in cancer, where cancer associated exosomes may promote immune suppression and metastasis, and in life-threatening infectious diseases, including removal of COVID-19 virus, associated variants, and related exosomes.
As disclosed previously, the Aethlon Hemopurifier has demonstrated binding of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and, as reported in a peer reviewed publication, the binding and removal from circulation of SARS-CoV-2 virus from a human patient. That publication also noted that the Hemopurifier has demonstrated the removal of exosomes and exosomal microRNAs associated with coagulopathy and acute lung injury.
We also recently published a pre-print manuscript demonstrating that Aethlon's proprietary GNA affinity resin was able to bind seven clinically relevant SARS-CoV-2 variants in vitro, including the Delta and Omicron variants. Viral capture efficiency with the GNA affinity resin ranged from 53% to 89% for all variants tested. The GNA affinity resin is a key component of our Hemopurifier. The manuscript is titled "Removal of Clinically Relevant SARS-CoV-2 Variants by An Affinity Resin Containing Galanthus nivalis Agglutinin" and was published in bioRxiv.
We continued to advance our severe COVID-19 clinical trial for the Hemopurifier under our open Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) for life-threatening viral infections. In June 2022, the first patient in this study was enrolled and has completed the Hemopurifier treatment phase of the protocol. We now have nine fully activated hospitals that are actively screening patients for the trial, including Louisiana State University (LSU) Shreveport, Valley Baptist Medical Center in Texas, Loma Linda Medical Center, Hoag Irvine and Newport Beach in Southern California, University of California Davis, University of Miami Medical Center, Cooper Medical and Thomas Jefferson Medical Center. We are in the site activation process with additional U.S. medical centers. Our contract research organization (CRO) for this trial is Pharmaceutical Product Development, also known as PPD.
We also obtained ethics review board approval and entered into an agreement with Medanta Medicity Hospital, a multi-specialty hospital in Delhi NCR, India, to initiate a COVID-19 clinical trial. We have completed all site initiation activities and this site is now open for enrollment and is actively screening patients. One patient recently completed participation in the study.
In addition to our work with COVID-19, we continue to screen patients for our IDE clinical trial in head and neck cancer. We are working to increase the number of trial sites to accelerate patient recruitment and we are also considering initiating additional trials, both domestically and abroad, to investigate the Hemopurifier as a treatment for other forms of cancer.
Aethlon also recently announced the appointment of Angela Rossetti to the Aethlon Board of Directors, effective April 1, 2022. Ms. Rossetti is a senior biopharmaceutical executive who brings more than 20 years of industry experience.
Financial Results for the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2022
At March 31, 2022, Aethlon Medical had a cash balance of approximately $17.1 million.
Aethlon recorded approximately $294,000 of revenue related to our government contracts with the NIH in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, compared to approximately $659,000 in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021. At March 31, 2022, the Company had approximately $345,000 of deferred revenue related to those contracts as a result of not achieving certain milestones in those contracts.
Consolidated operating expenses for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 were approximately $10.72 million, compared to approximately $8.55 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, an increase of approximately $2.17 million in fiscal year ended March 31, 2022. The $2.17 million increase in the 2022 period was due to increases in payroll and related expenses of approximately $1.17 million and in general and administrative expense of $1.0 million, which were partially offset by a decrease of approximately $4,000 in professional fees.
The $1.17 million increase in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 in payroll and related expenses was due to an increase in cash-based compensation of approximately $1.2 million, which was partially offset by a decrease in stock-based compensation of approximately $29,000. The $1.2 million increase in cash-based compensation was primarily due to increases of approximately $826,000 and $721,000 in general and administrative payroll and in research and development payroll, respectively, due to headcount increases, and approximately $203,000 in relocation-related compensation to two senior executives that relocated to San Diego, California as a condition of their employment. Those increases were partially offset by the combination of a $452,000 accrual in the 2021 period related to the separation agreement with the former CEO, with no comparable expense in the 2022 period, and a net decrease of approximately $135,000 in cash bonuses.
The $1.0 million increase in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 in general and administrative expenses primarily arose from increases of $453,000 in clinical trial expenses, $209,000 in rent expense and $195,000 in insurance expense
As a result of the changes in revenues and expenses noted above, Aethlon's net loss before noncontrolling interests increased to approximately $10.4 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, from approximately $7.9 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.
The unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet for March 31, 2022 and the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 follow at the end of this release.
Conference Call
The Company will hold a conference call today, Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to review financial results and recent corporate developments. Following management's formal remarks, there will be a question and answer session.
Interested parties can register for the conference by navigating to https://dpregister.com/sreg/10168104/f354b2edb0.
Please note that registered participants will receive their dial in number upon registration.
Interested parties without internet access or unable to pre-register may dial in by calling:
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All callers should ask for the Aethlon Medical, Inc. conference call.
A replay of the call will be available approximately one hour after the end of the call through July 28, 2022. The replay can be accessed via Aethlon Medical's website or by dialing 1-877-344-7529 (domestic) or 1-412-317-0088 (international) or Canada Toll Free at 1-855-669-9658. The replay conference ID number is 4234353.
About Aethlon and the Hemopurifier®
Aethlon Medical is a biotechnology company developing the Hemopurifier, a therapeutic blood filtration system indicated for infectious diseases and cancer. In human studies, the Hemopurifier has demonstrated the removal of life-threatening viruses and harmful exosomes from blood utilizing a proprietary lectin-based technology. This action has potential applications in cancer, where exosomes may promote immune suppression and metastasis, and in life-threatening infectious diseases.
The Hemopurifier is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) designated Breakthrough Device indicated for the treatment of individuals with advanced or metastatic cancer who are either unresponsive to or intolerant of standard of care therapy, and with cancer types in which exosomes have been shown to participate in the development or severity of the disease. Under an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application, the FDA approved a single site, open-label Early Feasibility Study (EFS) to evaluate the Hemopurifier for reducing cancer-associated exosomes prior to the administration of standard-of-care pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA®) in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. The EFS is being conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center.
The Hemopurifier also holds an FDA Breakthrough Device designation and an open IDE application related to the treatment of life-threatening viruses that are not addressed with approved therapies. A recent amendment to the IDE enabled Aethlon to implement a new EFS protocol to treat up to 40 COVID-19 patients at up to 20 clinical sites in the U.S. In two case studies of patients treated under Emergency Use (EU), the Hemopurifier demonstrated binding of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and removal of SARS-CoV-2 virus from the circulation of a human patient.
Additional information can be found at www.AethlonMedical.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that involve risks and uncertainties. Statements containing words such as "may," "believe," "anticipate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "project," "will," "projections," "estimate," "potentially" or similar expressions constitute forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially from the results anticipated in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon Aethlon's current expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or may prove to be incorrect. Factors that may contribute to such differences include, without limitation, the Company's ability to enroll additional sites for its clinical trials, the Company's ability to enroll patients in and successfully complete its trials in COVID-19 patients and in its head and neck cancer trials, the Company's ability to successfully treat patients under any Emergency Use pathway, the Company's ability to successfully complete development of its Hemopurifier, the Company's ability to raise additional funds, the Company's ability to expand its clinical trials into other areas of cancer, and other potential risks. The foregoing list of risks and uncertainties is illustrative but is not exhaustive. Additional factors that could cause results to differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements can be found under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2021, and in the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Except as may be required by law, the Company does not intend, nor does it undertake any duty, to update this information to reflect future events or circumstances.
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Recently launched iOS app aims to resolve issues concerning both the performance and security of modern devices
STROVOLOS, Cyprus, July 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- While technology keeps advancing and achieving new heights, some age-old problems persist and keep bothering many users all around the world. Speed, storage, security, privacy – each time a hardware or software solution appears on the market, it will inevitably be hindered by various complications.
A small European company Uniapps Limited has undertaken the complex task of addressing and resolving at least some of those grievances at the software level. Their recently released software Secret Cleaner is aimed at those users who prefer simple but effective solutions to the issues of junk data, password security, device health and more.
"We're excited to offer our users a simple but effective solution to the common issues of storage, security, and performance that plague modern devices," says Evan Kurchenyan, Product Manager of Uniapps Limited. "With Secret Cleaner, we aim to provide a one-stop-shop for all your device needs. We believe that this app is a game-changer in the industry and will help users take control of their device's performance and security."
The solutions include a variety of tools aimed at cleaning various types of junk data. Same or hauntingly similar pictures or photos, duplicate contacts, unnecessary app data and more. You would be surprised how easy it is to overwhelm your device with such information, decreasing available storage and slowing down the performance of your device. Secret Cleaner resolves the issue with a single tap of a button. However, you can always pick separate options if you're willing to know more about what you're doing.
It does not stop there though. For those users who care about their offline security, Secret Cleaner offers a hidden folder tool. Users can pick the media they don't want anyone to see and transfer it from the device gallery to the password-protected in-app folder. The hidden folder also includes a compartment for phone contacts for those who would like a complete security package.
Password management is another neat option included in the app. With just a few taps, users can easily create secure passwords for their accounts and store them safely inside the app. A password management tool is almost indispensable for anyone concerned about privacy and security, so its inclusion in the overall package is much appreciated.
The app allows users to access various device specs and the status of some components. Users can check their screen health, connection speed, OS version, RAM information, sensor data and more useful details for true tech geeks.
While not being sensational or over-the-top with its tools and features, Secret Cleaner offers an exceptionally convenient experience for different types of users, providing solid offline security, storage health and password management options, with a handy bonus in the form of a device health monitor.
Uniapps Limited is a company that specializes in developing software solutions aimed at resolving issues concerning the performance and security of modern devices. With a focus on user-friendliness and effectiveness, Uniapps Limited aims to provide simple but powerful tools that help users take control of their device's performance and security.
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Ex-cop Thomas Lane faces sentencing in George Floyd killing
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane is hoping for a sentence Thursday that could let him go free after as little as two years in prison for his role in the killing of George Floyd.
His attorney, Earl Gray, has argued that the rookie was the least culpable of the four officers involved in Floyd’s death under Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee in May 2020, a killing that sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the world, and launched a national reckoning on race.
Lane is one of three former Minneapolis officers who were convicted by a federal jury in February of violating Floyd’s civil rights by depriving him of medical care. He faces a separate sentencing Sept. 21 in state court after changing his plea there to guilty to a reduced charge of aiding and abetting manslaughter.
Lane and fellow rookie J. Alexander Kueng helped restrain Floyd while Chauvin, who is white and was the most senior officer on the scene, killed Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 1/2 minutes despite the handcuffed and unarmed Black man’s fading pleas that he couldn’t breathe. Chauvin’s partner, Tou Thao, helped hold back an increasingly concerned group of onlookers outside a Minneapolis convenience store where Floyd tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill in August 2020.
Federal prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson to follow nonbinding federal sentencing guidelines and sentence Lane to 5 1/4 to 6 1/2 years.
But Gray has asked for 2 1/4 years. Under federal probation rules, and assuming good behavior, that would result in two years in prison. That happens to be what Lane is facing under his plea agreement on the state charge, which calls for a sentence of three years but likely would amount to two under the state’s parole system.
Gray argued during the trial that Lane “did everything he could possibly do to help George Floyd.” He pointed out that Lane suggested rolling Floyd on his side so he could breathe, but was rebuffed twice by Chauvin. He also noted that Lane performed CPR to try to revive Floyd after the ambulance arrived.
“Any reasonable person should just be disgusted, should be infuriated” that Lane was ever charged, Gray told jurors in his closing argument.
Lane testified he didn’t realize how dire Floyd’s condition was until paramedics turned him over. Prosecutor Manda Sertich countered that his expressions of concern showed he knew Floyd was in distress but “did nothing to give Mr. Floyd the medical aid he knew Mr. Floyd so desperately needed.”
When Lane pleaded guilty in state court in May, Gray said Lane hoped to avoid a long sentence. “He has a newborn baby and did not want to risk not being part of the child’s life,” he said.
Chauvin pleaded guilty to separate federal civil rights charges in December in Floyd’s killing and in an unrelated case involving a Black teenager. That netted a 21-year sentence when he appeared before Magnuson two weeks ago, toward the low end of the range of 20 to 25 years both sides agreed to under his plea deal.
Magnuson had harsh words for Chauvin at the hearing, saying, “You absolutely destroyed the lives of three young officers by taking command of the scene.”
Chauvin was already serving a 22 1/2-year state court sentence for second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. His federal and state sentences are running concurrently. While his plea agreement meant accepting nearly three more years behind bars than his state sentence alone, he’s expected to be safer and have more freedom in the long run. Minnesota corrections officials have kept Chauvin in solitary confinement in the state’s maximum security prison for his own safety, given his notoriety. He has not yet been transferred to the federal prison system.
Magnuson has not set sentencing dates for Thao and Kueng. But he has scheduled a hearing for Friday on objections by their attorneys to how their sentences should be calculated under the complicated federal guidelines. Prosecutors are seeking unspecified sentences for them that would be lower than Chauvin’s but “substantially higher” than Lane’s.
Thao and Kueng, who have turned down plea deals, are scheduled to go on trial Oct. 24 on state charges of aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
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Steve Bannon, the onetime political adviser to former president Donald Trump, is expected to surrender Thursday to New York authorities to face state charges in an indictment that remains sealed, according to a person familiar with the case.
The nature of the charges was unclear early Wednesday. But Bannon called them “phony” in a statement. “They are coming after all of us,” he said. “I have not yet begun to fight.”
Danielle Filson, a spokesperson for Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, declined to comment.
The charges would not be Bannon’s first indictment. Trump pardoned Bannon in January 2021 before he could be brought to trial on federal fraud charges stemming from his work with We Build the Wall Inc., a fund-raising operation set up to help fulfill the former president’s promise to create a physical barrier between the United States and Mexico.
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The Manhattan district attorney’s office, then headed by Cyrus Vance Jr., began its own investigation after the presidential pardon, which covered only federal charges. The new indictment was first reported by The Washington Post.
Federal prosecutors had accused Bannon and three other men in 2020 of cheating donors to We Build the Wall, which aimed to construct at least 100 miles of barrier on private land.
The authorities said Bannon hatched a plot to defraud donors with three other men: Brian Kolfage, an Air Force veteran and triple amputee from Miramar Beach, Fla.; Andrew Badolato, a venture capitalist from Sarasota, Fla.; and Timothy Shea, an entrepreneur from Castle Rock, Colo.
They were accused of taking money for personal expenses such as hotel and credit card bills and to buy jewelry, a golf cart, and a luxury SUV. The fund-raising effort collected more than $25 million, and prosecutors said Bannon used nearly $1 million of it for personal expenses.
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Kolfage and Badolato pleaded guilty in April to wire fraud conspiracy in US District Court in Manhattan. Kolfage also pleaded guilty to tax-related charges.
A federal judge declared a mistrial in the case against Shea in June after jurors reported an impasse, saying one juror had spoken in deliberations of a “government witch hunt” and refused to consider the evidence. Damian Williams, the US attorney in Manhattan, said he planned to retry the case.
We Build the Wall was popularized in Instagram and Twitter posts boasting of ties to Trump. It was also promoted by Donald Trump Jr. and assembled an advisory board of right-wing luminaries. They included David Clarke, the former sheriff of Milwaukee County in Wisconsin; Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state; and Erik Prince, the founder of the private military company Blackwater, now known as Academi.
Few ideas were as galvanizing to Trump’s supporters as creating a physical barrier at the border. Chants of “build that wall” rang out during rallies. Many supporters saw the structure as the embodiment of Trump’s “America First” policies.
We Build the Wall was created to spur on the administration, which ultimately built about 450 miles of a wall along the border.
Kolfage had launched a GoFundMe campaign to further the effort. Prosecutors said he raised about $17 million in a week with Shea’s help. But GoFundMe suspended the campaign, saying it would return the donated money unless Kolfage found a nonprofit group to administer it, prosecutors said.
Soon Bannon and Badolato, who were working on a nonprofit meant to promote economic nationalism and American sovereignty, joined the campaign.
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That led to the formation of We Build the Wall. Most donors who had given to the GoFundMe campaign transferred their money to the new group, and by the end of 2019 We Build the Wall had raised about $25 million.
According to an indictment, Bannon’s nonprofit funneled money from We Build the Wall to Kolfage and issued a fake IRS 1099 form saying it had paid his spouse for “media.” Shea created an anonymous shell company that received payments from We Build the Wall, the indictment said, keeping some and transferring some to Kolfage, saying it was for “social media” accounts and pages.
In all, federal prosecutors said, Kolfage received more than $350,000 from We Build the Wall. They said Badolato and Shea each received hundreds of thousands of dollars. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/07/nation/bannon-surrender-new-york-authorities-face-sealed-indictment/ | 2022-09-07 23:43:33 | 1 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/07/nation/bannon-surrender-new-york-authorities-face-sealed-indictment/ |
PECOS, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD athletics joined the city to help West Texas Food Bank with a food drive this morning.
Together, they were able to deliver 200 meals to local residents.
The food drive was scheduled for earlier this month but was rescheduled due to extreme weather.
The Pecos Proud Crew, Code Enforcement, Pecos Animal Shelter, and Communications Department were there to represent the City.
West Texas Food Bank holds a food drive every month for local residents. The next food drive is scheduled for March 2nd from 10 am to 12 pm in the Reeves County Civic Center parking lot. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/city-of-pecos-hosts-food-drive/ | 2023-02-17 19:57:56 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/city-of-pecos-hosts-food-drive/ |
BEIJING – At the Communist Party congress that begins Sunday, President Xi Jinping, China’s most influential figure in decades, will get a chance to install more allies who share his vision of an even more dominant party role in the economy and tighter control over entrepreneurs.
The only question, economists and political analysts say, is whether China’s economic doldrums might force Xi to temper his enthusiasm for a state-run economy and include supporters of the markets and private enterprises that generate jobs and wealth.
The congress will name a new Standing Committee, China's inner circle of power, and other party leaders. Economic regulators will be appointed by the ceremonial legislature, which meets in March. But the leadership lineup will highlight who is likely to succeed Premier Li Keqiang, the top economic official, and take other government posts.
Xi has called for a “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” by reviving the party’s “original mission” as economic and social leader. During his term, the emphasis has been on politics over economics and on reducing reliance on foreign technology and markets.
Xi is expected to try to break with tradition and award himself a third five-year term as party leader. A report he is due to deliver at the congress will set economic, trade and technology goals for at least the next five years.
Investors will look for signs of "a more private sector-led economy. But with President Xi in place, there won’t be much change,” said Lloyd Chan of Oxford Economics. “Any reforms will be carried out in a way that it will be state-led.”
The party faces an avalanche of challenges: A tariff war with Washington; curbs on access to Western technology; a shrinking and aging workforce; the rising cost of Beijing’s anti-COVID strategy, and debt that Chinese leaders worry is dangerously high.
Economic growth slid to 2.2% over a year earlier in the first six months of 2022, less than half the official target, sapped by a crackdown on debt in China’s vast real estate industry and repeated shutdowns of major cities to fight virus outbreaks.
Loyalty to Xi is regarded as key to promotion. One potential candidate for premier, a post that usually goes to the No. 2 or 3 party leader, declared his allegiance by publishing a newspaper article in July that invoked Xi's name 48 times.
“Xi Jinping prefers to appoint party apparatchiks, cadres who are loyal to himself, rather than technocrats,” said Willy Lam, who researches elite Chinese politics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “This is a big problem if we look at future financial and economic advisers to Xi.”
Beijing opened its auto industry to foreign ownership and carried out other market-oriented reforms. But it has failed to follow through on dozens of other promised changes. Meanwhile, the party is pouring money into creating computer chip, aerospace and other industries.
Private sector success stories including Alibaba, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, and Tencent, a giant in games and social media, are under pressure to align with party plans. They are diverting billions of dollars to chip development and other political goals.
Xi’s government wants manufacturers to reduce reliance on global supply chains and use more domestic suppliers, even if that raises costs.
Under the 1950s propaganda slogan “common prosperity,” Xi is pushing entrepreneurs to help narrow China’s wealth gap by paying for rural job creation and other initiatives.
Li, the No. 2 leader, is due to step down as premier next year but at 67 is a year below party retirement age. It isn't clear whether he might stay on the Standing Committee and take a different government post.
Other regulators and policymakers, some foreign-educated and experienced in dealing with foreign markets and governments, are due to leave office over the coming year if retirement ages are enforced.
They include Vice Premier Liu He, a Harvard-trained reform advocate who is Xi’s economic adviser and the chief envoy to trade war talks with Washington. Yi Gang, governor of the central bank and a former Indiana University professor, Finance Minister Liu Kun and bank regulator Guo Shuqing also are due to go.
When their successors are picked, the big question will be “whether Xi has unlimited decision-making authority over the economy and technology,” Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington said in an email.
“Is Xi forced by party elites to listen to someone?” Scissors said. “If it’s a bunch of toadies, we get more paranoia paraded as policy.”
Xi’s decision to go abroad for last month’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Central Asian leaders suggests he was confident he has a third term locked in and didn’t need to stay home to make deals.
“Financial markets are hoping for some evidence of internal resistance to Xi” to change course on policymaking, Logan Wright and Agatha Kratz said in a report for Rhodium Group. If Xi strengthens this authority, that would suggest “elevation of the party’s priorities above those of China’s economic technocrats.”
Possible candidates for premier include Wang Yang, who already is a Standing Committee member, according to political analysts. Others are Hu Chunhua and Han Zheng, both deputy premiers, a role that is seen as training for the top job.
Wang, a former party secretary of the southern manufacturing powerhouse province of Guangdong, and Han, who was party secretary of the business capital Shanghai for many years, are seen as politically close to Xi and might represent little change in economic direction.
Hu might represent a potential change. He is seen as politically closer to Xi’s predecessor, Hu Jintao.
Hu Chunhua, 59, lobbied for the job in a July 27 article about farm policy in the party newspaper by citing Xi in every sentence.
That showed Hu is “very eager to get that position,” said Lam. He said Hu has less economic experience than Li, the premier, “but at least he comes from a different faction” than Xi, which would add to diversity of views.
Potential dark horse candidates include party secretaries Li Qiang of Shanghai or Chen Min'er of the populous city of Chongqing in the southwest.
A potential “economic czar” to succeed Liu, the vice premier, is He Lifeng, chairman of the Cabinet planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission. A friend of Xi's, he is seen as a politician, not a technocrat.
A party statement in August reinforced the dominance of politics by calling for “party building.” Last month, the party magazine Seeking Truth published a Xi speech that emphasized the party’s need for “self-revolution” to fight corruption and other problems.
That suggests Xi will tighten party control, “further narrowing the space for liberal approaches to economic policy,” Neil Thomas of Eurasia Group said in a report. | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/10/13/meeting-gives-chinas-xi-a-chance-to-tighten-hold-on-economy/ | 2022-10-13 01:36:05 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/10/13/meeting-gives-chinas-xi-a-chance-to-tighten-hold-on-economy/ |
An attorney for Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown plans to file a petition in Luzerne County Court on Wednesday, objecting to the county election board's decision to reject some write-in votes cast in the May 16 primary.
During its adjudication of ballots on Tuesday, the election board voted to only count write-in votes on ballots that include the oval filled in next to the name of the write-in candidate.
Brown, who is seeking a second term, was unopposed on the Democratic ballot.
Harry L. Cropp III was the only candidate on the Republican ballot for mayor, but Brown pursued write-in votes on the Republican line in hopes of winning the nomination of both major parties, which would virtually assure his reelection in November.
Whether that happens might depend on whether write-in votes that do not include an oval filled in next to the name are counted.
Voters at polling sites cast hand-marked paper ballots for the primary, a change from recent county elections in which voters at polling sites used electronic ballot-marking devices.
The paper ballots instructed voters to fill in ovals next to names they wrote in. However, some voters did not do so. Those write-in votes were not detected by the scanner/tabulators into which voters placed their ballots after finalizing their selections.
The election board began its adjudication of ballots Friday. That day, Brown said he would file an objection if the election board did not count write-in votes without a filled-in oval next to the name.
On Tuesday, the board voted unanimously, 5-0, to reject those votes.
Brown's attorney, Neil O'Donnell, said Tuesday afternoon that he plans to file a petition in county court on Wednesday.
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"We are finalizing a petition seeking relief on behalf of Mayor Brown to have the election bureau count all write-in votes for Mayor Brown," O'Donnell said.
When asked what argument he planned to make to counter the ballot instruction to fill in ovals next to the names of write-in candidates, O'Donnell said:
"It's a new system. I think we need to err on the side of enfranchising voters rather than disenfranchising them. Let's count every vote."
According to unofficial returns posted to the county website, as of Tuesday afternoon, Cropp had 453 votes on the Republican line and there were 363 write-in votes.
It was not clear how many Republican ballots for mayor included names of write-in candidates but without the oval filled in.
The issue of ovals and write-in votes impacts candidates in numerous races, said Bob Caruso, a longtime volunteer for local Democratic candidates who attended Tuesday's ballot adjudication at Penn Place in Wilkes-Barre.
During the adjudication, the election board completed its review of provisional ballots cast in the primary.
That review confirmed that the sixth and final Republican nomination for county council was won by Councilman Matt Mitchell.
Mitchell's 157-vote lead over Gregory Griffin remained unchanged after provisional ballots were adjudicated, according to unofficial returns. | https://www.citizensvoice.com/news/election/wilkes-barre-mayor-browns-suit-over-write-ins-will-be-filed-wednesday-attorney-says/article_c0d8e0d8-9f88-5fd7-87c2-828bec0b303e.html | 2023-05-24 02:24:36 | 0 | https://www.citizensvoice.com/news/election/wilkes-barre-mayor-browns-suit-over-write-ins-will-be-filed-wednesday-attorney-says/article_c0d8e0d8-9f88-5fd7-87c2-828bec0b303e.html |
Nominate a Deserving Father Figure for the Chance to Win $50,000 and a Year's Supply of Donuts
ISLANDIA, N.Y., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- There's no better pair than dads and donuts, especially on Father's Day! To help fans across the country celebrate their special father figure in the biggest way possible this year, Entenmann's® is calling on fans to enter the "Dads of Glory: A Father Figure Showcase." Now through July 1, fans can nominate the deserving father figures in their lives by submitting a video clip at www.DadsOfGlory.com for a chance to win exciting prizes including $50,000 and a year's supply of Entenmann's® Donuts!
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LGBTQ+ Pride month kicks off with protests, parades, parties
NEW YORK (AP) — The start of June marks the beginning of Pride month around the U.S. and some parts of the world, a season intended to celebrate the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ communities and to protest against attacks on hard-won civil rights gains.
This year’s Pride takes place in a contentious political climate in which some state legislators have sought to ban drag shows, prohibit gender-affirming care and limit how teachers can talk about sexuality and gender in the classroom.
Events have been disrupted. Performers have been harassed. And in Colorado in November, five people were killed and several injured when a gunman shot them inside a gay nightclub.
“What we’re seeing right now is probably the worst that it’s been since the early days, in terms of the demonization of our communities,” said Jay W. Walker, one of the co-founders of the Reclaim Pride Coalition, a New York City-based group.
But that won’t stop people from coming out to mark Pride this month, he said.
“You can’t keep our communities down. No one can. It’s basic human rights,” Walker said.
HOW IT STARTED
June has been an important month for the LGBTQ+ rights movement since New York City’s first Pride march — then dubbed the “Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day” march — on June 28, 1970.
That event marked an act of defiance from the year before, a 1969 uprising at New York City’s Stonewall Inn. After a police raid at the gay bar, a crowd partly led by trans women of color channeled their anger to confront authorities. It was a catalyst to what became a global movement for LGBTQ+ rights.
For more than a half-century, the annual marches have been an opportunity to demand action on specific issues such as the AIDS epidemic and same-sex marriage while also serving as a public celebration.
HOW IT’S GOING
These days, Pride celebrations and events can be found all over the country.
Many of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Denver and Minneapolis — hold their main marches on the last weekend of June, while some cities host their events throughout the month or even at other times of the year.
Along with the marches, Pride organizers fill the month of June with events ranging from readings and performances to parties and street festivals.
In Florida this weekend, Orlando-area theme parks and hotels will play host to annual Gay Days events, which are going ahead even after Gov. Ron DeSantis and state legislators passed a series of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, some of which barred classroom discussion of sexual orientation.
Pride events are happening globally as well, drawing major crowds in places including Sao Paulo, Tel Aviv, Madrid and Toronto.
At some past events, there have been concerns about commercialism and corporate presence that overshadow real issues that are still unresolved. In New York City for the past few years, there has been a second event on the same day of the larger Pride march. The Reclaim Pride Coalition says their event hearkens back to the spirit of protest that animated Stonewall.
The New York City Dyke March channels the idea that Pride is about protest, not just parades.
WHAT ARE THE FLASHPOINTS?
Pride parades had plenty to celebrate in recent years, such as in 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court recognized same-sex marriage in the Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
But the last several years have been more difficult; Pride events were restricted during the pandemic, and when they returned to in-person last year, it was with a sense of urgency, given the rise of hateful rhetoric and anti-LGBTQ legislative action.
Around the country, at least 17 states have put restrictions or bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors, and transgender athletes are facing restrictions at schools in at least 20 states.
“This is a year where sentiment is going to be revolving around resistance and about finding strength and community and centering our joy and our right to exist and our right to be here,” said Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director and senior counsel for the Human Rights Campaign organization.
LGBTQ+ communities, Oakley said, need to “commit ourselves to continued resistance against the forces that are trying to prevent us from being our full, joyful, happy, thriving selves. ... And band together and fight back against the very oppressive forces that are coming for us.”
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Brazil’s ouster of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro this week is giving environmentalists hope for the future of the Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon — considered of major importance to combating climate change — faced increased logging and clearing under Bolsonaro, whose administration openly deprioritized environmental laws.
On Sunday, Brazilians elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known colloquially as “Lula,” to replace Bolsonaro. Da Silva, who was also the country’s president from 2003 through 2010, has pledged to protect the precious rainforest.
“Let’s fight for zero deforestation,” he said after winning the election.
“Brazil will fight for a living Amazon; a standing tree is worth more than thousands of logs — that is why we will resume the surveillance of the entire Amazon and any illegal activity, and at the same time we will promote sustainable development,” he added.
But there could still be challenges ahead, including with the country’s more conservative National Congress.
Preserving the Amazon is vital to fighting climate change because of the amount of planet-warming carbon dioxide that the massive forest can absorb: around 123 billion tons of carbon above and below ground, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The forest’s carbon storage is “absolutely necessary to fight the climate emergency,” said Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre.
The Amazon is also home to hundreds of Indigenous groups and a vast trove of animal and plant species.
During da Silva’s prior two terms, his administration tackled land-clearing in the Amazon with a multilayered strategy that expanded the scope and number of protected areas, tackled illegal logging and funded new means of remote satellite surveillance to identify areas where forest was being lost.
Da Silva and his successor Dilma Roussef also targeted root causes of deforestation — such as the easy credit available to agricultural interests clearing new lands. They incentivized new sustainable supply chains and investment into making Amazonian agriculture more productive so that economic growth could take place through more intensive cultivation of existing parcels, rather than clearing new ones.
But Roussef was impeached in 2017 in what she called a “parliamentary coup” orchestrated by the rising members of Brazil’s “ruralist” faction of large agricultural landholders and mining interests.
After a right-wing anti-corruption campaign saw the still-popular da Silva imprisoned, Bolsonaro swept to power in 2018 on a platform that included scaling up development of the Amazon.
Under Bolsonaro, deforestation began trending sharply upward. The first half of 2022 saw record deforestation rates, according to Mongabay. Last month, INPE, Brazil’s space agency, found that deforestation was up nearly 50 percent from a year ago.
A primary factor in this forest loss was the Bolsonaro government’s slashing of environmental funding, incentivizing land clearing for Amazon infrastructure projects and, particularly, fostering a lax attitude toward law enforcement in the forest, according to a March study in Environmental Research Letters.
Bolsonaro also supported oil development and mining in Indigenous reserves while doing little to block illegal invasions by miners into protected areas. In one campaign video, he blasted environmentalists who don’t want to let Brazil’s Indigenous communities “evolve” or “plant on their land, explore, mine.”
An October study in Cell Press showed that Indigenous-controlled forest lands tend to be “the healthiest, highest functioning, most diverse, and most ecologically resilient.”
“Bolsonaro’s administration did not prioritize to enforce the law, especially environmental law, in the Amazon,” said Carolina Genin, climate director at World Resources Institute Brazil (WRI).
Raoni Rajão, a professor of environmental management and social studies of science at Brazil’s Federal University of Minas Gerais, said a range of actions under Bolsonaro worsened deforestation: installation of political appointees to key positions, requiring meetings — some of which never happened — before levying fines and changes that drew out the appeals process.
Rajão, who is also a fellow at the Wilson Center, said that had Bolsonaro won the election, losing the Amazon would have been “ensured.”
Studies have shown that the Amazon is nearing a “tipping point” after which it is unlikely to recover. Crossing those lines is expected to be disastrous for both the forest itself and its ability to combat climate change.
Nobre, the climate scientist, said that if the tipping point is exceeded, large portions of the forest will “degrade” into open canopy ecosystems and will generally shrink over a 30- to 50-year period. It would also release more than 200 billion tons of carbon dioxide over this period, he said.
He predicted that if these thresholds are crossed, the world would lose its chance to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, and would instead face global warming of at least around 2.4 or 2.5 degrees Celsius, meaning 4.3 to 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
Much of this loss is already underway — at least in some parts of the patchwork of landscapes that make up the great forest. A 2021 study in Nature found that some parts of the Amazon — in particular the agricultural frontier in the forest’s southeast — are already emitting more carbon than they store.
Bolsonaro’s laissez-faire approach to the Amazon shows the close role between enforcement — or lack thereof — and conditions on the ground.
“The state can actually change things very quickly because actually it’s a question of will — of enforcing the law,” WRI climate director Genin said, while also noting that “it’s not a silver bullet, but it will solve an important part of the problem.”
But while the enforcement and environmental policies of the da Silva administration could make a major difference for the rainforest, the new president faces a far more difficult challenge than in his first administrations — starting with the tight control that the Bolsonaro faction still maintains with its commanding lead over both houses of Brazil’s Congress.
Bolsonaro’s party won 99 seats in the 513-member lower House and 13 of the 27 seats in the Senate — a dramatic base of power in a body split among some 16 parties.
While da Silva can undertake a lot of the enforcement and regulatory policies unilaterally, Rajão said that he expects the president-elect to have more trouble with any legislative proposals.
“It’s a very conservative Congress. It’s a very anti-environmental Congress,” he said.
If there is one dramatic reprieve for the forest, it may be simply that Bolsonaro will not get to appoint two more justices to the nation’s high court. That body just defied the president by ordering the government to reactivate a billion dollar international fund aimed at protecting the forest, which Bolsonaro had frozen.
In the U.S. and around the world, leaders and lawmakers acknowledged the importance of da Silva returning to power.
“Lula’s win is a victory for global climate action. The importance of the Amazon as a carbon sink cannot be overstated, and its preservation is critical to preventing the most destructive climate change scenarios. Lula significantly curbed deforestation during his previous tenure in office, and I am eager to work with him to restore environmental protections in the Amazon, support indigenous communities, and drive international progress on climate,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said in a statement.
President Biden, too, said that he was putting a team together to discuss what he and da Silva can do together, saying that the Brazilian leader wants to focus on “the environment, democracy, and dealing with the poor in his country. And saving the Amazon.” | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/brazil-election-brings-new-hope-for-the-amazon/ | 2022-11-02 11:24:03 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/brazil-election-brings-new-hope-for-the-amazon/ |
Firm's oversubscribed third fund brings total raised to $1.3 billion since founding in September 2018
David Allison, Ph.D., joins Beth Seidenberg, M.D., and Mira Chaurushiya, Ph.D., as managing directors
LOS ANGELES, July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Westlake Village BioPartners ("Westlake") today announced the launch of its third fund of $450 million to incubate and grow early stage next-generation biotechnology companies in the Los Angeles region and beyond. The new fund will be managed by founding managing director Beth Seidenberg, M.D., managing director Mira Chaurushiya, Ph.D., and David Allison, Ph.D., who was recently appointed managing director.
"This new fund will enable us to continue to do what we do best – build great companies from the ground up that make a difference for patients and generate outsized returns for investors regardless of market conditions," said Dr. Seidenberg. "Our investors recognize our strategy is working and have demonstrated their commitment through this new investment."
Westlake will use the funds to continue to incubate and build early stage companies, by matching promising next-generation technologies with world-class talent to create transformative therapies that will change patients' lives.
Building a Venture Capital Firm to Last
Westlake announced the appointment of Dr. Chaurushiya as a senior partner in early 2022, and with the start of the new fund her promotion to managing director, and today announced Dr. Allison's appointment as managing director. Along with Seidenberg, Chaurushiya and Allison will lead the new fund.
"Our goal is to build a venture capital firm for the long term," said Dr. Seidenberg. "Adding Mira and David to our leadership team allows us to leverage their deep scientific, business, and investing expertise across our entire portfolio, while also building Westlake's next generation of leaders."
"Working with Beth and reuniting with Mira at Westlake is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," said Dr. Allison. "The firm has a focused, disciplined, and consistent investing strategy, which aligns with my approach throughout my investing career. Having created more than 20 high-quality companies since Westlake's founding in September 2018 is an impressive record by anyone's standards and I am thrilled to continue this work as we launch the new fund."
Dr. Allison has spent the past 15 years in biotechnology venture capital, including most recently as a partner at 5AM Ventures. While at 5AM, he was involved in investments including CinCor Pharma (acquired by AstraZeneca), Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Impel Neuropharma, Inipharm, Neurogastrx, and Radionetics. Prior to 5AM, Dr. Allison was a principal at Versant Ventures and held previous roles at Split Rock Partners and PTV Healthcare Capital. He received a Ph.D. from Rice University and a B.S.E. from The University of Iowa.
Dr. Chaurushiya was most recently at 5AM where she was a partner and involved in investments including Precision Nanosystems (acquired by Danaher), Enliven Therapeutics, Purigen Biosystems (acquired by BioNano), Escient Pharmaceuticals, Novome Biotechnologies, and TMRW. Dr. Chaurushiya is a fellow of the Society of Kauffman Fellows. She received a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in conjunction with the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where she was awarded the Martin Kamen Thesis Prize in Biochemistry, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Genentech. She received a B.A. from Carleton College.
Catalyzing the Los Angeles Biotech Hub
Westlake pioneered the creation of the Los Angeles Biotech Hub and has so far established eight companies in the region. "Los Angeles has a culture of innovation that is underappreciated in the biotech world," said Dr. Chaurushiya. "We have outstanding entrepreneurial and industry-experienced talent, world-class academic institutions, and sufficient venture capital with expertise in building biotech companies. Along with the wonderful Southern California lifestyle, this is a recipe for success."
About Westlake Village BioPartners
Westlake Village BioPartners is a Los Angeles area-based venture capital firm focused on incubating and building life sciences companies with entrepreneurs who have the potential to bring transformative therapies to patients. Westlake manages more early-stage venture capital solely from the greater Los Angeles area than any other firm. The Westlake model is built on the founding team's unique experience in successfully identifying and developing breakthrough therapies and building organizations, based on their extensive R&D, investing and company-building experience. For more information, please visit www.westlakebio.com.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak declared Monday that the U.K.’s “golden era” of ties with China was over in his first major speech on foreign policy, describing China’s growing authoritarianism as a “systemic challenge to our values and interests.”
But Sunak stopped short of calling China a threat, disappointing China hawks in his Conservative Party who had until recently expected him to class China as a “threat” to U.K. security as part of an update of the government’s foreign and defense policies.
In his speech to the annual Lord Mayor’s Banquet in London, Sunak said the U.K. would stand up to global competitors like China — “not with grand rhetoric but with robust pragmatism” and by boosting its ties with like-minded global allies including the U.S., Canada, Australia and Japan.
“We recognize China poses a systemic challenge to our values and interests, a challenge that grows more acute as it moves towards even greater authoritarianism,” he said.
Referring to Beijing’s handling of widespread protests across China against the country’s strict “zero COVID” strategy, Sunak said that “instead of listening to their people’s protests, the Chinese government has chosen to crack down further, including by assaulting a BBC journalist.”
In July, during a Conservative leadership race to pick a successor to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Sunak said China represented the “largest threat” to Britain and the world’s security and prosperity.
At the time, he pledged to close all Confucius Institutes, the partially Chinese government-funded organizations that promote Chinese culture and language at U.K. universities. He also said he would lead an international alliance against Chinese cyberthreats, and help British companies and universities counter Chinese spying.
Lawmaker Iain Duncan Smith, a former Conservative Party leader and a vocal China critic, said Sunak’s “robust pragmatism” meant “anything you want it to mean” and amounted to “appeasement.” And David Lammy, the opposition Labour Party’s foreign affairs spokesman, described Sunak’s speech as “as thin as gruel.”
“All it shows is that once again the Conservative government is flip-flopping its rhetoric on China,” Lammy said. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-uks-rishi-sunak-says-golden-era-with-china-over/ | 2022-11-29 09:43:58 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-uks-rishi-sunak-says-golden-era-with-china-over/ |
KHERSON, Ukraine — Hours after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, health staff at a children's hospital in the south started secretly planning how to save the babies.
Russians were suspected of seizing orphan children and sending them to Russia, so staff at the children's regional hospital in Kherson city began fabricating orphans' medical records to make it appear like they were too ill to move.
"We deliberately wrote false information that the children were sick and could not be transported," said Dr. Olga Pilyarska, head of intensive care. "We were scared that (the Russians) would find out ... (but) we decided that we would save the children at any cost."
Throughout the war Russians have been accused of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories to raise them as their own. At least 1,000 children were seized from schools and orphanages in the Kherson region during Russia's eight-month occupation of the area, say local authorities. Their whereabouts are still unknown.
But residents say even more children would have gone missing had it not been for the efforts of some in the community who risked their lives to hide as many children as they could.
At the hospital in Kherson, staff invented diseases for 11 abandoned babies under their care, so they wouldn't have to give them to the orphanage where they knew they'd be given Russian documents and potentially taken away. One baby had "pulmonary bleeding", another "uncontrollable convulsions" and another needed "artificial ventilation," said Pilyarska of the fake records.
On the outskirts of Kherson in the village of Stepanivka, Volodymyr Sahaidak the director of a center for social and psychological rehabilitation, was also falsifying paperwork to hide 52 orphaned and vulnerable children. The 61-year-old placed some of the children with seven of his staff, others were taken to distant relatives and some of the older ones remained with him, he said. "It seemed that if I did not hide my children they would simply be taken away from me," he said.
But moving them around wasn't easy. After Russia occupied Kherson and much of the region in March, they started separating orphans at checkpoints, forcing Sahaidak to get creative about how to transport them. In one instance he faked records saying that a group of kids had received treatment in the hospital and were being taken by their aunt to be reunited with their mother who was nine months pregnant and waiting for them on the other side of the river, he said.
While Sahaidak managed to stave off the Russians, not all children were as lucky. In the orphanage in Kherson — where the hospital would have sent the 11 babies — some 50 children were evacuated in October and allegedly taken to Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, a security guard at the institution and neighbors told The Associated Press.
"A bus came with the inscription Z (a symbol painted on Russian vehicles) and they were taken away," said Anastasiia Kovalenko, who lives nearby.
At the start of the invasion, a local aid group tried to hide the children in a church but the Russians found them several months later, returned them to the orphanage and then evacuated them, said locals.
Earlier this year, The Associated Press reported that Russia is trying to give thousands of Ukrainian children to Russian families for foster care or adoption. The AP found that officials have deported Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories without consent, lied to them that they weren't wanted by their parents, used them for propaganda, and given them Russian families and citizenship.
The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, says Russian officials are conducting a deliberate depopulation campaign in occupied parts of Ukraine and deporting children under the guise of medical rehabilitation schemes and adoption programs.
Russian authorities have repeatedly said that moving children to Russia is intended to protect them from hostilities. The Russian Foreign Ministry has rejected the claims that the country is seizing and deporting the children. It has noted that the authorities are searching for relatives of parentless children left in Ukraine to find opportunities to send them home when possible.
Russian children's rights ombudswoman Maria Lvova-Belova personally oversaw moving hundreds of orphans from Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine for adoption by Russian families. She has claimed that some of the children were offered an opportunity to return to Ukraine but refused to do so. Her statement couldn't be independently verified.
UNICEF's Europe and Central Asia child protection regional adviser, Aaron Greenberg, said that until the fate of a child's parents or other close relatives can be verified, each separated child is considered to have living close relatives, and an assessment must be led by authorities in the countries where the children are located.
Local and national security and law enforcement are looking for the children who were moved but they still don't know what happened to them, said Galina Lugova, head of Kherson's military administration. "We do not know the fate of these children ... we do not know where the children from orphanages or from our educational institutions are, and this is a problem," she said.
For now, much of the burden is falling on locals to find and bring them home.
In July, the Russians brought 15 children from the front lines in the nearby region of Mykolaiv to Sahaidak's rehabilitation center and then on to Russia, he said. With the help of foreigners and volunteers, he managed to track them down and get them to Georgia, he said. Sahaidak would not provide further details about the operation for fear of jeopardizing it, but said the children are expected to return to Ukraine in the coming weeks.
For some, the threat of Russia deporting children has brought unexpected results. In October when there were signs that the Russians were retreating, Tetiana Pavelko, a nurse at the children's hospital, worried they'd take the babies with them. Unable to bear children of her own, the 43-year-old rushed to the ward and adopted a 10-month-old girl.
Wiping tears of joy from her cheeks, Pavelko said she named the baby Kira after a Christian martyr. "She helped people, healed and performed many miracles," she said.
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BELLINZONA, Switzerland (AP) — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA by a Swiss criminal court on Friday, a rare positive outcome for the pair who were among soccer’s most powerful figures before being embroiled in corruption investigations.
The case was centered around a $2 million payment from FIFA to Platini with Blatter’s approval in 2011, for work done a decade earlier. The verdict followed an 11-day trial last month at the Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland in Bellinzona.
“First of all, I have to say that I’m very happy man,” the 86-year-old Blatter told reporters on the courthouse steps. “I am a happy man because I also have to express thanks to the court today, to this city, for people in the court, the way they have analyzed the situation and they have explained why both of us we haven’t done anything.”
Swiss prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand had requested a 20-month suspended sentence for both Blatter and Platini. Instead both were cleared and were also awarded a sum for costs during the trial, while Blatter also received 20,000 Swiss francs ($20,500) compensation for being morally wronged, the court said.
Blatter and Platini sat quietly at separate tables with their lawyers while the verdict was announced. Later, there was a burst of applause from the small public audience as both men started to walk out of the courtroom, after a brief conversation with each other and an exchange of wry smiles.
“Following the decision of the judges of the Court of Bellinzona, this morning, I wanted to express my happiness for all my loved ones that justice has finally been done after seven years of lies and manipulation,” Platini said. “The truth has come to light during this trial.”
“I kept saying it: my fight is a fight against injustice. I won a first game. In this case, there are culprits who did not appear during this trial. Let them count on me, we will meet again. Because I will not give up and I will go all the way in my quest for truth.”
The three federal judges said prosecutors didn’t sufficiently prove their case, so they had to apply the principle of “in dubio pro reo” in which a defendant must not be convicted when doubts remain about their guilt.
Any appeal has to be announced within 10 days.
“FIFA takes note of the first instance judgement related to the indictment which was filed by the OAG (Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland) and will await the full, written, reasoned judgement in order to assess and decide the next procedural steps,” FIFA lawyer Catherine Hohl-Chirazi said.
Blatter announced his plan in June 2015 to resign early as president, in the fallout from a sprawling American corruption investigation. Less than four months later, a separate but cooperating case by Swiss prosecutors led to the Platini payment being investigated.
The fallout removed Blatter from office but also ended Platini’s campaign to succeed his former mentor and saw the French soccer great removed as president of UEFA, the governing body of European soccer.
“Believe me, going from being a legend of world soccer to a devil is very difficult, especially when it comes to you in a totally unfair way,” Platini added.
Both Blatter and Platini have long denied wrongdoing and claim they had a verbal deal in 1998 for Platini to get extra salary that FIFA could not pay at the time. Platini signed a contract in August 1999 to be paid 300,000 Swiss francs ($300,000) annually.
That defense first failed with judges at the FIFA ethics committee, which banned them from soccer, and later in separate appeals at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Platini finally got a legal victory in the first criminal case after losses in five civil courts, including at the European Court of Human Rights.
His ban by FIFA for unethical conduct expired in October 2021 and Friday’s verdict should clear the way for Platini to return to work in soccer.
“I don’t know. I am so young, I have time in front of me,” said the 67-year-old Platini, when asked if his time in soccer was over.
Platini did not identify current FIFA president Gianni Infantino though it seemed clear he was one of the “culprits” referred to.
Infantino was the UEFA general secretary for six years under Platini and won the FIFA presidency in a February 2016 election as an emergency candidate after his boss was implicated in the criminal investigation. Platini has long claimed to be victim of a conspiracy to deny him the FIFA top job and filed a criminal complaint against Infantino and others in France last year.
Infantino faces re-election next March and Platini could yet try to challenge for a job he often described as a destiny for him. However, he laughed loudly when asked if he would run for the presidency.
Infantino faces his own legal jeopardy in a separate investigation by Swiss special prosecutors of his undisclosed meetings about the FIFA cases in 2016 and 2017 with former attorney general Michael Lauber.
Seeming frail at court, Blatter was banned by FIFA ethics judges again last year into 2028 for alleged self-dealing in management bonuses.
“My ban from football was not fair,” Blatter said. “But I’m still here now and with this decision of the court it gives me not only more credit, because I still have some credit, but it gives me new stamina to work for FIFA, to work for football.”
Blatter was asked if he had a message for Swiss compatriot Infantino.
“No, I will not speak about my countryman,” he said. “But he will think about his attitude when he is now listening to the decision taken by this court.”
Blatter is also a suspect in a separate Swiss criminal proceedings — also led by prosecutor Hildbrand — probing $1 million paid by FIFA in 2010 to the Trinidad and Tobago soccer federation controlled then by now-disgraced soccer official Jack Warner.
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AP Sports Writer Graham Dunbar in Geneva contributed to this report
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Ryan Gosling says Margot Robbie mandated a pink day dress code on ‘Barbie’ movie set
By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN
(CNN) — Margot Robbie is just trying to live in a Barbie world.
Part of her effort included the “Barbie” actor mandating a pink dress code, by which cast and crew members of the production had to abide once a week, this according to Robbie’s co-star Ryan Gosling.
“Margot had this pink day once a week, where everyone had to wear something pink. And if you didn’t, you were fined,” Gosling told People in an interview published last week.
Gosling, who plays Ken in the movie, added Robbie “would go around collecting the fines, and she would donate it to a charity.”
“What was really special was just how excited the male crew members were,” he said, adding “at the end of the film, they all got together and, with their own money, made pink crew shirts with rainbow fringe.”
The pink dress code, he says, was an opportunity for the cast and crew “to show their respect and admiration for what Margot and Greta (Gerwig) were creating.”
Gosling previously revealed another effort Robbie went to in order to help inspire Gosling to tap into what he’s referred to as his “Ken-ergy.”
Speaking with Vogue in May, Gosling said Robbie left him “a pink present with a pink bow, from Barbie to Ken, every day while we were filming. They were all beach-related.”
Some of the gifts were puka shell jewelry items, or a sign reading “Pray for surf,” which Gosling said is “Because Ken’s job is just ‘beach.’ I’ve never quite figured out what that means. But I felt like she was trying to help Ken understand through these gifts that she was giving.”
The Gerwig-directed movie stars Robbie as the iconic Mattel toy, along with Gosling, Issa Rae, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Will Ferrell and America Ferrera.
“Barbie” premieres in theaters July 21.
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MEXIA, Texas — The Mexia Police Department announced that the dead body found on Wednesday, May 3, has been identified as 19-year-old Xavier Omarion Molina of Limestone County.
Police say officers responded to the report of a dead body found near an H-E-B located at 701 East Milam St. at about 7:30 p.m.
According to police, an autopsy revealed Molina's identity and it was also discovered that he was reported missing on Saturday, April 15.
There is currently no more information available.
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HOUSTON (AP) — One by one, they took the stage at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Houston and denounced the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school across the state. And one by one, they insisted that further restricting access to firearms was not the answer to preventing future tragedies.
“The existence of evil in our world is not a reason to disarm law-abiding citizens,” said former President Donald Trump, who was among the Republicans who lined up to speak before the gun rights lobbying group Friday as thousands of protesters angry about gun violence demonstrated outside.
“The existence of evil is one of the very best reasons to arm law-abiding citizens,” he said.
The gathering came just three days after the shooting in Uvalde and as the nation grappled with revelations that students trapped inside a classroom with the gunman repeatedly called 911 during the attack — one pleading “Please send the police now” — as officers waited in the hallway for more than 45 minutes.
The NRA had said that convention attendees would “reflect on” the shooting at the event and “pray for the victims, recognize our patriotic members and pledge to redouble our commitment to making our schools secure.”
The meeting was the first for the troubled organization since 2019, following a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization has been trying to regroup following a period of serious legal and financial turmoil that included a failed bankruptcy effort, a class-action lawsuit and a fraud investigation by New York’s attorney general. Once among the most powerful political organizations in the country, the NRA has seen its influence wane following a significant drop in political spending.
Wayne LaPierre, the group’s embattled chief executive, opened the program with remarks bemoaning the “21 beautiful lives ruthlessly and indiscriminately extinguished by a criminal monster.”
Still, he said that “restricting the fundamental human rights of law-abiding Americans to defend themselves is not the answer. It never has been.”
Later, several hundred people in the auditorium stood and bowed their heads in a moment of silence for the victims of the shooting. Several thousand people were inside the auditorium during the speeches, which appeared fewer than the number gathered outside. Many seats were empty.
Trump accused Democrats of trying to exploit the tragedy and demonizing gun owners.
“When Joe Biden blamed the gun lobby he was talking about Americans like you,” Trump said, referring to the president’s emotional plea in a national address asking, “When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?”
Trump called for overhauling school security and the nation’s approach to mental health, telling the group every school building should have a single point of entry, strong exterior fencing, metal detectors and hardened classroom doors and every school should have a police officer or armed guard on duty at all times. He also called yet again for trained teachers to be able to carry concealed weapons in the classroom.
He and other speakers overlooked the security upgrades that were already in place at the elementary school and did not stop the gunman, who entered the building through a back door that had been propped open.
According to a district safety plan, Uvalde schools have a wide range of safety measures in place. The district had four police officers and four support counselors, according to the plan, which appears to be dated from the 2019-20 school year. It also had software to monitor social media for threats and software to screen school visitors.
Security experts say the Uvalde case illustrates how fortifying schools can backfire. A lock on the classroom door, for instance — one of the most basic and widely recommended school safety measures — kept victims in and police out.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who, like Trump, is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2024, railed against Democrats’ calls for universal background checks for gun purchases and bans of assault-style weapons and instead pointed to broken families, declining church attendance, social media bullying and video games as the real problems.
“Tragedies like the event of this week are a mirror forcing us to ask hard questions, demanding that we see where our culture is failing,” he said. “We must not react to evil and tragedy by abandoning the Constitution or infringing on the rights of our law-abiding citizens.”
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, another potential presidential contender, said calls to further restrict gun access are “all about control and it is garbage. I’m not buying it for a second and you shouldn’t, either.”
Some scheduled speakers and performers backed out of the event, including several Texas lawmakers and “American Pie” singer Don McLean, who said “it would be disrespectful” to go ahead with his act after the country’s latest mass shooting. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Friday morning that he had decided not to speak at an event breakfast after “prayerful consideration and discussion with NRA officials.”
“While a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and an NRA member, I would not want my appearance today to bring any additional pain or grief to the families and all those suffering in Uvalde,” he wrote in a statement.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who was to attend, addressed the convention by prerecorded video instead.
Outside the convention hall, protesters gathered in a park where police set up metal barriers — some holding crosses with photos of the Uvalde shooting victims.
“Murderers!” some yelled in Spanish. “Shame on you!” others shouted at attendees.
Among the protesters was singer Little Joe, of the popular Tejano band Little Joe y La Familia, who said in the more than 60 years he’s spent touring the world, no other country he’s been to has faced as many mass shootings as the U.S.
“Of course, this is the best country in the world,” he said. “But what good does it do us if we can’t protect lives, especially of our children?”
Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who is challenging Abbott in the governor’s race, ticked off a list of previous school shootings and called on those attending the convention to “join us to make sure that this no longer happens in this country.”
While Biden and Democrats in Congress have renewed calls for stricter gun laws after the Uvalde shooting, NRA board members and others attending the conference dismissed talk of banning or limiting access to firearms.
Samuel Thornburg, 43, a maintenance worker for Southwest Airlines in Houston who was attending the NRA meeting, said: “Guns are not evil. It’s the people that are committing the crime that are evil. Our schools need to be more locked. There need to be more guards.”
There is precedent for the NRA to gather during local mourning and controversy. The organization went ahead with a shortened version of its 1999 meeting in Denver roughly a week after the deadly shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.
Texas has experienced a series of mass shootings in recent years. During that time, the Republican-led Legislature and governor have relaxed gun laws.
Most U.S. adults think that mass shootings would occur less often if guns were harder to get and believe schools and other public places have become less safe than they were two decades ago, polling finds.
Many specific measures that would curb access to guns or ammunition also get majority support. A May AP-NORC poll found, for instance, that 51% of U.S. adults favor a nationwide ban on the sale of AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons. But the numbers are highly partisan, with 75% percent of Democrats agreeing versus just 27% of Republicans.
Though personal firearms are allowed at the convention, guns were not permitted during the session featuring Trump because of Secret Service security protocols.
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Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press writer David A. Lieb contributed from Jefferson City, Missouri.
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Whitmer strikes 1931 abortion ban from Michigan law
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (AP) — A near-century old abortion ban that fueled one of the largest ballot drives in Michigan history was repealed Wednesday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, just months after voters enshrined abortion rights in the state’s constitution.
“Today, we’re going to take action to make sure that our statutes and our laws reflect our values and our constitution,” Whitmer said at a bill signing outside of Detroit.
The 1931 abortion ban made it a four-year felony to assist in an abortion. Roe v. Wade had made the law null and void until the landmark decision was overturned in June by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Courts blocked the ban from taking effect while a citizen-led initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution received more signatures than any other ballot proposal in state history to put the question before voters. Voters overwhelmingly approved the proposal in last November’s midterms, making the 1931 law unconstitutional and unenforceable.
The 1931 ban could have been enforced in the future had voters collected enough signatures to once again amend the state constitution and repeal abortion rights. Whitmer’s signature Wednesday eliminated that possibility, erasing the law completely.
“We cannot allow archaic laws to remain on our books under the assumption that they’ll never be used again,” said Democratic state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky. “We don’t know what the future will hold and we don’t know what plans abortion opponents have.”
Last month, the Michigan House and Senate — each with a two-seat Democratic majority — voted to send a repeal of the abortion ban to the governor. A majority of Republicans opposed the bill, speaking out ahead of the vote on the legality of abortion as a whole.
Pohutsky, who sponsored the legislation repealing the law, said at the event Wednesday that “this is far from the end of the story,” and that the Democratic-controlled Statehouse will continue expanding access to reproductive health care.
Wednesday’s signing marked another victory for abortion rights supporters in Michigan, who joined California and Vermont last November in enshrining abortion rights in their state’s constitution. Kentucky, a reliably red state, rejected a ballot measure aimed at denying any state constitutional protections for abortion.
Voters in Wisconsin elected a Democratic-backed Milwaukee judge Tuesday to the state’s Supreme Court, ensuring liberals will take over majority control of the court with the fate of the state’s abortion ban on the line.
“Who would have thought two years ago, three years ago, five years ago, that we would be as Democrats looking to Michigan, Kansas, Wisconsin, Montana and Kentucky to be on the frontline of protecting reproductive freedom for women across this country,” said Laphonza Butler, the president of EMILYs List.
Whitmer joined other speakers at the event in Birmingham in calling out Republican-led states for restricting abortion rights, saying laws in Texas and South Carolina were “un-American, anti-free and, frankly, sickening.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has pushed for a six-week ban in his state, is scheduled to appear in Michigan on Thursday to speak at a Midland County GOP event before heading to southern Michigan to speak at Hillsdale College.
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HONG KONG, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited ("NetDragon" or "the Company", Hong Kong Stock Code: 777), a global leader in building online communities, is pleased to announce its strategic investment in Zebra Labs, a leading Web3.0 entertainment platform. NetDragon is the lead investor in Zebra Labs' latest US$5 million equity round.
Zebra Labs is specialized in the creation and incubation of virtual idols and in building communities that bring celebrities to the metaverse. The team at Zebra labs combines together core competencies in IP incubation, world-class content production and deep industry knowhow, and as a result is uniquely positioned to capitalize on opportunities that the metaverse brings to the entertainment sector. As a strategic shareholder, NetDragon will work with Zebra Labs to explore for opportunities that will enrich engagement and user experience of its products.
Ms. Scarlett Li, CEO of Zebra Labs (formerly CEO of Channel [V] China), commented, "Zebra Labs' goal is to facilitate celebrities' entrance into the Metaverse by building virtual characters and producing digital content around virtual idols, including gamified concerts, immersive short films, and entertainment platforms. We are thrilled to have NetDragon onboard as a strategic investor. Together, we will provide ground-breaking experiences for natives of the Metaverse and the greatest content/IP for the Web 3.0 generation."
Dr. Simon Leung, Vice Chairman of NetDragon, commented, "Our investment in Zebra Labs represents our commitment to bring the best experience to our users in a new era of Web 3.0 where we expect to see increasing convergence between gaming, education and entertainment. We believe the metaverse is the perfect platform for users to play games, learn new knowledges, and enjoy entertainment events such as a digital concert, and we will see many interesting opportunities to emerge as the metaverse continues to evolve and grow. We look forward to joining hands with the team at Zebra Labs to pursue these exciting opportunities in the years to come."
About NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777) is a global leader in building internet communities with a long track record of developing and scaling multiple internet and mobile platforms that impact hundreds of millions of users, including previous establishments of China's first online gaming portal, 17173.com, and China's most influential smartphone app store platform, 91 Wireless.
Established in 1999, NetDragon is one of the most reputable and well-known online game developers in China with a history of successful game titles including Eudemons Online, Heroes Evolved, Conquer Online and Under Oath. In recent years, NetDragon has also started to scale its online education business on the back of management's vision to create the largest global online learning community, and to bring best-in-class blended learning solutions to every school around the world.
About Zebra Labs
Established in 2020, Zebra Labs is a next-gen digital entertainment platform. Co-founded by veterans in media, entertainment and technology industry, Zebra Labs is pushing the envelope of digital entertainment by creating celebrity avatars and bringing artists and celebrities to the metaverse. Services provided by Zebra Labs include co-creation with shared IP, social presence management, high performing HD and 4K channels, validated IPs, etc.
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LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago woman was run over and her 2-year-old son was temporarily abducted by a thief who forcibly stole her SUV on Thursday, police said.
The woman had returned home Thursday afternoon to Libertyville with her two children and had taken one child inside when another vehicle drove up and a man hopped out and commandeered her SUV, battering the woman as she tried to get to her 2-year-old son, who was still in her vehicle, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said.
As the two vehicles fled, one of the drivers ran her over, causing serious injuries to her extremities, the office said in a news release. She was hospitalized in serious condition.
A short time later, someone working at a Waukegan business called 911 to report that two vehicles entered its parking lot and the driver of one of the vehicles abandoned a small child, the sheriff’s office said. The caller brought the child in from the parking lot.
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Shareholders for the coffee giant Starbucks approved an independent review of the company’s labor practices as it has come under federal scrutiny of its treatment of union organizing efforts.
The results of the vote by 52 percent of shareholders to approve the review came on the same day that the company’s recently-departed CEO Howard Schultz testified in a much-awaited hearing in front of the Senate on Wednesday.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who filed the request for the independent review of the company’s labor practices, said in a statement that the results of the vote showed that investors want the company to be transparent about its treatment of union organizers.
“Investors who want to see a thriving, successful and flourishing Starbucks sent a strong message that the company must live up to its own policies and values,” Lander said in a statement after the vote. “The majority support from shareholders for our proposal reflects a growing demand for an honest accounting of the discrepancy between Starbucks’ purported values and management’s anti-union behavior.”
Starbucks said that it was “undertaking an independent, third-party human rights impact assessment, which will include a deeper-level review of the principles of freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining.”
Starbucks has been under intense scrutiny for its treatment of labor organizers. Earlier this month a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled that Starbucks committed “egregious and widespread” violations of federal law in its campaign to halt unions. More than 280 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize in the U.S. since 2021, but the company has very publicly clashed with organizers in that time, firing 200 of them.
Schultz clashed with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at the hearing on Wednesday, with Sanders blasting Starbucks, under Schultz’s leadership, for waging “the most aggressive and illegal union-busting campaign in the modern history of our country.”
Schultz, who has been at the head of the company three different times, denied that Starbucks has ever broken the law.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Russia and its ally Belarus were invited to compete at the Asian Games on Thursday in the next step to qualifying teams for next year’s Paris Olympics in an arrangement brokered by the International Olympic Committee.
Competing in qualifying events administered by the Olympic Council of Asia could sidestep possible tensions if Russia were to compete in European events as usual.
The Asian Games will be in Hangzhou, China, in September and October, and function as Olympic qualifiers in several sports including archery and boxing. Some other sports host their own Asia-specific qualifying competitions.
“The OCA believes in the unifying power of sport and that all athletes, regardless of their nationality or the passport they hold, should be able to compete in sports competitions,” the OCA said in a statement.
“The OCA has offered to give eligible Russian and Belarusian athletes the opportunity to take part in competitions in Asia, including the Asian Games.”
The OCA added it “remains on standby” until the IOC and the individual sports’ governing bodies finalize the conditions for Russia and Belarus to compete.
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Dear Dave,
My wife and I have been in our new home for about a year now. We are considering putting in a hot tub.
We have a couple of different options to locate the hot tub and wanted your advice. One idea would be to put the hot tub on the small patio that is off our master bedroom. However, that would be the only access, and we aren’t sure that is a good idea. The other option is to put it on our patio off the dining room – which would definitely be a more central location, but not as secluded.
Do you think it makes a difference for future resale potential? And if so, what do you think is best? Thanks for your feedback!
Joe and Sydney, Grand Junction
Joe and Sydney,
Making improvements on your outdoor living space is always a smart move! For resale, it is hard to beat the bang for your buck of outdoor home improvements. Outdoor living spaces are very in vogue, and there is little that lights the fire of a home buyer like a really well done outdoor living area.
One thing to keep in mind is that hot tubs are a bit like pools – people either really like them, or they really don’t, and there generally is not much in between. If you simply add a hot tub to an existing deck or patio, your financial return will likely be quite underwhelming; however, creating a truly amazing outdoor space will add real money and end up being a real selling point when and if you ever decide to sell. All that being said, there are a couple of things you can do to maximize the space and the improvement.
First, concentrate on making the space not just a hot tub space. Make the effort and spend the time to create a space that provides not only a home for your hot tub, but a space that creates an atmosphere and ambiance of a true outdoor living area. Marry your hot tub with a multi-purpose area that serves as an entertaining or sitting area, and see the impact soar.
I am not sure it matters if you situate the hot tub off the master bedroom or off the dining area if you really create something wonderful. Both locations will have their appeal. If you go off the master, you probably want something a bit more intimate and private, and if you decide to locate off the dining area, you want to shoot for making it conducive to entertaining.
On another note, make sure to add the extra element of lighting to your area. Lighting is far too often overlooked as a very inexpensive item that provides high impact and is essential when trying to create a mood and ambiance. If you go the extra mile and enhance your landscaping to accentuate the new hot tub/entertaining area, you will be well on your way to creating a space that many hot tub lovers and even those who are not will covet!
Dave Kimbrough
The Kimbrough Team
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Rain ending this evening; Dry, comfortable start to the work week
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Rainfall started last night and has continued off and on throughout the day today. Taking a look at precipitation amounts since midnight, parts of southeast Minnesota and northeast Iowa got some decent rainfall. Rochester International Airport has picked up almost an inch of rainfall. Owatonna, Dodge Center, Preston, Mason City, and Cresco have all received over an inch of rain so far today.
Rainfall will continue for the next few hours, slowly coming to an end from north to south. Conditions overnight will be quiet, however, some areas of fog could develop during the night. Low temperatures will be in the low to mid-40s with skies starting off overcast, with clouds decreasing overnight. Winds will be from the east between five and 15 miles per hour.
Tomorrow will be a great start to the work week with highs in the upper-60s and low to mid-70s across the region. Skies across southeast Minnesota and northeast Iowa will be partly to mostly sunny with winds from the northwest between five and 10 miles per hour.
This week is shaping up to be very nice. High temperatures will remain mostly seasonal through the week, with highs in the 60s and 70s expected. Conditions will be dry for the majority of the week as well with isolated rain chances on Thursday, but otherwise dry conditions through the rest of the week. Next weekend is looking to be one of the best weekends weather-wise that we’ve had in a while with highs in the low-70s, dry conditions, and abundant sunshine.
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SANTA FE — Most New Mexico independent voters opted to stay unaffiliated — and not sign up with a major political party in order to cast a ballot in this week’s primary election.
But more than 2,000 registered independents did change their party affiliation in order to vote, under a new state law described as a “baby step” toward open primaries.
Of the 2,111 independent voters who took advantage of the law, more than half — or 1,097 voters — changed their party affiliation to Republican, according to data from the Secretary of State’s Office.
A slightly smaller number of independents — 949 voters — changed their affiliation to Democratic, with the remaining 65 voters switching to Libertarian.
The new law also allows minor party voters to change their party affiliation in order to cast a primary election ballot, but does not allow registered Democrats, Republicans or Libertarians to switch to a different major party after a deadline to do so.
Sharon Pino, the deputy secretary of state, said the new system worked well, despite some voter reports about trouble utilizing the new law at polling places around New Mexico.
“With any new implementation there will be some training issues and room for improvement, but overall, the system worked well, including provisional process when there were issues,” Pino said Thursday.
Independents, or those who decline to state a party affiliation, typically skew younger and have been the fastest-growing segment of New Mexico’s registered voter population in recent years.
However, such voters had been ineligible to vote in New Mexico’s “closed” primary election system until lawmakers approved a 2020 law change that took effect this year.
In all, there were more than 304,000 registered independents statewide as of May 31 — or roughly 22.6% of the state’s 1.3 million-plus registered voters.
It’s unclear how many of the 2,111 voters who changed their party affiliation to vote in the primary election might switch back to independent before the November general election.
In addition, the ex-independents who changed their party affiliation in order to cast ballots were among 10,038 voters who utilized the state’s same-day voter registration option during this year’s primary election cycle. Of that total amount, 6,302 New Mexicans registered and cast their ballots on Election Day, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.
New Mexico has been gradually phasing in same-day voter registration — over some concerns from Republican lawmakers — and this year’s primary election marked the first time it was available through Election Day in a statewide election.
“I think that alone showed the primary election was a huge success,” said Mario Jimenez, an elections expert who works as campaign director for Common Cause New Mexico, a nonprofit group. “These are 10,000 voters who, in the past, never would have participated.”
Jimenez predicted the number of voters participating in same-day voter registration would increase in coming years, but said more outreach and education will be necessary to alert New Mexicans to the option.
“This is definitely a step in the right direction,” he said.
While the number of independents who changed their party affiliation to vote in the Tuesday primary election did not likely impact any statewide races, it played at least a minor role in boosting overall turnout to 261,912 voters — or 25.4% of those eligible to vote, according to unofficial results.
Overall, registered Republicans voted at a slightly higher clip than did Democrats — with 23.6% of Democrats voting compared to 28.2% of Republicans.
That could be in part to due the fact Republicans had a hotly-contested primary race for governor that was won by Mark Ronchetti of Albuquerque.
Democrats, in contrast, had contested races for attorney general, auditor and treasurer — but not for governor as incumbent Michelle Lujan Grisham ran unopposed.
Ronchetti has said he opposes open primaries, while Lujan Grisham has, in the past, said she supports the concept in order to allow more voters to participate and to incentivize candidates to reach out to a broader swath of the electorate. | https://www.abqjournal.com/2507230/more-than-2000-ex-independents-voted-in-nm-primary-election.html | 2022-06-09 22:24:31 | 0 | https://www.abqjournal.com/2507230/more-than-2000-ex-independents-voted-in-nm-primary-election.html |
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (AP) _ Manitex International Inc. (MNTX) on Thursday reported a loss of $3.4 million in its third quarter.
The Bridgeview, Illinois-based company said it had a loss of 15 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 5 cents per share.
The maker of forklifts, cranes and other lifting vehicles posted revenue of $65 million in the period.
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There are three terms of art that are useful to differentiate at the outset of this article.
Then there is the debt limit, the legal cap on how much debt the government is allowed to accrue. It is not, as you’ve likely heard, a limit on how much the government can spend; Congress can approve the spending of $85 quadrillion and the debt limit has nothing to do with it — at least, that is, until it comes time to pay those bills. When the government doesn’t have the money to pay what Congress says it has to pay, it issues debt, up to that limit.
So. We are now once again at a point where the government has hit the limit. This didn’t used to happen very often; Congress would simply vote to increase the limit when the debt approached it. But these days it happens a lot, in part because the level of debt is rising and in part because politicians have discovered that hemming and hawing over raising the limit is a good way to get concessions or attention or both.
By “politicians,” of course, I almost exclusively mean “Republican politicians when the president is a Democrat.” And if you’ve checked the news recently, you are likely aware that this is the current situation. And so we have House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), agitating about their opposition to raising the debt limit.
Democrats, naturally, are quick to point out that McCarthy and his caucus had no obvious concerns about the debt limit when Donald Trump was president, a period during which the debt limit was mostly suspended. The government could just accrue more debt, and did. Then the limit kicked back in and so did the leverage it offered.
The Republicans who object to raising the debt limit often intertwine it with government spending; in other words, with the deficit. It’s pretty disingenuous, but it is hard to deny that talking about the debt limit allows them to effectively agitate about spending. After all, I started this article by differentiating the important terms since they are easy to conflate, intentionally or not.
But it raises the question: Which party is most responsible for the debt (and therefore the debt limit) being as high as it is?
There’s not really a clean way to answer that question, given how government spending works. Nonetheless, it’s instructive to look at how the debt has changed and which party was in power when it happened so that we might at least approximate the answer.
Below, you can see the change in the debt at the start of each Congress since 1993. The Treasury Department’s daily debt figures only go back to early 1993, so I included the latter half of that year (during which a new Congress began). I also included the little bit of this year so far, just for a treat.
By itself that doesn’t tell us much. So let us now flood the zone with additional information: the debt limit at the start and end of each Congress, control of the House and Senate and control of the White House. At the bottom, another bit of data: the percentage change in the debt during each Congress.
Now we’re getting somewhere. At bottom, for example, you can see that the biggest column — representing a nearly 32 percent increase in the debt, occurred with Democratic control of the House and Senate (the blue background to the column) and a Democratic president (the blue stripes). This was the Congress that began in 2009, the first of Barack Obama’s administration and one in which the government was trying to limit the negative effects of the recession that began 15 years ago. The prior Congress also saw a large increase in the debt, the third-largest increase indicated. That was the administration of George W. Bush similarly trying to address the economy, among other things.
The second-highest column was during Donald Trump’s administration: the government response to the coronavirus pandemic. Crises are expensive.
(Oh, by the way: Notice that the white line on the top graph, the one indicating the debt limit, used to sit well above the actual debt. Now the two lines run about even — except when the limit is lifted because it just makes everything easier.)
That’s all well and good, but it’s still hard to parse where culpability for the debt lies (to the extent that you might think that accruing debt is something for which one might feel culpable). If we simply partition out the increases in the debt by control of Congress and the presidency, we get something like this.
You can see that the largest circle sits next to a Congress where Democrats controlled the House, Republicans controlled the Senate and a Republican was in the White House. That was the Congress that ran from 2019 to 2021, the one affected by the pandemic. Mind you, the debt had already increased by $1.5 trillion from the start of that Congress to March 1, 2020, a bigger jump than in any Congress before 2009. But the debt went on to climb another $4.3 trillion, an increase that would have been the largest jump by itself.
Of course, the total debt was much lower at the beginning of 2009. If we consider relative increases — the increase in the debt relative to debt overall — the picture shifts. The 2019 to 2021 Congress saw a big jump, but so did the Congress that began in 2009, the recession one. And so did the 2007 to 2009 Congress, shown at upper right.
If we categorize each Congress by the composition of the House and Senate, overlay the presidency and then consider both the actual and relative increases in the debt, we get this table. It is arranged from the least average increase in the debt to the most — a Congress in which Democrats control the House and Republicans control the Senate and White House.
Situations like the current one — precisely the opposite of that — yield the second-lowest average relative increases. They also have accrued the fourth-largest cumulative increase in the debt.
We have our answer: Whose fault is the debt? Everyone, really. Not useful for political jockeying, but important to know. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/07/debt-republicans-democrats-trump-biden/ | 2023-02-07 22:45:01 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/07/debt-republicans-democrats-trump-biden/ |
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for a group of Tesla shareholders are asking the Delaware Supreme Court to overturn a judge’s decision in favor of CEO Elon Musk in a lawsuit challenging the electric car maker’s $2.4 billion acquisition of a solar panel company founded by two of his cousins.
The plaintiffs argued Wednesday that a Chancery Court judge erred in finding that Tesla’s deal to acquire SolarCity in 2016 was “entirely fair,” even though the judge found that the process by which Tesla’s board of directors negotiated and recommended the deal to shareholders was “far from perfect.”
“Elon was more involved in the process than a conflicted fiduciary should be. And conflicts among other Tesla Board members were not completely neutralized,” former Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights wrote last year. “With that said, the Tesla board meaningfully vetted the acquisition, and Elon did not stand in its way. Equally if not more important, the preponderance of the evidence reveals that Tesla paid a fair price — SolarCity was, at a minimum, worth what Tesla paid for it, and the acquisition otherwise was highly beneficial to Tesla.”
At the time of the acquisition, Musk owned about 22% of Tesla’s common stock and was the largest stockholder of SolarCity, as well as chairman of its board of directors.
A key issue presented to the Supreme Court is Slights’ conclusion that the deal met the heightened scrutiny of Delaware’s “entire fairness” standard.
Typically, under Delaware’s “business judgment” rule, courts give deference to a corporate board’s decision-making unless there is evidence that directors had conflicts or acted in bad faith. If a plaintiff can overcome the business judgment rule’s presumption because the deal involved a controlling shareholder or because directors might have been conflicted, the board’s action is subject to an “entire fairness” analysis. That shifts the burden to the corporation to show that the deal involved both fair dealing and fair price.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Michael Hanrahan argued Wednesday that Slights put too much emphasis on the price Tesla paid for SolarCity, and not enough on the deal process, which the plaintiffs contend was tainted by the failure to appoint an independent committee to negotiate the deal. He also argued that the judge’s analysis of the deal price was flawed, and that shareholders who voted to approve the deal, even though the vote was not required under Delaware law, were not properly informed.
“Musk’s pervasive and undisclosed interference in the process require a legal conclusion of unfair dealing,” Hanrahan said.
“The trial court misapplied entire fairness because it essentially wrote fair dealing out of the standard, holding that the linchpin of entire fairness is fair price,” Hanrahan added. “…Because the Court of Chancery made fair price the foundation of its opinion, if its fair price finding was wrong, the whole house of cards comes down.”
Evan Chesler, an attorney for Musk, noted that the SolarCity acquisition had been a strategic objective for Tesla for 10 years before the deal was completed, belying the argument that it was a last-minute “bailout” to save an insolvent SolarCity from bankruptcy.
Chesler also noted that, despite the judge’s concerns about Musk’s involvement, his ruling includes 10 pages discussing the strengths of the deal process.
“Basically, the appellants seek reversal because they don’t agree with the way the trial court marshaled and weighed the evidence,” he said.
Slights’ ruling last April followed a July 2021 court appearance in which a defiant Musk defended the deal and sparred with attorneys for the plaintiffs, calling one lawyer “a bad human being.” Musk chose to fight the lawsuit in court even after other directors on Tesla’s board reached a $60 million settlement, without admitting fault.
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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in an interview that a report about former President Trump insisting that he would stay in the White House after losing the 2020 election “affirms the reality of the danger” of trying to overturn its results.
A new book to be published next month by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reportedly reveals that Trump told aides he would remain in the White House after President Biden’s inauguration, CNN reported early Monday.
“I’m just not going to leave,” Trump reportedly told an aide. “We’re never leaving. How can you leave when you won an election?”
When asked about the book’s revelation, Cheney said she wasn’t surprised by Trump’s reported comments but said it exposed an issue of people believing his efforts to overturn the election “wasn’t as dangerous as it really was.”
“And when you hear something like that, I think you have to recognize that we were in no man’s land and territory we’d never been in before as a nation,” Cheney told anchor Jake Tapper in an interview set to air Sunday evening as part of a CNN documentary titled “American Coup: The January 6th Investigation.”
“And if you have a president who’s refusing to leave the White House, or who’s saying he refuses to leave the White House, then anyone who sort of stands aside and says someone else will handle it is themselves putting the nation at risk, because it’s clear that, when you’re at a moment that we faced, everyone’s got to stand up and take responsibility,” Cheney said.
“It’s not surprising that those are the sentiments that he reportedly expressed,” Cheney added. “I think, again, it just affirms — affirms the reality of the danger.”
Cheney, who lost her bid to retain her congressional seat in Wyoming last month, has been a frequent critic of Trump and is the co-chairwoman of the House select committee investigating the Jan 6., 2021, attack at the Capitol. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/cheney-trumps-reported-insistence-he-would-stay-in-white-house-affirms-the-reality-of-the-danger/ | 2022-09-14 13:21:22 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/cheney-trumps-reported-insistence-he-would-stay-in-white-house-affirms-the-reality-of-the-danger/ |
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Occupation: Independent oil and gas producer and entrepreneur
Party affiliation: Independent
Political Experience None.
Relevant life experience: Small business, oil and gas, agriculture, construction, service and manufacturing.
Have you ever been charged or convicted of a crime, including drunken driving? No
Have you ever filed for bankruptcy or been involved in a bankruptcy proceeding, either personally or in business? Yes.
(Filed in) 2004, business and personal. Entire world caved in, thanks for reminding me. I could write a book on this one.
Have you ever been the subject of liens for unpaid taxes? Yes. Again, I could write a book on this one as could most if not all small business owners in New Mexico.
1. What will be your top priorities as land commissioner? Focus the state Land Office on its original job and purpose, generating revenue while preserving the value of the assets.
2. State lands are a large asset. How will you use them to generate revenue for the state? We will advocate and support development and responsible use of state trust land and production of any and all natural resources on state lands.
3. Why are you the best person for this position? My work and business experiences in agriculture, oil and gas and other business interests make me uniquely qualified for this position.
4. What will you do differently than what was done in the past four years? Remove political and ideological policies and practices from the state Land Office.
5. How does environmental oversight fit into your plans for managing state lands? The state has multiple agencies that are charged with those duties. The land office will focus on its overall intended purpose of management of state trust land while working with the agencies that are charged with those duties.
Educational background: Bachelor's degree, Barnard College, Columbia University in government and political science; California State University-Los Angeles for education certification
Occupation: New Mexico commissioner of Public Lands.
Party affiliation: Democratic
Political Experience: Land Commissioner, 2019; State Investment Council, Vice Chair, 2019-present; Oil Conservation Commission, 2019-present; state representative, 2013-2018.
Relevant life experience: Native New Mexican and lifelong educator; worked both abroad and in Northern New Mexico.
Have you ever been charged or convicted of a crime, including drunken driving? Yes. I was detained and ticketed during college for jumping a turnstile in a subway.
Have you ever filed for bankruptcy or been involved in a bankruptcy proceeding, either personally or in business? No
Have you ever been the subject of liens for unpaid taxes? No
1. What will be your top priorities as land commissioner? Continue to increase funding for our public schools, colleges, and hospitals, create good paying jobs through new economic development opportunities throughout New Mexico, make the state a leader in renewable energy development and increase access to our public lands through developed partnerships and streamlined permitting to ensure our $2 billion outdoor recreation industry continues to thrive.
2. State lands are a large asset. How will you use them to generate revenue for the state? It’s time for New Mexico to lead in economic and renewable energy development to ensure we continue to create good-paying sustaining jobs. I’ve already tripled renewable energy development on state trust land, including the largest wind farm in the western hemisphere. We also passed a law to make it easier to lease land for economic development and partnered with businesses like Netflix to expand production in New Mexico, bringing 1,000 new jobs.
3. Why are you the best person for this position? I’m the only candidate in the race with a proven and successful track record of managing our state’s largest asset — 13 million acres of public land and mineral estate. Since taking office, we’ve maximized every existing revenue stream while developing entirely new opportunities for economic and job growth. Thanks to the record $5 billion in revenue we earned, the state was able to give teachers a raise, students free in-state tuition and taxpayers rebates.
4. What will you do differently than what was done in the past four years? I’m proud of the last four years. I ended the backroom deals that plagued the state for decades and held bad actors like Jeffrey Epstein accountable. I’ve restored more acres of public land, closed more marginal oil wells and protected water while still earning more revenue than any previous land commissioner. I look forward to continuing our efforts to diversify our state's revenue streams and earn even more money for our schools, colleges, and hospitals.
5. How does environmental oversight fit into your plans for managing state lands? Land Commissioner is one of the most important positions when it comes to environmental oversight. As land commissioner, I fought for stronger regulations to protect our air, water and land and halted the use of fresh water for fracking when produced water is available. I created the first ever enforcement and accountability program saving taxpayers millions in cleanup costs. I’ve proven you can protect the health of the land while still making record breaking revenue.
Republican Party candidate Jefferson Byrd did not respond to The New Mexican's questionnaire on the race. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/q-a-state-land-office-candidates/article_c5ce8044-50bc-11ed-bca3-97251f452ca0.html | 2022-10-21 14:18:37 | 1 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/q-a-state-land-office-candidates/article_c5ce8044-50bc-11ed-bca3-97251f452ca0.html |
These recipes will help you make the perfect before trick-or-treating snack or a creative dish to bring to a Halloween party!
Marie Mitchell, Chicken Salad Chick field marketing manager, joined us Tuesday on “Life.Style.Live!” to share the recipes for the Sassy Scotty Mummy Poppers and the Chocolate Crispy Spiders.
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Augustana slays the Dragons
Vikings win 31-7 at MSU-Moorhead
MOORHEAD, MN. (Dakota News Now) - It was all Augustana in a 31-7 win over MSU Moorhead Saturday on Scheels Field in Moorhead, Minnesota. The 13th-ranked Vikings racked up 465 yards while Thomas Scholten made his first-career start at quarterback accounting for 260 yards throwing. Jarod Epperson led the way rushing with 115 yards on a 9.6 yards per rush average.
Defensively, Grayson Diepenbrock sacked the MSUM quarterback three times while the Dragons mustered just one yard rushing as part of its 244 yards of total offense.
Augustana moves to 3-0 on the year and remains in first place in the NSIC. MSU Moorhead drops to 1-2.
Augustana got on the scoreboard with 6:43 to go in the opening quarter as Scholten hit Mitchell Goodbary just inside the MSUM five-yard line. The hit he received from the Dragon defender jarred the ball loose where Devon Jones scooped up the ball and dove into the end zone.
The score quickly moved to 14-0. After the Vikings forced a Dragon punt, their next drive started on their own 20-yard line. A handoff to Epperson, and that was all the drive was as he rushed 80 yards for the touchdown.
The final score of the first half came with just under nine minutes to go in the second quarter. Scholten connected with Goodbary on a fourth-down and goal situation for the touchdown. With Brady Pfeifer’s point-after attempt, it was 21-0 Augustana.
The score moved to 24-0 as Pfeifer split the uprights on a 21-yard field goal midway through the third quarter.
Minutes later, Kyle Graham sealed an 8-play, 62-yard drive with a three-yard plunge into the end zone.
The Dragons got their lone score on a 60-yard drive in the final minute of the contest.
Peyton Buckley led Augustana with nine tackles with eight marked as solo. Diepenbrock had the three sacks, totaling 23 yards in tackles for loss while Myles Taylor had a sack for 10 yards.
Augustana had an even offense with 260 yards passing and 205 yards rushing for the 465 yards of total offense. It was a nice day for Goodbary with five receptions for 69 yards. Jones recorded four receptions for 47 yards while four other receivers totaled 22 yards or more receiving.
The running back group was led by Epperson’s 115 yards while Addo totaled 46 yards. Tate Johnson saw his first action of 2022 after an injury during fall camp and rushed for 32 yards.
Along with his 10th 100-yard rushing performance of his career, Epperson surpassed 2,000 yards rushing in his career and sits at 2,092 yards entering week four next week.
Augustana returns to Kirkeby-Over Stadium Saturday hosting Northern State in the Hall of Fame Game. The opening kickoff is at 1 p.m. while the 2022 Augustana Athletics Hall of Fame Class will be honored at halftime.
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Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreements for Philco and Philips Brands
MIAMI, Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Newtech Holdings ("Newtech") announced today that it has acquired leading consumer electronics company Craig Electronics, headquartered in Miami, Florida. In furtherance of that investment, Newtech has also acquired exclusive distribution agreements for Philco consumer electronics products and Philips DVD players in North America.
Craig Electronics is a leading consumer electronics innovator which offers a complete one-stop consumer technology and electronics solution for national big box, food and drug, club, and mass retail distribution. Craig conducts business under a portfolio of brands which includes Craig (owned) and Magnavox (licensed), as well as multiple private label relationships. Newtech's senior management previously owned and operated Craig Electronics before successfully selling the company in 2019.
"We are beyond excited to be reacquiring a business that is part of our DNA," said Michael Newman, CEO, Newtech. "We look forward to working closely with our supplier partners to provide the exceptional level of service that our core group of retail customers expect and deserve from us while focusing on the expansion of our e-commerce business platform for additional consumer products."
"Newtech's additional acquisition of exclusive distribution rights for Philco consumer electronics products and Philips DVD players in North America will provide us with tremendous brands and a product portfolio to drive growth while we look for more consumer products companies to acquire," said Todd Richardson, president, Newtech.
Originally founded in 1963, Craig has been the most trusted value conscious consumer electronics brand for over 50 years. Our mission is simple – to always come to the market with the latest and greatest technologies and most on-trend products at affordable prices while always exceeding your quality expectations. Our mission is never-ending and our long history as the leader in on-trend value conscious consumer electronics is testament that our mission has been, and continues to be successful. For more information, visit: https://craigelectronics.com.
Owned and operated by a senior management team with over fifty years of experience in the consumer products business across multiple categories, Newtech seeks to combine consumer products businesses with the capital and expertise they need to drive their business into the future.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings are parting ways with star running back Dalvin Cook for salary cap savings after his fourth consecutive season surpassing the 1,000-yard rushing mark.
Cook has been informed he will be released, a person familiar with the team’s decision told The Associated Press on Thursday. The person spoke only on condition of anonymity because the Vikings had not announced the move.
Cook, in just six years with the Vikings, reached third on the franchise all-time rushing list with 5,993 yards. He’s fifth in rushing attempts (1,282) and fourth in rushing touchdowns (47).
Cook was scheduled to count more than $14.1 million against Minnesota’s salary cap, which would have been the third-highest figure for a running back in the league behind Derrick Henry and Nick Chubb. Cutting him chopped $9 million off the team’s cap charges for this year.
The Vikings remain on the hook for more than $5.1 million in dead money for the prorated remainder of the signing bonus from the extension he signed prior to the 2020 season, according to data compiled by Over The Cap.
Cook, who will turn 28 in August, has made the Pro Bowl for four straight years. In 2022, he started all 18 games including the playoffs, a first for him as a pro and a particular source of pride after injuries to his knee, hamstring and shoulder kept him from perfect participation over his first five seasons.
Cook has not been present for the team’s voluntary offseason workouts. His future with the club has been unclear at best since the Vikings re-signed his backup, Alexander Mattison, to a two-year, $7 million contract seen as too luxurious for a second-stringer.
Three of Cook’s eight career gains of 50-plus yards from scrimmage came in 2022, showing his explosiveness still exists, but he averaged a career-low 4.4 yards per rush as the Vikings struggled with their efficiency and consistency on the ground.
They are heavily invested in their passing attack, too, with quarterback Kirk Cousins and an extension looming for wide receiver Justin Jefferson. The modern game has simply left the workhorse running back behind with more teams getting by on younger and cheaper timeshares in the backfield.
The Vikings somewhat surprisingly brought back Mattison after he became an unrestricted free agent, and head coach Kevin O’Connell spoke about him on May 30 as if he were already the featured runner.
“It’s been really good to see Alex Mattison take those kind of reps and really show that three-down ownership that he’s been capable of for a long time,” said O’Connell, who also declared without prompting that recent draft picks Ty Chandler (2022) and Kene Nwangwu (2021) were competition for the top backup spot during a post-practice question from a reporter about the running back situation. Dwayne McBride, a seventh-round pick this spring out of UAB, will also bring some upside to the mix.
Offensive coordinator Wes Phillips also spoke as if Cook was as good as gone, when asked on June 6 about Chandler’s readiness for a more prominent role: “He’s going to have to be.”
The Vikings ranked 26th in the NFL in rushing yards per attempt and tied for 27th in rushing yards per game last season.
“We all knew that that was an area of improvement that we needed, so coming in to this year there’s more emphasis,” Mattison said last month. “It’s definitely been a little bit more of an emphasis, and it’s looking good.”
Cook still faces a personal injury lawsuit from a former girlfriend for assault, battery and false improvement stemming from an alleged altercation that began at his home on Nov. 19, 2020. The jury trial in the civil case in Dakota County court was recently rescheduled for March 4, 2024.
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LUXEMBOURG, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ardagh Group S.A., (inclusive of Ardagh Metal Packaging and Ardagh Glass Packaging) and its renewable energy partners Eneco and Zoncoalitie are delighted to announce the start of construction for three on-site solar projects in the Netherlands.
The solar installations will supply renewable on-site generated electricity to Ardagh's Dongen, Moerdijk and Oss facilities and are part of Ardagh's strategy to use 100% renewable electricity by 2030.
The Netherlands is the first country where Ardagh will supply all of its production facilities with on-site generated sustainable energy via large-scale solar energy installations, with plans to further roll out the technology with local energy partners across all regions.
Adam Koehler, Global Renewable Energy Programme Manager at Ardagh Group comments, "It's an exciting time for Ardagh's renewable energy programme. These state-of-the-art solar installations will supply renewable electricity to all of our metal and glass facilities across the Netherlands, which will make a significant impact in reducing our carbon footprint."
Ardagh used independent solar energy specialist Zoncoalitie to conduct an extensive technical commercial and feasibility assessment, plus a tender and award process, selecting Eneco to deliver the Netherlands installations.
Ardagh is delighted to partner with Eneco, a leading energy company with its own plan to become climate neutral by 2035 in its own activities and the energy it supplies to customers. Approximately 24,700 panels will be installed across the three locations and will soon be able to generate approximately 12,677 MWh of renewable electricity each year.
In 2020, Ardagh launched its Renewable Energy Programme to implement its strategy and oversee its renewable electricity activities. The company's strategy is built on a combination of on-site, near-site and off-site renewable electricity projects. In Europe, five on-site solar projects (in the Netherlands, Irvine, Scotland and Dublin, Ireland) will replace 15,000 MWh of electricity consumption from the grid, while avoiding the release of 6,050 tons of carbon emissions per year. This represents 1% of Ardagh's total electricity consumption in this region.
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FRESNO, Calif. — The heavy rainfall over the last few weeks has allowed California's drought-stricken Central Valley to take a much needed gulp of water.
Over the course of recent storms caused by atmospheric rivers, drought conditions in the region have managed to downgrade from “exceptional” to “severe." But despite the extremely wet weather, the drought is not over yet.
“California is experiencing, coincidentally, both a drought emergency and a flood emergency,” says Karla Nemeth, the director of the Department of Water Resources.
According to the DWR, the state is expected to remain in a drought emergency until the end of the wet season in March. The department will then analyze snowpack data and review water supply availability throughout the state.
John Yarbrough, an assistant deputy director at the DWR, says despite the rain, statewide reservoir levels are still below the historical average.
“We still have a lot of room in our reservoirs to take in the inflows that we're seeing on the horizon,” he said.
Reservoirs are critical water storage for the state. The department does plan to reassess drought conditions at the end of January.
Officials seek more water exports
With a mix of drought and floods also comes debate over the state's water management.
As waters flood communities around the state, elected officials are pleading the state to relax restrictions on pumping, and to release more water down the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
They say that could benefit farms and communities that have been stuck in the drought.
California Senator Melissa Hurtado, in addition to Congressional Rep. David Valado and a number of other officials, sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom asking the state to maximize water exports to southern sections of the Delta.
“Government regulations should not and must not deny our constituents critical water from these storms. While we cannot make it rain, we must take advantage of opportunities to store water when it does and maximize what can be moved at all times through the Delta for the duration of these storms,” lawmakers wrote in the joint letter issued with Valadao.
In a press call this week, officials said the department is modifying exports in light of the rain, but is staying within what is allowed by state and federal regulations.
“As we’ve seen delta inflow come in, we’ve been able to plan increases throughout the week,” Molly White, water operations manager for the State Water Project said. “We’re modifying our exports to take as much water and pump as much water as we can within our regulatory constraints.”
Putting the rain to work
Even before California suddenly had more water than some streams could handle, state agencies had already begun implementing ways to increase water availability for drought-stricken areas.
Earlier this month, a fast-tracked six-month permit was issued to the Merced Irrigation District by the State Water Resources Control Board to put back much-needed water into the reserves of the Merced Subbasin. It is one of 21 basins in California that are critically overdrafted, meaning they are low on groundwater.
The permit, the first to be approved under a state program to capture rainfall, allows diversion of up to 10,000 acre-feet of water from Mariposa Creek near Merced during high water flow periods like those currently being experienced.
The excess water would go to agricultural fields where it would seep into the basin. A similar five-year permit was also issued in Sacramento County. | https://www.kvpr.org/local-news/2023-01-14/california-experiencing-a-drought-emergency-and-a-flood-emergency-officials-say | 2023-01-15 00:20:29 | 0 | https://www.kvpr.org/local-news/2023-01-14/california-experiencing-a-drought-emergency-and-a-flood-emergency-officials-say |
Nick Cannon's thoughtful gesture for Mother's Day just may have not been all that.
As the dad of 12 recently explained, he sat down and composed individual handwritten notes for each of the six mothers of his kids for the holiday, but it didn't turn out the way he had hoped.
"I tried my best, I really did," he said during the May 15 episode of his podcast "The Daily Cannon." "But I thought it would be really, really good to — you know, I could buy, whatever — to show people how you really feel, write it down. And I was doing handwritten messages from the heart."
However, he soon realized there was a slight hiccup that was overlooked.
"As I'm writing the handwritten message, I get the cards mixed up," Cannon admitted. "So, when one baby mama reads the card about how I feel about the other baby mama — see if I would just got some generic s--- that everybody else got, that wouldn't have happened."
Nick Cannon's Kids Celebrate Easter 2023
As a refresher, the "Wild n' Out" host shares 12-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey, as well as 19-month-old twin sons Zion and Zillion and 3-month-old daughter Beautiful with Abby De La Rosa.
"The Masked Singer" emcee is also dad to Golden, 6, Powerful, 2, and 4-month-old Rise, whose mom is Brittany Bell and shares 7-month-old son Legendary with Bre Tiesi. Nick also shares 4-month-old daughter Onyx with LaNisha Cole.
He is also dad to 2-month-old daughter, Halo, whose mom is Alyssa Scott. The pair's arrival came one year after their 5-month-old son Zen passed away from brain cancer. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/nick-cannon-confesses-he-mixed-up-mothers-day-cards-for-his-12-kids-moms/3259094/ | 2023-05-16 22:23:25 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/nick-cannon-confesses-he-mixed-up-mothers-day-cards-for-his-12-kids-moms/3259094/ |
VALPARAISO, IN - Theresa D. Devitt "Gigi", age 94, of Valparaiso passed away on December 10, 2022 peacefully with her family by her side at Northwest Health in Valparaiso.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years-Ed Devitt. Theresa is survived by her daughter Karen (Jim) Meinert; grandchildren and their families - Jimmy (Sarah), Alyssa, Max, Gio, Michael (Kristen), Benjamin and Emersyn, Nicholas (Nicole) Natalee Mackenzie, Ryan (Lauren) Marshall, Carson, Burke and Grady; brother John "Butch" (late Karen); her godchild- Melissa Burelli Reed, who was like a second daughter to her. She was the perfect person for her grandchildren, great-grandchildren to look up to for courage and strength with some sass added. Theresa was a frequent flyer to many sporting events watching grandchildren and great grandchildren. She loved going on sporting road trips and was a great lunch date. Many first words learned from her, especially: "Damn it Ed!"
A Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will take place on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. DIRECTLY at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 509 W. Division Rd, Valparaiso, IN. Rev. Mick Kopil officiating. Inurnment Graceland Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donation may be made to Officer Jake Reed Memorial Scholarship: mssu.edu/jakereed-memorial, In Memory of Theresa. www.burnsfuneral.com | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/theresa-d-gigi-devitt/article_2bd2baa5-7861-54be-babd-13c84080703a.html | 2022-12-13 06:28:30 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/theresa-d-gigi-devitt/article_2bd2baa5-7861-54be-babd-13c84080703a.html |
DENVER (AP) — DENVER (AP) — EverCommerce Inc. (EVCM) on Tuesday reported a loss of $20.8 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Denver-based company said it had a loss of 11 cents. Losses, adjusted for stock option expense, were 7 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 8 cents per share.
The business software company posted revenue of $161.1 million in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $158.5 million.
For the current quarter ending in June, EverCommerce said it expects revenue in the range of $168 million to $172 million.
The company expects full-year revenue in the range of $680 million to $700 million.
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BUHL — Leonard T. Regehr, 94, of Buhl, passed away Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at a local care facility. A viewing will be held at 5:00 p.m., Saturday, December 10, 2022 at the Valley View Mennonite Church, 3925 N. 1900 E. Filer, Idaho. A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Sunday, December 11, 2022, at the Valley View Mennonite Church. A graveside service will follow at the Valley View Cemetery. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family on Leonard’s memorial webpage www.farmerfuneralchapel.com.
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ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Elizabethton City Council voted unanimously during its April meeting to approve an ordinance levying a 4% tax on accommodations that will benefit tourism and tourism development.
The council voted 7-0 during a regularly scheduled session approving an ordinance amending Title 5 of the Municipal Code, which places a 4% tax on accommodations for “transients,” or non-local individuals staying in Elizabethton.
The dollars from that tax will be reserved and expended for the promotion of tourism and tourism development, according to the council.
The council said the city will begin collecting that tax on a monthly basis in July of this year, which will bring in an estimated low average of $50,000 annually going to tourism development. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/elizabethton-city-council-approves-4-tax-on-accommodations-to-benefit-tourism/ | 2023-04-18 21:03:09 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/elizabethton-city-council-approves-4-tax-on-accommodations-to-benefit-tourism/ |
NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Stitch Fix, Inc. ("Stitch Fix" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SFIX) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Stitch Fix investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of purchasers of Stitch Fix Class A common stock between December 8, 2020, and March 8, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
SFIX investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: According to the filed complaint, Stitch Fix made numerous false and misleading statements to investors concerning the synergy between the Company's Fix and Freestyle programs, and repeatedly denied claims that the Freestyle program could cannibalize the Company's legacy Fix business. Specifically, Stitch Fix repeatedly assured investors that the Company's Freestyle business was "an additive experience" and "complementary" to the Fix business, that "the combination of those two things will allow us to address many more types of clients," and that "we see solid growth in both sides of the business." In truth, Stitch Fix concealed that these programs were not complementary or additive. Stitch Fix knew that the Freestyle program would be much preferred to the Company's original Fix model and that the Freestyle program would inevitably cannibalize the Company's legacy Fix business.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Stitch Fix during the relevant time frame, you have until October 25, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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The Justice Department is walking away from its case against John Edwards.
Federal prosecutors have announced they will not retry the former Democratic presidential candidate on campaign finance charges. The decision comes soon after jury was unable to reach a verdict.
Government lawyers asked Judge Catherine Eagles to dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning they will not take another bite at the apple and try to resurrect their high profile case.
About two weeks ago, a federal jury in Greensboro North Carolina found John Edwards not guilty on one campaign finance charge.
The jurors couldn't reach a decision on five other counts that covered payments Edwards had accepted from friends to support his pregnant mistress.
Several jurors said they simply did not believe the government's central witness, Andrew Young, an aide who idolized Edwards and then grew disillusioned with him.
Update at 4:07 p.m. ET. Won't Retry 'In Interest Of Justice':
Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division issued the following statement with the announcement:
"We knew that this case – like all campaign finance cases – would be challenging. But it is our duty to bring hard cases when we believe that the facts and the law support charging a candidate for high office with a crime. Last month, the government put forward its best case against Mr. Edwards, and I am proud of the skilled and professional way in which our prosecutors from the Criminal Division's Public Integrity Section and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina conducted this trial. The jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict on five of the six counts of the indictment, however, and we respect their judgment. In the interest of justice, we have decided not to retry Mr. Edwards on those counts."
Update at 4:41 p.m. ET. Edwards Camp Statement:
Edwards' lawyers sent out a statement that reads in part:
"While John has repeatedly admitted to his sins, he has also consistently asserted, as we demonstrated at the trial, that he did not violate any campaign law nor even imagined that any campaign laws could apply. We are confident that the outcome of any new trial would have been the same. We are very glad that, after living under this cloud for over three years, John and his family can have their lives back and enjoy the peace they deserve."
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DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man who had been charged in the presumed death of his missing wife has pleaded guilty to forgery for casting her 2020 election ballot for then-President Donald Trump.
Barry Morphew pleaded guilty Thursday and was fined and assessed court costs of $600, The Denver Post reported. He avoids jail time as part of a plea agreement.
Suzanne Morphew was reported missing on Mother’s Day in 2020 after she did not return from a bike ride near her home in the Salida area in southern Colorado. Barry Morphew, who pleaded for help finding his wife, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and other crimes in 2021, but prosecutors dropped the charges in April.
That decision followed the judge’s move to bar prosecutors from presenting most of their key witnesses during Morphew’s scheduled trial because they repeatedly failed to follow rules for turning over evidence in his favor. The evidence included DNA from an unknown male linked to sexual assault cases in other states, which was found in Suzanne Morphew’s SUV and raised the possibility of another suspect being involved.
Suzanne Morphew’s body has not been found.
In the voter fraud case, investigators said Barry Morphew filled out his missing wife’s ballot because he thought Trump could use the extra vote. Trump lost Colorado to President Joe Biden by 14 percentage points.
“Just because I wanted Trump to win. I just thought, give him another vote. I figured all these other guys are cheating,” he told an FBI agent who confronted him about the ballot in April 2021, according to court documents.
Trump has made repeated claims about fraud and “rigged” election results, but experts say there has been no evidence found of widespread fraud that would have changed the election’s outcome.
Morphew also told the agent he didn’t know it was illegal to fill out a ballot on behalf of a spouse. | https://www.wivb.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/colorado-man-pleads-guilty-to-casting-missing-wifes-ballot/ | 2022-07-23 12:24:39 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/colorado-man-pleads-guilty-to-casting-missing-wifes-ballot/ |
LOS ANGELES — Purdue center Zach Edey has won the John R. Wooden Award as the nation's top men's college basketball player.
The announcement was made Tuesday on ESPN.
Edey is the first Canadian-born winner and the second player from Purdue to be honored, joining Glenn Robinson in 1994.
The 7-foot-4 Edey is the first player since winner David Robinson of Navy in 1987 to have at least 750 points, 450 rebounds and 50 blocks in a single season.
Voting by a national panel took place from March 13-20 during early rounds of the NCAA Tournament. Purdue, a No. 1 seed, lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Caitlin Clark of Iowa won the women's Wooden Award. She led the Hawkeyes to the national championship game where they lost to LSU.
Edey and Clark, who were each named AP's national players of the year, will receive their awards Friday at the Los Angeles Athletic Club. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/purdues-zach-edey-wins-wooden-award-as-top-hoops-player | 2023-04-05 03:28:30 | 1 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/purdues-zach-edey-wins-wooden-award-as-top-hoops-player |
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A team of researchers say they’ve made a breakthrough that could speed up the search for more effective treatments and vaccines for the world’s No. 1 infectious killer.
Using mathematics, the team of University of Michigan researchers and their partners around the globe have developed a whole lung simulation capable of reproducing activity in the lungs, lymph nodes, and blood vessels during a pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) infection.
The first-of-its-kind model will create opportunities for researchers to conduct virtual clinical trials of new drug regimens and prospective vaccines. Not only can the model speed up the process that would typically begin with mouse trials and require significant trial and error, but it could quickly rule out treatments that won’t work as well.
“It’s not just ‘let’s try this, let’s try that,’” said Denise Kirschner, a mathematical biologist at the University of Michigan. “Because we have the bulk of mathematics and computational science at our fingertips and statistics, we can do all sorts of analyses to actually make very accurate predictions about what might be the optimal solution here.
“We can make very accurate predictions about what’s the next best thing or next four best things to try, and we can say don’t try those other five because they definitely won’t work.”
Tuberculosis, also known as TB, has been spreading around the world for thousands of years. Not only is it the world’s No. 1 infectious killer -- responsible for 1.5 million deaths per year worldwide -- but it’s estimated that roughly 23% of the world’s population is believed to be infected with the bacteria that causes TB.
In as many as 90% of those infections, the disease is latent and causing no symptoms while it sits in the lungs. It can stay that way for a person’s lifetime, making it difficult to diagnose, yet easy to spread.
However, when an infected person has their immune system compromised due to old age or another illness, their TB can cause serious illness. For example, TB is the leading cause of death for people with HIV.
Like respiratory viruses, TB is spread through respiratory droplets that people release when they talk, cough, or sneeze. It typically takes prolonged exposure to become infected.
Current treatment for TB has its flaws. It typically requires a series of four pills taken daily for about nine months. When patients misuse or stop taking the medication prematurely, it can lead to the bacteria becoming drug resistant.
That’s where Kirschner hopes her team’s work over the last two decades can help speed up progress on TB treatment and prevention. Given the available funding, she estimated that advancements could be available within the next couple of years.
“That’s the idea, to have much faster turnaround times where this is going to really shorten that timeline between the experimentation and the clinic,” she said. “That’s what we’re hoping for and we think this is all possible now.”
Kirschner’s model was developed in partnership with her University of Michigan colleague Jenifer Linderman, University of Pittsburgh Professor JoAnne Flynn, and Rutgers University Professor Veronique Dartois. Their paper was recently featured by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
At the center of the project was understanding the workings of spherical clusters of immune cells known as granulomas that develop around the invading bacteria in the lung as part of the body’s immune system. After accurately developing a model for the granulomas, the research team was then able to expand to a whole lung simulator using a digitized monkey lung.
In the future, Kirschner hopes to develop a full body model using the same technique. “This multiscale approach to biology and modeling is incredibly important,” she said.
The U.S. has seen a significant decrease in reported TB cases over the last 30 years. The incidence rate was about 2.2 cases per 100,000 people in 2020 -- compared to 10.4 cases per 100,000 people in 1992.
However, health officials don’t yet know the effects the coronavirus pandemic had on TB transmission, testing and reporting. Because symptoms of TB are similar to that of COVID-19, it’s possible cases were missed, which could allow for further spread.
Cases of TB could also have declined over the last two years due to the increase in prevention methods like the wearing of face coverings and avoiding of crowds, especially when a person is feeling ill, according to CDC officials.
“Delayed or missed tuberculosis disease diagnoses are threatening the health of people with TB disease and the communities where they live,” said Dr. Philip LoBue, the CDC’s director of the tuberculosis elimination division. “A delayed or missed TB diagnosis leads to TB disease progression and can result in hospitalization or death – and the risk of transmitting TB to others.”
For more information, visit the CDC’s TB webpage at cdc.gov/tb.
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Trump valet Walt Nauta pleads not guilty in classified documents case
MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump’s valet, Walt Nauta, made a brief court appearance Thursday as he entered a not guilty plea to charges that he helped the former president hide classified documents from federal authorities. He also hired a new Florida-based lawyer to represent him as the case moves forward.
Nauta was charged alongside Trump in June in a 38-count indictment alleging the mishandling of classified documents. His arraignment was to have happened twice before, but he had struggled to retain a lawyer licensed in Florida and one appearance was postponed because of his travel troubles.
Ahead of his arraignment, Nauta hired Sasha Dadan, a criminal defense attorney and former public defender whose main law office is in Fort Pierce, where the judge who would be handling the trial is based, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the court appearance.
A Washington-based lawyer, Stanley Woodward, entered a not guilty plea on Nauta’s behalf.
Trump pleaded not guilty during his June 13 arraignment to charges including willful retention of national defense information. But Nauta’s arraignment was postponed that day because of the lawyer situation and then was pushed back again last week when a flight from New Jersey he was to have taken was canceled.
The indictment filed by special counsel Jack Smith and his team of prosecutors accuses Nauta of conspiring with Trump to conceal records that the former president had taken with him from the White House after his term ended in January 2021.
Prosecutors allege that Nauta, at the former president’s direction, moved boxes of documents bearing classification markings so they would not be found by a Trump lawyer who was tasked with searching the home for classified records to be returned to the government. That, prosecutors said, resulted in a false claim to the Justice Department that a “diligent search” for classified documents had been done and that all documents responsive to a subpoena had been returned.
Nauta is a Navy veteran who fetched Trump’s Diet Cokes as his valet at the White House before joining him as a personal aide at Mar-a-Lago. He is regularly by Trump’s side, including traveling in Trump’s motorcade to the Miami courthouse for their appearance earlier this month and accompanying him afterward to a stop at the city’s famed Cuban restaurant Versailles, where he helped usher supporters eager to take selfies with the former president.
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The new series expands the popular GM110 series with a compact shape.
DOVER, N.J., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Casio America, Inc. is pleased to introduce the GMS110 collection, which is an expansion of the popular GM110 design. The new GMS110 collection offers the same appeal and luxury of the original men's collection, with a more compact size for a more comfortable and easier fit on a smaller wrist.
The new GMS110 collection utilizes advanced forging techniques to meticulously craft the complex form of the bezel -- which is challenging given the compact size -- as well as intensifying the texture of the metal with separate hairline and mirror finishes. The case width has been reduced to just 86% of the original GM110 to 42.0 mm, along with a profile slimmed by 3.9mm.
Each of the three models is comprised of a different color – the GMS110-1A features a silver color, the GMS110PG-1A uses pink gold IP, and the GMS110B-8A, inspired by the natural landscape, features a grey IP bezel and grey band. To further create a luxurious look, metallic-toned coloration on each part of the four-layered 3D dial design presents the impression of both depth and glamour. To finish the design, a smooth, minimal band is used to both enhance the detailed face of the watch and make it easy to coordinate with any outfit.
All three timepieces are equipped with G-SHOCK technology including:
- Shock Resistance
- 200-Meter Water Resistance
- Double LED Lights (Super Illuminator)
- Hand Shift Feature
- 5 Daily Alarms
- Stopwatch (24 Hour)
- Countdown Timer (60 Min)
- World Time (48 Cities)
- 12/24 Hour Time Formats
The GMS110-1A will retail for $180, and the GMS110PG-1A and GMS110B-8A will retail for $200. All watches in the collection will be available for purchase starting today, October 26th at select retailers, gshock.com, and the G-SHOCK Soho store. For more information about the G-SHOCK brand, visit gshock.casio.com/us.
CASIO's shock-resistant G-SHOCK watch is synonymous with toughness, born from the developer Mr. Ibe's dream of 'creating a watch that never breaks'. Over 200 handmade samples were created and tested to destruction until finally in 1983 the first, now iconic G-SHOCK hit the streets of Japan and began to establish itself as 'the toughest watch of all time'. Each watch encompasses the 7 elements; electric shock resistance, gravity resistance, low temperature resistance, vibration resistance, water resistance, shock resistance and toughness. The watch is packed with Casio innovations and technologies to prevent it from suffering direct shock; this includes internal components protected with urethane and suspended timekeeping modules inside the watch structure. Since its launch, G-SHOCK has continued to evolve, continuing to support on Mr. Ibe's mantra "never, never give up." www.gshock.casio.com/us/
Casio America, Inc., Dover, N.J., is the U.S. subsidiary of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment solutions. Established in 1957, Casio America, Inc. markets calculators, keyboards, mobile presentation devices, disc title and label printers, watches, cash registers and other consumer electronic products. Casio has strived to realize its corporate creed of "creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products. For more information, visit www.casio.com/us/
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WASHINGTON — Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.
Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump's critics from both parties and attacked Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador who is challenging her onetime boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
When it came to Ron DeSantis, the bots aggressively suggested that the Florida governor couldn't beat Trump, but would be a great running mate.
As Republican voters size up their candidates for 2024, whoever created the bot network is seeking to put a thumb on the scale, using online manipulation techniques pioneered by the Kremlin to sway the digital platform conversation about candidates while exploiting Twitter's algorithms to maximize their reach.
The sprawling bot network was uncovered by researchers at Cyabra, an Israeli tech firm that shared its findings with The Associated Press. While the identify of those behind the network of fake accounts is unknown, Cyabra's analysts determined that it was likely created within the U.S.
“One account will say, ‘Biden is trying to take our guns; Trump was the best,’ and another will say, ‘Jan. 6 was a lie and Trump was innocent,'" said Jules Gross, the Cyabra engineer who first discovered the network. "Those voices are not people. For the sake of democracy I want people to know this is happening.”
Bots, as they are commonly called, are fake, automated accounts that became notoriously well-known after Russia employed them in an effort to meddle in the 2016 election. While big tech companies have improved their detection of fake accounts, the network identified by Cyabra shows they remain a potent force in shaping online political discussion.
The new pro-Trump network is actually three different networks of Twitter accounts, all created in huge batches in April, October and November 2022. In all, researchers believe hundreds of thousands of accounts could be involved.
The accounts all feature personal photos of the alleged account holder as well as a name. Some of the accounts posted their own content, often in reply to real users, while others reposted content from real users, helping to amplify it further.
“McConnell... Traitor!” wrote one of the accounts, in response to an article in a conservative publication about GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell, one of several Republican critics of Trump targeted by the network.
One way of gauging the impact of bots is to measure the percentage of posts about any given topic generated by accounts that appear to be fake. The percentage for typical online debates is often in the low single digits. Twitter itself has said that less than 5% of its active daily users are fake or spam accounts.
When Cyabra researchers examined negative posts about specific Trump critics, however, they found far higher levels of inauthenticity. Nearly three-fourths of the negative posts about Haley, for example, were traced back to fake accounts.
The network also helped popularize a call for DeSantis to join Trump as his vice presidential running mate — an outcome that would serve Trump well and allow him to avoid a potentially bitter matchup if DeSantis enters the race.
The same network of accounts shared overwhelmingly positive content about Trump and contributed to an overall false picture of his support online, researchers found.
“Our understanding of what is mainstream Republican sentiment for 2024 is being manipulated by the prevalence of bots online," the Cyabra researchers concluded.
The triple network was discovered after Gross analyzed Tweets about different national political figures and noticed that many of the accounts posting the content were created on the same day. Most of the accounts remain active, though they have relatively modest numbers of followers.
A message left with a spokesman for Trump's campaign was not immediately returned.
Most bots aren't designed to persuade people, but to amplify certain content so more people see it, according to Samuel Woolley, a professor and misinformation researcher at the University of Texas whose most recent book focuses on automated propaganda.
When a human user sees a hashtag or piece of content from a bot and reposts it, they're doing the network's job for it, and also sending a signal to Twitter's algorithms to boost the spread of the content further.
Bots can also succeed in convincing people that a candidate or idea is more or less popular than the reality, he said. More pro-Trump bots can lead to people overstating his popularity overall, for example.
“Bots absolutely do impact the flow of information,” Woolley said. “They're built to manufacture the illusion of popularity. Repetition is the core weapon of propaganda and bots are really good at repetition. They're really good at getting information in front of people's eyeballs."
Until recently, most bots were easily identified thanks to their clumsy writing or account names that included nonsensical words or long strings of random numbers. As social media platforms got better at detecting these accounts, the bots became more sophisticated.
So-called cyborg accounts are one example: a bot that is periodically taken over by a human user who can post original content and respond to users in human-like ways, making them much harder to sniff out.
Bots could soon get much sneakier thanks to advances in artificial intelligence. New AI programs can create lifelike profile photos and posts that sound much more authentic. Bots that sound like a real person and deploy deepfake video technology may challenge platforms and users alike in new ways, according to Katie Harbath, a fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a former Facebook public policy director.
“The platforms have gotten so much better at combating bots since 2016,” Harbath said. "But the types that we're starting to see now, with AI, they can create fake people. Fake videos."
These technological advances likely ensure that bots have a long future in American politics — as digital foot soldiers in online campaigns, and as potential problems for both voters and candidates trying to defend themselves against anonymous online attacks.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The economic affairs minister in Finland’s new four-party center-right governing coalition, resigned Friday after 10 days in the job for his alleged ties to the extreme right wing, Finnish media said.
A member of the populist, anti-immigration Finns Party, Vilhelm Junnila stepped down in part for a speech in connection with a far-right memorial in the western city of Turku in 2019, Finland broadcaster YLE said.
He also reportedly has made a reference to Adolf Hitler. He has allegedly joked about his candidate number in the 2019 parliamentary elections — which was randomly assigned as 88 — jokingly saying it represented two H’s. The eighth letter in the alphabet is H, and 88 is a numerical code for “Heil Hitler.”
Junnila has apologized and distanced himself for his remarks and jokes, saying in a Facebook post that he never had any ties or affiliation with extreme elements.
On Friday, he resigned.
“I see that it is impossible for me to continue as a minister in a satisfactory way,” he said.
Two days earlier, he survived a confidence vote in the Finnish parliament, the Eduskunta, put forward by the opposition. Following the vote, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said he had given Junnila a warning before the vote that he “can’t act” like that in a ministerial role, YLE said.
On June 16, Orpo, who leads Finland’s center-right National Coalition Party, announced an agreement with three other parties for a governing coalition, saying that the new NATO member country needs budget cuts and curbs on immigration.
The four parties – Orpo’s NCP, the Finns Party, which came in second in April elections vowing to curb immigration, the Christian Democrats and the Swedish People’s Party of Finland — hold 108 seats out of 200 in Eduskunta.
YLE said that Junilla now held the title as the government member with the shortest career in Finnish politics, beating Karl Lennart Oesch who was minister for 12 days in 1932.
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After critics raised concerns about advertising censorship, Hulu will begin running ads for political issues and campaigns on its platform, the company confirmed Wednesday. The streaming service, which is majority owned by Disney, will implement the policy change immediately but with some conditions after facing backlash for rejecting ads tied to political issues including abortion, climate change and gun regulations.
"After a thorough review of ad policies across its linear networks and streaming platforms over the last few months, Disney is now aligning Hulu's political advertising policies to be consistent with the company's general entertainment and sports cable networks and ESPN Plus," a Disney spokesperson said in a statement emailed to CNET.
"Hulu will now accept candidate and issue advertisements covering a wide spectrum of policy positions, but reserves the right to request edits or alternative creative, in alignment with industry standards."
Broadcast networks such as CBS and Disney's ABC are subject to the Communications Act of 1934, which prevents them from blocking or censoring political campaign ads from any party. Streaming services like Hulu aren't bound by such legal rules that cover political ads. Therefore, it's up to the individual brand to decide how or what ads will air on its platform.
This policy change opens the door for political advocacy and candidate advertising.
Back in May, Disney revealed its plans for the new, ad-supported tier on Disney Plus. The entertainment giant said it won't run political or alcohol-themed ads on the family-friendly streaming service. Preschool-age viewers won't see any ads at all. The cheaper tier with commercials is due to launch later this year. | https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/disney-will-now-let-hulu-air-political-ads-following-criticism/ | 2022-07-27 23:32:15 | 0 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/disney-will-now-let-hulu-air-political-ads-following-criticism/ |
NEW YORK — Attempted book bans and restrictions at school and public libraries continue to surge, setting a record in 2022, according to a new report from the American Library Association released Thursday.
More than 1,200 challenges were compiled by the association in 2022, nearly double the then-record total from 2021 and by far the most since the ALA began keeping data 20 years ago.
“I've never seen anything like this,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, who directs the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. “The last two years have been exhausting, frightening, outrage inducing.”
Thursday's report not only documents the growing number of challenges, but also their changing nature. A few years ago, complaints usually arose with parents and other community members and referred to an individual book. Now, the requests are often for multiple removals, and organized by national groups such as the conservative Moms for Liberty, which has a mission of “unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government.”
Last year, more than 2,500 different books were objected to, compared to 1,858 in 2021 and just 566 in 2019. In numerous cases, hundreds of books were challenged in a single complaint. The ALA bases its findings on media accounts and voluntary reporting from libraries and acknowledges that the numbers might be far higher.
Librarians around the country have told of being harassed and threatened with violence or legal action.
“Every day professional librarians sit down with parents to thoughtfully determine what reading material is best suited for their child’s needs," ALA President Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada said in a statement. “Now, many library workers face threats to their employment, their personal safety, and in some cases, threats of prosecution for providing books to youth they and their parents want to read.”
Caldwell-Stone says that some books have been targeted by liberals because of racist language — notably Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” — but the vast majority of complaints come from conservatives, directed at works with LGBTIQA+ or racial themes. They include Maia Kobabe's “Gender Queer,” Jonathan Evison's “Lawn Boy," Angie Thomas' “The Hate U Give” and a book-length edition of the “1619 Project,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning report from The New York Times on the legacy of slavery in the U.S.
Bills facilitating the restriction of books have been proposed or passed in Arizona, Iowa, Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma, among other states. In Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis has approved laws to review reading materials and limit classroom discussion of gender identity and race books pulled indefinitely or temporarily include John Green's “Looking for Alaska,” Colleen Hoover's “Hopeless,” Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel “The Handmaid's Tale” and Grace Lin's picture story “Dim Sum for Everyone!”
More recently, Florida's Martin County school district removed dozens of books from its middle schools and high schools, including numerous works by novelist Jodi Picoult, Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning “Beloved” and James Patterson's “Maximum Ride” thrillers, a decision which the bestselling author has criticized on Twitter as “arbitrary and borderline absurd.”
DeSantis has called reports of mass bannings a “hoax," saying in a statement released earlier this month that the allegations reveal “some are attempting to use our schools for indoctrination.”
Some books do come back. Officials at Florida's Duval County Public Schools were widely criticized after they removed “Roberto Clemente: The Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates,” a children's biography of the late Puerto Rican baseball star. In February, they announced the book would again be on shelves, explaining that they needed to review it and make sure it didn't violate any state laws. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/book-ban-attempts-hit-record-high-2022/507-17e64163-ea47-4ef4-b17a-5abc6307c07c | 2023-03-23 17:03:17 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/book-ban-attempts-hit-record-high-2022/507-17e64163-ea47-4ef4-b17a-5abc6307c07c |
Dry powder rose to record $676 billion while returns of Asia Pacific-focused funds remained strong
Best firms are adapting investment strategies and employing scenario planning to identify winners in right sectors
HONG KONG and SINGAPORE, March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Private equity (PE) deal value in Asia Pacific plunged 44% year-on-year to $198 billion in 2022, ending two years of record dealmaking, according to Bain & Company's Asia Pacific Private Equity Report 2023 launched today.
Slower economic growth, declining consumer confidence, falling manufacturing output, high inflation, and mounting global and regional uncertainties resulted in a perfect storm which dampened investor sentiment.
Across the region, deal value declined between 25% and 53%. Greater China and Southeast Asia saw the greatest fall at 53% and 52%, respectively, with the former challenged by uncertainties relating to the zero-Covid policy, geopolitical tensions and tech regulatory crackdowns, and the latter faced with fewer growth deals. Deal value in Australia-New Zealand (ANZ), Korea and Japan dropped 48%, 39% and 28%, respectively. Deal value in India declined 25%.
"The declines in deal value, exits and fundraising in 2022 should not be a surprise. In fact, conditions were set for a perfect storm. Investor exuberance and a superabundance of global capital helped propel Asia Pacific deal value to an extraordinary high in 2021. As economic forces battered the market in 2022, investors retreated and deal value fell back to the level of 2020," said Kiki Yang, co-head of Bain & Company's Asia Pacific PE practice, who is based in Hong Kong.
Greater China continues to hold the lion's share of the region's total deal value although it plummeted to 31%, a 9-year low. India and ANZ increased their shares to 23% and 19%, respectively.
When it comes to deal type, growth deals continued to outpace buyouts in 2022, producing 54% of deal value, up from 50% in 2021. However, the total value of large growth deals above $200 million fell 45% in 2022 compared with the previous year. Investors' shrinking appetite for risk and the dramatic drop in the value of technology companies on stock markets contributed to this trend.
Growth deals dominate most of Asia Pacific's markets except for ANZ and Japan, where investors favor buyout deals. Carve-outs were again an important buyout theme in 2022, especially in Japan and Korea where a challenging economic environment prompted conglomerates to focus on their core businesses and sell non-core operations.
"In all markets where buyouts dominate, the rising cost of deal financing was a key factor depressing the number of buyouts as central banks tightened credit, interest rates rose, and liquidity shrank," said Tom Kidd, Bain & Company partner and co-author of the report, based in Singapore.
An uncertain business outlook and lower ratings for public companies helped push valuations down to 12x from 13.1x (median EV/EBITDA) a year earlier. Similarly, tough market conditions pushed some investors to the sidelines in 2022. The number of active investors in Asia Pacific fell 2% year-on-year, the first drop since 2015. The region's top 20 funds accounted for close to a third of total deal value.
Following a record year for exits in 2021, exit value fell 33% year-on-year to $132 billion. Three key factors deterred general partners (GPs) from selling: a significant re-rating of public market valuations, fewer avenues for exits given the decline in IPOs, and deteriorating portfolio performance.
In a similar fashion, fundraising in Asia Pacific declined 43% to $105 billion in 2022, 70% below its 2016 peak. The share of Asia Pacific-focused funds dropped to 10% of global PE closed funds in 2022 compared with 16% a year earlier. On average, GPs needed more time to close new funds.
Sector view: Internet and tech continues to dominate; shift towards recession-resistant and ESG-focused sectors
The internet and tech sector continue to hold the largest share of private equity capital in the Asia Pacific region, however, its share of deal value dipped to 33% in 2022, down from 41% in the previous year. The decline was primarily due to fewer and smaller deals in China and India.
Advanced manufacturing and energy and resources sectors, on the other hand, recorded an increase in the number of deals in 2022, a reflection of investors' preference for companies with a low-risk profile that generate steady cash flow. At the same time, government demand for private capital investment to develop and upgrade critical infrastructure including utilities, telecoms and transportation remains strong, especially in Southeast Asia and India. Investments in utilities and renewables made up 60% of deal value in the energy and resources sector, reflecting the rise of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations as an investment priority.
"Half of the GPs we surveyed plan to significantly increase their effort and focus on ESG in the next three to five years, up from 30% three years ago," said Kidd.
Record dry power and solid returns show robustness of industry
Dry powder, or total unspent PE capital, rose to a new high of $676 billion, a 20% increase over the previous year. The buildup of dry powder was most pronounced in funds focused on venture deals and fund of funds. The share of unspent PE capital in venture funds and fund of funds increased to 30% and 31% of Asia Pacific dry powder, respectively, in 2022.
Despite the sharp drop in dealmaking, exits and fundraising, Asia Pacific PE returns rose to a new high of 15.0% median net IRR, from 13.9% a year earlier. Top-quartile funds continued to deliver robust returns well above expectations, at 25% median net IRR.
"Looking ahead, nearly one in four GPs we surveyed said cost improvement is the most important contributor to strong returns, up from only 5% five years ago. Higher inflation and weaker growth are likely to have a strong impact on portfolio performances in the coming year. GPs are clearly taking a more active role in portfolio management," said Elsa Sit, practice vice president of Bain & Company's Asia Pacific PE practice, who is based in Hong Kong.
Although macroeconomic conditions remain uncertain, Bain's analysis show that even in a downturn, companies can accelerate growth and generate superior returns. The best PE funds follow a few key strategies in tough times.
The first is identifying recession-proof sectors and the top-performing companies within those sectors. Next, these funds use scenario planning as a vital tool to understand the range of potential outcomes for targets and portfolio companies. Finally, fund managers roll up their sleeves and help improve portfolio performance.
Editor's Note: For more information or interview requests please contact: Ann Lee, Bain & Company, tel. +65 6228 2960, email: ann.lee@bain.com
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DALLAS, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Gaston College will never be confused with beachfront property, but in some ways, the campus has gone coastal.
Serves up!
Gaston is the first Charlotte area college to start beach volleyball.
“Which is why I applied for the coaching job, so it’s pretty cool,” said coach Rachel Noreika.
Noreika led the squad to the Beach Volleyball nationals in Tavares, Fla., in her first season. The Rhinos lost their games Thursday against Bryant & Stratton and Palm Beach State.
For Junette Pierre, the sport has been an unexpected blessing.
“I’m very excited,” said Pierre. “It has been a great journey for me.”
“She comes with a whole lot of life experience, and that brings her a really special perspective on the court,” Noreika told Queen City News.
Pierre, born in Haiti, seizes the day despite the weight of unthinkable sorrow.
“One of the things that motivates me the most is I want to be able to do everything that my mother did not have a chance to do in this life,” She says.
Pierre was nine when her mother Jeannette died after being diagnosed with HIV. She says inadequate medical care led to her mom’s death at 38.
Before she passed, she ensured her daughter would be cared for.
“I remember that night, she called me, and she said, ‘If I were to die… If I were to take my last breath now or tomorrow, I want you to run to the orphanage,'” Pierre recalled, her voice trembling with emotion. “And unfortunately, two hours later, she took her last breath, and I was able to just run (to the orphanage).”
She lived at Danita’s Children orphanage in Haiti for 13 years and feels forever grateful.
“Yes, I have a lot to give back to Haiti,” said Pierre.
Because of life circumstances, the now 26-year-old wasn’t set up for success. Brenda Sapp of Danita’s Children is in awe of Pierre’s perseverance.
“As hard as it was for Junette to lose her mother, as a young child, in the midst of her greatest heartache and loss, she was able to recognize God’s love and grace as He provided her a loving home, family, and education for her at Danita’s Children,” said Sapp. “Junette has grown and matured into a positive, beautiful, confident, talented, and passionate young lady that desires to live a life that is pleasing to God and that would make her mother proud.”
She’s moved beyond that painful past and turned her life into a triumph in surprising ways.
“I discovered painting when I started coming here at Gaston College and realized, ‘Whoa, I can do this!'” she said, showing us her work at the Beam Center for Visual Arts.
It’s there where she found the healing power of a color palette.
“I can’t let the past determine what my future is going to be like,” she said with resolve, finishing up her latest painting.
“I call this piece ‘Beauty in the Scars,'” said Pierre. “Like, there’s beauty in pain.”
It’s a painting of a child named Adas.
“The orphanage where I grew up in (Adas) is a little boy that’s actually there right now,” she said. “He was rescued in a house in a fire.”
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Each brush stroke gives Junette a chance to reflect.
“There is a point in your life you have to realize that things didn’t happen to you; they happened for you,” she said, wiping tears from her eyes several times as we watched her paint.
“It helps me process things that I’ve been through,” said Pierre. “It helps me to see that God was working all along; something great was coming to pass… but it still hurts.”
She’s wiped away far too many tears to count. Maybe that explains why she values education more than most.
“Education is freedom,” Pierre said, hoping her hard work would lead to generational opportunities.
“As much as I love my mother, I want to make sure that I do things differently and make sure that the kids that are coming behind me get to have a different opportunity in life,” she said. “An education for me, it means an opportunity to be able to give my family a different outcome in life. My mom did not have the opportunity to go to school.”
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“Junette has such an incredible story and more experience,” says coach Noreika. “And so I think (teammates) could take from her perseverance, courage, work ethic, so many things.”
Seventeen years after the day she desperately ran to the orphanage, Pierre’s vulnerability is her strength. Perhaps that makes her the ultimate team player.
“Being able to just be a part of something,” she said. “Being a part of the team, it allows me to maybe bring encouragement to a teammate, maybe more than someone with less experience.” | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/gaston-county/dallas/gaston-college-beach-volleyball-player-finds-outlet-for-years-of-grief/ | 2023-04-21 03:32:02 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/gaston-county/dallas/gaston-college-beach-volleyball-player-finds-outlet-for-years-of-grief/ |
WOODBRIDGE, N.J., March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Miku Care (Miku), the technology company that revolutionized the pediatric wellness space using a contactless respiratory & sleep monitoring system, announced today that it has been selected to join The West Coast Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP), a pediatric medical device accelerator centered at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and the University of Southern California (USC) that promotes the commercialization and clinical use of pediatric medical device technology.
"We are honored to be recognized by CTIP and earn a place alongside some of the world's most innovative healthcare companies," said Johann Fernando, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer at Miku Care. "Through this partnership with CTIP, Miku gains a strong ally equally dedicated to innovation and development of pediatric medical devices."
Miku Care is currently designed for parents and caregivers, offering a sleep monitoring solution that comes with intuitive displays and analytics that make it easy for parents to understand their child's sleep and respiratory behaviors and trends, all without the use of a wearable accessory. Miku is not currently offered or intended for diagnostic use.
Miku's wearable-free monitoring technology has the potential to reduce usage issues and monitoring obstructions by eliminating the need for wearing, charging, or cleaning a wearable product. Beyond wearables, SensorFusion® technology also has the potential to overcome the challenges of existing camera-only or under-mattress products. In scenarios with blankets, obstructions, and shadows in a crib or bed of any size, Miku continues to provide monitoring coverage for caretakers.
"Pediatric medical device innovation lags behind adults by 10-15 years—this is a major inequity in healthcare. CTIP is committed to addressing this by identifying and supporting the development of potential pediatric medical devices by innovators like Miku from concept to commercialization," said Dr. Juan Espinoza, Director and Principal Investigator at CTIP.
In 2022, Miku Care in collaboration with Boston Children's Hospital announced a first-of-its-kind epilepsy research study using an investigational monitoring device. This research aims to monitor and ultimately detect generalized tonic-clonic seizures, which occur in 25% of all patients with seizures and are the most common type of generalized seizure in adults. These seizures are also a major risk factor for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). The Institutional Review Board (IRB)-approved study aims to capture generalized tonic-clonic seizure events on study participants. Patients will be monitored by Miku Care's SensorFusion® technology, and simultaneously, a video-EEG system, the industry-regarded "gold standard" of hospital monitoring.
The study is currently underway, providing hope to parents and caregivers of loved ones. With this research, Miku aims to gain insight into detecting generalized tonic-clonic seizures in a home setting using its contact-free sensing technology, as well as the ability to predict seizure activity before it occurs based on longitudinal wellness trends in respiration, heart rate, and sleep, combined with the patient's history of seizures. The data collected is intended to advance the health and wellbeing of children and support a potential marketing application.
"Our dedicated team at Miku has spent years focusing on developing innovative technologies to advance pediatric care," said Eric White, Co-founder and Chief Product & Technology Officer at Miku Care. "We are excited to partner with CTIP and believe that by working together we will create and expand opportunities as well as lead future developments."
To learn more, visit https://mikucare.com/.
The West Coast Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP) is an FDA-funded pediatric MedTech accelerator centered at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Our goal is to facilitate the development, production, and distribution of pediatric medical devices by identifying companies working in the space and providing advice, networking, and direct and indirect financial support on the road to commercialization. Learn more at https://www.westcoastctip.org/
Miku Care is a pediatric health monitoring company creating products that make it easy for parents to understand their child's sleep and respiratory behaviors and trends. The contact-free Miku Pro Smart Baby Monitor and corresponding analytics platform give parents easy access to breathing and sleep data, all without the use of a wearable. Miku smart baby monitors are currently not offered or intended to diagnose, cure, mitigate, prevent, or treat any illness or condition and are not approved or cleared by FDA.
Founded in 2018, Miku Care's products and proprietary, clinically tested SensorFusion™ technology have received accolades from Fast Company, CES, Good Housekeeping, Babylist, Digital Trends, and more for innovation, design, and overall industry best-of. Partnered with established universities, hospital systems, research organizations, investors, and leaders, Miku is pioneering contactless monitoring in the pediatric space. For more information, please visit mikucare.com. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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NEW YORK (AP) —
Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the Illinois Republican who broke with his party two years ago after the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, has a book deal.
The Open Field, a Penguin Random House imprint overseen by Maria Shriver, announced Tuesday that Kinzinger’s “Renegade: My Life in Faith, the Military, and Defending America from Trump’s Attack on Democracy” is scheduled for release on Oct. 17.
“Ever since my final falling-out with the GOP, on the day of the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump’s followers, I have wanted to tell the inside story of how my party and also my faith have been hijacked by extremists who represent a real danger to our democracy,” Kinzinger said in a statement.
“This book is the result, a full telling of my experience from a pilgrim with genuine values to a conservative who has no home but is determined to play a role in our recovery from a devastating political war,” he added.
Kinzinger, an Iraq War veteran first elected to Congress in 2010, became a leading GOP critic of Trump and his Republican colleagues after Jan. 6. He denounced Trump for inciting “an angry mob” with false claims the 2020 election was stolen and voted to impeach the then-president. He was later one of two Republicans, along with Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who joined the House committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack.
Last fall, he announced he would not seek reelection after the Democrat-controlled Illinois Legislature approved new congressional maps that would have forced Kinzinger and a fellow Republican incumbent, Rep. Darin LaHood, into a primary matchup.
Kinsinger “examines the forces that allowed such an attack to happen in the first place, from the misinformation campaign waged by Fox News and partisan media to the inculcation of extremism in families and faith communities,” according to his publisher.
The publisher described the book as “part memoir, part searing examination.”
The book will offer “an inside account of one of the most tumultuous events in recent American history and sounds the alarm on the devastating consequences of letting extremism go unchecked,” the publisher said. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/politics/ap-former-us-rep-adam-kinzinger-to-release-book-in-october/ | 2023-02-21 19:17:22 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/politics/ap-former-us-rep-adam-kinzinger-to-release-book-in-october/ |
(Green Car Reports) — The 2024 Kia EV9 electric SUV will be built at the automaker’s West Point, Georgia, factory starting in the 2024 calendar year, Kia announced Wednesday at the 2023 New York Auto Show.
The ramp-up will happen after the EV9 goes on sale in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of this year, with initial units likely sourced from South Korea. Full U.S. launch timing and pricing will be revealed at a later date.
First shown in concept form at the 2021 Los Angeles Auto Show, the three-row EV9 is the largest model to date built on the E-GMP platform shared by Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis. It’s the second Kia model to use the E-GMP platform, after the EV6, and it will be the first Kia electric car assembled in the U.S.
Kia revealed the design of the EV9, which stuck pretty close to the concept version last month, other details on specs, range, and charging later in the month. Highlights include speedy 800-volt charging with future V2G (vehicle-to-grid) capability, a Level 3 Highway Driving Pilot system, as well as second-row swivel seats. Those probably aren’t coming to the U.S., however.
U.S. assembly will make the EV9 eligible for at least half of the potential $7,500 EV tax credit under new rules enacted as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). While that checks one box, Kia will also need to meet battery-assembly and raw-materials sourcing requirements to get the full amount.
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Reports have also suggested that Kia might get some of the production from Hyundai’s so-called Metaplant in Savannah, Georgia. But with this, that possibility may be a little less likely. Kia’s West Point factory is already well established, having assembled more than 3.8 million vehicles since 2009, according to the automaker. | https://www.cenlanow.com/automotive/kia-ev9-electric-suv-confirmed-for-georgia-production-in-2024/ | 2023-04-06 16:28:26 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/automotive/kia-ev9-electric-suv-confirmed-for-georgia-production-in-2024/ |
Paramount+ today announced that THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED: THE STORY OF DON MCLEAN’S “AMERICAN PIE” will premiere exclusively on the service Tuesday, July 19, both in the U.S. and internationally where the service is available. Additionally, the documentary will have a special Academy qualifying run in New York City and Los Angeles starting on July 8 and will screen in Showcase Cinemas and associated theaters globally on July 14 and July 17.
With a narrative running deeper than a catchy tune and cryptic verses, “American Pie” is a musical phenomenon woven deep into the history of American culture, entertaining audiences around the world for over 50 years. In THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED: THE STORY OF DON MCLEAN’S “AMERICAN PIE,” McLean will, for the first time, powerfully reveal and share the secrets behind his iconic song. In addition, the documentary highlights cultural moments in America’s history that are as relevant now as they were in 1971, when the song was released. The film tells stories of the people who were a part of this moment from the beginning, and shows the point of view of a new generation of artists who are motivated by the same values and ideas that inspired the song’s creation.
“This documentary is something that will make people think, especially since so many throughout the years have asked me what certain lyrics meant or whom I was referring to, but now I finally can solve many of those mysteries,” says McLean. “Everyone from Madonna to Garth Brooks to Weird Al Yankovic has recorded ‘American Pie’ and made it their own. So many people have their own interpretation of the song, and I love it.”
“Not only is ‘American Pie’ one of the most universally known songs of all time, it also represents a significant piece of musical history and a pivotal moment in American culture. It’s a story that needs to be told and we’re excited to have THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED take fans deeper into the song’s making, finally put to rest the speculation behind its lyrics and hear from today’s biggest artists – both legends and future stars – who it has personally influenced,” said Bruce Gillmer, president of music, music talent, programming and events at Paramount, and chief content officer of music at Paramount+. “A global sensation deserves a global launch and we’re thrilled to add this film to Paramount+’ unmatched portfolio of premiere music content.”
To help bring the documentary to life, McLean enlisted music producer and songwriter Spencer Proffer, CEO of media production company Meteor 17. In a collaborative vision, Proffer and McLean tell the story of this special and unique song by using contemporary audio/visual storytelling techniques to artistically reimagine the music for a modern audience.
“There are interchanges with all stripes of people from many walks of life, including major celebrities, music icons, current breaking artists and industry leaders,” said Proffer. “The film explores what ‘American Pie’ meant to people then, what it means to them now and what it will mean to generations in the future.” | https://www.wfla.com/daytime/the-day-the-music-died-on-paramount/ | 2022-07-22 14:56:45 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/daytime/the-day-the-music-died-on-paramount/ |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs and Chargers were locked in a tie game early in the fourth quarter last Thursday, and Kansas City was facing fourth-and-goal with an opportunity to take its first lead of the game.
Rather than go for it, Chiefs coach Andy Reid sent in his field-goal unit.
Everything worked out in the end: The Chiefs took the lead on the chip-shot by fill-in kicker Matt Ammendola, rookie cornerback Jaylen Watson returned an interception 99 yards for a touchdown on the ensuing drive, and Kansas City held on for a 27-24 victory in an important early season AFC West showdown.
Yet the conservative decision on the goal line left some head scratching inside Arrowhead Stadium, unless you consider what had transpired in the first three quarters.
One of the league’s prolific offenses, led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, had faced third-and-short situations five times and converted just once.
“We can do better in that area,” Reid acknowledged ahead of a visit to Indianapolis on Sunday.
The question is how.
The Chiefs spent plenty of time working on short-yardage scenarios during training camp in St. Joseph, Missouri, and they dedicate time during practice each Thursday to them.
So it’s not as if Reid, whose penchant for throwing the ball all over the field is well known, has neglected a situation that seemingly demands old-school, smash-mouth football.
Perhaps it’s an attitude thing. Or poor play calls. Or the defense simply got ’em on those plays.
“You try to see what went wrong, first of all,” Reid said, “whether it’s the call — whether I sent in the wrong thing at the wrong time — or there’s a mistake somewhere. We had a couple of mistakes in there. And then one of them where we didn’t have a mistake, the defense still had pretty good leverage on it.”
The only third-and-short the Chiefs converted last Sunday was their first, and they did it in the most blasé way possible, running 5-foot-11, 242-pound fullback Michael Burton up the middle for a first down.
It’s when the Chiefs got a little more exotic that things went haywire.
Isiah Pacheco was stopped on the next opportunity. Mahomes threw an incompletion on the next. And then Mahomes threw an underneath shovel-pass to Travis Kelce on third-and-goal — the play Reid referred to that was executed correctly but still failed, leading to the go-ahead field goal on fourth-and-goal.
Why not just run a tried-and-true sneak for those first downs?
That goes back to 2019 and a game in Denver, when Mahomes dislocated his knee cap plowing into the pile. Reid has been shooting down his quarterback whenever Mahomes asks to sneak the ball ever since.
“The hardest I’ve ever lobbied for it was the playoffs: We’re here now, I want that first down,” Mahomes said. ”I’ve only technically not got (the conversion) one time, and I still think I was in the end zone against the Chargers a couple of years back. I’m still pretty good at the quarterback sneak. I’ll keep that on his radar.”
What makes the Chiefs’ failures on third-and-short even more vexing is the fact that they averaged nearly 8 yards per play on first down. Some of that was inflated by a 52-yard run by Clyde Edwards-Helaire late in the game, but removing that big play, the Chiefs still averaged about 5.3 yards on every first-down snap.
Yet the Chiefs couldn’t get a yard or two when it would have kept a drive alive.
In fact, they were so woeful on third-and-short Sunday that they would have been better off in third-and-long: Whereas they were 1 for 5 in those situations, they were 4 for 8 when they needed to gain at least 4 yards.
That’s more in line with how the Chiefs traditionally fare on third down. They were far-and-away the best in the league last year, converting at a 53.1% clip, and are still in the top 10 this season at 45% despite their short-yardage woes.
“Coach Reid has a great track record of getting first downs in short-yardage situations,” Mahomes said. “We didn’t have a great week in a short week, little misses here and there. And I think as we get back into a more normal flow of the season, we’ll get back to being great at those short-yardage situations.”
NOTES: K Harrison Butker (sprained ankle) remained out of practice Wednesday, raising expectations that Ammendola will kick again Sunday in Indianapolis. … DE Mike Danna (calf) also did not practice Wednesday. … CB Jaylen Watson was AFC defensive player of the week after his 99-yard interception return for a touchdown against the Chargers. “I’ve just muted my phone the past five days,” he said. … The Chiefs signed DE Benton Whitley from the Rams practice squad.
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Then vs. now: What the world was like when Queen Elizabeth II was coronated in 1953
LONDON - What a difference seven decades have made. The world has changed in unimaginable ways since Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953.
The queen died Friday surrounded by family at Balmoral castle in Scotland.
When 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth was proclaimed queen on Feb. 6, 1952, the British Empire stretched across the world, royalty was widely revered, and televisions were still a novelty item. On June 2, 1953, Elizabeth’s coronation at Westminster Abbey was the first time most people had watched an event live on television. Millions around the world saw the ceremony on TV, outnumbering the radio audience for the first time.
The world has undergone profound changes since then and so has the monarchy. Queen Elizabeth II’s empire shrank, then crumbled. While most people in Britain remain loyal to the queen and respect her years of service to the nation, attitudes about the monarchy have swung from unquestioning deference to scrutiny. In the 1980s, Princess Diana brought global star power to the House of Windsor, but also ushered in an era in which the royal family was forced to negotiate an uneasy relationship with the media.
READ MORE: What happens when the queen dies? All about Prince Charles’ succession, accession and coronation
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on the day of their coronation, Buckingham Palace, 1953. (Colorised black and white print). Artist Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)
Gas prices averaged 21 cents per gallon in 1953
According to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, gas prices averaged 21 cents per gallon in the United States.
Today, the price of gas is famously a pain point for many in the U.S. The national average was $3.75 per gallon as of Sept. 8, according to AAA. That’s down from a record high national average of over $5 a gallon in June.
READ MORE: Monarchies around the world: The U.K., a diarchy, and the uniqueness of Vatican City
Officials blame the rise on inflation but note gas prices have fluctuated greatly over the decades. They cite the U.S. embargo of oil from Iran in the early 1980s that caused gas prices to soar. Gas prices continued to rise between 2002 and 2008 but then fell rapidly during the subsequent economic recession. The rose and dipped again during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and rose again during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Home prices are 50 times higher than they were when Queen Elizabeth took the throne
circa 1955: A real estate agent carries a suitcase while walking across the front lawn of a house displaying a 'SALE: Sacrifice to Settle Estate/ APPLY ANY BROKER' sign. (Photo by Lambert/Getty Images)
According to the Chicago Tribune, the household median income in the U.S. in 1950 was $2,990 — roughly 40% of the median home value of $7,354 at the time based on census data.
Today, Zillow reports the typical home value of homes in the U.S. is $355,852 as of July 2022. The median price is $413,500 as of August 2022, according to the National Association of Realtors. It’s the first time the median price has surpassed $400,000.
Cars were under $4,000
Multi-lane highway traffic jam. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)
In 1953, the average price of a new vehicle in the U.S. was just under $4,000, according to Go Banking Rates. The average price paid for a new vehicle was the highest on record in July at $48,182, up 12% from the prior-year period
That’s a far cry from today’s average, which creeped up to a whopping $48,182 in July — up 12% from 2021. Drivers searching for non-luxury vehicles paid, on average, $875 above sticker price for the same month.
TVs were more expensive
A happy family cheerfully sits in their living room and watches a televisied clown and puppet show, 1957. The father holds an newspaper open to the financial section in his hands. (Photo by Lambert/Getty Images)
The year Queen Elizabeth became queen was also the first year a TV show aired in color in the U.S. Three months later, the first color TV went on sale in New York City. The price was $1,295.
Today, consumers pay about $500, on average, for a new television.
Schools were segregated
Linda Brown (center) and her sister Terry Lynn (far right) sit on a bus as they ride to the racially segregated Monroe Elementary School, Topeka, Kansas, March 1953. (Photo by Carl Iwasaki/Getty Images)
When Queen Elizabeth was crowned more than 70 years ago, public schools in the United States were still operating under the "separate but equal" doctrine that allowed segregation in schools. It wasn’t until a year later in 1954 that the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation, but it would take another 14 years for most schools to completely desegregate.
In 2016, the Cleveland, Mississippi school district became the last district in the nation to desegregate after a federal judge ruled that it had to.
College tuition
A campus view of Barnard College, a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters and affiliated with Columbia University in New York City, New York, 1955. (Photo by R. Gates/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
According to the University of Pennsylvania, students there paid between $700 and $850 a year in tuition in 1953, plus a "general fee" of about $75 and $50 for books. If you wanted room and board, that was an additional $835.
As of August 2022, the average cost of in-state tuition was $9,377 a year, according to the Education Data Initiative. That number rose to $27,091 for out-of-state tuition. With fees, books and daily living expenses, the average cost of a year of college in America is $35,551.
Food prices
(Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
In 1953, two tall cans of milk would set you back a quarter. A loaf of rye bread was 29 cents, and a head of iceberg lettuce was 6 cents.
Today, a gallon of whole milk costs, on average, $4.38, according to the USDA, and a loaf of bread averages $1.72. In July, Whole Foods was reportedly selling some loaves of artisanal bread for more than $10 a loaf.
Stamps
Postage stamps from the series honouring Queen Elizabeth II (born 1926), 1967-1970. United Kingdom, 20th century. London, National Postal Museum United Kingdom (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
When Elizabeth became queen, you could mail a letter for 3 cents. Today, a stamp costs 60 cents.
Plane tickets
Complete Caption in Negative Sleeve From Pan American World Airways. New York International Airport, NY.
Much like televisions, air travel has gotten cheaper — and better — over the years. In the 1950s, a one-way flight from Los Angeles to Kansas City was listed at $68, according to Gizmodo. That’s about $710 in 2022 adjusted for inflation.
Today, a quick Google search will find the same flight for as little as $69.
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"I didn't have any plans to get an abortion," said Jessy Salas, who is non-binary.
Salas was 12 years old when they were first raped by a man a decade older than them. It was New Year's Eve, and the man was babysitting Jessy while Jessy's mother went out.
"I said, 'Well, I don't want to have sex with someone that I'm not married to.' And he said, 'Well, I'll marry you.' And I was like, 'Oh, like, a 12-year-old.' I was like, 'Oh, well, okay. I guess so then,'" Salas said.
Just two years later, they got pregnant by the same man.
Growing up in a rural town, abortion was not even a thought. It wasn't until a trusted female figure painted a picture of Salas' future with a child that abortion became the choice.
"I was a child, a child, having compassion on another child, to not subject them to the pain and suffering that I had had my entire existence," Salas said. "I didn't have a choice to be in that situation, but I did have the choice whether or not to save another life from that kind of abuse and poverty and possibly even worse."
If this happened today, they may still be able to obtain an abortion under Utah law, but conservatives in the state are seeking to make it much more complicated.
A handful of laws set to go into effect Wednesday are now being held up in court — chief among them, a law requiring hospitals to become the only places abortions can be provided.
Right now, the Guttmacher Institute says about 1% of abortions are done in hospitals. The law would have effectively shuttered both independent clinics and Planned Parenthood's abortion capabilities.
SEE MORE: North Dakota passes law banning nearly all abortions
In court last week, lawyers for the state argued that the clinics wouldn't have to shut down if they become hospital compliant, a rigorous process.
Planned Parenthood told Scripps News it's not necessary or possible.
"A hospital is an inpatient health care facility. It has beds for extended inpatient stays, it has hospital theaters for open heart surgery," said Hannah Swanson, an attorney for Planned Parenthood. "Abortion requires none of those things."
If enacted, the law also changes what is legally allowed as a reason for an abortion after 18 weeks. A woman can no longer use rape or incest as a reason, nor could she use a fetal anomaly. The baby's diagnosis must be lethal or put them in a mentally vegetative state, meaning it doesn't include Down syndrome, Spina bifida or cerebral palsy.
Republican Utah State Rep. Kera Birkeland supported the bill. She had her own scares when pregnant and now has a healthy 16-year-old daughter. In the event an abortion needs to be performed, she says hospitals are the only place they should occur.
"If it's going to happen, we want to make sure that it's happening in a safe, reliable place," Birkeland said. "We feel like hospitals and those primary care providers there are going to be better at the follow-up care."
But Dr. Christie Porter, an OBGYN, says hospitals are no safer than abortion clinics. In fact, many of the doctors at these clinics have hospital privileges. Porter also says the law will burden an already burdened system.
"It's not emergency care," she said. "They're gonna show up to the emergency room for non-emergency care. Then you're at the mercy of the OBGYN on call. If they don't want to perform it, then you're gonna have an ER bill for a hospital stay that you're gonna have to pay for, and you're not gonna get the service you want."
Despite a majority in Utah favoring rather strict restrictions on abortion, the rest of the population is fairly nuanced.
SEE MORE: Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill mifepristone
A Deseret News Poll shows nearly 1 in five say abortion should be legal in all cases, and 12% say it should be legal in the first trimester. And 14% say it should be legal all the way up to viability. In total, 44% of people in Utah support at least some access to abortion.
"It shouldn't be someone in legislature or in Congress deeming what is appropriate medical care for her," Porter said. "What happens in these four walls should stay in these four walls, between a woman and her physician."
Porter is concerned the quality of doctors in Utah will diminish, as OBGYNs won't want to practice or study in a state where they can't learn all aspects of their specialty.
A separate law authored by Birkeland also goes into effect Wednesday. It requires women to report a rape to law enforcement before going to a physician to obtain an abortion under a rape exception.
"We want women to know that it's crucial that they go to law enforcement," Birkeland explained. "We don't want to tie their hands so much that now they won't go to law enforcement, and they won't go to a doctor and now they're just suffering alone. But we do want them to know that we really, it's important that they go because if we can't put these predators behind bars, we're creating future victims."
She says reporting would open up mental health and medical support for women.
"The goal, particularly with my bill, was not to stop people from getting abortions in cases of rape and incest. We're just putting a guardrail for those babies," she added.
Salas says it wouldn't have been possible to report in their case.
"I didn't even realize I was raped until my 20s. I thought I was in a consensual relationship," Salas said. "So especially here in Utah, that law would be extremely dangerous because one, there is a lack of understanding of what rape is. There's a lack of understanding of consent."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are finally reaping some benefit from keeping their money in the bank.
Banks are paying up for savers’ deposits in a much bigger way than they have in more than a decade, based on recent earnings reports from the nation’s biggest banks.
After a decade of low interest rates, the Federal Reserve has unleashed a rapid series of rate hikes to combat inflation, pushing up its benchmark rate to a range of 4.75% to 5%. That has prompted banks to pay higher interest on traditional savings products like money market funds, certificates of deposit and regular savings accounts.
A 24-month CD, a common savings product for medium-term savers, is now carrying an average yield of 4.81%, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. That’s up from a 1.18% yield only a year ago. Further, non-bank names such as Apple are getting into the deposit game, giving savers even more options.
Banks were initially slow to raise their payouts as the Fed raised rates because they were awash in deposits. But those deposits have shrunk over the past year because inflation forced consumers and businesses to dip into their savings.
To bolster their deposits, banks are raising payouts to retain current customers and entice new ones. Some investors, leery of the current volatility in the stock and bond markets, could find a zero-risk investment like a savings account or CD an attractive option.
The volatility was only heightened after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank last month. A mass exodus of deposits in a short period of time doomed that bank, and led depositors at other midsize institutions to pull some of their money as well, although the withdrawals appear to have abated for now.
In a sign of how competitive it is getting for bank deposits, electronics giant Apple Inc. unveiled a savings account that will pay a 4.15% yield for Apple Card users. The savings account is in collaboration with Apple’s consumer banking partner Goldman Sachs — and actually pays out more than the 3.90% Goldman pays for deposits under its Marcus brand.
Bank of America, the second largest bank in the country, told investors last week that it was paying on average 1.38% to customers for their deposits, up from 0.96% a year earlier. That figure is still low for BofA because the bulk of customers’ funds are in checking accounts, which typically pay the lowest yield.
Another banking giant whose customers mostly have checking accounts — Wells Fargo — says its paying 1.22% for interest-bearing deposits versus paying just 0.04% for those same deposits a year earlier.
The big banks like BofA and Wells are still paying lower rates than most banks on their traditional savings accounts and checking accounts, due to them being mass market products. But the banks are offering six-month and one-year CDs for 3.5% to 4%, according to the latest term sheets.
JPMorgan Chase executives told investors on April 14 that while it saw roughly $50 billion in deposits flow into the bank in March after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, it does not expect all of those deposits to stay with JPMorgan. Some are likely to move into higher yielding money market funds and CDs being offered by other banks.
“It’s a competitive market, and it’s entirely possible that people temporarily come to us and then over time decide to go elsewhere,” said Jeremy Barnum, the banks chief financial officer, in a call with analysts.
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The Adobe Theatre will present Deborah Brevoort’s “The Women of Lockerby” from Sep. 2 to Sep. 25. Actresses Stephanie Jones and Lorri Layle Oliver stopped by to discuss this play.
The play tells a woman’s journey after the loss of her son. “It’s poetic. I think it’s a universal story,” said Oliver. “It is very emotional and psychologically powerful,” added Jones. The play is based on events that occurred following the 1988 Lockerbie Crash and shows how the community went through these events. “There is transformation and healing that occurs in the play through the power of forgiveness and love,” said Jones.
Tickets are currently on sale.
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(KTLA) — Every football fan has been there. You’re cheering on your favorite team when another fan starts attracting more attention than the action on the field.
Maybe they’re too drunk, heckling players or officials, or challenging another fan to a fight (or all three).
Looking to avoid that kind of behavior? NJ.Bet has your back.
The website polled 1,150 NFL fans last month and ranked each fanbase based on rudeness — where does your team rank?
In what probably comes as no surprise to many, the Philadelphia Eagles took home the rudest fanbase. After all, these are the same supporters who pelted Santa Claus with snowballs and threw D cell batteries at their own players, as confirmed by a coach who won a Super Bowl with the team.
But the biggest gripe with the Eagles faithful? Starting too many fights. Same with the second-place Las Vegas Raiders. The Dallas Cowboys apparently “heckle too much.”
The Jacksonville Jaguars, meanwhile, were the nicest.
The Los Angeles teams fared fairly well in this regard, though one member of the Rams organization was called out for being thin-skinned.
Coach Sean McVay came in seventh on the list of coaches most easily offended.
The coach with the thinnest skin? The New England Patriots’ Bill Belichick, the study found, while Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB (and former longtime Patriot) Tom Brady was the most easily offended player.
To add to New England’s woes, the Patriots fans’ propensity for mocking the opposing team and fans landed them the fourth-rudest supporters spot.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, May 24, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
1142 PM CDT Tue May 24 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN WEBB COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 1145 PM CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. However small hail
is still possible with this thunderstorm.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 500 AM CDT for
south central Texas.
TX
. TEXAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
ATASCOSA BANDERA BASTROP
BEXAR BLANCO BURNET
CALDWELL COMAL DIMMIT
EDWARDS FRIO GUADALUPE
HAYS KENDALL KERR
KINNEY LEE MAVERICK
MEDINA REAL TRAVIS
UVALDE VAL VERDE WILLIAMSON
WILSON ZAVALA
ANDERSON BELL BRAZOS
BURLESON FALLS FREESTONE
GRIMES HENDERSON HOUSTON
LEON LIMESTONE MADISON
MILAM ROBERTSON WASHINGTON
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northeastern Smith,
southeastern Franklin, eastern Wood, Upshur, northwestern Morris,
central Titus, Camp and northwestern Gregg Counties through 1215 AM
CDT...
At 1143 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Scroggins to 8 miles south of Hawkins.
Movement was northeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Longview, Mount Pleasant, White Oak, Gladewater, Gilmer, Pittsburg,
Leesburg, Big Sandy, Hawkins, Clarksville City, East Mountain, Cason,
Cookville, Scroggins, Rosewood, Newsome, West Mountain, Liberty City,
Winona and Union Grove.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3306 9524 3336 9480 3251 9481 3236 9525
TIME...MOT...LOC 0443Z 238DEG 28KT 3303 9518 3247 9519
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP announces the following important updates regarding the Toyota RAV4 fuel tank class action that was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Case No. 3:20-cv-00337-EMC):
(1) The individual claims asserted by the thirty-nine named plaintiffs against defendant Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. in the case have now been settled, (2) the Court has approved the parties' request to dismiss absent class members' claims without prejudice, and (3) if any individuals wish to proceed with claims against Toyota regarding the alleged RAV4 fuel tank defect, they should be aware that such claims are subject to a statute of limitations and they should contact another attorney to file suit on their behalf if so desired.
The case alleged that Toyota's RAV4 Hybrid vehicles (model years 2019, 2020, and 2021) and RAV4 Prime vehicles (model year 2021) contained a defect that limited the vehicles' ability to accept a full tank of fuel.
About Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP
Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe represents shareholders, employees, and consumers in class actions against corporate defendants, as well as shareholders in derivative actions against their officers and directors. The firm is based in San Francisco, and with the help of co-counsel, litigates cases nationwide.
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