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Poland marks WWII anniversary with report on damage by Nazis
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is to release a long-awaited report on the losses incurred by years of Nazi German invasion as it marks 83 years since the start of World War II. Poland’s right-wing government argues that the country which was the war’s first victim has not been fully compensated by Germany. It rejects a 1953 renouncement by the communist government saying its was not a sovereign decision. Germany argues compensation was paid to East Bloc nations and calls the matter closed. Poland’s top leaders are to attend a ceremonial release of the losses report Thursday, as the main point in the war’s anniversary observances. Some 6 million of Poland’s citizens were killed in the war and its industry, infrastructure and culture suffered huge losses. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/01/poland-marks-wwii-anniversary-with-report-on-damage-by-nazis/ | 2022-09-01 11:16:08 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/01/poland-marks-wwii-anniversary-with-report-on-damage-by-nazis/ |
Oklahomans Having to Wait Months to Drive Vehicles Due to Paper Title Shortage
Quick, get Dunder Mifflin on the phone. We need paper now!
At what point do we stop doing stories on shortages? One hit me close to home this week: I can't find any sriracha in town. This is apparently due to a drought and it is becoming more and more difficult to find. Well, we can add another shortage to the list... paper.
Specifically, paper titles, and Oklahomans are having to deal with this right now according to a new report from the Oklahoma Tax Commission. Some folks are having to wait eight to 12 weeks for their paper title to show up. A Kansas man recently bought a Harley in Oklahoma and has been waiting over 15 weeks for his, according to KFOR. The Oklahoma Tax Commission dropped this very lengthy statement on the situation below.
Like many other manufactured goods, the title stock supplier has suffered numerous unexpected supply chain delays which has delayed the shipment of title stock by months. Due to the unique security features within an Oklahoma title, it is difficult to source this specific type of secured paper from other manufacturers. Our supplier has advised that our titles will ship within the next few weeks. Once the title stock arrives, the Oklahoma Tax Commission will begin printing all pending titles in the order they were processed.
Oklahoma titles are only needed to transfer ownership. When you register your vehicle with the OTC or with a tag agent, ownership is recorded and established. The Certificate of Registration that is already required to be in the vehicle at all times is immediately provided and serves as evidence of vehicle ownership. A title is not required to renew a tag or request a new specialty plate.
The OTC implemented a priority print process to ensure that titles that are needed to transfer a vehicle are processed quickly. If a title has already been requested and is needed for transferring purposes, owners may visit OkCARS.tax.ok.gov to request an expedited title.
Due to recent legislation, titles processed after 7/1/22 that are subject to a lien will be mailed to the lienholder. Titles that were processed on or before 6/30/22 will be mailed to the owner of the vehicle, regardless of lienholder status.
Hopefully, these things start getting processed. I would hate to not be able to drive a vehicle I now legally own. | https://newstalk1290.com/oklahoma-paper-title-shortage/ | 2022-08-31 17:01:16 | 1 | https://newstalk1290.com/oklahoma-paper-title-shortage/ |
CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police are actively searching for those responsible in a shooting that killed an 11-year-old boy in north Charlotte Thursday night.
The deadly shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. Thursday. June 15, in the 5600 block of Sunwalk Court. Officers had responded to the area for an assault with a deadly weapon.
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Charlotte Fire and Medic arrived at the scene prior to officers and located the child. Police said the young boy was transported to Atrium Main Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
This case remains active and ongoing.
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PHOENIX – Plans to execute an Arizona man on Wednesday remain on track after a judge refused to postpone the lethal injection, rejecting a bid to allow fingerprint and DNA testing on evidence from two 1980s killings that led to the inmate's death sentence.
Lawyers for Murray Hooper said their client is innocent, that no physical evidence ties him to the killings of William “Pat” Redmond and his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps, and that testing could lead to identifying those responsible. They say Hooper was convicted in an era before computerized fingerprint systems and DNA testing were available in criminal cases.
U.S. District Judge Stephen McNamee wrote in Monday's order that the argument by Hooper’s lawyers was flawed in concluding that such testing will automatically establish his innocence.
“Even if forensic testing establishes what Plaintiff (Hooper) hopes it will, that alone will not invalidate the other evidence used to convict him,” McNamee wrote.
McNamee wrote that the absence of Hooper’s fingerprints on evidence wouldn’t undermine witness testimony that he took part in the killings. He especially noted the testimony of Redmond's wife, Marilyn, who authorities said had been shot in the head when Hooper and two other men forced their way into the Redmond home on Dec. 31, 1980. She survived the attack and testified against Hooper.
Hooper’s attorneys, who are appealing the judge's decision, said in a statement that Arizona shouldn’t move forward with the execution plan until the testing is done and his legal team has adequate time to review the evidence.
His lawyers say Marilyn Redmond’s description of the assailants changed several times before she identified their client, who said he was not in Arizona at the time. They also raised questions about the benefits received by witnesses who testified against her client, including favorable treatment in other criminal cases.
“For 40 years, Mr. Hooper has maintained that he was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death based on corrupt police practices and unreliable witness testimony,” the defense team said.
State courts had previously rejected Hooper’s request for the testing, with a lower-court judge concluding that the evidence implicating Hooper was overwhelming.
Two other men, William Bracy and Edward McCall, were convicted in the killings but died before their death sentences could be carried out.
Authorities say Robert Cruz, who was alleged to have had ties to organized crime, hired Hooper, Bracy and McCall to kill Pat Redmond, who co-owned a printing business. They said Cruz wanted to take over the business and was unhappy that Redmond had rejected his offers to enter several printing contracts with Las Vegas hotels, according to court records. In 1995, Cruz was acquitted of murder charges in both deaths.
Hooper would be the state's third prisoner put to death this year after Arizona resumed carrying out executions in May, following a nearly eight-year hiatus attributed to both the difficulty of obtaining lethal injection drugs and criticism that a 2014 execution was botched.
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- Johnson Controls demonstrates continuing support of environmental sustainability with program designed to increase accessibility of higher-efficiency home comfort equipment
- New Inflation Reduction Act provides opportunity for homeowners to save on upfront costs of higher-efficiency HVAC equipment in addition to financing options, tax incentives and state and manufacturer rebates
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls, the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, is making residential energy efficiency more affordable and accessible for homeowners through robust financing options and rebates intended to maximize newly announced savings available through the Inflation Reduction Act. With higher-efficiency HVAC equipment from Johnson Controls, homeowners can reduce their heating and cooling costs by as much as 50% compared to low-efficiency systems.
Signed into law on August 16, the federally funded Inflation Reduction Act consists of a record $370 billion reserved spending for climate and energy initiatives. It offers homeowners an opportunity to save on the cost of replacing or upgrading their HVAC systems with higher-efficiency equipment that can lower their energy consumption and utility bills while working toward the goal of reducing Americans' carbon footprint by 40% by 2030.
With support from a trusted HVAC contractor and Johnson Controls brands such as YORK®, Luxaire®, Coleman®, Champion® and Fraser-Johnston®, homeowners can combine financing options, tax incentives and Johnson Controls rebates to achieve considerable savings and a reduced carbon footprint with a higher-efficiency home comfort system.
"The Inflation Reduction Act provides an unprecedented opportunity for homeowners to significantly reduce carbon emissions while lowering the financial burden of increasing energy costs," said Katie McGinty, vice president and chief sustainability and external relations officer, Johnson Controls. "Energy costs are spiraling, wars are being fought with energy being used as a weapon and severe weather events show the destructive power of climate change. At this difficult time, Johnson Controls is stepping up to support our customers with solutions that cut costs while helping to reduce emissions."
Since 1885, sustainability has been at the heart of the company's business. In 2021, Johnson Controls announced a commitment to reduce absolute Scope 3 emissions by 16% and Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 55% before 2030. The company has also committed to invest approximately 75% of new product R&D in climate-related innovation to develop sustainable products and services, such as transitioning to low-GWP refrigerants and innovations in electric heat pump technology. In addition to helping customers achieve their net zero goals, Johnson Controls is continuing to take significant steps to further its long-standing leadership, including by pledging to achieve net zero carbon by 2040.
To help homeowners take advantage of the clean energy incentives available, Johnson Controls has compiled the latest available resources to help reduce upfront costs and provide savings during tax season.
Programs to Maximize Savings on Energy-Efficient HVAC Systems:
- Energy-Efficient Home Improvement Credit: The 25C tax credits, which expired on December 31, 2021, have been extended through December 31, 2022, at the previous credit levels and requirements. Beginning with products installed on January 1, 2023, and extending through the end of 2032, new energy tax credits will be available for qualifying equipment, including tax credits up to 30% of eligible expenses or up to $600 per appliance and $1,200 per year (up from 10% and $500 lifetime) and up to $2,000 per year for heat pumps.
- High-Efficiency Electric Home Rebate Program: $4.3B will be available for grants to states to provide rebates for qualified home electrification projects. The grants will provide up to 100% of eligible expenses or up to $8,000 in rebates for eligible households to install heat pumps. Funds will be administered through state energy offices and will run through September 30, 2031.
- State and Local Rebate Programs: Rebates offered through state legislation, local municipalities and utility companies can vary. It's best for homeowners to speak to their local HVAC professional about these rebates or use a zip code-based HVAC savings database as a point of reference.
- Manufacturer Rebates and Financing Options: With high-efficiency equipment rebates from Johnson Controls, more than 30 consumer financing options through Synchrony® Financial, factory-backed warranties and new Inflation Reduction Act incentives, there has never been a better time to upgrade to a new home comfort system.
Eligible products include high-efficiency air conditioners, furnaces, and heat pumps. For more information on these high-efficiency systems and savings, contact your local YORK®, Luxaire®, Coleman®, Champion®, Fraser-Johnston®, Guardian® or Evcon™ dealer.
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Ford reveals EV losses as it rolls out new financial reporting
Ford Motor Co. is set to lose $3 billion on its electric vehicle business this year — but it expects losses to reverse in the coming years as volumes of plug-in vehicles grow.
In the meantime, billions of dollars in profits from internal-combustion engine and commercial vehicles are bolstering the Dearborn automaker's financial results, according to new numbers released as part of an overhaul of the way the company reports financials.
Executives on Thursday will host a "teach-in" event for investors and analysts on changes to Ford's financial reporting. Instead of reporting key financial metrics by geographic region, the automaker will begin reporting results for each of its business units.
The changes in how the company reports financial results reflect a broader change: the restructuring of the nearly 120-year-old automaker, initiated by CEO Jim Farley last year, into three business segments focused, respectively, on gas and hybrid vehicles, commercial customers, and EVs and software.
Ford's accounting team went back and recast some financial metrics from 2021 and 2022 to align with the new segments. In 2021, the company's gas and hybrid business posted adjusted operating profits of $3.3 billion. The EV business lost $900 million. And the commercial business had adjusted operating profits of $2.7 billion, the automaker reported Thursday. Those results contributed to adjusted operating profits of $10 billion for the year, including other units such as Ford's financial services arm.
Then in 2022, the legacy business grew to $6.6 billion in adjusted operating profits, while losses in the EV business grew to $2.1 billion. Adjusted operating profits for Ford's commercial vehicle business grew to $3.2. In all, the automaker reported adjusted operating profits of $10.4 billion for the year.
This year, Ford expects EV losses to grow but for the other business segments to remain solidly profitable. The company is projecting $7 billion in operating profits for Ford Blue, the gas and hybrid business, up slightly from 2022. It expects earnings from Ford Pro, its commercial vehicle business, to nearly double to roughly $6 billion.
Chief Financial Officer John Lawler — who has called Ford Model e "a startup within Ford" — chalked up the uptick in EV losses to the large investments Ford is making to scale up its EV business. The automaker, for example, is investing billions of dollars in developing its second- and third-generation EVs, and to build numerous EV battery plants. Executives on Thursday are expected to provide analysts and investor greater detail on how they plan to reverse losses and hit an 8% operating profit margin for the EV business by the end of 2026.
"We've essentially 'refounded' Ford, with business segments that provide new degrees of strategic clarity, insight and accountability to the Ford+ plan for growth and value," Lawler said in a statement. "It's not only about changing how we report financial results; we're transforming how we think, make decisions and run the company, and allocate capital for highest returns."
Ford on Thursday reiterated some of the key financial targets it has set as part of its $50 billion electrification plans. The automaker is still aiming to reach a 10% adjusted operating profit margin for the company as a whole by the end of 2026. It reaffirmed that it expects adjusted operating profits of between $9 billion and $11 billion this year.
The automaker is moving to scale EV production to an annual run rate of 600,000 units by the end of this year and to 2 million units by the end of 2026 as it aims to hit its 2026 target for Ford Model e.
Ford will report first-quarter financial results May 2, and then on May 22 will host a capital markets event.
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25 WEATHER — A bit of a dreary day today with cloudy skies and temperatures in the 70s to low 80s across Central Texas and the Brazos Valley.
A wind advisory will be in affect for portions of Central Texas this afternoon and carry through the overnight hours with gusts up to 40 to 50 mph possible. If you have anything loose in the yard, you may want to tie it up. Also, any high profile vehicles should use caution.
Heading through this evening and into the overnight hours, we will see chances of showers and can't rule out a few storms but the stronger storms will remain north of Central Texas.
This system will clear out by tomorrow morning and we will still hold onto warm temperatures in the 70s to low 80s. A better chance to see more 80s temperatures will be Tuesday and Wednesday.
Next chance of rain shaping up to be Wednesday and Thursday.
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!
Meteorologist Matthew Hidalgo
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A 55-year-old Columbia man was killed in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Elkridge early Sunday morning, Howard County Police said.
A vehicle struck Timothy Joseph Wise while he was riding a motorized bike, police said. Officers were called to Maryland Route 175 between I-95 and Route 108 at about 3:05 a.m. Sunday.
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Wise was ejected into the road and hit by another driver, who was not injured and is cooperating with the investigation, police said. The initial driver fled the scene.
Part of Maryland Route 175 was closed for three hours Sunday.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
04-16-29-34-39, Lucky Ball: 10
(four, sixteen, twenty-nine, thirty-four, thirty-nine; Lucky Ball: ten)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
04-16-29-34-39, Lucky Ball: 10
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Eddie Appollina gave up no runs over five innings while allowing five hits with four walks and three strikeouts in pacing the North Hunterdon High baseball team to a 5-0 victory over Montgomery Thursday in Clinton.
Chris Sand drove in a pair of runs while Tyler Anderson and Wyatt Demeo each had two hits as the Lions (10-2) won for the fifth game in a row. North Hunterdon remained in first place in the Skyland Conference Raritan Division with a 7-1 mark, a half-game ahead of Somerville.
Tyler Conners finished with two hits for the Cougars (7-6, 6-3) whose two-game winning streak ended.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Megan Rapinoe’s final run on the global stage begins Saturday when the United States opens its quest to win an unprecedented third consecutive Women’s World Cup title.
The 38-year-old American said this month she will retire after the tournament — an announcement timed to help the squad avoid distracting questions about Rapinoe’s future.
“I’m just grateful to be able to do it in this way,” Rapinoe said. “I understand that it is incredibly rare for athletes of any stature to be able to go out in their own way, on their own terms, at the time that they want, in a way that feels really peaceful and settled for them.”
Her final World Cup begins Saturday when the U.S. plays Vietnam in Auckland. Although it was Rapinoe’s desire to help her teammates focus on the tournament and not her future, her looming sendoff has still weighed heavily on the squad.
Kelley O’Hara nearly broke down in tears this week when asked what Rapinoe has meant to the team, and the game of soccer.
“I know that the world sees the Megan Rapinoe that the world sees, but we get to see her up close and personal, and the ‘Pino’ that the world sees is an incredible person and human and that is her. She brings a sense of humor and lightness, but intensity and empathy,” O’Hara said. “She’s one of a kind. There’s never been one like her, there’s probably never going to be one close to her.
“It’s sad to think about this being her last, but she’s done such incredible things for this team and for the world,” O’Hara continued. “I hope that we all send her out on a high.”
And midfielder Andi Sullivan said she’s yet to accept that there will be a U.S. team that doesn’t include Rapinoe whenever the Americans end the tournament.
“I don’t really think about the team without her, and even as she announced it, she did it with such grace and humor and joy and light,” Sullivan said. “We’re trying to just soak up as much ‘Pino’ as we can.”
Rapinoe isn’t expected to have a major role for the Americans, and Vietnam should not be a tough challenge in its World Cup debut. Vietnam is one of eight nations making its first appearance at the tournament and has never played the United States.
The U.S., meanwhile, has never lost to an Asian nation in the World Cup.
Vietnam prepared for the tournament with a respectable 2-1 loss to Germany, but then lost to co-host New Zealand 2-0 and was routed by Spain 9-0.
ENGLAND-HAITI
One of the tournament favorites faces a Women’s World Cup newcomer when England plays Haiti in a Group D match in Brisbane, Australia.
England is the reigning European champion and trying to join Germany as the only teams to win the World Cup while holding that continental title. Germany did it in 2003 and 2007. The Lionesses have qualified for five consecutive World Cups and, along with the United States and Germany, is one of only three teams to make it to the quarterfinals in each of the last four tournaments.
England and the U.S. are the only two teams to reach the semifinals in the last two World Cups.
The match in Brisbane marks the first meeting between the two teams, and the Lionesses have never lost a group stage game against a CONCACAF team.
Haiti is another one of eight teams making its World Cup debut and qualified by beating Senegal and Chile in the inter-confederation playoffs. Haiti is led by Daelle Dumornay, who is also known as “Corventina.” She scored both goals in Haiti’s win over Chile.
Haiti is trying to become the first CONCACAF team to win a match in its first World Cup since the U.S. won all six games at the inaugural tournament in 1991. Four CONCACAF teams have tallied a combined three draws and nine losses in their first World Cups. And even though England is favored, the Lionesses have won only one of their last eight games against CONCACAF teams.
But Haiti arrived in Australia in a slump, losing four games over the last month.
ZAMBIA-JAPAN
Zambia makes its Women’s World Cup debut against Japan as a questionable participant in the elite tournament.
The Copper Queens qualified because of Africa’s qualifying format. Because they are ranked 77th in the world, critics have questioned if the team would be here if it had competed for any other continental confederation.
But then Zambia surprised in a three-match tour through Europe, leading in every match while drawing against Switzerland before notching an upset win over Germany.
It’s next challenge is a Group C match against Japan to be played in Hamilton, New Zealand. The group also includes Spain and Costa Rica.
Zambia has a long-term plan and only one player in its squad is over the age of 28. Barbra Banda, the captain and team’s best player, is only 23 years old. She has scored 22 goals in 10 appearances for Zambia.
Zambia is not known for its defense and often seemed tired at the end of its recent matches, giving up eight goals on the European tour. The team also is shrouded in controversy amid reports coach Bruce Mwape has been accused of sexual misconduct. He has denied wrongdoing but FIFA is investigating.
Japan is clinging to its status as a powerhouse after winning the title in 2011 and making the final in 2015. Its squad is largely comprised of players that won the Under-20 Women’s World Cup five years ago. More than half the roster is 24 or younger.
The veteran is 26-year-old Yui Hasegawa, a central midfielder who started each of Manchester City’s 20 Women’s Super League matches last season.
DENMARK-CHINA
China is making its third consecutive appearance at the Women’s World Cup and opens with a Group D match in Perth, Australia, against Denmark, which is back in the tournament for the first time since 2007.
Denmark ended its 16-year absence by winning all eight of its qualifying games behind an impressive 40 goals scored. Denmark will have to continue that level of play to have a shot to advance out of its group — which also includes England and Haiti — for the first time since 1995.
China is making its eighth World Cup appearance after winning the Asian Cup for the ninth time. China, which has reached the knockout round in its previous seven World Cup appearances and lost in the 1999 final, has not won its opening match since 2007.
The Danes will be trying to go deep into the tournament as a send-off for coach Lars Søndergaard, who will end his nearly six-year run with the national team after the World Cup. He’ll rely on captain Pernille Harder, who is making her tournament debut. Harder recently ended her time playing for Chelsea and signed with Bayern Munich.
China is led by striker Wang Shanshan, who was named the country’s player of the year in April and scored five goals in the Asian Cup. She’s also scored in a previous World Cup, with two goals in 2015.
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PARIS (AP) — Actor and singer Jane Birkin, who made France her home and charmed the country with her English grace, natural style and social activism, has died at age 76.
The London-born star and fashion icon was known for her musical and romantic relationship with French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Their songs notably included the steamy “Je t’aime moi non plus” (“I Love You, Me Neither”). Birkin’s ethereal, British-accented singing voice interlaced with his gruff baritone in the 1969 duet that helped make her famous and was forbidden in Italy after being denounced in the Vatican newspaper.
The style Birkin displayed in the 1960s and early 1970s — long hair with bangs, jeans paired with white tops, knit mini dresses and basket bags — still epitomizes the height of French chic for many women around the world.
Birkin was also synonymous with a Hermes bag that bore her name. Created by the Paris fashion house in 1984 in her honor, the Birkin bag became one of the world’s most exclusive luxury items, with a stratospheric price tag and years-long waiting list to buy it.
In her adopted France, Birkin was also celebrated for her political activism and campaigning for Amnesty International, Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement, the fight against AIDS and other causes.
“You can always do something,” Birkin said in 2001, drumming up support for an Amnesty campaign against torture. “You can say, ‘I am not OK with that.’”
She joined five monks on a march through the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 to demand that Myanmar let foreign aid workers into the country to help cyclone victims.
In 2022, she joined other screen and music stars in France in chopping off locks of their hair in support of protesters in Iran. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Birkin’s daughter with Gainsbourg and also an actor in her own right, cut off a snippet of her mother’s hair for the “HairForFreedom” campaign as Iran was engulfed by anti-government protests.
French President Emmanuel Macron hailed Birkin as a “complete artist,” noting that her soft voice went hand-in-hand with her “ardent” activism.
“Jane Birkin was a French icon because she was the incarnation of freedom, sang the most beautiful words of our language,” he tweeted.
French media reported that Birkin was found dead at her Paris home. The French Culture Ministry tweeted that Birkin died Sunday. It hailed her as a “timeless Francophone icon.”
Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak called Birkin “the most French British person” and “the emblem for a whole epoch who never went out of fashion.”
Outside Birkin’s home on Paris’ Left Bank, fans mourned her death.
“She was a poet, a singer, an artist,” said Marie-Jo Bonnet. “She gave the best of herself and that’s marvelous.”
Birkin’s early movie credits included “Blow-Up” in 1966, credited with helping introduce French audiences to her “Swinging Sixties” style and beauty.
Birkin and Gainsbourg met two years later. She remained his muse even after the couple separated in 1980.
She also had a daughter, Kate, with James Bond composer John Barry. Kate Barry died in 2013 at age 46. Birkin had her third daughter, singer and model Lou Doillon, with French director Jacques Doillon.
Birkin suffered from health issues in recent years that kept her from performing and her public appearances became sparse.
French broadcaster BFMTV said Birkin suffered a mild stroke in 2021, forcing her to cancel shows that year. She canceled her shows again in March due to a broken shoulder blade.
A return to performing was put off in May, with the singer saying she needed a bit more time and promising her fans she would see them again come the fall.
Despite her decades-long screen and music career, Birkin suspected that, for some people, the bag named after her might be her most famous legacy.
The fashion accessory was born of a fortuitous encounter on a London-bound flight in the 1980s with the then-head of Hermes, Jean-Louis Dumas. Birkin recounted in subsequent interviews that they got talking after she spilled some of her things on the cabin floor. She asked Dumas why Hermes didn’t make a bigger handbag and sketched out on an airplane vomit sack the sort of bag that she’d like.
Dumas then had an example made for her and, flattered, she said yes when Hermes asked whether it could commercialize the bag in her name.
In a CBS Sunday Morning interview in 2018, Birkin joked that it might be what she’s best known for.
“I thought, ‘Oh gosh, on my obituary, it will say, ‘Like the bag’ or something,’” she said. “Well, it could be worse.”
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Russian analyst who played a major role in the creation of a flawed dossier about former President Donald Trump fabricated one of his own sources and concealed the identity of another when interviewed by the FBI, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The FBI interviewed Danchenko on multiple occasions in 2017 as it tried to corroborate allegations in what became known as the “Steele dossier.”
That dossier by British spy Christopher Steele — commissioned by Democrats during the 2016 presidential campaign — included allegations of contact between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials, as well as allegations that the Russians may have held compromising information over Trump in the form of videos showing him engaged in salacious sexual activity in a Moscow hotel.
Specifically, prosecutors say, Danchenko lied when he said he obtained some information in an anonymous phone call from a man he believed to be Sergei Millian, a former head of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce.
Prosecutor Michael Keilty told jurors in U.S. District Court in Alexandria that Danchenko never spoke with Millian and that phone records show he never received an anonymous phone call at the time Danchenko claimed it occurred.
Prosecutors also say Danchenko lied when he said he never “talked” with a man named Charles Dolan about the allegations contained in the dossier. But prosecutors say there is evidence that Danchenko “spoke with Mr. Dolan over email” about very specific items that showed up in the dossier.
The FBI needed to know that Dolan was an important source for Danchenko, Keilty said, because Dolan is a Democratic operative who has worked on the presidential campaign of every Democratic candidate since Jimmy Carter, and thus would have had motivation to fabricate or embellish allegations against Trump.
“Those lies mattered,” Keilty said.
But Danchenko’s attorney, Danny Onorato, told jurors that his client was completely truthful with the FBI.
He pointed out that Danchenko never said he was certain that Millian was the source of the anonymous call but that he had good reason to believe it. The government’s case requires jurors to become “mind readers” to assess Danchenko’s subjective belief about the source of the phone call, Onorato said.
And while phone records may not show a call, Onorato said, the government has no idea whether a call could have been placed with a mobile app rather than a traditional telephone provider. Indeed, Onorato said, it makes more sense that such a call would have occurred using an Internet app because so many of them conceal the source of the call, and the caller wanted to be anonymous.
As for the allegations about his discussions with Dolan, Onorato said, Danchenko answered the question truthfully because the two did not “talk” — but rather had a written exchange. If the FBI wanted to know about email exchanges, it should have asked a different question, Onorato said.
“The law doesn’t let you rewrite the dictionary,” Onorato said.
Keilty, in his opening, acknowledged to jurors that evidence would show the FBI made errors in conducting its investigations, but he said that shouldn’t exonerate Danchenko.
“A bank robber doesn’t get a pass just because the security guard was asleep,” Keilty said.
The first prosecution witness was FBI analyst Brian Auten, who testified that information from the Steele dossier was used to support a surveillance warrant against a Trump campaign official, Carter Page.
Under questioning from Durham, Auten testified that the dossier was used to bolster the surveillance application even though the FBI couldn’t corroborate its allegations.
Auten said the FBI checked with other government agencies to see if they had corroboration but nothing came back. Auten and other FBI agents even met with Steele in the United Kingdom in 2016 and offered him as much as $1 million if he could supply corroboration for the allegations in the dossier, but none was provided.
Danchenko is the third person to be prosecuted by special counsel John Durham, who was appointed to investigate the origins of “Crossfire Hurricane” — the designation given to the FBI’s 2016 probe into former president Trump’s Russia connections. It is also the first of Durham’s cases that delves deeply into the origins of the dossier, which Trump derided as fake news and a political witch hunt. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trial-begins-for-analyst-who-was-source-for-trump-dossier/2022/10/11/93584be4-4997-11ed-8153-96ee97b218d2_story.html | 2022-10-11 22:26:50 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trial-begins-for-analyst-who-was-source-for-trump-dossier/2022/10/11/93584be4-4997-11ed-8153-96ee97b218d2_story.html |
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "My friend is a truck driver and always complained of the unsanitary conditions of rest stop bathrooms. I thought there should be a way to provide a sanitary surface for personal care items," said an inventor, from Houston, Texas, "so I invented the POLLY MAT. My design eliminates the need to place items directly on the sink counter."
The patent-pending invention provides a sanitary barrier when using the sink counter/surface in a public bathroom. In doing so, it can be used in public restrooms, rest stops, hotels, etc. As a result, it ensures that toiletries remain clean and sanitary and it helps to reduce the spread of germs and viruses. The invention features a compact and portable design that is easy to transport and use so it is ideal for travelers and others who frequently use public restrooms. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Houston sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-HOF-210, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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I read with disbelief that former Vice President Mike Pence suggested on Fox News that prosecuting former President Donald Trump would be “terribly divisive for the country.”
Pence, who was a prime target of the seditionists who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, thinks laying direct blame for the attack at Trump’s feet would be divisive?
The Republican Party clearly has a huge Donald problem. They could have dealt with this problem by convicting him in the Senate — either or both times when he was impeached in the House — but they did not.
So, they left it to the House Select Committee on Jan. 6, comprised of both Democrats and Republicans, to lay out in clear details how Trump was derelict in his duty as commander in chief. This is something most Republicans seem unable to accept.
Trump cannot be allowed to ever again be near the levers of power in our federal government. If Pence thinks prosecuting Trump would be divisive, imagine what would happen if he wins the GOP nomination in 2024.
James V. Gruber, Washington, Warren County
Persecuted transgender kids need more sanctuaries
We have refugees in our own country. I am not talking about people fleeing war-torn countries on another continent. I am talking about Americans. The Vice News video called “Families of Trans Kids Are Seeking Sanctuary” is heartbreaking.
The video, available on YouTube, shows how certain families with transgender children make the awful decision to leave relatives, friends and their homes behind. The parents move to other states to get the gender-affirming health care their child needs, which their home states have banned or criminalized for minors. These include Texas, Arizona and Florida.
In the video, a parent of a trans youth from Arizona says: “This idea of states rights vs. federal protections… like we should be wary of what that actually means because that has been used to marginalized people since the beginning of this country. ... We saw it with the indigenous people, we saw it with enslaved people, with migrant youth at the border. It is terrifying.”
Another mom of a trans teen in Texas says: “Because my grandparents were Holocaust survivors because my grandfather fought in the resistance, my grandmother survived Auschwitz, that language of calling on everyday citizens and mandated reporters to report families with trans youth to the authorities felt eerily reminiscent of that directive from the Nazis to report Jewish families to the authorities. This is white Christian nationalism. This is fascism.”
Only three states fully protect families of trans kids from extradition, Connecticut, California and Massachusetts. Join me in demanding that New Jersey legislators protect families of trans children from persecution, and be on the list of states that care about trans lives.
Maria Eva Dorigo, Montclair
Outstanding teachers may not test well
On Dec. 16, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill into law that will no longer require potential student educators to pass the Education Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA), a controversial, expensive test, in order to teach permanently in the state. This test became a requirement in 2014 and was considered burdensome by Murphy and by the New Jersey Education Association.
As a retired teacher, I believe that no test can adequately determine who will be our outstanding educators. Outstanding educators teach from the heart as well as the mind.
Please keep in mind the following quote: “The mediocre teacher tells; the good teacher explains; the excellent teacher demonstrates; the outstanding teacher inspires.”
Joseph Wardy, Rockaway
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Images of a mysterious and vibrant supermoon were taken as it floated over multiple countries on Monday, before nightfall in the United States.
The bright celestial object — our own moon — lit up not only the night sky, but some notable landmarks and cities.
In the night sky above Istanbul, Turkey, the large and bright moon illuminated parts of the city's Camlica Mosque.
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The moon rose high above the homes and structures of Istanbul. Another view of the city's Camlica Mosque, which opened to worshipers in 2019, is seen here as the moon highlights the portions that are not already lit up.
The city of Milan, Italy (top) could see some of the various shades of color in the moon as it shone bright and large above.
In the photo above, a partly cloudy night over the Indian-controlled Kashmir region on the Asian continent shows the mysterious supermoon as it lights up the sky there.
The large, bright full moon silhouetted the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The tower, which opened in January 2010, holds the record for world's tallest building, according to multiple stated criteria.
A supermoon is seen when our moon is in a full cycle, while also orbiting our planet Earth at its closest point.
They are not considered unusual, as they do occur as a regular part of our moon's orbit. But, they provide a special aesthetic on nights when visible.
The moon orbits Earth with a slight "eccentricity," as Professor Sara Russell of the UK's Natural History Museum explains.
The moon orbits around Earth from between about 223,693 miles to 248,548 miles away.
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(WJET/WFXP/YourErie.com) — Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro was in Meadville on May 12 as he looked to gain potential voters.
Shapiro, the current Attorney General, shared his plans to cut taxes and create more opportunities for Pennsylvania workers.
He said communities like Meadville matter, and have been ignored for too long. Shapiro said he wants voters to know that he has taken on big fights and has delivered big results.
“Being able to come here and listen to people, hear what is on their mind and understand their frustrations and worries is going to help me be a better governor for them,” said Josh Shapiro, Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate.
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Detroit police search for gunman in fatal ‘random’ shootings
DETROIT (AP) — Four people were shot, three fatally, by a person who appeared to be firing at people randomly over a roughly 2 1/2-hour period Sunday morning in Detroit, police said.
Police were searching for a suspect Sunday afternoon with help from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Detroit Police Chief James White warned residents to be alert and to call 911 if they know the identity or whereabouts of the suspect.
“What we want to do today is get him off the street,” White said.
White said police traced all four shootings to one firearm and believe there is one shooter. He said investigators don’t believe there was any connection between the victims, noting one person was walking a dog and another waiting for a bus when they were shot.
He said police discovered a woman in her 40s who had been shot multiple times around 4:45 a.m. on Sunday. While officers were investigating that fatal shooting, a witness reported a 28-year-old man had been shot multiple times nearby, White said.
A third victim, a woman in her 40s, was found in the area around 6:50 a.m. She died after being shot multiple times, police said.
Around 7:10 a.m., an elderly man reported he saw a man peering into vehicles. When the elderly man told the person to get away from the cars, the gunman fired at the elderly man, who was shot once and survived, police said.
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Denver school board votes to allow officers in schools after shooting
The suspected gunman was found dead in a Denver suburb following the shooting and a manhunt
Denver education officials on Thursday voted to suspend a policy that previously barred officers in its public schools following a shooting by a student that injured two faculty members.
The Denver Public Schools board voted to halt the policy through June 30. The move came a day after Austin Lyle, a 17-year-old student at East Side High School, opened fire while being patted down during a search.
"The Board of Education supports the decision of Superintendent (Alex) Marrero to work in partnership with local law enforcement to create safer learning spaces across Denver Public Schools for the remainder of this school year," a board statement said. "In addition, we will continue to work collaboratively with our community partners including law enforcement and our local & state legislature to make our community safer."
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In a news conference following the meeting, Marrero said the district "failed Austin." Board President Xóchitl Gaytán said there has been a "societal failure" in the city and nationwide amid the gun violence happening in schools.
After Wednesday's shooting, DPS Superintendent Marrero pledged to reintroduce School Resource Officers (SROs) as calls quickly grew to increase security and student safety. SROs were removed from Denver's public school campuses in June 2020 amid calls to scale back the presence of police officers in schools and other areas following the death of George Floyd.
That resolution called for terminating the school system's contract with the Denver Police Department and completely removing school resource officers by the end of the 2020-2021 school year.
Hours after the shooting, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock stated his support for bringing back armed officers to the city's public schools.
"Following the shootings at East High School today, @DPSNewsNow Superintendent Alex Marrero and I jointly agree that the safety of students and the public require deployment of police officers assigned to the high school for the remainder of the school year," he tweeted.
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Lyle was searched daily as part of a "safety plan" he previously agreed to in order to attend school. He fled the scene after the shooting and was found dead in a wooded area outside the city.
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Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, and St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale ranked as Best Hospitals in Washington state
TACOMA, Wash. and SEATTLE, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Three Virginia Mason Franciscan Health hospitals – Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle (#2), St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma (#5), and St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale (#12) – were recognized again among the Best Hospitals in Washington state according to U.S. News & World Report.
"I am very proud of our Virginia Mason Franciscan Health team members on this tremendous accomplishment," said Ketul J. Patel, CEO of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. "This recognition is a testament to our unwavering commitment to deliver world-class care to our patients and communities."
Each year, U.S. News & World Report publishes a list of top-performing hospitals within the nation, state, and region. For the 2022-2023 rankings and ratings, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals across 15 specialties and 20 procedures and conditions. This year, 103 hospitals in Washington state were evaluated and only 14 hospitals were recognized -- three of which were Virginia Mason Franciscan Health facilities.
"The hospitals named among the best have extensive medical expertise and a history of delivering good outcomes," said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News. "When patients and their medical professionals are considering their options for care, the rankings are designed to help them identify hospitals that are superior in the kind of care they may need."
The following is a list of the three hospitals and their respective awards:
- Ranked number 2 in Washington
- High performing in 6 specialties in 16 procedures and conditions
- Ranked number 5 in Washington, up from 8th in 2021
- High performing in 11 procedures and conditions
- Ranked number 12 in Washington, up from 13th in 2021
- High performing in 7 procedures and conditions
U.S. News evaluated each hospital's performance using a variety of measures such as survival rates, complication rates, patient experience and level of nursing care. The Best Hospitals methodology factors in data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, American Hospital Association, professional organizations and medical specialists.
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health is a world-class health system serving the Pacific Northwest, offering access to some of the country's most prestigious experts and hospitals that are internationally recognized for superior quality. Our expansive system builds upon the strength of more than 300 sites of care, including 11 top-tier hospitals, 18,000 team members, and 5,400 employed physicians, advance practice providers (APPs) and community providers to improve the health of our communities. Together we deliver easily accessible, instantly responsive and digitally connected patient-centric care.
By bringing together the brightest health care minds through Benaroya Research Institute, a global leader in autoimmune disease and immune system research, we deliver the most advanced therapies and technologies for our patients. We are also proud to be the home of Bailey-Boushay House, the first skilled-nursing and outpatient chronic care management program in the United States designed specifically to meet the needs of people with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to addressing health care disparities by caring for the most vulnerable in our communities, including the poor and underserved, providing more than $300 million in community benefit – free, subsidized, and reduced cost health care and programs. Learn more at www.vmfh.org.
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Honda recalls CR-Vs in cold states to fix frame rust problem
DETROIT (AP) — Honda is recalling nearly 564,000 older small SUVs because road salt can cause the frame to rust and rear suspension parts to come loose.
The recall covers certain CR-Vs from 2007 through 2011 that were sold or registered in states where salt is used to clear roads in the winter.
U.S. safety regulators say in documents posted Thursday that salt can accumulate and cause corrosion, and the rear trailing arm can detach. That can cause drivers to lose control, increasing the risk of a crash. Rear trailing arms connect the rear axle to the chassis.
The recalled CR-Vs were either sold or registered in Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C.
Dealers will inspect the SUVs and install a support brace or repair the rear frame if needed. If the frame is badly damaged, Honda may offer to buy the vehicle. Owners will be notified by letter starting May 8.
The CR-Vs already have been recalled in Canada. Honda says in documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it has 61 customer complaints in the U.S. but no deaths or injuries.
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The 20+ year Hard Rock veteran will oversee strategic direction for Hard Rock Cafes worldwide
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hard Rock International has appointed Anibal Fernandez as Senior Vice President of the Cafe Division. In his new role, Fernandez's primary responsibilities will include providing strategic direction and leading the Cafe Team, spanning both company-owned and franchised cafe locations. He will report directly to Jim Allen, Chairman and CEO of Hard Rock International and CEO of Seminole Gaming.
"Anibal is an essential part of our Hard Rock team with a proven track record for helping Hard Rock Cafes around the world exceed guest expectations," said Jim Allen, Chairman and CEO of Hard Rock International and CEO of Seminole Gaming. "With over 20 years' experience at Hard Rock alone, we have the utmost confidence Anibal will continue to support team members and enhance the Cafe Division in new and exciting ways."
Fernandez joined Hard Rock International in 1998 as an Operations Manager, following a long food & beverage tenure, and was quickly promoted to General Manager within the Corporate Division. After a brief departure, Fernandez returned to the organization in 2003, serving as Cafe General Manager. He later oversaw growth of the franchised cafes in the Middle East/South Asia and Europe/Africa in both Director of Operations and Area Vice President roles. In his most recent role, Fernandez was the Vice President of Franchise Operations and Business Development.
"It's with great joy and admiration for my team that I take this next step in my journey with Hard Rock as Cafe Division lead," said Anibal Fernandez, Senior Vice President of Cafe Division for Hard Rock International. "I've had the privilege of working and growing within the Hard Rock organization and I'm excited to spearhead a continued era of excellence for Hard Rock Cafes around the globe."
Fernandez brings with him a plethora of expertise, having served as Director of F&B Operations for the Movie World Project in Spain as part of Warner Bros. theme parks, in addition to his Hard Rock experience.
Additional information on Hard Rock International can be found by visiting www.hardrock.com.
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Hard Rock International (HRI) is one of the most globally recognized companies with venues in over 70 countries spanning 265 locations that include owned/licensed or managed Rock Shops®, Live Performance Venues and Cafes. HRI also launched a joint venture named Hard Rock Digital in 2020, an online sportsbook, retail sportsbook and internet gaming platform. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world's largest and most valuable collection of authentic music memorabilia at more than 86,000 pieces, which are displayed at its locations around the globe. In 2022, Hard Rock Hotels was honored as the number one brand in Outstanding Guest Satisfaction for the second year in a row among Upper Upscale Hotels in J.D. Power's North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study. This designation is the fourth consecutive year the iconic brand has been among top brands in this category. HRI is the first privately-owned gaming company designated U.S. Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal for the second year. Hard Rock was also honored by Forbes among the World's Best Employers, as well as Best Employers for Women, Diversity and New Grads and a Top Large Employer in the Travel & Leisure, Gaming, and Entertainment Industry. In the 2022 Global Gaming Awards, Hard Rock was named Land-Based Operator of the Year for the second time in four years. In 2021, Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos received first place ranking in the Casino Gaming Executive Satisfaction Survey conducted by Bristol Associates Inc. and Spectrum Gaming Group for six of the last seven years. Hard Rock International currently holds investment grades from primary investment rating agencies: S&P Global Ratings (BBB) and Fitch Ratings (BBB). For more information on Hard Rock International, visit www.hardrock.com or shop.hardrock.com.
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Here & Now‘s Scott Tong talks about the year’s best podcasts with critic Nick Quah who writes for Vulture.
The best podcasts of 2022
Hosted by Zayd Dohrn, this podcast takes listeners back to the 1970s when the host’s parents, along with their friends in the Weather Underground Organization declared war on the United States. They were counter-culture radicals on the run from the FBI, and this show explored their history.
This podcast takes listeners to the two streets that comprise Provincetown, Massachusetts. Episodes follow host Mitra Kaboli navigating her first summer in P-Town and detailing the people she meets who call the tiny beach town home. There are stories of solitude, serendipity, artistry and history.
Craving some drama that doesn’t involve you in the slightest? “Normal Gossip” delivers. Each episode is packed with juicy, hot dirt from other listeners (with their names changed of course). Indulge your inner gossip with host Kelsey McKinney and a different guest for each installment.
This show puts out only one 3-minute episode per week, where the host — only identified as Kim — dives into frog facts and makes zany observations. Each episode highlights one frog. Make sure to tune in to the next episode to find out what the listener-voted frog of the year is.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — A former Indiana state trooper cleared of killing his wife and their two children at a third trial after spending 13 years in prison will receive $4.6 million from the state of Indiana to settle a federal lawsuit.
The settlement to David Camm was reached in January, entered into court in February and confirmed Wednesday by Camm’s attorneys.
Camm was convicted by two juries of the shooting deaths of his wife, Kim, and their children, 7-year-old Brad and 5-year-old Jill, on Sept. 28, 2000, in the garage at their Georgetown, Indiana, home.
Both times he won appeals that sent his case back for retrial. He was exonerated at his third trial in 2013.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — When Mexican police found a pile of about 150 skulls in a cave near the Guatemalan border, they thought they were looking at a crime scene, and took the bones to the state capital.
It turns out it was a very cold case.
It took a decade of tests and analysis to determine the skulls were from sacrificial victims killed between A.D. 900 and 1200, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday.
“Believing they were looking at a crime scene, investigators collected the bones and started examining them in Tuxtla Gutierrez,” the state capital, the institute, known as INAH, said in a statement.
The police in 2012 weren’t being stupid; the border area around the town of Frontera Comalapa in southern Chiapas state has long been plagued by violence and immigrant trafficking. And pre-Hispanic skull piles in Mexico usually show a hole bashed through each side of every skull, and were usually found in ceremonial plazas, not caves.
But experts said Wednesday the victims in the cave had probably been ritually decapitated and the skulls put on display on a kind of trophy rack known as a “tzompantli.” Spanish conquistadores wrote about seeing such racks in the 1520s, and some Spaniards’ heads even wound up on them.
While usually strung on wooden poles using holes bashed through them — the common practice among the Aztecs and other cultures — experts say the cave skulls may have rested atop poles, rather than being strung on them.
Interestingly, there were more females than males among the victims, and none of them had any teeth.
In light of the cave experience, archaeologist Javier Montes de Paz said people should probably call archaeologists, not police.
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Which webcam is best?
Most laptops have a built-in webcam, so it’s easier to jump onto a Skype or Microsoft Teams meeting. But often, these webcams aren’t the best quality, making you fuzzy or out of focus. For that reason, it’s important to have a dedicated webcam. Of course, you’ll also need a webcam if you have a desktop computer since the monitor doesn’t have one built in.
Logitech webcam
The Swiss-American technology giant Logitech has been producing consumer electronics since the early ’80s and is well-known among gamers and gadget enthusiasts. One of Logitech’s first webcams was the QuickCam, which the company acquired from Connectix in 1998. The QuickCam VC was the first device of its kind to use a USB connection, and while it only had a 320-pixel resolution, it cost $129.
Logitech webcam pros
Being a pioneer in webcam development, Logitech has had four decades to perfect the technology. While some aspects still need a bit of work, the webcams are generally of excellent quality, in build and visuals. Most can capture videos at 60 frames per second, and more than a few have a resolution higher than the standard 1080p.
The company split its webcam focus into two categories: streaming and video conferencing. This gives you a better idea of what to look for, ensuring you buy the correct one for your purposes.
Logitech webcam cons
There aren’t many things you can fault Logitech webcams for, but there are a few recurring issues. Users complain that the privacy covers are often flimsy or that the webcams struggle with auto-focus — which isn’t an issue unique to Logitech.
Another concern isn’t specifically leveled at Logitech but at major electronic makers in general — the cost. Often, products from tech giants come at a premium cost but have about the same technology as more affordable models from lesser-known companies.
Best Logitech webcams
This webcam has one of the highest resolutions available, capturing content in 4K at up to 90 frames per second. It has three depth-of-field settings to ensure you’re always in the center of the frame, and RightLight 3 technology automatically adjusts the brightness. It comes with two omnidirectional microphones and an attachable privacy screen.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Perfect for everyday office use, the C920S has a maximum capture resolution of 1080p at 30 frames per second and has a privacy shield that folds down over the lens. It has two microphones and built-in technology to adjust light brightness and autofocus.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Logitech for Creators StreamCam Premium Webcam
This webcam is perfect for online content creators who don’t want to use an expensive camera system. It records at 1080p at 60 frames per second and has a premium glass lens and a smart autofocus system. The auto-framing technology ensures that you are always in the shot, and the camera is optimized for popular streaming software such as OBS and Xsplit. It connects through a USB-C cable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
NexiGo webcam
NexiGo is a much newer company, founded in 2019 in Beaverton, Oregon. Out of its wide product selection, the N60 webcam is one of its bestselling gadgets. In fact, webcams are one of NexiGo’s product focuses, aiming to deliver better quality at more affordable prices than its competitors. Since the launch of the N60 in 2020, it has close to 20 webcams in the lineup.
NexiGo webcam pros
It’s always great when a company makes a selection of products, but far too often, it only involves minor changes. However, NexiGo has webcams in five distinct groups: budget, ring lights, 60 frames per second, zoomable and 4K.
The budget webcams range from $39-$99 and have all the features you’d expect from more expensive ones. A few cameras are priced over $100, but the included technology makes it worthwhile.
NexiGo webcam cons
No product or service is perfect, and there are a few aspects that NexiGo users don’t enjoy. Especially for the more affordable webcams, some said the cameras often struggle to focus or don’t focus correctly.
Another recurring issue some reviewers had was that the color reproduction of the more affordable webcams wasn’t accurate. NexiGo has subtly addressed the problem by giving tips on adjusting color settings for Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Skype meetings.
Best NexiGo webcams
One of the company’s best-selling webcams, it has a streaming resolution of 1080p (full HD) at 30 frames per second. It has a fixed focus distance of 19 inches to 3 feet and a built-in privacy cover to close the lens, with a 110-degree field of view. The noise-canceling microphone reduces ambient sounds, and the mounting clip is compatible with most monitors and laptop displays.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
This webcam has a 2-megapixel CMOS sensor to give you crisp 1080p streaming footage at 30 frames per second, and a built-in autofocus feature can detect objects as close as 2.7 inches. There is also a setting to turn the autofocus off and change it manually. It has a built-in noise-canceling microphone and a privacy shield that easily slides over the camera lens.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
NexiGo N960E Webcam with Ring Light
This has a built-in ring light around the camera lens, perfect in low lighting or when you want to look your best — it ensures you are always well-lit and in focus. It has three modes and three brightness settings. The lens has a privacy shield and captures at 1080p resolution at 60 frames per second. There’s a built-in noise-canceling microphone.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Should you get a Logitech webcam or a NexiGo webcam?
It’s challenging to determine which company makes the better webcams, as the scales of the features don’t overtly tip in one or the other’s favor. But if you factor in external aspects such as software support and aftermarket accessories, Logitech inches ahead. Sure, some Logitech gadgets might cost you extra, but they come with more than just a plastic shell and a glass lens.
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New letter-sized units the first of a complete refresh of Sharp's A4 line of printers
MONTVALE, N.J., June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA) is announcing the launch of three new A4 letter-sized multifunction product (MFP) and printer solutions that provide professional quality output in a small footprint.
This first group of A4 solutions includes the new MX-C428F and MX-C528F color MFPs, which enable workers to collaborate and share information seamlessly and securely throughout the office environment. The MX-C528P color printer provides customers with an intuitive user experience and the confidence of knowing their jobs will come out right the first time, every time.
The MX-C428F and MX-C528F color MFPs as well as the MX-C528P color printer include screen class sizes of 7" diagonal, 10" diagonal and 4.3" diagonal, respectively. All three models offer easy-to-use Sharp touchscreen displays, built using vibrant capacitive technology which allows for customized screen layouts. The MX-C428F offers printing speeds of up to 42 pages per minute and the MX-C528F offers printing speeds of up to 52 pages per minute. Both the MX-C428F and MX-C528F offer standard dual single pass scanning for efficient scanning of two-sided documents. The MX-C528P color printer yields up to 52 pages per minute.
This is the first of many upcoming A4 solutions that will be launched during the next 12 months to enhance Sharp's entire line of A4 MFPs and printers.
"We have seen a lot of changes in the print industry over the past few years, one of which has been the growing demand for A4 devices in environments that have traditionally used ledger-sized print devices," said Shane Coffey, Vice President, Product Management, Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America. "We have kept up with this demand by regularly strengthening our A4 lineup, and by continuing to refresh our existing lineup in the coming year."
These devices are a great fit for small to medium sized businesses and key verticals including medical, legal and education. The MX-C428F color MFP is available to order and ship immediately. The MX-C528F color MFP and MX-C528P color printer will be available for shipment within the next few months.
About Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America
Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA) is a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Sharp Corporation, which has been named to Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired Company List, ranking the world's most respected and reputable companies. SIICA markets Sharp's Simply Smarter business products and solutions, such as Synappx applications, professional displays, laptops, desktop monitors and a full suite of secure copier and printer solutions that can help companies manage workflow efficiently and increase productivity so they can work smarter. SIICA markets its products through a vast network of independent dealerships and its direct sales division Sharp Business Systems (SBS). By accelerating collaboration, improving efficiencies, digitizing workflows and increasing information security, Sharp strives to help businesses achieve Simply Smarter work through technology that is smart and easy to use.
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Established in 1924, National Coin Week emphasizes
that "money is history you can hold in your hands"
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Every coin, every piece of paper money in your pocket, wallet, or purse has a story to tell about history, and the stories will be celebrated by collectors nationwide during the 100th annual National Coin Week (NationalCoinWeek.org), April 16-22, 2023.
"Designs on U.S. coins and paper money commemorate notable people, events, accomplishments, and shared principles. This year's theme, 'Our Money, Our Heritage, Our America,' focuses on how our money tells the story of our country and helps form our national identity," explained Kim Kiick, executive director of the American Numismatic Association (money.org). Based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the nonprofit association has sponsored National Coin Week each year since 1924.
"Money is history you can hold in your hands. Each coin and banknote ever produced has a story to tell, from the first ancient coins struck 2,600 years ago to coins and currency made today around the world," said Dr. Ralph Ross, association president. "There's no coin shortage or cashless society during National Coin Week."
Over the centuries, the designs, denominations and metallic content of coins can reveal a great deal about civilizations, past and present, such as famous and not-so-famous political and historical figures, important events, and landmarks.
Learn how to find collectible coins in spare change by downloading a free copy of the American Numismatic Association's Treasures in Your Pocket at info.money.org/treasures-in-your-pocket.
Observed every third week of April, National Coin Week was established 100 years ago to attract the general public to the enjoyable hobby of coin collecting. For additional information, visit NationalCoinWeek.org.
Founded in 1891, the nonprofit American Numismatic Association is the largest community of coin collectors in the world. Membership, available for as little as $30 annually, is being offered at a discount during National Coin Week, and entitles collectors to its vast array of educational and outreach programs as well as its museum, library, publications, and conventions. For more information, call 719-632-2646 or visit money.org.
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OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys and four-time Pro Bowl linebacker Anthony Barr agreed to a one-year deal. The 32-year-old Barr was a first-round pick by Minnesota in 2014 and has played his entire eight-year career with the Vikings. He was a Pro Bowler every year from 2015-18 and had a career-high three interceptions along with 2 1/2 sacks and 72 tackles last season. Barr will join a linebacker group led by AP Defensive Rookie of the Year Micah Parsons and 2018 Pro Bowler Leighton Vander Esch. Dallas opened a roster spot by waiving rookie linebacker Aaron Hansford.
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With a commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, Taiwan has mandated that all new passenger vehicles be electric by 2040 and is working to incentivize the public's adoption of electric two-wheel vehicles.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gogoro Inc. (Nasdaq: GGR), a global technology leader in battery swapping ecosystems that enable sustainable mobility solutions for cities, today announced its support for the Taiwan government's decision to extend its electric two-wheel vehicle subsidy program for four additional years.
"With the Taiwan government's continued commitment to the transformation of two-wheel transportation to electric, Gogoro is committed to increasing its investment in new EV and battery swapping technologies and expanding its retail and battery swapping network coverage to provide a path to net zero emissions in Taiwan," said Horace Luke, founder, and CEO of Gogoro. "With more locations in Taiwan cities than gas stations, and adoption from leading vehicle partners like Yamaha, Suzuki Taiwan, A-Motor and others, Gogoro's open battery swapping ecosystem has demonstrated its interoperability and ease of use for riders providing a clear path for the transformation from gas to electric in Taiwan."
The subsidy extension was announced by the Minister of Economic Affairs, Mei Hua Wang, and follows the announcement on December 9th that the government had approved a new phase of its "Electric Scooter Industry Environmental Value-Added Subsidy Program", which will invest $191.5 million in funds from 2023 to 2026 to promote three major projects:
- Continuation of subsidies for the purchase of electric scooters
- Installation of battery charging and swapping facilities
- Transformation of traditional scooter shops
With more locations than gas stations in Taiwan's cities, the Gogoro Network is a new generation of swappable battery refueling that is smart, safe and continually optimizing itself to be dynamic and versatile for riders, business, and communities. The Gogoro Network supports more than 520,000 riders, has more than 1.1 million smart batteries in circulation through its network of 11,000 battery swapping GoStations at over 2,260 locations. With more than 370,000 daily battery swaps and more than 360 million total battery swaps to date, Gogoro Network battery swapping has saved more than 250,000 tons of CO2 since it launched.
Founded in 2011 to rethink urban energy and inspire the world to move through cities in smarter and more sustainable ways, Gogoro leverages the power of innovation to change the way urban energy is distributed and consumed. Gogoro's battery swapping and vehicle platforms offer a smart, proven and sustainable long-term ecosystem for delivering a new approach to urban mobility. Gogoro has quickly become an innovation leader in vehicle design and electric propulsion, smart battery design, battery swapping, and advanced cloud services that utilize artificial intelligence to manage battery availability and safety. The challenge is massive, but the opportunity to disrupt the status quo, establish new standards, and achieve new levels of sustainable transportation growth in densely populated cities is even greater. For more information, visit www.gogoro.com/news and follow Gogoro on Twitter: @wearegogoro.
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AmberSemi will both exhibit and lead a conference-wide seminar on its disruptive technologies in power management and sensing, enabling the digital control of electricity in silicon chips
DUBLIN, Calif. and ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amber Semiconductor, Inc. (AmberSemi™), a fabless semiconductor company and leading technology developer of patented, innovative technologies for AC Direct digital management of electricity in silicon chip architecture, is participating broadly in APEC 2023, the leading conference for power electronics professionals. At APEC 2023, AmberSemi will demonstrate the new standard in power management and sensing in prototype applications, including solid-state programmable circuit breakers, lighting, motor control, smart outlets, and more, all powered by its breakthrough, patented solid-state architecture. In addition to showcasing its breakthrough technologies at Booth #131, AmberSemi's CEO, Thar Casey, will lead an education seminar titled "AC Direct Digitization of Electricity – The NEW Emerging Solid-State Standard for Power Management." Those interested in attending Thar's seminar, which will be held on Tuesday, 3/21 from 3:45 to 4:15pm in Session Room W203A, can register at APEC-Conf.org.
AmberSemi's three core, patented technologies are each rooted in the discovery of a novel way the physics of electricity can be controlled, digitally, in silicon chips. These breakthroughs include: the Amber Programmable AC Switch Controller™ (which enables arc-free switching thousands of times faster than today's standard technologies), the AC Direct DC Enabler™ (which offers DC extraction directly from AC mains without the use of rectifier bridges, filtering, and transformers), and AC Direct Sensing (for continuous awareness of the state of electricity). AmberSemi's disruptive breakthroughs are leading the charge towards a second electrical revolution that will upgrade the outdated, 1950's-era "old tech" electromechanical-based endpoints in every electrical product and building on earth to become smarter, safer, and smaller.
"We're excited to participate in APEC 2023, as it offers the opportunity to not only introduce our technologies to the broader power electronics industry, but to physically demonstrate its value in an array of electrical products prototypes and operating scenarios," said Thar Casey, CEO at Amber Semiconductor, Inc. "A solid-state upgrade of building electrical technology through AmberSemi's patented breakthroughs in power architecture represents a global commercial opportunity that we feel is bigger than the transition to solid-state TVs or smartphones and can immediately solve major life safety and costly industry problems. We're on the cusp of productization as we speak, and we anticipate that 2023 will be a pivotal year for AmberSemi as we build upon our current industry partnerships and forge new alignments with some of the power electronics industry's most impactful companies."
The integration of AmberSemi's three breakthroughs into silicon chipsets will deliver more modern, dynamic, and universal power solutions for electrical products, increasing the performance capabilities and the feature potential of electrical products like solid-state circuit breakers, motors, outlets, light switches, and many more, as well as semiconductor solutions like microcontrollers, wireless radios, and sensors. At the AmberSemi booth, the company will demonstrate its technologies in in discrete board solid-state architecture showing both DC power delivery to lighting, motor controls and other load-types, as well as proto-type AmberSemi powered electrical products. The company will specifically demonstrate an AmberSemi-powered solid state smart retrofit circuit breaker that will enable programmability, wireless connectivity, trip information, wireless notifications, energy metering, wireless reset on/off and arc-free switching. In addition, the company will demonstrate AmberSemi-powered smart outlets and dimmer switches showcasing how its power architecture can facilitate up to 10 functions in a single standard gang box footprint, including: manual on/off, wireless on/off, temperature sensing, humidity sensing, power metering, manual dimming, wireless dimming, indoor air quality, dangerous gas detection, and motion detection.
AmberSemi's technologies are transformative for both electrical products companies, as well as semiconductor companies, enabling a next generation of solid-state architecture and powering the opportunity for major feature enhancements and value adds to end products. The advantages include enabling smaller form factor 'slimline' products for easier installation, as well as delivering dynamic, programmable power that enables more flexible configurations, and offers global compatibility. In addition, AmberSemi technologies enable the opportunity for more robust product feature-sets (for example, five to ten times current product feature scope across a range of categories) in standard, universal form factors like single gang boxes or circuit breaker panels. With the siliconization process already underway for key technologies and product application engines, AmberSemi expects the product integration process to begin with key partners later in 2023 and resulting in end-products likely in-market, powered by AmberSemi silicon chip architecture, as early as 2024.
AmberSemi's presence at APEC 2023 is the latest step in commercial acceleration for the company, arriving on the heels of a transformative 2022 and a Q1 packed with positive momentum to-date. Over the last year, AmberSemi received unanimous admission to NEMA (the National Electrical Manufacturers Association), a leading force in the electro industry, and was selected to Fast Company's prestigious list of the Next Big Things in Tech for 2022. Most recently, AmberSemi was also chosen as a finalist for the 2023 Edison Awards. The company completed full technical evaluations of core technologies with more than a dozen other current and potentially new partners throughout North America and Europe, validating not just the core technologies viability but its disruptive commercialization potential. Once the shift to solid-state electrical control is achieved, the possibilities of further innovation with this architecture are endless.
About Amber Semiconductor, Inc.
Amber Semiconductor, Inc is a fabless semiconductor company and a leading developer of patented, innovative solid-state technologies for the digital control of electricity. The company's disruptive breakthroughs change the electrical landscape forever for buildings and appliances worldwide. With 36 patents secured around the company's core breakthroughs, product applications and by product data analytics, its technologies upgrade power management from 1950's era electro-mechanical to safer, more reliable silicon architecture with embedded intelligence. Based in Dublin, California, the company is leveraging the expertise of Silicon Valley professionals to deliver a disruptive enhancement to the value and functionality of the world's electrical endpoints and infrastructure. For more information visit www.ambersi.com.
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The safest bet for Sunday’s Super Bowl is that there will be millions of dollars spent gambling in Illinois. Wagers placed with the state’s sports gambling industry soared in 2022, with gamblers betting nearly $10 billion and casinos raking in $800 million in revenue from gamblers’ aggregate losses.
Bets on the big game will be fun entertainment for many, but the growing stakes go beyond money: Three years into legalization, sports gambling problems are also on the rise.
Problem-gambling therapists, researchers and long-term Gamblers Anonymous members told the Tribune they are seeing a jump in the number of people seeking treatment for sports gambling problems. The struggle seems to hit young men under 35 years old particularly hard and is robbing them not just of money, front-line workers say, but of connection, time and hope.
“If we don’t address it really quickly, we’re going to have some tragedies,” said Elizabeth Thielen, senior director of Lake County’s Nicasa Behavioral Health Services.
Illinoisans bet $1 billion on sports for the first time in October, then did it again in November and December, state data shows. The legalization of sports gambling generated over $142 million in tax revenue last year from lost bets and sportsbook licenses, much of it earmarked for the state’s infrastructure-focused Capital Projects Fund.
But it has also led to a surge in sports gambling’s accessibility and acceptability. The practice quickly has become a commonplace part of sports culture. Commercials flaunting “risk-free” bets now flood televised sports games and social media sites. Legal betting areas are set to open at the United Center and Wrigley Field. “Bet tenders” roam some Chicago bars, nudging people to make accounts and place wagers on the now-omnipresent smartphone betting apps.
More resources are needed to raise awareness about problem gambling, better understand the condition through research and treat people who gamble compulsively, some experts believe.
“And it’s got to happen fast, because we are going to have a tsunami of people who need understanding, care and treatment, and we’re not going to be prepared for it,” said Dr. T. Celeste Napier, director of Rush Medical’s Center for Compulsive Behavior and Addiction.
In response, regulators and sportsbooks highlight the work already underway to address problem gambling, like a new statewide public awareness campaign, donations to support groups for problem gambling and resources for responsible gambling on mobile betting apps.
The people fighting problem gambling and the institutions hauling in millions of dollars on lost bets agree: Sports gambling is here to stay.
“And it’s ever increasing,” said Calvin Miller, associate director for the nonprofit Illinois Council on Problem Gambling. “It’s not going anywhere, so there’s going to be a need for awareness for anyone developing a problem.”
Against the spread
An estimated 383,000 Illinoisans have a gambling problem, while an additional 761,000 are estimated to be at risk of developing one, according to a study published in 2022 by the Illinois Department of Human Services.
An unofficial leader at a weekly Near West Side Gamblers Anonymous meeting, 42-year-old Jimmy knows dozens of people living with gambling problems. Sports gambling has at points consumed his own life. The habit formed when he found a bookie as a high school sophomore. By the time early illegal internet sports gambling arrived over a decade later, he was ducking into bathrooms during dates to place bets and he was uninvited from family dinners.
“I wasn’t really living,” said the recovering compulsive gambler, who requested partial anonymity to adhere to Gambling Anonymous rules. “The gambling caused destruction in every part of my life.” He hasn’t placed a bet since 2009, a recovery he credits to attending weekly Gamblers Anonymous meetings.
For many years, the meetings were mostly attended by older people, he said. But he now sees younger men showing up and “a disease spreading.”
“You can see it getting worse by the minute. On TV, sportscasters talking about point spreads. There’s advertisements everywhere. You’re not going to be able to go to a bar and watch a game without somebody in your group talking about gambling,” Jimmy said. “It’s attacking everybody now.”
Teddy, another recovering problem gambler who helps answer calls to Gamblers Anonymous’s Chicagoland hotline, said he too is seeing younger men coming to meetings. The worst losses of his long bout with problem sports gambling weren’t the squandered money, but “the character and the time and everything that goes with it,” he said.
The 69-year-old’s last bet was on Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999, when Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway was named MVP. He recalled having an hourlong window to call his bookie on Sundays. He’d find a pay phone to place bets in between 16-inch softball games with friends, he said.
But things have changed since sports gambling was made legal, he said. The new ability for millions of people to wager on always-available sports betting apps scares him.
“There’s so much negative that I see coming down the road,” Teddy said.
Around 5% of the clientele at Oak Park’s Way Back Inn addiction recovery center had problems with sports gambling before it was legalized. That rate has shot up to around 30% and continues to rise since legalization, according to the center’s executive director, Anita Pindiur.
Pindiur is pushing for medical professionals, such as physicians and nurses, to start regularly screening patients for problem gambling issues. It can be hard to spot problem gambling because there often aren’t physical signs like there are for many addictions, she said.
Some patients she sees can’t sleep with sports gambling constantly available at their fingertips. Others face financial pressures: mounting loans, credit card debt, pressure to borrow or steal. Gambling has the highest suicide rate of any addiction disorder, she added.
While Pindiur praised the growing effort to address problem gambling, she added that there still aren’t enough control and support. She criticized mass advertising that could affect young people who are already more vulnerable to addiction.
“People need to know that help is available. People need to be able to recognize the signs,” she said. “People don’t have to feel helpless.”
Covering bets
The state budgets $10 million a year to fund treatment for problem gambling and to raise public awareness, according to an Illinois Department of Human Services spokesperson. The state’s efforts include the new “Are you really winning?” campaign now popping up in TV ads, radio spots and online and funding for 29 treatment and outreach providers across Illinois, as well as provider training, said IDHS gambling problems administrator Jim Wilkerson.
On every football or basketball game, “you see at least five” ads for sports gambling, Wilkerson said.
“Financially, we’re outgunned. They’re going to be spending a lot more money on those ads than what we have the capability to spend,” he said. Still, Wilkerson expects the state’s new ads to build community awareness about how to recognize and respond to problem gambling. “We want to create a gambling informed state,” he said.
Like the researchers and problem-gambling treatment workers the Tribune spoke with, Wilkerson said many people who place bets on sports are able to stop and can safely engage with gambling as entertainment. But he too is seeing a “significant increase” in sports gambling problems across the state. It’s a rise he’d expect from the addition of any new gambling opportunity.
“That’s an entertainment activity that people want to engage in, and we would support that. But there’s always some individual that is going to go above and beyond,” he said. “That’s why we’re here, to try and help those folks that it’s going to become an issue for.”
Miller, of the Illinois Council on Problem Gambling, noted the state operates a 24/7 problem gambling help line. The help line received 1,283 calls during the fiscal year of 2020, 2,889 the following year, and 5,460 in the fiscal year of 2022, according to an IDHS spokesperson. From last July to December, which was the first half of fiscal year of 2023, it received 4,461 calls.
The state also offers a voluntary gambling self-exclusion program that blocks people from casinos and sports wagering after in-person registrations, Miller added. He believes the sportsbook companies are getting better at educating gamblers about responsible gaming.
An Illinois Gaming Board spokesperson declined an interview on problem gambling and the restrictions governing sports wagers, but pointed to a list of resources on the board’s website for dealing with problem gambling.
A spokesperson for DraftKings also declined an interview, but said the company donates $15,000 a year to the Illinois Council on Problem Gambling. The company’s Illinois sportsbook made $201 million in adjusted revenue in 2022, with $32 million paid in taxes.
The state’s largest sportsbook is run by FanDuel, with $343 million in adjusted revenue and $55 million in taxes paid in 2022. The company’s efforts to address problem gambling include annual companywide training days, a $100,000 donation to the National Council on Problem Gambling and awareness campaigns with celebrities, spokesperson Chris Jones said.
“Responsible gaming is the responsibility of the entire industry, and collectively we are all focused on it,” Jones said.
FanDuel’s website also offers optional wager and deposit limits and can even trigger wellness checks when gamblers appear to be chasing bad bets, he added. Sports gambling happened before it was legal and would continue if it were made illegal, but legalization allows for consumer protections and tax revenues to exist, he argued.
Lessons from a ‘rat casino’
In psychiatry professor Napier’s Rush Medical laboratory, there is a “rat casino.” There are no roulette tables or free drinks, but when the rats press a lever, electrodes connected to their brains stimulate their pleasure centers at different probabilities in lieu of money.
Some rats regularly make decisions chasing unlikely, large pleasure stimulations instead of more likely and moderate ones, Napier said. When she places them back in the “rat casino,” the habitual “gambling” rats inevitably start taking gambling-like actions again. The risky behavior even increases when scientists give the rats dopamine-increasing drugs. The tests reveal something about problem gambling, Napier argues.
“It underscores the fact that it’s biology,” she said. “It’s like any other chronic disease.”
Problem gambling has long been stigmatized as showing a lack of willpower, Napier said. But because gambling problems are rooted in neurobiology, she said, more funding for medical research would allow scientists to learn how to identify people who are most vulnerable and to develop drug treatments for people who compulsively gamble.
There are no Food and Drug Administration-approved treatments for problem gambling, and research funding hasn’t had an increase equivalent to gambling’s jump in accessibility and acceptability, Napier said. She wants the companies publicizing and profiting from sports gambling to do more to support research.
“There’s a tremendous missed opportunity here, in terms of being a good citizen,” she said. “As we make these venues more accessible to everybody, there needs to be a huge educational effort to make sure people understand this. And we’re not seeing that here.”
University of Chicago professor Dr. Jon Grant, who specializes in addictive behaviors, said he is seeing in his psychiatric clinic a shift toward more problems with online gambling. But he said it’s hard to tell precisely how problem gambling is changing across the state without better surveys.
“It can be done. It’s just an investment. Everybody wants to see if things are getting worse,” he said.
But the problem is already sizable enough, especially with most problem gamblers never seeking help, he said. Fighting stigma and increasing awareness are needed steps, but there are other challenges, including a shortage of practitioners trained in treating problem gambling.
“We need more. It’s hard to get in to see a therapist,” he said.
The people most vulnerable to problem gambling are young people, especially males, and people with family histories of addiction, Grant said. The younger people start gambling, the more likely they are to develop a problem, he said. He worries the ability to make dozens of bets in seconds by phone could change young brains to increasingly seek instant gratification and become more impulsive.
One Chicagoland Gamblers Anonymous member told the Tribune that he started gambling online in seventh grade. By college, betting on casino games consumed his life, leading him to miss classes and even drop out for a semester. The problem continued for 10 more years.
The 34-year-old finally stopped gambling in 2018 on the night he lost $100,000. The loss happened after a relapse. That night, he pulled his hair out in clumps, dug grooves into his computer with his fingernails and even contemplated taking his own life.
Fortunately, with help from friends in Gamblers Anonymous, he was able to cope and make a plan. Now nearly five years later, his debt is almost fully paid off. But he worries about the boys he coaches as a high school sports coach. Sports gambling has changed the way people relate to sports, making fans more self-centered, and gambling triggers are everywhere, he said, hidden in the betting lines listed alongside scores on ESPN or casual conversations about wagers. The sportsbooks are “waiting for these kids,” he said.
Thielen worries that kids won’t understand the potential consequences of gambling with a credit card, a practice allowed in Illinois that some states with legal sports gambling, like Iowa and Massachusetts, have outlawed. Thielen also fears they could get swept up in the fast-paced, in-game bets made possible by new technology.
She has seen a rise in people under the legal age of 21 becoming addicted to sports gambling, she said. It might in part stem from an amendment to state law permitting people to register for sports gambling online, she added.
Illinois law originally required sports gamblers to register in person at a casino or sportsbook, but online registration was temporarily allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic, before being made permanently allowed in March 2022.
Suburban mother Dana didn’t notice when her then-16-year-old son’s money started disappearing during the pandemic. The boy’s failed sports bets with DraftKings and FanDuel, made after he managed to illegally register for accounts on the sportsbooks, came from his own paychecks, according to his mother, who asked to remain partially anonymous to protect her son’s privacy.
But when the teen went away last summer, his sports gambling problem spiraled. He called his mom: “I have to come home,” she recalled him saying.
The boy, now 17, is working with a therapist to control his gambling problem. The family and a practitioner made a plan to strictly limit the number of bets he can make and the small amount of money he can wager. The supervision is the only way to keep gambling under control, Dana said.
Sportsbooks say requirements to link Social Security numbers and bank accounts with gambling accounts prevent kids from signing up, but Dana says it was easy for her son to start placing bets and that she knows many kids who have figured it out.
She said it took hours of calling and emailing before she heard back from the sportsbooks when she tried to get her son’s account taken down. She’s a well-resourced and attentive parent who is close with her kids, she said. The problem makes her feel “very, very helpless.”
“They’re putting their financial gain before our kids’ mental health,” she said.
Tribune reporter Robert Channick contributed.
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(NEXSTAR) – At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many transitioned to working from home. This not only took them out of the office, it gave them a chance to wear their pajamas, tend to their children, and any number of other things around their home while on the clock. It also seemed to open the floodgates to new – sometimes unknown – surveillance by employers.
Office workers, while in the office at least, were likely aware when their boss was observing them. They’d walk by your desk or be within view or be in the same conference room for a meeting as you. But once employees transitioned to working from home, employers lost a bit of that human oversight.
Instead, many companies began tracking their workers. Human resource research firm Gartner says the number of large employers monitoring their employees doubled to 60% since the start of the pandemic. That number is expected to grow to 70% within the next three years.
If your employer is tracking you, what they can see depends on the software they use.
Most software can track when you’re logging on and off, how long you spend on social media, and your keyboard or mouse activity.
Some will take screenshots of your screen if triggered by a setting, like ActivTrak. Hubstaff can award badges to employees based on “hours worked, activity thresholds, and more.” Unlike others, Hubstaff allows employees to delete some of their data or adjust it.
InterGuard is able to show how long employees spend on tasks, what they type in browsers, chats, or searches, and more. It can even “quickly identify your team’s superstars, time-thieving slackers, and in-betweeners.”
Teramind lets employers mark certain apps and websites as productive or unproductive. It also gives employers access to screen recordings of an employee’s activities, details on their email usage (including contents and recipients), and private message exchanges on various platforms.
None of the companies mentioned above will access your webcam to view you or your workspace.
It isn’t just software that can give employers a glance into your digital workspace. If you’re using company technology, your employer can most likely view what is on it.
According to Google and Microsoft, authorized administrators can view your emails if you use Gmail or Outlook. Earlier this year, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jared Spataro said the company believes “using technology to spy on people at work is not the answer and our technology is not designed for that purpose.”
Your employer can also access private messages you send on spaces like Slack and Microsoft Teams, though both have high thresholds employers need to meet before they can read your messages.
It isn’t just employee monitoring that grew during the pandemic: productivity rose, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So why did employers feel the need to monitor employees?
Some employers have turned to tracking software to ensure employees aren’t being harassed, receive compensation for the amount of work they’re actually doing, or if they returned to the office, were following COVID safety protocols, Edgar Ndjatou, executive director for Workplace Fairness, explains to Nexstar. Many companies say their technology can also be used to protect from data breaches or other security concerns.
Still, Ndjatou warns that the technology can feel invasive. And if you’re using company property, there isn’t much legal protection for you if you feel your privacy has been breached.
Unsure if you’re being tracked or what your employer can see? Ndjatou says you should assume that you are and take steps to protect your privacy, like using a personal phone or email outside of work.
He also suggested that if you feel your employer’s ability to track you is invasive, try having a conversation to find better solutions. For employers considering using tracking software, Ndjatou says they should speak with their employees first.
It’s also important to note that even though they can, your employer likely isn’t looking at the tracking data for individual employees. Elizabeth Harz, chief executive of InterGuard, told The Washington Post that most managers aren’t watching you that closely.
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That Father's Day love is all happening for Kate Hudson's "Pa," Kurt Russell, who received heartwarming tributes from his family.
On June 19, the Almost Famous actress posted on her Instagram a throwback photo showing her as a child, cuddling up to the actor, her mom Goldie Hawn's partner of almost 40 years.
"Fun, adventurous, passionate, determined, honest, devoted, amazing father and the best head of hair in Los Angeles!" Kate wrote. "Lucky us! Love you Pa! Happy Fathers Day."
Kurt does not have an official Instagram account, but Goldie responded, writing, "Honey I showed this to daddy. Here's his message…"
The actor's comment was: "Birdie, mommy just showed me this picture, this perfect Father's Day present. I've never seen it before. Wow…it's a killer. Lotta water under the bridge…it's kinda hard to see it though cause all that water seems to somehow have found its way into my eyes…thanks for making me the luckiest father in the world sweetheart. I love you, Pa."
Drew Barrymore wrote, "@katehudson wow this one almost hurts its so sweet."
Goldie also commented that the photo "speaks volumes." She also shared her own Father's Day tribute to Kurt.
Kurt, 71, helped raise both Kate, 43, and her brother Oliver Hudson, 45. Goldie, 76, divorced their father, musician Bill Hudson, when they were little. She and Kurt also share son Wyatt Russell, 35.
Kate has occasionally paid tribute to "Pa" Kurt online.
"This is a man who made his family his number one priority his whole life," she wrote on his birthday in 2015. "Never missed a school play, a soccer game, a hockey game, a dance recital and the list goes on and on. No matter what he was doing in his busy life, he always showed up. Not because he had to but because there was no other place on earth he would rather be then with his family. We felt the purity of that our whole childhood and my gratitude for his love is immeasurable."
Also on Father's Day, Kate also paid tribute to her partner, Danny Fujikawa, with a video of him with their daughter Rani, 3, the youngest of her three kids. She also shared posts dedicated to her brothers, who are also dads.
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LAS VEGAS, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aristocrat Gaming™ announced today that Oriana Branon has joined the company as Vice President of Communications and Corporate Affairs.
Reporting to CEO of Aristocrat Gaming Hector Fernandez, Branon will be a member of the executive leadership team. In this newly created role, she will oversee all external and internal communications for the Gaming division, and provide strategic guidance on the organization's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) as well as sustainability and ethical impact, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
"We are thrilled to welcome Oriana to the Aristocrat Gaming team, where she will support our mission to bring joy to life through the power of play," Fernandez said. "Oriana's extensive communications background across business and consumer markets, stellar track record of storytelling, and commitment to social impact demonstrate she will be an incredible asset to our company during a time of rapid growth."
Branon recently led corporate communications for financial tech giant Bill.com, where she drove the company's external visibility in the wake of their IPO. She was also the first PR hire for Alaska Airlines in California, helping the company to win the hearts and minds of consumers post-Virgin America acquisition.
"I am excited to join Aristocrat Gaming to build on the company's rich history of delivering award-winning and entertaining gaming experiences to players around the world," Branon said. "I look forward to working with the team to capture the tremendous opportunity ahead."
Branon has been recognized for her strong communications performance record, including PRWeek's "Women to Watch" and PRWeek's "40 Under 40," and featured as a Latina advocate in Latina Style and Forbes. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She sits on various nonprofit boards dedicated to opening pathways for underserved communities and is passionate about mentoring women of color professionals.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease, a foundation in New York covered funeral expenses for the deceased. The payments were vital to survivors of the victims in a time and place ravaged by poverty and racism.
Altruistic as they might sound, the checks — $100 at most — were no simple act of charity: They were part of an almost unimaginable scheme. To get the money, widows or other loved ones had to consent to letting doctors slice open the bodies of the dead men for autopsies that would detail the ravages of a disease the victims were told was "bad blood."
Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public and halted, the organization that made those funeral payments, the Milbank Memorial Fund, publicly apologized Saturday to descendants of the study's victims. The move is rooted in America's racial reckoning after George Floyd's murder by police in 2020.
"It was wrong. We are ashamed of our role. We are deeply sorry," said the president of the fund, Christopher F. Koller.
The apology and an accompanying monetary donation to a descendants' group, the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation, were presented during a ceremony in Tuskegee at a gathering of children and other relatives of men who were part of the study.
The fund declines to try to justify what it did in the 1930s
Endowed in 1905 by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, part of a wealthy and well-connected New York family, the fund was one of the nation's first private foundations. The nonprofit philanthropy had some $90 million in assets in 2019, according to tax records, and an office on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. With an early focus on child welfare and public health, today it concentrates on health policy at the state level.
Koller said there's no easy way to explain how its leaders in the 1930s decided to make the payments, or to justify what happened. Generations later, some Black people in the United States still fear government health care because of what's called the "Tuskegee effect."
"The upshot of this was real harm," Koller told The Associated Press in an interview before the apology ceremony. "It was one more example of ways that men in the study were deceived. And we are dealing as individuals, as a region, as a country, with the impact of that deceit."
Not all of the victims or their descendants knew of the fund's role
Lillie Tyson Head's late father Freddie Lee Tyson was part of the study. She's now president of the Voices group. She called the apology "a wonderful gesture and a wonderful thing" even if it comes 25 years after the U.S. government apologized for the study to its final survivors, who have all since died.
"It's really something that could be used as an example of how apologies can be powerful in making reparations and restorative justice be real," said Head.
Despite her leadership of the descendants group, Head said she didn't even know about Milbank's role in the study until Koller called her one day last fall. The payments have been discussed in academic studies and a couple books, but the descendants were unaware, she said.
"It really was something that caught me off guard," she said. Head's father left the study after becoming suspicious of the research, years before it ended, and didn't receive any of the Milbank money, she said, but hundreds of others did.
Other prominent organizations, universities including Harvard and Georgetown and the state of California have acknowledged their ties to racism and slavery. Historian Susan M. Reverby, who wrote a book about the study, researched the Milbank Fund's participation at the fund's request. She said its apology could be an example for other groups with ties to systemic racism.
'"It's really important because at a time when the nation is so divided, how we come to terms with our racism is so complicated," she said. "Confronting it is difficult, and they didn't have to do this. I think it's a really good example of history as restorative justice."
Hundreds of Black men were targeted in the study
Starting in 1932, government medical workers in rural Alabama withheld treatment from unsuspecting Black men infected with syphilis so doctors could track the disease and dissect their bodies afterward. About 620 men were studied, and roughly 430 of them had syphilis. Reverby's study said Milbank recorded giving a total of $20,150 for about 234 autopsies.
Revealed by The Associated Press in 1972, the study ended and the men sued, resulting in a $9 million settlement from which descendants are still seeking the remaining funds, described in court records as "relatively small."
The Milbank Memorial Fund got involved in 1935 after the U.S. surgeon general at the time, Hugh Cumming, sought the money, which was crucial in persuading families to agree to the autopsies, Reverby found. The decision to approve the funding was made by a group of white men with close ties to federal health officials but little understanding of conditions in Alabama or the cultural norms of Black Southerners, to whom dignified burials were very important, Koller said.
"One of the lessons for us is you get bad decisions if ... your perspectives are not particularly diverse and you don't pay attention to conflicts of interest," Koller said.
The payments became less important as the Depression ended and more Black families could afford burial insurance, Reverby said. Initially named as a defendant, Milbank was dismissed as a target of the men's lawsuit and the organization put the episode behind it.
George Floyd's murder changed things
Years later, books including Reverby's "Examining Tuskegee, The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy," published in 2009, detailed the fund's involvement. But it wasn't until after Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police that discussions among the Milbank staff — which is now much more diverse — prompted the fund's leaders to reexamine its role, Koller said.
"Both staff and board felt like we had to face up to this in a way that we had not before," he said.
Besides delivering a public apology to a gathering of descendants, the fund decided to donate an undisclosed amount to the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation, Koller said.
The money will make scholarships available to the descendants, Head said. The group also plans a memorial at Tuskegee University, which served as a conduit for the payments and was the location of a hospital where medical workers saw the men.
While times have changed since the burial payments were first approved nearly 100 years ago, Reverby also said there's no way to justify what happened.
"The records say very clearly, untreated syphilis," she said. "You don't need a Ph.D. to figure that out, and they just kept doing it year after year."
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MIAMI (AP) — Sandy Alcantara pitched eight dominant innings in his second straight win, and the Miami Marlins beat the Los Angeles Angels 2-1 on Tuesday night for their sixth straight victory.
Alcantara (9-3) allowed two hits — singles by Luis Rengifo in the fifth and Mike Trout in the seventh — in his 11th consecutive outing of at least seven innings. The right-hander struck out 10 and lowered his ERA to 1.82.
“I just try to stay consistent, go out there every fifth day and fight for my team,” Alcantara said. “Every time I can pitch seven, eight innings I feel satisfied. It’s a long career and you have to stay healthy.”
Tanner Scott earned his 10th save, surrendering Taylor Ward’s sacrifice fly before retiring Jared Walsh on a liner to center for the final out.
Garrett Cooper and Bryan De La Cruz homered for Miami. Joey Wendle had two hits.
Marlins manager Don Mattingly considered giving Alcantara the opportunity for consecutive complete games. But with a prolonged bottom of the eighth, which included a pitching change, Alcantara was done after 107 pitches.
“It’s hard because Sandy is your best guy no matter where you are,” Mattingly said.
Trout snapped an 0-for-16 skid with his infield single leading off the seventh. The three-time AL MVP struck out in his first two at-bats against Alcantara.
Reigning AL MVP Shohei Ohtani went 0 for 3 with a walk. Ohtani, who turned 28 on Tuesday, reached on a fielder’s choice in the seventh and stole his ninth base of the season.
“We came back, we fought, we’ve been doing everything we can,” Angels interim manager Bill Haselman said.
Alcantara retired his first 14 batters before Rengifo’s soft line drive to right.
Cooper connected against Noah Syndergaard (5-7) in the third, driving a 3-2 pitch over the wall in left-center for his sixth homer.
De La Cruz went deep in the fifth. It was his sixth of the year.
Syndergaard allowed five hits, struck out eight and walked none in five innings.
“Some of my stuff didn’t have swing and miss action,” Syndergaard said. “Got away with some pitches and made it through five.”
Umpire Lance Barrett ejected Miami right-fielder Avisaíl García for arguing balls and strikes in the fourth.
SCANT SCORING CHANCES
The Angels had two scoring opportunities against Alcantara. After his two-out single in the fifth, Rengifo stole second and advanced to third on catcher Jacob Stallings’ throwing error. But Alcantara struck out Max Stassi to end the threat. Ohtani advanced to third on Ward’s fly ball to deep center before Alcantara struck out Walsh for the final out in the seventh.
“I’ve said it before, I don’t worry when I have men on base,” Alcantara said. “I trust my stuff and have to use it to my advantage.”
UNLIKELY BASE STEALER
Include Jesús Aguilar among the Marlins who have contributed to the club’s NL-leading 65 stolen bases. The husky first baseman got his first career steal in the first. Aguilar, who reached on a throwing error by second baseman Rengifo, beat catcher Stassi’s throw in his successful attempt at second.
“It was an off-speed pitch, that’s why I got it,” Aguilar said. “Finally, I got one after six years.”
DON’T UNPACK
The Marlins’ brief homestand against the Angels interrupts a stretch of 11 road games. Before their two-game set with the Angels, the Marlins finished 5-2 in St. Louis and Washington. They begin a four-game series at the NL East-leading New York Mets on Thursday.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: INF-OF David Fletcher (left hip strain) has been progressing and will take live swings soon.
Marlins: 2B Jazz Chisholm Jr. (right lower back strain) is doing mobility exercises at the club’s spring training complex. … LHP Jesús Luzardo (left forearm strain) threw a 30-pitch bullpen session.
UP NEXT
Ohtani (7-4, 2.68 ERA) makes his first career start against Miami in the closing game of the series Wednesday. LHP Trevor Rogers (4-6, 5.56 ERA) starts for the Marlins.
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European Union executive: Make Ukraine a member candidate
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN
Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm has recommended making Ukraine a candidate for EU membership. The move would be a first step on what is expected to be a long road before the war-torn country could actually join the 27-nation bloc. The European Commission on Friday delivered its proposal to award Ukraine candidate status after a fast-tracked analysis of answers to a questionnaire. The Ukrainian government applied for EU membership days after Russia invaded the country on Feb. 24. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said, “Ukrainians are ready to die for the European perspective.” The leaders of the bloc’s member states are scheduled to discuss the recommendation during a summit next week in Brussels. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/06/17/european-union-executive-make-ukraine-a-member-candidate/ | 2022-06-17 12:51:18 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/2022/06/17/european-union-executive-make-ukraine-a-member-candidate/ |
The destroyed forests of the Gran Chaco
Hardly any forest area is as threatened as South America's Gran Chaco. Trees are cut down daily to make way for cattle and soy. This has significant consequences for the ecosystem and the local population.
Low forests and savannas
In the Gran Chaco forest area, or Chaco for short, more and more bushes and trees are being cleared to make way for large-scale soy and cattle farms to meet global demand. Gran Chaco is the second-largest forest area in South America, spanning parts of Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil. Summers are hot and humid, and winters moderately warm and sometimes very dry.
Natural rhythms uprooted
Noole, an indigenous Pilaga, and her brother Jose Rolando Fernandez, run a watermelon and potato farm in northern Argentina. They are often out in the forests of the Gran Chaco. For the siblings, the trees there have great significance. They help set the natural rhythm of life, provide food, water and cooling in this sparsely populated part of South America.
Close connections
Jose Rolando Fernandez grows potatoes himself. He says his family's connection to the trees is almost spiritual. His sister Noole adds, "The native forest has a function that we must value. Indigenous people believe that the land is our home. The earth is our mother because we produce and eat from it."
Inhabitants displaced
But this habitat is coming under increasing pressure, and in some cases indigenous inhabitants and small businesses are being displaced. A possible new trade agreement between the Mercosur countries and the EU could lead to more exports from the Gran Chaco and more deforestation, although the EU will likely impose strict regulations to limit deforestation.
Economic pressures
Many countries have imposed import regulations to prevent illegal logging, including Argentina's so-called Forest Law of 2007. But not all people in the region are opposed to logging: Some locals point to the importance of agricultural exports for job creation in their region, where half the population lives in poverty.
Impact on the local microclimate
Teofila Palma, a farmer in Gran Chaco who herds her goats, told Reuters that recent deforestation has had a significant impact on the local microclimate. "Since the deforestation, the temperature is even higher. And the wind sweeps in from the north without us being able to do anything about it," she says.
Hindered growth
Farmers complain that many local producers have lost their livestock because logging has eroded the soil and hindered growth in the pastureland. "The agreement is for the economic and business world," Noole says, not for indigenous people. "They have never taken us into account," Noole says. | https://www.dw.com/en/the-destroyed-forests-of-the-gran-chaco/g-65639023 | 2023-05-17 08:22:21 | 0 | https://www.dw.com/en/the-destroyed-forests-of-the-gran-chaco/g-65639023 |
WILBERFORCE, Ohio (WDTN) — Police have confirmed that Central State University is under lockdown, and a search for a suspect is underway on Monday night.
According to the Greene County Sheriff’s Office, two men were involved in a fight on campus. One suspect fled. There were reports of a gun seen, but no shots were fired.
Central State University posted a Tweet at 8:15 p.m. which said, “The campus of Central State University is under lockdown due to reports of an armed individual. Please shelter in place until CSUPD has given the all-clear and confirms that the locked-down has been lifted.”
Police are looking for the suspect and have confirmed that there is no active shooter on campus.
The County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that they are investigating the situation.
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The combination of Deltek + TIP Technologies will accelerate Deltek's capabilities for aerospace & defense and engineer to order manufacturers
HERNDON, Va., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deltek, the leading global provider of software and solutions for project-based businesses, announced that it has completed its acquisition of TIP Technologies – the leading provider of quality, compliance and manufacturing execution solutions for the highly regulated aerospace and defense (A&D) and government contracting industry. The agreement to acquire TIP Technologies was announced on Thursday, July 14.
With this acquisition, Deltek will add quality management system (QMS) and manufacturing execution system (MES) capabilities to its portfolio of ERP and manufacturing solutions for government contractors, aerospace & defense (A&D) and Engineer to Order (E2O) firms. For decades, Deltek has offered award-winning solutions to government contractors of all sizes. With the combination of Deltek + TIP Technologies, the company will provide the most comprehensive solutions for government contractors and in particular, aerospace & defense and engineer to order firms.
"Joining forces with Deltek is a strategic milestone for TIP Technologies and we look forward to seeing how our businesses and solutions can progress together," said Mike Miller, founder and CEO of TIP Technologies. "We are thrilled to now be a part of Deltek and I want to thank all our TIP Technologies employees and all the parties involved that helped us complete this acquisition."
"Having already partnered with TIP Technologies for years, we are confident that the team's knowledge and strength in complex manufacturing is the perfect complement to Deltek's government contracting solutions. Together with TIP Technologies, we now offer the most complete integrated ERP, QMS and MES solutions for government contractors to meet strict federal government compliance requirements. We are thrilled to begin this journey together with the TIP Technologies team," said Mike Corkery, President and CEO at Deltek. "While Deltek is excited to add TIP Technologies to its existing portfolio of purpose-built solutions for government contractors, we do remain committed to supporting the needs of the A&D firms using third party ERP solutions."
Deltek + TIP Technologies will be highlighted in sessions and demos this November at Deltek's annual user conference, Deltek ProjectCon. Attendees will get a first-hand look at the solution and can also meet one-on-one with experts. Find out more about Deltek ProjectCon or read more about Deltek + TIP Technologies on Deltek.com.
About Deltek
Better software means better projects. Deltek is the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for project-based businesses. More than 30,000 organizations and millions of users in over 80 countries around the world rely on Deltek for superior levels of project intelligence, management, and collaboration. Our industry-focused expertise powers project success by helping firms achieve performance that maximizes productivity and revenue. www.deltek.com
About TIP Technologies
Founded in 1989, TIP Technologies was one of the first to provide integrated quality assurance software using a commercial, off-the-shelf strategy. Now a recognized leader in the industry, TIP Technologies continues to develop highly respected software that is used by some of the world's largest corporations. For more information: www.tiptech.com
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Texas floating barrier: Governor defends Rio Grande buoys in letter to President Biden
AUSTIN, Texas - Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Monday defending the state's use of marine barriers in the Rio Grande to stop migrants from crossing the river into the U.S. from Mexico.
Last week, the Justice Department told Texas that the floating barrier of buoys near Eagle Pass violates federal law and raises humanitarian concerns for migrants. It also informed the state that the Justice Department intended to sue if the barriers were not removed.
Gov. Abbott responded on Monday, writing, "Texas will see you in court, Mr. President."
The governor argues that U.S. Constitution grants Texas sovereign authority to protect its borders and reiterates his assertion that the president violated his "constitutional obligation to
defend the States against invasion through faithful execution of federal laws."
"If you truly care about human life, you must begin enforcing federal immigration laws. By doing so, you can help me stop migrants from wagering their lives in the waters of the Rio Grande River. You can also help me save Texans, and indeed all Americans, from deadly drugs like fentanyl, cartel violence, and the horrors of human trafficking," Gov. Abbott’s letter reads.
View of a string of buoys placed on the water along the Rio Grande border with Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, on July 15, 2023, to prevent illegal immigration entry to the US. The buoy installation is part of an operation Texas is pursuing to secure it
The buoys are the latest escalation of Abbott’s multibillion-dollar operation to secure the state’s 1,200-mile border with Mexico. Other measures have included razor-wire fencing and arresting migrants on trespassing charges.
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The mission known as Operation Lone Star came under new scrutiny after a trooper said migrants had been denied water and that orders were given to push asylum-seekers back into the Rio Grande.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said last week that the trooper’s accounts, which were made in an email to a supervisor, are under internal investigation.
The buoy barrier covers 1,000 feet of the middle of the Rio Grande, with anchors in the riverbed.
Eagle Pass is part of a Border Patrol sector that has seen the second-highest number of migrant crossings this fiscal year with about 270,000 encounters — though that is lower than it was at this time last year.
The Biden administration has said illegal border crossings have declined significantly since new immigration rules took effect in May as pandemic-related asylum restrictions expired.
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PulteGroup repeatedly raises red flags as CEO Ryan Marshall and his legal team continue to evade transparency and make false accusations against shareholder, Marine Veteran requesting records regarding the departure of the CEO's top lieutenant
ROCHESTER, Mich., June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marine Veteran and PulteGroup shareholder Betty Trester is being falsely accused by national homebuilding giant PulteGroup so the CEO can avoid transparency regarding the company's probe into his fired executive lieutenant late last year, Trester's legal team said today as they filed a new response in Michigan circuit court.
"Before filing my suit against PulteGroup, I submitted to extensive negotiations resulting in my agreement to sign a non-disclosure agreement in exchange for reviewing investigative documents regarding the CEO's ex-lieutenant, yet nothing ever came to fruition," said Trester.
"After its latest attempt to avoid transparency, it is clear PulteGroup's Ryan Marshall has no faith in shareholders, especially Main Street investors like me, a Marine Veteran who honorably served our country."
About Trester's response
The two parties have made multiple filings in the case which is only three months old. Today, Trester's team filed a new response to PulteGroup's salacious response to Trester's initial shareholder lawsuit.
The court filing makes clear that Trester is indeed a shareholder with inspection rights who has a proper purpose for inspecting the investigative records and was willing to enter into a confidentiality agreement. "The Legislature did not intend for shareholder rights to be limited to institutional Wall Street investors or activist investment funds. The rights extend to shareholders like Ms. Trester: a middle-class grandmother who bought her stock, followed it, educated herself, received dividends, and voted in corporate elections."
About the lawsuit
The Miller Law Firm first filed the suit on behalf of Trester on March 15, 2023 in Michigan's 30th Circuit Court in Ingham County (Case No. 2023-0277-CB). PulteGroup, while operating a senior executive base in Atlanta, is incorporated in Michigan, with its main registered office in East Lansing, Michigan.
The lawsuit, Trester v. PulteGroup, seeks a transparent release of information from the company to its shareholders, pursuant to the Michigan Business Corporations Act, related to its internal investigation of questionable behavior by top company executives.
The investigation concerned whether PulteGroup and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in unlawful business practices in relation to the oversight of the Board of Directors of PulteGroup.
A copy of the filings can be obtained by contacting the team below.
About The Miller Law Firm
The Miller Law Firm, P.C., headquartered in Michigan, is ranked among the top litigation law firms in the state. It is a leader in shareholder rights litigation with over $2 billion recovered for shareholders. The firm has also recovered numerous multimillion-dollar settlements on behalf of class members. Lead attorney E. Powell Miller is highly regarded in the national legal community and has won numerous awards for his outstanding performance during complex trials.
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PRAGUE (AP) — Ukrainians rallied Tuesday in the Czech capital of Prague for the second straight evening to condemn this week’s barrage of Russian missile strikes against cities across Ukraine and to demand more weapons from the West to protect their nation.
The protesters held blue-and-yellow crosses with the names of the cities hit by the Russian missiles.
“Ukraine needs air defenses to be able to prevent the massacres of the civilian population and destruction of our cities,” Anastasiia Sihnaievska told the crowd.
“We are protecting our right to live,” said Sihnaievska, who fled her town of Zhytomyr because of the Russian invasion.
People chanted “Russia’s terrorist!” and “More weapons for Ukraine!”
They unveiled a giant Ukrainian flag and displayed banners that read “Air defense systems for Ukraine,” “We will not forget, We will not forgive,” or “Stop bombing Ukraine.”
“It’s great that Europe supports us but we need more help,” said the 21-year-old Ivanna Mykuliak. A student of physics in Odesa, she came to the Czech Republic to work to help support her family in Ukraine.
Protesters who were not Ukrainian also joined the rally.
“Ukraine is fighting for us,” said Julie Levkova, a Czech who helped organize the protest. “I want to use all possibilities I have here and all my energy to fight for Ukraine in the Czech Republic.”
A similar rally took place in Romania’s capital of Bucharest on Monday.
On Tuesday, the presidents of 10 European nations — Czechia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Montenegro — said the deadly Russian missile strikes this week against civilians in Ukraine “constitute war crimes under international law.“
“On behalf of our states, we demand that Russia immediately stop attacking civilian targets,“ they said in a statement. “We will not cease our efforts to bring to court people responsible of yesterday’s crimes.“
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Data enhancements, strategic partnerships, and global team expansion mark a momentous first year
NEW YORK, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Altrata, the leading provider of intelligence on global business leaders and the ultra wealthy, is marking its first anniversary. Rebranded in May 2022, Altrata was created to integrate the data and capabilities of five market-leading data products: BoardEx, Boardroom Insiders, RelSci, WealthEngine, and Wealth-X into one organization.
During its first year, Altrata continued to focus on enhancing its product offerings, the size of its global team, and furthering its commitment to delivering unique intelligence that empowers its clients to create higher impact and value.
At the core of Altrata, its combined global dataset grew by an average of 14%, focusing on the people and intelligence most valuable to its clients. Supporting this with a considerable jump in resourcing, Altrata grew its global team by adding 10% more roles since May of 2022.
"For me this hasn't just been a branding exercise, it's been a transformation of an environment into a collective structure where we are all driving in the same direction," Altrata's CEO, James Lavell, stated in an interview.
Bringing five products together helped to create more seamless workflows for customers who have access to more than one of Altrata's solutions. Within each of the platforms, customers can move from one product to the other for more detail and insight into the people that matter most to their business.
Altrata also launched new strategic partnerships with several complementary organizations over the past year, including Intapp, Snowlfake and launchpad technologies.
Keya Hammond, Altrata's Chief Innovation Officer stated, "Through our partnerships, customers can leverage our data within their existing workflows and drive positive business outcomes. Altrata is committed to finding more ways to minimize friction when accessing its intelligence in an effort to maximize the impact it has for its clients."
A Look Forward
In a recent interview, Altrata's CEO spoke about the forward trajectory of Altrata.
"Fundamentally, we are a people, data, and technology organization. Leveraging each of these elements across our proposition provides adaptability in how we engage with our users and their changing needs. We aim to always take it further by focusing on the value we drive and truly partnering with our clients," said Lavell.
Altrata is developing new products informed by these customer needs, ensuring the evolution of the business continues to drive a greater impact for clients to achieve their goals.
Lavell goes on to say, "There are a lot of interesting things on the horizon, whether it's machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, we are at the precipice of cutting-edge innovation."
To learn more about Altrata visit Altrata.com and follow them on LinkedIn to see what's next.
About Altrata:
Altrata is a global leader in people intelligence. It includes more than 100 million profiles on wealthy individuals around the world and more than 12 million profiles on senior decision makers, board members and C-suite leaders. Altrata provides intelligence on the people who are most impactful to their clients' success. Altrata's advanced integration solutions allow deeper insights and access to billions of connections helping clients close more deals, manage risk, and identify key talent quickly. Actionable, accurate, and comprehensive data powered by a global team of more than 400 researchers and data specialists, maintaining millions of profiles, enables clients to effectively engage and make meaningful, lasting connections.
Altrata is a registered trademark of Delinian Limited and its affiliated companies, and is comprised of five dynamic offerings: BoardEx, Boardroom Insiders, RelSci, WealthEngine, and Wealth-X.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The second half of this week is when the quiet weather pattern likely shifts gears. A system will move into the Carolinas overnight Wednesday into Thursday ahead of strengthening low pressure in the Midwest and central Plains.
Most of the precipitation moving in should arrive as rain; however, initial timing could lead to a brief period of sleet and/or freezing rain mainly in the far western Piedmont before a changing back over to rain.
Friday looks to be the worst day of the week once the low pressure finally sweeps into the Northeast. Heavy rain will be possible during this storm, and a rapid changeover to snow will be possible as well, as strong winds are expected to rush over the region. Thursday and Friday should turn out to be an overall milder day despite the rain.
EXPLAINER: Weather models vs weather forecast for this snow event
Right now, it is too early to pinpoint exact precipitation totals given the uncertainty of the timing and intensity of this storm. Travel delays during the upcoming period leading right up to Christmas should be anticipated.
Much colder air will funnel into the viewing area overnight Friday into Saturday.
The upcoming weekend should overall be dry, yet quite cold and brisk in the wake of this storm. Highs in the 30s look likely for the Christmas holiday weekend. | https://abc11.com/nc-weather-snow-christmas-in/12589431/ | 2022-12-19 11:48:36 | 1 | https://abc11.com/nc-weather-snow-christmas-in/12589431/ |
EXPLAINER: How UK Conservatives can change their leader
By SYLVIA HUI
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s beleaguered Prime Minister Boris Johnson is fighting for his political future, after two of his top Cabinet ministers walked out of their jobs and a string of more junior ministers resigned following months of political chaos. Many opponents, including those within his own Conservative Party, have openly called for Johnson to go. But he has shown no sign of quitting, and it may be up to a powerful Conservative group known as the 1922 Committee to oust him before the next general election. Under current party rules, a year must pass before another formal leadership challenge can take place. But the committee has the power to change the rules to allow a fresh confidence vote sooner. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/07/06/explainer-how-uk-conservatives-can-change-their-leader-3/ | 2022-07-06 14:04:04 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/07/06/explainer-how-uk-conservatives-can-change-their-leader-3/ |
Drug-sniffing K-9s alert police to 400 pounds of meth in man’s storage unit, officials say
ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) – A Missouri man has been indicted by a grand jury after authorities made the largest meth seizure in the St. Louis DEA division’s history.
Police said they found nearly 500 pounds of meth valued at more than $1 million in a storage unit rented by Kolby L. Kristiansen, 68.
Drug-sniffing K-9s alerted authorities to Kristiansen’s storage unit on June 29. A federal search warrant was then executed on July 1 at the storage unit. Authorities found three plastic containers containing suspected methamphetamine, charging documents say.
The containers weighed a total of 476 pounds, including the suspected meth and packaging materials.
Kristiansen was charged with possession of meth with the intent to sell.
Michael A. Davis, special agent in charge of DEA’s St. Louis Division, said in a press release the seized drugs are valued at more than $1 million. That makes it the largest meth seizure in the St. Louis DEA division’s history.
Kristiansen was recently released from federal prison after serving time for similar charges back in 2014. A mugshot of Kristiansen was not immediately available.
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Call for Entries to Open for the 2023 VETTY Awards Creative Marketing Competition
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The North American Veterinary Community (NAVC), today announced the entry period for its annual VETTY Awards will open on September 1, 2022. The prestigious VETTY Awards program is the only competition dedicated to recognizing marketing excellence in the animal healthcare industry.
Veterinary industry marketing teams and agencies are invited to submit their projects for consideration during this year's VETTY Awards program. Eligible work must have been produced between January 1, 2022 and November 15, 2022. Entry divisions are comprised of a variety of marketing mediums, including print, advertising, event, digital, social media and much more. For VETTY Awards entry information, click here.
Award winners will be announced on January 16, 2023 at the NAVC's annual Veterinary Meeting & Expo (VMX) which takes place January 14-18 in Orlando. A list of winners also will be posted on the VETTY Awards website and featured in the VMX Expo Hall.
"The VETTY Awards are a highlight of our annual VMX conference where attendees can see and celebrate marketing excellence in the veterinary and animal healthcare industry," said NAVC CEO Gene O'Neill. "We look forward to seeing who will be the 'pick of the litter' among entries that are submitted by talented creatives who are dedicated to promoting products and services that help animals everywhere live better, longer lives."
The early bird deadline for VETTY Award submissions is 11:59 PM EST on Friday, November 4, 2022. The final deadline for submissions is at 11:59 PM EST on Tuesday, November 15. Winners will be notified in December, prior to the VMX event, so that arrangements can be made to attend.
The NAVC, the world's leading nonprofit dedicated to supporting the global veterinary health community, introduced The VETTY Awards program in 2017 to recognize and reward marketing and advertising excellence that helps fuel the rapidly growing animal health industry.
VMX is the world's largest gathering of veterinary industry professionals. VMX offers hundreds of hours of continuing education and program tracks over the course of five days for veterinarians and animal healthcare professionals. It features one of the largest veterinary industry expos as well as world class entertainment and networking events.
For more information about the VETTY Awards program, visit thevettys.com or email info@thevettys.com.
The North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) association organization dedicated to supporting and advancing veterinary professionals worldwide. The world's leading provider of veterinary continuing education, the NAVC delivers essential training, tools and resources for veterinary professionals to stay abreast of advances in animal medicine and provide the best medical care for animals everywhere. Through its commitment to innovation and excellence, the NAVC has developed a diverse portfolio of products and services, including: educational events, headlined by VMX, the world's largest, most comprehensive continuing education conference and launchpad for new products and innovations within the veterinary industry; a robust digital platform for virtual learning and engagement; the veterinary industry's largest and award-winning portfolio of trade publications; and an advocacy arm which unites the veterinary community and pet lovers. The NAVC was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL. Since 2017, the NAVC has been recognized annually as one of the Top Workplaces by the Orlando Sentinel. To learn more about the NAVC's products and brands, visit navc.com. To see our schedule of upcoming events, visit navc.com/calendar.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I have witnessed the lack of communication between patients and medical professionals and a lack of privacy for those who are hard of hearing and deaf," said an inventor from Laurel Springs, N.J., "so I invented SECURE TALK. My device would give the ability to directly communicate with individuals without the need of interpreters."
The patent-pending invention is an effective solution to overcome the lack of communication between patients and health care professionals by supporting patients with language barriers as well as hearing impaired. SECURE TALK assists with the technical terms that would be used in a health care setting and would ensure patient privacy. It would be convenient, practical and easy to use.
The original design was submitted to the Philadelphia sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-PLB-169, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Sandstorm Gold Ltd. ("Sandstorm Gold Royalties", "Sandstorm" or the "Company") (NYSE: SAND) (TSX: SSL) is pleased to announce the successful completion of the previously announced acquisition of Nomad Royalty Company Ltd. (NYSE: NSR) (TSX: NSR) ("Nomad") pursuant to a plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act (the "Acquisition").
Sandstorm issued approximately 74.4 million common shares of the Company ("Sandstorm Shares") to former Nomad shareholders equal to an exchange ratio of 1.21 Sandstorm Shares for each common share of Nomad (each, a "Nomad Share"). The Company's shareholders approved the share issuance for the Acquisition at its special meeting of shareholders on August 9, 2022 (see press release dated August 9, 2022). The Sandstorm Shares issued pursuant to the Acquisition are expected to be listed and posted for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. With completion of the Acquisition, existing Sandstorm and former Nomad shareholders are expected to own approximately 73% and 27% of the outstanding shares of the pro forma Sandstorm, respectively1.
In conjunction with the previously announced closing of the BaseCore transaction (together with the Acquisition, the "Transactions") (see press releases dated May 2, 2022, and July 12, 2022) the Transactions are expected to provide several benefits to Sandstorm, including:
- Substantial increase in size and scale cementing Sandstorm's status as the highest-growth2 and most liquid mid-tier royalty and streaming company;
- Adds high-quality and low-cost assets with precious metals focus resulting in Sandstorm's expected revenue to be nearly 90% precious metals3 in 2025;
- Highest growth amongst peers4 where production is expected to grow more than 85% between 2022 and 2025;
- Industry-leading portfolio diversification with a resulting portfolio of 250 streams and royalties, of which 39 of the underlying assets are cash-flowing and no asset contributing more than 15% to the Company's consensus net asset value; and
- Bolsters financial strength and capital markets profile with a strong balance sheet, increased public float, liquidity, and access to capital, Sandstorm is expected to have a greater capacity to pursue further growth and return capital to Sandstorm shareholders.
Nolan Watson, President & CEO of the Company, remarked, "The completion of the Nomad Acquisition is another exciting milestone for Sandstorm shareholders this year. We began 2022 with a bold vision for Sandstorm and this is the next step in the growth strategy for the Company. We welcome the new shareholders of Sandstorm and appreciate your support as we continue to grow and build Sandstorm into the go-to precious metals royalty and streaming royalty company."
For more information about the details of the Acquisition, see the Company's press release dated May 2, 2022 and the Company's management information circular dated July 11, 2022.
The Company intends to cause Nomad to delist the Nomad Shares from the Toronto Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and to delist Nomad's listed warrants from the Toronto Stock Exchange. An application has been made for Nomad to cease to be a reporting issuer in all of the provinces of Canada. An application will also be made for Nomad to terminate its reporting obligations in the United States.
Certain securities issued pursuant to and under the Plan of Agreement are to be issued in reliance upon available exemptions from such registration requirements of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") pursuant to Section 3(a)(10) of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable exemptions under state securities laws.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities.
For more information about Sandstorm Gold Royalties, please visit our website at www.sandstormgold.com or email us at info@sandstormgold.com.
Sandstorm is a gold royalty company that provides upfront financing to gold mining companies that are looking for capital and in return, receives the right to a percentage of the gold produced from a mine, for the life of the mine. Sandstorm holds a portfolio of 250 royalties, of which 39 of the underlying mines are producing. Sandstorm plans to grow and diversify its low cost production profile through the acquisition of additional gold royalties. For more information visit: www.sandstormgold.com.
The financial information included or incorporated by reference in this press release or the documents referenced herein has been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, which differs from US generally accepted accounting principles ("US GAAP") in certain material respects, and thus are not directly comparable to financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP.
This press release and the documents incorporated by reference herein, as applicable, have been prepared in accordance with Canadian standards for the reporting of mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates, which differ from the previous and current standards of the United States securities laws. In particular, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the terms "mineral reserve", "proven mineral reserve", "probable mineral reserve", "inferred mineral resources,", "indicated mineral resources," "measured mineral resources" and "mineral resources" used or referenced herein and the documents incorporated by reference herein, as applicable, are Canadian mineral disclosure terms as defined in accordance with Canadian National Instrument 43-101 — Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") and the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (the "CIM") — CIM Definition Standards on Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves, adopted by the CIM Council, as amended (the "CIM Definition Standards").
For United States reporting purposes, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") has adopted amendments to its disclosure rules (the "SEC Modernization Rules") to modernize the mining property disclosure requirements for issuers whose securities are registered with the SEC under the Exchange Act, which became effective February 25, 2019. The SEC Modernization Rules more closely align the SEC's disclosure requirements and policies for mining properties with current industry and global regulatory practices and standards, including NI 43-101, and replace the historical property disclosure requirements for mining registrants that were included in SEC Industry Guide 7. Issuers were required to comply with the SEC Modernization Rules in their first fiscal year beginning on or after January 1, 2021. As a foreign private issuer that is eligible to file reports with the SEC pursuant to the multi-jurisdictional disclosure system, the Corporation is not required to provide disclosure on its mineral properties under the SEC Modernization Rules and will continue to provide disclosure under NI 43-101 and the CIM Definition Standards. Accordingly, mineral reserve and mineral resource information contained or incorporated by reference herein may not be comparable to similar information disclosed by United States companies subject to the United States federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.
As a result of the adoption of the SEC Modernization Rules, the SEC now recognizes estimates of "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources." In addition, the SEC has amended its definitions of "proven mineral reserves" and "probable mineral reserves" to be "substantially similar" to the corresponding CIM Definition Standards that are required under NI 43-101. While the SEC will now recognize "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources", U.S. investors should not assume that all or any part of the mineralization in these categories will be converted into a higher category of mineral resources or into mineral reserves without further work and analysis. Mineralization described using these terms has a greater amount of uncertainty as to its existence and feasibility than mineralization that has been characterized as reserves. Accordingly, U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that all or any measured mineral resources, indicated mineral resources, or inferred mineral resources that the Company reports are or will be economically or legally mineable without further work and analysis. Further, "inferred mineral resources" have a greater amount of uncertainty and as to whether they can be mined legally or economically. Therefore, U.S. investors are also cautioned not to assume that all or any part of inferred mineral resources will be upgraded to a higher category without further work and analysis. Under Canadian securities laws, estimates of "inferred mineral resources" may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies, except in rare cases. While the above terms are "substantially similar" to CIM Definitions, there are differences in the definitions under the SEC Modernization Rules and the CIM Definition Standards. Accordingly, there is no assurance any mineral reserves or mineral resources that the Company may report as "proven mineral reserves", "probable mineral reserves", "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources" under NI 43-101 would be the same had the Company prepared the reserve or resource estimates under the standards adopted under the SEC Modernization Rules or under the prior standards of SEC Industry Guide 7.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements", within the meaning of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, concerning the business, operations and financial performance and condition of Sandstorm Gold Royalties. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the delisting of the Nomad Shares and Nomad's listed warrants; expectations regarding Nomad's reporting issuer status following completion of the Acquisition; expectations regarding the listing of Sandstorm Shares issued under the Acquisition on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange; expectations regarding the potential benefits and synergies of the Transactions and the ability of Sandstorm post-completion of the Transactions to successfully achieve business objectives, including integrating the companies or assets or the effects of unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; expectations regarding the growth potential of Sandstorm including in scale and production and the anticipated benefits of the Transactions; expectations regarding financial strength, trading liquidity, and capital markets profile; the future price of gold, silver, copper, iron ore and other metals; the estimation of mineral reserves and mineral resources, and realization of mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates; the timing and amount of estimated future production; and expectations for other economic, business, and/or competitive factors. Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may", "will", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "plans", or similar terminology.
Forward-looking statements are made based upon certain assumptions and other important factors that, if untrue, could cause the actual results, performances or achievements of Sandstorm Gold Royalties to be materially different from future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Such statements and information are based on numerous assumptions regarding present and future business strategies and the environment in which Sandstorm Gold Royalties will operate in the future, including the receipt of all required approvals, the price of gold and copper and anticipated costs. Certain important factors that could cause actual results, performances or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, amongst others, failure to receive necessary approvals, changes in business plans and strategies, market conditions, share price, best use of available cash, gold and other commodity price volatility, discrepancies between actual and estimated production, mineral reserves and resources and metallurgical recoveries, mining operational and development risks relating to the parties which produce the gold or other commodity the Company will purchase, regulatory restrictions, activities by governmental authorities (including changes in taxation), currency fluctuations, the global economic climate, dilution, share price volatility and competition.
Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: the impact of general business and economic conditions, the absence of control over mining operations from which the Company will purchase gold, other commodities or receive royalties from, and risks related to those mining operations, including risks related to international operations, government and environmental regulation, actual results of current exploration activities, conclusions of economic evaluations and changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined, risks in the marketability of minerals, fluctuations in the price of gold and other commodities, fluctuation in foreign exchange rates and interest rates, stock market volatility, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled "Risks to Sandstorm" in the Company's annual report for the financial year ended December 31, 2021 and the section entitled "Risk Factors" contained in the Company's annual information form dated March 31, 2022 available at www.sedar.com. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that are contained or incorporated by reference, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 4, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
339 PM EDT Thu Aug 4 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN OTSEGO...
NORTHWESTERN DELAWARE AND SOUTHEASTERN CHENANGO COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE
AT 345 PM EDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ark. – The Jefferson County Sheriff said after originally reporting a lack of funds to feed adult jail detainees, more money is being made available by the county.
“I think you all putting a spotlight, highlighting the issues is what really caused him to even do anything,” said Sheriff Lafayette Woods.
The Sheriff said officials came to somewhat of a resolution Monday night in a special meeting with the Quorum Court and County Judge.
“The budget… a large part of it for any county, is public safety specifically jail operations,” Woods said. “It’s a necessary evil.”
Woods said the court voted to use money from unused salaries to go towards caring for the detainees in the adult jail – where money was originally lacking.
“It basically just solved the immediate need,” Woods said.
Woods said while he is relieved that he will be able to provide immediate relief to the jail, he is concerned this is a short-term solution to a long-term problem.
“Instead of a supplemental appropriation that would add to the bottom line, I thought it was a good idea for us to just transfer the money within since that money was going to be available at the end of the year anyway,” said County Judge Gerald Robinson.
Robinson said this was financially the wisest route for providing more money, while Woods argued there was still plenty of money left in appropriations.
Woods said he also offered more money than what was provided Monday night for cushion.
“I left it up to them to think about transferring more,” he said.
Aside from where the new money is coming from now, Sheriff Woods said he filed a lawsuit against Judge Robinson and the Quorum Court over the original lack of funds, and that lawsuit still stands.
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Profiles, a Baltimore-based marketing firm, has announced a change in leadership, with the firm’s president, Amy Burke Friedman, taking over as CEO from founder Amy Elias.
Elias founded Profiles in 1990 as a one-person agency with a single client, advertising firm W.B. Doner & Co. Profiles has expanded to serve businesses, nonprofits, associations and individuals in media relations, communications, crisis management, social media, event planning and branding.
Elias hired Burke Friedman in 2003 as a junior account executive. She was named president in 2015, playing a key role in day-to-day operations while spearheading business development.
“No matter the challenge, no matter the odds, or the competition, or the pressures of time, Amy and I have worked together to always find a solution,” Elias said in the announcement. “We arm the client with a way to win in the marketplace — of commerce or opinion or both.”
Burke Friedman became CEO on Jan. 1. Elias said she plans to stay on as a consultant and to work with select clients.
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Residents of The Dalles, Oregon, are learning how much of their water Google’s data centers have been using to cool the computers inside the cavernous buildings — information that previously was deemed a trade secret.
Google says its data centers in the Oregon town consumed 274.5 million gallons (1 billion liters) of water last year. Dawn Rasmussen, who lives on the outskirts of The Dalles and has seen the level of her well water drop year after year, said she is shocked.
“I’m flabbergasted and I’m scared for the future,” Rasmussen said. “As we continue to be in drought conditions and the natural water table continues to get depleted, then the city itself is going to start to struggle.”
Data centers around the world help people stream movies, store trillions of photos and conduct daily business online, but a single facility can churn through hundreds of thousands of gallons of water per day.
The California-based company has plans to potentially build more data centers in The Dalles, and that worried some residents who fear there eventually won’t be enough water for everyone — including for area farms and fruit orchards, by far the biggest users.
A lawsuit by the city on behalf of Google — against Oregon’s biggest newspaper, The Oregonian/OregonLive — that sought to keep the water-use information confidential was dropped, the newspaper reported Thursday.
City officials abandoned the 13-month legal fight and committed to release the company’s water consumption in future years.
In an email, Google confirmed Thursday that its water use numbers would no longer be a trade secret.
“It is one example of the importance of transparency, which we are aiming to increase … which includes site-level water usage numbers for all our U.S. data center sites, including The Dalles,” Google spokesperson Devon Smiley said.
In a Nov. 21 blog posting, Google said that all of its global data centers consumed approximately 4.3 billion gallons (16.3 billion liters) of water in 2021, which it said is comparable to the water needed to irrigate and maintain 29 golf courses in the southwest U.S. each year.
John DeVoe, executive director of WaterWatch of Oregon, a conservation organization, said there should be no secrecy about these numbers.
He said Google’s data centers in The Dalles used enough water in 2021 to cover the city’s entire 7 square miles (18 square kilometers) 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) deep.
The Dalles Mayor Richard Mays said Google had previously insisted its water usage was a trade secret because the company was concerned about competitors knowing how it cools its servers, but then changed its position and agreed to release the water records.
“That’s why we backed off (the lawsuit),” Mays told The Oregonian/OregonLive.
The Oregonian/OregonLive, which had requested Google’s records last year, said the case represents a major test of Oregon public records law.
“This seemed to be a perfect example of a clash of two important storylines, both the expansion of big businesses and the public resource that they need to use,” Therese Bottomly, editor of The Oregonian/OregonLive, was quoted as saying.
Mays and Public Works Director Dave Anderson did not immediately respond to requests for further comment.
Google has been considering building two new data centers in The Dalles. The town lies along the mighty Columbia River, but the new data centers wouldn’t be able to use that water and instead would have to take water from rivers and groundwater that has gone through the city’s water treatment plant.
Communities in the West have been grappling with a more than 20-year megadrought that studies link to human-caused climate change. The snowpack in the nearby Cascade Range that feeds the aquifers varies wildly year-to-year and glaciers are melting.
Town councilors voted unanimously in November 2021 to approve Google’s proposal to build two new data centers, even though the 15,000 town residents didn’t know how much water the proposed data centers would use. Even the town councilors themselves had to wait until a couple of weeks before the vote to find out the projected usage numbers.
“Water is a public resource,” DeVoe said. “The public deserves to know how much water is used — and from what sources — by those who take water from rivers and streams and pump water from aquifers.”
The U.S. hosts 30% of the world’s data centers, more than any other country. Some data centers are trying to become more efficient in water consumption, for example by recycling the same water several times through a center before discharging it.
A study published last year by researchers at Virginia Tech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory showed one-fifth of data centers rely on water from moderately to highly stressed watersheds.
Under the settlement filed Wednesday with Wasco County Circuit Court, The Dalles will pay $53,000 to cover the legal costs for Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a nonprofit group that represented the newspaper. The city said Google will cover its own legal costs of $106,000 and has committed to covering the $53,000 settlement. | https://www.fox16.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-oregon-city-drops-fight-to-keep-google-water-use-private/ | 2022-12-16 22:21:31 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-oregon-city-drops-fight-to-keep-google-water-use-private/ |
NASA moon rocket on track for launch despite lightning hits
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket remained on track to blast off on a crucial test flight Monday, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad.
The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. It’s poised to send an empty crew capsule into lunar orbit, a half-century after NASA’s Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the moon.
Astronauts could return to the moon in a few years, if this six-week test flight goes well. NASA officials caution, however, that the risks are high and the flight could be cut short.
In lieu of astronauts, three test dummies are strapped into the Orion capsule to measure vibration, acceleration and radiation, one of the biggest hazards to humans in deep space. The capsule alone has more than 1,000 sensors.
Officials said Sunday that neither the rocket nor capsule suffered any damage during Saturday’s thunderstorm; ground equipment also was unaffected. Five lightning strikes were confirmed, hitting the 600-foot towers surrounding the rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The strikes weren’t strong enough to warrant major retesting.
“Clearly, the system worked as designed,” said Jeff Spaulding, NASA’s senior test director.
More storms were expected. Although forecasters gave 80 percent odds of acceptable weather Monday morning, conditions were expected to deteriorate during the two-hour launch window.
On the technical side, Spaulding said the team did its best over the past several months to eliminate any lingering fuel leaks. A pair of countdown tests earlier this year prompted repairs to leaking valves and other faulty equipment; engineers won’t know if all the fixes are good until just a few hours before the planned liftoff.
After so many years of delays and setbacks, the launch team was thrilled to finally be so close to the inaugural flight of the Artemis moon-exploration program, named after Apollo’s twin sister in Greek mythology.
“We’re within 24 hours of launch right now, which is pretty amazing for where we’ve been on this journey,” Spaulding told reporters.
The follow-on Artemis flight, as early as 2024, would see four astronauts flying around the moon. A landing could follow in 2025. NASA is targeting the moon’s unexplored south pole, where permanently shadowed craters are believed to hold ice that could be used by future crews.
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By BECKY BOHRER, MARK THIESSEN and JOHN ANTCZAK
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Residents on Alaska’s vast and sparsely populated western coast braced Friday for a powerful storm that forecasters said could be one of the worst in recent history, bringing with it hurricane-force winds and high surf that could knock out power and cause flooding.
The storm is the remnants of what was Typhoon Merbok, which University of Alaska Fairbanks climate specialist Rick Thoman said is also influencing weather patterns far from Alaska — a rare late-summer storm now is expected to bring rain this weekend to drought-stricken parts of California.
“All this warm air that’s been brought north by this ex-typhoon is basically inducing a chain reaction in the jet stream downstream from Alaska,” he said.
“It’s a historic-level storm,” Thoman said of the system steaming toward Alaska. “In 10 years, people will be referring to the September 2022 storm as a benchmark storm.”
Hurricane-force winds were forecast in parts of the Bering Sea, while in the small communities of Elim and Koyuk, around 90 miles (145 kilometers) from the hub community of Nome, water levels could be up to 18 feet (5 meters) above the normal high tide line, according to the National Weather Service. Flood warnings were in effect until Sunday in some areas.
In Nome, which has about 3,500 residents, Leon Boardway was working as usual Friday at the Nome Visitors Center, a half-block from the Bering Sea. “I just want to keep my door open and the coffee pot on,” he said after it had begun to rain and the winds picked up.
But few people were coming by. Residents, visitors and businesses in the town, famous for being the end of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and the setting for the dredging-for-gold reality show “Bering Sea Gold,” were boarding up windows and otherwise preparing for the storm.
“The ocean is getting worse out there,” said Boardway, 71, as he checked out the center’s webcam, which from its high perch has a good view of the swells.
“I hope everybody stays calm and everybody just gets in a good, safe position,” he said.
Typhoon Merbok formed farther east in the Pacific Ocean than where such storms typically appear. Water temperatures are unusually warm this year so the storm “was able to spin up,” Thoman said.
Meanwhile, a low-pressure system was expected to drop from the Gulf of Alaska and park off the coast of Northern California, producing gusty ridgetop winds before rains set in late Saturday, the National Weather Service said.
In the Sierra Mountain foothills northeast of the state capital of Sacramento, fire crews have been fighting what has become the largest wildfire in that state so far this year. While rain is needed, the storm was predicted to also bring winds that could spread the Mosquito Fire.
The storm will slow but not end California’s fire season because fuels are critically dry and a period of warmer, drier weather will follow, said Courtney Carpenter, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
Forecasters said the weather system will spread rain down the state’s central coast but little if any is expected in most of Southern California, where mountain and desert communities are dealing with the aftermath of too much rain.
Crews were clearing head-high mud flows in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles, and searching for a person missing since flash-flooding Monday that was caused by downpours from remnants of a Pacific hurricane that swirled into Southern California with winds topping 100 mph (160 kph) last weekend.
The deluges added to road and infrastructure damage in desert national parks from the summer’s punishing monsoonal thunderstorms.
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Thiessen reported from Anchorage, Alaska. Antczak reported from Los Angeles.
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Games are going down to the wire in the NFL at an unprecedented rate.
With a record 15 of 16 games last week within one score in the fourth quarter, the league is having the most competitive start to a season in its history.
Of the 64 games, 50 of them have been within one score in the fourth quarter for the most ever through four weeks.
There have been a record 23 games decided by three points or fewer and 38 decided by eight points or fewer, tied with the 2018 season for the most through four weeks.
Sixteen games have been decided by a score in the final 2 minutes of regulation or in overtime, one shy of the record through four weeks set in 2012.
The average point differential of 8.6 per game is the second lowest since the merger through weeks, trailing only 8.2 ppg differential in 1983
The close calls have led to tight standings throughout the league with this being the first time since 1990 that every team enters Week 5 with at least one win or one tie.
There are 15 teams that are 2-2 so far this season, tying 2017 season for the most teams splitting their first four games. All four teams in the NFC West are 2-2. The only other time in the 21 seasons of the eight-division era that an entire division started 2-2 came in 2019 in the AFC South.
GROUND IT OUT
Seven teams gained more yards on the ground than through the air led by the 262 yards rushing by the New York Giants in a rare 4,000-yard rushing week in the NFL.
The teams combined for 4,052 yards on the ground for the fifth most prolific rushing week in the past 10 seasons and sixth time in that span that the league topped 4,000 in a week.
The combined 233.4 yards rushing per game are the second most through four weeks of a season since 2000, just 6 yards behind the 2020 season.
The ground game hasn’t been prolific through the league. Tampa Bay had just six rush attempts for 3 yards in a loss to Kansas City. That marked the fifth time in NFL history a team had six or fewer rushes in a game with Brady the QB in three of those games.
It also happened in 2004 in a New England loss at Pittsburgh and in 2020 in a Tampa Bay loss to New Orleans.
LIGHT UP THE SCOREBOARD
No team has ever had quite a start to the season like the Detroit Lions who are lighting up scoreboards when they are on offense and defense.
The Lions are the 30th team in the Super Bowl era to average at least 35 points per game through the first four games of a season and the 18th to allow at least 35 points per game. But they are the first to do both in the same season.
The previous 29 teams to score at least 140 points in their first four games had a combined record of 109-7 (.940), with only the 2002 Chiefs failing to have a winning record before the Lions did it this year while losing three of four games.
The 281 combined points in Detroit’s games are the most for a team through four games.
Jared Goff is tied for the league lead with 11 TD passes and Jamaal Williams leads the NFL with six TD runs. The Lions are the sixth team in the Super Bowl era to have the league leader in passing and rushing TDs, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
ROOKIE PASSERS
The 2022 season will finally get a rookie starting quarterback.
Kenny Pickett will get the nod for Pittsburgh on Sunday at Buffalo, marking the latest in the season since 2000 for the first start by a rookie QB.
That year, Doug Johnson and Spergon Wynn both made their first starts in Week 14.
Rookie Bailey Zappe could also get his first start for New England if Mac Jones and Brian Hoyer are still hurt. Zappe came off the bench to throw a 25-yard TD pass last week, marking the first time since 2007 that it took until Week 4 for a rookie to throw a TD pass. Trent Edwards had the first that year in Week 4 for Buffalo.
Pickett did run for two scores on Sunday after replacing Mitchell Trubisky, becoming the 22nd player and first QB to run for at least two TDs in his NFL debut.
INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE
The Green Bay Packers (3-1) will be the final team to play an international game when they take on the New York Giants (3-1) in London this week in the NFL’s 35th international game.
This will be just the second of those games to feature two teams with winning records heading into the game, with Houston (6-3) and Oakland (7-2) doing it in 2016 in Mexico City.
The Giants are 2-0 abroad and can join New England (3-0) and Minnesota (3-0) as the only teams to play at least three international games and win them all.
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Man arrested after teenage girl hit by propeller after going overboard on boat
Published: Jul. 5, 2022 at 11:14 AM EDT|Updated: 34 minutes ago
LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. (WAFB/Gray News) – A teenage girl was killed Monday after falling off a pontoon boat into the Blind River.
According to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Madison Bradley, 17, and another male passenger were riding on the bow of the boat in front of the protective rail when they hit a wake from a passing vessel.
Both Bradley and the man were knocked into the water.
Authorities say Bradley did not resurface and suffered severe propeller strikes.
The man had minor injuries and should be OK.
The boat operator was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide, driving a vessel while impaired and reckless operation of a vessel.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday that the Senate will vote to repeal two decades-old measures giving open-ended approval for military action in Iraq, raising the hopes of a bipartisan group of senators who want to reclaim congressional powers over U.S. military strikes and deployments.
The vote, which would come after consideration in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, could take place just before the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It would repeal the 2002 measure that greenlighted that March 2003 invasion, along with a separate 1991 measure that sanctioned the U.S.-led Gulf War to expel Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait.
“Every year we keep this authorization to use military force on the books is another chance for a future president to abuse or misuse it,” Schumer said. “War powers belong squarely in the hands of Congress, and that implies that we have a responsibility to prevent future presidents from hijacking this AUMF to bumble us into a new war.” He was referring to the Authorization for Use of Military Force.
The bill, led by Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Todd Young, R-Ind., passed the Senate Foreign Relations panel and the then- Democratic-led House in 2021. But it never came up for a vote in the full Senate, despite significant bipartisan support.
The Iraq war authorizations “are no longer necessary, serve no operational purpose, and run the risk of potential misuse,” Kaine said Thursday.
The House is now led by Republicans, and it’s unclear if leaders would bring the bill up for a vote. Forty-nine House Republicans supported the legislation two years ago, but current House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opposed it.
The Biden administration has supported the move, arguing that ending the war authorization against Iraq of the Saddam Hussein era would make clear that the Iraq government of today is a partner of the United States. It would also remove a grievance for rival Iran to exploit, State Department officials have said.
But Republican opponents have argued that revoking the two authorizations for military force would signal U.S. weakness to Iran.
“The ayatollah is listening to this debate,” Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said, referring to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, when the panel debated the legislation two years ago.
Republicans also pointed out that President Donald Trump’s administration had cited the 2002 Iraq war resolution as part of its legal justification for a 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani.
Supporters of the repeal said presidents should instead come to Congress.
“The framers gave Congress the grave duty to deliberate the questions of war and peace, but for far too long this body has abdicated this duty,” said Texas Rep. Chip Roy, a Republican sponsor of the bill in the House. “We must do our job.”
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Former UK player Isaac Humphries comes out as gay
Humphries played for UK during the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons
(WKYT) - Former Kentucky basketball player Isaac Humphries shared an emotional video on social media telling his teammates he’s gay.
The video, shared by Humphries, shows him sharing the conversation with his Melbourne United teammates.
Humphries called it “one of the hardest conversations I’ve ever had in my life.” He says years ago he was in a dark place and attempted to take his life.
In his decision to come out, Humphries said he wanted people to know “you can be whatever you want no matter who you are or what you do.”
Humphries played for UK during the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons.
According to Melbourne United, the announcement makes Humphries the only openly gay male professional basketball player currently playing in a top tier league anywhere in the world.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s 2021 voting law made changes that drew a firestorm of criticism — bans on giving water to people waiting to vote, a shorter period to request an absentee ballot and strict limits on ballot drop boxes.
But with early in-person voting opening Monday in most Georgia counties ahead of the June 21 primary runoff, the consequences of another change that got less attention are becoming fully apparent. Shortening the runoff period from nine weeks to four weeks means less time to vote early in person and tight windows to receive and return mail ballots.
Opponents of the law say the shorter runoff period keeps people from voting.
“All of these things are designed to construct additional hurdles to Georgians participating in our elections,” said Nse Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project, which seeks to mobilize nonwhite and young voters. “Individually, they are annoyances, inconveniences. Collectively, they make up a voter suppression scheme.”
Supporters of the law admit the four-week period is challenging for election officials, but say the voter suppression narrative is hogwash.
“What we’ve seen is just fewer issues and more voters turning out across the board, regardless of party, and regardless of method of voting. So I think it’s a real positive,” said former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who now leads Greater Georgia, a group which aims to mobilize conservative voters.
Georgia requires a runoff if a candidate doesn’t win a majority in the party primary or in the general election. The new law mandates only five weekdays of early in-person voting for runoffs, beginning Monday and ending Friday. Voters got three weeks of early voting before the May 24 primary, including two mandatory Saturdays for the first time.
The law says Georgia’s 159 counties can open early in-person runoff voting as soon as possible, but only 10 counties started before Monday. Seven counties — Clarke, Cobb, Fulton, Glynn, Gwinnett, Lowndes and Rockdale, provided Saturday voting. Only Fulton and Gwinnett, the state’s two most populous counties, provided Sunday voting.
Some counties decided against weekend voting because officials believed there would be little demand. Many Republican voters have no runoff to vote in, with all statewide races settled and few local GOP races requiring another round of voting.
But Ufot said it’s unfair to voters to let counties set their own schedules.
“They let them each determine when they want to do early voting and whether or not they want to make it easier for people?” Ufot asked.
Of the 71,000 people who requested absentee ballots by mail, records show more than 13,000 hadn’t been mailed by Saturday, raising questions about whether voters could receive and return them in time.
“That’s a legitimate concern,” Loeffler said. “At the county level, I think that’s something that they’re going to have to be watching.”
A number of election officials say another week before the runoff would improve things.
Deidre Holden, elections director in Atlanta’s suburban Paulding County, said her county has struggled to order ballots, prepare equipment and find poll workers.
“We are having trouble making sure we’re meeting deadlines,” Holden said. “It’s been something else, just trying to get the election turned back around. … Twenty-eight days is just not enough.”
Of nine states that conduct runoffs, only South Carolina, at two weeks, and Arkansas and Mississippi, at three weeks, have shorter periods.
Until 2013, Georgia runoffs were a three-week sprint, but a federal judge found military and overseas voters didn’t have enough time to return mail ballots, ordering nine weeks instead.
Lawmakers in 2021 solved that problem by adding ranked-choice ballots for overseas voters, letting them pick additional choices in the event of a runoff.
The law’s Republican authors said they wanted a shorter period because nine-week runoffs “were exhausting for candidates, donors and electors.” The last of those contests, of course, saw Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock defeat Republicans David Perdue and Loeffler in January 2021 to give Democrats control of the U.S. Senate.
“Having been a candidate in a nine-week runoff and talking to people across the state about what a protracted runoff means, I don’t know a lot of people that want to go back to a protracted runoff situation,” Loeffler said. “There’s voter fatigue; candidate resources get strained.”
Others suggest Republicans acted to make sure Democrats could never repeat that performance.
“I do think, maybe, that this is a backlash against what happened in January 2021,” said Sean Morales-Doyle, acting director for voting rights at the Brennan Center for Justice.
Morales-Doyle said turnout may be high in Georgia, but he cautions that measuring the impact of policy changes on turnout “is a very complicated thing to do,” noting high spending in governor and U.S. Senate races drove voting on May 24. But he said shortening the runoff period is limiting.
“There’s reason to think that cutting down severely on access to early voting and voting by mail is going to have a negative impact on turnout,” Morales-Doyle said. | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/shortened-georgia-runoff-poses-hurdles-for-voters-officials/ | 2022-06-14 03:22:19 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/shortened-georgia-runoff-poses-hurdles-for-voters-officials/ |
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NEW YORK, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 5WPR, one of the largest independently owned PR firms in the U.S., announces today the expansion of the sustainable consumer goods practice team of experts.
The sustainability team works across numerous consumer sectors, including food, beverage, home, beauty, and lifestyle practice areas as consumer demand for more sustainable offerings continues to rise. With this heightened focus, the team leverages key opportunities to build brand awareness and highlight the actions taken by these brands to create a healthier environment.
"Every day we are inspired by our expanding roster of clients, who offer sustainable practices and packaging, to do better for both people and planet," said 5WPR CEO, Dara A. Busch. "The brands we work with are at the forefront of driving the mission of sustainability within their industries. In response to their growing efforts and the influx of sustainability-forward programs, we're thrilled to be expanding our team and services for this growing area within our agency."
5WPR's 2022 Consumer Culture Report found that 70% of respondents take it upon themselves to research if a company ethically and sustainably sources and produces, prior to purchasing.
5WPR excels in the category, launching innovative, purpose-driven brands to the U.S. market that focus on planet-minded and ethically-conscious clients year-round.
5W Public Relations helps consumer products and brands build strong, authentic relationships with customers. PR services offered to consumer good clients include messaging and positioning, media relations, influencer relations, product launches, new market expansion campaigns, executive visibility programs, fundraising announcements, content creation, sponsorships/partnerships, digital media campaigns, thought leadership and speaking opportunities.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — People in and around Mississippi's capital city were bracing for possible flooding as the Pearl River was approaching a crest after last week's heavy rainfall.
Officials said about 100 to 150 homes in the Jackson area could be impacted by Monday night. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said Monday on Twitter that the river was predicted to crest at 35.5 feet (10.8 meters). The agency said that would just avoid hitting the major flood stage level of 36 feet (10.97 meters).
“Roads are still flooded. We ask that you don’t return home until your local officials say it’s safe to do so,” the agency said.
Some Jackson residents started moving furniture and appliances out of their homes late last week. Others were stocking up on sandbags. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency had deployed 126,000 sandbags to act as water barriers in preparation for flooding.
Two years ago, torrential downpours caused the Pearl River to reach 36.7 feet (11.2 meters) and Jackson homes in the hardest-hit neighborhoods were filled with dirty, snake-infested flood water.
Oscar Day, an inventory control worker at a sandbag distribution site, said Jackson residents started preparing their homes for potential flood damage earlier than in 2020.
“A lot of people took the heat last time,” Day said Sunday.
The Red Cross opened a temporary shelter at the Jackson Police Department Training Academy.
The floodwaters in Mississippi arrive after severe flooding caused death and destruction in Kentucky last month. Those floods caused at least 39 deaths and robbed thousands of families of all of their possessions. Nearly a month later, residents are wrestling with whether to rebuild at the place they call home or to start over somewhere else.
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Malta proposes bill to ease EU’s strictest anti-abortion law
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VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Malta’s government has introduced legislation to ease the European Union’s strictest anti-abortion law and allow the procedure in cases where the mother’s life or health is at risk. It is taking action after a headline-grabbing case involving an American tourist who miscarried and was airlifted off the Mediterranean island to get treatment. The overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Malta is the only EU member nation that still prohibits abortion for any reason, with laws making it a crime punishable by up to three years in prison to have the procedure. The group Doctors for Choice welcomed the move but said abortion should be decriminalized completely. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/11/21/malta-proposes-bill-to-ease-eus-strictest-anti-abortion-law/ | 2022-11-21 21:39:54 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/11/21/malta-proposes-bill-to-ease-eus-strictest-anti-abortion-law/ |
US charges 4 Americans, 3 Russians in election discord case
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Four Americans affiliated with a Black empowerment and political organization have been charged along with three Russians with conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society, spread Russian propaganda and interfere illegally in U.S. elections, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.
The U.S. citizens and two Russians were added to an existing case in Tampa, Florida, federal court involving Aleksandr Ionov, described by prosecutors as the founder of a Moscow-based organization funded by the Russian government to carry out a clandestine influence campaign in the U.S.
The four Americans are all part of the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement, which has locations in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis. Among those charged is Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the U.S.-based organization — which was raided by the FBI last summer when Ionov was originally charged.
“Russia’s foreign intelligence service allegedly weaponized our First Amendment rights — freedoms Russia denies to its own citizens — to divide Americans and interfere in elections in the United States,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
“The department will not hesitate to expose and prosecute those who sow discord and corrupt U.S. elections in service of hostile foreign interests, regardless of whether the culprits are U.S. citizens or foreign individuals abroad,” Olsen said in a news release.
Yeshitela and three other U.S. citizens — Penny Joanne Hess, Jesse Nevel and Augustus C. Romain Jr — are charged with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Hess, Yeshitela and Nevel are also charged with impersonating agents of a foreign government. Ionov and the other two Russians, who remain in their country, face the fraud conspiracy charge.
Court records did not list attorneys for any of the seven defendants, and it wasn’t immediately clear if they have been arrested. An email seeking comment was sent to the African People’s Socialist Party, which has previously denied working covertly for Russia or that any members committed a crime.
Prosecutors said Ionov operated an entity called the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia that was used to carry out its U.S. influence efforts, overseen by the Russian intelligence service known as the FSB. They recruited U.S.-based organizations to help sway elections, make it appear there was strong support in the U.S. for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and backed efforts such as a 2015 United Nations petition to decry the “genocide of African people” in the U.S., according to the indictment.
Among other things, the indictment charges that an unnamed candidate for local office in St. Petersburg received clandestine funding and political strategy from the group. Ionov and another Russian said at one point that their Florida effort would extend to the 2020 presidential campaign, which they called the “main topic of the year.”
Yeshitela, the indictment adds, traveled from Tampa to Moscow in 2015 to meet with Ionov and other Russians to “communicate on future cooperation,” according to an Ionov email. What followed was covert Russian funding and support for various activities in the U.S. until summer 2022, including demonstrations at the California and Georgia state capitols and at an unnamed social media company in San Francisco.
Much of the alleged cooperation involved support for Russian’s invasion of Ukraine. In March 2022, Yeshitela held a news conference in which he said the “African People’s Socialist Party calls for unity with Russia in its defensive war in Ukraine against the world colonial powers.” He also called for the independence of the Russian-occupied Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
In addition, the Justice Department announced a separate indictment in Washington charging Russian national Natalia Burlinova with conspiring with Russian intelligence to recruit U.S. academics and researchers to attend programs that advanced Russian interests. Burlinova concealed that her efforts were funded by the Russian government, prosecutors said.
It was not immediately clear Tuesday if Burlinova has an attorney to speak on her behalf.
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NEW YORK — Major League Baseball will start a months-long approval process for the Oakland Athletics' proposed move to Las Vegas, which appears set to become the second shift of a franchise in the last half-century.
On the day Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed legislation granting $380 million in public financing for a ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred bemoaned the team's inability to obtain a new stadium in Oakland and defended A's owner John Fisher, who has maintained public silence.
“I feel sorry for the fans in Oakland. I do not like this outcome. I understand why they feel the way they do,” Manfred said Thursday during a news conference following an owners meeting. "I think that the real question is, what is it that Oakland was prepared to do? There is no Oakland offer. They never got to the point where they had a plan to build a stadium at any site.”
Manfred said the team must submit a relocation application explaining its efforts in Oakland and why Las Vegas is a better market. A relocation committee will define the new operating territory and television territory, then make a recommendation to Manfred and the eight-man executive council. The executive council formulates a recommendation to all clubs, which must approve the move by at least three-quarters vote.
Milwaukee owner Mark Attanasio will chair the relocation committee, two people familiar with the process told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the appointment was not announced.
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao denied the claim the city had made no ballpark offer.
“There was a very concrete proposal under discussion and Oakland had gone above and beyond to clear hurdles, including securing funding for infrastructure, providing an environmental review and working with other agencies to finalize approvals,” spokeswoman Julie Edwards said in a statement. “The reality is the A’s ownership had insisted on a multibillion dollar, 55-acre project that included a ballpark, residential, commercial and retail space. In Las Vegas, for whatever reason, they seem satisfied with a 9-acre leased ballpark on leased land. If they had proposed a similar project in Oakland, we feel confident a new ballpark would already be under construction.”
Manfred said there will not be a relocation fee.
“It has always been baseball’s policy and preference to stay put. And I think that always colors any conversation about relocation,” Manfred said. “Having said that, I think that the owners as a whole understand that there has been a multiyear and approaching a decade effort where for the vast majority of the time the sole focus was Oakland."
Las Vegas would become the fourth home for a franchise that started in Philadelphia from 1901-54, moved to Kansas City for 13 seasons and arrived in Oakland for 1968.
Fisher, son of the founders of Gap. Inc., took over as controlling owner in 2016 from Lew Wolff, who had headed the A's since 2005. After announcing plans to build ballparks at Fremont (2006), San Jose (2012) and the Oakland waterfront (2018), the A’s said on April 19 they had agreed to buy land close to the Las Vegas Strip. That got replaced in a deal announced May 15 to build on the Tropicana hotel site on the Strip.
“It's not just John Fisher,” Manfred said. “You don’t build a stadium based on the club activity alone. The community has to provide support. And at some point you come to the realization it’s just not going to happen.”
While Fisher refused to speak with reporters at the owners meeting, the team released a statement: “We are excited about Southern Nevada’s dynamic and vibrant professional sports scene, and we look forward to becoming a valued community member.”
Since the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers for 1972, the only team to relocate has been the Montreal Expos, who became the Washington Nationals in 2005.
“I hope they stay baseball fans, whatever team they decide to affiliate with,” Manfred said of Oakland supporters. “The piece of this particular series of events that’s the most disturbing to me is the idea of fans that have supported the team losing a team. We hate that idea.”
Nevada's Legislature on Wednesday approved providing taxpayer money for a proposed $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark with a retractable roof. The new venue would be close to Allegiant Stadium, where the NFL's Oakland Raiders moved to in 2020, and T-Mobile Arena, where the NHL's expansion Golden Knights started play in 2017.
“Obviously the passing of the legislation in Nevada — really, really important,” Manfred said.
The team, whose lease at the Oakland Coliseum expires after the 2024 season, would move from the 10th-largest U.S. television market to the 40th, and stadium capacity would be the major leagues' smallest.
“When I have all of the information in that application, if and when I see concerns with respect to it, I’ll talk about it publicly,” Manfred said.
Fisher has not publicly discussed the move.
"We have never mandated that owners have a particular stance with respect to public availability,” Manfred said.
A new stadium likely would open in 2028 at the earliest. Before then, a possible home is the 10,000 seat-capacity Las Vegas Ballpark, home of the Triple-A Las Vegas Aviators, Oakland's top farm team.
Oakland is averaging 9,076 fans per home game, lowest among the 30 teams and one-third the average of 27,203. The A's, who last won the World Series in 1989, reached the playoffs from 2018-20 but after trading top players and slashing payroll to a big league-low $58 million, have the second-worst record in the major leagues at 19-51.
“They had a very, very good record up through the pandemic,” Manfred said. “Markets that face that kind of financial difficulty often have to make hard decisions with respect to players when you have limited financial resources.”
Manfred has said the A's and Tampa Bay Rays must get new ballpark agreements before expansion will be considered. MLB last added teams for 1998, and top candidates are considered to be Charlotte, North Carolina; Montreal; Nashville, Tennessee; and Portland, Oregon.
Manfred defended government subsidies.
“I view baseball stadiums, because of the number of games and the economic impact we produce, as a public asset,” he said. “I do think that it is part of my job and it’s in fact good business to have a public-private partnership to get those kind of facilities built.” | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/oakland-as-las-vegas-mlb-approval-process/507-56cb9080-88d4-464a-96b6-8a09c1a3ed1d | 2023-06-17 20:58:55 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/oakland-as-las-vegas-mlb-approval-process/507-56cb9080-88d4-464a-96b6-8a09c1a3ed1d |
Unique Sea-Themed Venues Unveiled for Carnival's Next Excel Class Ship
MIAMI, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Jubilee, the next new ship in the Excel class, will debut fun, unique and immersive ocean-themed experiences in two new zones: Currents and The Shores, along with guest favorites and, of course, the fleet's third roller coaster at sea when she debuts later this year. To take a look at all of her unique features, click here.
Currents, encompassing Deck 6 and Deck 7, is an awe-inspiring, immersive and transformative space that takes guests below the waves with a playful vibe featuring innovative technology, new and exciting bar and dining venues and live music. When guests step into Currents, they will be transported to mesmerizing underwater worlds, both realistic and fantastical, in a beautiful space that changes from day to night and throughout the cruise. The portals to the sea comprise six huge LED windows which, along with a massive wave-shaped LED ceiling, theatrical show lighting and captivating sound design will create a variety of immersive environments for guests to enjoy as they try new, unique cocktails and flavorful dishes. Venues within Currents include:
- Dr.Inks, Ph.D – Eight crafty octopus arms adorn this fun bar, inspired by the cleverest of sea creatures who spends her time philosophizing about life underwater while enjoying a tasty libation. Unique ocean-themed drinks such as color-changing cocktails, jellyfish and layered shots and playful items featuring sea foam, boba pearls and unique garnishes are as visually striking as they are delicious. Dr.Inks' fun and quirky personality is at the center of this experience and comes to life through her musings on the menu and her favorite books, journals and fountain pens on display. Guests will enjoy tasty drinks, live music and great company as they relax and people-watch at this along-the-way bar surrounded by an environment that transports guests to Dr.Inks' underwater home.
- The Golden Mermaid – This ultra-stylish lounge is home to a mysterious golden mermaid who swims to the depths of the oceans to find long-lost treasures of ancient civilizations and uncovers secret cocktail recipes. Cocktails inspired by precious gemstones and metals are made with edible glitter, as well as drinks presented in pretty glassware and adorned with graceful garnishes for an elevated experience. The live band on stage will provide a lively backdrop to fun conversation and the comfortable lounge seating is the perfect place to relax with an elegant drink before or after dinner.
- Emeril's Bistro 717 – The line's Chief Culinary Officer, renowned chef and restauranteur Emeril Lagasse, is back by popular demand, bringing guest-favorite creole cuisine, an expansive seafood selection and expanded raw bar created in his unique style. Named after Carnival Jubilee's hull number at Meyer Werft in Germany, Emeril's Bistro 717 will serve a rich breakfast with dishes such as shrimp and grits, poached eggs and fixings and sweet beignets. Guests will also enjoy lunch and dinner with seafood creations such as creole boiled shrimp, fresh oysters, stone crab (seasonally) and lobster, as well as authentic Louisiana cuisine featuring Emeril's signature jambalaya, New Orleans-style barbeque shrimp and duck and sausage gumbo. As if all that flavor wasn't enough, guests can enjoy their meal while sitting beneath impressive LED windows and a ceiling array creating a unique underwater dining experience.
Additional venues in Currents include guest favorites Alchemy Bar and Carnival Kitchen.
On Deck 8, The Shores is the place where the ocean meets land, a zone that's inspired by the ways people enjoy the seaside including piers, boardwalks and beaches. An impressive three-deck-high fish school art installation rises from Deck 6 all the way to Deck 8 to bring guests up from the Currents below to the surface.
Guests will stroll along the boardwalk alongside colorful and playful designs, including a fun Ferris wheel- inspired ceiling feature, and casual seating areas, both inside and outside. Guests can enjoy a fresh hot pizza at Coastal Slice or try a tasty sandwich or hot dog at Beach Buns. Marina Bar features fun nautical designs and comfortable lounge seating for enjoying coffee and cocktails inside by the boardwalk or outside by the sea. Rudi's Seagrill and Cucina del Capitano return with indoor and al fresco seating.
The other four zones of Carnival Jubilee will be home to spectacular activities and venues that guests have gotten to love on both Mardi Gras and Carnival Celebration. From the transformational three-deck-high atrium that guests see when they first board to the fun for all-ages attractions that fill the top deck, the ship will also include these zones that are sure to wow:
- Grand Central – The heart of Carnival Jubilee, this awe-inspiring area of the ship spans Deck 6, 7 and 8. During the day, it's a beautiful space for guests to enjoy a drink from the JavaBlue Café, or one of the area's bars as they take in breathtaking ocean views. At night, the zone transforms as movable LED screens and a stage create an innovative entertainment space which allows for truly spectacular performances. Grand Central also connects guests to guest favorites, including Piano Bar 88, The Punchliner Comedy Club, Cloud 9 Fitness Center, Cherry on Top, Bonsai Sushi and Teppanyaki, a variety of shopping venues, as well as the casino and theater.
- The Ultimate Playground – BOLT, the Ultimate Sea Coaster, is the centerpiece of the ship's top deck and features all-electric, motorcycle-inspired vehicles that race along the 800-foot-long track, 187 feet above the sea achieving speeds of up to 40 miles per hour. BOLT will soar above other popular attractions designed for fun for all ages, including WaterWorks aqua park and SportSquare featuring a mini-golf course, full-court basketball and an exhilarating ropes course.
- Summer Landing – Beyond The Shores zone, Summer Landing will continue Deck 8's relaxed vibe and bring together some of Carnival guests' favorites. This area is home to Guy's Pig & Anchor Smokehouse Brewhouse, which offers smoked-onboard favorites created by longtime Carnival partner, celebrity chef and restaurateur Guy Fieri and an assortment of Carnival's ParchedPig craft beers from the onboard brewery. Other popular venues include the Heroes Tribute Lounge, honoring military personnel, as well The Patio – which features a pool and whirlpools – and The Watering Hole poolside bar.
- Lido – The poolside zone, which spans Decks 16 and 17, is home to the Carnival Seaside Theater, two-story RedFrog Tiki Bar, BlueIguana Cantina and guest-favorite Guy's Burger Joint. Shaquille O'Neal's Big Chicken restaurant, Seafood Shack, Street Eats, Lido Marketplace, Circle C, Club 02 and The Warehouse Arcade ensure this area is packed with something for everyone.
Carnival Jubilee first sails from Galveston on Dec. 23, 2023, joining Carnival Breeze and Carnival Dream operating from Galveston year-round, offering week-long Western Caribbean cruises. In 2024, Carnival will increase its deployment in Galveston to four ships when Carnival Miracle begins operating a new series of longer cruises from the port.
For more details about Carnival Jubilee, visit https://www.carnival.com/MeetCarnivalJubilee. For additional information on Carnival Cruise Line and to book a cruise vacation, call 1-800-CARNIVAL, visit www.carnival.com, or contact your favorite travel advisor or online travel site.
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Rarely is the danger of easy access to firearms portrayed more starkly than in the case of Deja Taylor and her 6-year-old son, who shot his teacher. In an interview with ABC, Ms. Taylor said her son has ADHD and that she thought his teacher was ignoring him in class, as reported in the May 11 Metro article “Boy who shot Va. teacher has ADHD, mother says.”
We can only speculate how many thousands of times a day such situations occur in classrooms in this country (and, in fact, throughout the world). Yet what made this a tragic situation was the handgun our laws allowed Ms. Taylor to purchase, not her son’s ADHD, his impatience or any action taken by his teacher. If Ms. Taylor thinks she is explaining her son’s act of violence by citing his diagnosis and state of mind, she’s wrong — and she’s doing a disservice to her son and other people with ADHD.
Though Ms. Taylor is correct in taking responsibility for the shooting, those who have made it easy for anyone to buy a firearm share responsibility for this and other senseless acts of gun violence.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — There are two searing scenes of Nancy Pelosi confronting the violent extremism that spilled into the open late in her storied political career. In one, she’s uncharacteristically shaken in a TV interview as she recounts the brutal attack on her husband.
In the other, the House speaker rips open a package of beef jerky with her teeth during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, while on the phone with Mike Pence, firmly instructing the Republican vice president how to stay safe from the mob that came for them both. “Don’t let anybody know where you are,” she said.
That Pelosi, composed and in command at a time of chaos, tart but parochial-school proper at every turn, is the one whom lawmakers have obeyed, tangled with, respected and feared for two decades.
She is the most powerful woman in American politics and one of the nation’s most consequential legislative leaders — through times of war, financial turmoil, a pandemic and an assault on democracy.
Now, at 82, in the face of political loss and personal trauma, she decided her era was ending.
Pelosi stood in the well of a rapt House on Thursday and announced she would not seek a Democratic leadership position in the Congress that convenes in January, when Republicans take control of the chamber. Pelosi, who will remain a member of the House, took her time revealing the news, looking back over an improbable career and recalling her first visit to the Capitol at age 6 with her congressman father.
“Never would I have thought that I would go from homemaker to House speaker,” she allowed. On her future, she told reporters: “I like to dance, I like to sing. There’s a life out there, right?”
Polarizing and combative, Pelosi nevertheless forged compromises with Republicans on historic legislation.
Across the policy spectrum, whether you liked the results or not, she delivered votes that touched ordinary lives in many ways. Among them: how millions get health care, the state of the roads, the lightened burden of student debt, the minimum wage, progress on climate change that took over a decade to bear fruit.
Even former Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich, a self-described “partisan conservative who thinks that most of her positions are insane,” said Pelosi had a “remarkable” run. This, from a fellow “troublemaker with a gavel,” as she called herself. He flamed out; she didn’t.
“Totally dominant,” Gingrich said of her in an interview. “She’s clearly one of the strongest speakers in history. She has shown enormous perseverance and discipline.”
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FEW SURVIVE
Those qualities are essential if you don’t want to be run out of town, as was a succession of modern Republican speakers, back to Gingrich. It’s one thing to herd sheep. It’s another thing altogether to herd Democrats and all their messy factions.
Pelosi dealt with conservative Blue Dog Democrats, the liberal women of the Squad, the Out of Iraq Caucus — not to mention old-guard legislators who treated their committees like fiefdoms.
Many of the above, at one point or another, earned her look of icy disapproval, well practiced and not always reserved just for the other side.
“Politics is tough,” she said in 2015, “but intraparty? Oh, brother.”
Squad member Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, not always Pelosi’s biggest fan, spoke Thursday of how Pelosi had “served as a beacon of hope” to her and her family when they migrated from Somalia.
Omar, at times the subject of “send her back” chants during Donald Trump’s rallies, recalled that Pelosi had invited her to join her on a 2019 trip to Africa “to represent how far we have come as a country.”
Princeton political scientist Frances Lee said there’s no doubt Pelosi was a “truly great legislative leader, among a handful truly in command. She’s really had her party in the House of Representatives in hand. The difficulty of managing them should not be underrated. It didn’t always look pretty but she held the party together.”
Pelosi prevailed — for nearly 20 years as House Democratic leader including nearly eight as speaker in two separate stints — with hard-nosed sentiments like these:
“Whoever votes against the speaker will pay a price.” — to Democrats who resisted her push for a select committee on climate change early in her speakership.
“Nobody’s walking out of here saying anything, if they want to keep an intact neck.” — to negotiators trying to work out a 2007 House-Senate compromise to restrain pork, according to the notes of John A. Lawrence, her then-chief of staff and author of a new insider book on her speakership, “Arc of Power.”
Sometimes, she could snap her lawmakers into line without a word.
A flick of her hand was all it took to silence Democrats who cheered when the House first passed articles of impeachment against Trump. It was an occasion for sobriety and Pelosi was a stickler for institutional decorum. But not always.
She ripped up her copy of Trump’s 2020 State of the Union speech, on the dais behind him, on camera. The theatrical protest at one of American democracy’s prime rituals raised questions about whether Pelosi, in that moment, had become what she despised in Trump.
Afterward, she said she had extended her “hand of friendship” to him when he arrived but he did not take it. “He looked a little sedated,” she added. As she read quickly through her copy of the speech while Trump delivered it, she stewed over the lines and decided to take action.
“He has shredded the truth in his speech, shredded the Constitution in his conduct — I shredded the address,” she said crisply. “Thank you all very much.”
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THE VILLAINIZATION
In 2007, Republican President George W. Bush opened his speech as the “first president to begin his State of the Union with these words: Madam Speaker.” He grinned, she beamed, an ovation followed.
Although she maintained a genial relationship with the Bush family — especially the elder George Bush — Republican campaigns seized on her as the perfect foil early on and never let go. She was pilloried as “Darth Nancy” in the 2006 campaign and the villainization got much uglier, complete with gun imagery, as the years passed and politics became more toxic.
“She was, she is, the personification of the San Francisco liberal,” Lawrence said in an interview. “It was made to order for them.”
But “with her there was a viciousness. The fact that she fit that bill so perfectly — a smart, attractive, effective woman … they knew they could caricature and stigmatize things about her, her appearance and style, in a way that was a very effective dog whistle of misogyny.”
Republicans often did it simply to raise money, and it worked. Then they used her in ads to attack Democratic congressional candidates. Some of those worked, too,
At least publicly, she would never attribute the attacks to the fact she’s a woman, Lawrence said. “She would say, ‘They did it because I’m effective.'” Then “pretend to flick dust” off her immaculate jacket.
“Darth Nancy” was a quaint, faraway insult by the time the pro-Trump mob came looking for her that Jan. 6. Their sign at the Capitol said “Pelosi is Satan.”
Rifling through her desk in the abandoned speaker’s office, they found a pair of boxing gloves.
Pink ones.
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THE DO-LOTS CONGRESS
Over the years, Pelosi honed the art of aiming high, then disappointing one faction of her party or another without losing her core of support. Rare is the major achievement that was as far left as the party’s left wing wanted it to be.
But many are the major achievements. She settled for an “Obamacare” bill that did not give everyone the option of government health insurance, but did, over time, fundamentally expand access to health care.
As financial institutions and large segments of the economy sank into the Great Recession, with the 2008 election looming, she settled for a Bush-era stimulus package that essentially bailed out Wall Street — when liberal Occupy Wall Street activists had very different ideas.
She delivered Democratic votes to help even some Trump initiatives get over the line, like early COVID-19 pandemic relief, before swinging behind President Joe Biden on some of the most far-reaching legislation since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society push in the 1960s.
And Bono, who worked with Pelosi over the years on combating AIDS, said in a statement to the AP after a performance Thursday night in Scotland: “When the story of the end of AIDS is written, Nancy Pelosi’s name will stand out in boldface.”
“I am honored to have learned so much from her grit and grace, and to call her a friend,” he added.
For all the accolades, Pelosi crushed a multitude of toes along the way.
“Her instincts are to find a path and if you happen to be standing in the hole, she’s going to treat you like a running back,” said political scientist Cal Jillson at Southern Methodist University. “If she can go through you, fine. If not, you’re headed to the medicine tent.”
Some of the toes squashed by Pelosi belong to Jane Harman, a fellow Californian who long ran in the same circles as the speaker. She returned to Congress in 2001 after a two-year gap, armed with a written promise from Democratic leaders that she could reclaim her seniority and become chair of the sought-after Intelligence Committee if the party took control of the chamber.
When Democrats did so in 2007 and Pelosi became speaker, she bumped Harman from the committee, citing term limits that had not always been evenly applied. Harman believes the real reason was that Pelosi was under pressure from liberals not to give the job to someone who had supported the war in Iraq.
“I think, looking back, that she was under pressure from the left not to promote somebody who had voted for the war.”
Still, Harman, who left Congress in 2011 to lead the Wilson Center think tank, allows that Pelosi has “a very good political radar and she has kept the caucus together.”
When Pelosi entered Congress in 1987, men chaired all the House committees and no women had led one since the 1970s, by the reckoning of House historians. In the 1970s, the most popular committee chair appointment for women in the House was to lead the Select Committee on the House Beauty Shop before that panel vanished at the end of that decade.
Under Pelosi, women took over more panels and gained weightier assignments while the speaker worked to advance authority for minorities in her ranks as well as their numbers.
“She led in a way that did set the stage for other women and open the doors for their potential,” said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Woman and Politics, at Rutgers University. “Things have moved. And she is a big part of that.”
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THE PELOSI CEILING
Because of the speaker’s longevity, however, many other up-and-comers in the party besides Harman have discovered they could only rise so far before hitting the Pelosi ceiling. The top job simply hadn’t been available.
Pelosi faced none of the questions about sharpness or stamina that dog Biden, 80 on Sunday. She still races around Congress, in high heels, at a pace that people half her age can find hard to match.
But even before the elections, concern had grown in the ranks about the crowd of older Democratic leaders from the same era still in charge. “No brewing rebellion,” said Lee at Princeton, but “a sense that maybe it is time.”
Leon Panetta, former CIA and Defense chief and chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, had nothing but praise for Pelosi’s leadership and skill but said she “probably could have spent more time building a stronger bench in terms of leadership in the House and trying to make sure that others could follow in her path. That becomes a question mark now as to just exactly who’s going to be able to replace her.”
Panetta met her in the 1980s when he was a congressman from California and she was getting started as a Democratic fund-raiser extraordinaire after her family had moved to that state. She had already learned lessons about transactional politics as the politically engaged daughter of Thomas J. D’Alesandro Jr., a three-term Baltimore mayor and five-term member of Congress from Maryland.
Her prowess in persuading people to open their wallets on behalf of Democratic candidates was one of the keys to her success. Harman calls those dollars crucial to the “big tent” that Pelosi erected for her caucus and to her ability to hold sway over it — “a $1.25 billion tent.”
Michigan Rep. Fred Upton, a Republican who was in the same freshman class with Pelosi and is retiring from Congress, said of her: “This is why the Democrats had more money than God. She was magic, and I don’t think she lost a vote.”
Gingrich tacks on other elements of her power: “Her fundraising, her ability to inspire intense loyalty, her willingness to punish people who don’t do what she wants.”
“As a professional, you have to have great respect for her ability to acquire and wield power and her ability to build what was an effective machine,” he said.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement that despite their many disagreements, “I have seen firsthand the depth and intensity of her commitment to public service. There is no question that the impact of Speaker Pelosi’s consequential and path-breaking career will long endure.”
In Pelosi’s reign, nothing was left to chance — even her clothing was curated to send a message: She paired a black dress worn during the Trump impeachments with a gold pin depicting the mace of the House, a symbol of her power. When she swooshed out the doors of the White House after one particularly pointed encounter with Trump, her sunglasses and burnt-orange winter coat were quickly the stuff of social media memes.
On Thursday, for the big reveal of her plans, Pelosi wore suffragette white and her mace brooch.
Pelosi told reporters the attack on her husband, Paul, also 82, last month made her inclined to stay in leadership, so as not to give extremists the satisfaction of seeing her leave. She might have hung in, she indicated, if Democrats had won a majority.
The attacker, who police say had come looking for the speaker, fractured her husband’s skull with a hammer. Pelosi said she is working through “survivor’s guilt.”
Could there be a third-generation Pelosi headed to Congress after the speaker and her father? It’s long been thought that Nancy’s daughter, Christine, would be at the front of the line for the congressional seat whenever Pelosi decided to retire.
In her time, Pelosi went beyond domestic politics to stake a claim to congressional influence in foreign policy on behalf of the House as an institution, pointing her gavel outward in a way speakers had rarely done.
Well beyond her annual Mother’s Day visits to women in combat overseas, Pelosi traveled to foreign leaders with a mission to project U.S. stability, particularly during the unpredictable Trump years but also before and after.
She traveled secretly to Kiev early in the Russia-Ukraine war and caused some grief in the Biden administration with her diplomatically dicey visit to Taiwan this year.
Pelosi had a history of standing up to China. In her first foreign trip after being elected to Congress in 1987, she joined other U.S. lawmakers in 1991 in unfurling a banner at Tiananmen Square after Chinese authorities crushed pro-democracy demonstrations there in 1989. Her recent Taiwan visit was another slap at Beijing.
For all her clout in government, Pelosi was an unpopular figure in the country overall. In a Pew Research Center poll conducted in late June and early July, only about a third of respondents had a favorable opinion of Pelosi, while 6 in 10 were unfavorable toward her.
Most Democrats and Democratic leaners — about 6 in 10 — were thumbs up about her, though she lagged Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, both rated favorably by three-quarters of Democrats. About 9 in 10 Republicans viewed her unfavorably.
Through it all, she went at practically everything as if it had a best-before date. After all, she would say, “Power is perishable.” Washington is “the perishable city.”
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Before killing five people and wounding over a dozen others at a gay nightclub, Anderson Lee Aldrich visited at least six previous times, drew a map showing the layout of the club and appeared to be planning to livestream the attack using a mobile phone duct taped to a baseball hat found in their SUV, according to investigators.
Through testimony from police during a court hearing expected to wrap up Thursday, prosecutors have been making a case for a pre-meditated attack on Club Q last year that was inspired by a “neo-Nazi white supremacist” shooting training video as they try to convince a judge that there is enough evidence to put Aldrich, 22, on trial for over 300 charges including murder and bias-motivated crimes.
But on the first day of the hearing Wednesday, Aldrich’s lawyers countered with a picture of a suspect under the influence of drugs and forced by their troubled and sometimes abusive mother to go to LGBTQ clubs and as someone who has expressed remorse for the November shooting. The defense also brought up Aldrich’s mental health for the first time, showing photographs of pill bottles for drugs that Aldrich, who identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they and them, had been prescribed to treat mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and PTSD. But defense attorney Joseph Archambault didn’t say if Aldrich had been formally diagnosed with any of those mental illnesses.
At this stage, Judge Michael McHenry must only decide whether prosecutors have shown during this week’s hearing that there is probable cause that Aldrich committed the crimes they are charged with in order for the case to move ahead to a trial. At a trial, prosecutors are held to a higher standard and must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to convince jurors to convict defendants.
Unlike other crimes, hate crime charges require prosecutors to present evidence of a motive — that Aldrich was driven by bias, either wholly or in part.
Although Aldrich identifies as nonbinary, someone who is a member of a protected group such as the LGBTQ community can still be charged with a hate crime for targeting peers. Hate crime laws are focused on the victims, not the perpetrator.
The lead detective in the shooting, Rebecca Joines, testified that Aldrich posted the neo-Nazi video, which featured attacks on synagogues and mosques abroad, including on two mosques in New Zealand in 2019, on a website they either created or administered. Joines said Aldrich had not created the video, which has been posted by many others online, but said she believed they were seeking to emulate it with the attack on the club.
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WACO, Texas, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Time Manufacturing Company ("Time") has completed its acquisition of France Elévateur ("FE Group"), a leading European manufacturer of aerial work platforms.
Time is a global manufacturer of aerial lifts primarily for the electric utility, telecommunications, infrastructure, and forestry sectors. Time currently goes to market with the Versalift, BrandFX, Aspen Aerials, Ruthmann, Steiger, Ecoline & Bluelift brands. France Elévateur, founded in 1984, is a European manufacturer of Aerial Work Platforms (AWP) located in Flavigny-sur-Moselle, France. Now known as the FE group, the company is composed of France Elévateur, FE Benelux, FE Deutschland, and Movex, with regional sales and service organizations that together serve surrounding national markets.
Movex began upfitting work trucks in 1980 and was wholly acquired by France Elévateur in 2021. The company has production facilities near Barcelona and exports to more than 20 countries. As a well-known Spanish aerial lift brand, Movex provides a bridge of entry into the Spanish market for both Time Manufacturing Company and FE Group products and services.
Curt Howell, CEO of Time Manufacturing Company commented, "The France Elévateur acquisition represents a meaningful step forward in our global growth plan by adding more than 450 experienced professionals, a world-class regional product line, and over a dozen facilities across France, Belgium and Spain. Leveraging our existing reach in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland, The FE Group improves our reach in the important national markets of Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Eastern France and Spain."
Charles Goffin, CEO at France Elévateur added, "Time Manufacturing Company is definitely the best possible partner for France Elévateur. Both companies have long histories and strong reputations for excellence in research and engineering in the aerial work platform industry, and they are complementary in both geography and markets. The entire FE Group team supports this transaction. Our current customers will immediately benefit by having more options for higher-access lifts, and Time Manufacturing Company customers will benefit from our extensive service footprint."
Kim Bach Jensen, President of Time Manufacturing Europe commented, "We are happy to welcome France Elévateur and Movex into the Time Manufacturing Company group of brands. We believe that our companies share a philosophy focused on customer service, and enjoy a compatible product offering. Leveraging our collective knowledge, skilled staff, and worldwide distribution will strengthen us in the future. We are aligned in supporting our shared customers and their need for excellent solutions."
The acquisition of France Elévateur is a significant step forward for Time Manufacturing Company in developing a robust sales and service network that supports the specialized access needs of telecommunications, electric utility and other essential end customers around the world. Time has international operations across the European continent, and North and South America, which each represent remarkable opportunities to expand and promote France Elévateur brands to a broader global audience.
Media Contact: Brent Berger • brentberger@versalift.com
Time Manufacturing Company is a global manufacturer of vehicle mounted aerial lifts, including bucket trucks, digger derricks, cable placers, truck bodies, buckets, and other specialty equipment for electric utility, telecommunications, bridge inspection, tree care and other fleet-supported industries. Through Versalift, BrandFX, Aspen Aerials, Ruthmann, Steiger, Ecoline, Bluelift, Movex and France Elévateur brands, the company provides equipment to co-ops, municipalities, government agencies and corporations through its global network of facilities and distributors. Time Manufacturing Company now employs more than 2,600 associates worldwide.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is banking on reproductive rights to be a galvanizing issue for voters in the 2024 election as he collects three top-level endorsements, hosts a rally and issues an executive order seeking to bolster access to contraception as the nation marks a year since the Supreme Court decision overturning federal abortion protections.
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday are being endorsed by Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Emily’s List. The groups are throwing their early support behind the reelection effort in part to highlight the importance of the issue for Democrats heading into the election year, the groups’ leaders told The Associated Press.
“I think that President Biden has been an incredibly valuable partner, along with Vice President Harris, in fighting back against the onslaught of attacks that we have seen,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood Action Fund. “We are heading into an election where opposition is very clear — they are pushing for a national ban. And we have an administration that has taken actual steps to protect patients and providers during this health care crisis. The choice is really clear.”
Biden and fellow Democrats have already seen the power of the issue: A majority of Americans want legalized abortion nationwide. In the leadup to the 2022 midterm elections, many political pundits dismissed the issue, but it was among the top concerns for voters, who consistently rejected efforts to restrict abortion in the states when given the chance.
Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, said the president and the vice president were proud to have earned the support of the groups. Since the decision last year by the Supreme Court, “we have seen the horrifying impact that the extreme MAGA agenda has on women’s health,” she said, referring to former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
“MAGA Republicans promising a national abortion ban makes the stakes for reelecting President Biden and Vice President Harris all the more important,” she said in a statement. She added that the organizing power of the three groups was essential to Democrats’ strong performance in the 2022 midterms and will be again.
Biden has said he’ll work to protect reproductive health care, including enshrining abortion rights in federal law. He’s expected to convey that message in remarks Friday at a rally with first lady Jill Biden, Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff.
Meanwhile, just a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where Biden will be speaking, the Faith & Freedom Coalition is holding its annual conference, at which GOP presidential candidates will be urged to keep pushing for stronger abortion restrictions and work to allay fears that the push will backfire with voters. Trump, the GOP primary front-runner, will speak there on Saturday, even as he has suggested that strict abortion restrictions are a weakness for Republicans.
Ralph Reed, founder and chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, said “we’re certainly going to do everything that we can, as an organization and as a pro-life and pro-family movement, to give our candidates a little bit of a testosterone booster shot and explain to them that they should not be on the defensive. Those who are afraid of it need to, candidly, grow a backbone.”
Biden’s executive order aims to strengthen access to contraception, a growing concern for Democrats after some conservatives have signaled a willingness to push beyond abortion into regulation of contraception. In 2017, nearly 65% or 46.9 million of the 72.2 million girls and women age 15 to 49 in the U.S. used a form of contraception.
“We’re really trying to do three separate things all related to each other,” said Jen Klein, a top Biden aide on gender policy. “The first is increased and expanded contraceptive options. The second is to lower out-of-pocket costs. And the third is to raise awareness about what options are available.”
The leading voices on abortion rights were always going to endorse the Democratic president for reelection. But the heads of the three organizations say getting out early and loudly behind Biden and Harris is important on an issue that will animate voters, despite talk that it’s no longer top of mind.
“The longer these bans are in place, the more people either will know someone who has experienced something or read a terrible story,” said Mini Timmaraju, head of NARAL Pro-Choice America. “They have to make a decision about where to go to college based on the states with the bans. They have to make a decision about whether to practice medicine based on an abortion ban. It’s permeating everyday life now, and it’s having unintended consequences.”
The consequences of restricting abortion access are quickly moving beyond ending an unwanted pregnancy into miscarriage and pregnancy care in general. Women in states with tight restrictions are increasingly unable to access care for pregnancy-related complications. Doctors facing criminal charges if they provide abortions are increasingly afraid to care for patients who aren’t sick enough yet to be considered treatable.
Since the Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion, 22 states have passed either a ban or highly restrictive policies on abortion. Other states, though, have expanded access to abortion care. The Biden administration has brought together leaders from all 50 states to talk strategy on how to expand access and work together to help people in more restrictive states.
“We should recognize that even in conservative states, there has been considerable friction to restricting rights. And that friction is born of independent women, voters and people who are not super engaged in the political process, really coming out because of this issue,” said Neera Tanden, Biden’s top domestic policy aide. “There are places where anti-choice forces have expected an easy passage of laws restricting women’s rights and they have experienced a lot more turmoil — sometimes even from Republican women legislators.”
Most of the states with severe abortion restrictions are also states that have a high maternal mortality rate and higher rates of stillbirth and miscarriage. Black women are disproportionately affected — they are more than three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Harris has argued it’s not a coincidence, given that maternal health care and abortion care are linked. The same medical procedures used to perform an abortion are the ones used to treat miscarriage.
For Emily’s List, an advocacy group for Democratic female candidates, Harris, the first female vice president, is a powerful symbol, president Laphonza Butler said.
“She is the highest-serving woman who has broken the hard glass ceiling of representing women in the White House,” Butler said. “This is the administration using every bully pulpit it can to advance reproductive health and freedom across the country. ”
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People are invited to join community conversations online and throughout the state to discuss the needs of older adults, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Aging, Community Living and Supports announced Friday.
The state health department is seeking input regarding the needs and gaps in programs and services that affect the lives of older residents.
The information gathered during the community conversations and from survey responses will be used to identify priorities for the department in support of the well-being of the state's older adults as it develops a new state plan. The plan serves as a blueprint outlining coordination and advocacy activities to meet the needs of older adults.
"The needs assessment that is underway will provide MDHHS and partners with important information for the development of Michigan’s next three-year State Plan on Aging," Farah Hanley, chief deputy director for health, said in the Friday press release. "We welcome input as the voices of Michigan’s older adults are critical to the plan and their input will provide valuable insights into the priorities and needs of this growing segment of our population."
A draft plan goes before the state’s Commission on Services to the Aging for approval before being submitted to the Federal Administration for Community Living by July 1 for implementation during fiscal years 2023-2026, according to MDHHS.
State units on aging are tasked under the Older Americans Act with developing and administering a multi-year State Plan on Aging that provides goals related to assisting older residents, their families and caregivers in their states.
Anyone interested in giving information on the needs of older adults can participate in a community conversation or complete a survey. The community conversations are in January and February at 11 locations statewide and in four online forums.
Survey questionnaires will be available online and in paper form in English, Spanish and Arabic.
For a current list of community conversation locations, dates and times, or to access the survey, go to the Behavioral and Physical Health and Aging Services Administration website. The site will also be used to communicate cancelation information and updates.
Below are the community conversation locations and RSVP contacts.
- Jan. 17, 11 a.m., Region 2 AAA, 102 N. Main St. Brooklyn, 517- 592-1974
- Jan. 18, 12:15 p.m. Sam Corey Senior Center, 2108 Cedar St., Holt, 517-694-1549
- Jan. 30, 10 a.m., Alger County Commission on Aging, 1604 Sand Point Road, Munising, 906-387-2439
- Jan. 30, 2:00 p.m. (tentative time), Negaunee Senior Center, 410 Jackson St., Negaunee, 906-475-6266
- Jan. 31, 12:15 p.m., Kalkaska County Commission on Aging, 303 S. Coral St., Kalkaska, 231-258-5030
- Feb. 1, 11 a.m., Oceana County Council on Aging, 4250 W. Tyler Road, Hart, 231-873-4461, extension 102
- Feb. 2, 10:30 a.m., Campus for Creative Aging, 2920 Lakeview Ave., St. Joseph, 269- 983-0177
- Feb.3, 11 a.m., Woodhaven Senior Center, 23101 Hall Road, Woodhaven, 734-675-4926
- Feb. 8, 1:45 pm, Heritage Commons Senior Enrichment Center, 15885 Michigan Ave., Marshall, 269-441-0930
- Feb. 13, 1 p.m., Crawford County Commission on Aging and Senior Center, 308 Lawndale St., Grayling, 989-348-7123
- Feb.14, 10:30 a.m., Robert Bowens Senior Center, 52 Bagley St., Pontiac, 248-758-3240
Space at the conversations is limited and organizers require RSVPs for planning purposes, according to MDHHS. RSVP online or by calling Tammy Lemmer at 517-230-9707. Lemmer is also available to answer questions about the needs assessment or plan development efforts. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/MDHHS-seeks-public-input-on-the-needs-of-older-17716650.php | 2023-01-13 22:29:52 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/MDHHS-seeks-public-input-on-the-needs-of-older-17716650.php |
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Many Americans plan to save less than $5000 this year and are relying on their tax refunds to build rainy day funds, according to a recent survey.
The majority of Americans (59%) saved about the same last year, according to the TaxAct survey.
Financial experts recommend that consumers have roughly three to six months' worth of living expenses in emergency savings but inflation and rising costs have made this target a challenge.
Inflation and rising costs were listed as the top financial concern for over 50% of respondents and the biggest reason why Americans are unable to build savings. This concern has even impacted Americans in higher tax brackets – 55% of consumers with household incomes between $50,000 and $99,999 also cited inflation as their top financial worry, the survey said.
"There is a lot of economic uncertainty right now, and for the majority of customers we serve, their tax refund is their biggest paycheck of the year," Curtis Campbell, President and CEO of TaxAct, said. "U.S. citizens are saving less money, and therefore, relying on their refunds to help make ends meet."
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Last year, the average tax refund was $3,039, according to the IRS, an increase of over $200 from the prior year primarily due to COVID-19 tax credits.
"We can expect to see lower tax refunds across the board this season being there was no stimulus relief this past year and other tax advantages, like the Child Tax Credit, reverted back to their lesser 2019 values," Campbell said. "Refunds are predicted to go down 11% from last year, and it’s important for people to be prepared to receive less or even owe money this tax season."
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Beginning in 2024, sponsors of individual account plans can create "emergency savings accounts" that permit non-highly compensated employees to make Roth after-tax contributions to a special savings account within the retirement plan, a Morgan Lewis report said.
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After the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, which granted the constitutional right to an abortion, some people have raised concerns about providing reproductive health data to outside sources such as period-tracking apps.
Those concerns have now been extended to an alleged rule impacting high school athletes in Florida. News outlets and some people on social media are claiming that female student-athletes in the state have to report their menstrual history in order to play sports.
“They must disclose when they got their first period, date of their last one, etc.,” one person wrote on Twitter.
THE QUESTION
Are female high school athletes in Florida required to report their menstrual history to play sports?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, female athletes at Florida public high schools aren’t required to report their menstrual history to play sports.
Student-athletes in Florida are asked questions about their periods as part of a physical evaluation form, but the students can decline to answer.
WHAT WE FOUND
The Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) manages sports and organizes competitions for public high schools throughout Florida. The association requires athletes to fill out a physical evaluation form to play sports.
All public school districts in the state are required to use the athletic forms provided by FHSAA, Claudia Shea, executive director of communications and engagement for the Palm Beach County School District in Florida, told VERIFY.
The physical evaluation form has five questions for female student-athletes about their menstrual cycles:
- When was your first menstrual period?
- When was your most recent menstrual period?
- How much time do you usually have from the start of one period to the start of another?
- How many periods have you had in the last year?
- What was the longest time between periods in the last year?
Responses to these questions are listed as “optional” on the FHSAA form, which also asks other health questions about conditions such as asthma and seasonal allergies that require medical treatment.
Shea addressed the claims circulating online, writing in an email to VERIFY that “there are definite errors being reported.”
“The question you are referencing is optional, whether the information is submitted online or on paper,” Shea said.
In Palm Beach County, male and female student-athletes use the same form and both can write “not applicable” in the section with questions about menstrual cycles, Shea said.
Miami-Dade County and Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida also have copies of FHSAA physical evaluation form on their websites, and the questions about menstrual cycles are listed as optional there.
The questions about menstrual cycles aren’t new, either. FHSAA has had them on the physical evaluation form for at least two decades, according to Shea.
Even though athletes aren’t required to answer the questions, Palm Beach County School District has recently asked whether FHSAA can remove them. The association hasn’t changed the form to date.
“The District will continue to explore other options, such as lobbying for revisions to this form and/or limiting the information provided to schools to solely the physician’s approval or disapproval of the student athlete’s medical clearance,” Shea wrote in a statement.
FHSAA told VERIFY in a statement that a Florida law requires the association to “adopt bylaws that require all students participating in interscholastic athletic competition or who are candidates for an interscholastic team to satisfactorily pass a medical evaluation each year before participating.”
A consent and liability form from the FHSAA “provides consent for release of the student’s medical history should treatment for illness or injury be necessary. The school retains this information and is able to provide any necessary medical information to the health care practitioner providing services for the ill or injured student,” the association’s executive director said.
Florida high schools aren’t alone in asking female student-athletes about their menstrual cycles.
A medical history form from Virginia High School League, Inc. includes these four questions:
- Have you ever had a menstrual period?
- Age when you had your first menstrual period
- Number of periods in the last 12 months
- When was your most recent menstrual period?
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association also asks the same questions of its female student-athletes.
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MELBOURNE, Australia, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, Telix, the Company) today announces it has entered into an agreement to acquire Lightpoint Medical and its SENSEI® radio-guided surgery business. Lightpoint Medical is a United Kingdom-based medical device company specialising in the intra-operative detection of targeted radiopharmaceuticals.
SENSEI is an ultra-miniature robotic gamma probe for intracavital use that is able to provide radiopharmaceutical-based surgical guidance ("radio-guided surgery") by enabling the intra-operative detection of cancer in real time. Telix's initial commercial objective is to align SENSEI with Telix's Illuccix®/TLX599-CDx[1] programs for prostate cancer. Additionally, there is considerable scope to expand into other urologic and non-urologic malignancies. Lightpoint also has innovative capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) for surgical guidance that will complement Telix's own AI program.
This highly strategic and synergistic transaction broadly strengthens Telix's capabilities in deploying molecular imaging in the surgical setting. The acquisition will further enhance and differentiate Telix's innovation position and product depth in urology by enabling targeted radiation to be harnessed across the entire continuum of cancer patient care, from initial diagnosis and staging, to surgical intervention and therapeutic use.
SENSEI has attained a marketing authorisation in the United States, having been registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since September 2020. SENSEI has also attained a Conformité Européenne (CE) Mark for use in the European Economic Area (and other applicable countries) in January 2021 for intra-operative detection of sentinel lymph nodes and cancer metastasis via the lymphatic system, supporting broad clinical use of the product.[2] The SENSEI probe is currently the only gamma probe validated for use with the Intuitive Surgical DaVinci® robotics system.[3]
Telix initially established a strategic collaboration agreement with Lightpoint in August 2021[4] to jointly develop SENSEI with Telix's investigational PSMA[5]-targeting SPECT[6] imaging agent TLX599-CDx for prostate cancer. The Lightpoint SENSEI business will be integrated into Telix and operate as a new surgeon-focused business unit, driving the ongoing development of SENSEI combined with Telix's pharmaceutical pipeline. This new business unit will also support development of Telix's other related medical device and software technologies, such as Telix's recently acquired artificial intelligence platform.[7]
In the U.S. alone, an estimated 288,300 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2023,[8] with approximately one-third (96,100) receiving radical prostatectomy. At least 85 percent of these performed robotically.[9] The use of molecular imaging in the operating theatre has the potential to drive a paradigm shift in the surgical treatment of cancer in terms of throughput and patient outcomes.
Dr Colin Hayward, Chief Medical Officer of Telix said, "PSMA-targeted imaging is transforming the detection of prostate cancer. With radio-guided surgery we can harness the targeting power of PSMA to precisely guide surgery and create a holistic 'PSMA toolkit' to detect, manage and treat this disease. This is in line with our vision to continue to innovate and partner with physicians at every step of the patient journey. Small, flexible gamma probes that can be used in the operative field while conducting robotic or laparoscopic surgery is a powerful innovation."
Dr Christian Behrenbruch, Managing Director and Group CEO of Telix said, "The transaction with Lightpoint brings a compelling commercial-stage asset to Telix that has the potential to transform the use of radiopharmaceuticals in the interventional setting, with commensurate impact on Telix's market share for Illuccix. This acquisition also brings a highly talented team to drive development of this asset and will leverage the commercial infrastructure we have built for Illuccix to further deepen our relationship with our customers."
Founder and CEO of Lightpoint Medical, Dr David Tuch said, "We are thrilled to be joining forces with Telix to propel the development of radio-guided surgery. This acquisition brings numerous benefits to our surgeon users including enhanced access to the SENSEI technology and a continuum of PSMA-based detection and treatment options. We look forward to working with Telix to shape the future of targeted cancer treatment."
Visit www.telixpharma.com to view or download Telix's ASX disclosure, with further information including deal terms and conditions.
About Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited
Telix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. Telix is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with international operations in the United States, Europe (Belgium and Switzerland), and Japan. Telix is developing a portfolio of clinical-stage products that aims to address significant unmet medical need in oncology and rare diseases. Telix is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: TLX).
Visit www.telixpharma.com for further information about Telix, including details of the latest share price, announcements made to the ASX, investor and analyst presentations, news releases, event details and other publications that may be of interest. You can also follow Telix on Twitter (@TelixPharma) and LinkedIn.
TLX599-CDx has not received a marketing authorisation in any jurisdiction. Telix's lead product, gallium-68 (68Ga) gozetotide (also known as 68Ga PSMA-11) injection, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),[10] and by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA),[11] and by Health Canada.[12] Telix is also progressing a marketing authorisation application for this investigational candidate in the United Kingdom and the European Union.[13]
About Lightpoint Medical Ltd.
Lightpoint Medical is a technology leader in precision-guided robotic cancer surgery. We develop and market miniaturised imaging and sensing tools for advanced intra-operative cancer detection. Our mission is to improve the lives of people with cancer by transforming the efficacy of robotic surgery. Lightpoint is headquartered in the U.K. with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Barcelona; and Amsterdam. Visit: www.lightpointmedical.com and www.senseisurgical.com
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Ms. Kyahn Williamson
Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited
SVP Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
Email: kyahn.williamson@telixpharma.com
This announcement has been authorised for release by the Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited Disclosure Committee on behalf of the Board.
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This announcement is not intended as promotion or advertising directed to any healthcare professional or other audience in any country worldwide (including Australia, United States and the United Kingdom). This announcement may include forward-looking statements that relate to anticipated future events, financial performance, plans, strategies or business developments. Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by the use of words such as "may", "expect", "intend", "plan", "estimate", "anticipate", "outlook", "forecast" and "guidance", or other similar words. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on the Company's good-faith assumptions as to the financial, market, regulatory and other risks and considerations that exist and affect the Company's business and operations in the future and there can be no assurance that any of the assumptions will prove to be correct. In the context of Telix's business, forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements about: the initiation, timing, progress and results of Telix's preclinical and clinical studies, and Telix's research and development programs; Telix's ability to advance product candidates into, enrol and successfully complete, clinical studies, including multi-national clinical trials; the timing or likelihood of regulatory filings and approvals, manufacturing activities and product marketing activities; the commercialisation of Telix's product candidates, if or when they have been approved; estimates of Telix's expenses, future revenues and capital requirements; Telix's financial performance; developments relating to Telix's competitors and industry; and the pricing and reimbursement of Telix's product candidates, if and after they have been approved. Telix's actual results, performance or achievements may be materially different from those which may be expressed or implied by such statements, and the differences may be adverse. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
Except as required by applicable laws or regulations, Telix does not undertake to publicly update or review any forward-looking statements. Past performance cannot be relied on as a guide to future performance. Readers should read this announcement together with our material risks, as disclosed in our most recently filed reports with the ASX and on our website.
©2023 Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited. The Telix Pharmaceuticals and Illuccix name and logo are trademarks of Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited and its affiliates (all rights reserved).
[1] 99mTc-HYNIC-iPSMA (TLX599-CDx).
[2] Lightpoint Medical media release 20 January 2021.
[3] Registered trademark of Intuitive Surgical Inc.
[4] Telix ASX disclosure 23 August 2021.
[5] Prostate-specific membrane antigen.
[6] Single photon emission computed tomography.
[7] Telix ASX disclosure 27 April 2023.
[8] Oberlin et al., Urol Oncol. 2016.
[9] Harvard Medical School, 2022.
[10] Telix ASX disclosure 20 December 2021.
[11] Telix ASX disclosure 2 November 2021.
[12] Telix ASX disclosure 14 October 2022.
[13] Telix ASX disclosure 3 April 2023.
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It’s hard to believe but it’s now been 22 years since the original “The Fast and the Furious” hit theaters, but the franchise isn’t over yet.
There are at least two more movies coming, number 10 and 11 for those counting, and the first trailer for the 10th installment, “Fast X,” was released on Friday. The movie’s release date is currently scheduled for May 19, 2023.
Filming started in early 2022 but the original director, Justin Lin, who worked on movies three through six in the franchise and then took a break before returning to film number nine, quit after a month, despite writing much of the script. Louis Leterrier, responsible for movies like 2005’s “Transporter 2” and 2010’s “Clash of the Titans,” stepped in to fill the director’s chair.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson also decided to quit the franchise after the ninth movie, despite some attempts by franchise stalwart Vin Diesel to get him back. In his place are new actors Jason Momoa, playing the new bad guy Dante, and Brie Larson, playing an ally of Diesel’s character Dominic Toretto. Beyond Diesel, other actors returning for another round include the previously confirmed Charlize Theron, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Ludacris, and now also John Cena and Jason Statham.
The trailer shows Dante coming after Toretto and his family in an act of revenge. It turns out he is the son of the Brazilian drug kingpin Hernan Reyes who was killed in the fifth film. Dante is expected to team up with Theron’s character Cipher, while it appears Cena’s chracter Jakob and Statham’s character Deckard Shaw both return to help Toretto.
There will be plenty of cars, too, of course, including the return of Toretto’s choice of ride: the Dodge Charger.
There isn’t much else in the way of plot details, though the movie plus the planned 11th installment are expected to share an overarching story that will wrap up the main plot of the franchise. Diesel said in a 2021 interview that the 11th movie—tentatively scheduled for a 2024 release—would be the end of the main storyline. However, that still leaves room for spinoffs like 2019’s “Hobbs and Shaw.”
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The European Union has asked Turkish Cypriot authorities in the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus to toughen up measures aimed at reducing the rising number of migrants seeking asylum in the island nation’s internationally recognized south.
An EU official said Friday that the bloc “explained its concerns” about the issue and that Turkish Cypriot authorities “must do what’s necessary” to curb migrant arrivals. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition anonymity because he’s not allowed to speak about the issue publicly.
Cyprus was split along ethnic lines in 1974 when Turkey invaded following a coup aimed at union with Greece. Only Turkey recognizes a Turkish Cypriot declaration of independence. Cypriot government authorities say the overwhelming majority of migrant arrivals occurs via Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot north through a loosely regulated student visa system.
The Cypriot Interior Ministry on Friday again accused Turkey of “systematically instrumentalizing economic migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.”
The EU wants Turkish Cypriot authorities to tighten up vetting procedures for issuing such visas to prevent applicants from using them to reach northern Cyprus, cross a porous U.N.-controlled buffer zone and then seek asylum in the Greek Cypriot south. Although Turkish Cypriots receive EU funding, only the south enjoys full membership benefits.
The EU is also helping Cypriot authorities bolster monitoring and surveillance of the buffer zone to deter crossings in a way that is compatible with EU law, since the 180-kilometer (120-mile) long area isn’t a formal border.
Cyprus’ interior ministry says the number of asylum-seekers in the first half of this year amounted to 12,000 – equal to the number for all of last year. It says asylum-seekers make up an EU high of 5% of Cyprus’ 915,000 people in the south.
Meanwhile, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said Friday that he has proposed setting up a joint, U.N.-facilitated committee of officials from either side tasked with finding ways of curbing irregular migration as well as “strengthening security and surveillance along the buffer zone and increasing patrolling by the coast guards.”
Tatar has insisted that the only way to move forward on a peace deal in Cyprus is for Turkish Cypriots to attain equal sovereign status with the Cypriot government and agree on a two-state accord.
The EU and the U.N. Security Council say that goes against the agreed-upon settlement framework of reunifying the island as a federation composed of Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones. Greek Cypriots reject any deal that would formalize the island’s partition.
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Thursday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when cannabis fans gather in clouds of smoke at music festivals, celebrate with all-you-can-deals on chicken wings and other munchies, and take advantage of pot-shop discounts in legal weed states.
This year’s edition provides an occasion for activists to reflect on how far their movement has come, with recreational pot now allowed in 21 states and the nation’s capital, as well as a national political climate that hasn't moved as quickly on legalization as many expected.
Here’s a look at the holiday’s history.
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Many of Twitter’s high-profile users are losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.
After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don't pay a monthly fee to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system — many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. The checks began disappearing from these users' profiles late morning Pacific Time.
High-profile users who lost their blue checks Thursday included Beyonce, Pope Francis and former President Donald Trump.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — About 20,000 eclipse chasers have witnessed a rare solar eclipse plunge part of Australia's northwest coast into brief midday darkness under a cloudless sky. The tourist town of Exmouth was promoted as one of Australia's best vantage points to see the eclipse that also crossed parts of Indonesia and East Timor. Thursday's phenomenon even caused a temperature drop that cooled the town's tropical heat. NASA astronomer Henry Throop was among those at Exmouth cheering loudly in the darkness. He said: "It was mind-blowing. It was so sharp and it was so bright." In Indonesia's capital, hundreds came to the Jakarta Planetarium to see the partial eclipse that was obscured by clouds.
The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to an abortion pill untouched until at least Friday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone to take effect. The court is dealing with a new abortion controversy less than a year after its conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright. At stake now is whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone to take effect while a legal challenge to the medication’s Food and Drug Administration approval continues. In an order signed by Justice Samuel Alito, the court indicated it will act by Friday night. Alito provided no explanation for why the court put off a more lasting decision.
Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old white man who shot Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager in Kansas City, pleaded not guilty in his first court appearance Wednesday. Yarl mistakenly went to Lester’s door looking for his younger brothers. Lester walked with a cane in court as he answered charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting, which has attracted presidential attention and renewed national debate about gun policies. Lester remains free after posting 10% of his $200,000 bond. The bond agreement requires him to relinquish any weapons and have no contact with Yarl or his family. He also agreed to have his cellphone monitored.
Sudan’s military has ruled out negotiations with a rival paramilitary force, saying it would only accept its surrender. The two sides continued to battle in central Khartoum and other parts of the country. A tenuous 24-hour cease-fire ran out Thursday evening with no word of an extension. The military’s statement raised the likelihood of a renewed surge in the nearly weeklong violence that has killed hundreds and pushed Sudan’s population to the breaking point. Many hospitals have been forced to shut down and others are running out of supplies. The truce had brought only marginal calm to some parts of the capital, Khartoum.
A crowd stampeding at an event to distribute financial aid during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, has left at least 78 people dead and 73 injured, according to Houthi officials and witnesses. The tragedy Wednesday night was sparked when armed Houthis fired into the air in an attempt at crowd control, apparently striking an electrical wire and causing it to explode, two witnesses said. The stampede occurred in the Old City in central Sanaa, where hundreds of people had gathered at a charity event organized by merchants. Officials said dozens of injured people were taken to hospitals and two organizers were detained. The tragedy came ahead of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan later this week.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has defiantly declared that Ukraine's “rightful place” is in the military alliance and pledged more support on his first visit to Kyiv since Russia’s invasion just over a year ago. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Stoltenberg to push for even more from them, including warplanes, artillery and armored equipment. The NATO chief has been instrumental in marshaling support from members. The Kremlin has given various justifications for going to war, but repeated Thursday that preventing Ukraine from joining NATO was a key goal behind its invasion.
Police say a man confessed to killing four people, including his parents, and then firing on motorists on Interstate 295, just days after being released from prison. Law enforcement officials released more information Wednesday including identities of the victims of the shootings at a home in Bowdoin and 25 miles to the south on the highway in Yarmouth. Police say Joseph Eaton was released Friday from the Maine Correctional Center in Windham, where he was picked up by his mother after completing a sentence for aggravated assault. He’s due to make an initial court appearance on Thursday.
SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off on its first test flight and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. Elon Musk’s company was aiming Thursday to send Starship on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. SpaceX said multiple engines were not firing as the rocket ascended, causing it to lose altitude. The rocket was intentionally destroyed by its self-destruct system, exploding and plummeting into the water. SpaceX plans to use Starship to send people and cargo to the moon and, ultimately, Mars. Throngs of spectators watched from several miles away from the Boca Chica Beach launch site, which was off-limits.
Moon Bin, a singer from South Korean boyband Astro, has been found dead at his home in Seoul, according to his management agency. The 25-year-old was reportedly found by his manager who went to his home Wednesday evening because he wasn’t responding to contacts. Police are investigating his death but have so far found no signs of foul play, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. Officials at Seoul’s Gangnam district police station did not respond to calls for comment. Moon Bin’s management agency, Fantagio, released a statement confirming his death, saying that he “suddenly left us and became a star in the sky” and that fellow artists and company officials were mourning him with “very deep sadness and shock.”
Brook Lopez scored 25 points, Jrue Holiday added 24 and the hot-shooting Milwaukee Bucks withstood Giannis Antetokounmpo’s absence to rout the Miami Heat 138-122 on Wednesday night, tying the Eastern Conference first-round series at a game apiece. A complete roundup of Wednesday's action:
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Voters in Lee, Massachusetts, are choosing a new selectman and weighing in on several ballot questions Monday, including one that would rescind approval of the Housatonic River cleanup agreement. The cleanup includes a toxic waste PCB disposal site in town.
Because the question is nonbinding it is not clear what impact the vote will have.
Lee selectman Sean Regnier is concerned General Electric would sue the town if it backs out of the agreement.
The company had a factory in Pittsfield which used PCBs to manufacture electrical transformers from the 1930s until the 1970s. G.E. polluted the Housatonic River with the toxin and is required to clean it up.
“Do we really want to tear the agreement in half and go out on our own and potentially lose a very long and ugly court battle with a powerful corporation?” he asked.
Regnier said if the town withdraws from the settlement, it would no longer have a say on the specifics of the cleanup.
But others said it is important for residents who never got to vote on the plan, to speak their mind.
Life-long Lee resident Jim Castegnaro, whose backyard is near the disposal site, is voting to rescind. A retired paper mill worker, Castegnaro, points out the agreement was settled in a closed door mediation. It was signed by then Select Board Chair Thomas Wickham in February 2020. It includes $25 million for the town from G.E.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the PCB disposal site in Lee will be designed to be highly protective of human health, but Castegnaro believes the dump is not safe. He is particularly concerned about the risk of breathing in airborne PCBs.
"It's okay to poison my family and my neighbors and our children for blood money from G.E. because it's good for the town,” Castegnaro said. “And they're worried about if we back out of the deal, we're going to get sued by G.E. So what? So what?”
Selectman Pat Carlino who was part of the closed-door mediation that approved the cleanup agreement said a vote to rescind won't change anything. Because the question is nonbinding Carlino said it is more of an “opinion poll.”
"The only way something could change it now would be if the court came out and said, 'Ahh, no, you shouldn't have done this,'" Carlino said.
Two environmental groups who oppose the cleanup plan are expected to file an appeal in federal court.
After serving 24 years, Carlino is stepping down from the select board. The three people running for her seat have indicated they are against the cleanup deal, according to the Berkshire Eagle.
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Man arrested for alleged hit-and-run of two women in Phoenix
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — A man is in custody after reportedly hitting two women with a car Friday night in Phoenix and leaving the scene.
Police responded around 7:45 p.m. to a hit-and-run near Thomas Road and 22nd Street, where they found two injured women in the street. They were taken to a local hospital with serious injuries but are in stable condition. Officers found the vehicle involved near 30th Street and Indian School Road. The driver, identified as 48-year-old German Tapia Quiroz, was inside the car and was arrested. He was booked into jail for leaving the scene of an accident with serious injury.
Investigators say the two women ignored a traffic signal while crossing Thomas Road. Tapia-Quiroz was driving on Thomas Road when he hit the two women. Police don’t believe he was impaired.
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Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was voted out of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus last month, according to Republican Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland.
Rep. Harris told Politico, the outlet that first reported the news, that it was the first time the group had ever formally removed a member. Rep Harris labeled it as an "appropriate action."
Rep. Harris serves as a board member for the Freedom Caucus.
While it wasn't clear how he himself voted, he said he believes Rep. Greene is now formally out of the group, saying "As far as I know, that is the way it is."
Rep. Harris told CNN, "A vote was taken to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House Freedom Caucus for some of the things she's done," confirming the vote happened just before the House went to recess.
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A chair and spokesperson for the caucus, Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, said he had previously been against removing members of the group of about 35 House Republicans.
The office for Rep. Greene has declined to comment on the matter. Lawmakers had signaled their willingness to try and come to an agreement on differences with Rep. Greene, but those efforts do not appear to have been successful.
Rep. Greene, known for her confrontational style, recently called Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert "a little b****" while on the floor of the House amid infighting over competing measures to impeach President Joe Biden.
As The Hill reported, while Greene has had friction with lawmakers on both sides, her removal also comes after she wasn't able to come to an agreement with many of her Congressional colleagues in support of the debt deal House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spent weeks negotiating with President Biden.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- National Western Life Insurance Company (National Western Life), a wholly owned subsidiary of National Western Life Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NWLI), announced the execution of an annuity reinsurance transaction with Aspida Life Re Ltd. (Aspida Re), a Bermuda based reinsurer rated "A-" (Excellent) by A. M. Best and "A-" by KBRA. The transaction was effective July 1, 2022.
The reinsurance transaction is a strategic move designed to support plans previously announced by National Western Life to grow its business by expanding its distribution footprint and creating new market opportunities. This includes bringing new products to market through exclusive, proprietary distribution channels, as well as banks. "This reinsurance relationship helps us to better strengthen our position in the market as we prepare to launch several new products offering new and innovative solutions for the financial marketplace," stated Chad J. Tope, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer at National Western Life.
National Western Life chose Aspida Re based on Aspida Re's industry leading investment expertise and strong financial strength ratings. The partnership will improve National Western Life's product competitiveness, increase financial flexibility, and provide an opportunity for incremental earnings.
"The reinsurance transaction with Aspida Re allows us to continue our growth strategy in a smart, methodical way," commented Ross R. Moody, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of National Western Life. "Ultimately, this will drive our growth strategy by providing us with the ability to offer more compelling rates in the market." Included in the transaction is reinsurance of an inforce block of National Western Life fixed-indexed annuities of $250 million. National Western Life will continue to administer and service these policies ceded to Aspida Re.
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National Western Life Group, Inc. is the parent organization of National Western Life Insurance Company, which is the parent organization of Ozark National Life Insurance Company, both stock life insurance companies in aggregate offering a broad portfolio of individual universal life, whole life and term insurance plans, as well as annuity products. At June 30, 2022, the Company maintained consolidated total assets of $13.3 billion, consolidated stockholders' equity of $2.1 billion, and combined life insurance in force of $20.3 billion.
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The Union County Board of Supervisors will hold an open hearing so members of the public can express their views about the new medical marijuana law.
The meeting is set for 8 a.m. Tuesday, April 26, in the boardroom in the chancery court building.
City and county governments must decide by May 3 whether to simply go along with the state law or opt out of allowing the sale of marijuana for medical purposes through dispensaries.
The law apparently is written in such a way that local governments may decide to opt out by May 3 and potentially opt back in later. Some cities and counties are saying they want to wait and see how the law works, whether any problems arise, and then, if the system is working well, opt back in.
If an entity does not vote to opt out by May 3, however, it cannot decide to do so later.
City and county officials say they are working on ways to allow the medical marijuana sale – which will be going on around us regardless - and receive the revenue while tightly regulating grow farms or dispensaries. The state law offers some regulations about locations as well.
Sheriff Jimmy Edwards said he is firmly in favor of opting out, at least for now, and said many citizens have spoken to him about this and asked him to represent their opposing views.
“I think the silent majority, the church-going, God-fearing people are against this,” he said, but they have been hesitant to speak out. The sheriff said, “I plan to fill the room up,” concerning the meeting.
Scattered thunderstorms during the morning. Cloudy skies this afternoon. Morning high of 70F with temps falling to near 55. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40%..
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LONDON (AP) — The British pound stabilized Tuesday as U.K. authorities tried to ease investor concerns after the biggest tax cuts in 50 years sent the currency tumbling to a record low and prompted some businesses to predict a devastating combination of a weak currency and rising interest rates.
The turmoil is already having real-world effects, with British mortgage lenders pulling hundreds of offers from the market amid expectations the Bank of England will sharply boost interest rates to offset the inflationary impact of the pound’s recent slide.
The chief economist at the Bank of England acknowledged that policymakers “cannot be indifferent” to the repricing of financial assets seen in the last few days.
Huw Pill said “it is hard not to draw the conclusion that all this will require significant monetary policy response” as the bank seeks to bring inflation that has hit 9.9% — the highest among major economies — to within its 2% target.
“We must be confident in the stability of the U.K.’s economic framework,” he said at the Barclays-CEPR International Monetary Policy Forum.
The pound traded at around $1.07 on Tuesday afternoon after plunging as low as $1.0373 early Monday. The British currency is still down 4% since Friday, when Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng announced plans for 45 billion pounds ($49 billion) of unfunded tax cuts. The pound has fallen 20% against the dollar this year.
Kwarteng’s announcement, which comes at the same time the government plans to borrow billions to help shield homes and businesses from soaring energy prices, sparked concerns that the new government’s policies would swell government debt and further fuel inflation.
Late Monday, the central bank said it was “closely monitoring’’ financial markets and was prepared to boost interest rates “as much as needed” to curb consumer prices. The bank’s Monetary Policy Committee isn’t scheduled to meet until Nov. 3.
“There is no rate increase today and speculators will enjoy the prospect of two months of Bank of England inactivity if the statement is taken at face value,” said Alastair George, chief investment strategist at Edison Group.
The U.K. Treasury also sought to reassure investors, saying it would set out a more detailed fiscal plan and independent analysis from the Office for Budget Responsibility on Nov. 23.
“I’m confident that with our growth plan and the upcoming medium-term fiscal plan — with close cooperation with the bank — our approach will work,” Kwarteng said in talks with investors Tuesday following the “mini-budget″ he detailed last week.
That did little to quiet criticism of the government’s policies. Businesses sought, meanwhile, to assess how they would deal with the sudden change.
Shai Weiss, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, urged new Prime Minister Liz Truss to make the “difficult decision” of trying to boost the currency’s value. Some economists warn that the pound could reach parity with the dollar later this year for the first time.
“Sometimes all of us in this room should be humble enough to say, ‘If I did something that is not working, maybe I should reverse course,’” Weiss said at a news conference in London.
Weiss added that the weakened pound is “hurting the economy, and it’s hurting consumers because it’s actually fulfilling or fueling the inflation vicious cycle that we’re in.”
Wine traders are among many British businesses hit by the tumbling pound. A fifth of all bulk wine imported to the U.K. comes from the United States, according to the Wine and Spirit Trade Association. The dollar also has strengthened against many currencies as investors seek stability.
“The sterling crash is set to raise prices for consumers and threaten hundreds of British jobs in bottling plants across the UK,” said Milles Beale, the group’s chief executive.
Kwarteng and Truss, who replaced Boris Johnson as prime minister on Sept. 6, are betting that lower taxes and reduced bureaucracy eventually will generate enough additional revenue to pay for the tax cuts announced Friday. But many economists say it is unlikely the gamble will pay off.
Torsten Bell, who heads the Resolution Foundation, a think tank focused on improving living standards, said the markets were looking at the government’s plans “and saying that is not what serious policymaking looks like.”
Market reaction to Friday’s announcement will hurt consumers by fueling inflation in the short term, leading to higher mortgage payments in the medium term, and boosting government borrowing in the long term, the foundation said Monday.
“The world we are heading for is a bumpy few weeks,” Bell told Sky News. Kwarteng “is now going to have quite a tough time because he has now set out plans to balance the books in November. That is going to be very hard.”
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) _ Cerro Grande Mining Corp. (CEGMF) on Monday reported a loss of $116,000 in its fiscal third quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Santiago, Chile-based company said it had a loss of less than 1 cent.
In the final minutes of trading on Monday, the company's shares hit 1 cent. A year ago, they were trading at 2 cents.
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West Lafayette's fried chicken options aren't slim anymore.
Two new fast food restaurants will open this coming winter to the area north of campus, Slim Chickens and Panera Bread.
A building permit for a new Panera and a Slim Chickens were granted in late July. Both buildings are expected to cost $1.2 million each.
The Slim Chickens will be located at 2901 Northwestern Ave. and the Panera will be located at 3045 Sachem Ct. S.
Slim Chickens is a southern-style chicken fast food chain founded out of Fayetteville, Arkansas, with more than 180 locations in the United States, its website reads. The restaurant is the latest fried chicken-centric establishment to touch down in West Lafayette, joining two Popeye's locations opened in the last three months and Raising Cane's opened in April 2021.
The location is expected to open in December, according to the Indiana Business Journal.
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(NewsNation) — Amazon has acquired the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for $1.7 billion, scooping up another company to add to its collection of smart home appliances amid broader concerns from privacy advocates about the tech giant’s power and ability to gain deeper insights into consumers’ lives.
iRobot sells its products worldwide and is most famous for the circular-shaped Roomba vacuum, which would join voice assistant Alexa, the Astro robot, Ring security cameras and others in the list of smart home features Amazon offers.
The acquisition also adds to Amazon’s vast store of consumer data — leading tech experts to raise the alarm that the tech giant could use this business deal to vacuum up personal information from inside users’ homes.
So, is Amazon’s purchase just another way to spy on consumers?
Advanced Roomba vacuums have internal mapping technology that could benefit Amazon. The technology allows the devices to learn the floor plan of a user’s home. Devices can remember up to 10 floor plans “so users can carry their robot to another floor or a separate home, where the robot will recognize its location and clean as instructed,” press releases by iRobot say. Some models have low-resolution cameras to avoid obstacles and aid in mapping.
“Now they can actually know the layout of your home and products that are in your home to target you for further purchases for really anything — any consumer goods,” said Rick Jordan, CEO and founder of Reachout Technology.
Amazon hasn’t had much success with household robots, but the iRobot acquisition and the company’s strong market reputation provide a “massive foothold in the consumer robot market” that could help Amazon replicate the success of its Echo line of smart speakers, said Lian Jye Su, a robotics industry analyst for ABI Research.
“If I was looking at this from Amazon’s perspective of wanting to provide a complete, connected home it’s a good ambitious goal in and of itself, it’s fairly ethical,” Jordan said. “However, there has to be a lot of transparency to consumers as far as what data they’re collecting and what they’re going to use it for.”
Amazon’s Alexa can already warm users’ homes, control the lights, keep track of schedules and add vacuuming to its list.
“This tech makes life easier for lazier people. I would include myself in that because of certain tasks I don’t like doing,” Jordan said. “That’s fine, but how do we give up so much privacy just to obtain a little more convenience?”
Here’s a glimpse at the data Roombas have already collected on users:
- Billing information
- Mailing address
- Social media accounts, if you signed up through one
- Any data from other devices you’ve connected to, including your smartphone
If you want to better protect yourself from targeted ads, check your privacy settings on your Amazon account. There, you can limit Amazon’s permission to track.
These privacy concerns come after the tech giant was previously in hot water for listening in through its devices like Alexa. Last month, Amazon admitted to providing Ring, the company’s security-surveillance doorbell, footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/what-personal-data-could-amazon-get-from-buying-roomba/ | 2022-08-10 20:13:26 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/what-personal-data-could-amazon-get-from-buying-roomba/ |
CLEVELAND, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Davis & Young, A Legal Professional Association is excited to share its year-long celebration on the memorable occasion of its 100 years of service and excellence. While approaching its final centennial quarter, Davis & Young appreciates the distinct recognition received from the many local, state and national legislative bodies and civic leaders that include: The United States Senate and the House of Representatives, the 134th General Assembly of the Ohio State Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives, the Willoughby Hills City Council and the Board of Lake County Commissioners.
The noteworthy accomplishments of Davis & Young are attributable largely to the loyal services of its highly qualified and committed attorneys and staff, as well as to the innovation and foresight of its managing partners, both past and present. From its founders, Rees H. Davis, Sr. and Fred J. Young to George Lutjen and Marty Murphy to the 21st century leaders, Thomas W. Wright and Dennis R. Fogarty, their combined efforts have earned the firm a well-deserved reputation for excellence and have distinguished the practice as a worthy legal enterprise that has contributed greatly to the well-being of greater Cleveland and its surrounding communities for 100 years.
Although situated in Cuyahoga County for the greater portion of its history and in Willoughby Hills for the past 5 years, Davis and Young established new roots on June 23, 2022 when the firm relocated to 35000 Chardon Rd., just 1.8 miles east of its former location. Situated on the first floor of a beautiful brick building with prominent road exposure and convenient access, this location will allow us to accommodate our growing business and better serve our valued clients.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Reigning National League MVP Bryce Harper is set to start for the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night, just two months after having his left thumb broken by a pitch.
Phillies interim manager Rob Thomson announced Harper’s impending return from the injured list Thursday after consulting with the star.
“One, you get a great hitter back,” Thomson said before a game against Cincinnati. “But he’s also healthy. That’s really important to us. To get another batter in that lineup makes a lot (of difference) … everyone knows how great a hitter he is.”
Harper was 5 for 8 with two home runs, two doubles and six RBIs in a two-game rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Lehigh Valley. His minor league stint was originally expected to last through the weekend, but ended after a game-winning RBI double in the ninth inning on Wednesday night.
“It all depended on how he felt seeing pitches, his timing and how comfortable he was in the box,” Thomson said.
Harper took off Thursday to recover from some soreness, but is set to be the designated hitter when the Phillies host Pittsburgh to start of a three-game weekend series.
“His body was sore just in general, so it was like fifth day in spring training which is understandable given he’s been out for two months,” Thomson said. “We told him to take a day and come here to work out. And we’ll activate him tomorrow.”
The two-time NL MVP was hitting .318 with 15 homers and 48 RBIs when the thumb was broken by a fastball from San Diego’s Blake Snell on June 25. He is likely to spend the rest of the 2022 season as Philadelphia’s designated hitter since a small tear in his ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow has kept him out of right field since April.
Since his departure, Philadelphia has climbed into the second wild-card position in the NL. The Phillies have gone 30-20 without him and had a team on-base/slugging percentage (OPS) of .752 while averaging 4.5 runs per game in that stretch.
Harper projected into the third spot in the lineup surrounded by Kyle Schwarber, Rhys Hoskins, J.T. Realmuto and Nick Castellanos.
“It’s huge because (pitchers) know where he’s at all the time,” Thomson said. “The same with Schwarber. They know where that guy is at all the time. So the guys in front of them tend to get more strikes and better pitches. Not all the time, but most of the time.”
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a better method for securing a beach umbrella at the beach, campground or at a hotel," said an inventor, from Elkridge, Md., "so I invented the BEACH BUDDY. My design would offer a viable alternative to traditional methods of securing beach umbrellas."
The invention provides an effective way to secure a beach umbrella above ground. In doing so, it increases stability and safety for the duration of the outing and it prevents the umbrella from flying into the air. It also saves time and effort. The invention features a durable design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for beach goers, outdoor enthusiasts, hotels, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Baltimore sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-BDH-161, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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WASHINGTON — Attorneys for Donald Trump are meeting with special counsel Jack Smith's team, as prosecutors appear poised to indict the former president on charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, multiple outlets reported Thursday.
The meeting included Trump lawyer John Lauro, said an Associated Press source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private gathering.
Smith's office has for months been charged with investigating efforts by Trump and his campaign team to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost to President Joe Biden.
Analysts have said some potential charges could be related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when a Trump-supporting mob attacked the U.S. Capitol in a deadly riot, forcing lawmakers to flee and bunker down for hours.
Trump received a target letter earlier this month informing him he was the target of the special counsel's investigation and that a grand jury was being convened to hear evidence; a grand jury decides whether there is enough evidence to charge somebody with a crime, and convening one is often a major escalation in a federal prosecution.
Trump disclosed the existence of the target letter in a post on his Truth Social platform, saying he received it on July 16, and said at the time that he anticipates being indicted.
Such a letter often precedes an indictment and is used to advise individuals under investigation that prosecutors have gathered evidence linking them to a crime. Trump received one last month soon before being charged in a separate investigation into the illegal retention of classified documents.
It's unclear if Smith's team of prosecutors plans to bring charges against others in Trump's orbit as well, but such charges are likely if Trump is indicted, given the widespread efforts by allies of Trump, including his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, to argue that the election was fraudulent.
No evidence of widespread voter fraud, which Trump claims caused his loss, was found despite numerous audits, including some championed by GOP-led state legislatures.
New federal charges, on top of existing state and federal counts in New York and Florida and a separate election-interference investigation nearing conclusion in Georgia, would add to the list of legal problems for Trump as he pursues the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Smith has already secured one indictment against Trump, filing more than 30 charges last month accusing him of taking some of the government's most classified information with him when he left the White House and hiding it from the government when officials tried to secure the documents' return.
He also faces charges in New York related to alleged hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
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By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The older you are, the less you fret about about staying in your own home or community as you age.
That’s a key insight from a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, which found that U.S. adults ages 65 or older feel much better prepared to “age in place” than those 50-64, who are mostly still in the final stretches of their working years.
The poll also documented greater insecurity around aging in place for older Black and Latino Americans, the likely result of a deep-rooted wealth gap that markedly favors white people.
Aging in one’s own home, or with family or a close friend, is a widely held aspiration, with 88% of adults 50 and older saying it’s their goal in an earlier AP-NORC poll.
The outlook among those 65 or older is upbeat, with nearly 8 in 10 saying they’re extremely or very prepared to stay in their current home as long as possible.
But doubts creep in for those ages 50-64. Among that group, the majority who rate themselves as extremely or very prepared shrinks to about 6 in 10, according to the poll.
This relatively younger group is especially likely to say their financial situation is the main reason they don’t feel very prepared to age in place. And they’re also more likely to feel anxious about being able to stay in their communities, get care from medical providers and receive backup from family members or close friends, the poll found.
Part of it may be due to fear of the unknown among people who’ve relied on a paycheck all their lives.
“When you’ve never done it before, and you are only going to do it once, you’re sort of flying by the seat of your pants,” said Leigh Gerstenberger, in his late 60s and retired from a career in financial services. “I spent a lot of time talking to people ahead of me in the journey,” says the Pittsburgh-area resident.
Also, people approaching their 60s may question if Social Security and Medicare will truly be there for them. Stacy Wiggins, an addiction medicine nurse who lives near Detroit, figures she’ll probably work at least another 10 years into her late 60s — and maybe part-time after that. Older friends are already collecting Social Security.
“In my group, you wonder if it’s going to be available,” Wiggins said of government programs that support older people. “Maybe it’s not. You will find people who are less apt to have a traditional pension. Those are things that leave you with a lot of trepidation toward the future.”
Some people now in their 50s and early 60s may still be dealing with the overhang of the 2007-09 recession, when unemployment peaked at 10% and foreclosures soared, said Sarah Szanton, dean of the Johns Hopkins University nursing school. For an aging society, the U.S. does relatively little to prepare older adults to navigate the transition to retirement, she observed.
“As Americans, we’ve always idolized youth and we’re notoriously underprepared for thinking about aging,” Szanton said. “It often comes as a surprise to people.” Her involvement with aging-in-place issues started early in her career, when she made house calls to older people.
In the poll, people 50 and older reported that their communities do an uneven job of meeting basic needs. While access to health care, healthy food and high-speed internet were generally rated highly, only 36% said their community does a good job providing affordable housing. Just 44% were satisfied with access to transportation and to services that support older people in their homes.
Kym Harrelson-Pattishall is hoping that as more people retire to her coastal North Carolina community, health care facilities and other services will follow. As it stands now, a major medical issue can involve a car trip of up to an hour to the hospital.
A real estate agent in her early 50s, Pattishall shares the goal of aging at home, but her confidence level is not very high. “I think it would just eat away what savings I have,” she said.
It’s all about adjusting, says another small-town resident, about 20 years older than Pattishall. Shirley Hayden lives in Texas, near the Louisiana border and on the track of hurricanes from the Gulf of Mexico. She says she has no investments and only modest savings, but she rates herself as very prepared to continue aging in place.
“You have to learn to live within your means,” Hayden said. “I don’t charge things I can’t afford to pay for.
“My biggest thing I have to work around as far as expenses is insurance,” she added. “I don’t really need any new clothes. In Texas, you live in jeans and T-shirts and they don’t go out of style. Yeah, your shoes wear out, but how often do you buy a pair of shoes?”
Not so easy to work around is the well-documented racial wealth gap that constrains older Black people in particular. A Federal Reserve report notes that on average Black and Latino households own 15% to 20% as much net wealth as white households.
In the poll, 67% of Black Americans and 59% of Latino Americans ages 50 and older said they felt extremely or very prepared to stay in their homes as long as possible, compared with the 73% share of white Americans saying they feel confident.
Wiggins, the Detroit area nurse, is Black and says it’s a pattern she’s familiar with. “Part of it is generational wealth,” she said. “I have friends who are white, whose dad died and left them settled. I have friends who are Black whose parents died, and they left enough to bury them, but nothing substantial.”
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AP Director of Public Opinion Research Emily Swanson and Polling Reporter Hannah Fingerhut contributed to this report.
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The AP-NORC poll of 1,762 adults age 50 and older was conducted between February 24 – March 1 with funding from The SCAN Foundation. It used a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based Foresight 50+ Panel of adults age 50 or older, which is designed to represent the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
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The national Black Trans-led LGBTQ+ center celebrates the New York LGBTQ+ community in partnership with TD Bank, SoBro and Montefiore Health Systems.
BRONX, N.Y., June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The LGBTQ+ grassroots organization Destination Tomorrow will host its annual Bronx Pride Week in New York from June 13 to June 17. This year's theme, "Investing in Us," celebrates LGBTQ+ individuals and sheds light on the programs, resources and allyship the community needs.
Bronx Pride Week arrives amid a political landscape violating the rights and freedoms of the LGBTQ+ community. With multiple states having codified numerous bills in 2023 specifically targeting Transgender and Gender Nonconforming individuals, communal support to hold governing officials accountable to protect all civilians has never been more important. Destination Tomorrow's primary mission is to help increase equitable access to resources and create a space for the LGBTQ+ community to feel heard and valued. The center hopes to see everyone in the Bronx to celebrate Pride and show their support for these individuals.
The week's festivities begin on Tuesday, June 13 with a Bronx Pride pop-up shop and clothing drive in collaboration with the LGBTQ+ advocacy organization NEW Pride Agenda, offering individuals free clothing and materials of all sizes. Additional programming includes the Pride in the Boogie Down Celebration with Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, the Bronx LGBTQ Expo, Pride Ball on the Highbridge Connector and a performance by the New York City Gay Men's Chorus.
The annual Bronx Pride Festival, hosted by Aja from RuPaul's Drag Race and Jack Gorgeous Gucci from FX's Pose and HBO Max's Legendary, will conclude the week of celebration. Open and free to the public, the all-day event will offer games, food and its widely recognized parade. Attendees will also get the opportunity to see performances from various LGBTQ+ icons, including Charvoni from the iconic dance music group Black Box, The House of Miyake-Mugler, the winners of HBO Max's Legendary, and viral dance sensations Masterz at Work and more.
"We are thrilled to host our annual Bronx Pride Week and bring people of all identities and backgrounds together to celebrate the Queer and Trans community," said Sean Ebony Coleman, Destination Tomorrow's founder and executive director. "With ongoing political attacks and policies threatening our basic rights and freedoms, Bronx Pride Week offers a space for LGBTQ+ individuals to feel supported and valued. 'Investing in Us' underscores our conviction that LGBTQ+ people deserve to be protected and that communal support is critical for our liberation. For the health of our society and for a more equitable world, the LGBTQ+ community is worth the investment."
For more than 10 years, Destination Tomorrow has served the community through educational, financial, housing, health and personal support programs. As the first Black Trans-led LGBTQ+ center in the state of New York with a second location in Atlanta, the grassroots organization puts an emphasis on providing support to vulnerable members of the LGBTQ+ community that takes them off the path of requiring emergency care, focusing on economic, social and mental empowerment on a holistic level.
A comprehensive list of events for the week is as follows:
- On Tuesday, June 13, from 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., the Bronx Pride Week pop-up shop and clothing drive will be held at 2134 Barnes Ave., Bronx, New York
- On Wednesday, June 14, at 6:00 p.m., the Pride in the Boogie Down Celebration in collaboration with the Office of the Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson will be held at 2568 Park Ave., Bronx, New York
- On Thursday, June 15, from 1:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., the Bronx LGBT Expo will be held at 234 East 149th St., Bronx, New York
- On Thursday, June 15, at 5:30 p.m., the Pride Ball on the Highbridge Connector, in collaboration with the Office of Council Member Carmen De La Rosa, will be held at Dr. MLK Jr. Blvd. at West 170th St. for the Bronx entrance and at Amsterdam Ave. & West 173rd St. Highbridge Park for the Manhattan entrance
- On Friday, June 16, at 8:00 p.m., Chasing Rainbows, the Continued Chase for Pride, a performance presented by the New York City Gay Men's Chorus will be held at Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture at 500 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York
- On Saturday, June 17, from 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., the Bronx Pride Week Festival will be located at Westchester Ave. between Brook Ave and Bergen Ave
For media inquiries regarding Destination Tomorrow, please contact Cecilia at 970-237-0440 or cecilia@thetascgroup.com.
About Sean Ebony Coleman and Destination Tomorrow
Sean Ebony Coleman is the founder and executive director of Destination Tomorrow, a national LGBTQ+ organization with centers located in the South Bronx and Atlanta, serving the community through educational, financial, housing, health and personal support programs. The grassroots organization puts an emphasis on providing support to vulnerable members of the LGBTQ community that takes them off the path of requiring emergency care, focusing on economic, social and mental empowerment on a holistic level. As a nationally recognized leader in the Transgender community and the first African American of Transgender experience to operate an LGBTQ+ center in the state of New York, Sean plays a key role in advocating for policies that directly impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ individuals. Through Gilead Science's TRANScend Community Impact Fund, Sean is the only Black Trans grantmaker in the country, providing crucial funding to Transgender and Gender Nonconforming-led grassroots organizations nationally. Sean is also the founder and managing partner of Sean Ebony Coleman Consulting, where he has worked with companies including Unilever, Lululemon and Equinox on campaigns and DEI strategies to support the LGBTQ community.
Contact: Cecilia Apodaca
The TASC Group
Email: cecilia@thetascgroup.com
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