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Stars can be glimpsed in such unexpected places.
Chonkasaurus was at rest on a pile of rotting river pylons and rusty chains along the Chicago River just below Division Street early last weekend when Joey Santore and Al Scorch captured their image on video.
"Look at the size of that effing thing," Joey Santore announced, and he didn't say effing.
"Oh my God, it's a massive turtle. Is that a snapper? He's a snapper, " Al Scorch added, civic pride suffusing his voice. "It's a Chicago River snapper!"
The video they posted on YouTube, in which they dub the snapper Chonkosaurus, has reached hundreds of thousands of viewers, including me, who have shortened the turtle's name to Chonk. There's even merch — T-shirts and sweatshirts — emblazoned with Chonk's sturdy frame.
The turtle looks broad and strong, as if embodying the spirit of the concrete city that booms above their river perch. Snapping turtles can weigh up to 75 pounds, and Chonk's steady girth seems to be part of what has endeared them to so many.
Think of Chonk as being in rhyme with Carl Sandburg's poem, "Chicago":
"Stormy, husky, brawling,
Turtle of the Big Shoulders."
Put a Chicago Bears jersey on Chonk, and they could be a middle linebacker.
In times beset with much dispiriting news, there's something encouraging in Chonk's robust appearance on a bed of rusted chains. The Chicago River was an industrial dumping ground for decades; it caught on fire several times. Fires, you may recall, have an especially harrowing history in Chicago.
But 70% of the water in the river now comes directly from wastewater treatment plants. Officials still don't recommend you take a river swim. But Margaret Frisbie of Friends of the Chicago River, who organize groups to pick up litter and help look after wildlife, says the river is the cleanest today that it's been in 150 years.
Joey Santore tweeted when he posted his video of Chonk, "Great to see this beast thriving here on what was once such a toxic river, but is slowly getting cleaned up and restored."
If you ever despair about the possibility of progress, you might want to think of Chonk the Snapper, flopped out and sunning on a berth of greenish, old pylons as boats pull past, and the city rises around them. A river, once described as "a wave of poo," is now healthy enough to be a home.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A decades-long search by a Florida woman and her extended family linked to an unsolved murder case has resulted in the woman finally finding her missing granddaughter, now grown with no previous knowledge of her tragic history, officials said Thursday.
Harold Dean Clouse Jr., Tina Linn Clouse and their infant daughter had vanished in October 1980, shortly after the young family moved from New Smyrna Beach, Florida, to the Dallas suburb of Lewisville, Texas, according to the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
In January 1981, in a rural area east of Houston, a dog that returned home with a decomposed human arm in its mouth prompted a police search that located the remains of an unidentified couple, the Houston Chronicle reported. The Harris County medical examiner’s office said the man had been beaten to death, while the woman had been strangled.
The couple remained unidentified until last October when a group of genetic genealogists who worked with law enforcement tested the remains and identified them as the Clouse couple, First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster said at a Thursday afternoon news conference in Austin, Texas. But no sign of their infant granddaughter, known to them as Holly Marie Clouse, was found with her parents’ remains.
Webster did not answer questions during Thursday’s news conference but appealed for public help in solving the homicide cases. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is running for reelection, did not attend.
As for the missing infant, it wasn’t until Tuesday, when modern technology led investigators into her workplace, that the now 42-year-old woman would learn of her biological family and her tragic background. Before that, all she knew was that she had been adopted and raised by an Oklahoma family who had adopted her.
The child’s adoptive family are not suspects in her disappearance or her parents’ deaths, Webster said. He declined to provide their identities or how the child identifies herself today.
Hours after the stunning revelation, the Oklahoma woman was introduced to her grandmother, aunts and uncles during a Zoom call. She told them she had been married for more than 20 years and has five children and two infant grandchildren, the Chronicle reported.
But many questions remain, including who killed the Clouses.
At some point, two women left the child at an Arizona church and took her into its care, Webster said.
“Two women who identified themselves as members of a nomadic religious group brought (the child) to the church. They were wearing white robes, and they were barefoot. They indicated the beliefs of their religion included the separation of male and female members, practicing vegetarian habits and not using or wearing leather goods,” Webster said.
It was not known how the women came into possession of the infant. Investigators believed the group traveled around the American Southwest, including Texas, and were known in the Yuma, Arizona, area for asking for food, Webster said.
In late December 1980 or early January 1981, the missing couple’s family received a telephone call from a woman identifying herself only as “Sister Susan.” The woman said she was calling from Los Angeles to explain that the missing couple had joined their religious group, renounced all her worldly possessions and wanted no further contact with their families. The woman asked if the family wanted the return of the missing couple’s car.
A rendezvous was arranged at the Daytona Motor Speedway in Florida and authorities were notified, Webster said. They encountered a man and three berobed women. The women were taken into custody and the car was turned over to Donna Casasanta, Harold Dean Clouse’s mother, but no case file about the women’s arrest could be found by Florida authorities, Webster said.
Webster appealed Thursday to the public for any information regarding the unsolved homicide cold case, noting that many questions remain unanswered. Casasanta herself said in a statement issued by the Attorney General’s office that she “prayed for more than 40 years for answers, and the Lord has revealed some of it.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/search-in-texas-murder-case-finds-missing-child-now-age-42/2022/06/09/6b53c15a-e84e-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html | 2022-06-10 01:08:06 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/search-in-texas-murder-case-finds-missing-child-now-age-42/2022/06/09/6b53c15a-e84e-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html |
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ROME (AP) — Costly construction delays, a leadership vacancy linked to a volatile political climate and a lack of sponsors amid a spreading financial crisis has prompted International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach to acknowledge the “challenges” facing organizers of the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.
With the IOC’s coordination commission visit to the Milan and Cortina venues postponed by three months to December because of national elections in Italy slated for later this month, it was left to Bach to handle matters during a visit with outgoing premier Mario Draghi before receiving an award from the Italian Olympic Committee.
“As always before Olympic Games, there are challenges — in particular light of this new emerging world order and the financial and economic crisis,” Bach said Friday.
“But we have overcome some challenges in the last couple of years," Bach added, referring to games held in Tokyo and Beijing amid the coronavirus pandemic. “So I’m not too worried because we know about the enthusiasm, efficiency and the dedication of our Italian friends.”
In an era of increasing sensitivity about the cost of Olympics — and the typical overspends funded by taxpayers — Bach said one of the most expensive venue upgrades for 2026 would not be included in official Milano-Cortina budgets.
Italian authorities have set aside more than 80 million euros ($80 million) to renovate the historic sliding track in Cortina for bobsled, luge and skeleton races.
Bach explained “this would be a touristic and sport project which would go ahead anyway and regardless of the Olympic Winter Games.”
Bach also supported local authorities who are waiting until after the election to appoint a new CEO of the organizing committee after the departure of Vincenzo Novari — a move which has paralyzed construction and other plans, such as the recruitment of sponsors.
“The new CEO must have and should have the support of the new government,” Bach said. “It would not be advisable to appoint such a CEO right now, a couple of (weeks) before national elections.”
The 2026 Games will be the most widespread Olympics ever, with venues spread out over 22,000 square kilometers (nearly 10,000 square miles) across a vast swath of northern Italy — from the regions of Lombardy and Veneto to the provinces of Trento and Bolzano.
The 2026 organizers have followed the IOC’s plans for modern Olympics to cut costs and not build taxpayer-funded white elephant venues.
“Thanks to the new rules we were able to imagine a candidacy like Milan-Cortina,” 2026 committee coordinator Diana Bianchedi told Bach. “I promise to you we won’t let you down.”
SLIDING CENTER
There had been discussions of holding sliding at an existing venue just beyond Italy’s border in St. Moritz, Switzerland, or Innsbruck, Austria.
The IOC recently created a panel for cost cutting, which makes the move to keep sliding in Cortina surprising.
The $100 million sliding track built for the 2006 Turin Games — the last time Italy hosted the Winter Olympics — was dismantled in 2012 amid rising maintenance costs.
But Ivo Ferriani, the president of the International bobsled and skeleton federation — who was the general manager of the Turin track — pointed to a century of sliding history in Cortina.
The Cortina track was built in 1923 and the resort known as the “Queen” of the Italian Dolomites was home to bobsledding great Eugenio Monti, who won six Olympic medals between 1956 and 1968.
“There’s a tradition and (sliding) culture in Cortina,” Ferriani told The Associated Press. “The legacy isn’t about the venue; it’s about the people.”
Ferriani added that plans are already being made to host World Cup bobsled races at Cortina in 2026-27 followed by the world championships in 2027-28 — plus European Cup and Paralympic races.
“This will be the best venue (worldwide), because it will be completely accessible,” Ferriani said, adding that its proximity to other tracks in Austria, Switzerland and Germany makes it a natural fit for the circuit.
SPEEDSKATING QUESTIONS
Bach had little to say about debate over the plan to hold speedskating on an outdoor track in Baselga di Piné in the Trentino region.
The last time Olympic speedskating was held outdoors was for the 1992 Albertville Games, with the IOC having since preferred the controlled environment of indoor venues.
Outdoor ice is notoriously tough to keep in shape for all competitors to have a fair chance at a medal.
High temperatures made matters even worse in Albertville, where one recurring term was “slush,” with skaters ploughing through soft ice that sometimes had a thin sheet of water on top.
“I don’t have the chair of the coordination commission here with me,” Bach said. “What I can tell you is before coming here I did not get an alert that I would absolutely have to address something.”
Told that this was a topic better handled by Christophe Dubi, the executive director of the Olympic Games, Bach added, “I guess that consultations are going on.”
RETIREMENT
Bach’s 12 years as IOC president expires in 2025, a year before the Milan-Cortina Games.
“I am really looking very much forward to (2026), because by then I will be able to really enjoy the bella vita Italiana and Olympic sport to its fullest,” he told the crowd at CONI, “if you still invite me.”
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RUSSIAN BAN
Bach was also asked about comments a day earlier by U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee chair Susanne Lyons, who said the IOC is discussing “whether there is a pathway” for the return of Russian and Belarussian athletes to international sports following the ban because of the invasion of Ukraine.
“It goes without saying that from the very first moment when we said we are in this dilemma, that we are looking for ways out of this dilemma,” Bach said. “But this is about it. I cannot report any concrete steps or a deadline.”
The longer Russian athletes stay banned from international competition, the more qualification events for the 2024 Paris Olympics will be missed.
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AP Sports Writer Graham Dunbar in Geneva contributed to this report.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — As the Fourth of July approaches, many places in the Tri-State area are preparing their firework shows.
While fireworks are an American tradition to celebrate Independence Day, some with sensitive ears, such as pets or veterans, can experience high anxiety during the blasts.
To help with this anxiety, 13 News has compiled a list of ways to assist pets, dementia patients and veterans during firework celebrations.
Pets
Health communications agency Curation says loud firework noises can cause fear and anxiety in dogs, causing them to run away or hide. When a dog does this, they are experiencing noise aversion, which causes symptoms similar to a panic attack.
With this in mind, it is important to keep an eye on unusual behavior from your dog that is triggered by loud noises. During Fourth of July celebrations, there are several ways to help your dog cope with stress from firework shows.
- Keep pets secured in a quiet room during the displays.
- Talk to your veterinarian about products and medications that may help.
- Prescription medications such as Trazodone, Valium, Zoloft and more.
- Calming supplements such as CBD, homeopathic medicines and aromatherapy.
- Physical comforters such as anxiety vests or calming caps.
- Make sure your pet is microchipped in case they bolt and escape during the noise.
People with dementia and Alzheimers
According to the Alzheimers Foundation of America (AFA), firework noise can create challenges for families affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia-related illnesses.
The AFA says fireworks can be distressing for someone with dementia, especially if they are a veteran. Even when the person is inside, the noise from firework explosions can cause anxiety or agitation. Large crowds can also be overwhelming for people with dementia.
To prepare for Independence Day, the AFA has provided tips to make the holiday “dementia-friendly.”
- Consider keeping the person indoors at times when fireworks will go off.
- Adapt the fireworks tradition by watching a filmed display on TV.
- Explain to your loved one in advance that there may be loud noises and continue telling them this at different intervals.
- Put on soothing background sounds such as a white noise machine or an air conditioner.
- Have comfort items on hand like a blanket or an article of clothing.
- Occasionally check in with your loved one during the night if they live with you. If they live alone, stay overnight with them or ask a trusted friend, relative or caregiver to do so.
- Keep gatherings small and give guests name tags to help the person with dementia recall who is who.
- Host celebrations during daylight to prevent confusion as the sun sets.
- Keep the person’s routines as normal as possible, including mealtimes, naptimes and bedtimes while incorporating favorite activities throughout the day.
- Get your loved one in the Independence Day spirit with activities like creating decorations, playing patriotic music, baking holiday-themed desserts, or making a photo album with Fourth of July memories.
- Families with questions or concerns can talk to a licensed social worker by calling AFA’s Helpline at (866) 232-8484 or visiting the AFA’s website. The helpline is open seven days a week.
Veterans
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a major part of helping veterans during Independence Day is to plan ahead. Recognizing triggers in advance can prevent potential problems.
Some common triggers for veterans during the holiday include:
- Light sensitivity to fireworks and sparklers, especially at night;
- Strong reactions to sounds like fireworks, ceremonial guns and cannon fire;
- Anxiety in crowds;
- Flashbacks triggered by sounds or smell;
- Feeling distant from family during celebrations;
- Risky behaviors like excessive alcohol consumption.
Other helpful tips include:
- If throwing a celebration, ask guests in advance if they experience difficulties during fireworks;
- Use quieter alternatives to fireworks such as sparklers;
- Consider excluding alcohol or other intoxicating substances from Independence Day celebrations;
- Practice a few self-help tips or relaxation exercises;
- Find more resources for Veterans and their families on the Make The Connection website.
For a list of fireworks in the Tri-State area, click here. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/tips-for-helping-sensitive-ears-cope-with-fourth-of-july-firework-blasts/ | 2022-07-04 01:43:53 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/tips-for-helping-sensitive-ears-cope-with-fourth-of-july-firework-blasts/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Your old CD collection — once the centerpiece of your media center and perhaps even a physical manifestation of your personality — is now collecting dust somewhere in your basement. But it’s still possible that someone, somewhere, is willing to pay big bucks for a few of your (formerly) beloved compact discs.
Just as soon as everyone chills out on vinyl.
“Collecting is gaining and gaining and gaining, and with CDs, I know it’s going to gain,” Garry Shrum, the director of Entertainment & Music Memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, told Nexstar.
Shrum formerly operated Blue Meanie Records, a record shop in San Diego County specializing in imports, bootlegs and other hard-to-find rarities. He also maintains a massive collection of rare recordings himself, embracing pretty much every format imaginable.
Shrum and his wife are currently looking to “cut down” their collection — and right now, they’re finding plenty of buyers for older CDs on the internet.
“Some are selling for $75, $100, $150. So it’s starting,” Shrum said.
Still, it’ll take a little while before CDs begin to approach the popularity of vinyl as the go-to format for collectors — perhaps even years. But there’s always someone out there looking to find an out-of-print version of something they loved in their younger years. And in some cases, it’s the teens of today who are seeking a copy of an album they weren’t alive to experience upon its debut, according to Shrum.
“I’m seeing tons and tons of really young people collecting old music,” Shrum said. “Lots of girls looking for blues, psychedelic music and R&B.”
The specimens that are most desirable, however, usually aren’t the most popular releases from any given band. Shrum said plenty of online collectors are looking for specific copies of imports, live recordings, or CDs with alternate artwork or track listings.
“It happens with vinyl, it’s gonna happen with CDs. They’re looking for the CD singles that have the extra track on them … or the single off the album, and there’s two tracks on the B-side that are live, and the only way you can get them is on the German import.”
In extremely rare cases, some of these hard-to-find CDs have also sold for thousands of dollars, according to Discogs, a database of audio recordings frequently referenced by collectors. One of the highest prices ever paid for a CD, according to the site, was $3,250 for a copy of the 2003 album “Midnight Over Honey River” by American singer-songwriter Valerie Carter — an album only released in Japan.
Other pricey sales concerned a CD released in South Korea by American heavy metal band Runner (which went for $3,000) and a sought-after CD single of Michael Jackson’s version of “Smile” — a release that was canceled at the last minute — that sold for $2,989, according to Discogs.
Heritage Auctions, too, has sold at least one CD for more — $3,750, to be exact — though that CD was more of an art piece than a traditional album: Conceived by street artist Banksy, the album was an unsanctioned remix of Paris Hilton’s debut album “Paris” — complete with doctored images of Hilton on the cover and within the liner notes — which the artist hid in record shops around London for unsuspecting shoppers to find.
It’s likely, though, that most widely-released CDs would be worth considerably less.
That said, there are always collectors looking to complete a set, or replace a popular CD they owned in their younger years. And whatever they might pay — be it $5 or $10 — isn’t a bad price for something that’s been gathering dust in the basement, Shrum noted.
“It’s a trophy for some people,” Shrum said. “People can say, ‘Hey, I first met my girlfriend when we saw this band.’ You don’t know why some people will want things.” | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/are-your-old-cds-worth-anything-to-collectors/ | 2023-07-09 18:06:16 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/national-news/are-your-old-cds-worth-anything-to-collectors/ |
The 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic Odds & Preview: Justin Suh
The field at the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club in Detroit, Michigan will feature Justin Suh. He and the rest of the golfers will go for for a piece of the $8,800,000.00 purse on the par-72, 7,370-yard course from June 29 - July 2.
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Justin Suh Insights
- Suh has finished under par 11 times and scored 11 rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 20 rounds.
- He has posted the best score of the day once while finishing in the top-five twice and with a top-10 score in five of his last 20 rounds played.
- Suh has posted a score within three shots of the day's best in five of his last 20 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day eight times.
- In his past five appearances, Suh has finished in the top 20 once.
- In his past five events, Suh has posted a score better than average in two of them.
- Suh hopes to qualify for the weekend for the sixth straight time.
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Rocket Mortgage Classic Insights and Stats
- Suh failed to make the cut in his last two trips to this event.
- This course is set up to play at 7,370 yards, 346 more than the average course on the Tour in the past year.
- The average course on the Tour in the past year has played to 69.25 strokes per round and a score of -5. At Detroit Golf Club, the scoring average is lower at -11 per tournament.
- Detroit Golf Club checks in at 7,370 yards, 76 yards longer than the average course Suh has played in the past year (7,294 yards).
- The tournaments he has played in the past year have seen an average score of -5. That's higher than this course's recent scoring average of -11.
Suh's Last Time Out
- Suh shot below average on the 16 par-3 holes at the Travelers Championship, with an average of 3.13 strokes to finish in the 19th percentile of competitors.
- He averaged 3.85 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 48) at the Travelers Championship, which was good enough to land him in the 77th percentile among all competitors on par 4s (the tournament average was 3.91).
- Suh shot better than just 25% of the competitors at the Travelers Championship on the tournament's eight par-5 holes, averaging 4.88 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.55.
- Suh did not card a birdie on any of the 16 par-3s at the Travelers Championship (the field averaged 2.0).
- On the 16 par-3s at the Travelers Championship, Suh recorded more bogeys or worse (two) than the tournament average (1.7).
- Suh's 14 birdies or better on the 48 par-4s at the Travelers Championship were more than the tournament average (7.6).
- In that most recent competition, Suh's performance on the 48 par-4s included a bogey or worse six times (compared to the field's better average, 4.8).
- Suh finished the Travelers Championship registering a birdie or better on three par-5 holes, while the field averaged 2.9 on the eight par-5s.
- On the eight par-5s at the Travelers Championship, Suh underperformed compared to the tournament average of 0.6 bogeys or worse on those holes by recording one.
Rocket Mortgage Classic Time and Date Info
- Date: June 29 - July 2, 2023
- Course: Detroit Golf Club
- Location: Detroit, Michigan
- Par: 72 / 7,370 yards
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One of the greatest casualties of the brutal civil war in Ethiopia has been its health care. With the country's northern Tigray region under blockade and cut off from most communications, a disastrous humanitarian crisis has been unfolding in a war that has become the world's unseen war.
Dr. Fasika Amdeslasie, a surgeon at Tigray's Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, says, "Our patients are not getting basic medicines like antibiotics, IV fluids, [and] oxygen." Without these kinds of supplies, he's watched patients die.
"Seeing the hopelessness in their eyes," he says, "and being the one to tell them that you cannot help them, that they are going to die soon, as a firsthand witness as a physician is very heartbreaking."
"You cannot do anything for them and you tell them to pray," adds Fasika, who was dean of Mekele University's medical school before the war. (Per the Ethiopian custom, we are using first names for subsequent references.)
"This conflict has truly decimated the health system," says Lindsey Green, a senior program officer who researches sexual violence and other human rights violations at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).
The violent war between the Tigray People's Liberation Front — the party that controls Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, and the Ethiopian government forces and their allies, including neighboring Eritrea, has been raging for almost two years. It's a power struggle fraught with ethnic tensions. Both sides blame the other for starting the conflict, which has claimed up to 600,000 lives, displaced millions and caused rampant starvation and poverty, according to researchers at Ghent University in Belgium.
A September U.N. report has faulted all sides for what it believes to be "violations [that] amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity," including extrajudicial killings [where an official kills someone without legal process], rape, sexual violence and starvation of civilians.
"The scale of human suffering really has few parallels," says Thomas McHale, a deputy director with PHR.
A medical system that's been decimated
For years, the medical system in Tigray was a capable network of urban and rural facilities servicing nearly 7 million people. But now, according to the Tigray Health Bureau, more than 80% of its hospitals have been destroyed or damaged. Rural clinics and health facilities are mostly non-operational.
"They took away ambulances, they dismantled solar panels," says Dr. Kibrom Gebreselassie, a surgeon and chief executive director at Ayder Hospital in Mekele, the capital of Tigray. "And they dispersed all the drugs to the ground, crushing it under the tire[s] of their military vehicle. No one dared to stop them."
Medical workers, who are primarily government employees, haven't been paid in months. Doctors have no choice but to wash and reuse gloves (occasionally resorting to plastic bags instead), distribute expired medications, halt elective surgeries and turn away cancer patients — including children — due to lack of chemotherapy.
"To tell a patient that they have cancer is tantamount to telling them, 'You are going to die soon,'" says Kibrom. In addition, "diseases which we have controlled before start to flare up again. This includes anthrax, rabies, measles in children and leishmaniasis, to mention just a few."
People with chronic conditions have been especially hard hit. Birhan Hailu of Mekele, 52, who has type 2 diabetes, says: "My main job now is worrying about my disease because I have children. I may die. No one will take care of them."
Insulin is hard to come by. Birhan has borrowed some from her neighbor but often goes without. "Even our physicians [and] nurses are crying in front of us because they don't have something to give," she says in tears.
One of those nurses is 35-year-old Atsede Giday, who works at Ayder Hospital, where about 5,000 diabetes patients were treated before the war. Prolonged lack of care is extremely dangerous. "I'm feeling in these weeks," she says, "I will lose many patients."
Without reliable access to food, money and transportation, Kibrom says "patients were left to die in their houses." Mothers have had to give birth at home.
And since it is difficult to get to health centers, treatment "outcomes are much poorer" for those wounded by the fighting and bombing, says Green.
An emergency physician, Dr. Daniel Weldu, formerly at Ayder Hospital, put it this way: "I wouldn't want my beloved or my relatives to be treated [at my emergency department] because I know the limitations are so severe."
PHR has also flagged the widespread sexual violence in Tigray and elsewhere in Ethiopia as a deeply troubling part of the war. "If [victims] are able to go to a health facility to try to seek care and services after this violence," Green says, "they are often met with not only a lack of ability to receive physical care but also long-term impacts on fertility and other sexual reproductive health outcomes." And there are few psychological services available to help people heal from the trauma of sexual violence.
"If you ask me if the health system was targeted ... definitely, yes," says Hailay Abrha Gesesew, an epidemiologist at Torrens University Australia who is originally from Tigray. He laments that many deaths are and were preventable. What's needed, he argues, is "a humanitarian corridor to deliver basic supplies to Tigray — medicine, food and fertilizer." But a temporary ceasefire in March of this year to allow humanitarian aid into Tigray didn't achieve much before fizzling in August as fighting resumed. Subsequent attempts to organize peace talks have faltered.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, ran Tigray's Regional Health Bureau from 2001-2003 and became Ethiopia's Minister of Health in 2005. In these positions, he instituted many of the reforms and policies that shored up the country's health system, now lying in pieces. For months, he's spoken about the current situation at WHO's regular press briefings. In August, he said, "Nowhere on Earth, 6 million people are sealed off ... from basic services, from their own money, from telecom, from food, from medicine." Asserting that heads of states are ignoring this humanitarian crisis, he said, "Maybe the reason is the color of the skin of the people in Tigray."
A fear of giving birth in the dark
One of the few spots where medical services are meagerly available is in Mekele. But things are dire. Several months ago, one woman found herself nearing the end of her third pregnancy. This time was different, however. Power across Mekele was intermittent at best, including at Ayder Hospital, where she was scheduled to give birth.
"Most of the time, it was running out of light and it had not enough fuel for the generator to be turned on," she says.
This woman was afraid she'd end up delivering in the middle of the night — in the dark. A physician herself, she asked that her name not be used for her own safety and because she fears her family elsewhere in Ethiopia may be interrogated or arrested.
With her two previous births, she'd experienced postpartum hemorrhaging. "If anything happens, like complication," she says, "it would be difficult to treat because they cannot see where I'm bleeding from."
Not to mention the challenge of the routine visual scan of the newborn. "To see a child, how his color is, is he breathing or not at night? It's difficult when the light is off," she says.
As her due date grew closer, and there was routinely no power at night, she did the only thing she could think of. She charged her solar-powered flashlight in the sun each day.
Then, this past June, at 5 in the morning, she gave birth to a baby boy. Fortunately, she didn't hemorrhage. And she didn't end up needing her solar-powered flashlight. The power, remarkably, stayed on. Subsequently, her son got his polio and tuberculosis vaccines, but none of the other routine immunizations were available.
"It's difficult to have a new baby without vaccines and without all the things that he might need," she says. "But I feel blessed actually. It's a blessing to have a baby. So I'm happy. I don't regret that."
Not every newborn is so fortunate. Many routinely die of hypothermia without the power needed for warming lights, says Kibrom.
And not just infants are impacted by a lack of electricity. "Fuel is the backbone of our hospital," he adds. "Without fuel, every corner of the hospital is dark. All machines stop functioning." Health care providers working with intubated patients who would normally switch on a ventilator to help them breathe have, during power outages, done it manually. "The whole night, a nurse or someone has to sit on the side of the patient," Kibrom says. "And the next day, another nurse or another health care professional will replace them."
Surgery is nearly impossible
Fasika is pretty sure that Ayder Hospital is the only place in Tigray currently conducting any kind of surgery. Elsewhere, "they are stopped because there is no supply, there is no electricity and there is no fuel," he says.
At the hospital, when surgery is absolutely essential, Fasika and his colleagues do their best (and even then, there can be long delays). Without saline solution to wash the skin before a procedure, they've added table salt to water that they then boil and cool. Sometimes, when the power has gone out, they've waited in the dark for hours to resume the surgery until the lights come back on.
Administering anesthesia is especially troublesome, especially when the drugs have expired. There've been times, for instance, when "the patients awakened and struggled [during] surgery because the drug was not working," says Fasika. Other times, patients have taken "a long time to wake up." Under these conditions, he can't help but feel that he's doing "basically medieval surgery."
In these moments, he admits to wishing he'd chosen a different career track — "a chauffeur or garage or office worker," anything that wouldn't require working in the hospital.
Kibrom says his job has become more challenging as well. "It's difficult to lead a hospital in a conflict area under siege with no budget for operational activities," he says. "It is human misery, unprecedented calamity. We call for help. We plead for the world to help us. But the silence is deafening. We sometimes ask, 'Where is humanity?'"
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CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — A Port Charlotte woman died Monday after she was hit by an SUV while driving a scooter in Charlotte County.
The crash happened around 3 p.m. when a 71-year-old Ohio man approached a downed stop sign at the intersection of Quesada Avenue.
He drove into the intersection and crashed into the side of the scooter, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The scooter driver, described as a 50-year-old woman, was brought to Gulf Coast Hospital with serious injuries and later pronounced deceased.
FHP continues to investigate the crash.
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PRESCOTT, Ariz. — A former contestant of the "Naked and Afraid" survivalist television series was found dead inside a Prescott home earlier this month.
Melanie Rauscher was reportedly found deceased on July 17 at a home she was visiting, according to media reports. She was 35.
Prescott police told TMZ there were no signs of foul play in the home. Police did not immediately respond to an inquiry from 12News.
According to Rauscher's obituary, the reality television star served in the U.S. Navy and was employed at the Prescott VA Medical Center at the time of her death.
"She was an avid outdoor enthusiast who loved nature and all creatures big and small," the obituary states. "Melanie loved camping & hiking and finding adventure wherever she could."
Rauscher appeared in the seventh season of the Discovery Channel series that challenges contestants to survive in the wilderness for 21 days. She additionally appeared in the spin-off series "Naked and Afraid XL."
Jeremy McCaa, who appeared on the show with Rauscher, remembered his former "swamp wife" as a strong, amazing person.
"We had such a chemistry on the show and it blossomed into a friendship that goes beyond words could describe," McCaa wrote in a recent Facebook post.
According to her obituary, Rauscher's family is asking friends and fans to consider making a donation to the PTSD Foundation of America, an organization in which Melanie had a "deep devotion".
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
249 PM EDT Sun Aug 21 2022
...Scattered thunderstorms will impact portions of southern Seneca,
Schuyler, eastern Yates and northeastern Steuben Counties through
330 PM EDT...
At 247 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking scattered thunderstorms in
the Finger Lakes region, moving northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Penn Yan, Hector, Starkey, Benton, Urbana, Watkins Glen, Dundee,
Montour Falls, Tyrone and Pulteney.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 4274 7710 4268 7669 4265 7667 4229 7681
4229 7686 4238 7735
TIME...MOT...LOC 1847Z 210DEG 22KT 4241 7717
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southern Chautauqua
County through 330 PM EDT...
At 250 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Findley Lake, or 17 miles east of Erie, moving northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph, pea size hail, and heavy rain.
possible. Heavy rains could cause flooding.
Westfield, Mayville, Clymer, Long Point State Park, Chautauqua
Institution, Findley Lake, Lake Erie State Park, Chautauqua,
Portland, Ripley, Stockton, Gerry, Brocton, Mina, French Creek,
Sherman, Cassadaga, Sinclairville, Panama and Bemus Point.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 90 between exits 60 and 61.
Interstate 86 between exits 4 and 10.
LAT...LON 4227 7976 4228 7973 4229 7974 4244 7946
4223 7915 4200 7952 4200 7976
TIME...MOT...LOC 1850Z 231DEG 21KT 4216 7975
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 21, 2022, the board of directors of Portland General Electric Company (NYSE: POR) declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.4525 per share.
The company's dividend is evaluated based on capital requirements and financial performance. PGE targets a dividend payout ratio of 60 to 70% over the long term.
The quarterly dividend is payable on or before January 17, 2023, to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 27, 2022.
About Portland General Electric Company
Portland General Electric (NYSE: POR) is a fully integrated energy company based in Portland, Oregon. The company serves approximately 900,000 customers with a service area population of 2 million Oregonians in 51 cities. PGE owns 16 generation plants across Oregon and other Northwestern states and maintains and operates 14 public parks and recreation areas. For more than 130 years, PGE has powered the advancement of society, delivering safe, affordable, and reliable energy to Oregonians. PGE and its approximately 3,000 employees are working with customers to build a clean energy future. Together with its customers, PGE has the No. 1 voluntary renewable energy program in the U.S. PGE is committed to achieving at least an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from power served to customers by 2030 and 100% reduction by 2040. In 2021, PGE became the first U.S. utility to join The Climate Pledge. For the eighth year in a row PGE achieved a perfect score on the 2021 Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality. In 2021, PGE, employees, retirees, and the PGE Foundation donated $4.8 million and volunteered 15,760 hours with more than 300 nonprofits across Oregon. For more information visit www.PortlandGeneral.com/news.
Statements in this press release that relate to future plans, objectives, expectations, performance, events and the like may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions as of the date of this report. The Company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or other factors.
Forward-looking statements include statements regarding the Company's full-year earnings guidance (including expectations regarding annual retail deliveries, average hydro conditions, wind generation, normal thermal plant operations, operating and maintenance expense and depreciation and amortization expense) as well as other statements containing words such as "anticipates," "based on," "believes," "conditioned upon," "considers," "estimates," "expects," "forecast," "goals," "intends," "needs," "plans," "predicts," "promises," "seeks," "should," "subject to," "targets," or similar expressions.
Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation: the timing or outcome of various legal and regulatory actions; demand for electricity; the sale of excess energy during periods of low demand or low wholesale market prices; operational risks relating to the Company's generation and battery storage facilities, including hydro conditions, wind conditions, disruption of transmission and distribution, disruption of fuel supply, and unscheduled plant outages, which may result in unanticipated operating, maintenance and repair costs, as well as replacement power costs; delays in the supply chain and increased supply costs (including application of tariffs impacting solar module imports), failure to complete capital projects on schedule or within budget, failure of counterparties to perform under agreement, or the abandonment of capital projects, which could result in the Company's inability to recover project costs, or impact our competitive position, market share, revenues and project margins in materials ways; default or nonperformance of counterparties from whom PGE purchases capacity or energy, which require the purchase of replacement power and renewable attributes at increased costs; complications arising from PGE's jointly-owned plant, including ownership changes, regulatory outcomes or operational failures; the costs of compliance with environmental laws and regulations, including those that govern emissions from thermal power plants; changes in weather, hydroelectric and energy market conditions, which could affect the availability and cost of purchased power and fuel; the development of alternative technologies; changes in capital and credit market conditions, including volatility of equity markets, reductions in demand for investment-grade commercial paper or interest rates, which could affect the access to and availability or cost of capital and result in delay or cancellation of capital projects or execution of the Company's strategic plan as currently envisioned; general economic and financial market conditions, including inflation; the effects of climate change, whether global or local in nature, including unseasonable or extreme weather conditions, wildfires, and other natural phenomena and natural disasters that could result in operational disruptions, unanticipated restoration costs, third party liability or that may affect energy costs or consumption; the effectiveness of PGE's risk management policies and procedures; cyber security breaches of the Company's customer information system or operating systems, data security breaches, or acts of terrorism, which could disrupt operations, require significant expenditures, or result in claims against the Company; employee workforce factors, including potential strikes, work stoppages, transitions in senior management, and the ability to recruit and retain key employees and other talent and turnover due to macroeconomic trends; PGE business activities are concentrated in one region and future performance may be affected by events and factors unique to Oregon; widespread health emergencies or outbreaks of infectious diseases such as COVID-19, which may affect our financial position, results of operations and cash flows; failure to achieve the Company's greenhouse gas emission goals or being perceived to have either failed to act responsibly with respect to the environment or effectively responded to legislative requirements concerning greenhouse gas emission reductions; and risks and uncertainties related to the 2021 All-Source RFP final shortlist projects. As a result, actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.
Risks and uncertainties to which the Company are subject are further discussed in the reports that the Company has filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These reports are available through the EDGAR system free-of-charge on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov and on the Company's website, investors.portlandgeneral.com. Investors should not rely unduly on any forward-looking statements.
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Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers used a security hole in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of hundreds of public and private sector organizations globally, nearly a third of them government agencies including foreign ministries, the cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Thursday.
“This is the broadest cyber espionage campaign known to be conducted by a China-nexus threat actor since the mass exploitation of Microsoft Exchange in early 2021,” Charles Carmakal, Mandiant’s chief technical officer, said in a emailed statement. That hack compromised tens of thousands of computers globally.
In a blog post Thursday, Google-owned Mandiant expressed “high confidence” that the group exploiting a software vulnerability in Barracuda Networks’ Email Security Gateway was engaged in “espionage activity in support of the People’s Republic of China.” It said the activivity began as early as October.
The hackers sent emails containing malicious file attachments to gain access to targeted organizations’ devices and data, Mandiant said. Of those organizations, 55% were from the Americas, 22% from Asia Pacific and 24% from Europe, the Middle East and Africa and they included foreign ministries in Southeast Asia, foreign trade offices and academic organizations in Taiwan and Hong Kong. the company said.
Mandiant said the majority impact in the Americas may partially reflect the geography of Barracuda’s customer base.
Barracuda announced on June 6 that some of its its email security appliances had been hacked as early as October, giving the intruders a back door into compromised networks. The hack was so severe the California company recommended fully replacing the appliances.
After discovering it in mid-May, Barracuda released containment and remediation patches but the hacking group, which Mandiant identifies as UNC4841, altered their malware to try to maintain access, Mandiant said. The group then “countered with high frequency operations targeting a number of victims located in at least 16 different countries.”
Word of the breach as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken departs for China this weekend as part of the Biden administration’s push to repair deteriorating ties between Washington and Beijing.
His visit had initially been planned for early this year but was postponed indefinitely after the discovery and shootdown of what the U.S. said was a Chinese spy balloon over the United States.
Mandiant said the targeting at both the organizational and individual account levels, focused on issues that are high policy priorities for China, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. It said the hackers searched for email accounts of people working for governments of political or strategic interest to China at the time they were participating in diplomatic meetings with other countries.
In a emailed statement Thursday, Barracuda said about 5% of its active Email Security Gateway appliances worldwide showed evidence of potential compromise. It said it was providing replacement appliances to affected customers at no cost.
The U.S. government has accused Beijing of being its principal cyberespionage threat, with state-backed Chinese hackers stealing data from both the private and public sector.
In terms of raw intelligence affecting the U.S., China’s largest electronic infiltrations have targeted OPM, Anthem, Equifax and Marriott.
Earlier this year, Microsoft said state-backed Chinese hackers have been targeting U.S. critical infrastructure and could be laying the technical groundwork for the potential disruption of critical communications between the U.S. and Asia during future crises.
China says the U.S. also engages in cyberespionage against it, hacking into computers of its universities and companies.
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LA Times Today: For some Asian Americans, feeling safe means owning a gun
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More than 1.4 million Californians submitted federal background checks for firearms purchases in 2022.
Asian Americans historically have had some of the lowest gun ownership rates in the country, but that may be changing.
L.A. Times Asian American communities reporter Jeong Park explains.
Asian Americans historically have had some of the lowest gun ownership rates in the country, but that may be changing.
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Trevor Larnach Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Royals - April 27
Published: Apr. 27, 2023 at 1:25 PM CDT|Updated: 58 minutes ago
The Minnesota Twins, including Trevor Larnach and his .467 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including four extra-base hits but no homers), take on starting pitcher Zack Greinke and the Kansas City Royals at Target Field, Thursday at 7:40 PM ET.
In his most recent game he had a hitless performance (0-for-3) against the Yankees.
Trevor Larnach Game Info & Props vs. the Royals
- Game Day: Thursday, April 27, 2023
- Game Time: 7:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Target Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Royals Starter: Zack Greinke
- TV Channel: BSN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +575)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +190)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +125)
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Trevor Larnach At The Plate
- Larnach leads Minnesota with an OBP of .351 this season while batting .235 with 15 walks and 10 runs scored.
- Larnach has picked up a hit in 58.3% of his 24 games this year, with more than one hit in 16.7% of them.
- Looking at the 24 games he has played this season, he's hit a home run in three of them (12.5%), and in 3.1% of his trips to the plate.
- Larnach has driven in a run in 10 games this year (41.7%), including four games with more than one RBI (16.7%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- In eight games this year (33.3%), he has scored, including multiple runs twice.
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Trevor Larnach Home/Away Batting Splits
Royals Pitching Rankings
- The Royals pitching staff ranks 19th in MLB with a collective 8.5 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Royals have the 28th-ranked team ERA among all league pitching staffs (5.26).
- Royals pitchers combine to rank 24th in baseball in home runs surrendered (34 total, 1.4 per game).
- The Royals are sending Greinke (0-3) out for his sixth start of the season. He is 0-3 with a 4.61 ERA and 19 strikeouts through 27 1/3 innings pitched.
- The righty's most recent time out came on Sunday against the Los Angeles Angels, when he threw five innings, surrendering four earned runs while giving up seven hits.
- The 39-year-old ranks 60th in ERA (4.61), 46th in WHIP (1.244), and 78th in K/9 (6.3) among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season.
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TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Jay Jackson says he believes he was tipping his pitches when New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge homered against him Monday night.
That at-bat was quickly scrutinized when cameras caught Judge taking unusual glances toward the first-base line moments before Jackson delivered. Many questioned whether someone on the Yankees was signaling to the 2022 AL MVP an indication of which pitch Jackson was about to throw, based on either sign stealing or pitch tipping.
Jackson told The Athletic on Tuesday night that he believes a Yankees coach was able to see which grip he was using while holding the ball in his glove, and that coach relayed the info to Judge, helping him hit a 462-foot home run. Jackson was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo on Tuesday, and Toronto recalled right-hander Thomas Hatch from the Bisons.
There is no prohibition on teammates or coaches using the naked eye to study pitchers and relay that info to batters. When the 2017 Houston Astros were punished for sign stealing, it was because they used banned electronics — including live video feeds — to help gather that intel.
Jackson said he was holding his hands up by his head before coming to the set position, in a spot that might have allowed Yankees first base coach Travis Chapman to see Jackson’s grip on the ball and identify the pitch. Chapman could have relayed the information to Judge using a hand signal.
Jackson also said he was tipping his pitches by moving his hands from his head down to the set position at his hip at different speeds on different pitches.
Neither Blue Jays manager John Schneider nor Yankees manager Aaron Boone had much to say about Jackson’s acknowledgement before Wednesday’s game.
Schneider said it didn’t change the way he felt about anything that happened in the previous two games.
“Nope, not for me,” Toronto’s second-year manager said.
Boone, meanwhile, didn’t believe the admission cleared up accusations of his team cheating.
“It was cleared up long before that,” Boone said. “There was no wrongdoing going on.”
After Monday’s game, Judge said he was looking into his dugout to see which of his teammates was disrupting his at-bat by yelling at plate umpire Clint Vondrak. Vondrak had just ejected Boone for arguing a low strike call to Judge.
Before Tuesday’s game, Schneider expressed concern about where the Yankees were positioning their first and third base coaches, saying his team had spoken to the commissioner’s office about the issue.
“There’s boxes on the field for a reason,” Schneider said.
After Judge struck out in the third inning Tuesday, there was a brief shouting match between Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker and Yankees third base coach Luis Rojas. Walker went to the outfield end of the dugout, yelling and gesturing at Rojas, a former Mets manager.
Later, Boone gestured at Blue Jays third base coach Luis Rivera, motioning for him to return to the box painted in foul territory behind third.
The dramatic series took another turn Tuesday when Yankees right-hander Domingo Germán was ejected after the umpires checked his hands for banned sticky stuff before the fourth inning.
“The instant I looked at his hand, it was extremely shiny and extremely sticky,” home plate umpire and crew chief James Hoye told a pool reporter. “It’s the stickiest hand I’ve ever felt. My fingers had a hard time coming off his palm.”
Germán’s ejection is likely to trigger a 10-game suspension.
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DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zoomlion"; 1157.HK) won the global bid for tower cranes for constructing the Lusail Stadium, the venue of this month's feast of football. Its eight TC8039-25 tower cranes were used for its construction, from 2018 to 2021. Now, the stadium is hosting 10 games in the tournament, including the final on December 18.
The newly constructed Lusail Stadium has set six world records including being the largest single building with a double cable-net roof. Its main structure is a steel beam combined with concrete that used 100,000 tons of steel in total, and the multilayer structure has an area of 45,000 square meters, the largest in the world. Eight units of TC8039-25 tower cranes covered the entire project and completed the majority of the hoisting and installation tasks.
"Zoomlion is proud to have participated in the construction of the centerpiece stadium in Qatar, where we look forward to witnessing the best team being crowned world champions soon," said Ren Jie, regional manager of Zoomlion Construction Hoisting Machinery Company in the Middle East and Africa.
With advantages in technology, R&D and performance, Zoomlion's TC8039-25 tower crane stood out from the fierce competition.
The tower crane needed to exceed 86.7 meters in unsupported height due to the stadium's high height and irregular outer exterior. Multiple tower cranes also needed to coordinate as a group to complete high-altitude docking assembly tasks above 70 meters.
"With the anti-collision feature, full frequency control and an unsupported height of 87 meters, the tower cranes ensured safe and efficient operation. Zoomlion provided all-around service from tower crane planning to assembly and disassembly," said Zhou Yan, Zoomlion's chief tower crane service engineer in the Middle East region.
The excellent hoisting capabilities and stable micro-motion with fretting mode controlled at millimeter level provided effective support for installing the steel structures at high altitude. The equipment also maintained a high level of stability despite the harsh construction conditions which saw temperatures in the summer exceed 50 degrees Celsius.
"For the Lusail Stadium project, the accumulated effective working time of each tower crane exceeded 15,000 hours, and their stable and reliable performance provided strong support to guarantee the overall progress of the project," added Ren.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with writer, director, activist and hip-hop artist Boots Riley about his career and his new Prime Video series, I'm A Virgo.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House 1/6 committee is set to hear from the caretakers of American democracy — elections workers and local officials — who fended off Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election, at times despite frightening personal attacks.
The hearings investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol resume Tuesday to probe Trump’s relentless effort to undo Joe Biden’s victory in the most local way — by leaning on officials in key battleground states to reject ballots outright or to submit alternative electors for the final tally in Congress. The pressure was fueled by the defeated president’s false claims of voter fraud which, the panel says, led directly to the riot at the Capitol.
Embattled Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is scheduled to testify about Trump’s phone call asking him to “find 11,780” votes that could flip the state to prevent Biden’s election victory.
Raffensperger, with his deputy Gabe Sterling and Arizona’s Republican state House Speaker Rusty Bowers, are scheduled to be key witnesses, along with Wandrea “Shay” Moss, a former Georgia election worker who, with her mother, have said they faced such severe public harassment from Trump allies they felt unable to live normal lives.
“I’m appalled at what I saw,” Bowers said of the hearings in an interview Monday with The Associated Press after arriving in Washington. “I think it illuminates something we need to see big time, and take stock of ourselves. And I hope it would sober us.”
The Tuesday hearing, the fourth by the panel this month, stems from its yearlong investigation into Trump’s unprecedented attempt to remain in power, a sprawling scheme that the chairman of the Jan. 6 committee has likened to an “attempted coup.”
Tuesday’s focus will review how Trump was repeatedly told his pressure campaign could potentially cause violence against the local officials and their families but pursued it anyway, according to a select committee aide. And it will underscore that fallout from Trump’s lies continues to this day, with elections officers facing ongoing public harassment and political challengers trying to take over their jobs.
While the committee cannot charge Trump with any crimes, the Justice Department is watching the panel’s work closely. Trump’s actions in Georgia are also the subject of a grand jury investigation, with the district attorney expected to announce findings this year.
“We will show during a hearing what the president’s role was in trying to get states to name alternate slates of electors, how that scheme depended initially on hopes that the legislatures would reconvene and bless it,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told the Los Angeles Times on Monday.
Schiff, who will lead much of Tuesday’s session, said that the hearing will also dig into the “intimate role” the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, had in the plot to pressure Georgia state legislators and elections officials.
Raffensperger, Georgia’s top election official, rebuffed Trump’s request that he “find” enough votes to overturn Biden’s win in the state — a request caught on tape during a phone call days before the Jan. 6 attack.
During the call, Trump repeatedly cited disproven claims of fraud and raised the prospect of a “criminal offense” if Georgia officials did not change the vote count. The state had counted its votes three times before certifying Biden’s win by a 11,779 margin.
The public testimony from Raffensperger comes weeks after he appeared before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating whether Trump and others illegally tried to intervene in the state’s 2020 election, and after Raffensperger beat a Trump-backed challenger in last month’s primary election.
Sterling, Raffensperger’s chief operating officer, became a notable figure in Georgia’s long post-election counting, and recounting, of the presidential ballots, with his regular updates often broadcast live to a divided nation. At one point, the soft-spoken Republican implored Americans to tone down the heated rhetoric.
“Death threats, physical threats, intimidation — it’s too much, it’s not right,” he said.
Bowers is expected to discuss the pressure he faced to overturn Arizona’s results — requests from Trump advisers that the Republican state leader on Monday called “juvenile.”
In an interview with the AP after arriving in Washington ahead of the hearing, Bowers said he is expected to be asked about a call with Trump during which lawyer Rudy Giuliani floated an idea to replace Arizona’s electors with those who would vote for Trump.
Bowers also revealed a second phone call with Trump in December 2020 that he said was mainly small talk, although Trump also referenced their first conversation.
Moss, who had worked for the Fulton County elections department since 2012, and her mother, Ruby Freeman, a temporary election worker, filed a defamation lawsuit in December 2021. Moss claimed conservative outlet One America News Network and Giuliani falsely spread allegations that she and her mother engaged in ballot fraud during the election. The case against OAN has since been dismissed with a settlement.
Both Bowers and Moss, along with Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the panel’s vice chair, were among recipients of this year’s John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage award “for their courage to protect and defend democracy.”
The select committee also plans Tuesday to untangle the elaborate “fake electors” scheme that was aimed at halting Biden’s election win. The plan sought to have representatives in as many as seven battlegrounds — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico — sign certificates falsely stating that Trump, not Biden, had won their states.
Conservative law professor John Eastman, a lawyer for Trump, pushed the fake electors in the weeks after the election. Trump and Eastman convened hundreds of electors on a call on Jan. 2, 2021, encouraging them to send alternative slates from their states where Trump’s team was claiming fraud.
The fake electors idea was designed to set up a challenge on Jan. 6, 2021 when Congress met in joint session, with Vice President Mike Pence presiding over what is typically a ceremonial role to accept the states’ vote tallies. But the effort collapsed, as Pence refused Trump’s repeated demands that he simply halt the certification of Biden’s win — a power he believed he did not possess in his purely ceremonial role.
The committee says it will also show Tuesday that it has gathered enough evidence through its more than 1,000 interviews and tens of thousands of documents to connect the varying efforts to overturn the election directly to Trump. At least 20 people in connection with the fake electors scheme were subpoenaed by the House panel. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/jan-6-panel-to-hear-from-raffensperger-others-trump-pushed/ | 2022-06-21 12:34:04 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/jan-6-panel-to-hear-from-raffensperger-others-trump-pushed/ |
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EU court rules German data retention rules illegal
BERLIN (AP) — The European Union’s top court has ruled that a German requirement for companies to retain the location and connection data of all people who use their services is illegal. The European Court of Justice said in a ruling published Tuesday that exceptions can be made in cases where national security is threatened. The ruling, which comes after a complaint by two German telecoms companies, is in line with previous privacy verdicts by the court. The European court has argued that data must not be collected if that means creating a complete profile of a person’s movements and contacts. Germany’s interior minister says the country will look for other ways to fight serious crimes like child abuse. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/20/eu-court-rules-german-data-retention-rules-illegal/ | 2022-09-21 08:32:24 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/09/20/eu-court-rules-german-data-retention-rules-illegal/ |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Flag-waving admirers lined the sidewalk outside the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Wednesday to greet the oldest living survivor of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor as he marked his upcoming 105th birthday.
“It feels great,” Joseph Eskenazi of Redondo Beach, California, told reporters after posing for pictures with his great-grandson, who is about to turn 5, his 21-month-old great-granddaughter and six other World War II veterans, all in their 90s.
Eskenazi turns 105 on Jan. 30. He had boarded an Amtrak train in California on Friday for the journey to New Orleans. The other veterans, representing the Army, Navy and Marines, flew in for the event.
They were visiting thanks to the Soaring Valor Program, a project of actor Gary Sinise’s charitable foundation dedicated to aiding veterans and first responders. The program arranges trips to the museum for World War II veterans and their guardians.
Eskenazi was a private first class in the Army when the attack occurred. His memories include being awakened when a bomb fell — but didn’t explode — near where he was sleeping at Schofield Barracks, reverberating explosions as the battleship USS Arizona was sunk by Japanese bombs, and machine gun fire from enemy planes kicking up dust around him after he volunteered to drive a bulldozer across a field so it could be used to clear runways.
“I don’t even know why — my hand just went up when they asked for volunteers,” Eskenazi said. “Nobody else raised their hand because they knew that it meant death. … I did it unconsciously.”
He was at the Army’s Schofield Barracks when the Dec. 7, 1941, attack began, bringing the United States into the war. About 2,400 servicemen were killed.
Eskenazi and his fellow veterans lined up for pictures amid exhibits of World War II aircraft and Higgins boats, designed for beach landings.
“Thank you guys for providing us a country that was worth fighting for,” veteran Billy Hall, who rose to the rank of major in the Marines after enlisting in 1941, shouted to well-wishers.
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Richard Gasquet vs. Daniel Rincon: Live Stream, TV Channel, How to Watch | ATP Challenger San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy Men Singles 2023
Published: Jul. 14, 2023 at 10:27 PM CDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
The semifinals at the ATP Challenger San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy Men Singles 2023 is scheduled for Saturday, with Daniel Rincon, the No. 280-ranked player, and Richard Gasquet, the No. 51-ranked player, competing for a chance to play for the tournament title.
You can watch the action on ABC as Gasquet tries to hold off Rincon.
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Richard Gasquet vs. Daniel Rincon Date and TV Info
- Round: Semifinal
- Date: Saturday, July 15
- TV Channel: ABC (Watch on Fubo)
- Court Surface: Clay
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Gasquet vs. Rincon Matchup Info
- Gasquet advanced past Luca Nardi 6-3, 6-4 in the Round of 16 on Wednesday.
- In the the Wimbledon, Gasquet's last tournament, he was beaten 3-6, 5-7, 5-7 by No. 71-ranked Corentin Moutet on July 3 in the round of 128 round.
- Rincon beat Thiago Agustin Tirante 5-7, 7-5, 6-2 in the Round of 16 on Wednesday.
- In the Mallorca Championships, Rincon's last tournament, he matched up with No. 237-ranked Abedallah Shelbayh in the qualification round 1 on June 24 and lost 3-6, 2-6.
- This is the first time that Gasquet and Rincon have matched up against each other in the last five years.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on five Russian officials and an expert witness involved in the incarceration of Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition leader who has been imprisoned in Moscow since April for speaking out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
He faces more than 30 years in prison.
Treasury sanctioned Elena Lenskaya, a Moscow judge; Andrei Zadachin, a special investigator; and Danila Mikheev, an expert witness for the Russian government on the case against Kara-Murza.
Governments and human rights organizations around the world, including the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, have called for Kara-Murza’s release.
Friday’s actions block the sanctioned Russians’ access to U.S. bank accounts and other financial institutions. The U.S. State Department also imposed visa restrictions on Lenskaya, Zadachin and Mikheev.
Additionally, the State Department imposed visa restrictions on Deputy Justice Minister Oleg Sviridenko and two judges, Diana Mishchenko and Ilya Kozlov, who were involved in Kara-Murza’s detention.
Kara-Murza was arrested after giving a speech in March 2022 before the Arizona House of Representatives, where he spoke out against the war. Since then, the Russian government has brought two additional criminal charges against him, for involvement in an “undesirable” foreign organization and for high treason.
“The U.S. Treasury joins our many national and international partners in calling for Vladimir Kara-Murza’s immediate and unconditional release,” said Treasury Under Secretary Brian Nelson.
“His arbitrary detention is another instance of the Kremlin manipulating Russia’s legal system to silence dissent,” Nelson said. “Kara-Murza, Alexei Navalny, and so many others in Russia who are unjustly imprisoned are not forgotten, and we will continue to promote accountability for perpetrators of these abuses on the international stage.”
Last week at the Council on Foreign Relations, Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo said that as the invasion enters its second year, the U.S. will intensify its efforts to boost sanctions, including cracking down on sanctions evasion and putting economic pressure on countries, firms and people that continue to support Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to advance the war. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-sanctions-russian-officials-over-dissidents-detention/ | 2023-03-03 22:39:40 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-sanctions-russian-officials-over-dissidents-detention/ |
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — As Russian officials tell it, two Ukrainian drones flew into the very heart of Moscow under the cover of darkness, reaching the Kremlin before they were shot down at the last minute.
A cloud of questions hangs over the claim.
Why did the Kremlin announcement come about 12 hours after the purported incident? Why did no reports of explosions emerge prior to the announcement on the messaging apps that remain full of chatter despite Russia’s crackdown on media and criticism of the war in Ukraine? Why didn’t videos of the purported attacks appear until after the announcement? Why haven’t the images been verified?
A drone attack on the Kremlin would be the most severe penetration of Russian airspace since German teen Matthias Rust landed his little single-engine plane on the fringes of Red Square in 1987. Announcing the attack — or even faking it — risks Russia undermining its citizens’ trust in its frequent assertions of military superiority.
Adding to that humiliation is that the incident occurred less than a week before Victory Day, Russia’s paramount military holiday. In some of the videos of the claimed attack, the decorated viewing stands and tribune for the day’s ritual Red Square military parade can be seen prominently.
For President Vladimir Putin, the confession of Ukrainian drones reaching the Kremlin could be justification for a brutal step-up of attacks on Ukraine. Russian officials persistently contend — repeated evidence to the contrary — that the military goes after only military targets.
Severe retaliation is already in the wind, including threats aimed specifically at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who denied attacking the Kremlin.
“After today’s terrorist act, no variant remains other than the physical elimination of Zelenskyy and his clique,” said former Russian president and deputy chairman of the Russian security council, Dmitry Medvedev,
The chairman of the powerful lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, compared the Ukrainian government with the terrorist Islamic State and said he will demand “the use of weapons capable of destroying it.”
Russia’s nuclear doctrine says the country can use nuclear weapons if it comes under a nuclear strike or if it faces an attack with conventional weapons that threatens “the very existence” of the Russian state. The West has accused Putin of nuclear saber-rattling during the Ukraine war
But Phillips O’Brien, a professor of strategic studies at University of St. Andrews, downplayed the possibility related to the alleged Kremlin attack.
“You’re not going to say, ‘Now that there has been an attack with a tiny drone, now we can go nuclear,’” he said.
Commentator Abbas Gallyamov, a former Putin speechwriter who has fled the country, also raised doubts.
“If enemy drones reach the Kremlin, it means that any other object on the territory of the European part of Russia is generally defenseless,” he said. “Therefore, I do not believe that this was a provocation conceived by the Kremlin in order to influence public opinion.”
If Ukraine had indeed attacked, “consider it a performative strike, a demonstration of capability and a declaration of intent: Don’t think Moscow is safe,” said Mark Galeotti, a Russian military and security analyst at University College, London.
Less clear, he said on Twitter, “is whether it shakes Russians’ nerve or angers them.”
Russians’ nerves already have been frayed by attacks, either likely from Ukraine or from domestic opponents, that have risen sharply in recent weeks.
Two freight trains derailed this week in bomb explosions in the Bryansk region that borders Ukraine. Notably, the region’s authorities did not blame Ukraine, which could be an attempt to whitewash Ukrainian sabotage capacities.
But Bryansk authorities in March claimed that two people were shot and killed when alleged Ukrainian saboteurs penetrated the region. The region also has been hit with sporadic cross-border shelling, including one that killed four people in April.
Ukrainian drones reportedly have penetrated deep into Russia several times. In December, Russia claimed to have shot down drones at airfields in the Saratov and Ryazan regions. Three soldiers were reported killed in the attack in Saratov, which targeted an important military airfield.
Earlier, Russia reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone that targeted the headquarters of its Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol in Russia-annexed Crimea.
In addition, two prominent supporters of Russia’s war in Ukraine have been killed on their home ground. Darya Dugina, a commentator with a nationalist TV channel, died in a car bombing outside Moscow that officials blamed on Ukraine. And authorities said Ukrainian intelligence was behind the killing of prominent pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, who was killed in April when a bomb inside a statuette he was handed at a party exploded.
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RAPOSA SERRA DO SOL INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) — On his first trip to Indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest since taking office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed support for creating new territories for those communities, but stopped short of announcing any demarcations.
Wearing white cap and dark shirt in the heat, Lula addressed some 2,000 Indigenous people who painted their faces, wore traditional feather headdresses and sang songs to welcome him Monday to the Raposa Serra do Sol region bordering Venezuela and Guyana.
He said he wants quick demarcation of their lands “before other people take over, invent false documents” to claim ownership rights. That has been a common occurence throughout Brazil’s history, which prompted the start of demarcation processes over a half century ago.
“We need to quickly try to legalize every land whose (demarcation) studies are almost finished so the Indigenous can take the land that is theirs,” Lula said at the 52nd general assembly of the Indigenous peoples of the State of Roraima.
Yet Lula stopped short of actually announcing any new designations that are much anticipated by Indigenous people and rights activists. Many already had their hopes dashed that new demarcations would take place in the first 30 days of his administration, which began Jan. 1.
Their movement has pressured Lula to demarcate 13 new Indigenous territories that have cleared all regulatory steps and require nothing more than presidential approval to be official. Doing so would mark a sharp change in policy from the previous administration of Jair Bolsonaro, who did not demarcate any land for them during his presidency.
Some of the territories pending a presidential authorization began their demarcation processes decades ago.
Lula authorized the demarcation of Raposa Serra do Sol in 2005, during his first term as president. Different from other reserves in the Brazilian Amazon, Raposa Serra do Sol is mostly tropical savannah. It is home to 26,000 people from five different ethnicities.
Since receiving its protected status, it has been a scene of conflict between rice farmers and Indigenous people and has had sporadic violence, making the territory something of a case study in the challenges of protecting land that is increasingly under pressure from without.
Bolsonaro’s relentless push to legalize mining on Indigenous territories rekindled long-standing divisions among Raposa Serra do Sol’s local communities about the best path forward for their collective well-being. He visited an illegal gold mining camp in the same Indigenous territory in October 2021 and openly encouraged the activity, despite criticism from local Indigenous leaders.
Preparations for Lula’s arrival at Raposa Serra do Sol began shortly before dayreak in the Amazon, with Indigenous people of different groups waking early to gather at a community center for their final rehearsal of songs and dances for the president. People of different ages wearing straw skirts lurched backward and forward as drums and chants resounded. Other Indigenous people were back at their tents preparing breakfast for the members of their groups.
Indigenous leaders, including Osmar Lima Batista of the Macuxi people, Letícia Monteiro da Silva of the Taurepang people, and Adailton Waiwai of the Waiwai people, told The Associated Press at the meeting that they expect better days compared with the prior four years, when they believed they did not have a friend in the presidential palace.
All agreed that Lula’s first visit to the region since 2010 was not enough, however.
Davi Kopenawa, leader of the Yanomami people, took the microphone during the gathering to tell Lula that his people’s needs are greater than those of four years ago.
“After we take the gold miners out, we need to recover our Indigenous health care system, which was destroyed,” Kopenawa said. “We need to save the children we have left. I don’t want more children dying. We need hospitals in our community. Disease is still strong in the Amazon.”
“I don’t want mining on Yanomami lands and in the Raposa Serra do Sol territory,” he added. “Mining kills us, it kills people in the city, the river, the water of the forest. We don’t need heavy mining at our home.”
Lula said in his speech that his administration will definitively expel gold miners from Indigenous lands — as it has already begun working to do in the Yanomami territory.
“That gold doesn’t belong to anyone. It’s there because nature placed it there. It’s on Indigenous land,” Lula said.
The president was accompanied by Sonia Guajajara, his minister of Indigenous peoples, and Joenia Wapichana, who heads the Indigenous affairs agency.
Lula said there will be a meeting involving leaders of countries of the Amazon rainforest — Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
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(WSYR-TV) – Livable Communities of Oneida County is partnering up with the City of Rome for a “Pop-Up” project that will be held on Saturday June 18, from 10-2:00 p.m. The activation will not only coincide with the city of Rome’s Summer Program Registration, it will also have music, food trucks, vendors and lawn games for all ages.
The lead nonprofit for Livable Communities of Oneida County, Kelly Walters, speaks on how this activation is to improve accessibility and new options for people of all ages and abilities. She says, “Such ‘Pop-Up’ Projects are helpful to get the community involved in working with government to activate space to become more livable and age-friendly for the entire community.”
The “Pop-Up” project is a chance for the community in the City of Rome to provide feedback before construction begins for the Downtown Revitalization Initiative. This activation will show how projects can impact and improve plans to excite a community, all while being the first one for Livable Communities of Oneida County.
Mayor Jacqeline M. Izzo says she is very pleased to partner with 50 Forward Mohawk Valley. She goes on to say, “the event gives the city an opportunity to showcase some of the possible future uses of the green space that was identified as a DRI priority project. We hope residents will take advantage of this
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Collaborative community white paper refines the definitions and nuances of open source edge computing across telecom, industrial, cloud, enterprise and consumer markets
SAN FRANCISCO, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LF Edge, an umbrella organization under the Linux Foundation that aims to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system, today announced continued ecosystem collaboration via a new collaborative white paper, "Sharpening the Edge II: Diving Deeper into the LF Edge Taxonomy & Projects."
A follow-up to the LF Edge community's original, collaborative 2020 paper – which provides an overview of the organization and details the LF Edge taxonomy, high level considerations for developing edge solutions and key use cases, – the new publication dives deeper into key areas of edge manageability, security, connectivity and analytics, and highlights how each project addresses these areas. The paper demonstrates maturation of the edge ecosystem and how the rapidly growing LF Edge community has made great progress over the past two years towards building an open, modular framework for edge computing. As with the first publication, the paper addresses a balance of interests spanning the cloud, telco, IT, OT, IoT, mobile, and consumer markets.
"With the growing edge computing infrastructure market set to be worth up to $800B by 2028, our LF Edge project communities are evolving," said Jason Shepherd, VP Ecosystem, ZEDEDA and former LF Edge Governing Board Chair. "This paper outlines industry direction through an LF Edge community lens. With such a diverse set of knowledgeable stakeholders, the report is an accurate reflection of a unified approach to defining open edge computing."
"I'm eager to continue to champion and spearhead the great work of the LF Edge community as the new board chair," said Tina Tsou, new Governing Board chair, LF Edge. "The Taxonomy white paper that demonstrates the accelerated community momentum seen by open source edge communities is really exciting and speaks to the power of open source."
The white paper, which is now available for download, was put together as the result of broad community collaboration, spanning insights and expertise from subject matter experts across LF Edge project communities: Akraino, EdgeX Foundry, EVE, Fledge, Open Horizon, State of the Edge, Alvarium, Baetyl, eKuiper, and FIDO Device Onboard.
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Join the broader open source ecosystem spanning Networking, Edge, Access, Cloud and Core at ONE Summit North America, November 15-16 in Seattle, Wash. ONE Summit is the one industry event focused on best practices, technical challenges, and business opportunities facing decision makers across integrated verticals such as 5G, Cloud, Telco, and Enterprise Networking, as well as Edge, Access, IoT, and Core. The Call for Proposals is now open through July 8, 2022. Sponsorship opportunities are also available.
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Less than half of American voters in a new poll said they would support a candidate who wants to keep abortion legal, highlighting how significant the issue is on voters’ minds just over a week before midterm Election Day.
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 48 percent of registered voters would support a candidate who favors keeping abortion legal, with 33 percent saying they would support one who favors limiting abortion except to protect the mother’s life. Eighteen percent said the issue does not matter in their vote.
Looking more closely at the issue, 61 percent of Americans, and 62 percent of registered voters, say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. However, pollsters noted that most Americans are in the middle, with 34 percent saying abortion should be legal in most cases, and another 30 percent saying it should be illegal in most cases. Seven percent say they favor an outright ban on abortion.
Abortion has weighed heavily on voters’ minds, taking higher priority with Democrats since Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June. Now, abortion access could be impacted in various states based on the results of the upcoming election.
However, abortion is not the only issue taking the spotlight, as 50 percent in the poll say either the economy (28 percent) or inflation (22 percent) is the most important issue when it comes to voting in the midterms. The third most important issue is abortion, with 16 percent saying the issue takes precedence.
However, the value of the issues changes along party lines.
Priorities on the Republican side lie with economic issues, as 73 percent cite one of those two issues, including 45 percent for the economy and 28 percent for inflation. Half of independents also cite the economy or inflation as their single most important issue.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WOW! Internet, Cable & Phone (NYSE: WOW), a leading broadband provider in the United States, today announced it will participate in the following investor conferences with presentations on the following dates:
Tuesday, November 29, 2022, at 9:30 AM EST – Bank of America Securities 2022 Leveraged Finance Conference
Monday, December 5, 2022, at 1:40 PM EST – Raymond James Technology Investors Conference
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at 4:40 PM EST – UBS Global TMT Conference
A live webcast of each presentation will be available on the company's investor relations website at ir.wowway.com
WOW! is one of the nation's leading broadband providers, with an efficient, high-performing network that passes 1.9 million residential, business and wholesale consumers. WOW! provides services in 14 markets, primarily in the Midwest and Southeast, including Michigan, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia. With an expansive portfolio of advanced services, including high-speed Internet services, cable TV, phone, business data, voice, and cloud services, the company is dedicated to providing outstanding service at affordable prices. WOW! also serves as a leader in exceptional human resources practices, having been recognized nine times by the National Association for Business Resources as a Best & Brightest Company to Work For, winning the award for the last five consecutive years. Visit wowway.com for more information.
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A federal judge sentenced a man to 80 months in prison for using pepper spray during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot against officer Brian Sicknick, who died hours later of natural causes.
Dozens of Sicknick’s former colleagues gathered in D.C.’s federal courthouse on Friday as U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan handed down Julian Khater’s sentence.
Khater pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting law enforcement with a dangerous weapon.
Court documents show that Khater sprayed Sicknick and another officer with a can of hand-held pepper spray. Khater also sprayed U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who appeared publicly before the House Jan. 6 committee in June and spoke at Friday’s sentencing.
“You are center stage in our recurring nightmare,” said Gladys Sicknick, the officer’s mother.
Sicknick was hospitalized the evening of the riot and died the following day. The medical examiner determined it was from two strokes caused by a blot clot, deeming it natural causes, while noting that “all that transpired played a role in his condition.”
“I felt like the absolute worst kind of officer,” Edwards said at Friday’s sentencing. “Someone who couldn’t help their friend.”
The government had asked the judge to sentence Khater to 90 months in prison, while Khater’s attorneys asked for the nearly two years he already spent in jail to satisfy his sentence.
Khater’s attorneys argued his anxiety disorder, harsh conditions at the jail and remorse following the riot merited the lower sentence.
“It’s not in my nature. It’s not who I am,” Khater told the judge just before he was sentenced.
Court documents state that Khater and co-defendant George Pierre Tanios traveled to D.C. together to attend former President Trump’s rally near the White House before joining rioters on the Capitol grounds.
Tanios had previously bought two cans of bear spray and two cans of pepper spray, giving the pepper spray canister to Khater, which he then used against the officers.
Tanios will be sentenced later on Friday.
Five members of Sicknick’s family spoke during the proceedings and largely blamed Khater for the officer’s death, asking for a harsh punishment.
Sicknick’s longtime partner, Sandra Garza, specifically demanded “the maximum sentence you can impose.”
Garza earlier this month also filed a separate civil lawsuit against Khater, Tanios and Trump, demanding $10 million in damages from each of them.
Roughly 140 police officers were assaulted on Jan. 6 at the Capitol, according to the Department of Justice.
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"Promposal," a term born within the last dozen or so years, is exactly what one would imagine it to be: an invitation to the prom that's wedding-proposal-level romantic and often very public.
From rooms full of balloons and lockers filled with ping pong balls to song and dance routines that would make anyone's heart melt, promposals have become a regular, spectacular high school event. In RaeChell Garrett's delightful book of the same name, Black teen entrepreneur Autumn Reeves launches a start-up called Promposal Queen, where she is paid to help conceive and execute these elaborate proposals for her fellow classmates.
The business itself initially comes about as an act of desperation. Autumn is waitlisted for her dream school: Mercer School of Business, Great Lakes University. It's an unbelievable notification, since overachieving Autumn had all the right boxes checked and a scholarship that should have made her a shoe in. Unfortunately, Mercer was the only college to which Autumn applied.
Autumn's saving grace is the ability to submit any "additional materials" that might sway the reviewers toward acceptance. So she quickly joins the Young Black Entrepreneurs in an effort to be better than average, and sideways pitches Promposal Queen with the help of fellow senior Mekhi Winston, Autumn's former-crush-turned-enemy. An unexpected kiss between them freshman year cost Autumn her best friend. She has no intention of revisiting all that trauma.
But Mekhi got into Mercer, and he has a knack for business plans, so he's exactly the vice president Autumn needs for her business. She fully intends to pick his brain and not let him into her heart. Happily for us readers, things don't go as planned.
The promposals Amber and Mekhi concoct are so fantastically entertaining that I found myself wishing for more, but the duo doesn't have a lot of time. Autumn needs to show success and profitability before a spot opens up on Mercer's waitlist. Prom is fast approaching, and Amber's mind and heart are at war. Over and over again, Mekhi's presence makes her seemingly impossible mountain almost easy to climb. But considering their tumultuous past, how can the two of them possibly have a future together?
The more time that passes, and the further away a Mercer (and Mekhi) acceptance feels, Autumn begins to focus on the fact that going to such great lengths to bring people together is bringing her joy. I believe this is truly the lynchpin of Garrett's novel: the oft-overlooked importance of joy in a driven young person's efforts to achieve their goals.
I was quickly swept away in Garrett's playful narrative, and her true-to-character dialogue often had me laughing out loud all the way to the book's satisfying ending. Of course the reader knows what needs to happen in the end — a book titled Promposal is essentially its own spoiler. The point of the story is not the final promposal itself but the marvelous journey we are allowed to take with Garrett's well-developed and diverting teen characters. I also appreciated how involved and supportive Amber's parents were — a refreshing change from the often dysfunctional relationships we see.
Promposal is a wonderful breath of fresh air, to be enjoyed on a warm spring day. I truly adored it from beginning to end. Now, I wonder how many teens will be incorporating this book into their own promposals this year!
Alethea Kontis is a storm chaser and award-winning author of more than 20 books for children and teens.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan has placed offensive co-coordinator and quarterbacks coach Matt Weiss on leave, athletic department spokesman Kurt Svoboda confirmed Tuesday night.
ESPN reported the school’s police department is investigating a report of computer access crimes from last month at Schembechler Hall, where coach Jim Harbaugh and his staff have offices and the Wolverines practice.
Weiss said in a statement to ESPN that he is fully cooperating with investigators and looks forward to the matter being resolved.
Weiss and the university police department did not immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press.
Harbaugh hired Weiss nearly two years ago as quarterbacks coach and promoted him to co-offensive coordinator last season, giving him a share of play-calling duties with Sherrone Moore.
Michigan finished No. 3 in the AP Top 25 after winning the Big Ten title and losing in a College Football Playoff semifinal for a second straight year.
On Monday, Harbaugh called the school’s president to say he’s staying to end another round of speculation that he would return to the NFL.
The 39-year-old Weiss was a part of the Baltimore Ravens’ staff, led by Jim Harbaugh’s brother, John, from 2009 to 2020. He also was a graduate assistant for four years at Stanford, working on Jim Harbaugh’s staff for two seasons. Weiss, who is from New Haven, Connecticut, graduated from Vanderbilt in 2005.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s military flew 38 fighter jets and other warplanes near Taiwan, the Taiwanese defense ministry said Friday, in the biggest such flight display since the large military exercise in which it simulated sealing off the island earlier in April.
Naval vessels were also seen in the area as part of China’s long-running campaign of intimidation against Taiwan.
Later Friday, China’s People’s Liberation Army issued a protest over the flight of a United States Navy P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft through the Taiwan Strait, which separates mainland China from the self-governing island democracy claimed by Beijing.
Calling Thursday’s flight a provocation that the U.S. “openly hyped up,” the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command said it scrambled fighter jets to monitor the plane’s flight.
Such acts “fully prove that the U.S. is a disruptor of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and a creator of security risks,” the statement said. “Theater troops maintain a high level of alert at all times and resolutely defend national sovereignty and security as well as regional peace and stability.”
The U.S. 7th Fleet said Thursday’s flight was in accordance with international law and “demonstrates the United States’ commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.”
“The United States will continue to fly, sail, and operate anywhere international law allows including within the Taiwan Strait,” the statement said.
The U.S. remains Taiwan’s closest military and political ally, despite the lack of formal diplomatic ties between them. U.S. law requires Washington to treat all threats to the island as matters of “grave concern,” though it remains ambiguous over whether American forces would be dispatched to help defend the island.
Beijing has threatened to bring Taiwan under its control by force if necessary, and China’s intensely nationalistic leader Xi Jinping has sworn never to give up “a single inch” of territory claimed by his country — a pledge that applies to Taiwan, the disputed border with India, and the South China Sea that China claims almost in its entirety.
In addition to the latest Chinese warplane flights, Chinese navy vessels were spotted in the area from 6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday, the island’s Defense Ministry said.
Nineteen of the aircraft flew across the midline in the Taiwan Strait that separates the island from the mainland, the ministry said. It said they included five SU-30 and two J-16 fighter jets, along with one drone: a large, long-endurance TB-001 Scorpion capable of carrying a variety of bombs and missiles that circled the island in a relatively rare move, according to a diagram from the Defense Ministry.
It wasn’t clear what, if anything, prompted the large-scale Chinese action, but China’s efforts to train for a potential attack, wear down the island’s military and impact Taiwan’s politics have become increasingly ambitious.
U.S. military officials recently said they are increasingly concerned that a massive buildup in China’s military capabilities makes the potential for a conflict more likely.
China held exercises simulating the sealing off the island after the sensitive April 5 meeting between Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California. China opposes any exchanges at the official level between Taiwan and other governments.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 following a civil war that ended with the Communist Party in control of the mainland. The island has never been part of the People’s Republic of China, but Beijing says it must unite with the mainland, by force if necessary.
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HENRICO COUNTY Va. (WRIC) — Henrico Police are alerting community members of a rampage of Hyundai and Kia thefts. Since January 1, 37 reports of Hyundai and Kia thefts were reported. Police believe that these incidents are tied to a social media trend.
Out of the 37 reported thefts, 26 were Hyundais. Thieves are targeting vehicles made between 2010-2021. Hyundais and Kias with mechanical keys are being targeted.
The trend started with a TikTok that called Kias and Hyundais “easy to steal.” Thieves utilize the USB cable’s “ignition kill” feature to steal the car. In many of these cases, the car’s steering column is damaged.
Due to the increase in thefts, Hyundai is introducing anti-theft software. Hyundai owners are encouraged to coordinate with their car dealerships to install this software. | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/henrico-county/henrico-police-report-dozens-of-hyundai-kia-thefts-after-tiktok-trend/ | 2023-03-09 00:17:10 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/henrico-county/henrico-police-report-dozens-of-hyundai-kia-thefts-after-tiktok-trend/ |
If you want to see what all the Emmy buzz is surrounding “The Last of Us,” “Succession” and “The White Lotus,” there’s no better time to try out Max.
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If you are not an Amazon member, start your Prime 30-day free trial, $14.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.
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MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, Telix, the Company) today announces several key executive leadership appointments and promotions, reflecting the increased commercial focus of the Company and ongoing succession planning.
Richard Valeix promoted to Group Chief Commercial Officer
Richard Valeix, who has been in the role of Chief Executive Officer of Telix's Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operations since joining Telix in May 2021, has been appointed to the newly created role of Group Chief Commercial Officer. This key global leadership role will oversee commercialisation strategy and activities for Telix's late-stage pipeline assets including the global rollout of Illuccix and launch of TLX250-CDx, Telix's kidney cancer imaging agent for which the Company recently reported positive Phase III data.
Richard is a highly experienced business leader, with marketing and sales and general management experience in large pharmaceutical companies, having previously held senior roles at Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA), a Novartis company, Ipsen and Roche.
Raphael Ortiz has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer - EMEA. He has held the position of Chief Operating Officer - EMEA since joining in January 2022. Raphael has more than 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience across finance, business development, marketing, sales and general management and has previously held senior roles at AAA, where he established radioligand therapy operations for the Asia Pacific region.
Change of Company Secretary
Telix also announces that Genevieve Ryan joins as Group Company Secretary, effective today, 5 December 2022. Genevieve brings 17 years' experience in legal and governance roles, including most recently at Orora Limited (Orora, ASX: ORA), where she had the broad remit of General Counsel - Governance, Corporate & Commercial. Prior to Orora, Genevieve spent almost ten years at Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (API), including in the roles of Senior Legal Counsel, Alternate Company Secretary, and Compliance Officer Australia and New Zealand.
Genevieve holds Honours degrees in Science and Law from Monash University and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance from the Governance Institute of Australia. Genevieve is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia. She replaces Melanie Farris who has retired from the role of Group Company Secretary to take on a broader portfolio as Senior Vice President Global Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). Melanie has served as Group Company Secretary since March 2017, prior to the Company's listing on the ASX, and has over 18 years' experience in governance and corporate operations.
Dr. Christian Behrenbruch, Telix Group CEO and Managing Director said, "These leadership appointments are a result of ongoing succession planning to ensure Telix has an optimal mix of skills and experience as we prepare to enter a new phase with a portfolio of multiple commercial products. I congratulate Richard, Raphael and Melanie on their new roles and am pleased that we are able to identify and develop talent to support the Company as it continues to grow. I'm also pleased to welcome Genevieve Ryan as Group Company Secretary, who brings a new depth of experience working within ASX-200 companies."
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). For more information visit www.telixpharma.com and follow Telix on Twitter (@TelixPharma) and LinkedIn.
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),[1] and by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA),[2] and by Health Canada.[3]
Telix Investor Relations
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 disclosure committee of Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited.
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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. You should read this announcement together with our risk factors, as disclosed in our most recently filed reports with the ASX or on our website.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Telix disclaims any obligation or undertaking to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained in this announcement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or a change in expectations or assumptions.
The Telix Pharmaceuticals and the Illuccix name and logo are trademarks of Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited and its affiliates – all rights reserved.
[1] ASX disclosure 20 December 2021.
[2] ASX disclosure 2 November 2021.
[3] ASX disclosure 14 October 2022.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Soundcore Capital Partners, LP ("Soundcore") a New-York based private equity firm, is pleased to announce four recent new hires – including two Senior Associates on the investment team, a new Controller and an Investor Relations Associate. As a result of these recent hires, Soundcore's rapidly growing team is now the biggest and best in the firm's history.
Andrew Fieschko is a Senior Associate on the investment team, where his primary responsibilities include deal execution, thesis development and portfolio company oversight. Prior to joining Soundcore, Mr. Fieschko was an Associate at ORIX Capital Partners ("OCP"), an operationally focused middle-market private equity firm in New York. Prior to joining OCP, Mr. Fieschko was an M&A Analyst within Lazard's Global Power, Energy and Infrastructure group. He began his career as an Analyst within RBC Capital Markets' investment banking division. Mr. Fieschko received a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Economics & Management from Cornell University.
Sam Kohistani is a Senior Associate on the investment team, where his primary responsibilities include deal execution, thesis development, and portfolio company oversight. Prior to joining Soundcore, Mr. Kohistani was an Associate at Huron Capital, a middle-market private equity firm based in Michigan. Prior to joining Huron Capital, Mr. Kohistani was an Investment Banking Analyst within Robert W. Baird & Co. He began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst within D.A. Davidson & Co. Mr. Kohistani received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance Honors and a minor in Economics from DePaul University.
Sam Greer, CPA is the firm's Controller. He is primarily responsible for supporting the finance function of Soundcore and the funds we manage. Prior to joining Soundcore, Mr. Greer was a Senior Associate in Grant Thornton LLP's audit group where he was involved in the audits of private equity firms, hedge funds and broker dealers. He graduated with a Masters and Bachelor of Arts in accounting from Syracuse University.
Elizabeth Olt is an Associate on the Investor Relations Team. She is primarily responsible for working with our existing and prospective investors. Prior to joining Soundcore Ms. Olt was a Client Associate at Third Bridge Group Limited, where she worked with clients on their research needs. She graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business.
"We are thrilled to have these four highly accomplished professionals on the Soundcore team. They have each demonstrated success in their respective fields and bring a depth of experience from many leading institutions. Over the next 12 months, Soundcore will continue growing the overall team even further through the hiring of additional experienced private equity professionals," said Jarrett Turner, Managing Partner of Soundcore.
Soundcore Capital was founded in 2015 by Jarrett Turner and is based in New York, NY. Soundcore is a thesis-driven private equity firm that specializes in buy-and-build investments in the lower middle-market that are headquartered in the United States and Canada. Soundcore has completed 74 acquisitions across ten platforms and focuses primarily on business & outsourced services, industrial services, specialty manufacturing and value-added distribution sectors. For more information, please visit: https://www.soundcorecap.com/home
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PRINCETON, N.J. — Tosan Evbuomwan scored 19 points as Princeton beat Columbia 88-66 on Saturday.
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Both teams play again on Saturday. Princeton visits Dartmouth and Columbia travels to play Yale.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Reactions from Indiana's leadership to the Supreme Court's landmark decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade abortion law were swift.
U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (R):
“Today is a joyful day and a turning point for the unborn in America. I will be celebrating tonight with my wife Amanda and our three daughters. I’d like to thank the thousands of pro-life advocates, conservative representatives, and voters, who have worked tirelessly for nearly 50 years to overturn the disastrous Roe decision.
I am reiterating my call for Governor Holcomb and the Indiana legislatures to convene a special session and pass pro-life legislation. I will be working hard in Congress to build on today’s victory.
Lastly, I’m astonished by the bravery of the Supreme Court Justices, who upheld their oath to the Constitution and issued an impartial, thorough and correct decision, even in the face of a murder attempt and a coordinated left-wing intimidation campaign condoned by the Biden Department of Justice. I’m praying for their safety.”
U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski (R):
“Our prayers have been answered. By rightfully restoring power to the states, the Supreme Court has affirmed the inalienable right to life. As our mission moves to the states, we will not grow weary in doing good. Our commitment to life will march on. As one of the most pro-life states in the nation, Indiana will lead the way in defending the vulnerable, uplifting women and families, and ensuring every child has the chance to achieve the American Dream. Our enduring commitment to life will prevail.”
Indiana Democrat Party Vice-Chair Myla Eldridge:
“My heart breaks today, because with the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion, a 50-year understanding and American-standard has been stripped away from women of all stripes, colors, and backgrounds. Generations of women for the first time will be forced to make dangerous decisions many of us thought we left in history books. And what horrifies me most, underprivileged women - especially Black and Brown Hoosiers in urban communities - will see their futures dashed or their lives be put at risk because the nation’s highest court backed a small minority over the large majority of Americans who want to keep living up to the foundations and freedoms of the United States.
In Indiana, the days are now numbered to get a safe and legal abortion. And what scares me the most is the fact we have a state government who is ready to request that Governor Eric Holcomb call a special session and use taxpayer dollars just to ban this medical procedure in the state. It is unclear how extreme the Indiana Republican Party will go, but politicians like U.S. Senator Todd Young and State Representative John Jacob have signed pledges they wish for the state to enact a total ban on abortions - even in the cases of rape, incest, or saving the life of the mother. Should the Republican Supermajority go as extreme as many of us believe, they will be fulfilling a national partisan agenda that only 17-percent of Hoosiers support in this state.
So I ask Indiana Republicans today: Do they really want to pass a complete ban on abortion - including for cases of rape, incest, and protecting the life of the mother?
"This is the first time in our nation’s history that we’ve taken such a huge step back on personal freedom, and I am horrified about what other dominos will fall now that women will lose their rights to this legal and safe procedure. A woman’s right to contraception and birth control will be the next issue up for debate, and I fear the Indiana Republican Party will continue their crusade of violating the privacy rights of Hoosiers - because have repeatedly shown us they believe a Hoosier’s personal life should be subjected for approval by politicians - not doctors or medical professionals.
"The Indiana Democratic Party sides with the 83-percent of Hoosiers who believe access to abortions should be legal in some form. We side with the belief that it’s truly only a woman’s right to choose, and the belief that a politician has no business being in a doctor’s office with a woman and her doctor. And, Indiana Democrats will fight tooth and nail every step of the way against this form of dangerous and extreme partisanship. Democrats will show voters and families that the Indiana Republican Party is no longer the so-called ‘conservative’ party of decades past - but an extreme one who prioritizes an un-American, partisan agenda over creating a better future for families in all 92 counties.”
State Senator Shelli Yoder (D-Bloomington):
“The ruling handed down by the Supreme Court today is not a ‘pro-life’ victory as it will be touted by anti-choice activists. In fact, as a result of this ruling, countless women will lose their lives to poverty, to back alley abortionists, to risky pregnancies and to unforgiving, fundamentally invasive public policy. Make no mistake, this decision is not about preserving lives—it is about controlling them.
“This decision is part of a larger, hyper-conservative movement to erode privacy rights and to retroactively erase decades of civil rights progress. This ruling forces women of all faiths, races and beliefs across America to legally submit to a narrow, remarkably backwards judgment of their bodily autonomy and societal value. It undermines all American aspirations of equality, justice and freedom. If we truly believed in justice, in freedom, we would let women make their own decisions without fear of state retribution. I can only hope Indiana’s Legislature lets current law stand and realizes that a vote against abortion access is a vote against women’s rights, healthcare privacy, families and the will and lives of Hoosiers. A woman will always be better-equipped than her government to make this decision: to assume anything else is a grave insult to the intellect and independence of all women, pro-choice and ‘pro-life’ alike.”
U.S. Rep. Jim Baird (R):
“I have long believed that the Supreme Court’s decision to claim authority over the rights of the unborn was one of the darkest moments in its history; today’s decision represents not only a great victory in the fight to preserve life at every stage and for states’ rights, but the opportunity to right a wrong.
“The right to life is the cornerstone of American principles and now states will have the ability to protect life at every stage, restoring some balance to our federalist system. After nearly 50 years, we have finally corrected this stain on our nation’s history, and I’m proud to join the millions of Americans across the country in celebrating this monumental and well overdue decision.”
State Senator Greg Taylor (D-Indianapolis):
“This ruling will plunge us back into a society where the most personal aspect of a woman’s life will be at the mercy of her state legislature. Indiana will enter a bygone era where a woman is forced to carry unexpected and unsafe pregnancies to term—with no regard for her personal choice, her physician’s advice or her circumstances or potential risks. And let’s be clear, women will die. We already have the 3rd highest maternal mortality rate in the nation—restricting abortion care will have deadly and devastating outcomes for women and families. Maternal mortality rates across the country and in our state are about to see a drastic rise. These fatalities will occur when women at a higher risk for pregnancy-related death, such as polycystic ovary syndrome and blood clotting disorders, are forced to carry out pregnancies against their will or doctor’s orders.
“Roe v. Wade protected a fundamental right to privacy that ensured women could access all forms of healthcare to support the best health outcomes. Supporting maternal health means guaranteeing access to vital healthcare, respecting health care providers’ guidance and leaving women the freedom to make personal and nuanced reproductive decisions without government interference.
“The outcome of banning abortion care will have a drastic impact on our entire state. Due to decades of underinvestment in key social infrastructure, Indiana does not have the ability to support a forced-birth society. We already have a critical healthcare provider and OB/GYN shortage. DCS is underfunded, and we have the second highest rate of child abuse and the highest rate of child deaths from abuse in the nation. Adoption subsidies are fully not guaranteed in state statute, so we already don’t support all families wanting to care for children. 81% of our schools lack access to reproductive health services that are crucial to preventing unwanted teen pregnancies. Families cannot afford skyrocketing housing costs and we’re still not doing enough to adequately fund public education, Medicaid coverage or postpartum support services like doulas for new mothers. We are not prepared.
“My caucus and I will continue fighting for women as we enter this dark time. We will be fighting to promote life for women, expand maternal health coverage and support, and invest in key infrastructure in Indiana like child care, education, DCS and public health. All of these efforts will be critical if we’re about to start forcing girls and women to have babies in a state that currently ranks 3rd in the country for maternal mortality. Regardless of what happens in our upcoming special session, my caucus will never give up fighting for essential abortion care for all Hoosier women.”
State Senator Terri Austin (D-Anderson):
“Having control over your body, whether it’s your reproductive health, or the best decisions for your life and your family, are fundamental human rights,” the women said. “They are personal decisions that need to be made by a woman and her physician, not a room of 150 legislators in Indianapolis. Women who can control decisions about their bodies and their reproductive health have the ability to influence the outcome of their future and their family’s future.
“Indiana does a very poor job of making birth control available to women. We could drastically reduce unintended pregnancies and the need for abortions if we would allow women to purchase hormonal birth control over the counter as 15 states and counting have done. Access to over-the-counter birth control saves lives, allows women to plan their families and provides for better health outcomes.”
Indiana Represtentative Cherrish Pryor (D-Indianapolis):
"Indiana already has the third highest rate of maternal mortality in the nation. Hoosier women cannot afford any legislation that puts them at a greater risk of dying due to pregnancy. Instead of working to restrict abortions in the state, the legislature ought to be striving to support existing pregnant women and infants. For example, we'd like to see a workplace pregnancy accommodations law with teeth actually pass – the one that Statehouse Republicans passed does nothing to substantively protect women and their babies."
State Senator J.D. Ford (D-Indianapolis):
“I am disappointed that the Supreme Court has decided to go against nearly 50 years of precedent by overturning Roe v. Wade. The right to privacy is one of the most important in a free society, and today the Supreme Court has made it open season for state governments to limit women’s rights to privacy.
“I trust women to make this deeply personal decision. Government doesn’t have any business being in exam rooms for folks' healthcare decisions. Instead of banning abortion, we should focus our efforts on improving access to affordable healthcare, lowering our infant and maternal mortality rates and expanding access to childcare. Those are the kinds of pro-life and pro-family policies that will benefit Hoosiers.” | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/national/indiana-lawmakers-react-to-scotus-abortion-decision/531-fb89d129-0277-4475-841f-ef7f7e683172 | 2022-06-24 14:57:21 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/national/indiana-lawmakers-react-to-scotus-abortion-decision/531-fb89d129-0277-4475-841f-ef7f7e683172 |
MYKOLAIV OBLAST, Ukraine — It only took Mykhailo Liubchenko homemade vodka to salvage some of his business.
Liubchenko, 72, farms wheat and sunflowers on the front lines of the Ukraine war's southern campaign. He says he paid off Russian soldiers with samogon — moonshine — so they wouldn't torch his fields or steal his equipment in the early weeks of the war in February.
"They were completely drunk," he says. "They didn't steal anything or destroy anything. The next day our Ukrainian forces pushed them back."
Months later, burned Russian tanks and vehicles still line the farm roads that square his several-thousand-acre plots. Red flags sprout above young sunflower shoots, alerting farmhands to unexploded ordnance left behind. A rocket sits perched on a tree trunk, in what looks like it was once a defensive military position.
"I have 1,000 hectares [2,471 acres] of winter wheat and barley, that I don't know how to harvest. I'll probably just light it on fire," he says. "If I let combines and tractors work, drivers could be blown up because there are still some shells."
Ukraine is considered a breadbasket of Europe and a major exporter of wheat, corn, sunflower and other food. But Russian warships and Ukrainian mines are blocking shipping lanes through the Black Sea. The United Nations warns the blockade will worsen world hunger, which leaves Ukrainian farmers in the middle of a local and global crisis — right as the year's harvest begins.
Negotiations fail to reach result
Attempts by the U.N., Turkey and other parties to negotiate with Russia to let exports ship out of Ukrainian waters have so far failed. Moscow offered to help if the West lifted some of its sanctions and Ukraine cleared its mines around the ports.
Ukraine has been left out of the discussions, but a senior Ukrainian official said it would participate soon and expects the conversations to become more serious in July.
Meanwhile, global food prices have hovered near record highs their rise, even as some commodities, including wheat and corn, have dipped since their peaks.
In another record, up to 323 million people are on the brink of starvation, the Group of Seven global economic leaders warned on Monday, saying that factors including COVID-19 and climate change contributed.
The war in Ukraine "is dramatically aggravating the hunger crisis; it has triggered disruptions of agricultural production, supply chains and trade that have driven world food and fertiliser prices to unprecedented levels for which Russia bears enormous responsibility," the group's statement reads.
European Union officials accuse Russia of using hunger as a weapon, calling its blockade of Ukraine's shipping ports a war crime. EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has warned about "the risk of a great famine in the world, especially in Africa."
Exports trickle out
Before the war, Ukraine exported 5 million to 6 million tons of food per month — with more than 90% of it going through Black Sea ports. But in May, Ukraine exported just 1.8 million tons.
"There was a lot of vessels that were scheduled to arrive in Ukrainian ports that just did a U-turn in the Black Sea," after Russia's invasion, says Mark Nugent, senior dry bulk analyst at Braemar Shipping Services.
Last year, Ukraine exported $27.8 billion worth of agricultural goods. It shipped more than 20 million tons of wheat and other cereal grains — 10% of the world total for those commodities. Ukraine is also normally the top producer of sunflower seed, oil and meal, as well as a leading corn exporter.
Before the war, Ukraine exported 5 million to 6 million tons of food per month. But in May, it exported just 1.8 million tons. About half of it goes to Poland, Romania and Hungary by rail.
Ukraine's Agriculture Ministry thinks the maximum amount of exports by land would top out at about 2.2 million tons per month.
These days, about half of Ukraine's food shipments are going to Poland, Romania and Hungary by rail, and much of the rest by trucks. For farmers, it's costlier to ship by road.
"Right now we're preparing our trucks and getting passports for our drivers who don't have them," says Oleksandr Tatarov, a farmer who grows rapeseed, wheat and barley near Bashtanka, Ukraine.
Trucking barley to the ports of Izmail and Reni in southern Ukraine "costs about 50%" of the price Tatarov earns, he tells NPR, as explosions can be heard in the distance.
He says he'll test a truck shipment to those ports, where they could be loaded on barges on the Danube River, but he's heard trucks have waited for weeks to unload.
Almost one-third of Tatarov's nearly 8,600 acres are under occupation or shelling. "We've pulled the curtain on those fields," he says.
The day before he meets NPR, one of his farm garages was hit by a Russian attack. A shell destroyed one of his four food storage facilities.
Running out of space
When the blockade began, Ukraine already had 23.5 million tons of grain and seed in storage, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said in June. That left Ukraine's storage capacity about a third full, excluding the silos that are located in Russian-occupied territories.
Now, the Agriculture Ministry anticipates running out of storage capacity by October, expecting a harvest of grains and seeds to be about 60 million tons — half of last year's.
"Part of our storage of facilities are in temporarily occupied territories, part of them were destroyed," Deputy Agriculture Minister Markiyan Dmytrasevych tells NPR. "We understand we'll face a deficit of grain storages. ... The deficit could be 10-15 million tons."
President Biden said the United States would help build temporary facilities in Poland.
Meanwhile, farmers like Tatarov will use massive silo bags to store as much as 200,000 tons of harvested grain and seeds in the fields. Other growers, including Vasily Khmilenko, are searching for bins to rent.
"I've never needed storage before," he says. "The port [in Odesa] is very close to us, so when we harvested, the trucks came straight to the field and took the grain."
Khmilenko says the harvested grain cannot sit in the field uncovered because rain would destroy it. He's negotiating with a company to store his entire yield, which he estimates to be between 400 and 500 tons.
He says he hopes they'll take some grain as payment.
Liubchenko says he has experience demining as a former military colonel. He points out a pile of ordnance he says he removed from his fields. But that was earlier in the season, when the plants were shorter. It would be too dangerous to do that now, he says, because the taller plants obstruct his view of the ground.
He says he'll store as much of his harvest as he can and wait for the blockade to end.
For Khmilenko, if he cannot sell this year, he says he'll be out about $70,000. "If we lose this it will be impossible to rebuild. I paid too much in this business to recover it," he says.
Khmilenko's farm is relatively far from the front lines, and he says he's confident Russian forces will not reach his land.
But the threat of shells, and potential fire from them, continues to haunt him. Russia has increased its shelling and missile attacks in the southern region in recent weeks, including attacks on food storage facilities in Mykolaiv and Odesa.
"The most important thing is that we de-blockade our seaport," Dmytrasevych says. "The only way to do that is to defeat the Russians. So we need weapons, weapons and weapons."
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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) _ Riverview Bancorp Inc. (RVSB) on Thursday reported profit of $5.2 million in its fiscal third quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Vancouver, Washington-based company said it had profit of 24 cents.
The holding company for Riverview Community Bank posted revenue of $17.4 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $16.7 million.
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Congress is expected on Friday to pass a major bill that includes close to $375 billion in spending related to fighting climate change. The bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act, will infuse cash, subsidies and tax breaks into various sectors of the economy, all aimed at making green energy much cheaper. It's expected to reduce U.S. carbon emissions around 40% by 2030.
Here are a handful of quotes from politicians, environmentalists and energy experts:
— “This legislation is a true game changer. It will create jobs, lower costs, increase U.S. competitiveness, reduce air pollution.” — Former Vice President Al Gore, who shared a Nobel Prize for his work on climate change.
— “I think the Inflation Reduction Act goes a long way in the advancement of environmental justice. That feature of the bill is a pretty significant focus.” — Julius Redd, an environmental attorney at Beveridge & Diamond.
— “It is going to force Biden’s hand to move forward with oil and gas lease sales." — Tina Van Bockern, an attorney at Holland & Hart who works with oil and gas clients.
— “We haven’t done anything this large at the federal level ever." — Harrison Fell, a professor focused on energy policy at North Carolina State University.
— The bill “wastes billions of dollars in Green New Deal slush funds." — House GOP Whip Steve Scalise, who represents Louisiana.
— “This law is big for the U.S. but in global terms long overdue." — said Niklas Hohne, co-founder of the New Climate Institute in Germany.
— “Rather than drive out fossils — especially coal — by regulating them to death, it is going to help drive them out by making them less competitive." — Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.
— “Environmental justice communities once again appear to be placed in a precarious position of having to accept risky carbon capture and sequestration technologies, more pollution, and unfair health ‘trade-offs’ in order to get environmental and climate benefits.” — Robert Bullard, a professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University and a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
“The IRA imposes an $11.7 billion tax on crude oil and petroleum products. At a time of record-high energy prices, Congress should not add additional costs on American energy companies competing globally." — American Petroleum Institute and almost 60 other energy industry associations in a letter to House leadership.
— “It’s not as big as I want, but it’s also bigger than anything we’ve ever done." — Sen. Brian Schatz, a Hawaii Democrat who leads the Senate climate caucus.
— “More oil and gas leasing is completely incompatible with maintaining a livable planet." — Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group.
— “We’ve had a hard time passing sticks in this country. And so we’re going to carrots. And that may be slightly less economically efficient and involve slightly higher cost to the economy and to consumers. But honestly, it’s so important that we do this and the benefits are still likely to be so much larger than the costs, that this is still unquestionably the right thing to do." — Samantha Gross, director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at Brookings.
— “Senate Democrats just voted to raise taxes on working families, kill West Virginia’s coal industry, and empower the IRS to spend more time snooping around Main Street. At a time of record inflation, it’s inexplicable for them to repeat the massive over-taxing, over-spending, and over-regulating mistakes already driving us into a recession.” — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican from West Virginia.
— “It’s not nearly enough money to to wean us off of fossil fuels. And there is no carbon tax many liberals want, but at least it will be remembered as showing that in 2022, the United States was taking climate change seriously." — Rice University Historian Douglas Brinkley.
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BOSTON (AP) — The little bottles of booze at Huntington Wine and Liquor are displayed prominently at the front counter of the Boston store, some stacked neatly in display cases, others tossed haphazardly in trays.
Steven Rubin, whose family has owned the store since 1970, estimates that they account for up to 15% of his sales.
“They are a major part of our business, and have a high profit margin,” he said.
But he might be on the verge of losing those sales.
Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo has proposed banning city liquor stores from selling the bottles that hold from 50 to 100 milliliters (1.7 to 3.4 fluid ounces), which he says would address both alcohol abuse and excessive litter.
“The fact that this handled even one of these two issues would have been enough for me,” Arroyo said at city hall hearing on the issue on Monday. “The fact that it plays in both of these issues I think is an overwhelming reason to move forward with something like this.”
The little bottles are favored by people who want to drink in their vehicles because they are easy to hide from police and the empties can just be tossed out the window, Arroyo said.
Parents have told him that they are also preferred by underage drinkers because they’re easy to hide.
The ultimate decision on a ban on minis rests with the city’s Licensing Board, which regulates the city’s roughly 280 liquor stores. Board Chair Kathleen Joyce said Monday that applicants for new licenses or license transfers are already asked to voluntarily agree not to sell the little bottles.
Other Massachusetts communities that have banned the sale of the tiny bottles have seen benefits, Arroyo said.
Chelsea, the city just to the north of Boston in 2018 became the first municipality in the state to ban liquor stores from selling the bottles that cost as little as 99 cents.
The city’s ambulance service responded to 742 calls for alcohol-related issues in 2017 — and then 556 in 2018, when the ban was in place for about half the year, Arroyo said in his proposal.
The number of people taken into protective custody dropped by 20% the first two years of the ban and alcohol-related hospitalizations plummeted, Chelsea police Chief Keith Houghton said in a recent interview.
“It wasn’t just the aesthetic problems, with bottles everywhere, we were dealing with public intoxication, we were taking people into protective custody and transporting them to the hospital,” he said.
A ban would also benefit the environment, Arroyo said.
The discarded bottles, found clustered by the side of the road, in parks, and in waterways, are not biodegradable or recyclable. In the Hyde Park neighborhood that Arroyo represents, a community volunteer cleanup crew collected 10,000 of the bottles in two months, he said.
Banning the sale of miniature bottles had a measurable effect on reducing litter in Falmouth, Alan Robinson, chair of the Falmouth Solid Waste Advisory Committee, said in a recent telephone interview.
Before the Cape Cod community banned their sale in 2021, 32% of the items picked up during roadside community trash collections were the small bottles, he said. Since then, roughly 6% of the litter items are minis.
“It has made such a difference,” said Robinson, adding that “everyone he speaks with” reports fewer of these tiny bottles.
Liquor stores are pushing back.
When the bottles are banned, locally owned businesses suffer financially, and the underlying problems of litter and alcohol abuse aren’t adequately addressed, Robert Mellion, the executive director of the Massachusetts Package Store Association, said in a recent telephone interview.
When Chelsea banned the sale of the bottles, the local stores saw a collective $6 million loss in business in several months, while stores in neighboring communities like East Boston and Everett experienced higher sales.
“So people were still buying them, they just moved over the next community,” he said.
Or, Rubin said, they simply buy a larger bottle of alcohol.
“If you eliminate the 50 milliliter and 100 milliliter bottles, all you do is create a market for the larger bottles, and how does that address alcoholism?” he said. “People just buy the next size up and drink more.”
Rubin and Mellion acknowledge that the little bottles are a trash problem, but a sales ban is not the answer.
The 800-member Massachusetts Package Store Association supports an expanded bottle bill that would include a deposit on the miniature bottles, Mellion said.
“I think there we have a statewide solution to the trash problem,” he said
Jim Rossi, a Huntington Wine and Liquor customer who stopped in the store on a recent afternoon for some beer and tiny bottles of cinnamon whisky, agreed.
“If they’re worried about the litter, why don’t they put a deposit on them?” he said. “People would be snapping them up from the streets for the deposit just like they do with the discarded cans.” | https://pix11.com/ap-health/bottle-battle-boston-talks-of-banning-tiny-bottles-of-booze/ | 2023-04-07 13:28:28 | 1 | https://pix11.com/ap-health/bottle-battle-boston-talks-of-banning-tiny-bottles-of-booze/ |
Dec 29, 2022; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; LA Clippers guard Reggie Jackson (1) shoots the ball over Boston Celtics center Al Horford (42) during the first half at TD Garden.
Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum each scored 29 points as the Boston Celtics beat the visiting Los Angeles Clippers 116-110 to cap their seven-game homestand on Thursday night.
Brown scored 12 in the fourth quarter to help the Celtics close out their fourth straight win, while Tatum grabbed 11 rebounds for his 14th double-double of the season.
Marcus Smart had 17 points, nine assists and two steals, while Derrick White added 15 points and Robert Williams III 12 for Boston.
Kawhi Leonard led the Clippers with 26 points to go with eight rebounds, and Paul George had 24 points and six assists for the Clippers, who had five players score in double figures.
The Clippers answered a 6-0 Celtics run out of a timeout, but six of the following eight points went Boston's way. Brown's drive and layup brought the Celtics to 100 points with 7:58 left.
Boston won with 7-2 and 5-0 runs that were separated by Reggie Jackson's triple with 4:39 left.
Derrick White's layup and three-point play capped the first spurt, while Grant Williams hit a 3-pointer and Marcus Smart followed with a steal and layup to up Boston's lead to 10.
In the final minute, White and Al Horford came up with key blocks that led to changes of possession and Brown and Tatum free throws to seal the win.
The Celtics had a 13-2 run in the first quarter, with a layup by Brown and Horford's corner trey making it 24-15.
A few minutes later, Norman Powell banked in a last-second running 3-pointer as Los Angeles finished the opening quarter on an 11-3 run and got within 27-26.
Boston put together a late 9-0 run in the second quarter, with Brown's pull-up jumper expanding the lead to 50-37 with 3:16 left before halftime.
Robert Williams tipped in a miss by Tatum at the buzzer to give the Celtics an 11-point lead.
The Clippers hit four of their first six 3-pointers in the third quarter. Marcus Morris Sr. hit the last trey during that run to make it 67-65, then George's runner from downtown gave Los Angeles a 74-72 lead midway through the period.
Boston regained the lead after back-to-back treys by Smart and Sam Hauser, the latter off a tough offensive rebound by Grant Williams. John Wall's 3-pointer in the final minute of the third put the Clippers ahead 85-84.
Boston interim coach Joe Mazzulla (corneal abrasions) was absent for a second straight game. Assistant coach Damon Stoudamire led the team. | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/celtics/celtics-end-homestand-on-winning-note-knock-off-clippers/article_8a16df7b-fdf0-572d-9bab-67387e1169cf.html | 2022-12-30 17:26:19 | 1 | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/celtics/celtics-end-homestand-on-winning-note-knock-off-clippers/article_8a16df7b-fdf0-572d-9bab-67387e1169cf.html |
Caitlyn Jenner fired back at tennis great Martina Navratilova on Twitter Wednesday just days after the 18-time Grand Slam champion called out Lance Armstrong over his recent interview with Jenner where they discussed transgender participation in sports.
Jenner appeared on the inaugural episode of Armstrong’s podcast "The Forward," where the two discussed the ongoing debate surrounding transgender athletes' participation in women’s sports.
Jenner, who has publicly spoken out against transgender females competing in women’s sports, said during the interview published Monday that trans females competing in women’s sports puts women in "a very uncomfortable position."
TENNIS GREAT MARTINA NAVRATILOVA GIVES FOUR-WORD REACTION TO RILEY GAINES' EXCHANGE WITH ACTIVIST AT HEARING
"I’ve been very clear from the beginning – I am all about fairness, not equity," Jenner said. "Sports has to be fair. I want to protect women. I want to protect women’s spaces in sports. It puts women in a very uncomfortable position."
However, Navratilova, who has similarly shared her opposition to trans participation, took issue with the interview.
"A natal male who cheated in sports going to speak to a natal male to talk about other natal males competing in natal female sports. Got it. I am sure Lance will fix it," she wrote in a tweet.
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Jenner fired back on Twitter Wednesday in a series of tweets, explaining the context of the interview while also calling out Navratilova for her politics which Jenner said goes against Republican lawmakers attempting to pass legislation "protecting women’s sports."
"Hey [Navratilova] we are on the same side of this issue," Jenner wrote in a tweet.
"[Armstrong] and I were simply discussing how I believe biological men should not be competing in women’s sports. But since we are on the topic of Martina - let’s delve a little deeper (she’ll love the attention)!"
Last week, Navratilova responded on Twitter to exchange during a Senate hearing where Kelley Robinson, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, said she couldn't "definitively" say males have an advantage over women in sports.
"This is just sad," Navratilova said of the exchange.
The nine-time Wimbledon champion has been an activist for the gay community but has publicly spoken out against transgender females competing against biological women in sports. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/caitlyn-jenner-rips-martina-navratilova-over-tweet-shading-interview-with-lance-armstrong-on-trans-athletes/article_553d1068-ccfc-52a4-9195-598d6609e85e.html | 2023-06-28 18:21:51 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/caitlyn-jenner-rips-martina-navratilova-over-tweet-shading-interview-with-lance-armstrong-on-trans-athletes/article_553d1068-ccfc-52a4-9195-598d6609e85e.html |
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — Police and EMS responded to a crash at the intersection of Loop 306 and Foster Rd. after a driver ran a stop sign and collided with another vehicle on Thursday afternoon, April 27, 2023.
Police say the driver of a silver Ford Fusion headed west on the frontage road of Loop 306 failed to stop at a stop sign at Foster Rd before the crash happened. A tan Chevrolet Suburban headed south on Foster Rd collided with the Fusion in the intersection.
An ambulance was called to the scene to check on the occupants of both vehicles, but no injuries were reported. The driver of the Fusion received a citation for failure to yield the right of way at a stop sign. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/top-stories/2-vehicle-crash-at-foster-loop-306-after-one-runs-stop-sign/ | 2023-04-27 22:22:34 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/top-stories/2-vehicle-crash-at-foster-loop-306-after-one-runs-stop-sign/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ivy Exec, advised by JEGI CLARITY, has been sold to InnovateMR, a portfolio company of CIVC Partners.
Headquartered in Manhattan, Ivy Exec is a leading provider of B2B qualitative expert insights. Ivy Exec delivers curated content and networking opportunities to roughly 2.5 million decision makers, subject matter experts and key opinion leaders. Ivy Exec's Ivy Insights Division, the research business within Ivy Exec, provides paid B2B qualitative consulting engagements with top research companies, consulting firms, Fortune 500 companies and financial sponsors.
The acquisition of Ivy Exec will drive strong profitable growth by strengthening InnovateMR's capabilities and creating a differentiated provider of valuable solutions. As a leader in specialized research, this acquisition further accelerates InnovateMR's commitment to data quality and global B2B survey participant reach.
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RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — Montana authorities said Tuesday that human remains found in Carbon County about 18 years ago have been identified as those of a Wisconsin hitchhiker who left his home state to flee legal trouble.
The Carbon County Sheriff's Office said the remains of Rogers Lee Ellis were identified after state and federal agencies launched an extensive genealogy investigation this year. The investigation included sending skeletal remains to Othram, a private DNA lab in Texas, which used its technology to build a DNA profile that ultimately helped identify the remains.
Now, authorities say they are turning their investigation to finding Ellis' killer.
Ellis was born in Wisconsin Rapids in 1954. The Carbon County Sheriff's Office said that in December 1976, he was facing legal issues related to an arrest for marijuana possession. Authorities say he told his family he didn't want to go to jail and was heading west. He had no further contact with his family.
Authorities believe Ellis was hitchhiking and was killed by one or more traveling companions, who left his body in Montana and continued on their way, the Carbon County Sheriff's Office said.
Ellis' remains were discovered in June 2004 after a hiker found a skull near Red Lodge, off of U.S. Highway 212. Search teams then found a femur and pelvic bone and authorities determined the remains came from the same person. At the time, DNA was entered into a national index, but no match was found until the new DNA profile was built this year.
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- A new ambition by 2030 to accelerate its transformation dynamic
- A visual identity, a marker of the successful transformation of the Group, its ambitions and its renewal
PARIS, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Servier today unveils its 2030 ambition as well as a new visual identity that reflects the transformation undertaken by the Group, bringing visible results. The Group intends to accelerate its transformation dynamics in order to ensure, over the long term, its independence and its creation of value for all its stakeholders. Servier confirms its commitment to making a meaningful social impact and contributing to a sustainable world.
A transformation that leads to results
Servier committed in 2015 to a transformation aimed at sustainably improving the company's performance and ensuring the sustainability of its unique governance model for the ultimate benefit of patients. Being governed by a foundation also gives the Group a long-term vision, perfectly adapted to the long cycles of the pharmaceutical sector.
In recent years, Servier has strengthened its leadership in cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of mortality worldwide[1] – Servier is the 3rd largest global pharmaceutical group in cardiology and in hypertension.[2] Drawing on recognized scientific know-how, the Group has developed a wide range of treatments distributed in 150 countries. Servier has significantly invested in incremental innovation, including Single Pill Combinations (SPCs), several medicines combined into a single tablet, which leads to better patient compliance and contributes to savings for the healthcare system. Servier is also a renowned global leader in venous diseases, thanks to daflon® which is an important part of the Group's growth.
Servier has made a major shift in oncology as a new pillar of strategic growth. The Group allocates over 50% of its R&D budget to it, with the ambition to become a renowned and innovative player in the development of therapeutic solutions targeting hard-to-treat cancers. Servier leads its R&D programs around two approaches: immuno-oncology and targeted therapies. Over the past four years, the Group has significantly strengthened its position in oncology thanks to more than €6 billion investments, including two major acquisitions which have made it possible to establish a presence in new strategic territories such as the United States and Japan. The Group's major investment in oncology today results in a rich pipeline of 39 R&D projects and seven medicines available to patients.
The Group also consolidated its generic business through national champions with strong brands such as Biogaran in France, Egis in Eastern Europe, Pharlab in Brazil and Swipha in Nigeria. This activity opens access to quality care for the largest number of people and contributes to lowering healthcare costs.
The transformation has impacted all the Group's activities, including R&D, which has undertaken a transformation plan based on three pillars that support progress and therapeutic performance: a patient-centric approach, a more efficient organization with a collaborative dynamic, and a refocusing on four therapeutic areas (oncology, cardiometabolism, neuroscience and immuno-inflammation). In its ambition to build a very open, dynamic and productive research for the benefit of patients, the opening of the Servier Research and Development Institute at Paris-Saclay in 2023 is a major step in the transformation of R&D. The result of an investment of more than €370 million, it is situated at the center of a global scientific and technological innovation cluster. The future Institute will be the heart of the Group's global R&D organization and will work cross-functionally with Servier's other R&D centers based in Denmark (Ballerup), the United States (Boston) and Hungary (Budapest). It will accommodate 1,500 employees and will include an incubator housing approximately 15 start-ups.
The Group has also accelerated its digital transformation to create value for patients and healthcare stakeholders, while unlocking the potential of teams, through new agile and efficient ways of working as well as a transformed infrastructure.
Relying on a solid foundation, the Group is now able to confirm its trajectory to 2025 – a revenue of
€6 billion, including €1 billion in oncology, and a Group EBITDA of €1.3 billion – and to ambitiously address the second strategic step of its transformation plan by 2030.
Olivier Laureau, President of Servier, says: "I want to thank all the employees of the Group who contribute to the success of the company's profound transformation, recognized worldwide by healthcare professionals, patient associations and our partners. The path we have travelled has allowed us to value our uniqueness: Servier is a group governed by a foundation whose ultimate beneficiary is and will always be the patient. This independence allows us to invest in the long-term for the development of innovative therapeutic solutions to meet high unmet medical needs."
A 2030 vision and ambition to accelerate the Group's transformation
Building on the 2025 goals as an important milestone, Servier has set a 2030 ambition to accelerate its transformation. The Group thus intends to achieve a turnover of €8 billion in 2030 with an EBITDA of more than 30% through a strategy based on three pillars:
1 – Be a mid-size, focused and innovative player in oncology as well as in neuroscience and immuno-inflammation
Thanks to the major investments made in R&D, the Group has strong innovation capabilities and a rich pipeline of projects targeting pathologies with a high unmet medical need. Servier thus intends to launch a new molecular entity, or a new indication, every year in oncology and to achieve a major launch in the area of neuroscience/immuno-inflammation by 2030. Servier sets a goal of achieving an oncology revenue greater than or equal to €3 billion in 2030.
2 – Accelerate the Group's leadership in cardiometabolism and venous disease
Servier is very involved in the development of incremental innovations (Single Pill Combinations) as well as innovative digital services that aim to improve diagnosis, knowledge of chronic diseases and therapeutic compliance. The Group develops partnerships with patient associations to offer services that are best suited to the needs of patients and their families. The Group intends to achieve a revenue greater than or equal to €3 billion in 2030 in this area by relying on a renowned expertise, a strong capacity for incremental innovation and an extensive international presence.
3 – Continue the profitable growth of the Generic business
Relying on national champions, the Group wishes, through its Generic business, to facilitate access to treatments for a largest number of patients. This business will seize the market opportunities offered by patent exclusivity losses and biosimilar development, with a targeted revenue of €1.8 billion by 2030.
Three strategic levers will help achieve the Group ambition:
1 – An optimized industrial network
To support its growth and its development, Servier will rely on an industrial model based on an efficient and sustainable network of specialized production sites, suited to the evolution of its medicines' portfolio. This model will also use digital technologies (Artificial Intelligence and Big data) in order to provide visibility into the industrial activity and to anticipate production management from beginning to end (end-to-end supply chain).
2 – Agile and efficient organization
An agile and efficient organization, aligned with strategic ambitions, is a key performance lever. That is why Servier will strengthen cross-functional decision-making and collaboration in order to allow everyone within the Group to save time and focus on tasks with high added value. In addition, digital technologies will benefit all activities of the Group, and will help increase its effectiveness, performance and therapeutic innovation capability.
3 – A community of employees committed to future generations
Since its creation, Servier has placed employees at the center of its actions, recognizing them as the Group's main strength. To make Servier 2030 a success, for the benefit of patients, the Group creates an environment encouraging talent engagement, retention and attraction.
Beyond the strong commitments already made to reduce its carbon footprint, accelerate diversity and inclusion and support communities, in particular through Mécénat Servier, the Group plans to invest in a flagship CSR project every three years.
A new visual identity emblematic of the Group's transformation
The transformation undertaken, of which the results are visible to all of the Group's stakeholders, led Servier to change its visual identity by adopting a brand platform that reflects the Group's renewal.
This new identity reflects what animates and represents Servier's uniqueness: an independent group, governed by a foundation, committed to therapeutic progress to serve patient needs. It is the marker of Servier's successful transformation, its ambitions and its renewal. It also reflects the uniqueness of the Group that works for the common good and fully integrates CSR into its strategy.
The "moved by you" signature and the star symbolize the Group's proximity to its stakeholders (patients, partners and employees). The smile, represented by the curve of the "R", provides hope for patients. It symbolizes the passion, empathy, expertise and innovation that characterize Servier.
This new brand platform unites all employees around a common identity, a source of inspiration on a daily basis. It also strengthens the Group's employer brand: its vocation, and its independence guaranteed by its foundation status, respond to the younger generations' search for meaning.
Olivier Laureau, President of Servier, adds: "Our Group is founded on a vocation that inspires us and around strong values that drive us. The initiated transformation and our ambition represent a new chapter in our history. More than ever, with Servier 2030, we are focused on innovation and positive social impact thanks to an improved profitability and bold choices."
Press contact: presse@servier.com
About Servier
Founded to serve health, Servier is a global group governed by a Foundation that aspires to have a meaningful social impact, both for patients and for a sustainable world. With its unique governance model, it can fully serve its vocation with a long-term vision: being committed to therapeutic progress to serve patient needs. The 21,800 employees of the Group are committed to this shared vocation, source of inspiration every day.
As a world leader in cardiology, Servier's ambition is to become a renowned, focused and innovative player in oncology by targeting hard-to-treat cancers. That is why the Group allocates over 50% of its R&D budget to developing targeted and innovative therapies in oncology.
Neuroscience and immuno-inflammatory diseases are the future growth driver. In these areas, Servier is focused on a limited number of diseases in which accurate patient profiling makes it possible to offer a targeted therapeutic response through precision medicine.
To promote access to quality care for all at a lower cost, the Group also offers a range of quality generic drugs covering most pathologies, relying on strong brands in France, Eastern Europe, Brazil and Nigeria.
In all these areas, the Group includes the patient voice at each stage of the life cycle of a medicine.
Headquartered in France, Servier relies on a strong geographical footprint in over 150 countries and achieved a revenue of €4.7 billion in 2021.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is eyeing a critical opportunity to counter former President Donald Trump in Iowa as he sets off on his 2024 White House campaign.
Even as Trump has taken an early lead in national polls, Republicans see an opening for DeSantis in the storied, first-in-the-nation caucus state, a traditional proving ground and potential source of early momentum for White House hopefuls.
Not only has he already racked up a long list of endorsements from prominent Iowa Republicans, but a super PAC supporting his campaign has launched an extensive voter contact and organizing operation in the state and he began his 2024 campaign tour in West Des Moines on Tuesday evening.
“There’s a lot of openness with Republican caucus-goers in Iowa,” an adviser to the group told The Hill last week. “You don’t have to take my word for it, you just have to go on the ground and see it.”
Even before his campaign launch last week, Never Back Down, the main super PAC backing DeSantis’s presidential bid, rounded up endorsements from dozens of Iowa state legislators and helped organize a crowd to attend an impromptu appearance by DeSantis in Des Moines.
The group has also hired a team of 10 staffers and nearly 200 canvassers in Iowa to begin reaching out to caucus-goers and has already knocked on more than 50,000 doors in the state, according to a spokesperson. The super PAC’s canvassers are being trained out of an office in West Des Moines.
DeSantis himself has been direct about the critical role he sees the Hawkeye State playing in his 2024 presidential campaign. In an interview on “Fox & Friends” on Monday, the governor insisted that he is “competing everywhere,” but acknowledged that “Iowa is very important” and would serve as an early stage for him to sharpen his contrast with Trump.
“They had mentioned there may be some differences with me and Donald Trump, and I think that those differences redound to my benefit in a place like Iowa,” he said.
“I mean, for example, you know, he’s taken the side of Disney in our fight down here in Florida. I’m standing for parents. I’m standing for children. And I think a multibillion-dollar company that sexualizes children is not consistent with the values of Florida or the values of a place like Iowa.”
DeSantis’s supporters also said that the governor’s signing of a six-week abortion ban in his home state last month could help him bolster his credentials in Iowa, where the state Supreme Court is considering whether a “fetal heartbeat” law approved by legislators in 2018 should be allowed to take effect.
In contrast, Trump came under fire from some Republicans after he suggested that new abortion restrictions had weighed down the GOP in the 2022 midterm elections and declined to say whether he would support a federal abortion ban if he wins back the White House next year.
Iowa is only the first stop in DeSantis’s debut campaign swing. He’ll travel to New Hampshire on Thursday and South Carolina on Friday before returning to Iowa over the weekend to attend Sen. Joni Ernst’s (R-Iowa) annual “Roast and Ride” fundraiser alongside a handful of other 2024 hopefuls, including former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
Trump hasn’t yet said whether he will attend the event in Des Moines, but he’s slated to travel to Iowa on Wednesday and Thursday, when he’ll participate in a Fox News town hall.
The former president was scheduled to hold a rally in Iowa earlier this month but scrapped the event amid concerns of severe weather. He’s only been to the state once since announcing his 2024 campaign in November, holding a rally in Davenport in March.
Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist, said DeSantis already appears to be out-organizing Trump in Iowa, pointing to Never Back Down’s early work in the state and the high premium that DeSantis’s team has placed on the caucuses.
And while the caucuses are still roughly eight months away, a strong showing in Iowa could be a game changer for DeSantis, who’s still trailing Trump in Iowa and elsewhere by double-digit margins, according to most recent polls.
“He has to change the narrative, and the best way he can change that narrative is by winning Iowa,” O’Connell said.
And there are signs that DeSantis is heading into Iowa with some momentum. Thirty-seven Iowa state legislators have already thrown their support behind his bid, and his campaign is riding high from a massive fundraising windfall; he raised more than $8 million in the first 24 hours after his 2024 announcement last week.
“Governor DeSantis has the strongest Iowa endorsement list in modern caucus history, and we look forward to building on that momentum this week by taking his message all across the state,” a senior DeSantis campaign official said.
Of course, the Iowa caucuses aren’t the be-all and end-all of the nominating contest. The winners of the last three Republican caucuses in which an incumbent wasn’t running went on to lose the GOP’s nomination. Trump notably finished second to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the 2016 Iowa caucuses.
But that doesn’t mean it’s not a valuable prize, O’Connell said.
“You capture a state and then they show your name for a week,” O’Connell said. “It can be like capturing lightning in a bottle.” | https://who13.com/hill-politics/desantis-bets-big-on-iowa-in-first-2024-campaign-swing/ | 2023-05-30 22:28:46 | 1 | https://who13.com/hill-politics/desantis-bets-big-on-iowa-in-first-2024-campaign-swing/ |
We kickoff our Road to the Draft coverage with a 1-on-1 with Blue-White Illustrated’s Thomas Frank Carr. He speaks with Nittany Nation reporter Ryan Risky on this latest podcast episode to talk about the Nittany Lions in this year’s draft class.
A year after Penn State saw a record eight players selected in the draft, another big year could be on the horizon with a group that includes Joey Porter Jr., who is likely to be the first Nittany Lion defensive back taken in the first round. | https://www.pahomepage.com/sports/nittany-nation/1-on-1-tfc-on-penn-states-draft-prospects/ | 2023-03-28 23:53:38 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/sports/nittany-nation/1-on-1-tfc-on-penn-states-draft-prospects/ |
Judge: Sen. Graham must testify in Georgia election probe
By KATE BRUMBACK
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge says U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before a special grand jury in Atlanta. The panel is investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies broke any laws while trying to overturn his 2020 general election loss in the state. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the investigation last year. A special grand jury with subpoena power was seated at Willis’ request. Prosecutors have indicated they want to ask Graham about phone calls they say he made to Georgia’s secretary of state and his staff following the election. Graham’s attorneys argued he had immunity from having to appear. Graham must appear Aug. 23 and had no immediate comment Monday. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/15/judge-sen-graham-must-testify-in-georgia-election-probe/ | 2022-08-15 15:16:53 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/15/judge-sen-graham-must-testify-in-georgia-election-probe/ |
The Belkin SoundForm Elite is a sleek, powerful home Bluetooth smart speaker with hi-fi sound and wireless charging, and right now you can pick one up for over half off the usual price. Today only, Best Buy has this high-tech speaker on sale for just $80, a discount of $120 and a new all-time low for the device. This is an incredible deal, and it's only available until 9:59 p.m. PT (12:59 a.m. ET) tonight.
The SoundForm Elite can fill a whole room with crisp, immersive sound. It's equipped with Devialet's Speaker Active Matching technology for hi-fi sound reproduction at any size. It's also a smart speaker with either Google Assistant or Alexa built in, depending on which model you go for. The Google-powered device can then pair effortlessly with other Assistant-enabled speakers for multiroom audio. Similarly, the Alexa-enabled variant offers AirPlay 2 support which can sync audio with other AirPlay 2 devices throughout your home.
You can also connect wirelessly through Bluetooth, and the integrated wireless charging dock boasts up to 10 watts of power. Overall, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better or more versatile Bluetooth speaker at this price. | https://www.cnet.com/deals/belkin-soundform-elite-hi-fi-bluetooth-smart-speaker-new-low/ | 2022-09-28 17:28:09 | 1 | https://www.cnet.com/deals/belkin-soundform-elite-hi-fi-bluetooth-smart-speaker-new-low/ |
Biden ramps up pressure on House GOP in debt limit battle
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fresh off a White House meeting with no serious breakthrough on the debt limit standoff, President Joe Biden is launching a new phase of his pressure campaign against House Republicans as he makes his case that lawmakers should lift the nation’s borrowing authority without any strings attached.
Biden will travel to Valhalla, New York, on Wednesday to argue that a measure passed by House GOP lawmakers that would lift the debt limit for about a year while curbing some federal spending would impose cuts for veterans care, educators and other domestic priorities. The area is represented by first-term Republican Rep. Mike Lawler, whose district Biden won in 2020.
The White House will use the trip to trumpet what it says is economic progress under the Democratic president — pointing to the number of jobs created during his term and a fresh focus on domestic manufacturing — while warning that an unprecedented debt default would threaten millions of jobs and raise the prospect of a recession.
Back in Washington, senior White House officials and congressional aides were starting to discuss a path to avert a catastrophic debt default as soon as June 1, in preparation for another meeting between Biden and top Capitol Hill leaders later this week. But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., showed few signs that he and House Republicans were willing to budge from their debt limit proposal, and Biden underscored again that their plan was a non-starter with him.
“He’s proposed deep cuts that I believe will hurt American families,” Biden told reporters after his meeting with McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Biden in his remarks also will invoke the specter of cuts to veterans’ care, an issue that has become particularly sensitive in the back-and-forth rhetoric between the White House and congressional Republicans. When the president suggested during the meeting that the House GOP plan could end up cutting benefits to veterans, McCarthy told reporters that he shot back that was a “lie.” But Biden disputed that it was a lie, saying that the across-the-board cuts would affect veterans’ care and other vital domestic programs.
The stalemate comes as the U.S. government is rapidly bumping up against its legal borrowing authority, meaning that it may not be able to pay its bills as early as the start of next month unless lawmakers agree to lift the limit.
Biden is also scheduled to spend a week abroad on a trip to Japan, Australia and Papua New Guinea later this month. He said postponing his travel is “possible but not likely.”
With debt talks showing minimal progress, the White House hopes that Biden’s public relations campaign — starting in a congressional district that will be key for Democrats seeking to wrest House control back from Republicans next year — increases pressure on GOP lawmakers who can’t afford politically to alienate moderate voters. Lawler, as one of 18 House Republicans hailing from a congressional district won by Biden, is a prime target for the White House.
Still, Lawler accepted the invitation from the White House, “maybe to their surprise,” the lawmaker said in an interview Tuesday. He said it was a “little disappointing” that Biden was spending his time traveling his district rather than negotiating with other leaders in Washington.
“Nobody wants to see us default. Nobody wants to see us not raise the debt limit. But they also don’t want to see us continue to spend money that we don’t have,” Lawler said. “When I’m out talking to folks in my community, my district, by and large they agree with my stance.”
Despite Lawler’s presence at the event, at Westchester Community College, Biden is “always going to be honest with the American people,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday.
“The president is going to drive home the impact of these current discussions that we’re having — the economy, how it affects real hardworking Americans. That’s what you’re going to hear from the president,” she said. “He’ll be very clear about that. He’ll be clear about what could potentially happen.”
House Republicans, in their debt measure that passed in April, are aiming for $4.5 trillion in deficit savings through cuts in spending, eliminating tax breaks for investing in clean energy, and undoing the Biden administration’s proposal that would forgive student loan debt. The White House has made it clear that Biden would veto that legislation.
Democrats, who control the Senate by 51-49, are calling for a “clean” debt limit hike without any conditions such as spending cuts, but any such measure would require the support of at least nine Republican senators, and most of them say they will oppose doing so.
While in New York on Wednesday, Biden, who formalized his reelection campaign on April 25, also will hold a pair of fundraisers.
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AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.
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"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin slammed the idea of American exceptionalism on Thursday while discussing the Pledge of Allegiance and said that it "doesn't apply" to a lot of citizens in this country and has not met "the dream."
"The problem I have is this narrative of American exceptionalism that we’ve been taught as kids. I said the Pledge of Allegiance all through my life in school. And then when I got into college, I took an African American history course. And I started realizing that the actual pledge doesn’t apply to a lot of our citizens. It hasn’t met the dream of being exceptional. This country hasn't met this dream of being this beacon on the hill," she said.
She added that until the U.S. meets the "promise" of what it can truly me, "we shouldn’t be touting us out as exceptionalists."
ABC'S THE VIEW GOES OFF THE RAILS AS SUNNY HOSTIN CALLS BLACK REPUBLICANS ‘AN OXYMORON’
Fellow co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin defended the U.S. and criticized the idea that other countries have it all together.
"The one thing I would say is loving your country is not saying your country is perfect. I love this big, beautiful flawed nation," she said, noting that the U.S. should always be striving for progress.
"I’m well aware of the flaws in this country and I think engaged citizens are the ones that are going to fix that. But there’s a little bit of this narrative of, ‘Europe’s got it all together, we’re a big mess.’ I will just point out, France bans the burka even though they have the largest Muslim population in Europe. As an Arab American, I'm sorry, that’s racist. China, the competing global superpower against the U.S., currently has Uighur Muslims in concentration camps as we speak. They edit Black people out of films in China. Racist right there. Iran is killing women and protesters for not wearing the hijab properly and by the way, some countries in Eastern Europe, criminalized homosexuality until very recently," Farah Griffin continued.
She added that every country on Earth grapples with issues that the U.S. grapples with every day and that the U.S. needs to do better.
"The thing we all have to remember is no place is perfect. Every place has racism. All the isms exist in every country on the face of the earth. The difference it seems is we’re supposed to be the ones that can call it out without a problem. Those things are narrowing," co-host Whoopi Goldberg said.
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Goldberg argued the "freedom to learn about different people" was narrowing.
"Don’t let them tell you what kind of school your kids should go to. Your kids should go to a school that helps them understand their place in their country, and how not to be. That’s our job," Goldberg continued.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Fulgent Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLGT) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
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Father of 6, kidney donor receives transplant
PULASKI, Wis. (WBAY/Gray News) - A Wisconsin man in need of a miracle kidney donation received a transplant Friday.
Joe Schmidt, a 38-year-old husband and father of six, learned about 18 months ago that his only kidney was failing.
He had donated a kidney to his sister in 2008. The siblings have a rare and genetic form of chronic kidney disease.
“When I donated to my sister I was 21, 22, and they did all the testing,” he said. “I was healthy. They didn’t know about this autoimmune one.”
The family took to social media with the “Save Our Daddy” campaign to share Schmidt’s story in hopes someone would volunteer to be his donor.
Schmidt’s wife posted on Facebook that they received a call from the Mayo Clinic on Thursday saying they had a young donor kidney for Joe.
“We quickly packed our six kids and dog, dropped off with friends and grandparents, and raced to Minnesota full of emotions,” Angela Schmidt wrote.
After a series of tests, the family was informed the kidney was a good fit for him and they were ready for surgery. It was a success.
Joe Schmidt thanked WBAY reporter Emily Matesic after the surgery for sharing his story.
“We got the call yesterday and got a cadaver kidney. Surgery went well and the kidney seems to be working!” he said via text. “I can’t thank you enough, this would not have happened if it wasn’t for all the prayers we received over the last few days!”
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A Catholic bishop who church leaders remembered as a "peacemaker" was found dead of a gunshot wound over the weekend.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said investigators responded to a shooting death at 12:57 p.m. on Saturday in the L.A. suburb of Hacienda Heights, where an adult male was pronounced dead.
Multiple media outlets reported that the victim was Los Angeles Archdiocese auxiliary bishop David O'Connell. He was 69.
Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said in a statement on Saturday that O'Connell had "passed away unexpectedly," but gave no additional details.
"It is a shock and I have no words to express my sadness," Gomez said.
"He was a peacemaker with a heart for the poor and the immigrant, and he had a passion for building a community where the sanctity and dignity of every human life was honored and protected," the archbishop added.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said the investigation was ongoing.
O'Connell was remembered as "truly a man of God"
O'Connell was born in County Cork, Ireland, and ordained in the Los Angeles Archdiocese in 1979, the diocesan news site Angelus News reported. Pope Francis named O'Connell an auxiliary bishop in 2015.
Over the years, O'Connell was a pastor at a number of parishes in Los Angeles and several nearby communities. He worked on efforts to curb violence in the city, and many of his congregants were minorities and immigrants.
"It's been the great joy of my life to be the pastor of these people, especially the ones who are suffering or in need or facing difficulty," O'Connell told Angelus News in 2015.
"And it's been a great privilege, a great blessing to be given these parishes all these years, to be pastor all these years. The people have touched my heart the way they are sincere," he added.
Gomez said O'Connell had served as a priest and later a bishop in Los Angeles for 45 years.
On Saturday, parishioners gathered at the scene of O'Connell's death and lit candles in memory of the religious leader, Los Angeles Daily News reporter Clara Harter tweeted.
Tributes to O'Connell also poured in on social media, where people expressed shock and sadness at the bishop's sudden death.
Norma Seni Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, called O'Connell "truly a man of God" in a tweet.
"Your sudden departure has left us extremely sad," Pimentel said. "[M]ay you rest in peace Bishop O'Connell."
Immigration attorney Linda Dakin-Grimm said O'Connell was "there for every child and family I have represented. Always. Helping, supporting and generally being the face of Jesus for me and many many others."
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ATLANTA, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cousins Properties (NYSE: CUZ) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.32 per common share for the second quarter of 2022. The second quarter dividend will be payable on July 15, 2022 to common shareholders of record on July 6, 2022.
Cousins Properties is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company, based in Atlanta, GA and acting through its operating partnership, Cousins Properties LP, primarily invests in Class A office buildings located in high growth Sun Belt markets. Founded in 1958, Cousins creates shareholder value through its extensive expertise in the development, acquisition, leasing, and management of high-quality real estate assets. The Company has a comprehensive strategy in place based on a simple platform, trophy assets, and opportunistic investments. For more information, please visit www.cousins.com.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Byron Allen's Allen Media Group (AMG) is proud to announce it has secured numerous major Madison Avenue advertising sponsors for the launch of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) sports for HBCU GO and theGrio Television Network's 2022-23 sports programming season. Brand sponsors include: Procter & Gamble, Honda, AT&T, Stellantis, Walmart, Toyota, Bank of America, Verizon, Lexus, Meta, Allstate, Boost Mobile, Lowes, Kia, SC Johnson, UnitedHealthcare, Safelite, Macy's, Taco Bell, T.J. Maxx, Dairy Queen, Capital One, Geico, Pizza Hut, Mastercard, Target and many more.
HBCU GO is the leading media provider for the nation's 107 HBCUs, and recently announced nationwide clearance for their 2022-23 sports season as part of a new carriage deal with CBS owned-and-operated broadcast television stations in key broadcast television markets including New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Tampa, Detroit, Miami, and Pittsburgh. AMG's FREE-streaming digital platform HBCU GO brings together major HBCU NCAA conferences, with major market carriage across broadcast television, cable, satellite, and digital platforms. HBCU GO's 2022-23 season began this past Saturday, September 3 with "The HBCU GO Sports Kickoff Show." The three-hour pre-season special aired LIVE on the AMG platforms HBCU GO, theGrio Television Network, theGrio Streaming App, Sports.TV, Local Now, and on broadcast television stations throughout the U.S.
HBCUs are widely known for graduating exceptional athletes, celebrities, politicians, and historical figures including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Wilma Rudolph, Althea Gibson, Walter Payton, Michael Strahan, Jerry Rice, Spike Lee, Alice Walker, Samuel L. Jackson, astronaut Ronald McNair, Alex Haley, Earl Graves, Oprah Winfrey, Chadwick Boseman, Justice Thurgood Marshall, Common, Booker T. Washington, Taraji P. Henson, Judge Kevin Ross, Langston Hughes, Katherine Johnson, Kenya Barris, and Vice President Kamala Harris, to name a few.
"The HBCU brand represents over 184 years of historic excellence, dating back to 1837, which helped cultivate some of the world's greatest minds and talent," said Byron Allen, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group. "HBCU GO and theGrio position our advertisers to speak to the heart and soul of Black America 24/7, and help our sponsors stay strongly connected with one of the most valuable, untapped audiences in the world."
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HBCU GO is a cultural lifestyle destination and leading sports media provider that embraces and represents the voice of Black Excellence every day of the year through an all-new platform that captures the rich history, diversity, perspectives, and cultural experiences at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). HBCU GO also provides a platform for emerging creatives in media production, branding, and broadcasting. We offer our viewers the best in live sports, original series, documentaries, films, comedy, and edutainment programming produced by African-American leading producers, directors, and students from select HBCUs.
Launched in 2012, the free-streaming service HBCU GO was purchased by Byron Allen in 2021 and is part of Byron Allen's Allen Media Group (AMG). AMG is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Charleston, SC. AMG owns 27 ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX network affiliate broadcast television stations in 21 U.S. markets and twelve 24-hour HD television networks serving nearly 220 million subscribers: THE WEATHER CHANNEL, THE WEATHER CHANNEL EN ESPAÑOL, PETS.TV, COMEDY.TV, RECIPE.TV, CARS.TV, ES.TV, MYDESTINATION.TV, JUSTICECENTRAL.TV, THEGRIO, THIS TV, and PATTRN. AMG also owns the streaming platforms HBCU GO, THE GRIO STREAMING APP, SPORTS.TV, THE WEATHER CHANNEL STREAMING APP, and LOCAL NOW -- the free-streaming AVOD service powered by THE WEATHER CHANNEL and content partners, which delivers real-time, hyper-local news, weather, traffic, sports, and lifestyle information. For more information, visit www.entertainmentstudios.com and www.hbcugo.tv
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KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A big upset in Kings County as Sarah Hacker ousts Incumbent District Attorney Keith Fagundes.
After two terms, Kings County District Attorney Keith Fagundes lost his seat to attorney Sarah Hacker by at least 15% of the vote, her campaign focusing on ethical issues and representation.
"That each and every citizen of Kings County know that I am going to represent them," said Hacker, District Attorney Elect for Kings County.
Incumbent Fagundes went into the election facing some serious allegations. Last year, a Kings County employee accused him of sexual harassment.
He responded to them back in July of 2021.
"They're largely false. There may be some grain of reality in his mind, but they're largely misconstrued as well," explained Keith Fagundes, District Attorney of Kings County.
Hacker says her focus, for now, is serving her district and following through on her platform, "Justice for All".
"I want to make sure that people aren't receiving preferential treatment because they have a lot of money or they're connected to a certain person. I want to make sure everyone is treated fairly and equally," added Hacker.
Action News reached out to District Attorney Fagundes, but he was not available for comment, he is expected to appear in court in San Bernardino County sometime in September for the alleged allegations.
Sarah Hacker ousts Keith Fagundes for Kings County District Attorney
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Four states hold primaries Tuesday: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Texas, where there are runoff races following an election on March 1.
There are runoffs for both Democrats and Republicans in Texas' 28th Congressional District. For Democrats, there's a highly contested race between incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar and progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros. And for Republicans, Cassy Garcia, a former staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz, is up against Sandra Whitten, who has previously run against Cuellar in the general election.
There's also a primary runoff race for lieutenant governor that pits incumbent Ken Paxton against George P. Bush, nephew of former President Bush and the state's Land Commissioner.
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Missouri governor signs bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, some adults
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Transgender minors and some adults in Missouri will soon be banned from accessing puberty blockers, hormones and gender-affirming surgeries under a bill signed Wednesday by the state’s Republican governor.
Beginning Aug. 28, Missouri health care providers won’t be able to prescribe those gender-affirming treatments for teens and children. Most adults will still have access to transgender health care under the law, but Medicaid won’t cover it.
Gender-affirming surgeries for inmates and prisoners will be outlawed.
The law is set to expire in 2027 as part of a Republican compromise with Senate Democrats.
Gov. Mike Parson also on Wednesday signed legislation that would ban transgender girls and women from playing on female sports teams from kindergarten through college. Both public and private schools face losing all state funding for violating the law.
Parson called on the Republican-led Legislature to pass the bills in the final weeks of its session and threatened to keep them working past their May 12 end date if they don’t.
Republican leaders of the House and Senate pledged months ago to pass the bills, but the chambers disagreed on how restrictive the bans should be.
The House ultimately took up the Senate’s toned-down version of the health care bill, which includes an exception that allows transgender minors to continue receiving gender-affirming health care if they have already started treatment.
Missouri’s bans come amid a national push by conservatives to put restrictions on transgender and nonbinary people, which alongside abortion has become a major theme of state legislative sessions this year.
A legal challenge to the laws is possible. When the Legislature first passed the bills, the ACLU of Missouri said it “will continue to explore all options to fight these bans and to expand the rights of trans Missourians.”
The state’s Planned Parenthood clinics have been ramping up available appointments and holding pop-up clinics to start patients on treatments ahead of the law taking effect.
“We will continue to do everything in our power to ensure all patients are supported, seen, and cared for,” said Yamelsie Rodríguez, president and CEO, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, in a statement. “Any patient wanting to continue their gender-affirming care in a state that welcomes people of all identities: our Fairview Heights, Illinois, health center is open to you and we are here to help you make plans to get care.”
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican now campaigning for reelection, launched an investigation in February into St. Louis’ Washington University Transgender Center. A former staffer had complained that doctors were prescribing hormones too quickly and without enough mental health wraparound services. An internal Washington University review found no malpractice.
Bailey has since expanded his investigation to any clinic offering pediatric gender-affirming care in Missouri, and demanded records from a St. Louis Planned Parenthood where doctors provide such health care.
In April, Bailey took the novel step of imposing restrictions on adults as well as children under Missouri’s consumer-protection law. A judge temporarily blocked the limits from taking effect as she considers a legal challenge.
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76ers vs. Nets: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - NBA Playoffs Game 3
The Philadelphia 76ers and Brooklyn Nets are doing battle in the opening round of the NBA Playoffs, with Game 3 on tap.
See odds, spreads, over/unders and more from multiple sportsbooks in this article for the 76ers vs. Nets matchup.
76ers vs. Nets Game Info
- Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT, YES2, and NBCS-PH
- Location: Brooklyn, New York
- Venue: Barclays Center
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76ers vs. Nets Odds, Spread, Over/Under
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76ers vs. Nets Betting Trends
- The 76ers are outscoring opponents by 4.3 points per game with a +354 scoring differential overall. They put up 115.2 points per game (14th in the NBA) and allow 110.9 per outing (third in the league).
- The Nets put up 113.4 points per game (19th in league) while allowing 112.5 per outing (eighth in NBA). They have a +70 scoring differential.
- These two teams score 228.6 points per game combined, 19.1 more than this game's total.
- Combined, these teams allow 223.4 points per game, 13.9 more points than this matchup's total.
- Philadelphia is 48-34-0 ATS this season.
- Brooklyn is 42-39-1 ATS this year.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer confidence dipped for the second straight month as stubborn inflation and anxiety over a potentially slowing economy weighed on Americans.
The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence index slipped to 102.9 in February, from a reading of 106 in January.
The business research group’s present situation index — which measures consumers’ assessment of current business and labor market conditions — ticked up to 152.8 from 151.1 last month.
The board’s expectations index — a measure of consumers’ six-month outlook for income, business and labor conditions — tumbled to 69.7 in February from 76 in January. A reading under 80 often signals a recession in the coming year, the Conference Board said.
Consumers have been a pillar in the U.S. economy, not ready to slow spending even as the Federal Reserve tightens its monetary policy and signals more rate hikes ahead in its effort to cool the economy and bring down persistent, four-decade high inflation. Those rate increases can raise the cost of using credit cards or taking out a loan for a house, car or other purchases.
Earlier in February, the government reported that retail sales jumped 3% in January following a two-month slide. Americans boosted their spending at stores and restaurants at the fastest pace in nearly two years.
But that confidence could be waning.
The board says consumers appear to be showing early signs of pulling back their spending, particularly on big-ticket items like cars, major appliances and homes. Plans to take vacations were also dialed back in February.
Eearnings reports from major retailers this month have echoed consumer anxiety. While Target, Home Depot and others largely met Wall Street's quarterly sales and profit expectations, they have cut their forecasts for 2023 with inflation lingering longer than expected.
“The strong jobs market continues to boost consumers’ spirits, but they see trouble ahead in categories that affect them most: jobs and incomes,” said Robert Frick, an economist with Navy Federal Credit Union. “Confidence is now strongly linked to high inflation, and if inflation falls this year as most forecasts suspect, we could see a commensurate rise in confidence.”
The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge rose last month at its fastest pace since June, an alarming sign that price pressures remain entrenched in the U.S. economy and could lead the Fed to keep raising interest rates well into this year.
Respondents to the Conference Board’s survey continue to express optimism about the stability of their incomes and the broader U.S. job market, which has held up well even as the Fed has ratcheted up its benchmark borrowing rate eight times in the past year.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.4% in January as businesses added a whopping 517,000 jobs in the first month of 2022. There are still nearly two jobs for every unemployed American and despite high-profile layoffs in the tech sector, applications for weekly jobless benefits remain low.
One thing Americans are not in a hurry to do is jump into the housing market. With an average long-term U.S. mortgage rate of 6.5%, many potential homebuyers have been pushed to the sidelines because those higher rates mean hundreds of dollars a month in extra costs.
The National Association of Realtors reported last week that home sales in January fell for the 12th consecutive month to the slowest pace in more than a dozen years. January's sales cratered by nearly 37% from a year earlier.
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Q: Is it legal to spread cremated ashes? If so, where?
A: “You can scatter on private property if you have the permission of the property owner. Public land requires the permission of the controlling agency. In no way is it permissible to scatter in a cemetery,” said Mike Parke with Parke’s Magic Valley Funeral Home.
“The cemetery is private property, and the cemetery uses placement of remains as a source of revenue,” he said. “In addition, not many people know the layout of which side of the stone the person is actually on. So they may scatter on some other person’s grave.”
However, according to the Cremation Society of Idaho, depending upon the cemetery’s policy, you may be able to save a grave space by having the cremains buried on top of the casketed remains of your spouse, or utilize the space provided next to him/her. Many cemeteries allow for multiple cremated remains to be interred in a single grave space.
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“Persons may spread human ashes on lands owned by the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation,” Idaho Code says. “The exact location must be pre-approved by the park or program manager. Persons may not spread ashes in the water within a state park. The department does not assign or convey any rights or restrictions by allowing the placement of ashes on the land, and there are no restrictions in the ability of the landowner to operate, develop, or otherwise use the land at their sole discretion without any obligation associated with the placement of ashes on the land.”
“Remember these are processed bone fragments,” Parke said. “Not ash from a fireplace. They will be very heavy and be sure to stand with your back toward the wind. I do offer a scattering service from my plane within a 60-mile radius of Twin Falls for plane expenses of $225. Up to three family members can go in the plane and others can watch and video from the ground. It’s really a neat process.”
, “With cremation, your options are numerous,” the Cremation Society of Idaho said. “The cremains can be interred in a cemetery plot, i.e., earth burial, retained by a family member, usually in an urn, scattered on private property, or at a place that was significant to the deceased. (It would always be advisable to check for local regulations regarding scattering in a public place-your funeral director can help you with this.)”
The State Registrar of Idaho has authority over regulations concerning the disposition of dead human bodies per Idaho Statute §54-1119 to preserve and protect the public health.
According to a memorandum posted on the Bureau of Land Management website, guidelines for individual scattering of cremated remains may include items such as:
- Scattering cremated ashes is a small, private activity, held away from high visitor-use areas. No publicity may be given to this activity.
- Cremains must have been processed by pulverization after cremation.
- Please scatter at least 100 yards from any trail, road, developed facility, or body of water.
- Spread the ashes over an area in a manner that makes them indistinguishable to the public.
- No markers or memorials may be left on site.
- Use of aircraft must be in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations, and not over a developed area, facility or body of water.
- Cremation must be accomplished in accordance with applicable state laws and all BLM regulations.
There are additional examples of guidelines related to individual scattering of cremated remains on many National Park Service websites.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Authorities in Wisconsin have arrested a man in connection with the theft last January of a funeral home van containing a body, saying he faces charges of abuse of a corpse and unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle.
The van belonging to Collins & Stone Funeral Home in Rockport, Illinois, was stolen from that location on Jan. 21, and found behind a vacant Chicago home on Jan. 23 with the body inside, officials have said.
The 23-year-old man was arrested Sunday in Green Bay. He had been charged in late January but had been at large. WLS-TV quotes Rockford police as saying police in Wisconsin took the man into custody after a traffic stop.
The body of a 47-year-old man that had been in the van was recovered Jan. 23 behind a vacant home on Chicago’s South Side, Rockford police have said. The body was returned to Rockford by a coroner's office. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/police-arrest-made-in-theft-of-funeral-van-17850309.php | 2023-03-20 21:43:59 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/police-arrest-made-in-theft-of-funeral-van-17850309.php |
LANCASTER, Pa. — This week's furry friend is Biscuit, a mixed breed dog who’s about 3 or 4-years-old.
She was found abandoned in Lancaster City and was pretty skinny when first rescued. Staff at the PSPCA Lancaster Center affectionately named her Biscuit as they brought her back to a good size.
“We gave her lots of treats and lots of love to plump her up and get her ready for adoption," Paige Mitcheltree, an animal care specialist at the shelter, said.
Biscuit loves treats and is learning all of the tricks to get them. She can sit, shake, and is learning to lie down. Mitcheltree says this makes Biscuit the perfect candidate for a new family looking to adopt.
“I think she would be a great dog for a first-time dog family because she is so easygoing," she said. "She already knows a good amount of tricks, I think she would do really well and fit right in and adjust to a new home environment."
Biscuit also does well with meeting new people and would do great in a home with kids, given how gentle she is.
“I think that she’s super duper outgoing in terms of people," Mitcheltree told FOX43. "She’s very friendly. I think that she’s going to be a dog who likes to play a lot, but she’s also going to be a dog who’s super happy just chilling out on the couch for the day.”
While Biscuit would do great in a home with kids, she would prefer to be the only dog at home.
Shelter staff hopes to find Biscuit a family who's willing to give her all the love and affection she deserves.
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State Supreme Court races are often sleepy affairs, but not this year, not in the current political climate and especially not in the key swing state of Wisconsin. This Tuesday, a race for one seat on the Wisconsin state Supreme Court has broken national spending records, and that's because the winner could be the key swing vote on cases deciding everything from abortion rights to redistricting to potentially the result of the 2024 presidential race. This big little election has amassed so much attention and money that we wanted to hear from Shawn Johnson all about it. He is Wisconsin Public Radio's political reporter. Hey, Shawn.
SHAWN JOHNSON, BYLINE: Hey, Scott.
DETROW: So big picture - let's start with the candidates and the key issues.
JOHNSON: So the candidates are Janet Protasiewicz and Dan Kelly. And this is a nonpartisan race, but it's about as partisan as they come. Protasiewicz is a Milwaukee County judge. Her biggest donor is the state Democratic Party. Kelly, a former state Supreme Court justice who was appointed by former Governor Scott Walker, has worked as a private attorney for the national and state Republican parties in just last year. This is a big-deal race for us because it will decide the court's majority at a time when very big issues are on the way. If Kelly wins, it preserves the court's conservative majority for another few years, likely. If Protasiewicz wins, liberals would gain a majority on the court for the first time in 15 years.
DETROW: And we don't, obviously, know exactly what would come before the court with this new justice determining the makeup, but what are some of the key issues that we expect will probably make their way there, one way or another?
JOHNSON: Yeah. We're almost certain that there will be a case involving abortion coming before the court. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer, Wisconsin's abortion ban, which was first written in 1849, went back into effect. There's a lawsuit challenging that ban on its way to the court. Whoever wins this race is almost certainly to be on the court when the justices decide it. And so you can kind of look at this race as deciding whether abortion will be legal in Wisconsin or not. There's also a chance that redistricting could come before the court. You know, Wisconsin is a 50-50 state. But under the legislative and congressional maps Republicans drew, they have held big majorities in Wisconsin for, you know, more than a decade now. If Protasiewicz wins, this court could order the maps redrawn.
DETROW: And a reminder that with the House of Representatives here in Washington so narrow, a couple new lines in a couple of districts could possibly determine control of the House. So it makes sense that a lot of money is being spent on this race, given these issues. Give us a sense of how much money we're talking about and the scope of this spending.
JOHNSON: It has totally smashed the old national record for a state Supreme Court race, which, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, was 15 million, set in 2004 in an Illinois Supreme Court race. Brennan's numbers now have Wisconsin's advertising spending at $29 million. Tally of all spending by Wisconsin politics site called WisPolitics has it at 45 million. So you're looking at double or triple the old record, and we're not done yet.
Protasiewicz has received much of her donations from a large network of Democratic donors, including some big Democratic donors. Kelly's fundraising has been small by comparison, but he's received big money from outside groups. That said, there has been a late surge of Republican money. There could be a couple reasons for that. It could be that internal polling shows that this race is close, and we've seen that happen in a recent Wisconsin Supreme Court race. It could also be that Republicans want to leave it all on the field for Kelly and not wonder what if in this election of all elections.
DETROW: So voters are being inundated with advertising. And the key issues here are issues that are really personal and people have strong opinions on. That makes me wonder what you're hearing from voters about all of this.
JOHNSON: I think, broadly speaking, Democrats are hopeful of what they could gain if Protasiewicz wins. She's been very open about her personal beliefs on issues that could come before the court. On abortion, she says she believes in a woman's right to choose. She calls the Republican-drawn legislative maps rigged. It's really frank talk from a candidate for the court, but her supporters say they like that. Cailin O'Connor (ph) of Madison spent a recent Saturday canvassing for Protasiewicz. She says she's glad that she's been open about her values.
CAILIN O'CONNOR: I mean, I know they're nonpartisan seats. But in this current climate, it's kind of impossible to be truly nonpartisan. And we certainly know where Daniel Kelly stands, which is against any kind of positive progress. So I'm glad that I know that Janet is on our side because it would be really hard to make a choice without knowing that.
JOHNSON: And Kelly has a long history of working with Republicans. There are a number of Republican issues that his voters say could be up for grabs if he were to lose. But he's declined to talk about these issues, saying it's not appropriate for somebody running for the court. Longtime Republican activist Sue Lynch, who supports Kelly, says she's OK with that. She doesn't think it's appropriate for a justice to share their personal values on issues like abortion when they're running for the court.
SUE LYNCH: No. No. I think Dan is - his campaign is based on the fact that he understands the Constitution and the office that he's running for and the boundaries in which he will act as a justice.
DETROW: So the 2020 presidential race was decided by the slimmest margin in Wisconsin. We know that there were all sorts of legal challenges to the result. You have to imagine 2024 will be close as well. Could this race Tuesday have any effect on next year's presidential race?
JOHNSON: You are definitely hearing people from both parties framing it that way. Ben Wikler, the chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, has been saying that the stakes are high because of that race. He was at a recording of a "Pod Save America" event in Madison, which was there to turn out the vote for Protasiewicz. And he asked Democratic voters to imagine it's election night 2024. The eyes of the nation are on swing state Wisconsin. Republicans file a lawsuit claiming some voting irregularities, and the court's conservative majority stops the count.
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BEN WIKLER: And record scratch - freeze frame. You think to yourself, in 2023, I had a chance to stop this guy from getting on the Supreme Court and casting that deciding vote.
DETROW: I think that says a lot right there, the fact that this high-profile national liberal podcast is holding an event focused entirely on the state Supreme Court race. But the scenario that Wikler is laying out - that isn't totally hypothetical.
JOHNSON: No. I mean, in 2020, you mentioned it. There was an extremely close decision on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump seeking to overturn President Joe Biden's narrow victory in Wisconsin. So we know that lawsuits will be coming in 2024. And while we don't know what they'll be, we know that this court would hear them.
DETROW: Yeah. That's Shawn Johnson, political reporter at Wisconsin Public Radio. Shawn, thanks for doing this, and good luck between now and Election Day.
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• Jeremy Renner suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries in a snow plow accident in Reno, Nev., on Sunday, a representative for the actor said Monday, and remains in critical but stable condition after undergoing surgery. A publicist for Renner said in a statement that the 51-year-old "Avengers" star is in an intensive care unit following surgery on Monday. "Jeremy's family would like to express their gratitude to the incredible doctors and nurses looking after him, Truckee Meadows Fire and Rescue, Washoe County Sheriff, Reno City Mayor Hillary Schieve" and others, read the statement. Renner was injured in an area near Mt. Rose Highway, a road linking Lake Tahoe, which straddles the Nevada-California border, and south Reno. Renner owns a home in Washoe County, which includes Reno. Renner was the only person involved in Sunday's accident, and the sheriff's office said in a news release that it is investigating. Renner plays Hawkeye, a sharp-shooting member of the superhero Avengers squad in Marvel's sprawling movie and television universe.
• Prince Harry has said he wants to have his father and brother back and that he wants "a family, not an institution," during a TV interview ahead of the publication of his memoir. The interview with Britain's ITV channel is due to be released Sunday. In clips released Monday, Harry, the Duke of Sussex, said "they feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains" and "they have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile" -- though it was not clear who he was referring to. Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have aired their grievances against the British monarchy since the couple stepped down as senior royals in 2020 and moved to California, where they now live with their two children. Harry, 38, previously spoken about his estrangement from his father, King Charles III, and elder brother Prince William since his departure from the United Kingdom. Last month, Netflix released "Harry & Meghan," a six-part series that detailed the couple's experiences leading to their decision to make a new start in the U.S. In that documentary, Harry spoke about how the royal press team worked, and how his relationship with William and the rest of the royal household broke down. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/03/names-and-faces/ | 2023-01-03 12:45:48 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/03/names-and-faces/ |
CHICAGO (AP) — The gun-maker Smith & Wesson illegally targeted young men at risk of violence with ads for firearms — including the 22-year-old gunman accused of opening fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago and killing seven people, according to several lawsuits filed Wednesday in Illinois.
The lawsuits filed by people wounded while attending the Highland Park parade and the estates of several victims are the latest bid by victims of mass shootings to hold gun manufacturers accountable, despite broad protections for the industry in federal law.
Liz Turnipseed is among those filing lawsuits in Lake County on Wednesday against the gun manufacturer, the accused shooter and his father, along with two gun sellers.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Turnipseed said she had recently arrived at the parade with her husband and 3-year-old daughter, pointing out to the girl instruments in the high school band. She fell to the ground after being shot in the pelvis and remembers seeing her daughter’s stroller on its side and asking her husband to get their daughter to safety.
Turnipseed said she required weeks of intense wound care, expects to need a cane for some time and is in therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. She also was forced to delay an embryo transfer scheduled for July 12; her doctors now fear it’s dangerous for her to become pregnant.
Despite her physical and emotional burdens, the Highland Park resident said she became determined to speak for those who did not survive mass shootings in the U.S., particularly the 19 children and two teachers killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in late May.
“I had a unique opportunity to help put a real face on what these guns do to people and … give it a first-person perspective,” Turnipseed said. “Because there aren’t that many of us that survive. Because they’re that deadly.”
The Chicago Sun-Times first reported on other victims and families of those killed who filed similar lawsuits Wednesday.
Prosecutors have said Robert E. Crimo III admitted to the parade killings once police arrested him hours after the attack.
Turnipseed’s lawsuit largely focused on the company that produced the M&P 15 semiautomatic rifle that authorities identified as Crimo’s weapon.
Smith & Wesson officials should have known that its advertising campaigns would appeal to a dangerous group of customers — “namely impulsive young men with hero complexes and/or militaristic delusions attracted to using the particularly high lethality of AR-15 style weapons … to effectively execute their fantasies,” her attorneys argue.
Representatives for Smith & Wesson, based in Springfield, Massachusetts, did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment Wednesday.
In the suit, Turnipseed alleges that Smith & Wesson ads mimic the shooter’s-eye view popularized by video games, use imagery of apparent military or law enforcement personnel and emphasize the M&P 15’s combat features.
Advertising text bills the rifle as “capable of handling as many rounds as you are” and providing “pure adrenaline.” One ad shows the M&P 15 on a dark background above the phrase “kick brass” in a bold red font and capital letters.
“The advertisements and marketing tactics described above demonstrate that Smith & Wesson knowingly marketed, advertised, and promoted the Rifle to civilians for illegal purposes, including to carry out offensive, military style combat missions against their perceived enemies,” her attorneys argue.
The strategy mirrors the approach used by relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school killings, who in February reached a $73 million settlement with the firearm company that produced the rifle used in that attack. That was believed to be the largest payment by a gun-maker related to a mass killing.
The Sandy Hook families accused Remington of violating Connecticut consumer protection law by marketing its AR-15-style weapons to young men already at risk of committing violence, successfully circumventing federal law that has given gun-makers broad protection from past lawsuits.
Ari Scharg, one of the attorneys representing Turnipseed, said lawyers for the Highland Park victims are determined to go further by getting their cases before a jury. He has a unique motivator; the attorney wound up hiding in a stranger’s basement with his 7-year-old daughter once shots rang out at the July Fourth parade.
“There’s certainly a long path, and it’s an uphill battle,” Scharg said. “But I think this is the most important case in the country being litigated right now … and we’re going to see it through to the end.”
Attorneys with Brady, the national anti-gun-violence group, are part of the team representing Turnipseed, two years after the organization called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Smith & Wesson’s marketing of assault rifles in reaction to the killings of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla.
Erin Davis, senior counsel of trial and appellate litigation with Brady, said every suit brought by victims of gun violence is an opportunity to “send a message to the industry.”
Turnipseed is also suing the accused gunman for assault and battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress and his father, Robert Crimo Jr., for negligence, particularly for sponsoring his son’s application for a state firearms license in 2019 within months of the 19-year-old attempting to kill himself and threatening family members.
Crimo III faces 21 counts of first-degree murder, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery, representing those killed and wounded during the parade in Highland Park.
Lake County prosecutors have not filed any criminal charges against his father and have repeatedly declined to discuss the possibility that Crimo Jr. could be charged in the future.
Crimo III is represented by the Lake County public defender’s office, which does not comment on ongoing cases. An attorney for Crimo Jr. did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/smith-wesson-sued-over-link-to-july-4-parade-mass-shooting/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-09-28 18:05:35 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/smith-wesson-sued-over-link-to-july-4-parade-mass-shooting/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Mortgage Demand and Home Prices Prove Resilient; Sales Expected to Decline Further
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Due primarily to an upward revision in recent consumer spending data, Fannie Mae's (OTCQB: FNMA) Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group now forecasts stronger first quarter GDP growth but maintains its belief that economic momentum is running out of steam, according to the ESR Group's latest monthly commentary. While the acute panic following the bank failures in March appears to have subsided, importantly, the banking turmoil occurred during an already-tightening credit cycle, and the ESR Group believes the additional, incremental tightening in credit conditions owing to the financial fallout will contribute to a modest recession beginning in the second half of 2023. As noted in last month's commentary, the tightening of financial conditions derived from the bank failures in many ways had the same effect that additional fed fund rate hikes would have had. As such, the ESR Group now expects only a single additional 25-basis point hike from the Federal Reserve in May, followed by the re-introduction of monetary easing closer to year-end.
While housing demand and home prices have proved more resilient than previously anticipated, the ESR Group expects sales activity to remain subdued because of the persistently low inventory of homes for sale – particularly among existing homes. According to the ESR Group, this is due in large part to the "lock-in effect," in which existing homeowners are disincentivized from listing their homes and potentially giving up their lower mortgage rate. Still, strong demand for housing remains supportive of home prices; although the ESR Group notes significant regional variation in actual and expected home price movements.
"The economic slowdown has resumed – whether the end result is a modest recession or simply a soft landing remains unanswered – although we continue to expect the former, as we have since April of last year, when we first made our 2023 recession call," said Doug Duncan, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Fannie Mae. "The greater-than-expected resilience of the housing sector to the affordability pressures of higher home prices and mortgages rates is central to our expectation that the recession will be modest. In our view, while it would be premature to expect no further difficulties in the banking sector other than credit tightening, we're maintaining our baseline expectation of a modest recession, as we see signs of a weakening employment market, slowing retail sales, and declining manufacturing activity. However, the rapid response of hopeful homeowners to periodic declines in mortgage rates, even from the currently higher rates, gives us additional confidence in our use of the word 'modest.'"
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Tyler Van Dyke has studied every play from his 2021 season at Miami. There are some plays he’s evaluated much more than the others.
And they’re not the highlight-reel entries, either.
Van Dyke’s right arm is carrying a significant amount of No. 16 Miami’s hopes entering this season, for good reason. Over the final six games of the Hurricanes’ schedule a year ago, his numbers were among the very best in the country. He started the year as a backup; he ended it as a full-fledged NFL draft hopeful.
But in the film room, it’s the mistakes that motivate him.
“When I watch the film of games last year, when I really look back, I always look at the negative things,” Van Dyke said. “If I had two bad plays or a few bad plays, I’d be like, ‘Was that really a good game with those bad plays I had?’ ”
To be fair, the answer to that question would be “yes,” particularly in his final six games and after finding his footing as the starter.
The Connecticut native completed 66% of his passes in that six-game span, with 20 touchdowns, just three interceptions and threw for 2,194 yards. The only other FBS quarterback during those weeks to have that many yards, that sort of accuracy, that many touchdowns and that few interceptions was Mississippi State’s Will Rogers — who had a 77% completion rate, 21 touchdowns, three interceptions and 2,287 yards.
If Miami had gone to a bowl game — the Hurricanes’ trip to the Sun Bowl was derailed by virus-related issues — Van Dyke almost certainly would have finished with 3,000 yards. He ended up 69 yards short. Still, not bad for someone who played only nine games a year ago and got the starting job only after D’Eriq King was lost early in the season with a shoulder injury.
“After all the work we’ve done, I can’t wait to get back out there,” said Van Dyke, who will lead the Hurricanes into their season debut at home Saturday against Bethune-Cookman.
Inheriting a quarterback like Van Dyke is something first-year Miami coach Mario Cristobal calls “a tremendous blessing.”
“You have a natural leader that’s one of your hardest workers, competing to be recognized as the hardest worker, that demands as much of himself as he does of anybody else,” Cristobal said. “That type of mentality and that work ethic, he has also displayed in the classroom and the way he approaches community service and everything he does.”
It’s probably hard for Van Dyke to totally ignore the highlights when he looks at those films.
There were plenty of them.
He ended last season on an absolute tear — with at least 300 yards passing and three touchdowns in each of his final six games. No quarterback at the major college level had six such games over that span; Western Kentucky’s Bailey Zappe had five, and three others had four apiece.
According to FanDuel Sportsbook, there are just six players with better odds of winning the Heisman Trophy this season than Van Dyke.
“Last year, when he was the starting quarterback, he was more of the offensive leader,” Miami receiver Xavier Restrepo said. “But this year, I feel like everybody listens to him. He controls the whole entire team.”
That said, Van Dyke gets legitimate competition every day in the Miami quarterback room.
Jake Garcia, who wanted to play through a broken ankle last year, excelled in his lone appearance a year ago — throwing two touchdown passes against Central Connecticut, the game in which he got hurt. Freshman Jacurri Brown is a highly regarded newcomer who had offers from Auburn, Florida, Mississippi and others.
“I mean, all those guys are just insane,” Restrepo said. “You know, their arm talent is ridiculous. And sitting behind TVD and just listening to TVD, they’re also gaining knowledge about football, so I think that’s very important for them.”
Van Dyke is already mentioned as a potential first-round pick if he chooses to enter the 2023 NFL draft. He’s been in high demand as an endorser, thanks to the NCAA’s policy that now allows student-athletes to benefit from their name, image and likeness.
It's all nice. He enjoys the attention. But he insists that his focus is on the field.
“I’ve played this game my entire life and obviously it’s pretty cool to see all that stuff,” Van Dyke said. “But at the end of the day, all that stuff is projections. I only played like three-fourths of a season last year. I just can’t wait to play a full season this year.”
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RICHWOOD, La. (KTVE/KARD) – The town meeting got heated when citizens requested the Board of Alderman for approval for the 2022-2023 fiscal year budget.
“We need to eat, we need to pay my bills. I’m sorry you all have issues, but you can figure it out later,” said a citizen, Chillon Johnson.
“When are you going to stop treating your citizens like you care about them and stop being petty? When is it going to stop? Said another local.
Wilbert Reed is one of the three members of the board of aldermen who voted against the new budget.
“There have been some questions about finances.”
Meanwhile Janice Flaming, who is in favor of the budget, says the community will be affected if the budget is not adopted.
“We need to make sure that the state does not take over the town and stop our employees from getting a salary. Citizens put you here to do this.”
In the time being, mayor Brown says the city won’t be able to get paid until the budget is approved.
“Tomorrow is payday for our employees. They won’t be paid. Our employees for the most part, have volunteered to come and work anyway and figure out the pay day situation when that comes. We are talking about items on the financial report that we approved, and now we are bringing them up 4, 5, 6 months later to say that we have a problem with those items.”
Brown says an emergency meeting will be held sometime next week in hopes to come to an agreement with the three members of the board who voted against the budget. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/richwood-at-risk-of-a-shut-down-if-budget-doesnt-get-adopted/ | 2023-01-20 06:21:46 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/richwood-at-risk-of-a-shut-down-if-budget-doesnt-get-adopted/ |
Verkada recognized for enabling schools, hospitals and businesses to better protect their people
SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leader in cloud-managed enterprise building security and management, Verkada, has been named to the Inc. 2022 Best in Business list which recognizes companies that have made an extraordinary impact in their fields and on society.
Verkada's six product lines – video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, and visitor and mailroom management – helps enterprises to protect and manage their people and property through its easy-to-use cloud-based platform. Its more than 14,000 customers include schools, hospitals and businesses.
"We are proud to be included on Inc.'s Best in Business list this year," said Brandon Davito, Vice President of Product and Operations. "The technology that our team is building has a very real and tangible impact: we give our customers unparalleled visibility into their physical operations and the ability to take immediate action, ultimately helping to make our communities safer."
"Inc. magazine is dedicated to showcasing America's most dynamic businesses and the great things they do," said Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "The Best in Business awards shine a light on those that have gone above and beyond their original mission to make a social, environmental or economic impact, benefiting those around them."
Driven by customer demand for Verkada's solutions, the company has maintained a strong growth trajectory. In September, Verkada announced the close of its $205 million Series D funding and in the last twelve months, Verkada has grown its team by 60% and nearly doubled total revenue year-over-year. With this fresh infusion of capital, Verkada is hiring for more than 300 roles across every function. Find more information about joining the team at www.verkada.com/careers.
Designed with simplicity in mind, Verkada's six product lines - video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, visitor management and mailroom management - provide unparalleled building security through an integrated, secure cloud-based software platform. Over 14,000 organizations across 63 countries worldwide trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. For more information, please visit www.verkada.com.
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Proceeds to accelerate commercialization and pipeline expansion of novel FLASH™ Aorto-Ostial Angioplasty System
CAMPBELL, Calif., Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ostial Corporation (Ostial), a private medical technology company focused on addressing the clinical challenges of aorto-ostial interventions, today announced the raise of $7M in growth funding led by Delos Capital with participation from AMED Ventures and other existing investors.
"With support from Delos Capital and AMED Ventures, Ostial is on an exciting trajectory to further commercialize the FLASH System, build out its sales and operation teams, accelerate the product into new and existing accounts, and advance our current FLASH technology," stated Jon Bohane, General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of Ostial.
Ostial, an Incept LLC portfolio company, intends to use the funds to accelerate commercialization of its FLASH™ Aorto-Ostial Angioplasty System (FLASH System) by doubling its sales force, executing national programs and expanding its clinical research and scientific advisory of its dual balloon-based system. Additionally, the company plans to commence development of the next-generation FLASH System.
"Our vision is to arm physicians with advanced innovation that uniquely addresses treatment of high-risk areas in coronary and peripheral cases," stated Henry Chen, Managing Partner of Delos Capital. "Ostial is uniquely posed to seek partnerships with other innovative, synergistic technologies that will expand its cardiovascular platform beyond FLASH."
The FLASH System is the first and only dual balloon dual-balloon angioplasty catheter designed to overcome challenges of aorto-ostial stenting by delivering complete, 360° stent apposition at the ostium. Total stent apposition with FLASH optimizes patient outcomes while improving reaccess for future interventions.1
"Aorto-ostial stenting represents a growing worldwide 'neck to waist' market opportunity," stated Michael Lankford, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Ostial. "With this new influx of capital, our field team will have the opportunity to cast a wider net and make the FLASH System available to more physicians seeking to confidently treat challenging aorto-ostial lesions."
The FLASH System is commercially available in the United States and currently sold in 350 hospitals with 19,000 commercial units sold to date.
About Ostial Corporation
Ostial Corporation (Ostial), headquartered in Campbell, California, is a private medical technology company focused on addressing the clinical challenges of aorto-ostial interventions. The company's first product, the FLASH Aorto-Ostial Angioplasty System, allows physicians to confidently treat ostial cases with true, 360° lesion coverage that enables streamlined vessel reaccess and optimal patient outcomes. For more information, visit www.ostialcorp.com.
1Data on file at Ostial Corporation.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Crescent Capital BDC, Inc. (CCAP) on Wednesday reported first-quarter profit of $7.8 million.
The Los Angeles-based company said it had profit of 24 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for investment costs, came to 54 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 47 cents per share.
The company posted revenue of $39.3 million in the period.
Crescent Capital BDC shares have risen 7% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, shares hit $13.69, a decline of 19% in the last 12 months.
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On Sunday, Nov. 20, Omar Apollo won every heart in the sold-out venue of the Ritz in Raleigh. The 25-year-old R&B singer from Indiana is fairly new to the music scene, though you wouldn’t know it from the electric crowd of 1,400 people singing along to every word. This may be his first tour, but Apollo knows what he’s doing on stage.
The Ritz itself seems very boring and quiet from the outside, but once you step through the doors, you're greeted by the buzz of excited young people and friendly staff. The dark interior and crowded floorspace gets everyone in the mood to dance (and so do the bars stationed in the back of the room).
Opening for Apollo was Ravyn Lenae, who just released her first album "Hypnos,"which, after about four years of relative silence from the artist, did not disappoint. Although her voice was soft and high, it was strong and had an incredible range; it had a fierceness about it that was mimicked in her bright red costume.
Lenae had a calm presence and was clearly at home on the stage. With every song she performed, you could tell that her soul was in it. She performed some of her more upbeat songs like “M.I.A.” and “Xtasy,” which got the crowd fired up. Her R&B-mixed-with-soul sound was an awesome warmup for the crowd.
Apollo himself was warmly welcomed by the noisy crowd of fans and spent the rest of the concert in a sort of witty discourse with the audience. He was incredibly interactive with the crowd, and the crowd was interactive with him. He fed off of their boisterous energy and had everyone singing along and dancing. He stuck to songs from his latest album “Ivory,” such as “Talk” and “Killing Me.”
His songs incorporated aspects of both his American and Spanish backgrounds, as seen in his songs “En El Olvido” and “Tamagotchi.” Others like “Evergreen,” which you’ve probably heard on TikTok at some point, were more soulful, heartfelt songs every one of us can relate to. Evergreen’s famous lines: “You know you really made me hate myself, had to stop before I’d break myself, should have broken off to date myself, you didn’t deserve me at all,” emphasize Apollo’s heartache.
There really is something for everyone in his music. Whether you like more of an upbeat and fast-paced song to dance to or you like to get in your feels in the corner of the library while you're doing your homework, Omar’s got you covered. There's no doubt about it that this kid is going places. He has loads of raw talent and creative ideas, as well as backgrounds in both American and Latin cultures.
Not only is there a lot of raw talent, but he’s a very down-to-earth person on stage. During some lyrical breaks in his songs when he would be dancing around stage, you could tell that it was less for show and more that he was just having fun. Sometime during the first song, he dropped his mic and didn’t hesitate to joke about it. About halfway through the set, he looked out at the audience and said, “I gotta pee, be right back.” I describe it as humble showmanship, and it’s this layer of relatability that I believe will launch him even farther in his budding career. | https://www.technicianonline.com/culture/omar-apollo-s-raleigh-concert-showcases-raw-talent/article_4052806a-7113-11ed-8a38-fbc9b519bf85.html | 2022-12-01 05:14:25 | 1 | https://www.technicianonline.com/culture/omar-apollo-s-raleigh-concert-showcases-raw-talent/article_4052806a-7113-11ed-8a38-fbc9b519bf85.html |
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As the war in Ukraine continues, power outages are beginning to take their toll across the country. Even some of the major cities of the country face daily outages. As winter moves in the fight to maintain energy, light and warmth is becoming more fraught.
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House Republicans’ new energy bill — which they’ve labeled H.R.1 and slated for a vote at the end of the month — is helping fuel the GOP’s political messaging against President Biden and giving the party a major piece of legislation to unite around.
But Republicans say it could also lay a marker for future negotiations on potential permitting reform and even the debt ceiling.
Given the designation of H.R. 1 — a symbolic marker of being a top priority for the GOP majority — the “Lower Energy Costs Act” aims to boost domestic oil and gas production, speed up the approval process for energy and infrastructure permits, and repeal several programs that were approved in Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act package of climate, tax and health care measures last year.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), lead sponsor of the bill, said in an interview the H.R. 1 designation “shows the country how important smart energy policy is.” And he took aim at Biden, who he alleged had “declared war on American energy.”
“Frankly, it’s following through on our promises that we made and the commitment to America,” Scalise said. “We told the country, ‘If you give us the majority, we will go bring forward good, smart policies that focus on helping families who are struggling from the Biden agenda.’ So let’s lower costs for families, both at the pump and in their household electricity bills, which both are up dramatically since Joe Biden took office.”
The bill is not likely to pass in the Democratic-controlled Senate or get support from Biden. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Wednesday that the “partisan” and “unserious” proposal would be “dead on arrival” in the upper chamber.
Scalise brushed off Schumer’s comments.
“They said that the D.C. crime bill, too,” Scalise said, referring to the resolution disapproving of changes to the District of Columbia’s criminal code that Biden reversed course to support after its passage in the House — blindsiding House Democrats who voted against the measure. The measure ultimately passed the Senate by a wide margin.
“I think when Schumer starts hearing from people in New York who are tired of paying incredibly high prices for energy and realizes that people don’t like buying our energy from countries like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela when we can make it here at home a lot cleaner and a lot less expensive, then hopefully he’ll come around,” Scalise said. “I’m an optimist.”
Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) chalked Schumer’s comments up to “stock talking points.”
“Let’s keep in mind this bill was designed to pass the House,” Graves said. “Is this the opening salvo on negotiations? Yeah, I think that’s fair to say.”
Permitting reform is one major subject in the bill that is the subject of ongoing bipartisan negotiations. Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.V.) efforts to pass a permitting form proposal failed last year and Schumer said Thursday that he supported ongoing talks about a permitting reform deal.
But Graves said the bill might also play into Republicans’ demands for spending cuts and other measures as a condition of raising the debt ceiling, which Congress will have to take action on later this year in order to avoid default and severe economic consequences.
“In my mind, this is part of [the] debt ceiling, because this bill turns the spigot back on for billions of dollars in revenue to the United States Treasury,” Graves said. “This bill checks so many boxes.”
Though Graves acknowledged that there are still some details to hammer out before Republicans bring the bill for a vote with a slim five-seat majority, the bill is likely to get wide support in the House GOP Conference.
“It’s an appropriately placed priority for the Republican Party, and it does show a very stark contrast between the hard left and the reasonable right,” said Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), chair of the hardline House Freedom Caucus.
“But I would also say this,” Perry added. “We want all voices to be heard. And there’s some things that I’d like to see included as well.”
Scalise said leaders will discuss later this month whether the bill would be considered under any kind of open rule that could allow amendments on the floor, a process Republicans clamored for during several years of the Democratic-led House and has the potential to complicate major legislative packages.
Perry, for his part, said that he hopes several of his own amendments will be considered, either in the House Rules Committee or elsewhere.
One of those amendments, Perry said, would eliminate the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s renewable energy program, linking an offshore wind farm in New Jersey to marine life washing up dead on beaches. Federal authorities have said they have found no credible evidence linking the wind program to the phenomenon, but are monitoring the situation. | https://www.yourbasin.com/hill-politics/gop-hopes-energy-bill-hits-biden-lays-marker-on-future-negotiations/ | 2023-03-17 23:16:32 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/hill-politics/gop-hopes-energy-bill-hits-biden-lays-marker-on-future-negotiations/ |
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Reelgood for Business announces today the international expansion of its award-winning metadata solutions, which empower customers with best-in-class streaming metadata.
Reelgood's international streaming data includes localized metadata and imagery, along with streaming availability and deeplinks across a host of new international channels such as Crave and Hayu in Canada, FoxTel Now and BriBox AU for Australia, and Mubi for New Zealand, as well as leading global streaming providers such as Netflix, Disney, and HBO Max.
"We are so excited to expand our streaming catalog and availability metadata to new regions of the globe. We've built our reputation in the U.S. as the best-in-class streaming metadata in terms of quality, technology, and speed, and our international offering will be no different—our plan is to move country by country so that our non-U.S. clients can expect the same level of quality and service as our U.S. customers," says Tim Cutting, GM of Commercial. "What separates us in the data provider market is this quality, speed of delivery, and breadth of coverage."
A key differentiator of Reelgood in the streaming metadata business is its consumer arm. "We went into this space to make a consumer guide, and every metadata vendor that we used did not meet our expectations," says CEO and founder, David Sanderson, "so, we decided to build it ourselves."
Reelgood data leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning, which keeps its streaming data current in real-time. This same technology is what powers Reelgood's consumer app, used by millions of people every night to find something to watch.
These new global territories and services will launch in Q4 of 2022.
Reelgood's commercial products are some of the most awarded and innovative in the space, as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in Video in 2022, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a Parks Associates Top Leaders in Technology in 2021, and a nominee for Most Significant Technology by TVOT in 2022. Reelgood for Business data has been integrated across voice assistants, pay TV services, search engines, AI, research and competitive analysis, and more.
For more information, see the Reelgood for Business website.
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(THE CONVERSATION) The U.S. Department of Justice has intervened to block a proposed deal that would see carrier JetBlue buy budget service Spirit Airlines.
In a lawsuit filed on March 7, 2023, the department warned that allowing the US$3.8 billion deal to go through would “eliminate the unique competition” that Spirit, the lower cost airline, currently provides.
The Conversation asked Joe Mazur, an expert on mergers and acquisitions at Purdue University, what consolidation in the airline industry – and the proposed JetBlue-Spirit merger – means for consumers, and why the government is keen to block it.
Why is the Justice Department intervening?
The JetBlue-Spirit merger would bring more consolidation into an already heavily consolidated industry.
But it is more nuanced than that. JetBlue and Spirit have very different business models – JetBlue has positioned itself at the higher end of the low-cost carrier space, whereas Spirit is a through-and-through, no-frills, ultra-low-cost carrier. It keeps prices down by sacrificing things such as complimentary snacks and drinks, entertainment and comfort.
Although the deal is framed as a merger, it is really an attempted hostile takeover of Spirit by JetBlue. As such, it’s not just the Justice Department that is worried about the impact of losing Spirit. According to the official complaint, so too are Spirit’s board of directors.
The presence of an ultra-low-cost service like Spirit has a disciplining effect on prices across the entire market – that is, it helps keep ticket prices down, especially in the markets where it competes.
The biggest concern is that if the merger is allowed to go ahead, JetBlue would simply reconfigure the assets of Spirit to match the service level and prices of JetBlue. For example, as cited in the complaint, JetBlue has indicated it plans to remove some seats from Spirit’s planes in order to bring them in line with the rest of the JetBlue fleet.
If it were the other way around – that is, if Spirit were buying JetBlue – then I’m not sure there would be a problem. Similarly if the merger was between Spirit and fellow low-cost carrier Frontier, a deal that was at one point on the table, the government may not have gotten involved.
How does this proposed merger fit the industry trend?
There has been a ton of consolidation over the last couple of decades. The pursuit of profit motivates most every merger attempt, and it’s no secret that airlines weren’t making money for a long stretch. The 9/11 terrorist attacks, a series of pilot strikes, rising fuel costs, and a couple of recessions hit the industry hard in the early 2000s.
In 2005, Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines filed for bankruptcy. They both restructured, through laying off staff and streamlining services, and came out of bankruptcy a couple years later. Then in 2008 they announced a merger.
At the same time you started to hear about “capacity discipline” – that is, the reduction, or at least slower introduction, of seats and flights overall. In short, the airlines were not competing as intensively in a bid to make flights more profitable for the entire industry. But such a plan is a lot easier to stick to when there are fewer players.
The deal between Delta and Northwest was followed by a series of other mergers. In 2010, United Airlines merged with Continental in an $8.5 billion deal. A year later, Southwest bought AirTran Airways for $1.4 billion.
In 2013, American Airlines and US Airways merged to form the largest carrier in the world at that time. Other mergers followed, including the combination of Alaska Airlines and Virgin America in 2016. Today, per the government’s official complaint, the largest four airlines represent some 80% of airline traffic.
If the JetBlue-Spirit deal is scuttled, it would be the first time since 2001 that two airlines have abandoned a proposed merger in the face of a lawsuit from the Justice Department. In that case it was a proposed merger between United Airlines and US Airways that the Bush administration claimed would result in higher fares and worse service. Since then the government has stepped in on numerous occasions to block airline mergers, but has eventually given the green light following concessions from the airlines.
What was behind the trend to consolidate?
The traditional argument for mergers put forward by airlines is that they produce a higher-quality, more efficient product – it is a win-win, they say, generating benefits for consumers and investors alike. Oftentimes this is at least partly true.
However, consolidation also leads to higher profits simply by virtue of reduced competition. That is, you tend to make more money when there aren’t as many competitors. For example, my daughter’s lemonade stand will sell more lemonade if there isn’t a rival stand across the street – and she can even charge more per cup!
Similarly, airlines make more money when fewer of them are competing, and part of that is being able to raise prices for consumers. This aspect of consolidation is where the Clayton Act, which outlaws anti-competitive mergers, becomes relevant. And the Clayton Act is the basis for the Justice Department’s suit.
Mergers can also bring about scale efficiencies – there are real, proven benefits to having a large network.
But JetBlue will almost certainly need to restructure the merger if it is to be successful. This would likely mean the divestiture of assets – for example, the sale of landing rights at some airports to budget airlines, or relinquishing gate leases to others – to increase competition. American Airlines and US Airways agreed to similar concessions before they were allowed to merge, and JetBlue has already indicated plans to divest assets at some airports.
Nevertheless, I do not expect the merger to go through without a drastic change in the expected use of Spirit’s assets.
Do mergers necessarily mean higher airfare?
It depends on the merger and the market in question. Studies vary pretty widely on this issue, based on the methodology they use, the macroeconomic context for the merger, and the type of businesses involved. But generally what you see is that after a merger, prices in overlap markets – those in which the two merging carriers compete – go up by maybe 3-5% overall, with larger increases on the order of 10-15% on routes where the overlap is especially significant. For JetBlue and Spirit, markets in and out of Fort Lauderdale, Boston, Hartford and others are most likely to see significant upticks.
This is because mergers generate upward pricing pressure by reducing competition. But, from a consumer’s point of view, that might be tolerable as long as the resulting product is better. This may be especially true if prices are held down because of resulting efficiency gains.
In the JetBlue and Spirit case, it might mean prices go up for the old Spirit flights, but not so much for the JetBlue flights. So if you are a JetBlue fan, this could be good news. It would mean that you can now fly to more places, and you get the same JetBlue services.
But if you are a Spirit die-hard, you will not like this at all. Instead of paying a lot less, you might have to pay more for a flight with add-ons you can do without. And if you are a frequent flier on just about any other airline, you can expect to lose the price-tempering effects of Spirit in the long run, given that it is the largest and fastest growing ultra-low-cost carrier in the market.
Are claims that services improve through a merger true?
The short answer appears to be yes for some mergers but not necessarily on all metrics. One study found that the effect of legacy mergers on fares was negligible and that overall, such deals were pro-competitive because they led to an increase in capacity.
As to other metrics, such as easier boarding, more on-time flights, or better in-flight services, that is harder to judge. One study of five airline mergers indicated that on-time performance may get better in the long run after the merger, but even if on-time performance did improve, it may be the wrong way to look at service changes. If you are someone who relies on budget pricing, then being on time rather than a few minutes late, and having the option of nuts and a soda, might not be enough to offset the pain of having to hand over more money for the flight in the first place.
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A U.S. man has been detained in North Korea after crossing the border without authorization, according to the United Nations body that oversees the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.
The U.S. national was on an "orientation tour" of the Joint Security Area, a border village between the two Koreas, the U.N. Command wrote in a tweet early Tuesday.
"We believe he is currently in DPRK custody and are working with our KPA counterparts to resolve this incident," the body said, referring to North Korea by its formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and its army.
The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment.
The DMZ divides the two Koreas, approximately around the 38th parallel, and is the de facto international border. It is heavily fortified and mined on both sides.
There have been numerous incidents on the DMZ since the early 1950s, and North Korean defectors occasionally manage to slip across the DMZ into South Korea.
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Even today, $50 million is a lot of money. When damages in that amount recently were awarded to a local brewery worker scalded over 40 percent of his body in his workplace, my eyebrows probably were not the only ones raised.
And many others must have wondered why the case was even in court — most such work injuries are handled under Minnesota’s Workers’ Compensation system.
The news struck me particularly hard though. Just the evening before, I had been reviewing familiar old papers detailing someone else’s burn sufferings: On Sept. 7, 1970, another man also suffered burns on 40 percent of his body, plus “surgical amputation, right leg” and “multiple fragment wounds both legs, chest.” Five of the other 10 people wounded that day also had burns. And then there were four with a terse “KIA — Burns 100% body.” That’s “Killed in Action,” by the way. One of those four would receive a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for saving others.
Moreover, news of the brewery scalding settlement came days after the obituary of Dr. Ronald Glasser, the HCMC pediatric nephrologist whose book “365 Days” is a classic of Vietnam War literature. Few can read its final chapter, “The Burn Ward,” without weeping.
No, this is not a diatribe about bad treatment of wounded veterans compared with others. Rather, it is a reflection on how terrible things happen in life to all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons, and how we deal with it as a society.
How, as a society, do we act to help those hurt, to enable their recovery and facilitate as good a life as possible going forward? What incentives do we construct to minimize horrendous injuries? Do we punish those whose lapses cause harm to others — and how?
Start by thinking that, to have a just society, most people would want mechanisms to reduce the frequency of injuries. Most would want medical and rehabilitative care for those injured. Many favor ongoing benefits so that those gravely harmed could still have rewarding lives. Some would like to see punishment for those whose decisions make such injuries more common.
But how do we reach these goals? What role can economic insights play?
It is obvious that liability lawsuits, such as the one just decided, provide a mechanism — large damage awards — to compensate those harmed, and incentives — judgments or high insurance premiums to be paid — to motivate safety measures. At times these can be “punitive” both in fact and in law.
Small-L libertarians, who value the insights of Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase, argue that if we could just get “property rights,” which include tort liability, just so, government regulatory agencies like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are unneeded. Decisions by judges and juries would compensate those harmed, punish offending owners and managers and create incentives to not harm again. Accidents will still happen, but free markets will save the day.
That thinking, of course, depends on some key assumptions. One is that the financial and political power of both sides entering a courtroom is equal. Another is that all parties have inexpensive access to all relevant information, including on how to sue. Yet another is that there are no “transaction costs,” little details like hiring lawyers, interviewing witnesses or finding the right expert witnesses.
Moreover, there is an assumption that different cases merit different degrees of societal worth or value. Incinerate large parts of your body while running a meth lab and, unless you’ve saved up lots of dirty money, you should just die in pain. Be in the lead armored personnel carrier rushing out to try to catch those mortaring the LZ, and the nation’s taxpayers must pay for your care and provide modest help for the rest of your life. Such distinctions should seem obvious.
But what about the sophomore at the Christian college who thinks, “what a great prank! Break into the transformer vault, pull a lever and black out all the dorms!” Or the 70-year-old farmer who forgets to flip the breaker before climbing into the loft of his milkhouse to clean the refrigeration coils with solvent? What about the toddler who tugs on the dish towel under the kettle of scalding pasta water? And should the value distinction be any different if the toddler’s parent is a teenage drop-out single mom or a rising star at a prestigious law firm? If the teens around the campfire that someone throws gas on are singing Kumbaya or smoking weed?
The answer is that we, like most other industrialized nations, have a hodge-podge of safety regulations, public and private health care, disability benefits, insurance, tort suits and private insurance. These are not necessarily logical, just or efficient. Some are based on objective collective values, some based on the subjective circumstances of the victim and the liable party. In most cases, the phrase, “All things being equal … ” rarely rings true.
Our country is heavy on tort actions and damages, light on socialized health services. Taxpayer provided rehabilitation and disability benefits are more abundant in much of Europe, with liability suits difficult. Few other nations anywhere allow contingency fees for attorneys or for “punitive damages.”
There is much evidence that the liability-suit-friendly U.S. system creates incentives for actions that sap economic efficiency. On the flip-side, there also is much evidence that Japan’s legal hostility to actions for damages allows businesses in that country to abuse the public.
In the U.S., businesses hire thousands of lawyers to defend in such suits. And these lawyers increasingly devise ever more opaque ways to get customers to surrender their rights to sue with small-print clauses to which we often unwittingly consent by clicking an “I agree” box every time we order something online, download software or reading material, or apply for a credit card.
Things could be worse. They are in almost every developing economy. And they could be better. Government workers’ compensation systems were developed more than a century ago after it became apparent that existing civil tort liability solutions for workplace deaths and injuries had outcomes that were haphazard, drawn-out, often unjust and carried huge transaction costs relative to harms being settled. Workers’ comp systems are far from perfect, but better than we had in the days of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle.” However politically contentious, OSHA and other regulatory measures have sharply reduced workplace injuries and deaths, albeit, according to some, at an unnecessarily high cost in wasted resources.
“Citizen juries” or panels of experts can come up with sound recommendations for improvement. But our current political system is so polarized that meaningful reform of workplace and product liability law or of lax-funded rehabilitation services or of disability benefits seems impossible.
There are no clear answers here, just painful questions about which to soul search a bit.
St. Paul economist and writer Edward Lotterman can be reached at stpaul@edlotterman.com.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is citing her recently born child as another reason she should be allowed to delay the start of a more than 11-year prison sentence while her lawyers appeal her conviction for duping investors about the capabilities of her failed company’s blood-testing technology.
The birth of Holmes’ second child was confirmed in court documents filed last week in advance of a March 17 hearing about her bid to remain free during an appeals process that could take years to complete.
The filing didn’t disclose the date of the birth or the child’s gender, but the news isn’t a surprise. Holmes, 38, was pregnant at the time of her Nov. 18 sentencing in the same San Jose, California, courtroom where a jury convicted her on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy.
The start of that trial had been delayed so Holmes could give birth to her first child, a son. Holmes had both children with her current partner, William “Billy” Evans. She met Evans after her 2016 break-up with her former lover and business partner, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, who was convicted on 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy in a separate trial.
Balwani, 57, is also trying to convince U.S. District Judge Edward Davila to delay the start of his nearly 13-year prison sentence. A hearing on his request was held earlier this month, but Davila hasn’t issued a ruling yet.
Holmes isn’t citing her two children as the only reason she should be allowed to stay out of prison during her appeal. Her lawyers contend that an array of mistakes and abuses made during her trial make it likely her conviction will be overturned, They are also pointing to Holmes’ unblemished record while she has been free on bail during the four-and-half years since her criminal indictment as evidence that she isn’t a flight risk or a danger to the community. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/elizabeth-holmes-has-2nd-child-as-she-tries-to-avoid-prison/2023/02/28/2692e02e-b7af-11ed-b0df-8ca14de679ad_story.html | 2023-02-28 22:17:51 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/elizabeth-holmes-has-2nd-child-as-she-tries-to-avoid-prison/2023/02/28/2692e02e-b7af-11ed-b0df-8ca14de679ad_story.html |
IQAX is proud to announce COSCO SHIPPING Lines and Orient Overseas Container Line ("OOCL") as early adopters of IQAX eBL, which has been given the seal of approval by the International Group of Protection & Indemnity Clubs ("IGP&I").
HONG KONG, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As a leading innovator of digital solutions for the logistics industry, IQAX Limited has launched IQAX eBL, a blockchain-based, contactless document management digital solution.
IQAX eBL has been approved by IGP&I.
Prior to February 2010, the rules of all Clubs of the IGP&I preferred paper documentation and excluded liabilities for cargo carried under electronic documentation. However, since 20 February 2010 liabilities arising in respect of the carriage of cargo under such paperless trading systems were covered, provided that the system had first been approved by the Group. In the 12 years since this date, only 7 other solutions have been approved by the IGP&I for use by its members. The addition of IQAX Limited to the list of approved solution providers is a significant milestone as IQAX joins an exclusive list of electronic bill of lading solutions.
As the latest addition to the list of approved electronic bill of lading solution providers, IQAX leverages GSBN's independent blockchain technology platform to bring an enhanced level of security, assurance and transparency to IQAX eBL users.
The innovative IQAX eBL offers cargo owners, cargo forwarders, ocean carriers, finance providers and other trade participants a paperless solution to manage original bill of lading digitally with one-click title transfers, surrender for delivery, status updates and history reviews.
The IQAX eBL provides a single source of truth for document authenticity, security and traceability. It allows all parties involved in a shipment to manage their bills of lading entirely online, streamlining operations, cutting costs and increasing efficiency. The IQAX eBL runs on GSBN's blockchain technology platform, which renders ease of adoption and sets it apart from legacy systems. IQAX eBL enables the issuance, transfer, surrender and visibility of original bill of lading and provides access to real time trade status of electronic bill of lading and cargo transportation. (Further details can be found on the company's website at: https://www.iqax.com/en/solutions/ebl/ .)
IQAX eBL is the first electronic bill of lading solution built on GSBN's blockchain network. This ensures the authenticity of the bill of lading and ensures data privacy and security. IQAX eBL empowers the industry to create opportunities with trade finance, strengthens risk management and improves cost-effectiveness as well as enhancing overall customer experience.
Romney Wong, IQAX's CEO mentioned that: "IQAX eBL leverages GSBN blockchain technology platform to provide a completely secure digital environment to further facilitate digitalization of documentation processes. With the layers of protection for data privacy and security, IQAX eBL promotes greater connectivity in global trade and of financial institutions, which significantly improves operational efficiency and revolutionising document management not just for carriers, but for the entire shipping ecosystem."
Despite challenges faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, IQAX eBL has already been successfully adopted by major carriers - COSCO SHIPPING Lines and OOCL. Both COSCO SHIPPING Lines and OOCL validated the solution with their key clients.
"We empowered our clients to process bill of lading online and efficiently worldwide via IQAX eBL, implementing bill of lading management digitally and offering contactless services. We are able to achieve full visibility as all parties can track detailed logistics information, records of bill of lading transfer and bank processing status. This is crucial during the pandemic. The IQAX solution enables seamless integration across the shipping ecosystem and facilitates the efficient operation of global trade." said Andy Deng, Global Sales Division General Manager at COSCO SHIPPING Lines.
"We received positive feedback from our customers after OOCL adopted IQAX eBL. There are significant improvements on cost saving and operational efficiency. We look forward to continuing the cooperation with IQAX so more customers can enjoy the convenience and security brought by paperless bill of lading while we jointly promote the transition of the whole industry towards paperless operation." said Michael Xu, Director of Trades at OOCL.
Bills of lading are critical for the efficient operation of global trade - but the traditional paper-based approach can be cumbersome. The adoption of electronic bill of lading solution can bring sustainable benefits for users and the industry as a whole.
ABOUT IQAX
IQAX is a global information technology company that provides intelligent digital transformation solutions using blockchain for enterprises in the logistics ecosystem. Backed by a strong heritage in container shipping, IQAX strives to foster a harmonized and connected global trade environment. As an industry leader, IQAX connects with shippers, freight forwarders, carriers, terminals and financial institutions and empowers them with digitized solutions to meet emerging business challenges throughout the supply chain.
IQAX is an independent technology company wholly owned by Orient Overseas (International) Ltd. (HKEX:0316), one of the largest integrated international transport and logistics companies in the world.
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Taylor Swift announces new tour dates, including a stop in Tampa
Published: Nov. 4, 2022 at 1:38 PM EDT|Updated: 19 minutes ago
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Taylor Swift has announced new dates for her latest tour and one of those stops is in Tampa!
Swift recently announced her “The Eras Tour” following the release of her latest album. She will be bringing the show to Raymond James Stadium on both Friday, April 14, and Saturday, April 15, 2023.
Tickets will be available for presale Nov. 15 on Ticketmaster and to the general public starting Nov. 18.
You can check out ticket prices here.
UM. Looks like I’ll get to see more of your beautiful faces than previously expected… we’re adding 8 shows to the tour 😆https://t.co/KFuqvr0hhO pic.twitter.com/4LTYSnwKJO
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) November 4, 2022
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Nuggets vs. Heat: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - NBA Finals Game 1
The Denver Nuggets and the Miami Heat will match up in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
Find odds, spreads, over/unders and more from multiple sportsbooks in this article for the Nuggets vs. Heat matchup.
Nuggets vs. Heat Game Info
- Date: Thursday, June 1, 2023
- Time: 8:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ABC
- Location: Denver, Colorado
- Venue: Ball Arena
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Nuggets vs. Heat Odds, Spread, Over/Under
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Nuggets vs. Heat Betting Trends
- The Nuggets are outscoring opponents by 3.3 points per game with a +273 scoring differential overall. They put up 115.8 points per game (12th in the NBA) and give up 112.5 per contest (eighth in the league).
- The Heat put up 109.5 points per game (30th in league) while giving up 109.8 per contest (second in NBA). They have a -26 scoring differential.
- The two teams combine to score 225.3 points per game, 6.3 more points than this matchup's total.
- These two teams give up 222.3 points per game combined, 3.3 more points than the total for this matchup.
- Denver has put together a 44-36-2 ATS record so far this year.
- Miami has compiled a 30-48-4 record against the spread this season.
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Alex Call doubles in 4-run second, Nationals beat Padres 5-3
By IAN NICHOLAS QUILLEN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Call had a two-run double in Washington’s four-run second inning and the Nationals held off the San Diego Padres 5-3 on Wednesday night.
Call also singled to help the rebuilding Nationals improve to 11-11 in May and 21-28 overall.
“We’re showing up to the ballpark playing with a lot of energy,” Nationals manager Davey Martinez said. “That’s been the key for these guys. They’re starting to feel like they can compete.”
Washington starter Trevor Williams (2-2) went 5 2/3 innings. Carl Edwards Jr. and Hunter Harvey combined for 2 1/3 scoreless innings and Kyle Finnegan worked a perfect ninth for his 10th save. They held the Padres to four hits.
“Shut down,” Call said about the bullpen effort. “It’s nice to see our guys taking care of business.”
Keibert Ruiz singled in the first run in the second, and Luis Garcia had a sacrifice fly to close the scoring spree.
San Diego’s Rougned Odor hit in two-run homer in the fourth, and Washington made it 5-2 in the bottom of the inning when Lane Thomas doubled in Call. Ha-Seong Kim hit a solo homer off Williams in the fifth.
“It’s a game of execution, and the two homers today were not executed,” Williams said. “Thankfully, the offense gave us enough runs today to make it not hurt. And the bullpen shut the door when they came in.”
Ryan Weathers (1-3) went six innings for San Diego.
“He gave us six innings. I thought he pitched fairly well,” Padres manager Bob Melvin said. “When you get four hits, it’s tough to win a game.”
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San Diego’s Juan Soto has reached base six times in nine plate appearances against his former team this series. The two-time All-Star walked twice Wednesday night. He homered and went 3 for 4 with a walk Tuesday in the Padres’ 7-4 victory.
CJ Abrams, one of six players the Nationals received for Soto and Josh Bell in a deal done last year at the trade deadline, had a single, a walk and a stolen base. He homered Tuesday night.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Padres: Drew Pomeranz (left elbow) had a “clean up surgery” Tuesday, Melvin said. Pomeranz is still expected to return this season, Melvin added, though there is no timetable yet. … Manny Machado (fractured left hand) took groundballs Wednesday for the first time since going on the 10-day injured list. He is eligible to return on Friday. … RHP Nabil Crismatt (left hip) pitched 1 1/3 innings for Triple-A El Paso on Tuesday and is scheduled to work again Friday. … LHP Adrian Morejon (left elbow) faced three batters Tuesday in his first rehab outing at Single-A Lake Elsinore.
UP NEXT
Padres Blake Snell (1-6, 5.40) starts Thursday in the series finale looking to bounce back after allowing a season-worst six runs in four innings last time out at home against Boston. Nationals RHP Jake Irvin (1-2, 5.50) also is coming off the worst start of his first big league season after lasting only 2 2/3 innings in an 8-6 home loss to Detroit.
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All-Star forward DeMar DeRozan missed his first game of the season for the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night against the Washington Wizards after straining his right quadriceps.
The injury forced DeRozan to exit Monday’s loss to the Boston Celtics in the third quarter after tripping on the parquet floor and tweaking a lingering injury. DeRozan told reporters in Boston he had been quietly playing through the injury for the previous eight games, dating to late December.
DeRozan traveled with the Bulls to Washington on Tuesday, using the day off to focus on recovery. He was optimistic about his likelihood to play against the Wizards but was listed as doubtful on the Bulls injury report at midday Wednesday before being ruled out two hours before the game.
Coach Billy Donovan told reporters in Washington that DeRozan still was experiencing discomfort in his quad but that the Bulls medical staff did not believe it was a “major strain or major tear.”
DeRozan, who started the first 41 games, prides himself on his durability and ability to play through minor tweaks, saying he refuses to sit out unless the medical staff deems it absolutely necessary. He averaged 26.9 points and five assists in the nine games he played while nursing the quad injury.
DeRozan missed only six games last season due to two bouts with COVID-19 and a coaching decision to sit starters for the regular-season finale ahead of the playoffs.
“If I leave out of a game, it’s something serious,” DeRozan said. “I play through a lot that I don’t mention. My whole career, I’ve been stubborn when it comes to that. I just want to always be on the floor.”
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Deputies: Winter Haven man told 911 dispatcher he fatally shot relative 'too many times' due to 'money'
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - Polk County investigators said a 21-year-old man told a dispatcher he murdered a family member "because of the money."
After 10 a.m. Sunday, the sheriff's office received two 911 calls about the deadly shooting. A neighbor called to report the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Kyle Raemisch – was shooting a gun in the garage and the victim was dead. The shooting address was not provided by the sheriff's office.
The victim was not publicly identified due to Marsy's Law.
The second 911 call came from Raemisch, who stated he shot the victim and the victim was dead, deputies said.
"When asked where the suspect shot the victim he stated, ‘the head.’ When asked why he shot the victim, the suspect stated, ‘because of the money,’" according to a news release from the sheriff's office. "The suspect stated he has been held hostage for far too long. When asked how many times he shot the victim, the suspect stated, ‘Too many times.’"
When deputies arrived, they entered the home through the open garage door and saw the victim's body on the garage floor. No other victims were found.
Deputies said a handgun was found on a shelf in the garage. A total of 15 spent shell casings were found – 14 on the garage floor and one on the garage door.
The victim had "apparent gunshot wounds throughout his body." Two apparent bullet holes were found in the garage door and entry bullet holes were spotted in a surfboard located next to the garage door, officials said.
Officials said the garage door and surfboard were directly behind the victim's body.
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, April 25, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
744 PM CDT Tue Apr 25 2023
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN SWISHER COUNTY...
At 743 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles west of
Claytonville, or 11 miles southeast of Tulia, moving southeast at 15
mph. Baseball size hail was reported with this storm at 730 PM two
miles south of Tulia.
THIS IS A DESTRUCTIVE STORM FOR KRESS...CLAYTONVILLE...LOCKNEY...AND
SOUTH PLAINS.
HAZARD...Baseball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Trained weather spotters.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be severely injured.
Expect shattered windows, extensive damage to roofs,
siding, and vehicles.
Locations impacted include...
Kress.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
This is a dangerous storm! Prepare immediately for large destructive
hail capable of producing significant damage. People outside should
move to a shelter, inside a strong building and away from windows.
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YORK, Pa. — According to the U.S. State Department, 27.6 million people worldwide are currently victims of human trafficking.
Pennsylvania has even been dubbed a "hub" for human trafficking, which is why local leaders are discussing ways to tackle the issue.
Representative Lloyd Smucker, who represents parts of Lancaster and York Counties, was at the York Township Building on Thursday evening to address the issue.
Alongside local advocates and law enforcement, the group met as part of National Human Trafficking Prevention Month to talk about bringing justice to victims.
"One of the big discussions today was whether we can find additional avenues at the state and federal level to provide additional resources," Smucker told FOX43 news.
Crystal Perry with the YWCA in York says the public education of human trafficking is getting better and saving more lives each year.
In 2022, her task force housed 11 victims, the highest number in her three years with the group.
She says the process to rescue trafficking victims takes a lot of resources.
“We know that it takes a village," said Perry. "People don’t realize the mental health issues, substance abuse issues, they don’t think that a lot of them come to us with no ID’s.”
Lancaster District Attorney Heather Adams advocates for more assistance from local task forces working to track down victims and trafficking rings.
"Money, either in the form of grants or some programs from some government agency will always assist in the law enforcement endeavor and victim service agencies," she said.
Perry adds that housing programs for victims is a top priority, as well as expungement of any crimes committed by victims while they were trafficked. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/congressman-lloyd-smucker-holds-round-table-on-human-trafficking-prevention-york-county/521-eccabd6f-b20b-4b77-9d5b-e6e272961fb0 | 2023-01-20 04:30:38 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/congressman-lloyd-smucker-holds-round-table-on-human-trafficking-prevention-york-county/521-eccabd6f-b20b-4b77-9d5b-e6e272961fb0 |
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