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A Boston man was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash involving a car and a motorcycle early Sunday near the MBTA’s Forest Hills station, according to a statement by State Police.
Officers responded to the intersection of the Arborway and South Street around 1:54 a.m., the statement said. The 22-year-old man, who was a passenger on the motorcycle, was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where he was in critical condition, the statement said.
The motorcycle operator, a 24-year-old man from Boston, was transported to Brigham and Women’s Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the statement said.
Both men were ejected during the crash and did not appear to be wearing helmets, the statement said.
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A preliminary investigation suggests the 2016 Honda CB300F motorcycle was traveling eastbound on the Arborway, where it was hit by a 2003 Honda Accord traveling westbound as the car entered into an illegal left turn from the Arborway to South Street, the statement said.
The driver of the Accord drove away from the scene, heading south, the statement said. Officers had not located the driver and the vehicle as of Sunday morning, the statement said.
No further information was immediately available.
Isabela Rocha can be reached at isabela.rocha@globe.com.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police Chief C. J. Davis confirmed in a press conference Thursday morning just after midnight that four people were killed in a mobile mass shooting after 19-year-old Ezekiel Kelly went on a random shooting spree. Three other shooting victims were also injured.
Police said Kelly was taken into custody in the area of Ivan Road and Hodge Road. A shelter in place was issued for that area and has now been lifted. People should avoid the area at this time.
Memphis Police warned people in Memphis to be on the lookout for Kelly after he began shooting people at random on Facebook Live Wednesday.
According to Southaven police, a Dodge Challenger was stolen at a Raceway gas station on Stateline Road just before 9 p.m. The driver of the car recognized Kelly as the suspect and ran off. Memphis police found the car and took Kelly into custody. Southaven Police has charged Kelly with armed carjacking for this incident.
According to court records, there was an arrest warrant out for Kelly Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder before the shooting spree happened.
Timeline of shooting spree
12:56 a.m.
Police responded to a shooting in the 3100 block of Lyndale Avenue in North Memphis. One person, a 24-year-old man, was pronounced dead.
Five other people were on that scene uninjured.
Memphis Police later linked this shooting to Ezekiel Kelly's shooting spree.
RELATED: One man killed in overnight shooting
4:38 p.m.: Active shooting starts
Officers responded to a shooting in the 900 block of South Parkway East near Cooper-Young and Liberty Park was related to a mobile mass shooting.
One man was pronounced dead on the scene.
ABC24 was on scene and saw the victim suffered from multiple gunshot wounds.
4:40 p.m.
Police responded to I-240 at Norris Road where a woman was shot in the leg. She was transported to Regional One in non-critical condition.
5:59 p.m.
Police responded to the 4000 block of Jackson Avenue in North Memphis, an AutoZone store, where a man was shot in the abdomen. He was transported to Regional One and remains in critical condition.
This shooting was depicted on a Facebook Live stream on a page named Zeke Huncho, believed to be Ezekiel Kelly's profile, which has since been deleted.
6:12 p.m.: Police are notified of Zeke Huncho's Facebook Live, signaling them of an active event
A citizen notified MPD of the Facebook Live shooting spree, which activated an all-posts bulletin response.
7:23 p.m.
Police responded to a woman shot on Poplar Avenue and Evergreen Street.
ABC24 was on the scene and confirmed a woman was shot and killed, suffering multiple gunshot wounds.
MPD said the suspect carjacked the woman, taking her grey Toyota SUV.
7:24 p.m.
Police responded to a shooting at Poplar Avenue and North McLean Boulevard.
One man was transported to the hospital in non-critical condition.
7:30 p.m.: University of Memphis goes on lockdown
The University of Memphis went on lockdown around 7:30 p.m. in response to a shooting at Patterson Street and Southern Avenue, feet from the university campus.
The university said there were shots fired near Patterson and Southern but there's no threat at the university.
Campus Police said they were working with MPD on an "active shooter situation," referencing the mobile mass shooting.
8:40 p.m.: AutoZone Park goes on lockdown during Memphis Redbirds game
Around 8:40 p.m., AutoZone Park went on lockdown in response to public danger, citing the mobile mass shooting. Players were ushered off the field and fans took refuge in the press box.
AutoZone Park and the Memphis Redbirds suspended their game after the stadium was forced to go on lockdown. a double header has been scheduled for Thursday.
8:47 p.m. MATA suspends services
In lieu of the danger announced by MPD regarding an active shooter in the Memphis area, MATA's trolley and bus services were suspended indefinitely.
The Memphis Area Transit Authority resumed trolley and bus service for one final run. Service will resume as scheduled Thursday morning.
8:55 p.m.
MPD responded to a shooting at the 800 block of West Raines Road in Whitehaven.
One woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
8:56 p.m.
Southaven Police reported a carjacking at a Raceway gas station on Stateline Road near I-55.
A grey Dodge Challenger was taken after the driver recognized Kelly and fled the scene. That driver was uninjured.
8:58 p.m.
Memphis Police start a high-speed chase northbound on Stateline Road that ended near Hodge Road and Ivan Road in Whitehaven.
Police surrounded the car and waited for tactical units to arrive. MPD issued a shelter-in-place order for Hodge and Ivan.
9:21 p.m.: Ezekiel Kelly taken into custody
MPD take Ezekiel Kelly into custody without further incident.
Police lift the shelter-in-place order at Hodge and Ivan.
Kelly is currently in police custody awaiting charges.
This is a developing story. We will provide more updates as information becomes available.
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Clouds to Start Tomorrow with Clearing Skies Overnight
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) - Good evening everyone and happy Monday. This morning we started the day off under partly cloudy skies, but clouds quickly increased into the afternoon hours. This evening’s weather setup shows the area of low pressure that does look to bring some scattered snow showers to the region sitting just over the county. High pressure will make a return to the county by mid week, but it will be paired with some cooler temperatures. Temperatures right now are sitting in the mid to upper teens. And that is where our temperature sits outside our studios in Presque Isle. What we do have going for us is our winds have been remaining fairly light the past couple of hours, so that has kept our feels- like temperatures right around where our temperatures sit.
Going through the rest of this evening, the better chance for any accumulating snow will be centered towards later on this evening. Most of the accumulation will likely occur in the western half of the county. At best I’m only expecting between a dusting and an inch. Overnight tonight we will see a second round of snow showers. As this minor disturbance exits the region, clouds will linger, but they will eventually break apart. Even though clouds will stick around this evening, our overnight lows will fall back into the lower single digits. Winds do look to remain quiet overnight, so the good news is we will only feel like the lower single digits.
Tomorrow looks to remain dry, but I don’t think many of us will have a chance to break apart from the cloud cover through the morning hours. As we head into the mid morning, I wouldn’t rule out a few isolated snow showers developing. The better chance for breaking apart from the cloud cover will be towards the evening hours. It does look to be a bit of a more gradual clearing overnight leading us to a day full of plenty of sunshine into the daytime on Wednesday.
The bigger story tomorrow will be our feels like temperatures. Advancing throughout the daytime, temperatures will only feel cooler. The warmer spots on the map heading into the afternoon do look to be in eastern sections of the county. The cold air does continue into the late evening with temperatures feeling like the negative 20s. You will want to make sure you are bundled up on Wednesday morning as well heading out the door. With temperatures feeling like this frostbite can set in on any exposed skin pretty quickly.
The 8 day forecast features a quiet weather pattern with not many chances for snow. We are continuing to track some bitter cold temperatures towards the end of the work week with highs not even making it past the single digits below zero. That of course is not factoring in the wind chill. We will warm things up by the end of the 8 day.
For more on this evening’s forecast tune in to this evening’s Weather on the Web Video Forecast. Have a great evening!
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. lawmakers are anxious to hear from Twitter’s former security chief, who has alarmed Washington with allegations that the influential social network misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control fake accounts.
Leaders of several congressional panels are poring over the disclosures by respected cybersecurity expert Peiter Zatko, and calls on Capitol Hill for investigations are mounting. Zatko is due to testify next month at a Senate hearing.
In addition to informing Congress, Zatko filed a complaint last month with the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among Zatko’s most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., called on the FTC to investigate.
“These troubling disclosures paint the picture of a company that has consistently and repeatedly prioritized profits over the safety of its users and its responsibility to the public," Blumenthal wrote to FTC Chair Lina Khan.
Twitter has said Zatko’s complaint is “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context.”
Zatko also accused the San Francisco-based company of deceptions involving its handling of “spam,” or fake, accounts, an allegation that is at the core of billionaire tycoon Elon Musk’s attempt to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter.
The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday that Zatko will testify at a hearing on Sept. 13 — the same day Twitter's shareholders are scheduled to vote on the company's pending buyout by Musk. The Twitter board is recommending approval of the buyout.
A trial on Twitter’s lawsuit against Musk to force him to go through with the acquisition is scheduled for October.
The Judiciary Committee's chairman, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and its senior Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a joint statement Wednesday that if Zatko's claims are accurate, “they may show dangerous data-privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world."
They said the panel “will investigate this issue further with a full committee hearing ... and take further steps as needed to get to the bottom of these alarming allegations."
The SEC is questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. In June, the securities regulators asked the company about its methodology for calculating the number of false or spam accounts and “the underlying judgments and assumptions used by management.” The numbers are key to Twitter's business because it uses them to attract advertisers, whose payments make up a little more than 90% of its revenue.
Twitter, with an estimated 238 million daily active users, said last month that it removes 1 million spam accounts daily.
Senior members of the Senate Intelligence and Commerce committees, as well as the House Energy and Commerce panel, also have publicly signaled their engagement on the issue. The Senate Intelligence Committee is planning a meeting with Zatko to discuss his allegations, a spokeswoman said, adding, “We take this matter seriously.”
With the midterm elections looming in early November, many lawmakers may wish to appear before TV cameras expressing concern about online privacy, an issue that resonates with consumers. That means camera lights glaring and outrage thundering from elected representatives as a lone whistleblower stands and takes the oath behind a table ringed by a photographers’ mosh pit — a scene that would mirror former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen's testimony late last year.
“If Twitter whistleblower (and head of security) Peiter Zatko left you asking, ‘How could it possibly be this bad???,' you're not alone," Haugen tweeted Thursday. “Twitter's problems aren't unique, and we should worry."
Haugen’s far-reaching condemnation of Facebook and her allegation that it prioritized profits over safety of the platform were buttressed by a trove of internal Facebook documents. Zatko’s complaint, by contrast, appears to stand alone, though there may be references to other documents in the unredacted version of the complaint. The Associated Press has been able to view only a redacted version.
Other possible witnesses at congressional hearings could include former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and current CEO Parag Agrawal.
Zatko’s attorneys have said that in late 2021, after Twitter’s board was given “whitewashed” information about security problems, Zatko escalated his concerns, “clashed” with Agrawal and board member Omid Kordestani, and was fired two weeks later.
The Twitter debacle has raised hopes among some lawmakers that it could give a boost to comprehensive data-privacy legislation, which has been stalled for years but recently cleared a key House committee — bringing it closer than ever to final passage. It has been held up in the Senate, however.
Rep. Frank Pallone, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and its senior Republican, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, issued a joint statement saying the panel “is actively reviewing the Twitter whistleblower disclosure and assessing next steps.”
“There are still a lot of unknowns and questions that need to be answered,” they said. “Many of these allegations, if true, are alarming and reaffirm the need for Congress to pass comprehensive national consumer privacy legislation to protect Americans’ online data.”
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The Department of Education is rolling out a new game plan to work around the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action at universities.
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona convened university and civil rights leaders in Washington Wednesday to brainstorm ways to promote diversity on campus.
“We’re not going to stop fighting,” Cardona said.
To ensure admissions of underserved students don’t backslide, Cardona said universities must rethink recruitment strategies, streamline the transfer system and make school more affordable.
“The results with affirmative action weren’t fantastic,” Cardona said. “We have to do better.”
Cardona said that includes reevaluating legacy admission practices, which, he argued, give privileged Americans an unfair upper hand.
“If you can’t consider race but you can consider the last name of a person or whether their parent can write a check, that to me does not open doors for opportunities for a lot of students,” Cardona said.
The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights just agreed to investigate a complaint over Harvard’s legacy admission practices.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., railed against Harvard’s affirmative action practices.
“Harvard actively discriminated on the basis of race,” Hawley said.
Hawley said he does not object to the new probe into legacy admissions.
“That seems like a silly policy,” he said.
The Department of Education will issue a national report outlining best practices for colleges this September.
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Organization hosts press conference to expose alleged corruption in East Cleveland
Published: Sep. 16, 2022 at 11:31 AM EDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A local organization will hold a press conference Friday to expose alleged corruption in the city of East Cleveland.
Chasing Justice LLC said officials are aware of illegal practices within the city government and police department.
Their event is set for 11:30 a.m. outside East Cleveland City Hall.
** 19 News will have livestreaming coverage available. **
Claims by the organization include:
- Hiring of an auxiliary officer who did not attend basic training and is not appointed a peace officer by the state
- Unlawful prosecution of Dominique Campbell
- Assault of citizens by police officers caught on camera
- Improper distribution of city money
Chasing Justice LLC said they are “seeking the arrest of certain persons within the police department who have assaulted citizens and violated civil and constitutional rights.”
The organization said affidavits were filed Friday morning with East Cleveland courts.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, May 9, 2023
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
107 AM CDT Tue May 9 2023
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
counties, Bandera, Medina and Uvalde.
* WHEN...Until 415 AM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 107 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Medina, Uvalde, Tarpley, Sabinal, Utopia, Concan, Knippa,
Garner State Park, D'Hanis, Reagan Wells, Hill Country State
Natural Area and Uvalde Estates.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 AM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN CAMERON COUNTY...
At 110 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Villa Pancho,
or near Southmost, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile
homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
Locations impacted include...
Los Fresnos, South Padre Island, Rancho Viejo, Southmost, Olmito,
Port Of Brownsville, Cameron Park, Downtown Brownsville, Brownsville
and Lincoln Park.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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GLENDALE, Calif., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Britive has announced its recognition as an Innovation Leader in the 2022 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for vendors in the Dynamic Resource Entitlement & Access Management (DREAM) platforms. This ranking reflects a combined view of ratings across Product, Innovation, and Market Leadership categories.
The report includes an acknowledgement that Britive is a Leader in the Innovation category, underscoring Britive's continued excellence in the privileged access marketplace. Scoring highly among 21 vendors for both the Product and Innovation categories, this research confirms that Britive is well-positioned to help shape the emerging space with new features, functionality, and product innovations, which according to KuppingerCole must encompass aspects of endpoint, network, and cloud.
"Building the technologies that deliver privileged access management in a way that works across the multi-cloud is extremely difficult. It is validating to see that experts in the space are recognizing the strength of the solutions that we have developed – innovations that have been driven not just by us, but by the requirements of our customers," said Art Poghosyan Co-Founder and CEO at Britive.
The paper, authored by Paul Fisher, Lead Analyst at KuppingerCole Analysts AG, also covers trends influencing the wider DREAM market and essential capabilities required of solutions in this space, as well as how solutions from 21 different identity vendors meet customer expectations. This release marks the first time this report has been published, with an increasing number of business units working with cloud services meaning demand for the technology has been growing fast.
Britive received positive or very positive scores for security, functionality, interoperability, and usability, while the publication also focuses on its strengths in delivering just-in-time (JIT) capabilities.
The document states that "Britive has one of the widest compatibilities for JIT machine and non-machine access cloud services, including IaaS, DaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions including less obvious provisioning for cloud service such as Snowflake (DaaS), Workday, Okta Identity Cloud, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Google Workspace and others," concluding that it is 'quite eye opening in the way it supports multi-cloud access especially in high-risk develop environments"
Recognition from KuppingerCole Analyst AG marks a significant year for the cybersecurity vendor. Earlier in 2022, the firm announced JIT support for Snowflake alongside deeper integrations with both Workspace and Okta. New alliances include recent partnerships with Lacework, Torq and TD Synnex, and it was also named a Hot Company in Identity and Access Management by Global InfoSec awards.
About Britive
Britive (www.britive.com) secures identities and privileges in multi-cloud and hybrid organizations. The Britive platform empowers teams across cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and security functions with dynamic and intelligent privileged access administration solutions for multi-cloud environments. Using deep API-based integrations, our patent-pending technology orchestrates permissioning for the modern enterprise cloud infrastructure and applications. The Britive platform helps organizations implement cloud security best practices like Just-In-Time (JIT) access and zero standing privileges (ZSP) to prevent security breaches and operational disruptions, while increasing efficiency and user productivity. Customers include medium to large businesses and Fortune 500 enterprises across healthcare, automotive, retail, media & entertainment, and other industries. Britive was founded by security industry veterans with a record of accomplishment as successful entrepreneurs and innovators.
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GLENDALE — A motorcyclist has been hospitalized after a shooting near 67th Avenue and Thunderbird Road Thursday afternoon.
Officials say police were called to the area for a welfare check. There, they found a motorcyclist with a single gunshot wound.
The motorcyclist was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries.
67th Avenue between Cactus and Thunderbird roads is closed while this incident is under investigation.
No further information is immediately available.
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Police: Woman charged with hitting 2-year-old multiple times at grocery store
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) - Police in Kentucky arrested a woman after witnesses reported her hitting a 2-year-old child multiple times in a grocery store.
Elizabethtown police charged Danielle K. Bryant with criminal abuse of a child 12 years of age or younger for a Monday night incident.
According to WAVE, officers received a call regarding a report of a woman who hit a juvenile inside a Kroger store.
Police said they obtained video surveillance showing Bryant at the checkout line, where the 2-year-old had fallen out of a shopping cart.
Authorities said the video showed Bryant pick up the child, who was crying, and hit her with her left hand.
The video also showed Bryant pulling the child’s hair, according to police.
Officers said a witness told police Bryant had told the child to “shut the f*** up” before hitting her. The witness also said they saw Bryant take the child to her car and put her into a car seat.
The child continued to cry during this, and the witness said they saw Bryant open the car door and strike the child with her hand.
The witness reportedly said Bryant hit the child three to five times.
Officers said they interviewed Bryant, and that she admitted to hitting the child because she was “overstimulated” by the child’s crying.
The officers said Bryant told them she put the 2-year-old in the car seat because the child bit her. She said she “lost it” and confessed to hitting the girl.
When they checked the child, officers said her face was red and swollen on the left side.
Police arrested Bryant early Tuesday morning and booked her in the Hardin County Jail.
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Wanted: 7,000 construction workers for Intel chip plants
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
Associated Press
JOHNSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment when there’s also a national shortage of people working in the trades.
At hand is the $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing operation near the state’s capital, announced by Intel earlier this year. When the two factories, known as fabs, open in 2025, the facility will employ 3,000 people with an average salary of around $135,000.
Before that happens, the 1,000-acre site must be leveled and the semiconductor factories built.
“This project reverberated nationwide,” said Michael Engbert, an Ohio-based official with the Laborers’ International Union of North America.
“We don’t field calls every day from members hundreds or thousands of miles away asking about transferring into Columbus, Ohio,” he said. “It’s because they know Intel is coming.”
To win the project, Ohio offered Intel roughly $2 billion in incentives, including a 30-year tax break. Intel has outlined $150 million in educational funding aimed at growing the semiconductor industry regionally and nationally.
Construction is expected to accelerate following Congress’ approval last month of a package boosting the semiconductor industry and scientific research in a bid to create more high-tech jobs in the United States and help it better compete with international rivals. It includes more than $52 billion in grants and other incentives for the semiconductor industry as well as a 25% tax credit for those companies that invest in chip plants in the U.S.
For the central Ohio project, all 7,000 workers aren’t required right away. They’re also only a portion of what will be needed as the Intel project transforms hundreds of largely rural acres about 30 minutes east of Columbus.
Just six months after Intel revealed the Ohio operation, for example, Missouri-based VanTrust Real Estate announced it was building a 500-acre (200-hectare) business park next door to house Intel suppliers. The site’s 5 million square feet (464,515 square meters) is equivalent to nearly nine football fields. Other projects for additional suppliers are expected.
California-based Intel will rely on lessons learned in building previous semiconductor sites nationally and globally to ensure enough construction workers, the company said in a statement.
“One of Intel’s top reasons for choosing Ohio is access to the region’s robust workforce,” the company said. “It will not be without its challenges, but we are confident there is enough demand that these jobs will be filled.”
Labor leaders and state officials acknowledge there’s not currently a pool of 7,000 extra workers in central Ohio, where other current projects include a 28-story Hilton near downtown Columbus, a $2 billion addition to The Ohio State University’s medical center, and a $365 million Amgen biomanufacturing plant not far from the Intel plant.
And that’s not counting at least three new Google and Amazon data centers, plans for a new $200 million municipal courthouse south of downtown Columbus and solar array projects that could require nearly 6,000 construction jobs by themselves.
Federal data shows about 45,000 home and commercial construction workers in central Ohio. That number increased by 1,800 from May 2021 to May 2022, meaning a future deficit given current and future demands.
(asterisk)I don’t know of a single commercial construction company that’s not hiring,” said Mary Tebeau, executive director of the Builders Exchange of Central Ohio, a construction industry trade association.
Offsetting the imbalance are training programs, a push to encourage more high school students to enter the trades, and pure economics. Including overtime, pay for skilled tradespeople could hit $125,000 annually, said Dorsey Hager, executive secretary-treasurer of the Columbus Building Trades Council.
Or as Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, the state’s economic development point person, puts it, the Intel project is so big and lucrative it will create opportunities for people who didn’t see construction jobs in their future.
“When you’re willing to pay people more to do something, you will find the talent,” he said.
In addition to new and out-of-state workers, some will likely be pulled from the residential construction industry, thinning out an already short supply of homebuilders, said Ed Brady, CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Home Builders Institute.
That creates a housing shortage risk that could slow the very type of economic development that Intel is sparking, said Ed Dietz of the National Association of Home Builders.
“How do you attract those business investments if you can’t also provide additional housing available for the growth in the labor force?” he said.
Central Ohio is expected to reach 3 million residents by 2050, a rate that would require 11,000 to 14,000 housing units a year. That was before Intel was announced, said Jennifer Noll, the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission’s associate director for community development. Meanwhile, the closest the region came to hitting that goal was in 2020 with 11,000 units.
“We know we’ve got some work to do as a region,” Noll said.
Shortage or not, work is underway at and near the Intel site, where parades of trucks rumbled down country roads on a recent August morning as the beeping of multiple construction vehicles sounded in the distance.
It was just another day for pipe layer Taylor Purdy, who made his regular 30-minute drive from Bangs, Ohio, to his construction job helping widen a road running alongside the Intel plant.
Purdy, 28, spends his days in trenches helping position storm and sanitary sewers and waterlines. Overtime is plentiful as deadlines approach. The Intel construction work is in its earliest phases as earthmovers reshape the 1,000 acres (400 hectares) of former farm and residential land being transformed into an industrial site.
Purdy said he likes the job security of being involved on such a big project. He’s also noticed that, unlike other jobs he has worked, he does not need to explain to people what he is up to.
“They all know what I’m talking about,” he said.
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Trial opens for QAnon follower who chased officer at Capitol
WASHINGTON (AP) - An Iowa man who was part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol believed a conspiracy theory that law enforcement officers would be arresting “all the corrupt politicians,” starting that day with then-Vice President Mike Pence, a defense attorney told jurors Tuesday.
Doug Jensen wore a shirt bearing the letter “Q” to express his adherence to the QAnon conspiracy theory when he joined the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. A viral video recorded by a reporter’s cellphone showed Jensen running after a Capitol Police officer who was retreating from a crowd of rioters up a flight of stairs.
A federal prosecutor showed jurors the video at the start of Jensen’s trial. They also saw a photograph of Jensen with his arms extended as he confronted a line of police officers near the Senate chambers, one of the most memorable images from the riot.
“This is not a whodunit case,” defense attorney Christopher Davis said during the trial’s opening statements. “Literally, the whole case is on video.”
But he stressed that none of the video shows Jensen engaging in any violence or property damage.
“You will not see this man lay a hand on anyone,” Davis said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Allen told jurors they will hear testimony by Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman. Jensen was at the front of a group of rioters who followed Goodman as the officer ran up the stairs.
Goodman “approached them with his hand on his gun because he had no way of knowing what they were capable of doing,” Allen said. “And he knew that he was desperately outnumbered and alone.”
Davis said Jensen, a construction worker, was motivated by his “100%” belief in QAnon, a conspiracy theory that spread beyond the dark fringes of the internet to penetrate mainstream Republican politics.
QAnon has centered on the baseless notion that former President Donald Trump was secretly fighting a Satan-worshipping cabal of “deep state” enemies, prominent Democrats and Hollywood elites during his time in the White House. Another core tenet of QAnon is the apocalyptic prophesy that “The Storm” was coming and would usher in mass arrests and executions of Trump’s foes.
Before the riot, Trump and his allies spread the false narrative that Pence somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election. Davis told jurors they will hear Jensen implore police officers to “do their job” and arrest Pence, who was presiding over the Senate on Jan. 6.
“He believed they were obligated to do it,” Davis said. “He believed that martial law was going to be instituted.”
After scaling the outer walls of the Capitol, Jensen climbed through a broken window to enter the building. He was one of the first 10 rioters to enter the building, according to prosecutors.
Allen said Jensen learned from a friend’s text message that Pence was about to certify the election results.
“That’s all about to change,” Jensen replied.
Jensen is charged with seven counts, including charges that he obstructed the joint session of Congress to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory, that he interfered with police and that he engaged in disorderly conduct inside the Capitol while carrying a knife in his pocket.
Allen said Jensen “got what he came for” in Washington on Jan. 6.
“The proceedings in Congress stopped,” she said. “That’s why he was there.”
Jenson drove back home to Des Moines, Iowa, a day after the riot. The following day, he walked six miles to a police station and showed up unannounced, saying he was probably a wanted man. But there weren’t any warrants for his arrest when two FBI agents questioned him at the station.
Jensen told the agents he considered himself a “digital soldier” who was “religiously” following QAnon. He said he worked his way to the front of the crowd because he “wanted Q to get the attention.”
“I basically intended on being the poster boy, and it really worked out,” he said, according to a transcript of the interview on Jan. 8, 2021.
Jensen told the FBI agents his belief in QAnon cost him friends and family members who think he is “insane.” One of the agents asked him if he had any regrets about his actions on Jan. 6.
“I don’t know. It depends on if the outcome I wanted happens, then it would have been worth it. But if nothing happens except for negativity from this, and I’m a rioter, then, yeah, I completely regret it,” he said.
Jensen asked U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly to suppress statements he made to the FBI and the evidence seized from his cellphone. The judge denied his request earlier this month.
The first government witness for Jensen’s trial is scheduled to testify Wednesday. Kelly said the trial could conclude later this week.
More than 870 people have been charged with federal crimes for their conduct on Jan. 6. Approximately 400 of them have pleaded guilty. Juries have convicted eight Capitol riot defendants after trials. None of the defendants who had jury trials was acquitted of any charges.
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Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, who has become popular in Republican circles and frequently appears on conservative TV shows, says he is considering running for office.
“I actually do, yes,” Kanter Freedom said on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” when asked if he had interest in running for office. “I would actually, when the time is right.”
Kanter Freedom, who grew up in Turkey, has been an outspoken critic of the Turkish and Chinese governments. In particular, he has blasted the NBA for its relationship with China given the country’s detainment and abuse of millions of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, which the Biden administration has declared a genocide.
Kanter Freedom also took aim at basketball icon LeBron James, who recently broke the NBA’s all-time scoring record. He accused James of standing up against injustices in the U.S. but not in China because “the things that he talks about in America is not going to affect his money or business.”
“It’s not going to affect his jersey sales or shoe sales, whatever,” Kanter Freedom said.
Kanter Freedom attended lunches with Senate Republicans and the House Republican Study Committee last year, and was also set to be a speaker at the Conservative Political Action Coalition conference before later canceling on the event.
He said he has not started fundraising for a possible campaign yet, but he has discussed the possibility with people close to him and lawmakers.
“I haven’t started yet,” Kanter Freedom said. “But I started to have conversations with some of my friends and members of Congress.”
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Yazoo Co. man found guilty of raping family member released on bond
YAZOO COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT) - A Yazoo County man who was found guilty of raping a member of his family has been released on bond.
Jimmy Allen was found guilty of six counts of statutory rape of the family member, which began when the victim was only eleven years old.
Allen was sentenced to serve thirty years due to the charges.
Authorities testified that Jimmy Allen was placed on suicide watch after his initial conviction, with prosecutors stating that he was a danger to himself and the community.
Because of this, the court asked to not allow him out on bond.
Despite the recommendation, the judge granted Allen a bond of $75,000 to be released from jail while awaiting his appeal.
“Today’s decision, granting Allen a bond after being convicted by a jury, was very disturbing, shocking and disappointing to the victim and her family,” read a statement from The Office of the District Attorney.
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Work at the Northern Maine Fair Continues for Opening Day, Presque Isle, Maine
Northern Maine Fair President Updates Progress
Northern Maine Fair Association President, Lynwood Winslow, talked to Townsquare Media about the current phase of the fairgrounds and how things look going forward as the Fair fast approaches on August 4 - 7, 2022.
PHOTOS
Take a look at the photos of the work in progress at the fairgrounds in Presque Isle.
Current Phase of Harness Track
The work on the race track is set up now like it will be for the fair said Winslow. The plan is to have lots of equipment, antiques and more on display. “We opened up turns 1 and 2 and graded that. We’re going to have it all for the equipment display area and other activities. It will give us a lot more room as we tie the livestock area to the rest of the fair.”
Main Thoroughfare
Kids games and live music will also be in that same area. “We’ll grow that as a display area over the next several years. It will also be a main thoroughfare for the fair to have activities between the livestock area and old midway area. Over time, it will become permanent fencing,” added Winslow.
Improving the Infield Layout
The remodeling of turns 1 and 2 also affect the layout on the infield. “It helps us a lot with the set up for events like the demolition derby and the truck pulls. We can make a lot of that permanent now.”
WWII Traveling Museum
New to the fair this year is the World War II Traveling Museum. It will be in the same area as well. “That is going to be 100 X 100 with some old restored World War II era army and military equipment,” said Winslow.
George Allen Memorial Horse Arena
The George Allen Memorial Horse Arena has a brand new location. “We spent a lot of hours with a lot of volunteers and a lot of donations to get that moved closer to the action."
Horse Arena Seating
People can see these young people who are having horse exhibits at the fair. It’s going to tie the area into our new Lil’ Lumberjacks.”
Lil’ Lumberjacks
Winslow said Lil’ Lumberjacks has been a two year project. “Hopefully people will see the vision we have. The idea is to have an interactive exhibit similar to Lil’ Farmers, but geared entirely to the forestry industry where kids and anyone can come and learn at an elementary level about the forestry industry.”
*The photo below was taken on Sunday, July 24. Work continues on the project.
Additional Details
Get more information about the Northern Maine Fair schedule. Also, go to the Fair’s Facebook page and homepage for additional posts and updates.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – Spring is the perfect time for homeowners to tackle those do-it-yourself home improvement projects, you’ve had your eye on.
We spoke with timely Chip Wade, the original Emmy-winning host of HGTV shows like Elbow Room, Curb Appeal: The Block and several others. For more click HERE.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — An international human rights group says Sri Lanka’s government is using emergency laws to harass and arbitrarily detain protesters who are seeking political reform and accountability amid the island country’s economic crisis.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement Wednesday that Sri Lanka’s military sought to curtail protests through intimidation, surveillance, and arbitrary arrests of demonstrators, activists, lawyers and journalists since President Ranil Wickremesinghe took office last month.
Sri Lanka’s Parliament approved a state of emergency July 27. The decree gives the president the power to make regulations in the interest of public security and order.
Wickremesinghe, who had ordered arrests of protesters, has said that although the protests started peacefully, groups with political interests took over later and became violent, citing the burning of dozens of ruling party politicians’ homes in May.
Sri Lankans had been protesting for months over the country’s economic crisis that has led to a severe shortage of many essential imported items like medicines, fuel and cooking gas. Wickremesinghe’s predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country after protesters stormed his official residence and also occupied many key state buildings including the president’s office, prime minister’s office and the prime minister’s official residence. Wickremesinghe was elected by Parliament to complete Rajapaksa’s term, which ends in 2024.
In a speech to Parliament on Wednesday, Wickremesinghe promised leniency for those who took to violence unknowingly or at the instigation of others. He also promised to punish those who broke laws willfully.
Some of those arrested are accused of clashing with security forces and encouraging people to break into Parliament. Officials have also seized the passport of a British woman who posted about the protests on social media.
“The Sri Lankan government’s crackdown on peaceful dissent appears to be a misguided and unlawful attempt to divert attention from the need to address the country’s urgent economic crisis,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, Human Rights Watch’s South Asia director.
Sri Lanka is bankrupt, having announced that it is suspending repayment of its foreign loans pending the outcome of talks with the International Monetary Fund for a rescue package.
“Sri Lanka’s international partners should be clear that they need to be working with a rights-respecting administration to address Sri Lanka’s deeply rooted economic problems,” Ganguly said.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
08-12-19-24-45
(eight, twelve, nineteen, twenty-four, forty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $1,050,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
08-12-19-24-45
(eight, twelve, nineteen, twenty-four, forty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $1,050,000
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Top-performing IGT PlayCasino titles including Cleopatra®, The Big Easy™ and Cash Eruption™ deployed on Planetwin365 casino
LONDON, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC ("IGT") (NYSE: IGT) announced today that IGT PlayDigital has grown its partnership with SKS365 Group through an expanded multi-year content agreement. SKS365 Group is the international sports betting and gaming operator of Planetwin365 casino and one of the largest operators in the Italian market. As part of this deal, Planetwin365 casino will leverage IGT PlayDigital's high-performing remote game server (RGS) to offer an expanded content library with exciting new PlayCasino games across the region.
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"IGT PlayDigital's multi-year agreement with SKS365 Group, one of the largest operators in the market, combines two powerhouse gaming companies with deep roots in Italy to deliver market-attuned themes to Planetwin365 casino players," said Gil Rotem, IGT President of iGaming. "By incorporating IGT's high-functioning RGS, Planetwin365 casino can offer an optimal player experience with some of the industry's top-performing games such as IGT's Temple of Fire, Pharaoh's Fortune and Scarab. We look forward to expanding our PlayCasino footprint and continuing to provide best-in-class solutions to Italian players."
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ELMAU, Germany (AP) — President Joe Biden and Western allies opened a three-day summit in the Bavarian Alps on Sunday intent on keeping economic fallout from the war in Ukraine from fracturing the global coalition working to punish Russia’s aggression. Britain’s Boris Johnson warned the leaders not to give in to “fatigue” even as Russia lobbed new missiles at Kyiv.
The Group of Seven leaders were set to announce new bans on imports of Russian gold, the latest in a series of sanctions the club of democracies hopes will further isolate Russia economically. They also were looking at possible price caps on energy meant to limit Russian oil and gas profits that Moscow can pump into its war effort.
And following up on a proposal from last year’s G-7 summit, Biden formally launched a global infrastructure partnership designed to counter China’s influence in the developing world. The initiative aims to leverage $600 billion with fellow G-7 countries by 2027 for global infrastructure projects. Some $200 billion would come from the United States, Biden said.
U.S. officials have long argued that China’s infrastructure initiative traps receiving countries in debt and that the investments benefit China more than their hosts.
In a pre-summit show of force, Russia launched its first missile strikes against the Ukrainian capital in three weeks, striking at least two residential buildings, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
Biden condemned Russia’s actions as “more of their barbarism,” and stressed that allies need to remain firm even as the economic reverberations from the war take a toll around the globe in inflation, food shortages and more.
“We have to stay together, because Putin has been counting on, from the beginning, that somehow NATO and the G-7 would splinter, but we haven’t and we’re not going to,” Biden said during a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who holds the G-7′s rotating presidency and is hosting the gathering.
As the G-7 leaders sat down for their opening session, they took a light-hearted jab at Putin. Johnson could be heard asking whether he should keep his jacket on, adding, “We all have to show that we’re tougher than Putin.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chimed in: “A bare-chested horseback ride.”
Over the years, the Kremlin has released several photos of the Russian leader in which he appears shirtless.
Biden and his counterparts were using the gathering to discuss how to secure energy supplies and tackle inflation triggered by the war’s fallout.
The leaders also came together on the new global infrastructure partnership meant to provide an alternative to Russian and Chinese investment in the developing world. One by one, the leaders stepped up to the microphone to discuss the partnership and their roles in it — without mentioning China by name.
Ukraine cast a shadow over the gathering, but the leaders were determined to project resolve.
Scholz told Biden that the allies all managed “to stay united, which obviously Putin never expected.”
Biden said of Putin’s war: “We can’t let this aggression take the form it has and get away with it.”
Scholz, who has faced criticism at home and abroad for perceived reluctance to send Ukraine heavy weapons, said, “Germany and the U.S. will always act together when it comes to questions of Ukraine’s security.”
Johnson, for his part, urged fellow leaders not to give in to “fatigue.” He has expressed concern that divisions may emerge in the pro-Ukraine alliance as the four-month-old war grinds on.
Asked whether he thought France and Germany were doing enough, Johnson praised the “huge strides” made by Germany to arm Ukraine and cut imports of Russian gas. He did not mention France.
Biden and Scholz, in their pre-summit meeting, agreed on the need for a negotiated end to the Ukraine war, but did not get into specifics on how to achieve it, said a senior Biden administration official, who requested anonymity to reveal details of a private conversation.
However, they did not have an extensive discussion about oil price caps or inflation, the official said.
Other leaders echoed Biden’s praise of coalition unity.
The head of the European Union’s council of governments said the 27-member bloc maintains “unwavering unity” in backing Ukraine against Russia’s invasion with money and political support, but that “Ukraine needs more and we are committed to providing more.”
European Council President Charles Michel said EU governments were ready to supply “more military support, more financial means, and more political support” to enable Ukraine to defend itself and “curb Russia’s ability to wage war.”
The EU has imposed six rounds of sanctions against Russia, the latest one being a ban on 90% of Russian crude oil imports by the end of the year. The measure is aimed at a pillar of the Kremlin’s finances, its oil and gas revenues.
Biden and the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, plus the EU, spent Sunday in both formal and informal settings discussing the war’s effects on the global economy, including inflation.
Biden said G-7 nations, including the United States, will ban imports of gold from Russia. A formal announcement was expected Tuesday as the leaders wind up their annual summit.
Johnson said the ban will “directly hit Russian oligarchs and strike at the heart of Putin’s war machine.”
“Putin is squandering his dwindling resources on this pointless and barbaric war. He is bankrolling his ego at the expense of both the Ukrainian and Russian people,” Johnson said. “We need to starve the Putin regime of its funding.”
Gold, in recent years, has been the top Russian export after energy — reaching almost $19 billion or about 5% of global gold exports, in 2020, according to the White House.
Of Russian gold exports, 90% was consigned to G-7 countries. More than 90% of those exports, or nearly $17 billion, was exported to the U.K. The United States imported less than $200 million in gold from Russia in 2019, and under $1 million in 2020 and 2021.
As for the idea of price caps on energy, Michel said, “we want to go into the details, we want to fine-tune … to make sure we have a clear common understanding of what are the direct effects and what could be the collateral consequences” if such a step were to be taken by the group.
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Superville reported from Telfs, Austria and Moulson from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Associated Press writer Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.
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Putin orders Russian military to beef up forces by 137,000
Moscow — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered the Russian military to increase the size of the country's armed forces by 137,000 amid Moscow’s military action in Ukraine.
Putin’s decree, which takes effect on Jan. 1, didn’t explain whether the military will beef up its ranks by drafting a bigger number of conscripts, increasing the number of volunteer soldiers or using a combination of both.
The presidential decree seeks to boost the number of Russian armed forces’ personnel to 2,039,758 overall, including 1,150,628 servicemen. A previous order put the military's numbers at 1,902,758 and 1,013,628 respectively at the start of 2018.
The Kremlin has said that only volunteer contract soldiers take part in what it calls the “special military operation” in Ukraine, rejecting claims that it was pondering a broad mobilization.
Russian media and non-governmental organizations say Russian authorities have sought to bolster the number of troops involved in the military action in Ukraine by attracting more volunteers, engaging private military contractors and even offering amnesty to some prisoners in exchange for a tour of military duty.
All Russian men aged 18-27 must serve one year in the military, but a large share avoid the draft for health reasons or deferments granted to university students. The share of men who avoid the draft is particularly big in Moscow and other major cities.
The Russian military rounds up draftees twice a year, during the spring and in the fall. Putin ordered the drafting 134,500 conscripts during the latest spring draft.
In recent years, the Kremlin has emphasized increasing the share of volunteer contract soldiers as it sought to modernize the army and improve its readiness. Before the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine, the Russian military had over 400,000 contract soldiers, including 147,000 in the ground forces.
Military observers have noted that if the campaign in Ukraine drags on, those numbers could be clearly insufficient to sustain the operations in Ukraine, which has declared a goal of forming a 1-million-strong military.
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Lindsay Hubbard doesn't understand her Summer House castmates' concerns that she's "changed."
"I've grown," she declares to ET, "and good, I should change. I am in mid-30s. Like, if I am not constantly evolving and growing up and trying to be an adult, then what am I doing? And there are some people who probably should do that, that live in this house, but they don't."
"I can understand if it's something that I did," she acknowledges. "Like, if I'm out there getting activated and being a b***h to people and just saying awful things. Like, if I said something awful to you then, yeah, you have every right to talk s**t about me and blame me like this and that, but they're tearing me apart because I'm in love? Are you kidding me?"
A constant conversation on season 7 so far is that Lindsay's made herself smaller to fit into her relationship with now-fiancé Carl Radke.
"I've tried it the other way," she says. "I've tried being the selfish one in a relationship, yelling and screaming about sandwiches, getting activated, you know? And it doesn’t work, but here I am, like, trying to compromise, trying to be respectful to my sober boyfriend and it's just wild to me that these girls can't see that."
Some of the women of the house -- namely Paige DeSorbo and Lindsay's now former friend, Danielle Olivera -- questioned Lindsay's new pulled-back approach to partying during a girls' night out, at which Lindsay actually intended to "get f**ked up."
"First, at Winter House, they're like, 'Good, she should stay sober!' Then, at Summer House, they're like, 'Oh my god, she's not drinking as much...' and it's like, well which one do you want me to do?" she asks. "Like, no matter what, I cannot win, and it's exhausting."
"By the way, I think people could take some notes on compromising for relationships," she adds. "I think that's what adults do. You search your entire life for the love of your life, for this type of love, and I was so blessed to be able to find it in my best friend. That's very rare. Some people never, to the end of time, they never find the kind of love that Carl and I have. Like, that should be celebrated."
Before the girls' night confrontation, a number of private conversations played out behind Lindsay's back, including one between Paige and Mya Allen, in which the duo surmised Lindsay would become "resentful" of Carl. This came the morning after Lindsay opted out of a night out on the other side of the Hamptons, in Montauk, because Carl preferred to stay in instead.
"Carl makes me better in certain ways, and I make him better in certain ways," she offers, shutting down any thought of resentment in her relationship. "Last year, taking a break from drinking, it changed my relationship with alcohol. Like, people need to stop putting this, 'Lindsay's changing for her relationship...' no, Lindsay's changing for herself."
"I'm 36 years old," she notes. "I'm going to get married this year. I'm going to, hopefully, have babies next year, you know? That is where my life is going. I no longer have myself to be responsible for; I have someone else. Again, that goes back to the conversation of being a little less selfish and more selfless in my relationship, and I don't think that that's a bad thing that I'm changing into a better person."
"I'm 'changing for my relationship?' No, I'm changing for myself and you're welcome," she adds. "I can go back to being activated and biting people's heads off, but guarantee you they will not like that. I think they should all appreciate this version of myself."
She also hits back at speculation she's not being honest about her decision to pull back on drinking; in an ultimately unaired moment teased in a promo for episode 7, Paige scoffed at Lindsay's assertion that her biggest annoyance about Carl is that he uses a fresh towel after every shower.
"I'm like, b***h, you don't like that he doesn't let you drink," Paige chided. "Why don't you tell the real s**t if we're actually talking?"
"She's trying to control the narrative of how I feel, and I'm pretty sure I know how I feel," Lindsay says. "Have we ever witnessed Lindsay not talk about how she feels? No. I'm very very direct with my emotions. There's no if, ands, or buts about it."
Lindsay admits she's "not surprised" about the "pile on" by the group, but she is surprised by "the amount" of it playing out in season 7, especially with Danielle. Lindsay called out Danielle for being "hard" on her at the dinner.
"She always prides herself on being tough love with Lindsay, like she's the one person who can really give it to me straight, but this is not that," she explains. "This is not tough love, this is you mishandling communication with me. This is not like, 'Oh tough love, you didn't come get wasted in Montauk with me at 4 a.m.' Tough love? Like, are you kidding me? Like no, no, no. Slap a different label on it, because that's not what this is."
Lindsay believes the season is "in the middle of the shift" when it comes to her and Danielle's falling out, with her refusal to go to Montauk as the initial tipping point. Lindsay explains that refusing to got to Montauk isn't just refusing to go out; it's turning down "a four-hour trip" as Montauk is an hour away from their share house in South Hampton.
"If she wants to go to Montauk on a Sunday, let's go to Montauk on a Sunday at, like, a reasonable hour," she says, "but I don't really need to go at 4 a.m."
When Danielle spoke with ET earlier in the season, she boiled down her issues with Lindsay to Lindsay being "self-absorbed" and not showing up as a friend to her in the way Danielle shows up as one to Lindsay.
"I don't," Lindsay says in agreement. "I am a good friend to Danielle, or at least I was, for very different reasons than she was a good friend to me. You can't really compare hypotheticals in this situation, like, 'Oh, would Lindsay defend you if you were being attacked, Danielle?'"
"No one attacks Danielle," she points out. "I don't have to defend her against all these other girls, so Danielle was a good friend to me in the sense that she defended me. I have always been a good friend to Danielle in very different ways, like emotional support... We had each other's backs, both of us, equally, but there are ways that she's a friend to me and some different ways and I'm a friend to her."
"That's how friendship works," Lindsay declares. As for Danielle labeling Lindsay "self-absorbed," she offers, "I think that you'll have to keep watching the season and decide that for yourself."
"Danielle -- you are going to see it -- my engagement to Carl, our engagement, Danielle was on a different level," she teases. "Like, I don't even know how to explain it. At no point did she say, 'I am really sorry,' like, 'I should not have acted that way...'"
Lindsay says, had Danielle offered any sort of apology for what's yet-to-be seen this season, then "that would have opened the door" for them to reconcile. Instead, they haven't spoken since cameras went down last September, even when Danielle split from longtime boyfriend Robert Sieber. Danielle confessed to ET, she was surprised to not even receive a text from Lindsay acknowledging the tough moment.
"I think it's a little unfair to not support your friend in her happiness, in her growth, and then expect her to support you in your breakup," Lindsay replies. "She did and said a lot last summer, and when her and Robert broke up ... I wasn't really sure. She was still liking his photos and commenting, so I just I was like, oh, maybe it's just a rumor..."
"I think it's a little unfair to expect me to show up for you after everything she did and said over summer," she continues. "To then put everything on me, and expect me to do all the heavy lifting when you are the one who messed up this friendship with me? Like, that is what? Like, that is a little crazy. That is crazy pants."
For Lindsay, it seems to be less about what Danielle had to say and more about how she went about saying it, like Danielle's choice to vent about Lindsay to their castmates, many of whom Lindsay historically does not get along with.
"I have never seen someone flip a switch that quickly, to calling you a best friend and then talking s**t about you to girls who you know publicly and infamously do not like me," she says. "Like, if you have an issue, call another best friend of mine; but if you're going to people you know hate me, what are you doing?"
Lindsay also finds it ironic how Danielle's formed friendships with these women because she says, "I know of Danielle's feelings and how she felt about these girls."
For her part, Lindsay attempted to repair, or at least improve, her relationships with some of the women, especially Amanda Batula. At the season 6 reunion, Amanda remarked how Lindsay had "tainted" Carl, a word she took back at an on-camera lunch meeting Lindsay called to squash whatever beef they had.
"I believe her when she says that, but I don't think she was fully taking responsibility for the actual issue," Lindsays says. "I think the actual issue in that situation was, look, you said something negative about me. It was very hurtful, and she is not taking responsibility or apologizing for that. She is just apologizing for the word 'tainted.' So I think it's a little bit of a cop out."
Lindsay and Amanda sat down after a game-night incident at their share house left Amanda in tears, as Danielle declared her the person she trusts the least in the group. Amanda's husband Kyle Cooke's reaction was to go after Lindsay, declaring her "a f**king evil, conniving b***h" and "a f**king pyscho."
"He actually said so many more things that they did not air," Lindsay claims. "He said a lot."
Lindsay says she did not hear from Kyle after the episode aired, and is disappointed in him for doing "a lot of public bashing in the media" about her and Carl, who parted ways with Kyle's company, Loverboy, after filming wrapped. Carl started questioning his future with the canned alcohol brand before filming began on season 7, which Kyle largely blamed on Lindsay being "in his ear."
"For starters, you should be able to communicate to your partner about work," Lindsay fires back. "If you don't, I think that's weird. Yeah, you could call it 'in his ear,' or you can call it normal conversations between partners to figure out a solution, because he was so unhappy."
"If he's really unhappy, let's try to figure out how to get you happy," she continues. "Like, I'm not the one who was working for Loverboy. Carl was the one who was frustrated. Carl was the one who wanted to leave and he just needed to figure out how to do that."
Lindsay doesn't appreciate how Kyle's POV paints "Carl as this weak mean who can't think for himself and also make decisions for himself."
"Kyle was saying I am a puppeteer and Carl's my puppet," she laments. "Like, what are you saying about your friend? You're saying that he's weak, and I think that's messed up -- and if you think that I'm the only one who talks to Carl in this whole wide world, like, let's think through things a little bit. Carl talks to his father, he talks to his guy friends, he talks to a business advisor -- he has a lot of people that he talks to beyond me and gets advice from, you know?"
While it doesn't look like it's headed this way, Lindsay is hopeful some "lightness" pokes through in the back half of season 7. Carl's proposal to Lindsay will play out in the final episodes, setting the stage for a wedding-themed (potential) season 8. The two plan to tie the knot this November in Riviera Maya, Mexico.
In between wedding planning, Lindsay and Carl are finding time to give back, partnering with Barry's Bootcamp for a series of fitness classes benefiting Chick Mission, a non-profit assisting women recently diagnosed with cancer find solutions to preserve their fertility.
"You guys have seen my fertility journey, started with a miscarriage and then me going to the fertility clinic to just check on everything," she shares, "and I wound up freezing my eggs last year, about a year ago actually on Mother's Day."
"Now that I know how this whole process works, I just I really wish that people talk about it more and I'm hoping to be that person," she says. "It needs to be talked about, especially for women who have cancer. You get diagnosed with cancer, that is heartbreaking news to receive, and then you have to immediately launch into, 'Oh my gosh, can I have kids? I don't know...' So, how do I at least preserve that fertility before I go through my cancer treatment."
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SEATTLE — Twenty years ago, Amy Gilchrist became an egg donor.
She was in law school at Seattle University and had a friend who was struggling with infertility.
So she decided to go through the egg donation process to give another woman a chance to have children.
"I thought, 'well heck, I'm viable, I have good genes and I want to help somebody to have children and a family,' so that's why I did it," Gilchrist said.
Due to privacy reasons, she did not know anything about the woman who received her eggs. And the egg recipient knew nothing about Gilchrist, except the description in a paper profile.
But for two decades, Gilchrist wondered about her biological children. For reasons she can't explain, she suspected twins were conceived.
When she stumbled upon the anonymous thank you card the egg recipient had given her after the donation, it sparked her journey to try to solve the almost two-decade-old mystery.
Gilchrist remembered she had signed a contract that she had a duty to disclose health information. Her mother had died of ovarian cancer and she felt she had to tell them.
"And at that point...I'll just say, hey, why not just ask them if they want to reach out and meet me?" Gilchrist said.
She called Reproductive Care at UW Medical Center where the director found the 20-year-old file and agreed to reach out to the recipient's family because of Gilchrist's medical history.
The recipient's family gave UW permission to share their information and Gilchrist immediately looked up the recipient's name on Facebook.
That's when she discovered her college roommate from Washington State University was friends with the woman who had received her eggs, Karen Rif.
"There are no words for it," Gilchrist said. "It's just astronomical."
Gilchrist's former roommate, Sunday Tollefson, had been friends with Rif for the last eight years and their children were friends.
"That was the moment where I realized that my one friend was the egg donor for my other friend who has adult children," Tollefson said.
Nabilah and Faudel Rif, 19-year-old fraternal twins, knew their dad was their biological father, but that Rif was not their biological mother.
That missing part of their identity started to bother them as they got older.
"So growing up, I never knew what the other half of me was...why I look this way, why I act a certain way," Nabilah said.
They had talked about starting the search to find their biological mother when they got the call from UW.
"I was like, 'This is not real,'" Nabilah said. "My whole entire life I never thought that this was gonna happen. I was in shock."
The three of them met for the first time in April at Din Tai Fung in Bellevue. It was an instant connection, where they not only marveled at the physical similarities but also their personalities.
"There's a lot of emotional things that me and my sister just had to live with and not understand until now," Faudel said.
Even though they just met, the three of them say it feels like they've known each other for a long time.
That's exactly how it felt when Gilchrist met Karen Rif a few weeks later, on Mother's Day weekend at their mutual friend's home.
"I think the word is lucky," Tollefson said. "I'm lucky. And I'm honored and privileged to be in this position to be able to introduce these two women who are my friends to one another."
Over the last few months, the four have spent time bonding and getting to know each other.
As they get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas, they are looking forward to spending the holidays together as a new family.
"I had always wanted someone in my life that could add something to the kids, that was complementary to what I was bringing, and she has all of those complementary aspects and attributes that I was hoping would be brought for the kids," Karen Rif said.
In 2011, Washington state became the first to pass legislation that allows egg and sperm donors to opt-in to make their identity available to a donor-conceived child once they turn 18 if they request it.
While most donors and recipients choose anonymity, Gilchrist is thankful in this case, Karen, Nabilah and Faudel wanted a relationship as much as she did.
"My life feels so much more full after this," Gilchrist said. "I always refer to my life as my empty little life. Because you know, my parents are gone. And I have no kids of my own. And I'm not married, and I'm thinking what is going on with my life? Well, wow, it's fulfilled incredibly."
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* WHAT...High temperatures 100 to 110 degrees in the San Joaquin
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Acclaimed Director/Writer/Producer Joins Warner Music in Global Deal
NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Warner Recorded Music today announced a global joint venture with Lee Daniels Music, headed by acclaimed director/writer/producer Lee Daniels. Daniels is the creative force behind the award-winning films Precious, The Butler, and Monster's Ball; the groundbreaking TV series Empire; and many more.
The agreement encompasses recorded music projects, including soundtracks, as well as artist signings. Its first project – the original motion picture soundtrack for The United States vs. Billie Holiday, starring Warner Records artist Andra Day – won this year's Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. The film was directed by Daniels and released on Hulu in February 2021, with the companion album released via Warner Records and Warner Recorded Music worldwide. Daniels continues to have a multi-year overall deal with 20th Television.
Amanda Ghost, CEO of AI Film and co-founder of Unigram (both ventures backed by Len Blavatnik's Access Industries), was integral in setting up the partnership and launching the joint venture. She also acted as Executive Music Producer on The United States vs. Billie Holiday project.
Max Lousada, CEO of Warner Recorded Music, said: "At Warner, we've built a thriving environment for creative pioneers and inspired entrepreneurs. Lee is an artistic visionary who has crafted some of the most powerful, moving, and captivating works of our era. Music has always figured prominently in his productions, driving the narrative of great films such as Precious and The Butler, while playing a central role in his influential TV series, Empire. The Billie Holiday soundtrack was a fantastic way to start our relationship, and we're looking forward to working with Lee on an exciting series of projects inspired by his deep musical knowledge and impeccable taste."
Daniels said: "I am always looking for new ways to expand and grow. I'm a filmmaker first and foremost, but, theater and music are also such passions of mine. I'm excited to be teaming up with Warner Music. It's yet another way for me to keep pushing myself creatively - - and The United States vs. Billie Holiday is just the beginning!"
Ghost added: "This venture brings together the genius of Lee Daniels, the dynamic global team at Warner, and an array of extraordinary artistic voices. Together, they'll propel great storytelling, create indelible images, and produce hit soundtracks. The Billie Holiday project has already shown us the kind of impactful experiences that will come from this collaboration, and there are some very special movies and music on the way."
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About Lee Daniels Entertainment
Lee Daniels Entertainment is a full-service production company founded in 2001 by Academy Award®-Nominated Director and Producer, and Writer, Lee Daniels. LDE is home to inclusive storytelling and serves as a platform for diverse and underrepresented voices to create authentic and original content. Since its inception, LDE has been responsible for some of Hollywood's most exhilarating film projects including MONSTER'S BALL, THE WOODSMAN, SHADOWBOXER, PRECIOUS, THE PAPERBOY and LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER. LDE's THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY, also directed by Daniels, garnered a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award ® nomination for star Andra Day, and was released by Hulu in February 2021. Daniels is currently in pre-production on his next film, THE DELIVERANCE, an exorcism thriller for Netflix, that he wrote, and will direct, and produce. The project reunites him with Day, who is starring alongside Mo'Nique, Glenn Close, Aunjanue Ellis, Rob Morgan, and Caleb McLaughlin, in the film that is inspired by an actual case where an Indiana mother believed her children became demonically possessed. LDE's expansion into television birthed what could be considered some of the most dynamic storytelling to date – Fox's EMPIRE and STAR. In May 2021, Daniels signed a new multi-year overall deal with 20th Television, extending his previous deal with the studio that began in 2014. He continues to create, develop, write, direct, and supervise new projects under his Lee Daniels Entertainment banner. Recent and upcoming projects include THE WONDER YEARS reboot (ABC), OUR KIND OF PEOPLE (Fox), MS. PAT (BET), THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (FX), the Broadway comedy AIN'T NO MO' and the untitled Sammy Davis Jr. limited series (Hulu), to be co-written and directed by Daniels.
About Warner Recorded Music
As part of Warner Music Group, Warner Recorded Music brings together artists, songwriters, and entrepreneurs that are moving entertainment culture across the globe. Operating in more than 70 countries through a network of affiliates and licensees, WMG's Recorded Music division includes renowned labels such as 300 Entertainment, Asylum, Atlantic, Big Beat, Canvasback, Elektra, Erato, First Night, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Spinnin', Warner Records, Warner Classics, and Warner Music Nashville. Warner Music is also home to ADA, the independent artist and label services company – as well as next gen artist services division WMX, which includes consumer brands such as Songkick, the live music app; EMP, the merchandise e-tailer; UPROXX, the youth culture destination; and HipHopDX, the hip-hop music news site. In addition, WMG counts storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment and social media content creator IMGN among its many brands.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan former policeman was sentenced to death on Friday for the murder of a human rights lawyer, his client and a taxi driver.
Frederick Leliman and three others were convicted of carrying out the murders in 2016, in one of a series of cases of alleged police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Kenya.
Lawyer Willie Kimani was representing a motorcycle taxi operator who was suing Leliman for shooting him at a traffic roadblock. Leliman later started threatening and intimidating the man.
The bodies of Kimani, his client Josephat Mwendwa and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri were discovered in the Ol-Donyo Sabuk River, in the east of the country, days after they were reported missing.
Evidence produced in court showed that the three were abducted after a court session on June 22, 2016, were briefly locked up and then were taken out and murdered in an open field. Their bodies were discovered on July 1.
Leliman was given a death sentence, while former officers Stephen Cheburet and Sylvia Wanjiku received sentences of 30 and 24 years, respectively, and police informer Peter Ngugi was jailed for 20 years. A fourth former police officer, Leonard Mwangi, was acquitted.
Those sentenced to death in Kenyan courts serve a life sentence. Kenya’s last execution was in 1987.
The four have 14 days to file an appeal.
The murders triggered a series of protests by lawyers and human rights defenders because Kenyan police have in the past been accused of brutality and extrajudicial killings but very few officers have been convicted.
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Oregon Department of Transportation officials said the interstate’s eastbound lanes were closed Friday afternoon 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) east of Pendleton and into Ontario.
Officials said the westbound lanes were closed between Ontario and Baker City.
Officials say crews are fighting the blaze but high winds were creating challenges.
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Marlins first. Joey Wendle doubles to shallow right field. Jon Berti flies out to deep center field to Cody Bellinger. Joey Wendle to third. Brian Anderson grounds out to second base, Hanser Alberto to Freddie Freeman. Joey Wendle scores. JJ Bleday called out on strikes.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Marlins 1, Dodgers 0.
Dodgers third. Hanser Alberto pops out to shallow right field to Charles Leblanc. Trea Turner flies out to center field to JJ Bleday. Freddie Freeman singles to deep right field. Will Smith homers to center field. Freddie Freeman scores. Max Muncy grounds out to first base to Lewin Diaz.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Dodgers 2, Marlins 1.
Marlins fourth. JJ Bleday strikes out swinging. Garrett Cooper triples to deep right field. Jacob Stallings grounds out to third base, Justin Turner to Freddie Freeman. Lewin Diaz singles to shallow center field. Garrett Cooper scores. Charles Leblanc singles to left center field. Lewin Diaz to second. Jerar Encarnacion grounds out to shortstop, Justin Turner to Freddie Freeman.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Dodgers 2, Marlins 2.
Dodgers tenth. Trea Turner singles to shallow infield. Cody Bellinger to third. Freddie Freeman reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Trea Turner out at second. Cody Bellinger scores. Will Smith flies out to center field to JJ Bleday. Max Muncy reaches on error. Freddie Freeman to second. Throwing error by Huascar Brazoban. Trayce Thompson strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 2 left on. Dodgers 3, Marlins 2.
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Former EDR & Compstak Executive joins CRE data firm CRED iQ
NEW YORK and PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CRED iQ, the fastest growing provider of commercial real estate (CRE) data, analytics and valuation is pleased to announce that Chris Aronson has joined the company as Chief Commercial Officer.
Chris brings deep leadership experience serving CRE investors, owners, and financial institutions. As CEO of EDR, he oversaw the delivery of CRE loan underwriting workflow/risk management software and data to over one thousand lenders globally. He then led the sale of the business for $205 Million. Chris also served as CEO of eDiligence, as well as Chief Commercial Officer at CompStak, both CRE data and analytics firms. Throughout his career, he has delivered strong growth and liquidity to investors, colleagues and stakeholders, including three successful exits.
"CRED iQ is the platform that the CRE world has been begging for—I have never witnessed this level of client enthusiasm," said Aronson. "It is an honor to join this exceptional team as we enter an exciting new chapter of growth and innovation."
"Chris is a world-class executive with a proven track record of launching & growing several data & tech businesses throughout his career, and I couldn't be more thrilled to be working with him," said Michael Haas, CRED iQ's Co-Founder & CEO. "Chris's leadership and operational experience will be invaluable as we launch new products next year and continue servicing our growing enterprise customer base."
CRED iQ provides actionable data to commercial real estate lenders, brokers, and investors. CRED iQ's customers use the platform to identify valuable leads for leasing, lending, refinancing, distressed debt, and acquisition opportunities. Additionally, CRED iQ's proprietary technology & valuation platform allows for the seamless integration of third-party data vendors to streamline workflows and improve business decisions.
CRED iQ is a commercial real estate data, analytics, and valuation platform providing actionable intelligence to CRE and capital markets investors. The data platform is powered by over $2.0 trillion in transactions and data covering CRE, CMBS, CRE CLO, SBLL, and all of the loans securitized within the GSE/Agency universe.
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PLEASANTON, Calif., Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: SSD), an industry leader in engineered structural connectors and building solutions, announced today that it will report its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022 on Monday, October 24, 2022 at 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time. Karen Colonias, Simpson's Chief Executive Officer, and Brian Magstadt, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, will host a conference call that same day at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The call will be broadcast live over the Internet hosted on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at ir.simpsonmfg.com.
Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s Third Quarter 2022 Conference Call Details
For those unable to participate during the live broadcast, a replay of the call will also be available beginning that same day at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, November 7, 2022, by dialing (844) 512-2921 (U.S. and Canada) or (412) 317-6671 (International) and entering the conference ID: 13733303. The webcast will remain posted on the Investor Relations section of Simpson's website at ir.simpsonmfg.com for 90 days.
Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc., headquartered in Pleasanton, California, through its subsidiaries, including Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc., designs, engineers and is a leading manufacturer of wood construction products, including connectors, truss plates, fastening systems, fasteners and shear walls, and concrete construction products, including adhesives, specialty chemicals, mechanical anchors, powder actuated tools and reinforcing fiber materials. The Company primarily supplies its building product solutions to both the residential and commercial markets in North America and Europe. The Company's common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SSD."
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia football player who was seriously wounded in a shooting that killed three of his teammates has been released from the hospital.
Brenda Hollins, the mother of running back Mike Hollins, tweeted early Monday: “Mike has been discharged!!! HALLELUJAH.”
She asked for continued prayers “as he recovers and settles into his new life.” She also asked for prayers for the families of the three players who were killed in the Nov. 13 shooting. “They need us!!!” she wrote.
Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry and Devin Chandler were shot on a charter bus as they returned to campus from a field trip to see a play in Washington. Each died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Authorities have said that Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a UVA student and former member of the football team who was on the trip, began shooting at students on the bus as it pulled to a stop at a campus parking garage.
A prosecutor said in court last week that a witness told police the gunman targeted specific victims, shooting one as he slept. Two other students were wounded. Student Marlee Morgan was released from the hospital last week. A spokesperson for the Hollins family said last week that Hollins, who was shot in the back, underwent multiple surgeries and was making progress in his recovery.
Jones, 23, faces second-degree murder and other charges stemming from the shooting, which set off a manhunt and 12-hour campus lockdown before Jones was apprehended in suburban Richmond. Jones is being held without bond.
Authorities have not released a motive.
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Kassa Overall is no stranger to NPR. Back in 2020 he was a featured vocalist and percussionist on the Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science Tiny Desk concert and in the same year he scored the original music for the first season of NPR Music's Louder Than A Riot podcast. (His catchy theme song has been remixed by producer Suzi Analogue for the show's second season.) Now, Kassa's back again, leading his own band and doing what he always does — pushing musical boundaries and finding new ways to express himself through a unique blend of experimental hip-hop-infused jazz.
This Tiny Desk starts with two cuts from ANIMALS, Kassa's May release that will be featured on his upcoming summer tour. On "Ready To Ball," pianist Ian Finkelstein opens with a chord progression that signals bebop but quickly moves into a more dynamic, experimental sound with hypnotic meter changes and surprising interludes.
"Make My Way Back Home" is a beautiful song featuring Nick Hakim's sultry vocals overtop a captivating rhythmic foundation with an avant-garde yet familiar feel. I especially love the catchy melodic line, one you can sing along to even if only hearing this tune for the first time.
Then, Kassa's outstanding drum solo on "Find Me" moves into a driving percussive groove that breaks for a short rap interlude and thoughtful melodic moments featuring soprano saxophonist Tomoki Sanders and vocalist J. Hoard. "Who's on the Playlist" is an oldie but goodie from Kassa's 2019 record, Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz, which finishes the set with a continued virtuosic display of musicianship, lyricism and artistic innovation.
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Tigers vs. Twins Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - June 15
Thursday's contest features the Minnesota Twins (35-33) and the Detroit Tigers (27-39) squaring off at Target Field (on June 15) at 7:10 PM. This matchup, according to our computer prediction, will result in a 4-3 win for the Twins.
The probable starters are Sonny Gray (4-1) for the Twins and Matthew Boyd (3-5) for the Tigers.
Tigers vs. Twins Game Info & Odds
- When: Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 7:10 PM ET
- Where: Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- How to Watch on TV: BSN
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Tigers vs. Twins Score Prediction
Our prediction for this contest is Twins 5, Tigers 3.
Total Prediction for Tigers vs. Twins
- Total Prediction: Over 7.5 runs
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Tigers Performance Insights
- In 10 games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the Tigers have a record of 1-9.
- In its previous 10 matchups with a total posted by sportsbooks, Detroit and its opponents are 6-4-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- The Tigers' ATS record is 1-3-0 over their last 10 matchups (bookmakers set spreads in four of those contests).
- The Tigers have won in 21, or 36.2%, of the 58 contests they have been named as odds-on underdogs this year.
- Detroit has a mark of 6-10 in contests where oddsmakers favor it by +170 or worse on the moneyline.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Tigers have a 37% chance of walking away with the win.
- Detroit is the lowest scoring team in MLB action averaging 3.7 runs per game (241 total).
- The Tigers have pitched to a 4.63 ERA this season, which ranks 24th in baseball.
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Washington State’s 2022 General Election takes place on Nov. 8 and features races for the U.S. Senate and Congress, as well as Washington Secretary of State and Washington Supreme Court.
Ballots have been mailed out and they must be postmarked or returned to a ballot drop box by 8 p.m. on Election Day..
Here are the AAPI candidates hoping to earn your vote in King County.
FEDERAL
U.S. Representative, Congressional District 7
Pramila Jayapal
First elected in 2016, Rep. Pramila Jayapal is currently serving her third term as the U.S. Representative for Washington’s 7th District.
She is Chair of the 96-member Congressional Progressive Caucus and also serves on the House Judiciary, Education & Labor, and Budget Committees. Prior to becoming the first South Asian American woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, Jayapal spent decades working in global public health and development.
U.S. Representative, Congressional District 10
Marilyn Strickland
Rep. Marilyn Strickland is seeking re-election for Washington’s 10th District. She previously served as the mayor of Tacoma and joined Congress in 2021 as the first Black and Korean American representative from Washington. She also formerly led both the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Pierce Transit.
In her years serving the public, Strickland has worked to lower the cost of prescription medicine, recover social security and veterans’ benefits, and make corporations pay their share of taxes.
STATE
Secretary of State
Steve Hobbs
As Washington’s 16th Secretary of State, Steve Hobbs is the son of a Japanese immigrant.
He has three decades of military service in the United States Army and National Guard, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Hobbs has completed tours in Kosovo and Iraq, and he recently commanded more than 750 members in Task Force Olympic, a Western Washington response mission to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Representative, Legislative District 1
Davina Duerr
Running to retain her seat as State Representative in the 1st Legislative District, Rep. Davina Duerr has also served as a Bothell City Councilmember, and she is currently on the Transportation, Consumer Protection & Business, and Local Government committees, as well as vice chair of the Local Government Committee. She is a licensed architect and works at an architecture firm in Bellevue.
Representative, Legislative District 32
Cindy Ryu
Rep. Cindy Ryu is looking to serve a seventh term in the State House of Representatives. She was first elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2012, 2014, and 2016.
Previously a Shoreline City Councilmember, Ryu served as mayor of that city, becoming the first Korean American woman mayor in America.
She chairs the Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs Committee, with jurisdiction over tourism, veterans, and community resilience.
Representative, Legislative District 33
Mia Su-Ling Gregerson
A state representative since 2013, Rep. Mia Su-Ling Gregerson chairs the House committee on State Government and Tribal Relations, and also serves on the Labor & Workplace Standards and Appropriations committees.
In her time as a lawmaker, she has fought for policies that protect the rights of tenants to stay housed, address the disparity in internet access and device acquisition, and tackle the food insecurity crisis in Washington state.
Senator, Legislative District 34
Joe Nguyen
Since being elected as Washington’s first Vietnamese American state senator in 2018, Nguyen has championed legislation to help working families, to rebuild social safety nets, and to address climate change through investments in green public transportation.
His parents fled the Vietnam War, and as refugees, and Nguyen was a janitor at his high school and he washed dishes in college to make ends meet.
Representative, Legislative District 37
Sharon Tomiko Santos
First elected in 1998, Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos has advanced civil rights and liberties for women and underserved Washingtonians, provided more financial resources for public schools, and worked towards closing opportunity gaps for students and young adults.
She is the founding member of the Task Force on Immigration and the States, and former board member of the Seattle chapter of JACL.
Representative, Legislative District 41
My-Linh Thai
Rep. My-Linh Thai is a former Bellevue School District president, a healthcare professional, and an award-winning PTSA parent who is committed to improving education, opportunity, and quality of life for all Washingtonians.
She has championed and sponsored legislation to guarantee access to quality local schools, prioritize food access and stability for students, and ensure that courts are accessible for all regardless of immigration status.
Senator, Legislative District 45
Manka Dhingra
Manka Dhingra is a state senator as well as Deputy Majority Leader of the Senate, and chair of the Law & Justice committee.
She has been a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney with King County since January 2000.
Prior to becoming a prosecutor, she interned with the State Attorney General’s Office in their Criminal Division assisting with sexually violent predator cases.
Ryika Hooshangi
Ryika Hooshangi is an attorney and Sammamish Plateau Water District
Commissioner who is challenging Manka Dhingra for State Senate seat in the 45th District.
Hooshangi was born and raised in Redmond, and states on her campaign website that she will work tirelessly on the most pressing issues facing the residents in the 45th District—public safety, affordability, and education.
Representative, Legislative District 48
Vandana Slatter
Rep. Vandana Slatter is a former Bellevue City Councilmember, community leader, public school parent, and biotech and healthcare professional.
A Doctor of Pharmacy, Slatter has worked for the past 20-plus years at leading biotechnology companies, including Amgen and Genentech. She is a licensed pharmacist in the state of Washington.
Her mission is to build safe, healthy communities and an economy that works for everyone.
COUNTY
King County, Prosecuting Attorney
Leesa Manion
With 27 years of experience as Deputy Prosecutor, Leesa Manion would be the first woman and person of color to serve as King County Prosecutor.
In her candidate statement, Manion said she is the only candidate for this office who has developed criminal justice policies and led teams of prosecutors, as well as having led efforts increasing support for victims of domestic violence and assault, and establishing models for alternative sentencing.
JUDICIAL
WA Supreme Court, Justice Position 1
Mary Yu
A Supreme Court Justice since 2014, Mary Yu also has 14 years experience as a trial court judge, and seven years as deputy prosecuting attorney for both civil and criminal cases.
Justice Yu is the first Asian, Latina, and member of the LGBTQ+ community to serve on the Supreme Court. In addition to her work on the bench, for the last 22 years, she has mentored hundreds of new judges, young lawyers, and law students.
Court of Appeals, Division 1, District 1, Judge Position 7
Janet Chung
Judge Janet Chung has over 25 years of experience as a litigator in state and federal courts and as a legislative advocate. Her practice focused on legal aid, access to health care, worker protections, and gender justice.
Judge Chung has been endorsed by all nine State Supreme Court Justices, all Court of Appeals judges able to endorse, Attorney General Bob Ferguson, and many more.
King County, Southwest Electoral District, Judge Position 4
Fa’amomoi Masaniai, Jr.
Candidate statement: Raised in the White Center/Burien area, I understand the struggles that most people have, the strain local businesses are under, and the difficulties law enforcement face each day. I will make decisions based on the law, but with an eye toward the future. I will make sure all who appear before me are heard. I want to make the court the best it can be.
King County, West Electoral District, Judge Position 2
Kuljinder Dhillon
In 1989, Judge Kuljinder Dhillon’s East Indian family immigrated to the United States, and before attending law school, she became a domestic violence victim advocate at the King County Prosecutor’s Office.
For 17 years, she served King County’s indigent population as a public defender and private defense attorney. Dhillon is an advisory board member for the Judicial Institute, which is dedicated to diversifying Washington State’s judiciary.
King County, West Electoral District, Judge Position 4
Gregg Hirakawa
Judge Gregg Hirakawa was first elected to the King County District Court in November 2016, after being appointed to the position in May 2016. He has experience both as a prosecuting attorney and as a public defense lawyer, and is committed to maintaining public safety while protecting individual liberties. In private practice, he successfully represented children, the elderly, and veterans in guardianship, trust, and disability proceedings, and protected vulnerable adults from abuse and financial exploitation.
City of Seattle, Municipal Court Judge Position 2
Andrea Chin
Judge Andrea Chin was elected to the Seattle Municipal Court Bench in November 2018, following 26 years of experience in public service as an Assistant City
Attorney with the Seattle City Attorney’s Office. She has presided over a general trial court, handling arraignments, pretrial hearings, trials, sentencings, and post-resolution review hearings. Her current rotation is the court’s domestic violence calendar.
City of Seattle, Municipal Court Judge Position 3
Pooja Vaddadi
Pooja Vaddadi would be the first South Asian woman elected as a judge in Seattle Municipal Court.
She has practiced in district courts in both Snohomish and King County, and most recently in Seattle Municipal Court. She has received exclusive endorsements from the King County Democrats, the Young Democrats of King County, the Democrats for Diversity and Inclusion, and the Women’s Political Caucus.
If there are any AAPI candidates we missed, please let us know at editor@nwasianweekly.com.
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(NEXSTAR) – C.J. Harris, a singer who made it far in the 2014 season of “American Idol,” has died, multiple outlets reported Monday.
TMZ, which was first to report the news, said Harris suffered an apparent heart attack Sunday night. A spokesperson for the Walker County Coroner’s office in Alabama confirmed with People that Harris was taken to the hospital, but didn’t make it.
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He was 31 years old.
Harris auditioned for the 14th season of “American Idol” by singing the Allman Brothers’ “Soulshine.”
“It’s like you sing because you have to sing, not because you want to sing, and I mean that in the deepest way,” said judge Keith Urban. “And that’s why it’s so believable and real, and it’s greater than the sum of its parts.”
Harris broke into tears after receiving a unanimous vote from all three judges to advance him to the next round.
He finished in sixth place.
Harris died in his hometown of Jasper, Alabama. In a 2014 interview with Nexstar’s KSWB, he spoke of how his hometown led him to a passion for music.
“You can live in Las Vegas or Hollywood and it can be a distraction,” said Harris. “Being from a small town there’s not much to do but play music.”
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Howard Klug wins third term as Williston Mayor
WILLISTON, N.D. (KUMV) - It was a changing of the guard for Mayors in big cities last night, but Williston’s mayor was able to escape defeat.
Incumbent Howard Klug earned a third term after defeating his opponent, 18-year-old Vincent Finsaas with nearly 63% percent of the vote.
Klug has said he wants to lead the city for another term as Williston continues to grow thanks to new industries and businesses coming to Williams County.
“I worked hard to retain my seat as the Mayor of Williston, and I think I’ve done enough to have another four years. Thanks for understanding the City of Williston is doing whatever we can to make sure your life is better,” said Klug.
Some of his primary goals are improving Williston Square, adding more housing, and building upon the work that his administration started over the past eight years.
Williston has had only two different Mayors since 1994.
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Location now open; hosting grand opening celebration on November 18
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the United States, today announced the opening of its first rebranded dispensary in Glendale, AZ. Located at 13631 N 59th Ave, the dispensary is now open, with ongoing hours of 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
"We are excited to open our first Trulieve location in the Glendale market," said Trulieve Chief Executive Officer Kim Rivers. "We look forward to introducing the community to Trulieve's customer-centric approach to cannabis and high-quality products in this rebranded location."
Grand opening festivities on Friday, November 18, will include partner giveaways, deals, DJs, food trucks, and special discounts. This location offers a wide variety of Trulieve in-house brands such as Alchemy, Avenue, Co2lors, loveli, Modern Flower, Muse, and Roll One. Customers can also choose from a broad assortment of products from popular partner brands.
Trulieve plans to rebrand all Harvest dispensaries in the state during the course of the next year. Harvest and Trulieve-affiliated dispensaries in Arizona are located in Avondale, Casa Grande, Chandler, Cottonwood, Guadalupe, Lake Havasu, Mesa, Peoria, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Sierra Vista, Tempe, and Tucson.
For more information on store activations and locations in Arizona, please visit www.trulieve.com/dispensaries/arizona.
About Trulieve
Trulieve is an industry leading, vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S., with established hubs in the Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest, anchored by leading market positions in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trulieve is poised for accelerated growth and expansion, building scale in retail and distribution in new and existing markets through its hub strategy. By providing innovative, high-quality products across its brand portfolio, Trulieve delivers optimal customer experiences and increases access to cannabis, helping patients and customers to live without limits. Trulieve is listed on the CSE under the symbol TRUL and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol TCNNF. For more information, please visit Trulieve.com.
Facebook: @Trulieve
Instagram: @Trulieve_
Twitter: @Trulieve
Investor Contact
Christine Hersey, Executive Director of Investor Relations
+1 (424) 202-0210
Christine.Hersey@Trulieve.com
Media Contact
Rob Kremer, Executive Director of Corporate Communications
+1 (404) 218-3077
Robert.Kremer@Trulieve.com
The Felice Agency, Phoenix, AZ
Ania Kubicki, 602-875-5664, ania@feliceagency.com
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NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands company and a leader in health information services for physicians, other healthcare professionals and consumers, today announced that it has acquired JIM.fr, a leading medical news, information and education platform in France.
The acquisition combines the core competencies of JIM.fr with that of Medscape, WebMD's flagship global brand for healthcare professionals (HCPs). Medscape and its affiliate network of platforms currently reach over 5 million physicians worldwide with clinical news, health information and continuing medical education. With the addition of JIM.fr, Medscape deepens its commitment to French and French-speaking HCPs.
"Both JIM.fr and Medscape have the trust and engagement of hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals in France," said Jeremy Schneider, Group General Manager, WebMD Global. "Medscape's existing French edition, along with our robust, country-specific content, is integral to our global commitment to French-speaking health professionals. Through this transaction, we can leverage our combined assets to further strengthen Medscape's offering for French and French-speaking professionals, while delivering innovative solutions to customers."
As a leading medical news site in France, JIM.fr engages hundreds of thousands of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other HCPs across more than 25 specialties. In addition to updates on the latest medical news, clinical science, and medical conference coverage, JIM.fr offers a multidisciplinary and interactive continuing education platform for the broad healthcare team.
"Today JIM.fr offers, every day, to more than 350,000 French-speaking healthcare professionals registered on its site, a complete panorama of medical and professional news in all specialties, including general medicine," said Dr. Gilles Haroche, founder of JIM.fr. "Beyond the scientific and journalistic rigor of its articles, JIM distinguishes itself from other medical media by its often humorous tone and its original analyses of all the major issues that are shaking the medical world. We are very happy to see the quality of our work recognized by Medscape, the global medical news and point of care platform."
Following closing, JIM.fr will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary of Medscape as the companies look to build on and integrate products, platforms, and services.
The terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed.
About WebMD Health Corp.
WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands company, is at the heart of the digital health revolution that is transforming the healthcare experience for consumers, patients, healthcare professionals, employers, health plans and health systems. Through public and private online portals, mobile platforms, and health-focused publications, WebMD delivers leading-edge content and digital services that enable and improve decision-making, support and motivate health actions, streamline and simplify the healthcare journey, and improve patient care.
The WebMD Health Network includes WebMD Health, Medscape, Jobson Healthcare Information, MediQuality, Frontline, Vitals Consumer Services, Aptus Health, Krames, PulsePoint, The Wellness Network, SanovaWorks, MNG Health, MedicineNet, eMedicineHealth, RxList, OnHealth, Medscape Education, and other owned WebMD sites. WebMD®, Medscape®, CME Circle®, Medpulse®, eMedicine®, MedicineNet®, theheart.org® and RxList® are among the trademarks of WebMD Health Corp. or its subsidiaries.
About JIM.fr
Dr. Gilles Haroche, then an intern at "Hôpitaux de Paris" (Hospital chain, Paris), founded the "Journal International de Médecine" (The JIM) in 1979, which switched to an entirely digital format in 1999. The JIM has always fulfilled the mission expressed in its title International Journal of Medicine.
Thanks to the daily editorial collaboration of dozens of hospital and private practitioners, JIM has set itself the goal of informing its readers in French, in "real time", of everything important that is being done and written in medicine around the world in the international scientific press, major congresses and professional news. Its rigor and its free and sometimes offbeat tone have made it a success with its readers, and therefore with its advertisers. JIM has always been ranked among the leading digital media sites for HCPs in France.
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MILWAUKEE, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WEC Energy Group (NYSE: WEC) today announced that the company has agreed to acquire an 80% ownership interest in the Maple Flats Solar Energy Center. Located in Clay County, Illinois, the project is being developed by Invenergy — a leading global developer and operator of sustainable energy solutions.
The Maple Flats Solar Energy Center is a 250-megawatt project. The site will host 800,000 solar panels across 1,500 acres. Commercial operation is expected in early 2024.
The project will generate renewable energy that will be sold under a long-term power purchase agreement with a Fortune 100 company.
WEC Energy Group's investment is expected to total approximately $360 million for the 80% ownership interest.
This project is the first solar investment in WEC Energy Group's Infrastructure segment. The company also has existing or planned investments in eight major wind farms totaling more than 1.5 gigawatts of capacity.
"The Maple Flats project demonstrates the growing opportunities for our Infrastructure business as we continue to invest in the production of affordable, reliable and clean energy. This project will help meet the energy needs of one of the largest companies in the world and further diversify our portfolio of renewable assets," said Gale Klappa, executive chairman.
The Maple Flats investment is expected to be eligible for Production Tax Credits as outlined in the Inflation Reduction Act recently passed by Congress. The transaction is subject to receiving all necessary regulatory approvals.
WEC Energy Group (NYSE: WEC), based in Milwaukee, is one of the nation's premier energy companies, serving 4.6 million customers in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota.
The company's principal utilities are We Energies, Wisconsin Public Service, Peoples Gas, North Shore Gas, Michigan Gas Utilities, Minnesota Energy Resources and Upper Michigan Energy Resources. Another major subsidiary, We Power, designs, builds and owns electric generating plants. In addition, WEC Infrastructure LLC owns a growing fleet of renewable generation facilities in the Midwest.
WEC Energy Group (wecenergygroup.com) is a Fortune 500 company and a component of the S&P 500. The company has approximately 38,000 stockholders of record, 7,000 employees and more than $40 billion of assets.
Forward-looking statements
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PHOENIX (AP) — A newly organized group of abortion rights supporters on Tuesday filed an initiative that seeks to amend the Arizona Constitution to protect the right to abortion.
The effort by a group called Arizonans for Reproductive Freedom is a longshot to make the ballot, since the group needs to collect more than 356,000 signatures from registered voters by July 7. Initiative proponents often aim to collect at least an extra 30% over the minimum as a buffer, meaning the group needs about 460,000.
The move comes in response to the leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion that suggested the high court could be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that gave women a constitutional right to get an abortion. The final ruling is expected to be released by late June. Also driving the push is a new Arizona law signed by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, about seven weeks before current law allows.
Arizona has a pre-statehood law that makes all abortions illegal that is expected to go back in force if Roe is overturned.
Shasta McManus, treasurer of Arizonans for Reproductive Freedom and a board member of Planned Parenthood Arizona, said a coalition of abortion rights supporters quickly formed when the draft high court opinion was leaked.
“We all decided that we can’t sit around and do nothing, that we have to act now,” McManus said. “As soon as this goes into effect, people’s lives are going to be irreversibly harmed.”
Arizona is one of at least 26 states that have either “trigger” laws that would ban all abortions if Roe is struck down or “zombie” laws like Arizona's pre-Roe law that has not been enforceable since 1973, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports reproductive rights.
McManus said Arizona is one of just three states with those laws that also allows citizens to write their own laws or amend their constitution.
The proposed constitutional amendment would forbid any government interference in a woman's reproductive health decisions and allow abortions until the fetus is viable, considered at about 23 to 24 weeks of pregnancy. It would allow abortions after that time if the life or health of the mother is at risk, and also bar any limits on contraception.
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MONTREAL (AP) — Jack Hughes scored twice and the New Jersey Devils extended their winning streak to 10 games with a 5-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night.
Dougie Hamilton, Jesper Bratt, and John Marino also scored for New Jersey. Vitek Vanecek made 25 saves.
Evgenii Dadonov scored his first goal of the season for the Canadiens (8-7-1). Jake Allen’ finished with 34 saves.
Montreal started aggressively and had the best scoring chance of the first period when Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield had an open two-man break but failed to convert.
The Devils opened the scoring in the second period. With Kirby Dach off for tripping, Hughes fired a perfect shot over Allen’s shoulder.
Hamilton doubled New Jersey’s lead minutes later by winning a puck battle and scoring on the short side.
The Canadiens closed within 2-1 when a pass from Sean Monahan was deflected to Dadonov, who scored into a wide open net.
A giveaway in the defensive zone late in the second period left Hughes alone in the slot and he netted his second of the game.
With seven minutes left, another giveaway proved costly as Bratt capitalized and put the game out of reach. Marino added an empty-net goal in the final seconds.
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New Jersey: At Toronto on Thursday in the second game of a three-game trip.
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Did you lose money on investments in Waste Management? If so, please visit Waste Management, Inc. Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased certain redeemable senior notes (the "Notes") of Waste Management, Inc. ("WM" or the "Company") (NYSE: WM) between February 13, 2020 and June 23, 2020, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The Notes include the following senior redeemable notes issued by WM in May 2019: (i) 2.95% Senior Notes due 2024; (ii) 3.20% Senior Notes due 2026; (iii) 3.45% Senior Notes due 2029; and (iv) 4.00% Senior Notes due 2039. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
On April 14, 2019, WM entered into an agreement and plan of merger (the "Merger") to acquire Advanced Disposal Systems, Inc. ("ADS") for $4.9 billion, or $33.15 per share. The Merger was conditioned upon an ADS shareholder vote and obtaining antitrust clearance from regulators, including the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ").
On October 25, 2019, WM, ADS, and the DOJ entered into a timing agreement that provided for a minimum 70-day settlement period during which the parties would attempt to reach an agreement on DOJ approval for the Merger, which included DOJ approval of the amount of WM's asset divestures. Unbeknownst to investors, during this process the DOJ informed WM that its agreement to divest $200 million in revenue-producing assets to address antitrust concerns would be insufficient for regulatory approval. The DOJ concluded that the combination of WM and ADS would, without divestures significantly in excess of $200 million, cause harm to municipal solid waste disposal in 24 geographic markets across 8 states, and cause harm to small container commercial waste collection in 33 geographic markets located in 6 states.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period, including omitting material facts relating to: (i) the DOJ's indication to WM that it would require WM to divest significantly more than $200 million; and (ii) the impact of the DOJ's indication on the completion of the Merger and the redemption of the Notes.
On June 24, 2020, WM disclosed that the Company and ADS had revised the terms of the Merger and that WM needed to divest substantially more assets than previously disclosed to receive DOJ approval for the deal. Under the revised Merger terms, WM agreed to purchase ADS for $4.6 billion, or $30.30 per share, thereby reducing WM's acquisition cost by approximately $300 million to $4.6 billion. In addition, WM and ADS had agreed to sell $835 million worth of assets in an attempt to satisfy antitrust regulators, which assets were responsible for generating approximately $345 million in 2019 revenue. WM also revealed that the deal was now not expected to close until "the end of the third quarter of 2020" – six months later than had been represented by defendants at the start of the Class Period and, critically, after the end date which triggered the redemption feature of the Notes.
On this news, the prices of the Notes fell significantly. For example, the 3.45% Notes fell from 109% on June 23, 2020 to just 103% of par on June 24, 2020.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 8, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you purchased the Notes, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Waste Management, Inc. Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
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Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of Beyond The Forecast!
The Mercury program proved that it was possible to take a human into space. The Gemini program built on that foundation by testing the technical details necessary to go beyond Earth’s orbit. Years of work led to the program that would go on to become the crown jewel in the journey to the moon: the Apollo program.
Apollo was the program set to achieve President Kennedy’s famous goal of putting a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth. In fact, the mission of getting astronauts to the moon first got approval during the Eisenhower administration.
The origins of Apollo begin in the early 1960s, but by the time Mercury ended, NASA was officially established. The formal space administration initiated the Gemini program as the in-between step necessary to study how humans handle extended time in space and how to rendezvous two separate spacecraft.
American spaceflight started with modified missiles the military already had on hand, but getting to the moon means traveling much further than just beyond our atmosphere.
The moon is nearly 240,000 miles away from Earth. As a comparison, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is 2.5 miles long. Getting to the moon would be the equivalent of 192 runnings of the Indy 500.
To bring the astronauts themselves, the equipment necessary to keep them alive in space, and the actual lander they would use to set foot on the moon the Apollo rocket would need a tremendous amount of power. NASA again worked with government contractors to first develop the Saturn IB rocket. This rocket was intensely powerful in its own right: it stood almost 60 feet taller than the Mercury-Redstone and could carry 10 times as much weight. But even the Saturn IB is dwarfed by the rocket the astronauts actually rode on: the Saturn V.
To effectively bring astronauts to the moon, each Apollo mission needed three astronauts and three spacecraft. The Saturn V carried a massive amount of fuel in its first stage (stages are the points of separation of rockets that allow smaller pieces of a mission more ease of maneuverability). In the upper stages of the rocket was the conical Command module where the astronauts piloted their vehicle and lived through most of the mission, the cylindrical Service module which provided oxygen and water for the astronauts as well as navigation controls, and the Lunar module two of the three astronauts used to land on the moon.
Because of how the Lunar module needed to fold in order to be launched on the Saturn V the astronaut crew needed to turn the already-attached Command and Service modules around to dock with the Lunar module. Then the crew would use the Earth’s gravity as a slingshot to send it to the moon.
Two astronauts would board the Lunar lander, while the main pilot stayed aboard the Command module. The Lunar module then lands, the astronauts perform the specific research assigned to them, then they climb aboard and use the top half of the Lunar module to launch back into the moon’s orbit.
The crew compartment of the Lunar module docks with the Command module, the astronauts transfer back into their seats, and then they turn around and head home using the moon’s gravity as another slingshot. When the spacecraft is ready to come back into Earth’s atmosphere the Command module detaches from the Service module and then, much like its Mercury and Gemini predecessors, falls back to Earth with a heat shield protecting the astronauts and parachutes slowing them down.
The Saturn V remains one of the tallest rockets ever built. Towering at more than 360 feet, the Saturn V could carry more than 6 times the weight the Saturn IB was capable of. It was such a massive project that NASA created a purpose-built Vehicle Assembly Building to handle the extreme necessities of the project.
NASA continued to use the VAB through the Space Shuttle era and still uses it for the rockets in the modern Artemis program. The first Apollo-designated mission that used the Saturn V was Apollo 4: a tragedy on a previous rocket bore the title of Apollo 1.
The crew for the first Apollo mission was counting down to a launch in late February. Gus Grissom, the second American in space, Ed White, the first American to ever take a spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission, and Roger Chaffee, a newly selected astronaut that had yet to take to the stars, manned the command module of their spacecraft to test it without being connected to an Earth-bound power supply.
The capsule was intentionally filled with pure oxygen to simulate conditions the astronauts would experience in space. Unshielded wiring sparked during the test, and since the oxygen in the air was much more concentrated than in the standard atmosphere, the fire spread quickly. All three astronauts died before the ground crews could open the hatch. Their deaths initiated a massive review of safety procedures throughout the space program, and their test received the Apollo 1 designation in honor of their service.
After a few rocket tests and some unmanned launches testing the procedures, Mission Control needed to execute during Apollo missions NASA stood ready to launch astronauts for a live test. Apollo 7 soared from the launchpad carrying the 3-astronaut crew that all Apollo missions carried.
The rocket test went off without any issues (since this mission stayed in Earth orbit, it used the Saturn IB again since it didn’t need the full capabilities of the Saturn V). All three astronauts developed bad colds on the trip, but they fought through them to successfully practice the docking maneuver necessary to collect the Lunar Module and perform the first television broadcast from space.
Now that the first set of procedures had a successful test, NASA was ready to send a spacecraft all the way to the moon.
Actually landing would take a few more tests: the program wanted to make sure each leg of the trip was safe and they wanted to learn about any unexpected bumps in the road with limited risk. Apollo 8 brought the Command and Service modules of the Apollo spacecraft around the Earth and into the moon’s orbit. The Apollo 8 crew took meticulous notes on the lunar surface that proved important for selecting a landing site as the program continued.
Apollo 9 added the Lunar module into the testing mix, and Apollo 10 brought the entire spacecraft to the moon and did just about everything necessary to land except the landing itself.
That honor fell to the crew of Apollo 11. Michael Collins piloted the spacecraft that brought Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into the moon’s orbit.
The mission started off without any major issues, and as Armstrong and Aldrin brought their Lunar module, the Eagle, away from the Command module all seemed normal. On approach, Armstrong noticed that the predicted flight path would put them right into a crater that NASA did not have knowledge of. He used his test pilot’s skill to bring the Eagle away from the crater and down onto the lunar surface without any further issues.
After four hours of additional preparation, Armstrong took the first steps of any human onto the moon. Aldrin followed soon after, and both astronauts appeared on the first lunar television transmission. The dream came true on July 20, 1969.
Reaching the moon was only the first step for NASA. Apollo 12 launched later in 1969 to conduct extensive exploration of the moon. Apollo 13 followed the next year, but due to an explosion during flight, the mission turned from exploring even more of the moon to bringing the astronauts home safely.
Four more Apollo missions followed furthering scientific discovery and exploration. The Lunar Roving Vehicle made its debut during Apollo 15 and made it even easier for astronauts to traverse their new environment.
Changing political priorities meant a scaled-back budget for NASA after the moon landing. Apollo 17 marked the last time humans set foot on the moon, and no one ventured back in the last 50 years.
Space exploration stayed closer to home in the meantime: NASA teamed up with the USSR in developing the Skylab space station, and later in the 1970s, the Space Shuttle brought larger astronaut crews into space for more discoveries. The shuttle program proved instrumental in the development of the International Space Station, but the moon was still a far-off target.
NASA set its sights back on the lunar surface in the 2010s. The Artemis program is set to bring humans back to the moon as a stepping stone for deeper space exploration in the coming decades.
Keep an eye out for more Beyond the Forecast articles all about when NASA plans to go back to the moon.
Fall is definitely here. The chilly but clear mornings make it an easy week to spot some planets. You can download our weather app to see which nights are the clearest and get Meteorologist Chris Michaels’ latest updates online.
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The federal investigation into the deadly collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building is entering a new phase that involves cutting and drilling into concrete and steel to determine what role they played in the disaster, officials said Wednesday.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology said in a news release that what’s known as invasive testing will begin soon as investigators test samples from materials collected at the collapsed Champlain Towers South site.
“This is an important step in the investigation, one we are able to take only after months of careful investigation and preparation,” said Glenn Bell, co-leader of the investigation.
The tests will help investigators find potential flaws in structural elements of the 12-story building by looking into things such as density of the materials, how porous they were and if there was corrosion, NIST said.
The building in Surfside, Florida, collapsed without warning early on June 24, 2021, leaving 98 people dead. Legal settlements of more than $1 billion have been reached for families of victims and owners of the 136 units, with a key court hearing on approval set next Thursday in Miami.
The concrete, steel and other material from the collapse has been stored in a warehouse in Miami-Dade County, where it has been catalogued and used to create a 3-D model of the building, according to NIST. The materials will be moved out of the warehouse to an undisclosed location for the next phase of tests.
“The process of preparing the materials for the move and then securing them in their new location is expected to take several weeks,” NIST said in the release, noting that includes air sampling to detect harmful asbestos fibers.
Champlain South had a long history of maintenance problems and questions have been raised about the quality of its original construction and inspections in the early 1980s. Other possible factors include sea level rise caused by climate change and damage caused by salt water intrusion.
Florida will require statewide recertification of condominiums more than three stories tall under new legislation Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law last month in response to the disaster.
NIST also said investigators have developed a questionnaire for interviews of anyone who may have information about the collapse. This will be used in development of “failure hypotheses” the agency intends to analyze for possible causes.
Anyone with potentially relevant information, including photos and videos, can submit them through a NIST site. The agency has said it could take years to complete its investigation into the collapse.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday called a special legislative session to pursue new abortion restrictions after the state Supreme Court declined to reinstate a 2018 ban after about six weeks of pregnancy.
The court was split 3-3 last month and did not issue a decision on the merits of the law, leaving open the possibility that the GOP-controlled Legislature would try to pass a similar ban. In the meantime, abortion remains legal in Iowa up to 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Lawmakers will meet on July 11.
“Iowans deserve to have their legislative body address the issue of abortion expeditiously and all unborn children deserve to have their lives protected by the government as the fetal heartbeat law did,” Reynolds wrote in the order.
The blocked law banned abortion once cardiac activity can be detected, which is usually around six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant. Medical experts say the cardiac activity is not an actual heartbeat but rather an initial flutter of electric movement within cells in an embryo.
Democrats in the Legislature immediately issued statements denouncing the expected restrictions as at odds with the majority of Iowa residents. Polling shows most U.S. adults, including Iowans, support at least some access to abortion in general, even as views on the issue are complicated. Few say abortion should be illegal in all cases.
Most Republican-led states have significantly curbed abortion access since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Separately, the Iowa Supreme Court in 2022 reversed an opinion that said the state constitution affirms a fundamental right to abortion.
After those rulings, Reynolds declined to call a special session last year to enact new restrictions, instead choosing to work through the state courts to try to get the 2018 ban into effect. The law, which included exceptions for medical emergencies, rape, incest and fetal abnormality, had been blocked by a 2019 district court ruling.
Any new law is likely to be challenged in state court.
Iowa’s high court has not resolved whether earlier rulings that applied an “undue burden test” for abortion laws remain in effect. The undue burden is an intermediate level of scrutiny that requires laws do not create a significant obstacle to abortion. Lawyers for the state argued the law should be analyzed using rational basis review, the lowest level of scrutiny to judge legal challenges.
“The constitutional standard is clear in the state of Iowa and to see a governor of the state really be that dismissive of the rule of law in Iowa is really very, very alarming to me,” said Pete McRoberts, policy director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa. “We will be there in full force, of course, when she does reconvene the Legislature.”
Reynolds has ordered a special session just one other year, in 2021, when lawmakers came together in two separate special sessions to approve the drawing of congressional and legislative districts.
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On one hand, it could be an opportunity for the rest of the field at the Greg Lavergne Parish Wrestling Duals at Carencro High.
With perennial wrestling powerhouse Brusly moving up from Division III to Division II this season, Brusly’s tournament coinciding with the parish duals in Carencro matters for the first time here locally.
As a result, Teurlings will be sending its ‘A’ or varsity team to the Brusly event this weekend for state seeding purposes.
That means, it’ll be the Rebels’ “junior varsity” squad competing at the parish duals.
Teurlings coach Kent Masson, though, warns against counting his Rebels out as contenders to repeat as parish champions.
“Truthfully, I don’t look at those kids as junior varsity,” Masson said. “To me, they’re really varsity wrestlers.”
Indeed, while many programs in Lafayette Parish struggle to fill out a roster, the Rebels are flourishing more than ever with 62 grapplers on their roster.
“It’s been a remarkable season so far,” Masson said. “Coming into this year, I think the jury was out on if we could be as good as last year’s team. But as it’s played out, I think we’re just as good, if not better.”
For the first time Masson can remember, Teurlings has already won six tournament crowns before Greg Lavergne, including one event in Mobile, Alabama with only 10 wrestlers.
The top contender appears to be Southside. The Sharks finished fourth recently at the inaugural Public School Championship in Gonzales.
A year ago, Southside finished runner-up in the parish duals for the first time.
The Sharks’ fourth-place finish in the public school tournament was powered by first-place finishes from Kael Reaux at 113 pounds, Landon Reaux at 120 and Wiley Boudreaux at 138.
Lafayette High finished 13th in that tournament, followed by Acadiana 15th and Comeaux 17th.
The Mighty Lions were paced by a first-place finish from Jensen Bergeron at 152 pounds.
The seven-team duals championship is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Friday with the first of three rounds, before four more rounds Saturday scheduled to start at 9 a.m.
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Ticket prices set to soar as airlines prep for holiday travel
(CNN) - A new forecast predicts the cost of holiday travel will shoot up this week as the Thanksgiving rush gets closer.
The big question is whether that ticket you pay for will be worth it after the cancellations observed this summer.
Thanksgiving travel is about to take off, and it will be the most expensive of the last five years.
Travel site Hopper said tickets will cost 19% more compared to last year, with the average domestic round-trip ticket at $274.
“This Thanksgiving will be a very expensive holiday to travel,” said Hayley Berg, the lead economist for Hopper. “Especially for travelers who are booking late.”
The pressure is on airlines to avoid a meltdown like this summer, when they canceled a total of 55,000 flights.
Federal data showed that 40% of all cancellations were for reasons that the airlines could control, not weather.
“It is abundantly clear that the majority of delays rest with the airlines,” said Billy Nolen, the acting administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Airlines, however, insist the blame is on the understaffed air traffic control centers.
“In the summer, we had shortages every day,” United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said. “And they can lead to hundreds of cancellations and delays.”
Hiring is ramping up in the airline industry.
The FAA is bringing on new air traffic controllers.
American Airlines has hired more than 1,400 new employees since Labor Day. United has added more than 1,500 new pilots this year, and there are 3,000 new flight attendants at Southwest.
“We’re certainly with you,” said Sara Nelson, the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants. “We’re pushing on our airlines to not over-promise in the schedule so that we can actually deliver what we’re selling to you.”
Even still, carriers are cutting their fall schedules, a move Delta called a “huge improvement” in curbing summer cancellations and delays.
Industry data shows American Airlines dropped 31,000 placeholder flights from its November schedule.
For travelers, it all adds up to a travel season with fewer options and higher prices.
“We’re expecting to see chaos at the airports over the holidays ... but American travelers have shown that they’re resilient,” Berg said. “And they’re willing to pay more and experience these disruptions ... to get back to see family and friends after two years of depressed travel.”
Another risk of waiting too long to buy your flight isn’t just higher ticket prices. Experts said the flights you want may be sold out.
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KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI – About 640,000 homes and businesses in Michigan remain without power Friday, Feb. 24, after an ice storm Wednesday took down power lines, trees and tree limbs.
Kalamazoo County, where 38 percent are without power, has declared a state of emergency and opened a warming shelter.
Consumers Energy said that 176,418 customers are without power while DTE Energy, reported 461,376 outages on the east side of the state.
Power should be restored to most by Sunday but others could have to wait until Monday, utility companies said.
Related: Red Cross opens 24-hour shelter in Kalamazoo in response to power outages caused by ice storm
DTE Energy reported significant outages from Ann Arbor to Brighton to metro Detroit.
It estimated that 95 percent of its customers would have power back by the end of Sunday.
Consumers said the hardest-hit areas included Kalamazoo, Hillsdale, Jackson, Lenawee, Van Buren and Washtenaw counties.
Nearly 87 percent of customers, or 16,815, were without power in Hillsdale County. Jackson County had nearly 57 percent, or 44,425, without power. Van Buren County had nearly 70 percent, or 5,869 without power. Lenawee County had 68 percent, or 29,048, without power.
Related: Kalamazoo County declares state of emergency after ice storm
Midwest Energy & Communications reported nearly 2,000 in outages, most of them in Lenawee County.
The National Weather Service in Grand Rapids called for partly sunny skies on Friday, with temperatures between 23 and 29.
It said that the “major ice storm” affected most of southern Michigan with heavy snow in central part of the state.
“Hundreds of thousands of customers lost power across southern portions of the state as freezing rain accumulated on trees and power lines, bringing branches, trees, and power lines down in many areas,” the weather service said.
“In between the areas of freezing rain to the south and snow to the north, sleet (ice pellet) accumulation reached a couple of inches deep.”
Wind gusts of 25 to 35 mph were reported in many areas during the height of the storm, taking down power limbs and trees that were covered in heavy ice.
Kalamazoo city and county officials on Thursday issued a state of emergency and announced a warming shelter had been set up where families could stay overnight.
The county reported hundreds of downed trees and power lines.
Utility crews worked through the night. Consumers said that 65,000 customers have had power restored. Workers from out of state have been called in by Consumers and DTE.
“Our crews are working round the clock to get power back to customers as quickly and as safely as possible,” Norm Kapala, a Consumers spokesperson said in a statement.
“We still have a long way to go, but as our teams continue to work together to clear debris and assess damage, the restoration work will only speed up.”
Consumers reported over 8,000 downed wires with about a half-inch of ice – the weight equivalent of a weight of a baby grand piano – on power lines throughout southern Michigan.
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Jury clears Musk of wrongdoing related to 2018 Tesla tweets
SAN FRANCISO (AP) — A jury on Friday decided Elon Musk didn’t deceive investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla.
The verdict by the nine jurors was reached after less that two hours of deliberation following a three-week trial and represents a major vindication for Musk.
The trial pitted Tesla investors represented in a class-action lawsuit against Musk, who is CEO of both the electric automaker and the Twitter service he bought for for $44 billion a few months ago.
In 2018, Musk tweeted that he had the financing to take Tesla private even though it turned out he hadn’t gotten an iron-clad commitment for an aborted deal that would have cost $20 billion to $70 billion to pull off.
Musk’s integrity was at stake at the trial as well part of a fortune that has established him as one of the world’s richest people. He could have been saddled with a bill for billions of dollars in damages had the jury found him liable for the 2018 tweets that had already been deemed falsehoods by the judge presiding over the trial.
Earlier Friday, Musk sat stoically in court, while he was both vilified as a rich narcissist whose reckless behavior risks “anarchy” and hailed as a visionary looking out for the “little guy” in closing the trial’s arguments.
The trial hinged on whether Musk’s tweeting in 2018 misled Tesla shareholders, steering them in a direction that they argue cost them billions of dollars. The civil case centered on two tweets Musk posted Aug. 7, 2018 about a Tesla buyout that never happened.
The first tweet, posted just before he boarded his private jet, Musk declared he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private. A few hours later, Musk sent another tweet indicating that the deal was imminent.
The tweets caused Twitter’s stock to surge during a 10-day period covered by the lawsuit before falling back after Musk abandoned a deal in which he never had a firm financing commitment, based on evidence presented during the three-week trial.
Musk’s decision to show up for the closing arguments — even though his presence wasn’t required — underscored the importance of the trial’s outcome to him.
Nicholas Porritt, a lawyer for the Tesla shareholders, urged the jurors to rebuke Musk for his “loose relationship with the truth.”
“Our society is based on rules,” Porritt said. “We need rules to save us from anarchy. Rules should apply to Elon Musk like everyone else.”
Alex Spiro, Musk’s attorney, conceded the 2018 tweets were “technically inaccurate.” But he told the jurors, “Just because it’s a bad tweet doesn’t make it a fraud.”
U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, who presided over the trial, decided last year that Musk’s 2018 tweets were false and has instructed the jury to view them that way.
During roughly eight hours on the stand earlier in the trial, Musk insisted he believed he had lined up the funds from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund to take Tesla private after eight years as a publicly held company. He defended his initial August 2018 tweet as well-intentioned and aimed at ensuring all Tesla investors knew the automaker might be on its way to ending its run as a publicly held company.
“I had no ill motive,” Musk testified. “My intent was to do the right thing for all shareholders.”
Spiro echoed that theme in his closing argument.
“He was trying to include the retail shareholder, the mom and pop, the little guy, and not seize more power for himself,” Spiro said.
Porritt, meanwhile, scoffed at the notion that Musk could have concluded he had a firm commitment after a 45-minute meeting at a Tesla factory on July 31, 2018, with Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund, given there was no written documentation.
A text message that al-Rumayyan sent later in August that is part of the trial evidence also indicated that the Saudi fund was only interested in learning more about Musk’s proposal to take Tesla private at a time the company was valued at about $60 billion.
“Apparently a $60 billion financing commitment was obtained and no one wrote down a single word,” Porritt said, while asserting that amount was larger than the combined economic output of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.
“Elon Musk apparently thinks it is easier to get billions of dollars in financing than an auto loan or a mortgage,” Pollitt added.
Spiro, though, pointed to Musk’s track record helping to start and run a list of companies that include digital payment pioneer PayPal and rocket ship maker SpaceX, in addition to Tesla. The automaker based in Austin, Texas, is now worth nearly $600 billion, despite a steep decline in its stock price last year amid concerns that Musk’s purchase of Twitter would distract him from Tesla.
Recalling Musk’s roots as a South African immigrant who came to Silicon Valley to create revolutionary tech companies, Spiro described his client “as the kind of person who believes the impossible is possible.”
Porritt put a different twist on Musk’s mindset during his presentation. “To Elon Musk, if he believes it, or just thinks about it, it’s true.”
In his concluding remarks, Porritt told jurors their decision will boil down to their answer to one question: “Do the rules apply to everyone, or can Elon Musk do whatever he wants and not face the consequences?”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned his Finnish counterpart Saturday relations between the two neighbors could be “negatively affected" if Finland follows through with plans to apply for NATO membership.
The Kremlin's press service said in a statement that Putin told Sauli Niinisto that Finland's abandonment “of its traditional policy of military neutrality would be an error since there are no threats to Finland’s security.”
“Such a change in the country’s foreign policy could negatively affect Russian-Finnish relations, which had been built in the spirit of good neighborliness and partnership for many years, and were mutually beneficial,” the statement added.
The response came after Niinisto told Putin in a phone conversation that the militarily non-aligned Nordic country that has a complex history with its huge eastern neighbor “will decide to apply for NATO membership in the coming days”.
Niinisto’s office said in a statement that the Finnish head of state told Putin how starkly Finland’s security environment had changed after Moscow’s Feb. 24 invasion on Ukraine, and pointed to Russia’s demands on Finland refraining from seeking membership to the 30 member-state Western military alliance.
“The discussion (with Putin) was straightforward and unambiguous and was held without exaggeration. Avoiding tensions was considered important,” said Niinisto, Finland’s president since 2012 and one of a handful of Western leaders who has been in regular dialogue with Putin over the past decade.
Niinisto pointed out that he had already told Putin at their first meeting in 2012 that “each independent nation would maximize its own security.”
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“That is still the case. By joining NATO, Finland will strengthen its own security and assume its responsibilities. It is not something away from anybody,” Niinisto said.
Niinisto stressed that Finland, despite its likely future membership in NATO, wants to continue to deal with Russia bilaterally in “practical issues generated by the border neighborhood” and hopes to engage with Moscow “in a professional manner”.
According to the Kremlin statement, the two leaders also discussed Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, and the possibility of achieving a political solution to the situation. Putin said negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv had been suspended due to Ukraine's “lack of interest in a serious and constructive dialogue."
The phone call was conducted on Finland's initiative, Niinisto's office said.
Finland shares a 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) border with Russia, the longest by any European Union member.
Niinisto and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin on Thursday jointly endorsed Finland’s NATO bid and recommended that the country “must apply for NATO membership without delay” to guarantee the nation’s security amid Russia's military maneuvers in Ukraine and Europe's changed geopolitical and security landscape.
A formal announcement from Niinisto and Marin of Finland's intention to apply for NATO membership is expected on Sunday. Marin's governing Social Democratic Party approved the membership bid on Saturday, paving way for a parliamentary vote next week to endorse the move. It's expected to pass with overwhelming support. A formal membership application would then be submitted to NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Neighboring Sweden is set to decide on its NATO stance on Sunday in a meeting of the governing Social Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson.
U.S. President Joe Biden held a joint call Friday with both Niinisto and Andersson where, according to a White House statement, he “underscored his support for NATO’s Open Door policy and for the right of Finland and Sweden to decide their own future, foreign policy and security arrangements.”
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Wake Forest Demon Deacons (14-8, 6-5 ACC) at Duke Blue Devils (15-6, 6-4 ACC)
The Blue Devils have gone 10-0 at home. Duke leads the ACC in rebounding, averaging 36.3 boards. Kyle Filipowski paces the Blue Devils with 9.4 rebounds.
The Demon Deacons are 6-5 against ACC opponents. Wake Forest is fourth in the ACC scoring 77.4 points per game and is shooting 46.8%.
TOP PERFORMERS: Jeremy Roach averages 1.5 made 3-pointers per game for the Blue Devils, scoring 11.6 points while shooting 32.9% from beyond the arc. Filipowski is shooting 43.7% and averaging 16.1 points over the past 10 games for Duke.
Monsanto averages 3.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Demon Deacons, scoring 13.0 points while shooting 41.1% from beyond the arc. Tyree Appleby is shooting 44.3% and averaging 18.0 points over the last 10 games for Wake Forest.
LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Devils: 6-4, averaging 73.3 points, 35.2 rebounds, 15.7 assists, 5.3 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 44.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.9 points per game.
Demon Deacons: 6-4, averaging 80.2 points, 31.0 rebounds, 13.4 assists, 5.7 steals and 1.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.6 points.
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Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, tweets conspiracy theory about attack on Paul Pelosi
By Oliver Darcy and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
Elon Musk on Sunday gave credence to a fringe conspiracy theory about the violent attack on Paul Pelosi.
The new Twitter owner tweeted a link to an article full of baseless claims about Pelosi. The article was posted on a website that purports to be a news outlet.
Musk, who has 112 million followers on the platform he now owns, posted the baseless story about Pelosi in response to a tweet from Hilary Clinton at 8:15 am ET. He later deleted the tweet around 2 pm, but not before racking up more than 28,000 retweets and 100,000 likes.
Linking to a Los Angeles Times story about Pelosi’s alleged attacker, Clinton wrote, “The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories. It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result. As citizens, we must hold them accountable for their words and the actions that follow.”
In response, Musk linked to the baseless story, and wrote, “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye.”
In 2016 the same website falsely claimed that Clinton had died and that the person on the presidential campaign trail was not Clinton but her body double.
Musk’s post comes amid concerns about how the billionaire will run Twitter and if misinformation and hate will be given a bigger platform on the site.
A Twitter spokesperson did not immediately return a CNN request for comment.
Musk’s takeover — which was finalized Thursday night — not only has the potential to create upheaval for Twitter employees but also for the hundreds of millions of people around the world who use the platform daily. It could also impact the upcoming US midterm elections, if Musk makes good on his promise to restore the accounts of users who were previously banned from the platform, most notably former US President Donald Trump, and limit the company’s content restrictions.
In the first weeks after agreeing to buy the company in April, and before his initial move to bail on the deal, Musk repeatedly stressed that his goal was to bolster “free speech” on the platform and work to “unlock” Twitter’s “extraordinary potential.” The Tesla CEO suggested he would rethink Twitter’s approach to content moderation and permanent bans, with potential impacts on civil discourse and the political landscape. He also talked about his desire to rid the platform of bots, even as he later made the number of bots central to his argument to abandon the deal.
CNN’s Clare Duffy contributed to this report
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Of all the citrus available in the winter, my absolute favorite is the blood orange. I first encountered blood oranges around seven years ago at the farmers’ market, and I was curious why this particular type of orange had the prettiest maroonish skin and the flesh was a gorgeous crimson hue, too. I dove into a small container of sample slices for a taste. When I took my first bite, my eyes opened wide: It was very sweet, slightly tart and brightly flavored. My mind started racing — what kind of jams or desserts could I make with this wonderful fruit?
At that time, I was heavily into making jam; I ran a business part-time and sold jars online. I even made jam for a few weddings! For me, it’s a therapeutic activity, from the sweet aroma of cutting the fruits, to marinating the fruit in sugar and herbs, to cooking the mixture and finally canning. My favorite part is observing how the beautiful color of the fruit shines through the jam in the daylight.
One of my favorite marmalades to date is my Blood Orange and Rosemary Marmalade. (You can find the recipe in my cookbook, “Mumbai Modern.”) I tend to use the zest and flesh of the blood orange but remove the white pith because it’s bitter. The earthy rosemary cuts through the sweetness, and the result makes a fantastic addition to a cheese board. It’s also wonderful slathered on a slice of sourdough toast with a layer of salted butter, and it makes a great gift for friends and family.
Blood orange season is short, usually from January to March. So I tend to use blood oranges as much as I can this time of year, whether for marmalades or blood orange curd for gifting, or in cakes, cookies and tarts.
This particular dessert is my riff on the classic banana pudding, typically layers of vanilla custard, Nilla Wafers and banana slices.
Instead, I make a blood orange and cardamom custard — the floral touch of cardamom with the slightly tart blood orange makes a great pairing. While the heavy cream and cardamom heat up on the stove, I whip the egg yolks, sugar and cornstarch until they turn pale yellow. (The cornstarch helps the custard reach a thick consistency.) Then I whisk in blood orange juice and zest, which has a ton of flavor.
If you’ve never made custard or lemon curd before, this part might sound intimidating, but it’s actually quite easy: To temper the mixture, you add a little bit of heavy cream, whisk, then add a little bit more, so you don’t scramble the eggs. After heating the custard until thickened, you strain it to remove the zest — and any possible bits of scrambled egg — and then let it set in the fridge for a few hours.
You fold some whipped cream into the cooled custard for a lighter texture, along with Nilla Wafers and blood orange slices, ideally in glasses so you can see the distinct layers.
My favorite part about making desserts is the decoration and garnishes. This is completely optional, but hey, given a choice, would you eat a dessert that is visually appealing, or is served as is without any fancy fixins? I pick the former. That’s why I pipe the top with whipped cream, along with a garnish of candied blood orange slices, blood orange zest and edible gold. Edible gold is easily available online and adds quite a touch of elegance to an otherwise simple dessert.
If you make the candied blood orange slices, know that they’re a delightful snack to have around. They firm up just like any other candied fruit, and are slightly chewy, sweet and citrusy. They make an amazing addition to a cheese board, or can be a great gift for hosts.
Finally, the puddings need to sit for a few hours in the fridge so that all the layers meld together, but they’re totally worth the wait.
Amisha Gurbani is a Bay Area food writer, author of “Mumbai Modern” and blogger behind the Jam Lab, @thejamlab. Email: food@sfchronicle.com
Blood Orange and Cardamom Custard Cups
Serves 4
This riff on banana pudding layers blood orange custard, Nilla Wafers and blood orange slices, with warm cardamom adding a lovely floral note. The candied blood oranges make for a beautiful garnish, but the custard cups will still be delicious without them. You’ll also need a piping bag and ¼-inch French star tip to decorate, though you could also simply spoon whipped cream on top.
Candied Blood Oranges (optional)
1 cup water
1 cup granulated sugar
2 blood oranges, edges trimmed and cut into ⅛-inch slices
Blood Orange and Cardamom Custard
2 cups heavy cream
1 teaspoon freshly ground cardamom
4 eggs yolks
½ cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
Zest of 1 blood orange
⅓ cup blood orange juice
1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
For assembly
¾ cup heavy cream
3 tablespoons powdered sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
56 Nilla Wafers
3 small blood oranges, edges trimmed and skin peeled
2 slices Candied Blood Oranges, quartered (optional)
Edible gold (optional)
Blood orange zest
Make the Candied Blood Oranges: In a medium saucepan, on medium to high heat, add the water and sugar. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Add the blood orange slices. Using a rubber spatula, separate them so they are not sitting on top of each other.
Boil the mixture for about 20 to 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Meanwhile, place a wire rack on top of a baking sheet and set to the side.
Using tongs, gently remove each blood orange slice, draining off excess liquid, and place it on the wire rack. Make sure the blood orange slices don’t touch each other. (You can pour the remaining liquid in a bottle and store in the fridge as a simple syrup for cocktails.)
Let the slices dry out overnight in a cool place. The next day, flip the slices and rest overnight again.
Store the slices in an airtight container at room temperature. They will keep for up to a month.
Make the Blood Orange and Cardamom Custard: In a medium saucepan, on medium heat, add the heavy cream and ground cardamom. Warm for about 3 to 4 minutes.
In a medium bowl, add the egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch and blood orange zest. Whisk with a balloon whisk vigorously for about 2 minutes, until the mixture looks pale yellow and is ribbon-like in texture. Add blood orange juice and whisk until well combined.
Temper the egg yolk mixture: Add about ⅓ cup of the warm heavy cream into the egg yolk mixture and whisk to combine. Repeat twice.
Add the egg mixture back into the heavy cream in the saucepan and keep whisking for about 4 to 5 minutes over medium to low heat. When it’s done, the mixture will be thick enough to coat the back of a spoon or spatula.
Remove from heat. Strain mixture through a fine sieve into another bowl for a smooth custard. Add the vanilla extract and whisk until combined.
Cover with plastic wrap, touching the custard directly to prevent a skin from forming, and place in the fridge for 4 hours, or up to overnight.
To assemble: In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the heavy cream, powdered sugar and vanilla extract. Whisk for about 1½ minutes at high speed until stiff peaks form. When the whisk is inverted, the peak should stay.
Place half of the whipped cream into a piping bag, fitted with a French star tip. Place it in the fridge until ready to use.
Put the blood orange custard from the fridge into a medium bowl. Add the remaining whipped cream into the custard and fold it in until combined.
Supreme the blood oranges, cutting them into slices with no pitch or membrane.
Place 36 Nilla Wafers in a plastic bag, close it, and using a rolling pin, beat the bag to break up the wafers into fine crumbs. Place about a tablespoon aside for garnish. Distribute the crumbs evenly among four 8-ounce glasses.
Scoop about ¼ cup of custard into each glass. Use the back of a spoon or a small rubber spatula to smooth the top. Then layer about 5 Nilla Wafers in each glass. Add a thin, even layer of blood orange segments on top. Fill the rest of the glasses with more custard. Smooth the tops with an offset spatula.
Place the glasses in the fridge and cover with a tray. (If you use plastic wrap here, you’ll disturb the smoothness of the top of the custards.) Set for about 6 hours.
Decorate and garnish: When ready to serve, take the piping bag of cream out of the fridge and pipe the whipped cream on top of the custard. Sprinkle the reserved crumbs on top of the whipped cream. Garnish each cup with 2 of the quartered Candied Blood Orange slices, edible gold and blood orange zest.
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The partnership expands patients' access to high quality healthcare in underserved rural populations in Kentucky and Indiana
FRANKLIN, Tenn., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fast Pace Health ("Fast Pace"), a provider of outpatient healthcare services to rural communities, announced today that it has partnered with First Care Clinics ("First Care") to expand its clinical footprint and increase access to care for underserved rural populations. The combination results in a multi-specialty provider of rural healthcare and value-based care population health management services through a network of over 200 clinics serving over three million annual patient visits across the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and Alabama. Fast Pace is a portfolio company of Revelstoke Capital Partners ("Revelstoke"), a private equity firm focused on investing in, and growing, healthcare services companies.
"We are thrilled to partner with First Care to increase access to high-quality, affordable healthcare in our rural communities," said Greg Steil, President and CEO of Fast Pace. "First Care's focus on its patients in a family friendly environment fits perfectly with Fast Pace's culture. We are excited about expanding services in our communities and working towards solving America's rural healthcare problem through our multi-specialty services and innovative care coordination model."
Fast Pace has a track record of reducing avoidable emergency room admissions in its communities and has multiple value-based and care coordination arrangements with its payor partners, leading to a more comprehensive and outcome-based approach to delivering healthcare. At the same time, Fast Pace continues to expand its services, which includes behavioral health, dermatology, orthopedics, primary care, physical therapy, telehealth and urgent care.
First Care clinics will be rebranded as Fast Pace in the upcoming months and the leadership teams will work together to continue their collective mission of growing and improving healthcare access for patients while maintaining employee excellence.
"We look forward to working together to continue our mission of providing affordable, compassionate care to patients in underserved rural communities. I'm pleased our wonderful employees will be able to continue their very important work in an environment that maximizes their abilities while providing quality care in a family-like atmosphere," said Rob Pantoja, Co-Founder and CEO of First Care.
Since Revelstoke's initial investment in Fast Pace in August of 2016, Fast Pace has grown its clinical footprint from 35 clinics in two states to over 200 clinics in six states, increasing access to healthcare for millions of vulnerable rural Americans.
"The rural community is an important and often forgotten population in our nation's healthcare system," said Simon Bachleda, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Revelstoke. "Revelstoke and Fast Pace are committed to rapidly building a high-quality and low-cost healthcare network that comprehensively serves one of America's most vulnerable populations."
Brentwood Capital Advisors LLC served as financial advisor and Waller Lansden Dorch and Davis, LLP was the legal counsel for First Care. Paul Hastings LLP provided legal counsel for Fast Pace.
About Revelstoke
Revelstoke (www.revelstokecapital.com) is a private equity firm formed by experienced investors who focus on building industry-leading companies in the healthcare and related business services sectors. Revelstoke partners with entrepreneurs and management teams to execute on a disciplined organic and acquisition growth strategy as it strives to build exceptional companies. Revelstoke is based in Denver, Colorado and has approximately $4.8 billion of assets under management. Since the firm's inception in 2013, Revelstoke has completed 158 acquisitions, which includes 25 platform companies and 133 add-on acquisitions.
About Fast Pace Health
Fast Pace Health (www.fastpacehealth.com) provides accessible and cost-effective healthcare to underserved and uninsured in rural communities throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Indiana, with plans for future expansion. Fast Pace Health provides treatments for a wide range of illnesses, injuries, and common conditions, as well as a variety of wellness, diagnostic, and screening services. Open seven days a week with extended hours, Fast Pace Health offers patients the convenience of short wait times, daily urgent care services, and the ability to be seen by a primary care provider without an appointment. The company is changing the delivery of healthcare in rural areas by integrating excellent patient care, education, accessibility, and community service in a way that puts the patient's needs first and improves the health status of our communities. Face Pace Health is a primary source for not only urgent care but for total health care.
Contact:
For Fast Pace:
Lisa Gutierrez
Lisa.Gutierrez@fastpacehealth.com
(630) 272-8206
For Revelstoke:
Jennifer Hurson
jhurson@lambert.com
(845) 507-0571
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The kidnapping in Mexico this week of four U.S. citizens that left two of them dead has renewed the focus on the politically charged issue of southern border security and prompted calls from some lawmakers for the Biden administration to more seriously crack down on cartels.
Biden administration officials called the killings “unacceptable” — potentially escalating tensions around the already fraught issues of border security and U.S.-Mexico relations as authorities work to learn more about the circumstances of the incident.
U.S. and Mexican authorities had been searching for four Americans who were kidnapped last Friday after crossing the border for a trip to get a medical procedure. Two of the Americans were found dead on Tuesday. One of the others was found injured, and the fourth is alive.
The FBI had said unidentified gunmen started firing at the four Americans’ vehicle shortly after it crossed into Mexico. They were then taken from the scene by armed men. Officials have not said whether the four Americans were deliberately targeted in the attack.
“Attacks on U.S. citizens are unacceptable no matter where or under what circumstances they occur,” John Kirby, a national security spokesperson for the White House, told reporters Tuesday. “And we’re going to work closely with the Mexican government to make sure justice is done in this case.”
Kirby said it was too soon to discuss any potential policy changes that would stem from the attack, but some lawmakers were quick to offer up legislative prescriptions.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday on Fox News that he was ready to introduce a measure that would classify certain Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations and “set the stage” for the U.S. to use military force in Mexico in the wake of the kidnapping.
“I would tell the Mexican government if you don’t clean up your act, we’re going to clean it up for you,” Graham said.
Other Republicans, such as Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), have previously argued for designating cartels as terrorist organizations, and the deadly kidnapping just over the border has renewed those calls.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday told reporters that agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the FBI “are doing everything possible to dismantle and disrupt and ultimately prosecute the leaders of the cartels and the entire networks that they depend on.”
More broadly, the incident in the city of Matamoros has given Republicans another opening to lob political attacks at the White House over its immigration record.
GOP lawmakers have for months argued the Biden administration has not done enough to curb the flow of migrants and drugs at the southern border, suggesting that what they see as the president’s lax approach to border security is resulting in violence.
“Four Americans were kidnapped by a Mexican cartel. Two are dead. There’s no chance the cartel would be SO BOLD if America had a president who took border security seriously. We are a laughingstock because of Biden’s weak leadership,” Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), chairman of the influential Republican Study Committee, tweeted Tuesday.
The White House on Tuesday pushed back against criticisms that Biden’s border policies are connected to the latest instance of violence across the border.
Officials noted that Biden recently signed an order giving expanded authority to the Treasury Department to penalize cartels, that the Department of Homeland Security screens and vets each individual encountered at the border, and Biden has backed funding for increased border security measures.
Stopping the flow of fentanyl across the border has also been a top priority for Biden, officials said, and they noted that U.S. authorities last year seized twice as many drugs as the amount confiscated in 2020 as part of efforts to crack down on drug traffickers.
The State Department has issued a travel advisory for the area where the incident took place telling Americans to avoid it due to the risk of crime and kidnapping.
The U.S. and Mexico have for years been engaged in at times tense discussions over the issues of migration and cracking down on cartels. During the last administration, then-President Trump at one point claimed drug cartels were “in control” of the area south of the U.S. border, and at another point called on Mexico to “wage war” on cartels and “wipe them off the face of the earth,” a plea that was rebuffed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Biden traveled to Mexico in January to meet with López Obrador to talk about border security and migration issues. The U.S.-Mexico tensions were at times on full display during the visit, including when López Obrador implored Biden to do away with “disdain” for the region.
“This is the moment for us to determine to do away with this abandonment, this disdain, and this forgetfulness for Latin America and the Caribbean,” he said.
The issue of border security and how best to combat violent drug cartels is sure to linger beyond this week’s deadly kidnapping and well into the next election.
Former President Trump, who is running for the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination and has made border security the center of his campaigns, earlier this year offered his vision for getting aggressive toward cartels.
Trump, in a pre-recorded video released in January, said he would order the Pentagon to use special forces, cyber warfare and other actions “to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure and operations,” and he pledged to ask Congress to legislation ensuring convicted drug smugglers and traffickers receive the death penalty.
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(AP) – The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed more than 800 points and the S&P 500 had its best day in more than two years Tuesday as the market clawed back more of the ground it lost in a miserable several weeks on Wall Street.
The S&P 500 rose 3.1%, its best day since May 2020, as all but six of the stocks in the index notched gains. The benchmark index has been rallying since hitting its lowest point of the year on Friday to close out a September slump.
Twitter surged 22.2% after Elon Musk said he would go ahead with his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company, abandoning months of efforts to get out of the deal.
The Dow rose 2.8% and the Nasdaq composite climbed 3.3%. Small company stocks also made solid gains, lifting the Russell 2000 3.9% higher. European and Asian markets also rose broadly.
The two-day rally hit markets as investors look for signs that central banks might ease up on their aggressive rate hikes aimed at taming the hottest inflation in four decades. Australia’s central bank made an interest rate hike that was smaller than previous ones and that helped Australia’s market jump 3.8%.
In the U.S., a government report on job openings showed the number of available jobs in the U.S. plummeted in August compared with July. It’s a sign that businesses may pull back further on hiring and potentially cool chronically high inflation, which could allow the Federal Reserve to slow the pace of rate increases.
Analysts sought to downplay the early October rally, which followed a decline of more than 9% last month. The major indexes remain in a bear market after falling 20% or more from their most recent record highs.
“Wild moves like these can be hard to digest, but they aren’t surprising,” said Lindsey Bell, chief markets and money strategist at Ally. “It is natural for some of the biggest up days in the market to cluster around the biggest down days.”
John Lynch, chief investment officer for Comerica Wealth Management, said the optimism could be misguided as inflation remains stubbornly hot.
“Investors should be worried about false positives,” he said. “Be wary of the history of bear market rallies, they can be very seductive.”
Major indexes could be in store for more declines ahead, Lynch said, as more economic data and the next round of earnings reports paints a clearer picture of how inflation continues to impact business operations and consumer spending.
The S&P 500 rose 112.50 points to 3,790.93, while the Dow gained 825.43 points to close at 30,316.32. The Nasdaq rose 360.97 points to 11,176.41 and the Russell 2000 added 66.90 points at 1,775.77.
Treasury yields continued to pull back from their multiyear highs, which has helped relieve some of the pressure on stocks. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and many other kinds of loans, slipped to 3.64% from 3.65% late Monday. It got as high as 4% last week after starting the year at just 1.51%.
The yield on the two-year Treasury, which more closely tracks expectations for Federal Reserve action, fell to 4.10% from 4.12% late Monday.
The market was mostly quiet with company news ahead of the next round of corporate earnings.
Cruise line operators were among the biggest gainers in the S&P 500. Norwegian Cruise Line jumped 16.8%, Royal Caribbean surged 16.7% and Carnival gained 13.3%.
Investors are watching closely as central banks raise interest rates to make borrowing more difficult and slow economic growth to try to tame inflation. Investors are hoping that they will eventually ease off their aggressive rate hikes and the move by Australia’s central bank is a hopeful sign for some.
Wall Street is worried that the rate hikes, especially the increases from the Fed, could go too far in slowing growth and send economies into a recession. The Fed has already pushed its key overnight interest rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%, up from virtually zero as recently as March.
Economic growth is already slowing globally and the U.S. economy contracted during the first two quarters of the year, which is considered an informal signal of a recession. The economy still has several strong pockets, including employment.
Wall Street will get a more detailed look at the employment situation in the U.S. this week, with a report on hiring by private companies due out Wednesday, the latest tally of weekly applications for unemployment benefits on Thursday and the government’s monthly jobs report for September on Friday.
If those reports point to a still strong job market, that could trigger a bond market sell-off, which would weigh on stocks, said Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Advisors.
“All those could hit the stock market because right now the bond market is really driving the stock market,” he said.
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LOS ANGELES – A pregnant woman who died along with her young son and three others in a fiery crash caused by a speeding car was heading to a prenatal doctor's appointment, her sister said Friday.
Thursday's crash killed Asherey Ryan, her 11-month-old son Alonzo Quintero and her boyfriend, Reynold Lester, Sha'seana Kerr said in a GoFundMe posting.
“Everybody’s heartbroken,” Kerr told KABC-TV. “She literally walked out the door, because we all live together, and she said, ‘Ok, I love y’all. I’m going to my doctor’s appointment to check up on the baby.’ We asked, ‘Oh, why don’t you leave our nephew here?’ She said, ‘No, I want to take my son for a ride.’ So, knowing that really, really broke our hearts.”
Lester's family told KABC-TV that the 24-year-old security guard was the father of the unborn child, who was listed as “baby boy Ryan" in online coroner's records.
Two other women and a man were also killed but their names weren't made public Friday.
Shortly after 1:30 p.m. Thursday, a Mercedes-Benz sedan ran a red light at high speed and caused the crash involving as many as six cars near a gas station in the unincorporated Windsor Hills about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southwest of downtown LA, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The California Highway Patrol said Nicole Lorraine Linton, who sustained moderate injuries in the collision, was taken into custody on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
Prosecutors said they could receive the case as early as next Monday and will then decide whether to file criminal charges.
It was not immediately clear whether Linton, 37, had an attorney who could comment on her behalf.
The Mercedes-Benz sedan never appeared to brake as it flew through the intersection and Pepi said detectives are looking into whether Linton had a medical episode or was driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
“It was definitely one of the most horrific crashes that we’ve seen,” CHP Officer Franco Pepi told The Associated Press on Friday.
Several people were flung from the cars and two vehicles caught fire. Television reports showed the blackened and mangled cars, as well as a child's car seat among the debris covering the street.
Video showed the Mercedes careening through an intersection, striking at least two cars that exploded in flames and were sent hurtling onto a sidewalk, winding up against the gas station's corner sign. A fiery streak led to one car. One vehicle was torn in half.
The car was going at least 50 mph (80 kph) as it raced through the crowded intersection, Pepi said Thursday. Eight people were taken to the hospital, including Linton.
The other victims had minor injuries and included a 33-year-old woman and six children ranging in age from 1 to 15 years old, Pepi said.
A memorial grew outside the intersection Friday, as mourners left flowers and candles in memory of the dead.
Henry Sanchez, who works at nearby Sinclair Gas, was at the indoor register when he heard “the loudest noise I’ve ever heard.”
"The sound of it, it was gut-wrenching,” he told the AP on Friday. “It was like two trains hitting each other, metal on metal.”
He saw people rush to the cars to offer aid but they were kept back by the flames until firefighters arrived.
“I remember everybody trying to get the fire down and help people out as much as they could, but nobody could do anything,” he said.
Veronica Esquival told KTLA-TV that she covered her head for protection as debris flew.
“All of the sudden, a baby literally flew from the middle of the intersection to the middle of the gas station and landed right on the floor in front of me,” Esquival said. “One of the workers came and saw me with the baby and took the baby out of my hands. … Somebody tried to resuscitate the baby but the baby was gone.”
Debra Jackson, told KCBS-TV she was about to get out of her car to pump gas when she heard a big explosion.
“The flames just went over everybody,” Jackson said. “The flames went over my whole car and they told me to jump out of my car ... because I was trying to get out of my car, to go to the gas pump. And I jumped out of my car and just left my car sitting right there.”
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali authorities say a top leader of the al-Shabab extremist group has been killed in a joint operation by the Somali National Army and international partner forces.
He was killed Saturday in Haramka village in the Middle Jubba region, said the government statement issued Monday. He had been close to the former emir of al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane, and current leader Ahmed Diriye.
“His death is a thorn removed from the Somali nation, and the Somali people will be relieved from his misguidance and horrific acts,” the statement said, adding that Nadir had been in position to succeed the current al-Shabab leader.
Somalia’s president recently declared “total war” against al-Shabab, which has thousands of fighters and controls large parts of southern and central Somalia. The group supports itself in part by “taxing” or extorting residents, businesspeople and travelers, according to residents.
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Pence makes a surprise trip to Ukraine and meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Thursday, meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and touring the war-torn country as it fights Russian aggression.
Pence, who this month launched his campaign for the Republican nomination for president, has been deeply critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
He has called on the U.S. to deliver more military aid to the country and criticized GOP rivals who have questioned the ongoing U.S. involvement, saying there is no room in the party for “Putin apologists” and pushing back against those who want the U.S. to take on a more limited role on the world stage.
Pence spent roughly 12 hours in the country Thursday, according to an adviser, with stops in Moshchun, Bucha and Irpin, according to NBC News, which traveled with him.
“I’m here because it’s important that the American people understand the progress that we’ve made and how support for the Ukrainian military has been in our national interest,” he told the network. “I truly do believe that now, more than ever, we need leaders in our country who will articulate the importance of American leadership in the world.”
In addition to his meeting with Zelenskyy, Pence received multiple briefings, including one from Ukrainian officials on the country’s current security situation and one on allegations of human rights violations by Russians accused of abducting Ukrainian children in a bid to weaken Ukrainian resolve, the adviser said.
Pence also participated in a commemoration ceremony to honor Ukrainians killed during the defense of Moshchun during Russia’s offensive and visited the destroyed Romanov Bridge, where he was briefed on the civilian evacuation efforts.
Pence visited St. Andrew’s Church and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, the site of a civilian mass burial site, and laid flowers at the Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv.
The trip was the second by Pence to the region. In March 2022, he made an unannounced visit to the Ukrainian border with Poland, where he crossed into Ukraine and helped deliver aid to the flood of refugees who escaping the war’s initial invasion.
Both trips were arranged by Samaritan’s Purse, an international Christian humanitarian aid organization.
Pence’s GOP rivals have been far less eager to push for more U.S. involvement in Ukraine, reflecting broader skepticism within the party.
A February poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found only about a quarter of Americans — 26% — believe the U.S. should have a major role in the conflict, down from as high as 40% in March 2022. Among Republicans that number is even lower, with the number saying the U.S. should have a major role dropping to just 17%.
Both former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who are also seeking the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, have said the defense of Ukraine is not a vital U.S. national security interest. Trump has stressed the humanitarian cost of the war and called for its end. DeSantis once called the Russian invasion a “territorial dispute,” but later walked back those comments in the face of criticism.
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Attorneys John Kappel, Jacob Jeffries, Christopher Lambert receive Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch honors
DALLAS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Law Firm Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson (ONDA) is honored to announce that 15 attorneys have been selected to the Best Lawyers in America 2023 edition. The legal guide is one of the oldest and most-respected peer review catalogs in the nation.
The 2023 guide includes partners Richard Orsinger, Keith Nelson, Scott Downing, Jeff Anderson and Brad M. LaMorgese for representation of clients in Family Law, with Mr. Anderson earning additional honors for his work in Family Law Arbitration and Mr. LaMorgese for his Appellate practice.
Firm partners William M. Reppeto III, Amber Liddell Alwais, Paula A. Bennett, David Housel, Paul Hewett, Holly Baird and R. Porter Corrigan earned Best Lawyers recognition for their representation of clients in Family Law, with Ms. Bennett also selected for her Family Law Mediation practice.
Partner John Kappel and attorneys Jacob Jeffries and Christopher Lambert received recognition in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for their knowledge and expertise in Family Law matters. Attorneys with five to nine years in practice who exemplify outstanding professional excellence receive this designation.
The selection of Best Lawyers honorees is conducted using an intensive process based on peer nominations and feedback from attorneys in the same practice areas and geographic regions. Find the complete list of the 2023 Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch honorees here: https://www.bestlawyers.com.
Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson has served families for almost 30 years. With offices in Dallas, Frisco, Fort Worth and San Antonio, ONDA is one of Texas' largest Family Law firms. Each partner is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, as well as a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists.
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- VO659 is the only clinical-stage candidate targeting the CAG repeat expansion that causes these diseases
- VO659 was designed to preferentially reduce mutant HTT and spare wild-type HTT
- Phase 1/2a basket trial design and preclinical VO659 data to be presented at CHDI Foundation's 18th Annual Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference
LEIDEN, Netherlands, April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vico Therapeutics B.V., a clinical-stage genetic medicines company developing therapies for severe neurological diseases, today announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 1/2a clinical study evaluating VO659 for the treatment of Huntington's disease (HD), spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) and type 3 (SCA3). VO659 is an antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) investigational therapy designed to target the CAG repeat expansion that causes all nine known polyglutamine diseases including HD, SCA1 and SCA3.
"We are encouraged by the continued progress of our development program and very pleased to announce the first patient dosed in this Phase 1/2a study of VO659 in HD, SCA1 and SCA3," said Scott Schobel, MD, chief medical officer at Vico. "VO659 is the first allele-preferential ASO in clinical development with broad application to all CAG repeat expansion diseases. The robust preclinical data package for VO659 demonstrates favorable brain uptake, potency and durability of effect, and we look forward to assessing the translation of these characteristics in this clinical trial."
VO659's unique target and dual mechanism of action enable potent target engagement across multiple disease models. In preclinical studies, significant and dose-dependent reductions of mutant huntingtin protein (mHTT) and improvement in motor function were observed in vivo in disease mouse models of HD. Allele-preferential reductions of mHTT were observed in vitro in HD patient cell models. Preclinical data also showed VO659 induced a significant reduction of mutant ATXN1 (mATXN1) and mutant ATXN3 (mATXN3) protein levels in vivo and in vitro in disease mouse models and patient cell models of SCA1 and SCA3, respectively.
The Phase 1/2a clinical trial is a multi-center, open-label basket study designed to assess the safety and tolerability of multiple ascending doses of VO659 administered intrathecally in participants with early manifest HD or mild to moderate SCA1 or SCA3. Exploratory endpoints include the assessment of pharmacodynamic biomarkers (mHTT, total HTT, mATXN3, total ATXN3 and neurofilament light chain) in cerebrospinal fluid, plasma pharmacokinetics, and clinical outcome measures. The study is expected to enroll approximately 71 participants.
"It is our mission to bring safe, effective therapies to patients and families affected by devastating neurological diseases, and today marks an important milestone in our journey to realize this mission. We are grateful to the trial investigators and patients participating in our Phase 1/2a study as we assess the potential of VO659 in HD, SCA1 and SCA3. We also look forward to sharing more details about the study at CHDI's Annual Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference later this month," said Micah Mackison, chief executive officer at Vico.
The company also announced that researchers will be highlighting preclinical data of VO659 in an oral presentation along with poster presentations of the Phase 1/2a trial design and additional preclinical data of VO659 at the CHDI Foundation's 18th Annual Huntington's Disease Therapeutics Conference being held in Dubrovnik, Croatia from April 24-27, 2023. Details of Vico's presentations at CHDI's Annual Conference are as follows:
Oral Presentation
Title: VO659, an allele-preferential CAG repeat-targeting ASO with therapeutic potential for patients with Huntington's disease and spinocerebellar ataxia types 1 and 3
Presenter: Nicole Datson, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Vico
Session: Session III - Novel mechanisms, modalities, and candidates for HD therapeutics
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 26 at 9:00 am CET
Poster Presentations
Title: VO659, a CAG repeat-targeting ASO, blocks translation of polyQ proteins in a CAG repeat length dependent and allele preferential manner
Presenter: Ruurd Verheul, Scientist, Vico
Date and Time: Monday, April 24 – Thursday, April 27
Title: Design of a first-in-human, phase 1/2a trial of VO659, a CAG repeat-targeting ASO in patients with Huntington's disease and spinocerebellar ataxia types 1 and 3
Presenter: Katja Obieglo, PhD, Clinical Scientist, Vico
Date and Time: Monday, April 24 – Thursday, April 27
About Vico Therapeutics B.V.
Vico Therapeutics is a clinical-stage genetic medicines company developing antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) RNA modulating therapies for patients with severe neurological diseases. Vico's platform designs ASOs to modulate RNA through multiple approaches including inhibition of translation, modulation of splicing, editing, degradation, and activation. We apply precision chemistry to identify an RNA modulator that achieves the desired target engagement and safety profile for different diseases. Our lead product candidate, VO659, is currently in Phase 1/2a clinical development for the treatment of Huntington's disease and spinocerebellar ataxia types 1 and 3. For more information, visit www.vicotx.com.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a conditional loan of $700 million to an Australian mining company to pursue a proposed lithium project in Nevada, as the U.S. seeks domestic supplies for a key component in electric vehicle batteries.
The move ups the ante in what’s already a high-stakes battle over President Joe Biden’s energy agenda and conservationists fighting to protect an endangered wildflower found only at the proposed mine site on a high desert ridge halfway between Reno and Las Vegas.
Ioneer Ltd. has hoped to begin mining at Rhyolite Ridge by 2026 in Esmerelda County. The Energy announcement said the site could produce enough lithium to support production of about 370,000 electric vehicles annually for decades.
The loan would be the latest project to demonstrate the Biden administration’s commitment to strengthen the nation’s battery supply chain, electrify the transportation sector and cut reliance on fossil fuels and foreign supplies of raw materials, the Department of Energy said.
Jigar Shah, director of DOE’s Loans Programs Office, said his office is “excited to further develop an environmentally responsible U.S. supply chain for critical materials.”
“Rhyolite Ridge is a major step towards bolstering domestic lithium production for clean energy technologies,” he said in a statement.
James Calaway, executive chairman of Ioneer, said the conditional commitment “highlights the project’s strategic role in strengthening the nation’s critical mineral supply chain in providing a secure, sustainable and reliable domestic source of lithium for the growing vehicle ecosystem.” Bernard Rowe, Ioneer’s managing director, said it came after 23 months “of discussion and due diligence” by Energy.
But the project still faces a significant hurdle in developing a mining operations plan that will provide adequate protection for the endangered Nevada wildflower, Tiehm’s buckwheat.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in declaring it endangered last year that it is on the brink of extinction and the mining project posed the single biggest threat to its survival.
Conservationists have sued in the past to protect the 6-inch-tall plant with yellow blooms and vowed on Friday to do so again if necessary.
“What this looks like is a fairly transparent effort by the Biden administration to build political and economic momentum for the project in an effort to steamroll the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Endangered Species Act,” said Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin director for the Center for Biological Diversity.
“Ioneer is going to have to completely overhaul the design of this mine if they expect to pass through permitting,” he said in an email to The Associated Press.
“We’ve sued or initiated lawsuits over Tiehm’s buckwheat four times already, and we won’t back down until every buckwheat is saved,” he said.
The Energy Department announcement said the Ioneer project is working to minimize impact on the plant. It said the loan is contingent on completion of an environmental impact statement.
Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., is among those backing the project.
“I applaud the Energy Department for providing this loan to help support the mining and processing of Nevada’s critical minerals, help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and contribute to the creation of jobs in our state,” she said in a statement.
Lithium is fundamental to the battery technology that is most common in electric vehicles and battery electric storage systems. But many engineers are working on alternative battery chemistries because lithium involves rock mining, which means major disturbance to the environment.
Ioneer is a lithium focused company based in New South Wales, Australia and Reno.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will remain free through the Memorial Day weekend before surrendering to authorities on May 30 to begin her more than 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors in a blood-testing scam.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila set Holmes' revised prison-reporting date after her lawyers proposed it in a Wednesday filing. It came after a federal appeals court late Tuesday rejected Holmes' bid to remain out of prison while she attempts to overturn her January 2022 conviction on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy.
The punishment also includes a $452 million restitution bill that Davila ordered Holmes to pay in a separate ruling issued late Tuesday.
Holmes' lawyers asked Davila to approve the May 30 prison reporting time to her two weeks to sort out several issues, including child care for her 1-year-old son William and 3-month-old daughter Invicta. Holmes had originally been ordered to begin her prison sentence on April 27, but won a reprieve with a last-minute legal maneuver that gave her more time with her children.
Holmes, 39, became pregnant with William shortly before the start of her high-profile trial in September 2021 and became pregnant with Invicta shortly after she was convicted of crimes that could have resulted in a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
The father of both children is William “Billy” Evans, whom she met after breaking up with her former romantic and business partner, Ramesh “Sunny,” Balwani, who began serving a nearly 13-year prison sentence last month in Southern California. Balwani, 57, was convicted for 12 felony counts of fraud and conspiracy committed while he was Theranos' chief operating officer and living with Holmes.
In Wednesday’s filing, Holmes' lawyers didn't disclose the location of the prison that she has been assigned to serve her sentence. But they noted she has to prepare to travel outside of California, where she has been living in the San Diego area while free on bail. Davila has recommended that Holmes be imprisoned in Bryan, Texas.
When Holmes is finally incarcerated, it will bring down the curtain on a saga that cast a bright light on a dark chapter in Silicon Valley that brought her fame and fortune before her scandalous downfall.
After dropping out of Stanford University in 2003 to found Theranos while still a teenager, Holmes promised to revolutionize healthcare with a technology that she promised would be able to scan for hundreds of diseases and other potential problems with just a few drops of blood. The idea helped her raising nearly $1 billion from sophisticated investors that included Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who is owed $125 million under the restitution order.
But Theranos' blood tests never came close to working the way Holmes had boasted with the support of Balwani, resulting in the company's collapse and a tale that has been the subject of a book, “Bad Blood,” an HBO documentary, “The Inventor," and a Hulu mini-series, ”The Dropout," which won Amanda Seyfried an Emmy in the starring role.
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The cooler temps and stunning natural views of autumn have many families spending more time outdoors, participating in seasonal activities and even taking vacations to check out the fall foliage. Stroller wagons, modular strollers and other modes of transportation for your little ones can simplify your journeys.
Well-known manufacturers of baby safety and transportation products offer several options for littles of every size, age and stage. From versatile stroller wagons to adaptable modular strollers, comparing your needs with the available features (think large storage baskets and cupholders as well as easy folding and upgrade options) can help you choose the ideal option for trick-or-treating, corn maze wayfinding or leaf-peeping.
Graco Modes Adventure Stroller Wagon ($449.99)
This stroller wagon is unique, as you can rotate the handle to push it like a stroller or pull it as a wagon. The all-terrain rubber tires with suspension let you use it at the playground or the beach — or go almost anywhere. There are also cup holders and zippered pockets for storage.
These Graco stroller wagons have earned 4.7 stars out of 5 on Amazon. Customers who reviewed the stroller wagons say it is convenient to push or pull them and they fold up easily. They also like comfortable seats and canopies.
“We are reaching the stage where the stroller is not something he wants to ride in anymore, and thankfully this wagon has saved the day,” wrote one reviewer, who also shared pictures of the stroller wagon showing the adjustable canopy. “I like that it can function as a stroller (to be pushed) and a wagon (to be pulled). I also like the generous canopy that blocks the sun on both sides. My 3 year old said this is comfortable. It was easy to put together and I assembled in under 10 minutes.”
The Graco Modes Adventure Stroller Wagon, $449.99, is compact and collapsible for convenience but also provides seats for two children. Each seat holds up to 50 pounds. An added benefit of these stroller wagons is that they are compatible with any Graco infant car seat with an adapter.
Century Swap On Modular Stroller ($159.99)
If your little one isn’t big enough for stroller wagons yet but you’d like something that can grow with them, the Century Swap On Modular Stroller might be just right.
From the start, this stroller lets you select which direction your baby faces on the go. You can turn the seat toward you to chat as you stroll or allow your little one to face forward and enjoy the view.
But one significant advantage of this stroller is that it is compatible with other Century products, sold separately. So you can customize the ride by swapping the stroller seat with any Century Infant Car Seat or the Swap On Modular Stroller Bassinet ($89.99).
This stroller, $159.99, is available in Splash (blue) or Berry (pink) colors and has a 4.3-star rating. It folds into a compact, self-standing configuration. It has an extra-large canopy with a visor to keep the sun out of little eyes and off sensitive skin. The soft harness and multi-position reclining seat provide safety and comfort. Baby can eat from the removable, washable tray, and you can enjoy the parent-friendly cup holder; plus, the storage basket underneath the stroller holds everything you might need.
Wonderfold W4 Original Quad Stroller Wagon ($595)
With removable seats for up to four kids and adjustable five-point safety harnesses, this stroller wagon collapses easily for storage and portability. It is designed for children six months and older with a 300-pound total weight capacity.
This versatile wagon has a removable push handle, a deep carriage basket with loads of storage, all-terrain tires and a one-step foot brake. The canopy sides can be removed, and the front zipper door makes it even more accessible.
This stroller wagon has more than 2,200 ratings and 4.8 stars. Customers who reviewed it say it is easy to push, pull, and fold up. They love that it can be used for carrying items and multiple kids and even older children.
“This stroller wagon is the best purchase I’ve ever made,” wrote reviewer Tricia. “My 6 yr old has autism and is getting way too big for a stroller. It fits through all doors, very easy to push, easy set up and fold down. My toughest issue is trying to get him out of it, he wants to bring inside and use inside the house too! He loves it. He is about 54 lbs and fits in the seatbelts. He prefers to lay on the bottom and hide under the seats. So much room in this. Lots of leg room, he has long legs and has no issues. This has been a life changer for us. We can now go anywhere without him getting upset.”
Usually $699, this Wonderfold stroller wagon is currently 15% off at $595.
Evenflo Pivot Xplore All-Terrain Stroller Wagon ($299.49)
This Evenflo stroller wagon comfortably accommodates one or two littles up to 5 years old. It has a 55-pound capacity and transforms from a stroller to a wagon with a simple flip of the handle.
Adjustable canopies provide sun protection, and it has plenty of pockets, cupholders and other storage spots for parents on the go. You can also modify it by adding an infant car seat or a toddler seat (sold separately).
The Evenflo stroller wagon has nearly 4,800 ratings and 4.8 stars. Customers love the leg room, sunshades and harnesses, along with its easy assembly and dual-purpose handle. It is currently 25% off at $299.49.
Baby Trend Expedition 2-in-1 Stroller Wagon ($249.99)
A hideaway pull handle lets you transform this wagon from stroller mode. The large interior has built-in seating for two, three-point safety harnesses and a weight capacity of 50 pounds. You can also use the extra cushion provided as a mat if your littles prefer to nap in the stroller wagon.
With loads of storage space, including cup holders for kids and adults, you can travel with ease. In addition, it has an extra-large ratcheting canopy, durable wheels and a push brake.
Customers appreciate that it includes an infant car seat adapter. They also like that it is comfortable with plenty of room for toddlers and young children.
With more than 2,800 ratings and 4.8 stars, this stroller wagon is on sale now for $249.99.
Whether your fall travel plans are taking you around the country or the neighborhood, these stroller wagons and stroller configurations can get your little ones there in comfort.
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ItsEasy Shares the Tools You Need to Avoid Exorbitant Market Pricing
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Passports are required, yet often overlooked, when planning international travel. With the demand for passports high, the current process of securing a new passport post-Covid is daunting at best.
If you need a new passport in less than 5-8 weeks for an upcoming trip, you may actually have to either: travel hundreds, if not thousands, of miles to an "appointment only" U.S. Passport Agency just to obtain your new passport, or pay exorbitant prices during peak seasons of up to $3,000 to third party passport couriers if you are not fortunate enough to secure a coveted appointment at a local government passport agency.
ItsEasy.com, a leading provider of expedited passport and visa services, is helping to ensure travelers avoid outrageously inflated pricing to obtain a passport.
It's important that travelers do not wait to initiate the application process to obtain a passport(s) for themselves or members of their family. ItsEasy.com shares the tools you need to help avoid the potential nightmare of obtaining a last-minute passport or the agony of price gouging.
"The best advice we can give anyone who is even contemplating international travel is apply NOW, if not sooner! If you, or those closest to you, already have a passport then find it right away and check its validity. Out of sight, out of mind, historically leads to last minute travel disasters," said David Alwadish, founder of ItsEasy.com and travel industry veteran.
As the authority on passports and visas, ItsEasy.com shares insights and tips for anyone planning international travel. It's vital to note which of the following two (2) groups you fall under, given your current passport status:
GROUP #1: Includes any adult in physical possession of a current and valid 10 year passport book and/or passport card, or in physical possession of a 10 year passport book and/or passport card that has not expired for more than five years.
This group has the ability of taking advantage of a very simplified passport renewal process requiring no in-person appearance unless a significant change or modification to their existing passport may require a personal appearance.
GROUP #2 - Includes everyone else. This may include those in physical possession of a valid passport book and/or passport card that was valid for a term of less than 10 years such as a child 5 year passport, or an adult 10 year passport that has been expired longer than the 5 year grace period to the day, or any child applicant who is under 16 years of age, and anyone who has never had a passport.
All* applicants in this group must expect an in-person appearance at an approved local Acceptance Agent such as: Post Offices, County Clerks, Courthouses, Libraries,etc., or at a Regional Passport Agency.
*In special circumstances the Dept of State issues individuals passport products for a validity term of less than 5 and 10 years. If a passport book and/or card has been issued for a validity of other than the Child's 5 year or Adult's 10 year then you may want to inquire with ItsEasy.Com regarding what procedure to follow to extend the term of the passport.
Once you have determined which group you fall into and whether or not you need an in-person appointment, you can decide which service to choose for the process. The Department of State offers 2 basic services:
Routine Processing - This is their lowest cost for a passport book and/or card. Pre-Covid, their usual processing time was approx 4-6 weeks. Currently their processing time is estimated at 8-10 weeks.
Expedited Processing - This service is offered at a $60.00 premium to Routine Processing costs per passport book and/or card. Pre-Covid, their expedited processing time was approximately 2 weeks. Currently, their processing time is estimated at 4-5 weeks.
Additional Tips To Follow:
- Locate Your Passport(s): Check the expiration dates and if current, put them in a safe and memorable place so they are easy to find when needed.
- Apply Or Renew Early: Securing a valid passport in advance of an international trip, long before it's actually needed, will always save you money.
- Visit the ItsEasy App or ItsEasy.com: Both the app and the website have a Complimentary Renewal Reminder tool to use, which reminds you to renew your passport well in advance of expiration date.
Get the Passport Card: The Real-ID Law for domestic air travel takes effect in May 2023. Add a Passport Card to your passport application and you receive a wallet-sized ID card that is valid for 10 years for applicants 16 and over, The Passport Card is simply one of the best deals for providing REAL-ID compliant identification. While some online marketers mislead customers by charging an additional service fee of $34.95 and up, in addition to the government fee, for adding a Passport Card, ItsEasy.com charges no additional fee.
- Apply for Both: Request both the passport book and the passport card at the same time to save time, money and hassle, versus applying for each separately. If you need expedited processing and you request the book and card at the same time, you will only pay the $60.00 surcharge once per applicant.
- Be Cautious: Be weary of ads for passport services that pop up in online search engines. Many of these services are gouging unsuspecting customers by charging them for services not provided or for services normally included by the government.
- Use Quality Passport Photos: Not all passport photos are accepted. One of the most common reasons passport applications are delayed is due to non-compliant photos. Just because a store or facility sells passport photos does not mean the quality meets the government's standards.
- Take Advantage of Complimentary Passport Photos Included at ItsEasy.com or on the App: One of the many benefits of renewing through ItsEasy, is the ability to take PPP - perfect passport photos. These photos are taken by the applicant with their cell phone and instantly received by us for examination. Once approved, they are printed and attached to their passport application that we receive from their order. No need to travel to stores and pay for possibly flawed photos.
- Enjoy Complimentary Round Trip Shipping with ItsEasy: Both Inbound & Return Shipping is included in the renewal process when you use ItsEasy.com or the app.
ItsEasy.com has been a trusted agent of the US Department of State since 1976, authorized to provide US passport services to the public for a fee. It is the safest and most cost-effective way to renew your passport from your home or office. ItsEasy.com has helped millions of travelers over the last 40 years. The company's mission: "No Passenger Left Behind", coupled with its unsurpassed customer service and honest and fair pricing set ItsEasy.com apart. Founder David Alwadish is so passionate about helping people travel safely, he has been volunteering his services for free to those who must travel during the pandemic for a life and death emergency. Plan ahead. Renew early. Avoid the lines. Stay safe. Save time and money.
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- The collaboration streamlines the process of acquiring digital assets by allowing purchases directly within the Mobile wallet using bank cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and various local payment methods.
- Mercuryo's solution simplifies the crypto purchase process for users by enabling small immediate purchases and reusing previous ID verification data.
LONDON, Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercuryo, a leading crypto payments company, and ConsenSys, a market-leading Web3 company, have announced an integration within MetaMask that will allow MetaMask users to bypass mainstream exchanges and buy crypto tokens with bank cards, Apple Pay, and various bank transfer methods directly in their wallets. This aims to simplify purchasing digital assets thanks to instant checkouts and easier user onboarding.
Inspired primarily by users with little experience in crypto, the partnership would also benefit those looking for a quick and easy way to restock their portfolio. As a result, MetaMask users will be able to buy popular tokens and coins and with two dozen fiat currencies.
Petr Kozyakov, CEO of Mercuryo, comments:
"Collaborations with market leaders like MetaMask are an exciting opportunity for Mercuryo to help more people experience cryptocurrencies in the easiest way possible. Instead of opening yet another new account at one of the exchanges, the users can manage their digital assets on a single platform. We always put customers and their convenience first when enhancing business services with our products."
Purchasing crypto tokens can often be time-consuming, requiring identity verification and clearing banking details. Mercuryo's product streamlines this process by allowing MetaMask users to purchase up to €699 in crypto in 5 easy steps without needing full identity verification. To purchase crypto through MetaMask, users need to log in to the app, tap on "Buy" and select the payment method, input the desired amount and token, review quotes and choose one from Mercuryo, and complete the transaction by following the link to the Mercuryo website.
Since launching in 2016, MetaMask has been on a mission to democratize access to the decentralized web and ensure easy access to cryptocurrency by providing on-ramp functionality with well-established payment providers, varying by region. The MetaMask and Mercuryo push is the latest in a series of integrations aiming to improve and diversify user payment options.
"Our integration with Mercuryo helps streamline onboarding and the process of acquiring digital assets, including the option to purchase up to €699 in crypto without complex identity verification," said Lorenzo Santos, Product Manager for MetaMask. "This enables our users to seamlessly explore the Web3 ecosystem, including NFT marketplaces, play-and-earn games, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, and metaverse worlds."
Fiat currencies supported:
- EUR - Euro
- USD - US dollar
- GBP - British pound
- TRY - Turkish lira
- JPY - Japanese yen
- BRL - Brazilian real
- NGN - Nigerian Naira
- VND - Vietnamese Dong
- MXN - Mexican Peso
- KRW - South Korean won
- PLN - Polish zloty
- SEK - Swedish krona
- CHF - Swiss franc
- CAD - Canadian dollar
- CZK - Czech koruna
- DKK - Danish krone
- BGN - Bulgarian lev
- HKD - Hong Kong dollar
- AUD - Australian dollar
Crypto currencies supported:
- Ethereum (ETH)
- Basic Attention Token (BAT ERC-20)
- Tether (USDT ERC-20)
- OKB (OKB) (ERC-20)
- Dai (DAI). (ERC-20)
- Toncoin (TON)
- Binance coin (BNB BEP20)
- Binance USD (BUSD BEP20)
- 1inch token (1INCH BEP20)
- Avalanche (AVAX C-Chain network)
- Polygon (MATIC)
- USDC (USDC TRC-20)
- Fantom (FTM)
- Dogecoin (DOGE)
- Decentraland (MANA ERC-20)
- The Sandbox (SAND ERC-20)
- Curve DAO Token (CRV ERC-20)
- DYDX (DYDX ERC-20)
About Mercuryo
Mercuryo is a global payments infrastructure platform, reinventing the ease of making payments by providing businesses from both the fiat and crypto worlds with a wide range of financial services and products, accessible through single API integration. Since its inception in 2018, Mercuryo has been developing a holistic fintech platform with several products including BaaS (Banking-as-a-Service), CaaS (Crypto-as-a-Service), On-Off Ramps, Pay In-Out; and secured partnerships with over 200 crypto companies, working with leading industry players such as Trust Wallet, Ledger, Trezor, 1inch, Gate.io, Nexo, OKX, Bitcoin.com and Bybit.
About ConsenSys
ConsenSys is a leading Ethereum and decentralized protocols software company. We enable developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Our product suite, composed of Infura, Quorum, Codefi, MetaMask, MetaMask Institutional, Truffle, Diligence, and our NFT platform, serves millions of users, supports billions of blockchain-based queries for our clients, and has handled billions of dollars in digital assets. Ethereum is the largest programmable blockchain in the world, leading in business adoption, developer community, and DeFi activity. On this trusted, open-source foundation, we are building the digital economy of tomorrow. To explore our products and solutions, visit https://consensys.net/.
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The No. 23-ranked West Virginia University men’s soccer team takes on Ivy League foe Yale on Friday, Sept. 9, at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. ET.
Friday is Trivia Night, with select prizes given away to the first five fans to correctly answer a list of trivia questions, which can be found at the marketing table on the stadium concourse. Prizewinners will be announced at halftime.
Additionally, the Mountaineers will welcome back many former players and their families as part of the program’s alumni weekend.
Fans are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance by visiting WVUGAME.com or calling 1-800-WVU-GAME. When purchasing online, tickets are $5 each and $3 for groups of 10 or more. All tickets are general admission.
At the stadium ticket window, which opens at 6 p.m., on Friday, tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for youth and seniors and $3 for groups. The discounted online pricing will be available until kickoff.
WVU students are admitted free with a valid WVU Student ID.
Fans who are unable to attend the match can follow along with live stats at WVUsports.com. The match also can be seen live on ESPN+, with Nick Farrell and Andrew Caridi on the call, as well as heard on 91.7 FM in Morgantown.
Friday marks the first-ever meeting between the Mountaineers (2-2) and Bulldogs (0-0-2). It’s also WVU’s first Ivy League opponent since playing Penn on Sept. 28, 2019. Overall, West Virginia is 5-4 all-time against members of the Ivy League.
Last time out, the Mountaineers recorded a 4-1 win over American on Sept. 6, in Morgantown. WVU scored three goals in the first 14 minutes to help in the victory.
Junior midfielder Ryan Crooks scored two goals and added a pair of assists to lead the offensive charge, while fifth-year senior defender Aaron Denk Gracia and redshirt junior defender Bjarne Thiesen also tallied goals.
In all, the Mountaineers outshot the Eagles, 13-6, including 8-2 in shots on goal.
Crooks leads the way with two goals and three assists in four games this season. He also has tallied a team-leading 10 shots. In goal, junior goalkeeper Jackson Lee has six saves.
West Virginia was placed at No. 23 in this week’s United Soccer Coaches Top 25. It marked the 12th consecutive week that the Mountaineers were included in the poll, dating back to Sept. 7, 2021.
WVU is unbeaten in its last 15 matches at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. The streak is tied for the third-longest in NCAA Division I men’s soccer. Overall, the squad is 115-42-22 at the venue.
Coach Dan Stratford enters the fixture with a career head-coaching record of 81-12-12, including 20-8-7 with the Mountaineers. The third-year coach is 9-0-2 in home, nonconference matchups at WVU.
Yale is led by eighth-year coach Kylie Stannard. The squad opened the season with a 1-1 draw against Saint Francis (Pa.) on Sept. 3, before it drew at Rutgers, 2-2, on Sept. 5.
The Bulldogs, who finished 7-5-4, including 4-1-2 in Ivy League play last season, have featured three different goal scorers in 2022. Last fall, Paolo Carroll and Kahveh Zahiroleslam each had seven goals.
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow @WVUMensSoccer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
COURT-APPROVED LEGAL NOTICE
If you purchased any Pork product in the United States from January 1, 2009, through April 2, 2021, a class action settlement may affect your rights.
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o visite nuestro website www.overchargedforpork.com.
A new settlement has been reached in a class action antitrust lawsuit filed on behalf of Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs with Defendant Smithfield Foods, Inc. and related or affiliated entities ("Smithfield"). This Court-ordered notice may affect your rights. Please review and follow the instructions carefully.
The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota authorized this notice. Before any money is paid, the Court will hold a hearing to decide whether to approve the Settlement.
WHO IS INCLUDED?
For settlement purposes, members of the Settlement Class are defined as all persons and entities who indirectly purchased Pork from any of the Defendants or any co-conspirator, or their respective subsidiaries or affiliates, for personal use in the United States from at least as early as January 1, 2009 until April 2, 2021. Specifically excluded from the Settlement Class are the Defendants; the officers, directors, or employees of any Defendant; any entity in which any Defendant has a controlling interest; and any affiliate, legal representative, heir, or assign of any Defendant. Also excluded from this Settlement Class are any federal, state, or local governmental entities, any judicial officer presiding over this action and the members of his/her immediate family and judicial staff, and any juror assigned to this action. In addition to Smithfield, the Defendants in this lawsuit for purposes of this notice include Clemens Food Group, LLC, The Clemens Family Corporation, Hormel Foods Corporation, JBS USA Food Company, JBS USA Food Company Holdings, Seaboard Foods LLC, Triumph Foods, LLC, Tyson Foods, Inc., Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc., Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., and Agri Stats, Inc.
If you are not sure you are included, you can get more information, including a detailed notice, at www.overchargedforpork.com or by calling toll-free 1-877-777-9594.
WHAT IS THIS LAWSUIT ABOUT?
Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs allege that Defendants and their co-conspirators conspired and combined to fix, raise, maintain, and stabilize the price of Pork, at least as early as January 1, 2009, with the intent and expected result of increasing prices of Pork in the United States, in violation of federal and state consumer-protection and antitrust laws. Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs previously reached a settlement with one Defendant, JBS. The Court granted final approval to the JBS settlement on September 14, 2022. Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs have now reached a new proposed Settlement with Defendant Smithfield. Smithfield denies it did anything wrong. The Court did not decide which side was right, but both sides agreed to the Settlement Agreement to resolve the case, avoid the risks involved with continued litigation, and get benefits to the Settlement Class. The case is still proceeding on behalf of the Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs against other Defendants who may be subject to separate settlements, judgments, or class certification orders.
WHAT DOES THE SETTLEMENT PROVIDE?
Under the terms of the Settlement Agreement, Smithfield will pay $75,000,000 to resolve all Settlement Class claims against it in this litigation. In addition to this monetary benefit, Smithfield has also agreed to certain injunctive relief and to provide specified cooperation in the Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs' continued prosecution of the litigation. No money will be distributed yet. Co-Lead Counsel will continue to pursue the lawsuit against the other non-settling Defendants. Co-Lead Counsel may request that the Court award attorneys' fees and permit the reimbursement of certain litigation costs and expenses. If such request is made, it will be filed at least fourteen days before the objection deadline and posted on the website www.overchargedforpork.com at that time. Co-Lead Counsel believes that the total amount of attorneys' fees sought will be no more than 33.3% of the Settlement Fund or $25,000,000.00, and the total amount of costs sought will be no more than $5.2 million. Class Counsel will request service awards of up to $2,000 on behalf of each Class Representative. All Settlement funds that remain after payment of the Court-ordered attorneys' fees, costs, service awards, and expenses will be distributed at the conclusion of the lawsuit or as ordered by the Court.
WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS AND OPTIONS?
You do not need to take any action to remain a member of the Settlement Class and be bound by the Settlement Agreement. As a Settlement Class Member, you may be able to participate in (or exclude yourself from) any future settlement or judgment obtained by Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs against other Defendants in the case. If you do not want to be legally bound by the Settlement Agreement, you must exclude yourself by February 7, 2023, or you will not be able to sue or continue to sue Smithfield for the Released Claims (as defined in the Settlement Agreement). If you exclude yourself, you can't get money from the Settlement. If you don't exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you may still object to the Settlement Agreement by February 7, 2023. The detailed notice explains how to exclude yourself or object. Details may also be found on the FAQs page of the Settlement website. The Court will hold a hearing in this case (In re Pork Antitrust Litigation (Indirect Purchaser Actions), Case No. 0:18-cv-01776 (D. Minn.)), on March 30, 2023, to consider whether to approve the Settlement Agreement. You may ask to speak at the hearing, but you do not have to.
In order to be eligible to receive a payment from the Settlement, you must submit a valid Claim Form before June 30, 2023. You may submit a Claim Form either online or by mail. Both options are available at the website www.overchargedforpork.com. If you previously submitted a Claim Form in response to the JBS settlement notice, then you do not need to submit another Claim Form as you will be automatically eligible to receive a payment from the Smithfield Settlement.
Deadlines and the date and time of the hearing are subject to change. Updates will be provided on the website www.overchargedforpork.com.
This notice is only a summary. You can find more details about the Settlement at www.overchargedforpork.com or by calling toll-free 1-877-777-9594. Please do not contact the Court.
This notice is only a summary. You can find more details about the Settlement at www.overchargedforpork.com or by calling toll-free 1-877-777-9594. Please do not contact the Court.
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- Preclinical development milestone achieved in connection with ongoing IND-enabling studies to support evaluation of Pol Theta Helicase Inhibitor DC as combo with niraparib
- Potential to realize preclinical and clinical milestones up to $20 million total for preclinical to early Phase 1 clinical, including up to $10 million aggregate through IND effectiveness
- Targeting first-in-human clinical evaluation of Pol Theta Helicase Inhibitor DC in combination with niraparib in H1 2023 for patients having tumors with HRD
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. , Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEAYA Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:IDYA), a synthetic lethality focused precision medicine oncology company committed to the discovery and development of targeted therapeutics, announced that it has achieved a preclinical development milestone in connection with ongoing IND-enabling studies for its Pol Theta Helicase Development Candidate (DC).
"We are excited to advance our Pol Theta Helicase Inhibitor DC toward the clinic. The achievement of this preclinical milestone supplements our balance sheet and reflects the continued progress IDEAYA and GSK are making to enable first-in-human studies with this development candidate in the first half of next year," said Michael White, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of IDEAYA Biosciences.
The Pol Theta Helicase Inhibitor DC is a potential first-in-class small molecule inhibitor of the helicase domain of DNA Polymerase Theta. IDEAYA is collaborating with GSK on IND-enabling studies to support the evaluation of the Pol Theta Helicase DC in combination with niraparib, GSK's PARP inhibitor, for patients harboring tumors with BRCA or other homologous recombination (HR) mutations or homologous recombination deficiency (HRD).
IDEAYA and GSK are targeting an IND submission for the Pol Theta Helicase DC, subject to satisfactory completion of ongoing IND-enabling studies, to enable first-in-human studies in the first half of 2023.
GSK will lead clinical development for the Pol Theta program pursuant to its global, exclusive license to develop and commercialize the Pol Theta Helicase Inhibitor DC. GSK is responsible for all research and development costs for the program. IDEAYA is eligible to receive total development and regulatory milestones of up to $485 million aggregate, inclusive of preclinical and clinical milestones of up to $20 million aggregate for advancing the Pol Theta Helicase DC through early Phase 1 clinical.
Upon potential commercialization, IDEAYA will be eligible to receive up to $475 million of commercial milestones and tiered royalties on global net sales by GSK, its affiliates and their sublicensees ranging from high single digit to sub-teen double digit percentages, subject to certain customary reductions.
IDEAYA is a synthetic lethality focused precision medicine oncology company committed to the discovery and development of targeted therapeutics for patient populations selected using molecular diagnostics. IDEAYA's approach integrates capabilities in identifying and validating translational biomarkers with drug discovery to select patient populations most likely to benefit from its targeted therapies. IDEAYA is applying its research and drug discovery capabilities to synthetic lethality – which represents an emerging class of precision medicine targets.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements related to (i) the timing of IND submission and first-in-human clinical evaluation of Pol Theta Helicase DC combination with niraparib and (ii) the potential achievement of and/or receipt of future GSK milestone payments. Such forward-looking statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause IDEAYA's preclinical and clinical development programs, future results, performance or achievements to differ significantly from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the uncertainties inherent in the drug development process, including IDEAYA's programs' early stage of development, the process of designing and conducting preclinical and clinical trials, the regulatory approval processes, the timing of regulatory filings, the challenges associated with manufacturing drug products, IDEAYA's ability to successfully establish, protect and defend its intellectual property, the effects on IDEAYA's business of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and other matters that could affect the sufficiency of existing cash to fund operations. IDEAYA undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to the business of IDEAYA in general, see IDEAYA's recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 15, 2022 and any current and periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Record high temperatures in urban Europe as heat waves bake the planet more often. Devastating floods, some in poorer unprepared areas. Increasing destruction from hurricanes. Drought and famine in poorer parts of Africa as dry spells worsen across the globe. Wild weather worldwide getting stronger and more frequent, resulting “in unprecedented extremes.”
Sound like the last few summers?
It is. But it was also the warning and forecast for the future issued by top United Nations climate scientists more than 10 years ago.
In a report that changed the way the world thinks about the harms of global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report on extreme events, disasters and climate change warned in 2012: “A changing climate leads to changes in the frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration, and timing of extreme weather and climate events, and can result in unprecedented extreme weather and climate events.” It said there would be more heat waves, worsening droughts, increasing downpours causing floods and stronger and wetter tropical cyclones and simply nastier disasters for people.
“The report was clairvoyant,” said report co-author Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University climate scientist. “The report was exactly what a climate report should do: Warn us about the future in time for us to adapt before the worst stuff happens. And the world proceeded to do what it usually does. Some people and governments listened, others didn’t. I think the sad lesson is the damage has to occur very close to home or else nobody pays attention now.”
In just the United States alone, the number of weather disasters that cost at least $1 billion in damage — adjusted for inflation — went from an average of 8.4 a year in the decade before the report was issued to 14.3 a year after the report came out, with more than a trillion dollars in U.S. weather damage since in just the billion-dollar extremes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Unprecedented record heat hit Northern California in September and 104 degrees in England (40 degrees Celsius) earlier this summer.
The 594-page report’s 20-page summary highlighted five case studies of climate risks from worsening extreme weather that scientists said will be more of a problem and how governments could deal with them. In each case scientists were able to give a recent example:
— Flash floods in “informal settlements.” Look at flooding in poor sections of Durban, South Africa, this year, said report co-author and climate scientist Maarten van Aalst, director of the International Red Cross and Crescent Climate Centre in the Netherlands. Or Eastern Kentucky or the Pakistan this year or Germany and Belgium last year, report authors said.
— Heat waves in urban Europe. “We’ve got that one in spades. That’s been consistent,” said Susan Cutter, a University of South Carolina disaster scientist. “I think every year there have been longer periods of heat in Europe.”
— Increasing property losses from hurricanes in the United States and the Caribbean as storms get wetter and stronger, but not more frequent. Oppenheimer pointed to the last few years when Louisiana has been smacked repeatedly by hurricanes, last year when Hurricane Ida killed people in New York because of heavy rainfall flooding basement apartments and 2017 when record rain from Hurricane Harvey paralyzed Houston and Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico with Hurricane Irma in between.
— Droughts causing famine in Africa. That’s happening again in the Horn of Africa and last year in Madagascar, van Aalst said.
— Small islands being inundated by a combination of sea level rise, saltwater intrusion and storms. That’s tougher, but co-author Kris Ebi, a University of Washington climate and health scientist, pointed to record strong Tropical cyclone Winston striking Vanuatu and Fiji in 2016.
“Right now people are feeling it,” van Aalst said. “It’s no longer the science telling them. All those warnings came true.”
In fact, reality has likely been worse, with more and stronger extremes than the authors would have predicted when they finished writing it in 2011 and published it a year later, said co-authors Ebi and Cutter.
That’s partly because when real life played out, disasters compounded and cascaded with sometimes unforeseen side effects, like heat waves and droughts causing hydroelectric power plants to dry up, nuclear power plants unable to get cooling water and even coal power plants not getting fuel deliveries because of dried rivers in Europe, scientists said.
“Imagining something scientifically or saying this exists in a scientific assessment is a radically different thing compared to living it,” said co-author Katharine Mach, a climate risk scientist at the University of Miami. She said it was similar to the COVID-19 pandemic. Health officials had long warned of viral pandemics but when it came true, the lockdowns, school closures, economic consequences, supply chain problems were sometimes beyond what dry scientific reports could envision.
Before this report, the overwhelming majority of climate studies, official reports and debate talked about long-term consequences, the slow but steady rise in average temperatures and sea level rise. Extreme events were considered too rare to study to get good statistics and science and wasn’t seen as a big issue. Now much of the focus in science, international negotiations and media coverage is about climate change extremes.
Weather disaster deaths both in the United States and globally are generally trending lower, but scientists say that’s because of better forecasts, warning, preparedness and response. From 2002 to 2011, before the report, the United States averaged 641 weather deaths a year and now the 10-year average is down to 520 on average but 2021 was the deadliest year in a decade with 797 weather fatalities. At the same time the 10-year U.S. average for heat deaths crept up a bit, from 118 to 135 a year.
“We are adapting fast enough to reduce the impacts,” Cutter said. “We are not reducing greenhouse gas emissions to actually go after the cause of the warming.”
Stanford University climate scientist Chris Field, who led the report project a decade ago, said the scientists got the warnings right, but “we may have been too conservative” in the language used. In addition to the dry facts and figures presented he wishes he had used wording that would be “grabbing people by the shoulders and shaking them a little bit more and saying these are real risks.”
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Dry January is over. Long live Dry February. Also Dry March, Dry April, and all the other dry months of the year. If the cocktails lists of area bars and restaurants are a barometer, alcohol-free drinks are becoming a fixture rather than a novelty.
At Comfort Kitchen, which opened last month, about a third of the cocktails on beverage director Kyisha Davenport’s list are “free spirited,” and just as compelling as their alcoholic counterparts — made with ingredients such as baobab, smoked cherrywood, and Nepali tea. Alcohol-free riffs with names such as the Bramble Berry Spritz, Non-Americano, and Phony Negroni (bottled by St. Agrestis) appear on the menus of Italian restaurants like Bar Mezzana, Faccia a Faccia, and Tonino. Cocktail-centric bars such as Brick & Mortar, Daiquiris and Daisies, and Yvonne’s serve up complex zero-proof creations: the Jets to Arabia (a riff on the espresso martini), the Nitro Strawberry (strawberry, lemon verbena, elderflower, and champagne acid), the Cecily (salted cucumber, wasabi, lime, yuzu, and soda). For those who appreciate irony, speakeasies like Hecate and Wink & Nod offer an array of carefully composed alcohol-free drinks.
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“Any new opening in the past two years is going to have to offer some thoughtful nonalcoholic drinks if they want to be relevant,” says Julia Bainbridge, who is the author of “Good Drinks,” a book of alcohol-free recipes, and a newsletter of the same name. Perhaps even more significant, she says: the many legacy bars and restaurants that are introducing alcohol-free options.
Consumption patterns have changed in the decade since the launch of Dry January, a campaign created by nonprofit Alcohol Change UK in which participants take a monthlong break from booze. The “sober curious” movement is growing, driven by younger drinkers: According to market research company NielsenIQ, 66 percent of millennials said they were making efforts to cut back on alcohol in 2019. And sales of nonalcoholic beverages in the United States went up more than 20 percent between August 2021 and August 2022, totaling $395 million in that time period. Much of that was nonalcoholic beer; the still-tiny “nonalcoholic spirits” sector — brands like Ghia, Ritual Zero Proof, and Seedlip — made up just a little more than 1 percent of the market. But over the course of that year, it grew 88 percent. (Keep an eye out for local brand Tilden, launching Feb. 16 with the fresh and herbal Lacewing and smoky, oaky Tandem.)
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“It’s something we’ve been doing for quite a long time,” says Shy Bird owner Andrew Holden of the nonalcoholic drinks offered at both the Kendall Square and South Boston branches. “You do hear people commenting on Dry January, but for us it’s woven throughout the year.”
Although some customers don’t drink at all, oftentimes those ordering the nonalcoholic drinks are cutting back, seeking balance — similar to the way many people embracing plant-based diets aren’t strictly vegan or vegetarian. “You might see someone in here on a Tuesday who says, ‘I’d love something from the zero-proof section,’” he says. “You might turn around on a Saturday night and see the same person having a glass of wine.”
Shy Bird bartenders create alcohol-free cocktails using ingredients they create themselves: the Side-Eye, which brings together house-made hibiscus-rosemary syrup, orange and lemon juice, and grapefruit soda; the Cloud Nine, a combination of coconut syrup, lime juice, and club soda. They’ve tasted their way through a trove of nonalcoholic spirits, searching for their favorites; these might be served on their own, or combined with other ingredients, as in the Lexi Fleming, an alcohol-free riff on a Scotch-based Penicillin cocktail. It’s made with nonalcoholic spirit Gnista Floral Wormwood, plus a smoky house-made tea syrup, ginger beer, and lemon.
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The restaurants are open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, doubling as remote workspaces during the day. “At either location, you can look across the lunchroom and see someone having a Side-Eye, someone having a Ghia. Fifteen years ago, that would be a Diet Coke, an iced tea, an Arnold Palmer, or a lemonade,” Holden says. “Those are still great drinks — they’re timeless, we make all of them — but there’s more out there now.”
In Cambridge, Pagu rolled out a zero-proof cocktail list last month, using Dry January as a peg for the launch. It took off immediately, and demand hasn’t slowed in February, says bar manager Andrew Bechtol.
“When we released the nonalcoholic menu and put it on Instagram to promote it, we got absolutely crushed. I was running out of batches within the first few hours of service. I was like: This is going to take off for us,” he says. “It’s obviously here to stay.”
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As interest in nonalcoholic drinks grows, new businesses are catering to it directly or baking it into their opening plans.
Rachel Trudel and chef Emily Vena run Cobble, a tiny BYOB restaurant on the second floor of the Coolidge Corner Arcade in Brookline. On the first floor, they will soon open Barlette, which they call a “BYOB bar.”
“It is a place for people to gather in a really stylish, lounge-like space. It walks and talks like a bar, but the twist is that you bring your own,” Trudel says.
In addition to a four-course menu of stylish snacks, Barlette will have three house-made mixers on tap. Customers can bring beer, wine, or spirits to shake together with the mixers — or not. “We create mixers that are alcohol-agnostic. Our mixers are designed to work with most alcohols, if not every alcohol, and also designed to work without alcohol,” Trudel says. “We think of Barlette as a sort of platform, and we want to welcome anyone to drink what they want, be that gin, an expensive bottle of wine they’ve been waiting to open, or nothing at all.
“We think it’s really important not to exclude or ignore people who aren’t drinking. No one wants to feel like an other. Big Alcohol tries very hard to make people feel like others. It’s the one substance where if you don’t partake, you get questioned.”
This is one of the driving forces behind Midnight Teas(e), a woman-, witch-, and LGBTQ+-owned teashop in Salem. It recently launched as an online store, and owners Maureen Bonsignore and Emilie Rodgers plan to spend the next year growing the business and doing events before opening a tea room and dry nightlife venue sometime in 2024. It will offer “teatails” — tea-based, alcohol-free drinks — and might host anything from burlesque and drag shows to paint nights.
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“The population of people who do not drink alcohol is so anonymous in our society. Our society is so focused on and oriented toward alcohol, it’s almost taboo. You’re kind of an outcast and treated like a weirdo, even though it’s a huge demographic,” Rodgers says.
“We’ve had so much positive feedback. I can’t even believe how many people we’ve talked to who said, ‘I will be your first customer.’ People really, really want this.”
Devra First can be reached at devra.first@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @devrafirst.
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SportScene 13 for Friday, June 24th 2022
Published: Jun. 24, 2022 at 10:54 PM CDT|Updated: 20 minutes ago
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - The Express battle the Honkers of Rochester in East Great Plains divisional action in the Northwoods League.
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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian voters have approved a referendum on a new constitution that gives more powers to the country’s president. It’s a step that brings hope to many in the struggling North African nation, but critics warn it could return Tunisia to autocracy and say low turnout marred the vote’s legitimacy.
Some people interviewed by The Associated Press this week celebrated the result of Monday’s referendum and expressed support for President Kais Saied, who spearheaded the project and proposed the text himself.
Others said they worry about what the changes could mean for the future of democracy in the country. The overhauled constitution gives sweeping executive powers to the president and weakens the influence of the legislative and judicial branches of the government.
Adel, a 51-year-old plumber who refused to give his last name due to fear of political reprisals, said that while he supported Saied, he did not participate in Monday’s referendum because he thought the proposed changes gave the executive branch too much power.
“This constitution he made was not for the long-term. Those who will come after Saied will do whatever they want without being held accountable,” he said.
In 2011, Tunisians rose up against Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the country’s strongman president, and kicked off the Arab Spring protests in North Africa and the Middle East. Tunisia was the only nation to emerge from the protests with a democratic government.
Saied won the presidency in 2019 with over 70% of the vote. He continues to enjoy widespread popular support; recent polls put his approval rating at well over 50%.
The referendum took place a year to the day after Saied froze Tunisia’s parliament and dismissed his government. Opponents derided the moves as “a coup,” but many Tunisians supported the president’s actions due to exasperation with political elites and years of economic stagnation.
In the same way, many citizens think the new constitution will end years of political deadlock and reduce the influence of the country’s largest political party, Ennahdha. Others saw a “yes” vote as a vote for Saied and a chance to change their fortunes.
Saida Masoudi, 49, a fast-food seller in a Tunis suburb who voted for the revised constitution, said she hoped the changes would pave the way to economic reforms and lower living costs.
“We just want the country to improve and reform. That’s why I participated in this referendum, so that the country will return to how it was before” she said, adding that she thinks Tunisians lived better under Ben Ali than they do today.
However, Heba Morayef, Amnesty International’s regional director, called the constitution’s adoption “deeply worrying.” She said in a statement that the revisions were drafted behind closed doors in a process controlled by Saied.
“The new constitution dismantles many of the guarantees to the independence of the judiciary, removes protection for civilians from military trials and grants the authorities the power to restrict human rights or renege on international human rights commitments in the name of religion” Morayef said.
Official preliminary results showed about one-third of registered voters cast ballots, with 94.6% giving their approval.
Opposition leaders had called for a boycott of the referendum, saying the process was flawed, and they argue the turnout reflected discomfort with the changes to Tunisia’s system of government.
“The referendum was rigged from the start, with no participation threshold provided for,” International Commission of Jurists regional director Said Benarbia said. “The low turnout and the opaque, illegal process by which the adoption of the constitution was made possible do not give the president any mandate or legitimacy to change Tunisia’s constitutional order.”
Several people the Associated Press spoke with said they did not vote in the referendum. Some said they were uninterested in politics, while others said a new constitution would do little to change their quality of life. Several did not understand the changes it would introduce.
“I didn’t vote because none of this interests me,” Khalil Riahi, a 26-year-old DJ, said. “Whether it’s Kais Saied doing this or someone else, it’s all the same to me. Nothing will change.”
Monica Marks, Professor of Middle East politics at NYU Abu Dhabi, says that many Tunisians have grown tired, disillusioned and cynical in recent years but that they “never called for a complete up-ending of their political system”.
“What they’ve been calling for, for years, is for effective leadership from government that makes a real tangible difference in their everyday lives and solves the economic challenges that they’re desperately grappling with” says Marks, explaining that many are attached to the idea that “one man alone can take the system, break it and maybe fix it.”
“There are still a lot of Tunisians who believe that Saied is Mr. Fix It… They believe he is the man who will clean up everything, even though he’s ruled by powers of personal decree for an entire year, and their situation tangibly hasn’t changed.”
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Former FBI employees testify on GOP politicization claims after losing clearances
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI employees accused the bureau of politicization in congressional testimony Thursday, a day after the agency disclosed that two of the men had seen their security clearances revoked over concerns about how their views of the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, affected their work.
The three men alleged overreach and retaliation by the FBI in testimony to a special House committee investigating what Republicans assert is the “weaponization” of the federal government against conservatives.
“If you’re not politically correct ... you’re not in line with what they think to be the political position or the proper position, you’re the target,” Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the Republican chairman of the committee, said in his opening statement.
Former FBI employees Marcus Allen and Steve Friend testified to the panel just hours after the FBI informed Jordan in a letter Wednesday — obtained by The Associated Press — that both men had been stripped of security clearances after either attending the Capitol riot in 2021 or espousing alternate theories about the attack.
A mob of pro-Trump rioters, some armed with pipes, bats and bear spray, charged into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, quickly overrunning overwhelmed police officers trying to keep them back. More than 100 police officers were injured, many beaten, bloodied and bruised. Over 1,000 people have been prosecuted in the Jan. 6 attack on a range of charges from low-level misdemeanors for those who only entered the Capitol to felony seditious conspiracy charges against far-right extremists.
“My colleagues have brought in these former agents, men who lost their security clearances because they were a threat to our national security,” said Del. Stacey Plaskett, the top Democrat on the committee. “People who out of malice or ignorance or both have put partisan agenda above the oath they swore to serve this country and protect its national security.”
Jordan and other Republicans on the committee hailed the former FBI employees as rank-and-file patriots who were facing retribution for speaking out against government abuse. Allen, Friend and Garrett O’Boyle, a former field agent, shared stories with the committee about how they said their decision to come forward has resulted in suspensions and dismissals for their posts.
“My oath did not include sacrificing the hopes, dreams and livelihood of my family,” said O’Boyle.
Many of them testified about their personal struggles, including not being able to find employment elsewhere and struggling to support their loved ones and young children while their cases were being investigated.
“I sacrificed my dream job to share this information with the American people,” Friend testified. “I humbly ask all the members to do your jobs and consider the merit of what I have presented.”
But Democrats dismissed the testimony, calling the hearing another attempt by Republicans on the committee to help former President Donald Trump.
“This select committee is a clearinghouse for testing conspiracy theories for Donald Trump to use in his 2024 presidential campaign,” Plaskett added.
The letter from the FBI detailed how Friend refused to participate in a SWAT team arrest of a suspect in the Jan. 6 insurrection while serving in Florida, and “espoused an alternative narrative” about the attack. Friend maintained the show of force wasn’t needed.
Allen, a former operations specialist at the FBI field office in Charlotte, North Carolina, also backed “alternative theories” about Jan. 6 to co-workers multiple times, even after his supervisor told him to stop, according to the FBI letter. Allen disputed those findings, and a lawyer for both men cast suspension of their security clearances as retaliation against whistleblowers.
“I’m hopeful that scrutiny from Congress and from the inspector general will deter the FBI from abusing the security clearance process to retaliate against others the way it’s retaliated against me,” Allen told the committee.
The FBI, though, has said that of the nearly 80,000 staff at the agency, only 32 currently have their clearances suspended, a clear departure from the GOP claims that retaliation of rank-and-file staff is widespread. That’s according to recently transcribed testimony from Jennifer Leigh Moore, an executive assistant director of human resources at the agency.
A third employee who did not testify had a security clearance revoked after he entered the restricted area around the Capitol himself on Jan. 6, and later provided false or misleading information to investigators about what he did that day, the FBI’s letter said. All three employees can appeal the security clearance decisions.
Two of the former FBI employees who testified, Friend and O’Boyle, acknowledged that they had received money from Kash Patel, a close Trump ally who held multiple roles in his administration and now oversees a charity.
They said they needed that money to support their families after FBI suspensions left them unable to work, but Democrats said those ties show the partisan nature of the “weaponization” investigation.
In a series of contentious exchanges, Democrats complained that one of Thursday’s witnesses, Allen, was only interviewed by Republican lawmakers on the committee. Many pointed to House rules that state minority and majority staff are required to have equal access to witness testimony, regardless of whether it is a whistleblower account or not.
Since January, House Democrats on both the select and Judiciary committees have accused Jordan and GOP lawmakers of stonewalling them from several transcribed interviews, refusing to allow them into the room or provide official transcripts or videos of the interviews after the fact.
“We’re in the dark. That’s not how Congress works. That’s not how committees work,” said Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York.
The investigation by the select committee has also encompassed social media companies and other large businesses. Republicans on the committee released a report before the hearing with new allegations against the FBI, including that Bank of America had given data to the FBI on all of their customers who made transactions in Washington, D.C., in the days around Jan. 6.
Lawmakers played video testimony from George Hill, a retired FBI National Security Intelligence supervisor, who told the committee about the list after seeing it in the system, although he said he never opened it. Bank of America provided the information to the FBI voluntarily, according to Hill’s testimony, though it remained unclear whether and how the agency may have used the data.
Bank of America issued a brief statement to The Associated Press, saying it follows the law to “narrowly respond” to law enforcement requests, but it did not directly answer whether it shared the customer data with the FBI.
“We don’t comment on our communications with law enforcement,” bank spokesperson Naomi Patton said. “The report’s suggestion that Bank of America proactively searched our data for broad types of customer behavior, such as making any purchase in a specific city on a specific day, did not occur.”
Democrats have said Hill was among the former FBI employees who are “deeply biased,” citing social media posts where some committee witnesses have referred to Jan. 6 as a “setup.”
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ATLANTA, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- hihotels by Hospitality International, a leader in economy lodging across the United States, is pleased to announce the launch of its new and improved INNcentive Instant Rewards program. INNcentive members will enjoy greater value when staying at a hihotels brand and now have access to thousands of discounts and special offers from nationally recognized companies.
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How to Watch College Baseball Streaming Live - Tuesday, May 16
Published: May. 16, 2023 at 5:31 AM EDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
For big NCAA baseball fans who want to catch every game, see the article below to find out how to watch or live stream the five games that are airing on Fubo on May 16.
Watch even more NCAA Baseball games with ESPN+!
College Baseball Games Streaming Live Today
Watch UMass-Lowell at Northeastern Baseball
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: NESN
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Watch UMass-Lowell vs Northeastern Baseball
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET
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Watch Evansville at Indiana Baseball
- Game Time: 6:00 PM ET
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Watch UC San Diego at San Diego State Baseball
- Game Time: 9:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: Stadium
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Watch UC San Diego vs San Diego State Baseball
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Make sure you're following along with all the College Baseball action all season long on Fubo and ESPN+!
Every team's path to the College World Series begins with the NCAA Tournament selection show on Monday, May 29 at 12:00 PM ET on ESPN2. Tournament play kicks off the next weekend with Regionals action from June 2-5, followed by Super Regionals from June 9-12, and concludes with the College World Series from June 16-26, taking place at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha.
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VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Visalia Unified is kicking off a new initiative to connect students in and out of the classroom.
It's called "One Visalia Connected."
The program will build partnerships within the district and the community, getting students involved in activities like art, internships, volunteering, and mentorships.
It was launched Friday by new Superintendent Kirk Shrum.
He was announced as the district's new leader back in March.
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Is Sunday the day that Red Bull’s domination of the 2023 Formula 1 season ends?
Lewis Hamilton clipped Max Verstappen for the pole during Saturday’s qualifying session for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Hamilton’s lap was 0.003 seconds faster than Verstappen’s as he captured the ninth pole of his career at the Hungaroring.
Hamilton has won eight times in Hungary and five of those wins have come from the top spot. He last won in Hungary in 2020 when he started and finished first and led all but one lap. He started first in 2021 and finished second to Esteban Ocon after a big crash on the first lap.
Sunday’s race marks just the first time that a Red Bull driver hasn’t started first through the first 11 races of the season. Verstappen has won eight of the first 10 races while teammate Sergio Perez has the other two wins.
Practice and qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix was different than normal thanks to F1’s experimental tire limits. The race weekend is the first of two this season that saw teams get fewer tires for the race weekend and mandated that all teams use hard compound tires in the first qualifying session, medium tires in the second session and soft tires in the third session.
Hamilton’s pace doesn’t appear to be a fluke, however. While Mercedes teammate George Russell qualified 18th because of traffic in the first session, Hamilton posted the fastest lap of the final practice session Saturday.
If Hamilton can win from the pole on Sunday it’ll be his 104th win in Formula 1 and his first win since winning the penultimate race of the 2021 season. He was on the way to winning the final race of 2021 and getting a record 8th F1 title before a caution for Nicholas Latifi’s crash led F1 officials to restart the race with a lap to go and Verstappen passed Hamilton for the win and the championship on fresh tires.
Verstappen has been the dominant driver since that first title as he cruised to the 2022 title and is well on his way to his third championship in 2023. He enters the Hungarian Grand Prix with a 99-point lead over Perez while Hamilton is 134 points back in fourth.
Hungarian Grand Prix starting lineup
1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Max Verstappen
3. Lando Norris
4. Oscar Piatri
5. Zhou Guanyu
6. Charles Leclerc
7. Valtteri Bottas
8. Fernando Alonso
9. Sergio Perez
10. Nico Hülkenberg
11. Carlos Sainz
12. Esteban Ocon
13. Daniel Ricciardo
14. Lance Stroll
15. Pierre Gasly
16. Alexander Albon
17. Yuki Tsunoda
18. George Russell
19. Kevin Magnussen
20. Logan Sergeant
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HONG KONG (AP) — Videos of hundreds protesting in Shanghai started to appear on WeChat on Saturday night. Showing chants about removing COVID-19 restrictions and demanding freedom, they would stay up only a few minutes before being censored.
Elliot Wang, a 26-year-old in Beijing, was amazed.
“I started refreshing constantly, and saving videos, and taking screenshots of what I could before it got censored,” said Wang, who only agreed to be quoted using his English name, in fear of government retaliation. “A lot of my friends were sharing the videos of the protests in Shanghai. I shared them too, but they would get taken down quickly.”
That Wang was able to glimpse the extraordinary outpouring of grievances highlights the cat-and-mouse game that goes on between millions of Chinese internet users and the country’s gargantuan censorship machine.
Chinese authorities maintain a tight grip on the country’s internet via a complex, multi-layered censorship operation that blocks access to almost all foreign news and social media, and blocks topics and keywords considered politically sensitive or detrimental to the Chinese Communist Party’s rule. Videos of or calls to protest are usually deleted immediately.
But images of protests began to spread on WeChat, a ubiquitous Chinese social networking platform used by over 1 billion, in the wake of a deadly fire Nov. 24 in the northwestern city of Urumqi. Many suspected that lockdown measures prevented residents from escaping the flames, something the government denies.
The sheer number of unhappy Chinese users who took to the Chinese internet to express their frustration, together with the methods they used to evade censors, led to a brief period of time in which government censors were overwhelmed, according to Han Rongbin, an associate professor at the University of Georgia’s International Affairs department.
“It takes censors some time to study what is happening and to add that to their portfolio in terms of censorship, so it’s a learning process for the government on how to conduct censorship effectively,” Han said.
In 2020, the death from COVID-19 of Li Wenliang, a doctor who was arrested for allegedly spreading rumors following an attempt to alert others about a “SARS-like” virus, sparked widespread outrage and an outpouring of anger against the Chinese censorship system. Users posted criticism for hours before censors moved to delete posts.
As censors took down posts related to the fire, Chinese internet users often used humor and metaphor to spread critical messages.
“Chinese netizens have always been very creative because every idea used successfully once will be discovered by censors the next time,” said Liu Lipeng, a censor-turned-critic of China’s censorship practices.
Chinese users started posting images of blank sheets of white paper, said Liu, in a silent reminder of words they weren’t allowed to post.
Others posted sarcastic messages like “Good good good sure sure sure right right right yes yes yes,” or used Chinese homonyms to evoke calls for President Xi Jinping to resign, such as “shrimp moss,” which sounds like the words for “step down,” and “banana peel,” which has the same initials as Xi’s name.
But within days, censors moved to contain images of white paper. They would have used a range of tools, said Chauncey Jung, a policy analyst who previously worked for several Chinese internet companies based in Beijing.
Most content censorship is not done by the state, Jung said, but outsourced to content moderation operations at private social media platforms, who use a mix of humans and AI. Some censored posts are not deleted, but may be made visible only to the author, or removed from search results. In some cases, posts with sensitive key phrases may be published after review.
A search on Weibo on Thursday for the term “white paper” mostly turned up posts that were critical of the protests, with no images of a single sheet of blank paper, or of people holding white papers at protests.
It’s possible to access the global internet from China by using virtual private networks that disguise internet traffic, but these systems are illegal and many Chinese internet users access only the domestic internet. Wang does not use a VPN.
“I think I can say for all the mainlanders in my generation that we are really excited,” said Wang. “But we’re also really disappointed because we can’t do anything. … They just keep censoring, keep deleting, and even releasing fake accounts to praise the cops.”
But the system works well enough to stop many users from ever seeing them. When protests broke out across China over the weekend, Carmen Ou, who lives in Beijing, initially didn’t notice.
Ou learned of the protests only later, after using a VPN service to access Instagram.
“I tried looking at my feed on WeChat, but there was no mention of any protests,” she said. “If not for a VPN and access to Instagram, I might not have found out that such a monumental event had taken place.”
Han, the international affairs professor, said censorship “doesn’t have to be perfect to be effective.”
“Censorship might be functioning to prevent a big enough size of the population from accessing the critical information to be mobilized,” he said.
China’s opaque approach to tamping down the spread of online dissent also makes it difficult to distinguish government campaigns from ordinary spam.
Searching Twitter using the Chinese words for Shanghai or other Chinese cities reveals protest videos, but also a near-constant flood of new posts showing racy photos of young women. Some researchers proposed that a state-backed campaign could be seeking to drown out news of the protests with “not safe for work” content.
A preliminary analysis by the Stanford Internet Observatory found lots of spam but no “compelling evidence” that it was specifically intended to suppress information or dissent, said Stanford data architect David Thiel.
“I’d be skeptical of anyone claiming clear evidence of government attribution,” Thiel said in an email.
Twitter searches for more specific protest-related terms, such as “Urumqi Middle Road, Shanghai,” produced mainly posts related to the protests.
Israeli data analysis firm Cyabra and another research group that shared analysis with the AP said it was hard to distinguish between a deliberate attempt to drown out protest information sought by the Chinese diaspora and a run-of-the-mill commercial spam campaign.
Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment. It hasn’t answered media inquiries since billionaire Elon Musk took over the platform in late October and cut back much of its workforce, including many of those tasked with moderating spam and other content. Musk often tweets about how he’s enacting or enforcing new Twitter content rules but hasn’t commented on the recent protests in China.
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AP Business Writer Kelvin Chan in London and AP Technology Writer Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this story.
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This story corrects that the Urumqi fire was on Thursday, Nov. 24, not Friday.
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Gavin Lux hasn’t seen the video of the injury that ended his chance of being the Los Angeles Dodgers’ starting shortstop this season, and has no plans to watch it.
Lux will miss the season with torn ligaments in his right knee after getting hurt running the bases in a spring training game. The 25-year-old came to camp as the top candidate to replace Trea Turner as the Dodgers’ primary shortstop.
“That’s one of the hardest parts,” Lux said Tuesday, fighting back tears and leaning on crutches inside the team’s facility in Glendale, Arizona. “I think every baseball player’s dream is to play shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers.”
Lux got hurt Monday when running between second and third base against San Diego after a groundball was hit to third. Soon after ducking to avoid a throw to second, he took a couple of steps before his right knee buckled, he stumbled forward and fell to the ground. He said he felt something pop and his leg went numb.
“I think my cleat got kind of stuck into the ground a little bit and straightened out a little funky, and bowed out. … Freak thing. I don’t even think it’s really avoidable,” Lux said. “In hindsight, probably should have just took the throw to the nose and worn it.”
The Dodgers’ first-round pick in the 2016 amateur draft, Lux played nine games at shortstop last season while hitting .276 with six homers and 42 RBIs in 129 games, most at second base and some in left field. He led the NL with seven triples.
Turner left as a free agent for Philadelphia this winter. That came after Corey Seager left the Dodgers the previous offseason and signed with Texas.
Miguel Rojas is now expected to get the bulk of playing time at shortstop for the Dodgers, with Chris Taylor also an option. The 34-year-old Rojas was acquired from Miami in a January trade.
“Crush my rehab and try to be ready for 2024, when it rolls around,” Lux said. “It’s kind of all you can do.”
BIG-MONEY PADRES
On the same day the Padres finalized a $350 million, 11-year contract with All-Star slugger Manny Machado, still-suspended Fernando Tatis Jr. – who is signed a year longer in San Diego – played his first game in nearly 17 months.
Tatis, their former starting shortstop, went 0 for 2 with a walk, a stolen base and scored a run in a 7-5 win over San Francisco. He was the designated hitter in his first game since the 2021 regular-season finale – he has since had wrist and shoulder surgery.
“I saw that it was 500 or something days since I was out there,” Tatis said. “Since the beginning of spring I thought about this. The shoulder and wrist are 100%. Everything feels good.”
Machado’s deal is the fourth-largest in baseball history, and goes through the 2033 season. Tatis signed a $340 million, 14-year contract before the 2021 season.
Tatis missed all of last season. He was about to come back from wrist surgery when he got suspended for 80 games last Aug. 12 after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug. Tatis blamed his positive PED test on a cream he said he took for ringworm. He had surgery on his troublesome shoulder during the suspension.
With 20 games left to serve on that ban, the 24-year-old Tatis won’t be eligible to play in the regular season until at least April 20.
Tatis is moving to the outfield after the Padres added four-time All-Star shortstop Xander Bogaerts on an $280 million, 11-year contract in free agency.
The Padres project to have the third-highest payroll in the majors this season at $255 million, trailing only the New York Mets and Yankees.
SPRING ‘SHO’
Shohei Ohtani pitched 2 1/3 hitless innings in his only spring training outing on the mound for the Angels before he joins Japan for the World Baseball Classic.
Ohtani struck out two and walked two, but had no issues with his pitches or the new clock. The two-way star, expected to start the season opener for Los Angeles, didn’t bat.
“The main goal today was to feel out all my pitches. I felt pretty good with all of them,” Ohtani said through a translator. “I wanted to ease in. I’m satisfied.”
HURTING STARTERS
– Tyler Glasnow will miss the start of another season for the Tampa Bay Rays.
After not making his debut last season until September following Tommy John surgery, the 29-year-old Glasnow is expected to miss six to eight weeks because of a left oblique strain.
The Rays said Tuesday that an MRI detected a grade 2 strain. That came a day after the 6-foot-8 right-hander, who signed a $30.35 million, two-year contract, cut short a live batting practice session after throwing six pitches.
Glasnow was the Rays’ opening day starter in 2021, when he went 5-2 with a 2.66 ERA in 14 starts before his surgery.
– Padres All-Star pitcher Joe Musgrove will be sidelined for at least two weeks after breaking his left big toe when he dropped a kettleball, making it uncertain if he will be ready for the start of the season.
Once Musgrove is cleared to throw, he will have to build up arm strength and endurance.
“He is not starting over, but the longer you go the more it gets closer to starting over. Joe is a guy who keeps himself in really good shape,” manager Bob Melvin said.
The 30-year-old right-hander went 10-7 with a 2.93 ERA last season. He is starting a $100 million, five-year contract.
RUSHED QUINTANA
Veteran left-hander José Quintana felt a bit rushed in his spring training debut for the New York Mets. He gave up four extra-base hits and five runs while getting only two outs on 30 pitches against Houston.
Quintana admitted he was rushing when his outing started because he was conscious of the new pitch clock.
“I tried to be on time. I need to be more aggressive and don’t worry about the clock,” he said.
The 34-year-old Quintana, with the Mets on a $26 million, two-year deal, is scheduled to make one more spring start before leaving to play in the World Baseball Classic for Colombia.
ACES AROUND
The Philadelphia Phillies had a couple of aces around Tuesday, a pair of former Cy Young Award winners who combined won more than 600 big league games.
Roger Clemens and CC Sabathia both addressed the National League champions at the request of manager Rob Thomson. Both pitched for the New York Yankees when Thomson was in that organization.
“They were great,” Thomson said. “Roger came in and talked about competitiveness and preparation. CC is the vice president of Players Alliance, and that was really good because that’s an important organization. It helps out a lot of people.”
Clemens, who won 354 games over his 24 seasons, also got a chance to see his son Kody, who is trying to win a spot on the Phillies roster. The younger Clemens started at first base Tuesday, going 1 for 2 with a walk.
Sabathia won 251 big league games.
ONLY 1 ROGERS
Taylor Rogers struck out two of the three batters he faced in his spring debut for the San Francisco Giants, but his twin brother didn’t pitch Tuesday as planned.
Manager Gabe Kapler said Tyler Rogers, who has been with the Giants for four seasons, had a cut on his right index finger.
Taylor Rogers finished last season with Milwaukee after appearing in 42 games for San Diego.
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BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Homology Medicines Inc. (FIXX) on Thursday reported a loss of $28.8 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Bedford, Massachusetts-based company said it had a loss of 50 cents.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 55 cents per share.
The gene editing company posted revenue of $802,000 in the period.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday responded to Iran’s latest offer to resume its compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, but neither side is offering a definitive path to revive the agreement, which has been on life-support since former President Donald Trump withdrew from it in 2018.
State Department spokesman Ned Price confirmed that the administration completed its review of Iran’s comments on a European proposal. Price did not detail the administration’s response.
“As you know, we received Iran’s comments on the EU’s proposed final text through the EU,” Price said. “Our review of those comments has now concluded. We have responded to the EU today.”
There is now expected to be another exchange of technical details followed by a meeting of the joint commission that oversees the deal. The new developments, including stepped-up public messaging campaigns by both Tehran and Washington, suggest that an agreement could be near.
Despite the forward movement, numerous hurdles remain. And key sticking points could still unravel efforts to bring back the 2015 deal under which Iran received billions of dollars in sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program intended to prevent it from developing an atomic weapon.
Even U.S. supporters of an agreement are no longer referring to the “longer and stronger” deal that they had initially set out to win when indirect negotiations with Iran began last spring. And, on the Iranian side, demands for greater U.S. sanctions relief than the administration appears willing or able to promise could undercut the push to revive the agreement.
In Washington, the Biden administration faces considerable political opposition to returning to the 2015 deal from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress who remain unconvinced that it is in U.S. national security interests.
“I intend to systematically fight the implementation of this catastrophic deal, and will work with my colleagues to ensure that it is blocked and eventually reversed in January 2025,” said Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
The recent indictment of an Iranian for plotting to murder Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton and the attack by an apparent Iran sympathizer on the author Salman Rushdie have further contributed to doubts that Iran can be trusted.
The latest EU proposal does not include Tehran’s demand that the U.S. lift the terrorism designation of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, and Iran has stepped back from a demand that the International Atomic Energy Agency close its investigation into unexplained traces of uranium at three undeclared sites, according to a senior administration official who requested anonymity to discuss ongoing efforts to resurrect the deal.
But, rescinding the terrorism designation imposed by Trump was never a realistic demand. Not only does it fall outside the scope of the nuclear deal, it was made virtually impossible since the Bolton plot indictment, ongoing Iranian threats to other former U.S. officials, and the Rushdie attack.
And, while Iran may have agreed to a mechanism to eventually return to the deal without the IAEA investigation being closed up front, it has said that its actual compliance with an agreement remains contingent on getting a clean bill of health from the agency.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby declined to characterize the administration’s response to the EU, but noted “we are closer now than we were even just a couple of weeks ago because Iran made a decision to make some concessions.”
“We’re not there yet,” Kirby. “And because we’re not there yet, I think we’re just going to be relatively careful here about how much detail we put out there.”
And, Iranian officials on Tuesday bristled at the suggestion that they’ve stepped back from their demands to re-enter the deal.
Seyed Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian adviser to the indirect talks in Vienna, took to Twitter on Tuesday to assert that removing the IRGC from the State Department’s foreign terrorism list was never a precondition and insisted that “no deal will be implemented before the IAEA Board of Directors PERMANENTLY closes the false accusations file.”
Meanwhile, America’s top ally in the Middle East, Israel, has become increasingly alarmed at the apparent movement toward a deal. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Wednesday urged Biden and Western powers to call off an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, saying that negotiators are letting Tehran manipulate the talks.
“The countries of the West draw a red line, the Iranians ignore it, and the red line moves,” Lapid told reporters at a press conference in Jerusalem.
Israeli alternate prime minster Naftali Bennett on Tuesday noted that Israel is not party to the 2015 agreement signed by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security — the U.S., the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and China as well as Germany — but that Israel would be directly affected and reserved all rights to its self-defense.
Israel’s national security adviser Eyal Hulata is in Washington this week for talks with Biden administration officials, including a Tuesday meeting with White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Hulata is scheduled to meet with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman later Wednesday.
National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said Sullivan underscored Biden’s steadfast “commitment to ensure Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon” during his conversation with Hulata.
The White House insists that the terms under discussion include the key underpinnings of the 2015 deal. The U.S. would lift hundreds of sanctions the Trump administration re-imposed when it withdrew from the deal in 2018. And Iran would roll back its nuclear program to the limits set by the original nuclear deal, including caps on enrichment, how much material it can stockpile and the operation of advanced centrifuges needed to enrich.
However, it remains unclear what exactly would happen to Iran’s current stockpile of highly enriched uranium and what it would be required to do with the advanced centrifuges it has been spinning. The White House has said both would be “removed” but has not offered details.
As of the last public count, Iran has a stockpile of some 3,800 kilograms (8,370 pounds) of enriched uranium. Under the deal, Tehran could enrich uranium to 3.67% purity, while maintaining a stockpile of uranium of 300 kilograms (660 pounds) under constant scrutiny of surveillance cameras and international inspectors.
In terms of sanctions relief, Iran has been demanding that the administration pledge that a future president not be allowed to re-impose the lifted penalties as Trump did and promise that Congress will repeal statutory sanctions legislation passed initially to force Iran back to the negotiating table. The administration is in no position to guarantee either.
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Upscale, Fast Casual Dining Powerhouse with House-Crafted Menu Now Open in Bel Air
BEL AIR, Md., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Capriotti's Sandwich Shop, known for its award-winning, hand-crafted cheese steaks, turkey subs and more, debuted a new location in Bel Air at 18B Bel Air S Parkway on August 4. Capriotti's brings the Bel Air community its 45-year tradition of slow-roasting whole, all-natural turkeys in-house and hand-pulling them every morning and other favorites like the made-from-scratch meatballs using premium, fresh ingredients.
Capriotti's is known for its wide array of sandwiches including The Bobbie, made with fresh oven-roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing and mayo, the Capastrami, made with hot pastrami, Swiss cheese, Russian dressing and homemade coleslaw and the cheesesteak is made with premium steak, chicken or Impossible plant-based meat and melted cheese plus hot or sweet peppers. The Bel Air Capriotti's will offer a convenient order-ahead option, in addition to third-party delivery services. The new shop will bring 20 new jobs to the Bel Air community.
The store will be owned and operated by Dan Berlin. Berlin is currently councilman in Port Deposit, a neighboring town, and he coaches a middle school girls basketball team in the area. After spending much of his professional career teaching youth sports and being an environment educator for nine years, Berlin wanted a change in pace. He will co-own the restaurant with his friend and past co-worker, Ashton Counts.
"I grew up eating Capriotti's," says Berlin. "When I was looking into franchising opportunities, Capriotti's seemed like the best fit for me. I already know how good the food is and I'm excited to bring it to a new community."
Bel Air Capriotti's fans can download the CAPAddicts Rewards app on iOS and Android to earn and redeem rewards and score free food. The restaurant also features online ordering. Capriotti's in Bel Air offers catering for any event from corporate events to birthday parties with items such as party trays with cold subs, box lunches or a hot homemade meatball bar.
For additional information, visit www.capriottis.com or call the location at 410-688-1250.
About Capriotti's Sandwich Shop
Founded in 1976, Capriotti's Sandwich Shop is an award-winning national franchised restaurant chain that remains true to its 45-year tradition of slow-roasting whole, all-natural turkeys in-house every day. Capriotti's fresh ingredients, homemade subs and unique menu items have won numerous accolades including being named one of the "10 Great Places for a Surprising Sandwich" by USA Today and many "Best of" awards across the country. Capriotti's cold, grilled and vegetarian subs, cheese steaks and salads are available at more than 170 locations across the U.S. Capriotti's signature sub, The Bobbie®, was voted "The Greatest Sandwich in America" by thousands of readers across the country and reported by AOL.com. Capriotti's fans can also download the CAPAddicts Rewards app for iOS and Android, where they can earn and redeem rewards. For more information, visit capriottis.com. Like Capriotti's on Facebook, follow on Twitter or Instagram.
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NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Path Acquisition Corporation (the "Company" or "Golden Path") (NASDAQ: GPCO) (the "Company") today announced that the Company's sponsor, Greenland Asset Management Corporation (the "Sponsor"), has deposited into the Company's trust account (the "Trust Account") an aggregate of $191,667, representing $0.033 per public share of the Company, in order to extend the period of time the Company has to consummate a business combination by one month to July 24, 2022.
The Sponsor plans to extend such period of time additional eight times to complete its initial business combination as necessary, each by an additional one months, up to March 24, 2023, by depositing $191,667 each time and up to an aggregate amount of $1,533,333 into the Trust Account, representing up to an additional $0.267 per public share, in connection with such additional extensions.
About Golden Path Acquisition Corporation
The Company is a blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. While the Company may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any industry or sector, the Company intends to focus on businesses that have a connection to the Asian market.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous conditions, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section of the Company's registration statement and prospectus for the offering filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Copies are available on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release, except as required by law.
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(AP) – The road to the U.S. Open began this week for thousands of players, with an 18-hole local qualifier in the Houston area on Monday and another in North Carolina on Wednesday.
A dozen or so players from LIV Golf already decided to pass by not entering.
That includes Louis Oosthuizen, a runner-up at Torrey Pines in 2021 and at Chambers Bay in 2015. By not filing a U.S. Open entry, his only other avenue to Los Angeles Country Club is to win the PGA Championship next month. He currently is not in the PGA field, and at No. 136 in the world, is not likely to get an invitation.
Others who chose not to enter and who are well outside the top 100 in the world are Bubba Watson, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood and Charl Schwartzel.
Patrick Reed also did not file an entry, though he could be safe. The U.S. Open exempts anyone from the top 60 in the world ranking on May 22, the Monday after the PGA Championship. Reed’s tie for fourth at the Masters has him at No. 44 this week, and it looks as though he will stay in the top 60.
Talor Gooch is at No. 57 this week and did not file an entry. Without access to world ranking points, he would need a big finish in the PGA Championship to have a chance. That starts with getting into the PGA Championship, and special invitations have not been announced.
Kerry Haigh, the chief championships officer for the PGA, has said he “absolutely” would consider LIV Golf players in trying to put together the best field for Oak Hill on May 18-21.
Among the players from Saudi-funded LIV Golf who entered are Sergio Garcia, Matthew Wolff, Marc Leishman and Harold Varner III.
Garcia has signed up for the first 36-hole sectional qualifier in Dallas on May 22, the Monday before Colonial. The former Masters champion has played in every U.S. Open starting with Pebble Beach in 2000. The last time he had to go through qualifying was in 2011, when he advanced in a 7-for-4 playoff.
The U.S. Open is June 15-18.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
5-9-0-0
(five, nine, zero, zero)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
5-9-0-0
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Gun injuries in US surged during pandemic, CDC study shows
NEW YORK (AP) - For every American killed by gunfire, an estimated two or more survive, often with terrible injuries — a fact that public health experts say is crucial to understanding the full impact of guns on society.
A new government study highlights just how violent America’s recent past has been by showing a surge in gunfire injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the number of people fatally shooting each other — and themselves — also increased.
The number of people injured by gunfire was nearly 40% higher in 2020 and 2021, compared with 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a study published Thursday. In 2022, gun injuries tapered off, but were still 20% higher than before the pandemic.
Gun injuries rose similarly for men and women over the past three years, while the largest proportional increase occurred among children younger than 15, a subset that remains a small fraction of the overall problem.
Experts say the CDC gun injury study, which uses data from hospital emergency departments, helps provide a more comprehensive picture of gun violence in America than simply measuring homicides and suicides.
"Hospitals are a great place to keep the pulse on who is being shot, and when and where," said Catherine Barber, a senior injury researcher at Harvard University’s school of public health.
The CDC study results came from more than 2,200 U.S. hospital emergency departments, which represent the bulk of the nation’s ERs, said Thomas Simon, one of the authors of the new study.
The study suggests that the number of gunshot-related ER visits at hospitals in the study rose from around 50,000 in 2019 to more than 72,000 in 2020. Because more than a quarter of U.S. hospital emergency departments were not involved in the study, the actual number is likely significantly higher.
Experts believe a variety of factors contributed to the pandemic surge in gun violence, including a rise in guns purchased, more time spent inside homes where guns are present and mental health struggles stemming from social isolation and economic hardships.
The CDC study shows a rise in gun injuries around mid-March 2020, after a pandemic emergency was declared and lockdowns and other measures were put into place. A sharper jump occurred a couple of months later, in the second half of May, when protests and civil unrest followed the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.
While the CDC study did not differentiate between injuries caused by assaults or accidents, other research has shown that about 3 out of 4 gunshot wounds are intentional.
The CDC says more than 45,000 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S. in 2020, and more than 47,000 in 2021.
The country’s gun violence problem was thrust into the national conversation again this week after a shooter killed 3 children and 3 adults at a Christian school in Tennessee; nobody who was shot survived. The shooter was killed by police.
"We are in a week when people are paying attention to this issue again, sadly, after a mass shooting in Nashville" said Nina Vinik, executive director of Project Unloaded, an advocacy group focused on the impact of gun violence on children. "Hopefully this paper will add new data to that conversation."
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The Mad Ants unveiled their roster Sunday and it includes 17 players, such as returning stars Justin Anderson and Gabe York, reigning G League MVP Trevelin Queen and David Stockton, the son of Basketball Hall of Famer John Stockton.
The Mad Ants open training camp Monday in Indianapolis and will begin their regular season Nov. 5 at Memorial Coliseum against the Grand Rapids Gold.
The roster has other familiar names, such as Bennie Boatwright, Andrew Rowsey and Will Voorhees. It also includes Pedro Bradshaw, Eli Brooks, Kendall Brown, Tevin Brown, Chris Coffey, Abu Kigab, Quincy McKnight, Norvel Pelle, Jermaine Samuels Jr. and Deividas Sirvydis.
The Mad Ants need to get down to 12 players by the regular season, including the players on two-way contracts with the NBA’s Indiana Pacers – Kendall Brown, a rookie out of Baylor (taken in the second round of the NBA draft), and Queen, who played last season for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, won a championship and was named Finals MVP.
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- Receives Final Order in Base Rate Case
- Announces 2023-2027 Capital Expenditure Plan of Approximately $19 Billion
- Experiences Continued Service Territory Growth and Improved Reliability
- Maintains Ample Liquidity
DALLAS, May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC ("Oncor") today reported three months ended March 31, 2023 net income of $103 million compared to reported three months ended March 31, 2022 net income of $194 million. The $91 million quarter-over-quarter decrease was driven by a write-off of certain rate base disallowances recorded in the first quarter of 2023 resulting from the Public Utility Commission of Texas' ("PUCT") final order in Oncor's comprehensive base rate review, lower revenues from decreased customer consumption attributable primarily to milder weather and increases in costs associated with additional investments (primarily depreciation and borrowing costs) and higher operation and maintenance expense, partially offset by higher revenues from updates to base transmission billing factors, transmission rate updates to reflect increases in invested capital and customer growth. Financial and operational results are provided in Tables A, B, C, and D below.
"The 'Texas Miracle' is alive and well across the Oncor service area. In the first quarter, Oncor continued to see strong growth, including the connection of 17,000 additional premises and a 41% increase in active transmission point-of-interconnection requests year-over-year. I am so proud of the Oncor team and their dedication to safely serving our customers as evidenced by a 9% improvement to our non-storm SAIDI year-over-year," said Oncor CEO Allen Nye. "I am also pleased to report that the Public Utility Commission of Texas has issued a final order in Oncor's rate case. As a result, we are announcing an update to our capital expenditure projections with a plan to spend approximately $19 billion from 2023-2027 – a sign of our continuing commitment to expanding and strengthening the grid so we can help secure Texas' place as a global magnet for economic growth."
Regulatory Update
On April 6, 2023, the PUCT issued a final order in Oncor's comprehensive base rate review filed in May 2022 with the PUCT and the cities in Oncor's service territory that have retained original jurisdiction over rates (PUCT Docket No. 53601). The new rates took effect on May 1, 2023. The order is subject to motions for rehearing and appeals, and on May 1, 2023 Oncor filed a motion for rehearing seeking reconsideration of certain of the exclusions from rates described below and seeking certain technical corrections to the order. Intervening parties in the proceeding have also filed motions for rehearing with respect to certain findings in the PUCT order.
Oncor estimates that the final order results in an average increase over 2021 test year adjusted annualized revenue of 1.4% and an aggregate annualized revenue increase over the 2021 test year of approximately $79 million. Key findings made by the PUCT in the order include setting Oncor's authorized return on equity at 9.7%, maintaining Oncor's regulatory capital structure at 57.5% debt to 42.5% equity, approving Oncor's requested regulatory asset amortization period of five years, changing depreciation rates and lives of certain depreciable assets and approving Oncor's requested increase for its annual self-insurance reserve accrual primarily associated with storm-related costs.
In addition, the final order excluded from rates an acquisition premium and its associated amortization costs relating to certain plant facilities acquired by Oncor in 2019 as well as $65 million of certain employee benefit and compensation-related costs that Oncor had previously capitalized primarily to property, plant and equipment during the period 2017 through 2021. As a result, Oncor recognized in the three months ended March 31, 2023, a charge against income for the effects of that $65 million disallowance, as well as an additional $4 million charge against income due to certain similar employee benefit and compensation related costs that were capitalized during 2022. The total $69 million ($54 million after tax) write-off consists of a $55 million ($43 million after tax) write-off of disallowed capitalized property, plant and equipment reflected in operating expenses and a $14 million ($11 million after tax) write-off of non-operating cost disallowances related to these employee benefit and compensation related costs.
Additionally, on March 9, 2023, the PUCT granted Oncor's request to extend the deadline for filing a distribution cost recovery factor ("DCRF") application in 2023. As a result, Oncor has until June 30, 2023 to file a DCRF application with respect to eligible distribution investments placed into service during 2022.
2023-2027 Capital Expenditure Plan
Oncor's board of directors approved a capital expenditure budget totaling $3.4 billion for 2023. In addition, Oncor management expects to recommend to its board of directors capital expenditure budgets of approximately $3.6 billion in 2024, $3.8 billion in 2025, $3.9 billion in 2026 and $4.3 billion in 2027, for an aggregate 2023-2027 capital plan of approximately $19 billion. These capital expenditures are expected to be used for investment in transmission and distribution infrastructure, including investments to support system growth, reliability and resiliency. Approximately 97% of Oncor's capital expenditures are expected to be recoverable in rates through capital trackers.
Oncor Service Territory Growth and Improved Reliability
In the three months ended March 31, 2023, Oncor continued to experience solid growth in premises and the construction of new transmission and distribution lines, all while remaining focused on safety and reliability.
Oncor continues to support Texas' population growth with new projects, including projects designed to increase reliability for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. ("ERCOT") market. Oncor connected 17,000 new premises to the ERCOT grid in the first quarter of 2023, as compared to 16,000 in the first quarter of 2022. The growth across Oncor's service territory required the construction or upgrading of 257 miles of distribution and transmission power lines in the first quarter of 2023.
At March 31, 2023, Oncor had approximately 650 active generation and retail transmission point-of-interconnection ("POI") requests in queue, representing a 41% increase as compared to active generation and retail transmission POI requests in queue at March 31, 2022. Of the approximately 400 active generation POI requests in queue at March 31, 2023, 50% are solar, 40% are storage, 8% are wind and 2% are gas. In the three months ended March 31, 2023, Oncor entered 83 new generation and retail transmission POI requests into queue as compared to the 80 new generation and retail transmission POI requests that were entered during the same period in 2022.
For the industry's primary benchmark for reliability, System Average Interruption Duration Index (non-storm), Oncor continued to improve in the twelve months ended period March 31, 2023 as compared to the prior year period. On average, Oncor's customers experienced more than seven fewer minutes of outage over the period – an improvement of approximately 9%. Oncor has undertaken various efforts to enhance reliability, including automation and system hardening projects, particularly in its planning for severe weather events.
Liquidity
At the end of April, Oncor entered into a new three-year $500 million revolving accounts receivable securitization facility secured by accounts receivable from retail electric providers ("REP") and related rights. The aggregate amount available for borrowing at any one time under the facility is limited to the lesser of the facility limit of $500 million and the borrowing base amount calculated based on the outstanding balance of eligible REP receivables held as collateral, subject to certain reserves, concentration limits, and other limitations. The borrowing base for the facility at the time it was established was approximately $408 million. A borrowing of $100 million was made under the facility on April 28, 2023.
As of May 3, 2023, Oncor's available liquidity, consisting of cash on hand, available credit facility and commercial paper program capacity and available capacity under the accounts receivable securitization facility, totaled approximately $2.3 billion. Oncor expects cash flows from operations combined with long-term debt issuances, borrowings under term loan credit agreements and its accounts receivable securitization facility, as well as availability under its credit facility and commercial paper program to be sufficient to fund current obligations, projected working capital requirements, maturities of long-term debt and capital expenditures for at least the next 12 months.
Sempra Internet Broadcast Today
Sempra (NYSE: SRE) (BMV: SRE) will broadcast a live discussion of its earnings results over the Internet today at 12 p.m. ET, which will include discussion of first quarter 2023 results and other information relating to Oncor. Oncor Chief Executive Allen Nye will also participate in the broadcast. Access to the broadcast is available by registering on the Investors section of Sempra's website and clicking on the appropriate link. Prior to the conference call, an accompanying slide presentation will be posted on Sempra's Investors site. For those unable to participate in the live webcast, it will be available on replay a few hours after its conclusion on Sempra's website.
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
Oncor's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2023 will be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after Sempra's conference call and once filed, will be available on Oncor's website, oncor.com.
Headquartered in Dallas, Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC is a regulated electricity transmission and distribution business that uses superior asset management skills to provide reliable electricity delivery to consumers. Oncor (together with its subsidiaries) operates the largest transmission and distribution system in Texas, delivering power to more than 3.9 million homes and businesses and operating more than 141,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines in Texas. While Oncor is owned by two investors (indirect majority owner, Sempra, and minority owner, Texas Transmission Investment LLC), Oncor is managed by its Board of Directors, which is comprised of a majority of disinterested directors.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements relating to Oncor within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, that are included in this news release, as well as statements made in presentations, in response to questions or otherwise, that address activities, events or developments that Oncor expects or anticipates to occur in the future, including such matters as projections, capital allocation, future capital expenditures, business strategy, competitive strengths, goals, future acquisitions or dispositions, development or operation of facilities, market and industry developments and the growth of our business and operations (often, but not always, through the use of words or phrases such as "intends," "plans," "will likely result," "are expected to," "will continue," "is anticipated," "estimated," "should," "projection," "target," "goal," "objective" and "outlook"), are forward-looking statements. Although Oncor believes that in making any such forward-looking statement its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, any such forward-looking statement involves risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements include: legislation, governmental policies and orders, and regulatory actions; legal and administrative proceedings and settlements, including the exercise of equitable powers by courts; weather conditions and other natural phenomena, including any weather impacts due to climate change; acts of sabotage, wars or terrorist or cyber security threats or activities; actions by credit rating agencies; health epidemics and pandemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic and its variants and its impact on Oncor's business and the economy in general; loss of key technology platforms; economic conditions, including the impact of a recessionary environment, inflation, supply chain shortages, and labor availability and cost; unanticipated population growth or decline, or changes in market demand and demographic patterns; Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. grid needs; changes in business strategy, development plans or vendor relationships; changes in interest rates or rates of inflation; unanticipated changes in operating expenses, liquidity needs and capital expenditures; inability of various counterparties to meet their financial and other obligations to Oncor, including failure of counterparties to timely perform under agreements; general industry trends; significant decreases in demand or consumption of electricity delivered by Oncor, including as a result of increased consumer use of third-party distributed energy resources or other technologies; hazards customary to the industry and the possibility that Oncor may not have adequate insurance to cover losses resulting from such hazards; changes in technology used by and services offered by Oncor; significant changes in Oncor's relationship with its employees, including the availability of qualified personnel, and the potential adverse effects if labor disputes or grievances were to occur; changes in assumptions used to estimate costs of providing employee benefits, including pension and retiree benefits, and future funding requirements related thereto; significant changes in accounting policies or critical accounting estimates material to Oncor; commercial bank and financial market conditions, macroeconomic conditions, access to capital, the cost of such capital, and the results of financing and refinancing efforts, including availability of funds and the potential impact of any disruptions in U.S. capital and credit markets; circumstances which may contribute to future impairment of goodwill, intangible or other long-lived assets; financial and other restrictions under Oncor's debt agreements; Oncor's ability to generate sufficient cash flow to make interest payments on its debt instruments; and Oncor's ability to effectively execute its operational strategy.
Further discussion of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from management's current projections, forecasts, estimates and expectations is contained in filings made by Oncor with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Specifically, Oncor makes reference to the section entitled "Risk Factors" in its annual and quarterly reports. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and, except as may be required by law, Oncor undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which it is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for Oncor to predict all of them; nor can it assess the impact of each such factor or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. As such, you should not unduly rely on such forward-looking statements.
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The road to becoming the first undisputed world heavyweight champion since 2000 is clear once again.
Oleksandr Usyk has the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO belts. Tyson Fury, for the time being at least, has the WBC title.
And they both want to fight each other.
“Hey, Tyson,” Usyk said after winning his rematch with Anthony Joshua on a split decision in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. “Back in ring, please, back in ring.”
Fury, after all, says he is retired, although that stance is being widely greeted with skepticism.
Indeed, after the Usyk-Joshya rematch, Fury said in a video he would be willing to take on Usyk.
For the right price.
“England has been relieved of its belts, yet again, as usual, but there is a remedy and a solution that I can suggest,” Fury said in the video published by boxing media company iFL TV. “If you want those belts back, then send in the Gypsy barbarian of England. Come on. Send me in.
“But it’s not going to be cheap. If you want the best, then you’ve got to pay. It’s going to be very expensive. So get your checkbook out.”
Fury hasn’t fought since knocking out Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium in April, after which he said he was retiring as “the best heavyweight there has ever been” because he had given his word to his wife, Paris.
Since then, he has said he’d be returning to boxing in order to set up a fight against Derek Chisora, a fellow Briton whom he beat twice early in his career.
Three days later, he said he had had a change of heart and had decided to “walk away.”
It’s clear Fury could be tempted back into the ring and what better fight to return to than for the opportunity to be the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis, who held all the belts from 1999-2000 before being stripped of the WBA title.
Usyk-Fury would be one of the biggest fights in a generation, with the added intrigue that both boxers are undefeated. Usyk was also undisputed cruiserweight champion from 2018-19.
As for Joshua, for so long the box-office name in the heavyweight division, he is on the outside looking in after falling to back-to-back losses to Usyk to add to his defeat to Andy Ruiz Jr. in 2019.
That’s three losses in five fights, piercing the aura of a British boxer who sold out big stadiums and was once regarded as a knockout machine.
Dismissing talk of retirement, the 32-year-old Joshua said he plans to return to the ring in December and work his way back up to being a three-time champion. That would mean toiling away for now in the division’s second tier, with the likes of Dillian Whyte and Deontay Wilder potential opponents if he chooses to first see off some less dangerous fighters.
“I spoke to Eddie,” Joshua said, referring to his promoter, Eddie Hearn, “and asked him if it’s possible to get out in November because momentum is important in boxing. Eddie said December.
“If it’s about who I fight, it’s come one, come all. Whoever wants it can get it, I don’t mind.”
Joshua recently signed a long-term deal with DAZN, worth a reported $100 million, for the platform to show his next fights.
“We want to see AJ active,” Hearn said. “There have been too many gaps between fights.
“I would like to see him get back to enjoying himself, get back to the pressures of working his way back up to the championship belt. Now he will actually really start to enjoy himself.”
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Mobile veterinarian care expands its services into Charlotte, Sacramento, Phoenix, and San Diego
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Vets, a mobile veterinary service providing premium at-home pet care, announces its expansion into Charlotte, NC marking the company's 14th city it has expanded to since launching in 2021.
The Vets is transforming the pet care industry by bringing quality care into the home, which ultimately allows veterinarians to develop stronger relationships with pets and their owners in a stress-free environment. Among the top reasons that pet owners avoid or postpone their visit to the vet clinic include the stress of transporting their pet, restrictive pet carriers, and crowded waiting rooms. With The Vets, both cats and dogs can receive a full range of treatments including wellness exams, sick care, diagnostics, and more.
As part of the expansion into Charlotte, The Vets is welcoming 5 new team members including Dr. Robyn McFerren, DVM & Dr. Stephanie Wolf, DVM bringing over 40 years of veterinary experience to the pet parents of Charlotte.
In addition to The Vets' expansion in Charlotte, the company has rapidly been growing to meet the demand for at-home pet care needs across the country. Within the past month alone, The Vets has also introduced its services throughout Sacramento, California, Phoenix, Arizona, and San Diego, California. With plans to reach 22 cities by the end of 2022, The Vets is on track to be one of the fastest-growing at-home pet care companies.
"With the launch of Charlotte, we've expanded into 3 new cities in the last month, highlighting our ambitious expansion plans for 2022. I'm proud of our local teams, who are bringing the best pet care possible to our pets and pet parents alike," says Esben Mou, VP of Expansion.
The Vets provides flexibility for not only pet parents but veterinarians and technicians alike. Bringing back the novelty of "the family vet," practitioners are able to sit with each family to discuss medical conditions and preventative care, observing the pet(s) in its home environment. By bringing the clinic directly to one's pet instead of the other way around, The Vets is helping to ensure that one's dog or call is as comfortable as possible during what is normally a very stressful experience.
To celebrate The Vets' expansion into Charlotte, the company is supporting Halfway There Rescue by matching, dollar for dollar, every service dollar spent in Charlotte from May 1-31, up to $5,000. Halfway There Rescue is an all-volunteer organization that rescues, fosters, transports, and finds homes for unwanted, abandoned, and abused dogs, cats, and kittens in the Carolinas.
Within one year of launching, The Vets has already completed more than 12,000 appointments and served more than 11,000+ pets across the country. For more information, visit thevets.com.
About The Vets
Founded in 2021, The Vets is bringing pet care home. We are a tech enabled veterinary care provider, removing undue stress and bringing comprehensive pet care into the comfort of your home. We pride ourselves in building a team of industry leading veterinarians supported through training, development and advanced medical technologies to deliver the most comprehensive health care for your pet, all in a stress-free environment. Powered by a group of over 180 employees, we currently operate in 14 cities with plans to expand to an additional 22 by the end of 2022.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay coach Todd Bowles said tight end Cameron Brate experienced delayed symptoms of a concussion after initially complaining about shoulder discomfort following a collision with a teammate during the first half of the Buccaneers’ 41-31 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.
Bowles said Monday that Brate was checked out three times before being allowed to re-enter Sunday night’s game with the Bucs driving for a touchdown that trimmed an 18-point deficit to 28-17 just before halftime.
“He went on the sideline. He complained of shoulder discomfort, nothing about his head. He was checked out three times,” Bowles said.
“He said give him a minute. Nothing came up. He went back in until the end of the half,” the coach added. “At halftime, he started having symptoms. Obviously, they were delayed. He started complaining about that. They tested him, and he’s in the (concussion) protocol. We kept him out the rest of the game.”
Brate was shaken up with less than two minutes remaining in the half after catching a pass for a 9-yard gain and colliding with Bucs receiver Chris Godwin while being tackled. He remained on the ground for a few seconds, stood up and began jogging to the sideline under his own power.
Brate, however, failed to get off the field fast enough for Tampa Bay to avoid a penalty for having too many men on the field when Tom Brady took the snap for the next play.
The tight end re-entered the game and was the intended receiver on three incompletions Brady threw while finishing a 75-yard drive that ended with a 1-yard touchdown pass to Mike Evans.
Bowles said an unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant did not ask the Bucs to test Brate for a concussion.
“Nobody called down. He was checked out three times. He went back in until the end of the half. The concussion thing didn’t come up until halftime. He had delayed symptoms,” Bowles repeated.
“It was noticeable hit, but again it was on the shoulder,” the coach added. “Nobody said anything about the head.”
The decision to allow Brate to re-enter the game comes on the heels of Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa being cleared to continue playing after hitting his head on the turf against Buffalo on Sept. 25.
The Dolphins said Tagovaliloa injured his back against the Bills. But four days later, he took another hard hit and suffered a concussion at Cincinnati. The unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant who cleared Tagovailoa from entering concussion protocol has been fired.
Bowles was asked if he was comfortable with the way Brate’s situation was handled on Sunday night.
“Player safety is important for us in this league,” Bowles said. “We’re not trying to play anyone who’s hurt.”
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Rodgers rallies Packers past McCarthy’s Cowboys 31-28 in OT
Green Bay stopped a five-game skid with a 31-28 win over former coach Mike McCarthy and the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes to rookie Christian Watson and led a 55-yard drive in overtime to set up Mason Crosby’s game-winning field goal, and the Green Bay Packers stopped a five-game skid with a 31-28 win over former coach Mike McCarthy and the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
Green Bay (4-6) appeared well on its way to losing six straight games in the same season for the first time since 1988, trailing 28-14 in the fourth quarter before Rodgers led two long drives that ended with scoring passes to Watson.
McCarthy coached the Packers to their most recent Super Bowl title after the 2010 season and posted a 125-77-2 record with Green Bay before getting fired in 2018. This was his first game against the Packers since he took over as Dallas’ coach in 2020.
Rodgers was McCarthy’s quarterback for most of his time with the Packers. Their relationship grew strained in McCarthy’s later seasons, but they exchanged compliments over the last week and shared hugs before and after Sunday’s game.
The Cowboys (6-3) blew a 14-point lead heading into the fourth quarter for the first time in franchise history. They entered Sunday with a 195-0 record in such games, including playoffs.
McCarthy chose to go for it on fourth-and-3 from Green Bay’s 35 on the opening possession of overtime instead of trying a long field goal. Dak Prescott was pressured by Jarran Reed and threw a desperation pass to Tony Pollard that fell incomplete.
The Packers had third-and-1 from their own 44 on the ensuing drive when Rodgers threw across the middle to Allen Lazard, who caught the ball just beyond midfield and raced to the 20 for a 36-yard gain. The Packers then set things up for Crosby’s game-winning kick.
Green Bay’s Aaron Jones rushed for 138 yards and a touchdown.
Watson, a second-round pick from North Dakota State, finished with four catches for 107 yards and became the first Packers rookie since Keith Woodside in 1988 to have multiple touchdown catches in a game. His three TDs were the first of his NFL career.
Rodgers found Watson for a 39-yard score on fourth-and-7 with 13:23 left. They connected again on a game-tying 7-yard TD with 2:29 remaining.
Watson had a 58-yard touchdown — the Packers’ longest completion of the season — in the second quarter. He celebrated by doing a back flip in the end zone.
Dallas scored 21 straight points to take its 28-14 lead.
Prescott’s 5-yard pass to Dalton Schultz tied the game at 14-all with 8 seconds left in the first half. After a fumbled punt return by Amari Rodgers gave Dallas the ball at the Green Bay 45, Prescott hit CeeDee Lamb for a 30-yard gain to set up Tony Pollard’s 13-yard touchdown run with 7:14 left in the third.
Lamb capped the Cowboys’ next possession with a 35-yard touchdown reception.
Lamb finished with 11 catches for 150 yards and two touchdowns. Pollard ran for 115 yards and a score. Prescott went 27 of 46 for 265 yards, three TDs and two interceptions.
INJURIES
Cowboys CB Anthony Brown left with a concussion in the second quarter.
The Cowboys were missing running back Ezekiel Elliott (knee). ... Green Bay’s defense was missing outside linebacker Rashan Gary (knee), linebacker De’Vondre Campbell (knee) and cornerback Eric Stokes (ankle/knee). The Packers placed Gary and Stokes on injured reserve after both players were hurt in a 15-9 loss at Detroit last week.
UP NEXT
Cowboys: At Minnesota on Sunday.
Packers: Host Tennessee on Thursday night.
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The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report into a helicopter crash that killed four first responders in northern New Mexico last month.
The report does not say what caused the July 16 crash, but it did provide more details on how it occurred. A full report could take one to two years.
Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office Undersheriff Larry Koren, Lt. Fred Beers, Deputy Michael Levison and Bernalillo County Fire Department rescue specialist Matthew King died at the scene. The four men had been helping crews fight the East Mesa fire outside of Las Vegas and were on their way home to Albuquerque when they crashed.
According to the report, the helicopter fueled up and left the staging area at 7:15 p.m. and its last data point was recorded 5 minutes later about a half-mile east of where it would crash.
Two people who were watching the sunset from a nearby ridge “reported the helicopter flew past their location westbound, then rapidly descended without making any turns,” the report states. “A large plume of dust occurred when the helicopter impacted the ground.”
The report states that when investigators arrived, the tail rotor tip cap was partially buried in the ground and the left and right skids were 38 feet and 77 feet from where the helicopter hit the ground. The main wreckage was 160 feet away and the tail boom was 20 feet away.
Funerals for the four men were held this week and last week.
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Coalition of 32 state organizations supports responsible gun ownership, calls on voters and Senate to act
WASHINGTON, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To capture the groundswell of bipartisan support for responsible gun ownership, States United to Prevent Gun Violence (SUPGV) launched a public service campaign calling on voters to write to their Senators in support of responsible gun ownership. The campaign runs as legislators gear up for another vote on gun safety and in the lead up to the June 11 March For Our Lives events taking place in more than 450 communities across the country.
The campaign joins a growing chorus with a clear message; responsible Americans want responsible gun ownership laws. And while the majority of firearm owners are responsible, not all of them are. The time is now for the Senate to act in support of responsible gun ownership and vote YES on Background Checks to close the loophole on private gun sales, including online and at gun shows.
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"Over 90 percent of all the firearm deaths among children and adolescents in industrialized nations occur in this country. Every day that goes by is a missed opportunity to prevent another senseless death at the hands of an irresponsible gun owner. We are failing our citizens by allowing this crisis to continue," said Sonya Yee Coleman, SUPGV Board Chair. "It's time for the Senate to meet the moment and enact the life-saving legislation of background checks. The majority of American's agree asking a responsible adult to wait just 14 days to take possession of a firearm preserves Second Amendment rights and takes absolutely nothing away from responsible gun owners."
"Again, this uniquely American nightmare has played out here in Texas. We are heartsick for the 21 killed in Uvalde, the 23 killed in El Paso, the 10 killed in Santa Fe, the 26 killed in Sutherland Springs, and the countless others stolen by gun violence every day in our home state," said Nicole Golden, executive director, Texas Gun Sense, the Texas affiliate of States United to Prevent Gun Violence. "When we can no longer safely send our children to school or go to the grocery store, the hospital, a concert, or a movie theater without serious risk of physical harm or worse, we are no longer free. Texas is full of responsible gun owners, and I know they don't want this epidemic to continue. Please let senators Cornyn and Cruz know we urge them to help pass sensible background checks."
Voters across the country are encouraged to go to the States United website and send an email to both their U.S. Senators ahead of the next Senate vote, expected the week of June 13. Voters can also find state by state gun death data and sign up for the group's newsletter to stay informed on progress in the fight to reduce the number of firearm deaths in America.
The coalition's public service campaign has been produced and run by more than 40 creative and media partners across out of home, digital, video, print, and audio platforms. To date, these partners have collectively donated 50M+ impressions valued at more than $500,000 dollars.
Founded in 2000, States United to Prevent Gun Violence is a coalition of 32 independent state-based gun violence prevention organizations drawn together to communicate, share expertise, and gain traction as a community in a common cause. In 2010, States United merged with Freedom States Alliance, a non-profit assembly of Midwest state organizations, to form a States United to Prevent Gun Violence 501(c)(3) non-profit. Learn more at www.supgv.org.
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MADISON—Beverly E. “Bev” Wolfgram RN, PhD, age 76, died on Thursday, May 18, 2023 from complications of Parkinson’s disease.
Bev was born on December 30, 1946 in Neenah, WI, the 11th child of James and Mayme (Mielke) Miller. After a tumultuous childhood that included stays in an orphanage and foster homes, at age four and a half Bev and 2 of her brothers were adopted by Edwin and Ena (Zilisch) Wolfgram of rural Dodge Co. Life on the farm was fascinating to Bev. She loved being outdoors and helping with the care and feeding of the animals.
Bev was a life-long learner who started her education in a one room school house (grades 1-8). Later she earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in Psychiatric Nursing and Administration at UW-Eau Claire, University of Iowa, Northwestern and a doctorate from UW-Madison.
In her chosen profession Bev was passionate about treating and advocating for patients and their loved ones who were living with diseases of the brain. She was a unique and innovative therapist who started the first Lithium support group in.
Wisconsin and founded the Psychiatric Nursing Clinic at UW. Another source of great personal fulfillment for Bev was teaching nursing students at UW. Those whom she treated and taught often affectionately called her Dr. Bev. She earned many accolades and awards in her career including Psychiatric Nurse of the Year from the Wisconsin Nurses Association and Teacher of the Year from UW School of Nursing.
Bev was a fun-loving and multifaceted person who was always ready for a new adventure. She hiked, camped, traveled, played softball, rollerbladed, flew beautiful kites, and went full-tilt down county roads on her motorcycle. She loved movies, plays and all kinds of music. She could really dance! She liked working with her hands – gardening, building furniture, problem-solving and fixing things with her extensive array of tools including her chainsaw.
All in all Bev was an amazing person who will be dearly missed and never forgotten.
She leaves behind two sisters, four brothers, several dear nieces and nephews, a host of grateful patients and students, and her devoted friend and guardian Ann.
Bev will be buried in a grove of hickory tress at Natural Path Sanctuary according to her wishes. We encourage you to share your online condolences with Bev’s family at jensenfuneralandcremation.com
We wish to thank the staff at Agrace Hospice, House of Hope and Renaissance for their caring attention to Bev during her prolonged and difficult illness.
“We’re all just walking each other home” – Ram Dass.
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