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BOSTON and ATLANTA, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKT) (Inhibikase), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics to modify the course of Parkinson's disease and related disorders as well as other diseases arising from protein kinases, today announced the appointment of Ms. Gisele Dion to its Board of Directors, effective September 1, 2022. Ms. Dion will serve as chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee following the retirement of Ms. Elizabeth O'Farrell from the Company's Board of Directors, effective immediately.
"I am excited to have Gisele join the Board of Inhibikase. She brings a wealth of public company experience having led financial, accounting and M&A strategies across large pharma," commented Milton H. Werner, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer. "We look forward to leveraging her expertise, which we believe complements our board, as we seek to improve the lives of patients suffering from devastating neurodegenerative and other Abl-kinase dependent diseases. In addition, on behalf of the entire Board of Directors, I want to thank Liz for her service and contributions to Inhibikase over the last three and a half years."
Ms. Dion is currently a member of the Board of Directors at Cytek Biosciences and most recently served as an Audit Advisor Group Member for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). Previously, she served as the Senior Vice-President and Chief Accounting Officer at Takeda Pharmaceuticals where she advised the CFO and protected assets, including $30B+ in revenue. While at Takeda, Ms. Dion successfully led the company through SEC registration and guided change management initiatives. Prior to Takeda, she was the Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller at Shire Pharmaceuticals, where she spearheaded M&A integrations, SEC adherence and GAAP compliance from 2016 to 2019, when it was acquired by Takeda. Earlier, Ms. Dion was Corporate Controller at Biogen. Ms. Dion holds a B.S. in Accounting and Management Information Systems from Fairfield University.
"It is a privilege to join the Inhibikase team as the Company continues to advance its novel therapeutics in the clinic, providing hope for patients with Parkinson's disease," remarked Ms. Dion. "I am excited about Inhibikase's approach that has the potential to alter the course of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's. Moreover, I look forward to bringing my extensive financial and accounting expertise to the table, and look forward to helping guide the Company's success."
Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKT) is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for Parkinson's disease and related disorders. Inhibikase's multi-therapeutic pipeline focuses on neurodegeneration and its lead program IkT-148009, an Abelson Tyrosine Kinase (c-Abl) inhibitor, targets the treatment of Parkinson's disease inside and outside the brain as well as other diseases that arise from Ableson Tyrosine Kinases. Its multi-therapeutic pipeline is pursuing Parkinson's-related disorders of the brain and GI tract, orphan indications related to Parkinson's disease such as Multiple System Atrophy, and drug delivery technologies for kinase inhibitors such as IkT-001Pro, a prodrug of the anticancer agent imatinib mesylate that the Company believes will provide a better patient experience with fewer on-dosing side-effects. The Company's RAMP™ medicinal chemistry program has identified a number of follow-on compounds to IkT-148009 to be potentially applied to other cognitive and motor function diseases of the brain. Inhibikase is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
Investors and others should note that the Company announces material financial information to investors using its investor relations website, press releases, SEC filings and public conference calls and webcasts. The Company intends to also use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube as a means of disclosing information about the Company, its services and other matters and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects," "may," "will," "should," "anticipates," "plans," or similar expressions or the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on Inhibikase's current expectations and assumptions. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, which could cause Inhibikase's actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are set forth in Inhibikase's filings with the SEC, including its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, including under the caption "Risk Factors." Any forward-looking statement in this release speaks only as of the date of this release. Inhibikase undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by any applicable securities laws.
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Company Contact:
Milton H. Werner, Ph.D.
President & CEO
678-392-3419
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SternIR, Inc.
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Cavaliers vs. Knicks Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NBA Playoffs Game 2
Published: Apr. 18, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Cleveland Cavaliers are 5.5-point favorites heading into Game 2 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs against the New York Knicks at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on Tuesday, starting at 7:30 PM ET on TNT, BSOH, and MSG. The Knicks lead the series 1-0.
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Cavaliers vs. Knicks Game Info & Odds
- Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2023
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT, BSOH, and MSG
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- Location: Cleveland, Ohio
- Venue: Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse
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Cavaliers vs. Knicks Score Prediction
- Prediction: Cavaliers 114 - Knicks 110
Spread & Total Prediction for Cavaliers vs. Knicks
- Pick ATS: Knicks (+ 5.5)
- Pick OU:
Over (214.5)
- The Knicks' .549 ATS win percentage (45-35-2 ATS Record) is higher than the Cavaliers' .524 mark (43-38-1 ATS Record) in 2022-23.
- As a 5.5-point favorite or more in 2022-23, Cleveland is 19-9-1 against the spread compared to the 3-4-2 ATS record New York racks up as a 5.5-point underdog.
- When it comes to exceeding the point total in 2022-23, Cleveland does it less often (48.8% of the time) than New York (53.7%).
- The Cavaliers have a .734 winning percentage as a moneyline favorite (47-17) this season while the Knicks have a .488 winning percentage as a moneyline underdog (20-21).
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Cavaliers Performance Insights
- Cleveland sports a top-five defense this season, ranking best in the league with 106.9 points allowed per game. On offense, it ranks 25th with 112.3 points scored per contest.
- The Cavaliers are averaging 24.9 assists per game, which ranks them 19th in the NBA in 2022-23.
- The Cavaliers rank 19th in the NBA with 11.6 treys per game this year. Meanwhile, they rank 11th with a 36.7% shooting percentage from three-point land.
- In terms of shot breakdown, Cleveland has taken 62.9% two-pointers (accounting for 72.1% of the team's baskets) and 37.1% from beyond the arc (27.9%).
Knicks Performance Insights
- New York puts up 116 points per game and give up 113.1, making them 11th in the NBA offensively and 12th on defense.
- The Knicks are third-worst in the league in assists (22.9 per game) in 2022-23.
- The Knicks are 11th in the league in 3-pointers made (12.6 per game) and 19th in 3-point percentage (35.4%).
- New York takes 60% percent of its shots from inside the arc, and 40% percent from beyond it. In terms of makes, 69.9% of New York's buckets are 2-pointers, and 30.1% are 3-pointers.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Quick Draw Midday" game were:
02-13-15-16-24-27-35-37-43-45-46-56-57-60-61-62-71-74-77-79, BE: 71
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PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern California based law firm Hahn & Hahn LLP announced today that three of its attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.
"Best Lawyers provides an impressive list of legal practitioners and we are honored that Scott, Karl and Clark have been included again this year," said Managing Partner Christianne Kerns. "This peer acknowledgment reflects our colleagues' professional capabilities as well as the dedication they have to our firm's clients."
The following Hahn & Hahn attorneys have been named to the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers in America - Pasadena:
R. Scott Jenkins – Corporate Law
Karl I. Swaidan – Trusts and Estates
Clark R. Byam – Litigation – Trust and Estates
Best Lawyers® lists are compiled based on peer-review evaluation. The organization received more than 15 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, more than 10.8 million votes were analyzed. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed. For additional information, visit www.bestlawyers.com.
Hahn & Hahn LLP has been an active member of the Southern California business and legal communities since 1899. The firm represents entrepreneurs, innovators, business owners, family offices and charitable organizations in their corporate, real estate, employment, estate planning and family law issues and in litigation. For more information visit https://www.hahnlawyers.com/
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DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — Police are looking for a 16-year-old boy reported missing from Dauphin County.
Giovanni Reyes-Colon was last seen at Lower Paxton Township home on Oct. 31, 2022.
He is described as Hispanic, 6 feet tall, and 255 pounds.
Police say Reyes-Colon was last seen entering an unknown vehicle outside his home.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Investigators probing a fatal 2021 Amtrak derailment in Montana disclosed Tuesday that the railroad track was bent along a curve near the accident site, and the problem got worse as freight trains traveled over the area before the crash.
Details on the bent track were included in hundreds of pages of investigative documents released by the National Transportation Safety Board. The three passengers who died and two who were seriously injured were in, or had just been in, an observation car that ended up on its side, the investigation found.
Railroad safety practices are facing renewed scrutiny after a fiery freight train derailment released toxic chemicals in Ohio. The Feb. 3 crash of a Norfolk Southern train forced evacuations and raised public health concerns.
Investigators identified the problem with the track based on video footage, including from two BNSF freight trains that went around the accident curve within 90 minutes before the Amtrak derailment.
After each of the freight trains had passed, the bend in the track appeared to get worse, investigators reported. Neither of the freight train crews saw the problem.
“The Amtrak engineer also did not see the track misalignment before traveling over that portion of track. Investigators, who watched the videos and were focused primarily on detecting the track deviation, were able to first see the misalignment only a couple seconds before the trains had traveled over it,” the investigators said.
They did not determine the final cause of the accident.
Amtrak’s Empire Builder derailed Sept. 25, 2021, in northern Montana while en route from Chicago to Seattle and Portland, Oregon, with 154 people on board. The track is owned by BNSF Railway.
The train was traveling just below the speed limit of 79 mph (127 kph) when its emergency brakes were activated, the NTSB said.
Amtrak spokesperson Marc Magliari declined comment on the track issues raised in the report. A spokesperson with BNSF Railway did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Survivors described horrific scenes of people maimed and killed as four cars toppled and skidded down the tracks. Forty-four passengers and crew were taken to area hospitals with injuries.
First responders and residents of the rural plains near the crash site banded together to transport injured passengers to Chester, Montana, where they were given food and other assistance.
Killed in the accident were Margie and Don Vardahoe, a Georgia couple on a cross-country trip to mark their 50th wedding anniversary, and Zachariah Schneider, 28, a software developer from Illinois.
Rail safety expert David Clarke at the University of Tennessee said a track misalignment as described in the NTSB report could “certainly” cause a derailment.
Former NTSB investigator Robert Chipkevich, who had not reviewed the findings in the 2021 crash, said track problems can be caused by issues including the quality of maintenance and repairs, the integrity of the ballast material that underlies the rails and excessive summer heat.
“These conditions can change certainly after a heavy freight train passes over it,” Chipkevich said. “If it wasn't noticed by a crew member, then you have several tons of train crossing over that so it could change.”
The Vardahoes were reportedly in the vestibule — the space between the observation car and a coach car behind it — when the derailment happened and were thrown from the train, investigators found. Don Vardahoe, 74, ended up under the observation car while Margie Vardahoe, 72, suffered a fatal head injury when she struck equipment along the track, a report said.
All but two of the windows on the observation car fell out during the derailment and the other fatality, Schneider, 28, and three other people were ejected from the car, investigators found.
Attorneys for the estates of the Vardahoes and Schneider did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment on Tuesday.
Schneider was dragged or rolled on the ground. Another man in the observation car suffered serious injuries and ended up with his prosthetic legs pinned under the car, the report stated. A husband and wife in the observation car fell out a window and into a gap between the side of the car and the ground as the train came to a stop. The man suffered serious injuries.
Rail accidents including derailments have been trending down in the U.S. as the number of miles traveled by trains drops.
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LUXEMBOURG and BASEL, Switzerland, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FORTY51 Ventures today announced the closing of FORTY51 Ventures I, raising USD 43 Million in its first close.
FORTY51's core strategy focuses on company formation and early stage investments in Biotech with geographic emphasis on Switzerland, France and Germany. FORTY51 Ventures will lead or co-lead early rounds (Seed and Series A) of its growing portfolio which will include both academic and Pharma spin-outs.
In addition, FORTY51 Ventures announces its first investment in Mosanna Therapeutics, a newly created company that pursues the development of a small molecule developed by Sanofi S.A. (Paris, France) to address patients' needs suffering from metabolic obstructive sleep apnea.
The fund is advised by a complementary founding team of three industry veterans, Sara Núñez-García, Sascha Oliver Bucher and Tamás Schweighoffer, who bring a deep network and decades of drug development, transactions and venture expertise.
In addition, Peter van Vlasselaer, Bill Symonds, Jonathan Knowles, Hans Schikan and Darren Ji will support FORTY51 Ventures as Industry advisors who will lend deep expertise to the growing family of entrepreneurs. Alan S. Roemer will advise the fund as Strategic Partner in the US.
FORTY51 Ventures is anchored by a strong institutional investor syndicate with Stable Asset Management, as well as the Fischli Family. Seasoned Biotech entrepreneurs and private individuals also participated in the first close of the fund.
"We are incredibly excited to bring FORTY51 Ventures to life with the goal of supporting company creation and early stage Biotech in the European market, where we see unprecedented innovation yet a lack of venture builders" commented the founders.
Erik Serrano-Berntsen, Founder and CEO of Stable Asset Management mentioned "FORTY51 Ventures brings true company building to Europe's exciting Biotech scene and leverages a unique arbitrage opportunity with their reach into the US. I have not come across a truly differentiating investment strategy in Biotech coupled with such a highly complementary skillset among the founding Partners - Sara's scientific and investment expertise, Tamas's experience in bringing early programs into the clinic, and Sascha's ability in building and transacting businesses - we are extremely proud to help bring FORTY51 Ventures to its first close".
Walter Fischli, Biotech entrepreneur and investor commented "From personal experience, I know the great yet largely untapped, investment opportunity that exists in Biotech in Switzerland and its neighboring countries. It requires a very experienced team with the ability to focus on early stage companies being able to provide a clear development path for the assets – given the great prospects of FORTY51, I am very excited to become one of the anchor investors in their first fund ".
FORTY51 Ventures Fund I SCSp, FIAR is domiciled in Luxembourg. Legal and tax advice were provided by Dechert LLP (Luxembourg), Barnes & Thornburg LLP (USA) and Vischer (Switzerland).
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What time does the 2023 Boston Marathon start?
Well, it actually starts multiple times over the course of more than two hours to help spread out the nearly 30,000-person field.
Here is a look at the start times, and some of the projected finish times, for the 127th running of the race on Monday, April 17, 2023.
2023 Boston Marathon start times
- 6 a.m.: Military march
- 9:02 a.m.: Men’s wheelchair
- 9:05 a.m.: Women’s wheelchair
- 9:30 a.m.: Handcycles and duos
- 9:37 a.m.: Professional men
- 9:47 a.m.: Professional women
- 9:50 a.m.: Para athletics division
- 10 a.m.: Wave 1
- 10:25 a.m.: Wave 2
- 10:50 a.m.: Wave 3
- 11:15 a.m.: Wave 4
2023 Boston Marathon projected finish times
- 10:20-10:30 a.m.: Men’s wheelchair
- 10:33-10:43 a.m.: Women’s wheelchair
- 11:37-11:47 a.m.: Professional men
- 12:04-12:14 p.m.: Professional women
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Honda is turning the CR-V Hybrid into an 800-hp race car. The completed project vehicle, simply dubbed Honda CR-V Hybrid Racer, will be revealed on February 28.
Teaser photos released by Honda hint at a vehicle that only bears a superficial resemblance to the road-going CR-V Hybrid. The entire rear section of the body—including the hatch and rear doors—lifts up as one clamshell section, while the driver enters and exits through what appear to be Lamborghini-style scissor doors.
Typical racing modifications can be glimpsed as well, including a massive rear wing, and a complex aero arrangement for the front bumper. There also appear to be air intakes in the body sides, suggesting a mid-engine configuration.
The CR-V Hybrid Racer is a joint project of Honda’s North American R&D and design offices, as well as Honda Performance Development (HPD), the outfit responsible for all Honda and Acura racing programs for North America, including the Honda IndyCar and Acura IMSA sports-car programs, as well as the Honda Ridgeline desert race truck.
Honda redesigned the CR-V for the 2023 model year, marking the popular crossover’s sixth generation. The 2023 Honda CR-V Hybrid, which started production in Ohio in October 2022, is normally powered by a 2.0-liter Atkinson-cycle inline-4 working with Honda’s two-motor hybrid system. Output from the factory is 204 hp.
The CR-V Hybrid may not seem like the ideal basis for a race car, but Honda is eager to promote this model, seeing increased hybrid sales as a step toward greater electrification. Beginning with the 2023 model year, Honda aims to make hybrids 50% of CR-V sales in the U.S. It’s the first step in a gradual electrification strategy that will see the launch of the Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX electric SUVs, as well as a CR-V powered by hydrogen fuel cells, in 2024, followed by the first EVs for the Sony-backed Afeela brand in 2025.
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How to Watch the Louisville vs. Ole Miss Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16
Published: Mar. 24, 2023 at 4:11 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
This Sweet 16 matchup features the No. 5 seed Louisville Cardinals (25-11) and the No. 8 seed Ole Miss Rebels (25-8) on Friday at Climate Pledge Arena. The NCAA Tournament contest tips off at 10:00 PM.
Hoping to catch this game live? Below, we lay out all the details you need to watch this contest on fuboTV.
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Louisville Women's Basketball Game Live Stream & TV Channel Info
- When: Friday, March 24, 2023 at 10:00 PM ET
- Where: Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington
- TV: ESPN
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Louisville vs. Ole Miss Scoring Comparison
- The Rebels' 68.8 points per game are 5.4 more points than the 63.4 the Cardinals allow to opponents.
- Ole Miss is 17-2 when it scores more than 63.4 points.
- Louisville has a 15-6 record when its opponents score fewer than 68.8 points.
- The 73.1 points per game the Cardinals average are 16.8 more points than the Rebels give up (56.3).
- When Louisville puts up more than 56.3 points, it is 21-6.
- Ole Miss has a 22-6 record when giving up fewer than 73.1 points.
- This season the Cardinals are shooting 45.1% from the field, 6.2% higher than the Rebels give up.
- The Rebels' 37.7 shooting percentage is 2.2 lower than the Cardinals have conceded.
Louisville Schedule
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SHREVEPORT, La., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Radiance Technologies (Radiance), a national leader in defense technologies and solutions, commits to expanding the economic development of the Shreveport-Bossier City region. Radiance recently partnered with BRF, a North Louisiana economic development organization, to expand its office in Shreveport.
"We welcome Radiance's expansion in Shreveport at BRF's InterTech 1 facility located on Kings Highway near downtown," said John F. George Jr., M.D., BRF President and CEO. "Radiance and its CEO Bill Bailey have been supporters of the region since his time here at Barksdale Air Force Base. His title sponsorship of the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl is another example of his commitment to the area. The new positions coming with Radiance's planned expansion are high quality jobs for our region."
To support efforts at both Air Force Global Strike Command and all mission areas across the company, Radiance plans to hire up to 150 high-tech research and development professionals in Shreveport-Bossier City in the next three to five years.
"Growing our presence in North Louisiana pleases me to no end. Barksdale AFB, Shreveport-Bossier, and Louisiana Tech were foundational and transformational for me," said Radiance CEO Bill Bailey. "Being postured to better support Global Strike will ensure that Radiance continues to do what's important to us - support our warfighters. The business case for growing in North Louisiana is solid. The BRF, Shreveport-Bossier, and LED have made it known that they want us in Louisiana."
In addition to its role as the title sponsor of the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl, Radiance is looking forward to expanding its strong connections to the Shreveport-Bossier City region and being a strong community partner as it continues the economic development of the area.
"Radiance Technologies' planned expansion is a terrific economic development win. These positions will be good-paying jobs for Northwest Louisiana residents and will support the mission of our defense community," said Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins.
Radiance Technologies is an employee-owned small business prime contractor founded in 1999. Radiance has over 1000 employee-owners across the United States serving the Department of Defense, national intelligence community and other government agencies. From concepts to capabilities, Radiance leads the way in developing customer-focused solutions in the areas of cyber security, systems engineering, prototyping and integration as well as operational and strategic intelligence including scientific and technical intelligence.
BRF, headquartered in Shreveport, is an economic development organization establishing North Louisiana as a preferred destination for high growth initiatives. Diversifying the region's economy is its mission. It fulfills this mission through initiatives that start new businesses, recruit new businesses and retain current businesses in the region, and through supporting the development of a science and technology-based workforce.
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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A 25-year-old fugitive charged with murder in South Carolina was taken into custody in Chesterfield County after a police chase on Interstate 95.
A spokesperson for Chesterfield Police has confirmed at around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 30, officers were called in to assist Virginia State Police in locating a car driven by the suspect — David Delgado Jr., 25, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, — in a possible Oconee County homicide.
An officer taking part in the search caught sight of the suspect vehicle speeding up I-95 North and successfully pulled the car over. Police say Delgado then lied to the officer about his identity and fled the traffic stop, taking off down the road in his car. Officers reportedly immediately followed his vehicle.
While attempting to evade police, Delgado lost control of his car and crashed as he was attempting to take the I-95/288 interchange. For a short while, police said Delgado tried to run away from officers, but soon began following officers’ commands and was apprehended without further incident.
Oconee County is around a seven-hour drive from where Delgado was apprehended in Chesterfield. Philadelphia lies just five hours further up I-95 North.
After being taken to an area hospital to be evaluated Delgado was arrested and taken to Chesterfield County Jail. He was charged with reckless driving, false identity to law enforcement, eluding and being a fugitive from another jurisdiction.
The Philadelphia native faces extradition to South Carolina on charges of murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime in connection to the death of a 26-year-old woman who investigators say he was in a relationship with. The body of the woman was found near an intersection in Seneca, a city within Oconee County, Monday evening.
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office said that the investigation into the woman’s death remains ongoing. | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/chesterfield-county/south-carolina-fugitive-charged-with-murder-arrested-in-chesterfield-county-after-i-95-police-chase/ | 2023-05-31 20:01:28 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/chesterfield-county/south-carolina-fugitive-charged-with-murder-arrested-in-chesterfield-county-after-i-95-police-chase/ |
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday announced plans to ease border controls from early September by eliminating requirements for pre-departure COVID-19 tests for travelers who have received at least three vaccine doses, and he will also consider increasing daily entry caps as soon as next month.
Japan, which has imposed some of the toughest border measures for the coronavirus, currently requires negative PCR test results within 72 hours of departure for all entrants, a practice that has been criticized as cumbersome.
Kishida, after holding virtual meetings with government ministers and medical advisors earlier Wednesday, told reporters in an online news conference that entrants who have received at least one booster vaccine can waive the pre-entry test beginning Sept. 7.
“We plan to gradually ease border controls to allow entry procedures to be as smooth as those of other Group of Seven countries,” Kishida said from his official residence, where he has been on duty while isolating after testing positive for COVID-19 on Sunday.
Kishida said his government also plans to increase the daily cap for incoming travelers, currently set at 20,000, “as soon as possible.” Media reports say the government is considering more than doubling the daily cap to 50,000 as early as next month.
“Our fight against the virus is not easy, but we should not be too afraid and instead take into consideration the characteristics of the omicron variant,” Kishida said. “We will speed up our responses while balancing the infection measures and social and economic activities as much as possible.”
Kishida said Japan plans to shorten the self-isolation period for COVID-19 patients from the current 10 days for those with symptoms and one week for those without symptoms. Officials are finalizing those details, he said.
In June, Japan partially opened its borders to foreign tourists for the first time in two years but only allowing those who agree to join package tours with guides. The number of entrants has dwindled under those restrictions.
Business organizations in and outside Japan have called for the country to ease its border controls to support the economy, especially the tourism industry, which has been badly hurt by the pandemic. But many Japanese are wary of further easing border measures because the country has been struggling with a seventh wave of infections.
Clinics have been flooded with patients with mild symptoms such as fever, sore throat and coughs, amid a lack of testing and test kits at pharmacies and online. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/japan-to-ease-covid-19-border-controls-from-sept-7/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-08-24 09:54:31 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/japan-to-ease-covid-19-border-controls-from-sept-7/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
The University of Richmond fortified its offensive and defensive lines with local help.
On Wednesday, the start of the early signing period, UR announced the official commitments of Mills Godwin High offensive lineman Nathan McNeel and a pair of area defensive linemen, Jamar Hodges from Petersburg High and Terae Baldwin from Benedictine.
Huesman said the 6-foot-4, 260-pound McNeel “was one of the first offensive lineman that we offered. Obviously being local, we knew a lot about him. He’s got great size. He can move. When we ultimately got him, that was a big hit for us. He had some other things going and fortunately he wanted to stay home and be a Spider, so we’re thrilled about him.”
Huesman said the 6-3, 230-pound Hodges and the 6-1, 290-pound Baldwin both attended UR’s camp and “we loved their work ethic. They can run. They play hard. They practice hard. They’re great kids. We’re excited about them.”
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Huesman’s first full-time coaching job was at William & Mary in 1984, and the recruiting calendar accelerated in a major way since then. No longer do recruits wait until the first Wednesday in February to sign. This December period was added in 2017. Though that February signing window remains open, most prospects sign in December after making oral commitments late in the summer and through the fall.
“I love the early-signing period. You know who you’ve got,” said Huesman.
Huesman said he arrived in his office Wednesday shortly after 7 a.m., and the Spiders already had nine of their projected 14 recruits signed. By 8:15 a.m., signatures from all 14 were in.
“There’s no nerves going on right now,” Huesman said Wednesday afternoon.
The Spiders will also bring in Tyler King, a transfer linebacker from Stony Brook who will enroll in January, with a few other transfers likely to be added, according to Huesman, who said none of the incoming recruits “asked us about name, image and likeness. It really is not a factor for us.”
UR may sign two more high-school prospects in February, according to Huesman. Richmond advanced to the FCS playoffs for the first time since 2016, won a postseason game, and finished 9-4 (6-2 CAA).
William & Mary shared the CAA championship with New Hampshire, advanced to the FCS quarterfinals, and finished 11-2 (7-1 CAA). That was W&M’s first FCS playoffs qualification since 2015.
Tribe coach Mike London recognized his incoming class of 13 in a school release by saying, “Our staff did an outstanding job of identifying our needs and addressing them across nearly all the position groups. We split the class evenly between offense and defense and prioritized the fronts on both sides of the line scrimmage.
"As ever, we emphasized recruiting the state of Virginia, with more than half the class coming from our state.”
W&M is likely to add to this group, according to London.
Richmond
Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown
Cassius Harris WR 6-2 172 Tazewell
Landon Ellis WR 6-2 185 Orange (Woodberry Forest)
Matthew Traynor ATHL 6-1 170 Marietta, Ga.
Jordan Wilkes LB 6-0 220 Harrisburg, N.C.
Terae Baldwin DL 6-1 290 Chesterfield (Benedictine)
Jamaal Brown RB 5-11 205 Pittsburgh
Kade Capristo OL 6-3 275 Pittsburgh
Jamar Hodges DE 6-3 230 Petersburg (Petersburg)
Bryson Esser OL 6-7 258 Denver, N.C.
Ronald Anderson OL 6-3 260 Baltimore
CJ Fraser DB 6-0 180 Chesapeake
Camden Coleman QB 6-2 210 Clemmons, N.C.
Carson Byrd TE 6-4 215 Lithia, Fla.
Nathan McNeel OL 6-4 260 Richmond (Mills Godwin)
William & Mary
Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown
Gerald Williams DL 6-2 290 Olney, Md.
Elijah Rainer LB 6-0 220 Moseley (Trinity Episcopal)
Brendan Robinson DB 5-11 175 Leesburg
Noah Brannock QB 6-0 200 Forest Hill, Md.
Hayden Raley OL 6-5 290 Maidens (Goochland)
Clayton Dobler LB 6-4 220 Midlothian (James River)
TJ McGill DB 5-11 175 Charlotte
Garrett Robertson WR 6-3 180 Chantilly
Kamron Frye OL 6-4 280 Fredericksburg
Luka O’Day OL 6-5 280 Darnestown, Md.
Xavier Glass LB 6-2 240 Virginia Beach
Jackson Blee TE 6-6 230 Belmont, N.C.
Gent Veizi DL 6-2 275 Centreville
VMI
Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown
Elijah Brooks DL 6-2 285 Louisa (Louisa)
Isaiah Grevious LB 6-1 205 Charlottesville
Robbie Dunn DL 6-3 275 Midlothian (Trinity Episcopal)
Henry Berling LB 6-2 220 Richmond (Benedictine)
Luke Scott DL 6-4 235 Johnson City, Tenn.
Zyron Bacote DB 5-11 175 Virginia Beach
Cade Cox QB 6-3 200 Chesapeake
Tristan Woodley OL 6-4 300 Virginia Beach
Jacob Moore DL 6-2 280 Richmond (Benedictine)
EJ Wilborne DB 6-0 185 Fredericksburg
Nathan Lhotsky TE 6-4 225 Bridgeport, W.Va.
Noah Fathy DL 6-5 240 Marcus Hook, Pa.
Andrew Kocan OL 6-4 280 Canonsburg, Pa.
Marcus Roser OL 6-3 285 Ashburn
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An optimistic President Joe Biden declared Wednesday he is confident the U.S. will avoid an unprecedented and potentially catastrophic debt default, saying talks with congressional Republicans have been productive. He left for a G-7 summit in Japan but planned to return by the weekend in hopes of approving a solid agreement.
Biden’s upbeat remarks came as a select group of negotiators began meeting to try and hammer out the final contours of a budget spending deal to unlock a path for raising the debt limit as soon June 1. That is when the Treasury Department says the U.S. could begin defaulting on its obligations and trigger financial chaos.
“I’m confident that we’ll get the agreement on the budget and America will not default,” Biden said from the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
Democrat Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have traded blame for a debt-ceiling impasse for weeks. But Biden said of the latest White House session with congressional leaders that “everyone came to the meeting, I think, in good faith.”
McCarthy was upbeat, too, though contending Biden had given ground. The president said the budget talks were still separate from the debt limit issue, but the speaker said Biden had “finally backed off” his refusal to negotiate.
Biden said that every leader at Tuesday’s Oval Office meeting — Vice President Kamala Harris, McCarthy, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. — agreed the U.S. must not default on its obligations.
“It would be catastrophic for the American economy and the American people if we didn’t pay our bills,” Biden said. “I’m confident everyone in the room agreed … that we’re going to come together because there’s no alternative. We have to do the right thing for the country. We have to move on.”
He said he would be in “constant contact” with White House officials while at the summit in Hiroshima. He is canceling stops in Australia and Papua New Guinea that were to follow so he can return to Washington on Sunday.
Biden and McCarthy tasked a handful of representatives to work swiftly to try and close out a final deal. They include Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the president; legislative affairs director Louisa Terrell and Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young for the administration, and Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., a close McCarthy ally, for the Republicans.
Agreement by the negotiators would still leave any deal needing approval by Democratic Senate and Republican House.
Democrats are upset about the possibility of new work requirements for some recipients of government aid. And Republicans want much tougher budget restraints than the Democrats support.
The positive comments by Biden and McCarthy suggest they believe they can gain the backing of their parties’ lawmakers.
McCarthy was flanked Wednesday on the Capitol steps by some of the most conservative Republicans from the House and Senate in a feisty show of support.
The national debt currently stands at $31.4 trillion. An increase in the debt limit would not authorize new federal spending; it would only allow for borrowing to pay for what Congress has already approved.
The contours of an agreement have begun to take shape, but the details of spending cuts and policy changes will make or break whether the divided Congress can strike a bipartisan deal with the White House.
In exchange for lifting the debt limit to keep paying the bills, newly majority House Republicans are trying to extract steep budget caps of no more than 1% growth a year over the next decade, alongside bolstered work requirements.
Negotiators are preparing to claw back some $30 billion of unspent COVID-19 aid, now that the government has lifted the pandemic emergency. And they are working on a potential agreement for permit changes that would speed the development of energy projects that both Republicans and Democrats want, though the details remain daunting.
But Democrats are not at all willing to accept the 10-year cap on spending that Republicans approved in their own House bill, and the Democrats are instead pushing for a shorter window of budget cuts.
Biden is facing fierce blowback from progressive Democrats after he opened the door to tougher work requirements. But he insisted Wednesday any new work requirements would be of “no consequence” and that he’s not willing to impact health programs, presumably referring to Medicaid.
Asked about that, the Republicans behind McCarthy — who support more work requirements on Medicaid, food stamps and cash assistance programs — broke out in laughter at the Capitol.
The Republicans scoffed aloud as helicopters with the presumably departing Biden flew overhead.
McCarthy, who depended on Donald Trump’s backing to become the new speaker, still has work to do to keep his narrow House majority in line for any final deal, particularly among the hardline Freedom Caucus conservatives who almost blocked his election earlier this year for the gavel.
Former President Trump has encouraged Republicans to “do a default” if they don’t get everything they want from Biden.
“Bipartisanship is needed,” Schumer said Wednesday. “It’s the only way to go.”
As backup on Wednesday, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries launched a process that would force a vote on raising the debt limit.
It’s a cumbersome legislative discharge procedure, but Jeffries urged House Democrats to sign on to the measure in hopes of gathering the 218 majority backers including Republicans needed to put it in motion.
“Emerging from the White House meeting, I am hopeful that a real pathway exists to find an acceptable, bipartisan resolution that prevents a default,” Jeffries said in a letter to colleagues.
“However, given the impending June 1 deadline and urgency of the moment, it is important that all legislative options be pursued in the event that no agreement is reached.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/political/ap-biden-declares-america-will-not-default-says-hes-confident-of-budget-deal-with-gop-lawmakers/ | 2023-05-17 20:46:18 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/political/ap-biden-declares-america-will-not-default-says-hes-confident-of-budget-deal-with-gop-lawmakers/ |
Companies that piled on debt throughout the pandemic and the economic recovery could be in for a tough road ahead as the bills come due.
Corporate borrowers will have to pay more of that debt back as refinancing grows more difficult with rising interest rates. The persistent squeeze from inflation is keeping costs high for many companies while stifling consumer demand and sapping purchasing power.
Corporate debt rose from roughly $16.3 trillion just before the pandemic hit to about $19.8 trillion near the end of 2022, according to the Federal Reserve. Economists and analysts expect some kind of recession to hit the U.S. economy in 2023 and the severity of it could weigh heavily on both large and small companies as they repay debt.
“Near-term profit pressures on U.S. corporate borrowers look set to intensify,” noted a report from S&P Global Ratings on the outlook for corporate credit.
The report shows that corporate debt coming due steadily rises through 2026, with speculative-grade debt surpassing investment-grade debt in 2027. Speculative-grade debt carries a higher risk of default than investment-grade.
“Faced with an overhang of pandemic-era debt that begins to mature in 2025, companies will be looking for refinancing opportunities,” S&P Global Ratings said.
Refinancing risks are increasing partly because of the potential for a recession. Credit rating trends are already turning negative, with more downgrades than upgrades on debt since August. It all adds up to default risks rising as companies get pinched by a weakening economy and have a difficult time refinancing existing debt.
The Federal Reserve has sharply raised its benchmark interest rate in an effort to tame inflation, but that has made borrowing more expensive. The rate is currently in a range of 4.50% to 4.75% after starting last year at basically zero. The widespread expectation is now for the Fed to increase the rate to at least 5.25% by June and some bets on Wall Street are calling for a rate of up to 5.50%.
The tougher financing atmosphere is running up against an economic slowdown. Google's parent company Alphabet, Dell and other big technology companies have been cutting staff in an effort to control costs as demand wanes. Retailers, including Walmart and Home Depot, have been issuing warnings about weaker consumer spending.
“Many companies will find it more difficult to balance still-elevated input costs and waning demand amid the prospects of a downturn in the world’s largest economy,” S&P Global Ratings said.
The broader labor market has remained relatively strong, but a downturn in employment could further weaken consumer spending and hit corporate earnings. Companies in the S&P 500 reported a broad 4.6% contraction in earnings during the fourth quarter of 2022 and analysts expect similar results during the first half of 2023. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/article/corporate-borrowers-squeezed-by-rising-rates-17830143.php | 2023-03-09 21:43:32 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/article/corporate-borrowers-squeezed-by-rising-rates-17830143.php |
Bubba Wallace and 23XI Racing announced a contract extension Friday.
The Cup team, which launched in 2020, is owned by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan expanded this season to add a second car, with veteran Kurt Busch as Wallace’s teammate.
“It feels great to get this renewal done and to know I have a home at 23XI Racing,” Wallace said, per The Associated Press. “Thanks to M.J. and Denny for continuing to believe in me. We’ve come a long way together in less than two years and we’ve checked off some major goals along the way. We know we still have work to do, both on and off the race track, but I feel good about our team and the direction we’re heading.”
Wallace is coming off the first pole of his career at Michigan International Speedway. But he came up one spot short of the playoff-clinching victory he needs to earn one of the 16 spots in NASCAR’s championship field.
Wallace has four consecutive finishes of eighth or better as he heads into Sunday’s race at Richmond Raceway ranked No. 19 in the Cup standings.
Wallace gave the organization its first Cup victory last fall with a win at Talladega Superspeedway in the No. 23 Toyota.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles auctioneer has agreed to plead guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
The paintings ultimately wound up at the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida before they were seized by federal agents last year in a scandal that roiled the museum and led to its CEO’s departure after he threatened an art expert and told her to “shut up.”
Basquiat, a Neo-expressionist painter whose success came during the 1980s, lived and worked in New York before he died in 1988 at age 27 from a drug overdose. The Orlando Museum of Art scandal came in 2022 when a federal raid ended in the seizure of 25 paintings whose authenticity had been in question for a decade. The museum had been the first to display the artwork, and its former director had previously insisted the artwork was legitimate.
Defendant Michael Barzman, 45, was charged Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles with making false statements to the FBI during an interview last year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release. He has agreed to plead guilty and faces up to five years in prison.
Barzman’s court date has not been scheduled. Barzman admitted that he and another man, identified only as “J.F.” in court papers, had created the bogus paintings and agreed to split the sales’ proceeds.
“Mr. Barzman was drowning in medical debt after battling cancer for decades,” his attorney Joel Koury said in a statement Tuesday. “In desperation, he participated in this scheme because he was afraid of losing his health insurance. Since then, he has cooperated and done everything asked of him to compensate for his poor judgement.”
Mark Elliott, the chairman of the Orlando museum’s board of trustees, said in a statement that the museum “has recommitted itself to its mission to provide excellence in the visual arts with its exhibitions, collections, and educational programming” in the wake of the scandal.
Barzman admitted to the FBI — after repeated denials in interviews with federal agents, leading to Tuesday’s felony charge — that he made a false provenance for the paintings by claiming in a notarized document that they had been found in television writer Thad Mumford’s storage locker.
Barzman previously ran an auction business where he bought and resold the contents of unpaid storage units. He bought Mumford’s locker in 2012.
Mumford, who died in 2018, told investigators he had never owned any Basquiat art, and the paintings were not in the unit the last time he had opened it.
Experts pointed out that the cardboard used in at least one of the pieces included FedEx typeface that wasn’t used until 1994, about six years after Basquiat died, according to a federal search warrant. The artwork had been marketed as painted in 1982.
Barzman and “J.F.” would make the paintings on cardboard with various materials and then “age” them outdoors so the artwork would look like it was painted in the 1980s, according to Barzman’s plea agreement.
But on the back of one of the paintings seized from the Orlando museum, a crucial clue remained: A mailing label bearing Barzman’s name, painted over. | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/man-agrees-to-plead-guilty-in-basquiat-artwork-fraud-scheme/ | 2023-04-12 19:50:05 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/man-agrees-to-plead-guilty-in-basquiat-artwork-fraud-scheme/ |
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jason Matheny, an economist, technologist, national security expert and longtime civil servant, has been named president and chief executive officer of the nonprofit and nonpartisan RAND Corporation, according to Michael Leiter, chair of the RAND Board of Trustees.
Effective July 5, Matheny will become the sixth president and CEO of RAND, a research institution based in Santa Monica, Calif. He succeeds Michael D. Rich, who has led RAND since 2011.
Matheny recently led White House policy on technology and national security at the National Security Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Previously, he was founding director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University and director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), where he was responsible for developing advanced technologies for the U.S. intelligence community. Before IARPA, he worked for Oxford University, the World Bank, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Center for Biosecurity, and Princeton University.
"Jason has long respected RAND's rigor and integrity and has been a voracious consumer of RAND analysis for decades, including while serving in senior U.S. government leadership positions," Leiter said. "As a scientist and longtime civil servant, Jason has a deep appreciation for RAND's accomplishments and distinctive place in the world. He is a compelling speaker and a serious listener, and he is known as a generous and inclusive leader. From our first discussions with him, we were struck by his belief in RAND's ability to help solve the world's most important public policy challenges and by his vision for supporting future generations of policy researchers and leaders."
The search committee reviewed nearly 200 potential leaders from a variety of professional and personal backgrounds. "We engaged with RAND staff, leadership, clients, grantmakers, donors and other stakeholders to help better understand what type of leadership RAND requires at this moment and in the coming years," Leiter said. "To narrow the field, we carefully evaluated candidates' past performance and vision for RAND's future. At the end of this process, Jason's vision, intellectual leadership, research experience, and innovative mindset truly set him apart."
"It's an honor to join RAND, an organization whose people and work I've so long admired," Matheny said. "Since its founding nearly 75 years ago, RAND has been committed to rigorous, unbiased analysis addressing the world's biggest challenges. A new century has brought on new challenges and new opportunities, and we need RAND's help now more than ever."
Matheny has served on many nonpartisan boards and committees, including the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, to which he was appointed by Congress in 2018. He is a recipient of the Intelligence Community's Award for Individual Achievement in Science and Technology, the National Intelligence Superior Service Medal and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He was also named one of Foreign Policy's "Top 50 Global Thinkers."
Matheny holds a Ph.D. in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University, an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University, an M.B.A. from Duke University and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.
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H. Lee Sarokin, judge who freed ‘Hurricane’ Carter, dies at 94
SAN DIEGO (AP) — H. Lee Sarokin, a federal judge who freed Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and in a landmark case famously said tobacco companies engaged in a “vast” conspiracy to conceal the dangers of smoking, has died in California, news outlets reported Friday. He was 94.
Sarokin died Tuesday in La Jolla, a seaside community in San Diego where he and his wife lived in retirement, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Sarokin had pulmonary fibrosis and other ailments, his wife, Margie Sarokin, told the paper.
Haddon Lee Sarokin was a New Jersey-born graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. He was nominated to a federal judgeship by former President Jimmy Carter and served on the district court in New Jersey from 1979 to 1994 and the appeals court from 1994 to 1996.
In 1985, Sarokin threw out the convictions of boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and John Artis, two Black men who were wrongfully convicted of killing three white men. Sarokin ruled that their prosecution was based “upon an appeal to racism rather than reason, concealment rather than disclosure.”
The ruling stood after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal.
Carter’s innocence had been championed by celebrities and was the basis of a 1975 song by Bob Dylan.
Sarokin told the Union-Tribune in 2014 that Carter called him every year on Nov. 7, the anniversary of the ruling.
In 1988, Sarokin also presided over a landmark liability case against tobacco companies. Sarokin’s pre-trial rulings opened the way for corporate records to be submitted as evidence. When lawyers for the company asked Sarokin to dismiss the case in their favor, he refused, saying famously that evidence showed the tobacco industry engaged in a conspiracy “vast in its scope, devious in its purpose and devastating in its results.”
The case resulted in a jury awarding $400,000 to the estate of Rose Cipollone, who had died after decades of smoking.
An appeals court overturned the verdict and removed Sarokin from a second similar case, saying some of Sarokin’s comments suggested bias against the tobacco makers, which he denied. However, documents in the case helped pave the way for a wave of similar lawsuits brought by state attorneys general in 1998.
Sarokin issued some 2,500 rulings over his career, among them deciding that a homeless man couldn’t be barred from a public library because of his smell.
“He was never afraid to say what he thought,” his wife said.
In retirement, Sarokin was a regular contributor to HuffPost and wrote a dozen plays with themes of social justice and civil rights that were staged by the regional North Coast Repertory Theater.
In addition to his wife, Sarokin is survived by five children and 11 grandchildren.
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PESCADERO, Calif. (AP) — A quick-thinking custodian safely confined a mountain lion in an empty classroom after it entered a Northern California high school Wednesday morning, authorities said.
The custodian was opening Pescadero High for the school day when the juvenile cougar was spotted, said Detective Javier Acosta with the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. No students or teachers were on campus at the time, Acosta said.
“The mountain lion casually walked through campus and decided to go into an English classroom,” he said. “The custodian acted quickly and managed to shut the door behind it.”
Acosta said the animal, estimated to be about 40 pounds (18 kilos), appeared “lost and scared.”
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was called to humanely remove the big cat and return it to its natural habitat, officials said.
Pescadero is a small coastal community about 35 miles (56 kilometers) south of San Francisco.
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Soccer newsletter: U.S. men’s team players show support for Gregg Berhalter
Hello and welcome to the weekly L.A. Times soccer newsletter. I’m Kevin Baxter, The Times’ soccer writer. Today we’ll discuss the upcoming U.S. national team camp, Banc of California’s popularity among MLS visitors, how Erling Haaland’s record scoring pace might prove to be the thing that prevents Manchester City from winning the Premier League and why we wait for iconic figures to die before we decide to truly honor their legacies.
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But we start with the support former U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter is getting from national team players as he awaits a decision from the federation on his future.
Berhalter coached the team for the last four years and compiled the best winning percentage for a permanent manager in U.S. Soccer history. But his contract ran out on New Year’s Eve, shortly after the federation began an investigation into a 1991 incident in which the coach admitted he kicked the woman who later became his wife in the legs during an argument when they were 18-year-old college freshmen.
The physical altercation, which was not reported to authorities, didn’t become public until Claudio and Danielle Reyna, longtime friends of the Berhalters, told the federation about it. What followed is a Shakespearean tale of friendship and betrayal fueled by the Reynas’ displeasure over how Berhalter used their son Gio during last year’s World Cup in Qatar.
Earlier this month Berhalter released a statement describing the incident as “a shameful moment and one I regret to this day” and during last week’s MLS media day in San Jose, national team players Walker Zimmerman and DeAndre Yedlin, both defenders, came to the defense of their former coach.
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“Gregg has done a great job for the national team. The record speaks for itself,” Zimmerman said of Berhalter, who was 37-11-12 with the U.S. “He did a really good job of creating a team culture and a chemistry that was impressive. He has handled a lot of things very, very well.”
Yedlin agreed.
“Gregg’s a great head coach,” he said. “He did a great job of banding us together and really making sure we’re all fighting for the same goal. I’ve really enjoyed working with him.”
Whether he’ll get to continue working with him is uncertain. U.S. Soccer hired the Atlanta-based law firm of Alston & Bird LLP to conduct an independent investigation into the 1991 incident as well as “potential inappropriate behavior towards multiple members of our staff by individuals outside of our organization,” the federation said in a statement.
Berhalter would like to return as coach and said he looked forward to “continuing my conversations with U.S. Soccer about the future.” At the same time, the federation has reached out to other candidates, with the French newspaper L’Equipe reporting last week that former Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane was approached about the job and turned it down.
In the meantime, Berhalter assistant Anthony Hudson will serve as caretaker manager for the team’s first training camp of 2023, which opens Saturday.
LAFC midfielder Kellyn Acosta declined to address Berhalter’s current situation directly, but said the coach was “a guy I respect a lot.”
“He’s the guy that gave me the opportunity to make my debut in a World Cup, and I think he did a great job in the World Cup,” Acosta said.
None of the American players addressed Gio Reyna’s role in the controversy. After arriving in Qatar, Reyna reportedly was told he would have a limited role in the World Cup, and in response, he put so little effort into training that the coaching staff considered sending him home. Reyna apologized to the team for his behavior but that didn’t stop his parents, both former national team players, from stabbing Berhalter in the back.
St. Louis City goalkeeper Roman Burki, who played with Reyna for Germany’s Borussia Dortmund, did talk about his former teammate last week and suggested a strong work ethic wasn’t something Reyna always had.
“What happened in the national team, I really don’t know. So I cannot talk about this,” he said. “But I’ve known Gio for a long period of time. When I was there, he was a really young kid. Gio was always special. [But] he had to learn how to work hard.”
LAFC’s Acosta, Long to get USMNT call-up
Speaking of the national team, the roster for the first training camp of the new World Cup cycle will be announced Wednesday and there will be a few surprises.
Those expected to be among the 23 players called in are Acosta and new LAFC addition Aaron Long, both of whom were on the team in Qatar. The January camp, which falls outside a FIFA competition window, traditionally has been limited to MLS players but this week’s call-ups will include some young players from outside the U.S.
The inclusion of Long and Acosta suggested there will be continuity between Hudson’s and Berhalter’s teams, but it’s also a nod to Acosta’s skills as a leader. His 55 caps rank fourth among active national team players and he’ll be counted on to provide a veteran presence for newcomers such as Julian Gressel, a veteran German-born MLS defender who recently became an American citizen and will train with the national team for the first time. The Washington Post last week reported Gressel will be among those who will be at Dignity Health Sports Park when the week-long camp opens Saturday.
The U.S. will play a pair of friendlies next week, facing Serbia at Banc of California Stadium on Jan. 25 and Colombia at Dignity Health Sports Park on Jan. 28.
Banking on the Banc
During Media Day interviews with MLS veterans, Yahoo Sports’ Andy Deossa asked players to name their favorite road stadium. The runaway winner of the informal survey was LAFC’s Banc of California Stadium.
Sporting Kansas City’s Alan Pulido said he appreciated the fans, the noise and the atmosphere while Seattle’s Raúl Ruidíaz said he simply likes the color black, the dominant hue at the Banc. The Galaxy’s Javier “Chicharito” Hernández likes the stadium because he enjoys the intensity of the El Tráfico rivalry games with LAFC.
That intensity, of course, also is present when the rivalry moves 12 miles down the freeway to Carson, which is why LAFC captain Carlos Vela said his favorite road stadium is Dignity Health Sports Park.
“For me,” he said in Spanish, “the best [road] game is there.”
Is Manchester City better with Haaland?
Despite going goalless in his last two Premier League appearances, the first time he’s been kept off the scoresheet in consecutive Premier League games this season, Erling Haaland’s 21 goals in 17 games leave him on pace to destroy the Premier League’s scoring record of 34 goals in a season set by the Blackburn Rovers’ Alan Shearer in 1994-95 when a season consisted of 42 games. At the same time his team, Manchester City, is on pace for its second-worst season in six years and its first without a league title since 2020.
Those two facts might be related.
In City’s best season under manager Pep Guardiola — in 2017-18, when it set EPL records with 100 points and 106 goals — it had four players score in double digits led by Sergio Aguero’s 21. Yet Aguero’s total accounted for just one-fifth of the team’s total and, two years later, when City scored 102 times, five players had 11 or more goals.
This season only Phil Foden, who has seven goals, is on pace to finish with more than 10. Haaland, meanwhile, has scored nearly half of City’s league-best 46 goals and has more goals than seven teams in the EPL.
His numbers are off the charts: Through his first 17 league matches, he had taken 67 shots, including 34 on goal. That works out to an average of two shots on target and 1.24 goals per game. Six of those scores have been game-winners. If he and the team continue scoring at that rate, Haaland will finish with about 45 goals and City with 97 — yet the team will end the season eight points behind Arsenal in the table, as close to sixth place as it is first.
Opponents clearly know Haaland is the most dangerous threat on the team and despite the stats, they’ve now found a way to slow him. But Guardiola hasn’t found a way to make them pay for that; with Saturday’s loss to Manchester United, City has lost consecutive games in all competitions for the first time this season, and with Haaland scoreless in 2023, City hasn’t had multiple goals in a match in nearly three weeks.
Perhaps that’s because Haaland doesn’t fit neatly into Guardiola’s preferred style of play. Under the former Barcelona midfielder, City plays a possession-based, short-passing game, which is why it leads the league by wide margins in passing and possession and has controlled the ball more than two-thirds of the time this season. Haaland, meanwhile, is averaging just 14 passes a game; four teammates are averaging more than a pass per minute.
None of this is to suggest Haaland is a drag on the team. Add his three assists to his 21 goals and he’s had a hand in 24 of City’s 46 goals. How could a player that productive be anything but a plus?
But City is playing too direct when it targets Haaland, a specialist who does one thing very well — score goals. His addition this season has turned what traditionally has been a well-balanced, versatile team that plays wide into a one-dimensional, vertical one. And when opponents are successful at neutralizing Haaland, City has had trouble finding a scoring alternative.
Consider that in the first Manchester Derby this season, Haaland had a hat trick in a 6-3 win. Saturday he wasn’t a factor in a 2-1 loss, taking just 19 touches and two shots, neither of which was on target.
“It’s about the whole team. We defended so, so well,” United’s Luke Shaw said of the approach to stopping Haaland.
That’s a playbook City opponents will exploit.
Why do we wait for our heroes to die to honor them?
In the final days of 2022 the world lost Pelé, the most transformative player in soccer history, and U.S. Soccer lost Kevin Payne, who was instrumental in the growth of the national team program and MLS.
Pelé, the only player to win three World Cups, used his speed, skill and improvisation to change the way the game was played and paved the way for the likes of Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. For the first 12 years of Pele’s international career, soccer was a slow and punishingly physical game played with a leather ball and without yellow or red cards. But he was a butterfly not a brute; a dancer not a boxer. As a result Pelé, more than anyone else, made the beautiful game truly beautiful.
Payne, meanwhile, was one of the first U.S. executives on the business side of the sport to combine a strong passion for soccer with knowledge of a spreadsheet. Payne was president, general manager and later CEO of D.C. United when it won MLS Cups in 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2004. Most recently, he was CEO and executive director of U.S. Club Soccer, and his fingerprints are everywhere in the American game, which is why he was enshrined in the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2021.
After both men’s deaths, the idea of naming awards or stadiums in their honor was floated.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who attended Pelé's funeral in Brazil, asked each of FIFA’s member associations to hold a minute of silence at games in Pele’s memory. He also suggested every association name at least one stadium in their country after Pelé.
“I think the young people around the world, the future generations, have to know and remember who Pelé was, and the happiness he gave the world,” Infantino said. “In 20, 30, 50, or 100 years’ time, when goals are scored in the Pelé stadium in any country in the world, and people ask who he was, [they will hear] he was a great, great player who brought excitement to us all.”
Meanwhile, MLS has a long tradition of naming postseason awards after former players, coaches and executives, and Payne is more than worthy of having one christened with his name. The league’s MVP award, for example, is named after Landon Donovan, the coach of the year award is in honor of Sigi Schmid and the league’s top executive receives the Doug Hamilton award. Donovan still is alive while Schmid and Hamilton, a former Galaxy president and general manager, are, such as Pelé and Payne, dead.
Which brings us to my point (and yes, I do have one).
Why do we wait until people such as Pelé, Payne, Schmid and Hamilton die before finding ways to honor them? Pelé hasn’t played a game in decades and Payne retired from U.S. Club Soccer in 2021. Their careers had ended and their contributions were fixed. If they deserve recognition now, in death, didn’t they also deserve it while they were alive and could appreciate knowing their contributions would be memorialized?
This isn’t only a problem in soccer. Major League Baseball’s Rookie of the Year award was changed to the Jackie Robinson Award 15 years after Robinson’s death and the Cy Young Award, given to the best pitcher in each league, was first presented in 1956, the year after Young died. The NFL’s top community service award was renamed for Walter Payton a year after the Chicago Bears great died.
The NBA, to its credit, has named several of its top awards after people who are still alive.
The danger of doing that, of course, is people who are alive have the ability to do something stupid that tarnishes their reputation and bring embarrassment to the league that named an award after them. Imagine if the NFL had named an award for its top rusher after O.J. Simpson, the first ballcarrier to run for more than 2,000 yards in a season?
In the case of Pelé and Payne, there was little chance of that happening. Both were solid citizens and worthy ambassadors of the game. So lost in the waiting to name something in their honor was the chance to have Pelé cut the ribbon on a Pelé Stadium somewhere or to present the first Pelé Player of the Year Award; lost in the waiting was the chance to see Payne announce the winner of the MLS/Kevin Payne President of the Year trophy.
Here’s hoping we don’t lose many more opportunities like that.
And finally there’s this …
Tyler Adams, at 23 the youngest national team captain at last year’s World Cup in Qatar, was named U.S. Soccer’s male athlete of the year.
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LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Kylian Mbappé scored a hat trick seemingly from out of nowhere to electrify the World Cup final, he ended the tournament as the leading scorer with eight goals, and he still missed out on winning a second straight title.
The France superstar was on the losing side of an epic final against Argentina that was settled in a penalty shootout after a 3-3 draw on Sunday. He was then consoled on the field by French President Emmanuel Macron.
“Kylian has really left his mark on this final,” France coach Didier Deschamps said.
Mbappé had been the leader France desperately needed as time was running out with the defending champions trailing 2-0 and playing poorly. The forward had also been almost invisible up to that point.
But his goals carried France back into the match — twice. First, late in regulation time. Then again deep in extra time.
Mbappé converted a penalty in the 80th minute and then scored with a volley from just inside the area in the 81st.
It took only 97 seconds for him to get France even with Argentina and the great Lionel Messi.
Mbappé scored a second penalty in extra time, about 10 minutes after Messi had given Argentina the lead again in what became a compelling duel between the two players.
Mbappé’s hat trick was only the second in a World Cup final — the other was by England striker Geoff Hurst in 1966.
The Frenchman leaves Qatar with the Golden Boot trophy as the tournament’s top scorer with eight goals. At the age of 23, he’s matched Pelé’s career total of 12 World Cup goals.
But Mbappé couldn’t quite match the Brazil great’s back-to-back World Cup titles — both players were teenagers when they won their first one, Pelé in 1958 and Mbappé in 2018.
One minute before Mbappé turned the game on its head, Argentina’s fans began to taunt him.
Chants of “Olé, Olé” rained down from the stands at Lusail Stadium as Mbappé futilely chased the ball while his opponents passed it over and around him.
Mbappé gestured in frustration with his right arm at the apparent hopelessness of the situation.
But after scoring his first two goals, Mbappé surged into the Argentina half looking for a game-winning third. His darting, twisting run resulted in a shot deflected just too high.
Once he eventually got the hat trick to make it 3-3 in extra time, Mbappé set out for a fourth. His curling cross barely eluded the head of substitute Randal Kolo Muani, and a final dribble deep into the Argentina penalty area was scrambled clear as he looked to shoot.
He shouted out loud as his last attempt to win the game single-handedly slipped away.
Mbappé tried to set the tone in the penalty shootout, taking responsibility for the first kick. He converted the penalty but France still ended up losing 4-2. Messi did the same for Argentina to start the shootout, but his teammates all scored their penalties.
During the shootout, Mbappé made sure he was the first to console Kingsley Coman and Aurélien Tchouaméni on their slow walks back to the center circle after their failures to score.
Mbappé stood bent over in the center circle, hands on his knees, as Argentina defender Gonzalo Montiel prepared to take the decisive kick. He then squatted, saw the net ripple and walked away alone amid the Argentina celebrations.
Deschamps eventually came over behind his player to put arms around his neck. Mbappé soon went to the team dugout and sat slumped in a chair with his dark blue shirt pulled up over his face to hide his emotions.
Long after the game was over, Mbappé left the stadium with his head bowed and the World Cup trophy securely in the hands of Messi.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Scottie Scheffler did something last weekend that he rarely does, watching a golf tournament at home after missing the cut. The world’s No. 1 player is back on the course, and tied atop a crowded leaderboard at Colonial.
Scheffler was among eight players who shot 4-under 66 on Thursday in the Charles Schwab Classic. But he was the only in that group without a bogey, rebounding from his missed cut at the PGA Championship.
Cam Davis, Beau Hossler, Chris Kirk, Patrick Reed, Webb Simpson, Nick Taylor and Harold Varner III also shot 66s. Seven others were a shot back.
“The course is playing harder than it does in a typical year here. Yeah, I felt like I did a really good job of managing myself around the golf course,” Scheffler said. “Anytime you make no bogeys, it’s going to be a good round.”
Colonial, the longest-running PGA Tour event at the same venue since 1946, had never had more than five players share the first-round lead. The eight are the most on the PGA Tour since nine shared the 18-hole lead in the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club in 2011.
Scheffler, Reed, Simpson and Varner were part of the morning wave that started with virtually no wind and cooler conditions. The wind picked up later in their rounds, gusting to 22 mph throughout the afternoon.
Defending Colonial champion Jason Kokrak and Jordan Spieth, the 2016 winner who last year became a third-time runner-up, shot 69.
Many players wore ribbons pinned to their caps to show support for the community of Uvalde, Texas — about 350 miles south of the course — after 19 students and two teachers were killed in a shooting at an elementary school Tuesday.
Reed birdied all four par 3s at Colonial, including a 64-foot blast from the greenside bunker into the cup at the 237-yard fourth hole. His only bogey came on his last hole, after missing the fairway on the 400-yard dogleg right ninth hole.
In his previous 11 starts the past four months, Reed missed four cuts and finished no better than 26th. He has slipped to 38th in the World Golf Ranking — he was ninth when at Colonial last year.
“It feels good to get a number out of it,” Reed said about his 66. “Honestly, I feel like there’s been too many days that I’ve done a lot of things really well, just the number hasn’t really reflected it.”
Varner had four bogeys, countering those with six birdies and an eagle at the 634-yard 11th hole — a 330-yard drive and 305-yard approach to the green for a 5-foot putt. That was sandwiched by two birdies — a chip-in from 55-feet at No. 10, and a 10-foot putt at No. 12 — before bogeys on two of the next three holes.
Bolstered by his eagle from 95 yards out on the par-4 12th, Taylor was at 5 under and in the lead alone until he finished with bogey at No. 18. The world’s 244th-ranked player’s last drive of the day was way right.
Simpson followed his only bogeys, on both front-side par 3s, immediately with birdies. That included a closing 6 1/2-foot birdie putt at No. 9 after his tee shot at No. 8 put him in a deep greenside bunker with only his head and shoulders visible when blasting out of it.
“Other than those two holes, it was really solid,” Simpson said. “This is the type of Colonial that I love where the rough is up and the wind is blowing.”
Hossler took his share of the lead with two eagle 2s his last four holes. He finished with one from 135 yards at the ninth, after holing a shot from 65 yards at the par-4 sixth. Both eagles immediately followed bogeys.
Scheffler played Thursday with PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas, the world’s No. 5 player who had a 71.
Thomas won the PGA in a three-hole aggregate playoff over Will Zalatoris, who had an opening 72 at Colonial. Zalatoris lives in the Dallas area like Scheffler and Spieth.
Mito Pereira shot even-par 70 at Colonial, four days after he lost the PGA lead and missed the playoff with Thomas and Zalatoris because of a double bogey on the 72nd hole at Southern Hills.
Scheffler didn’t officially commit to playing Colonial until after getting cut in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the four-time winner’s first cut since his season debut in October. He watched the rest of the PGA Championship roughly 300 miles away from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
“I typically don’t ever watch golf, but it was nice. I relaxed all day Saturday, and Sunday went out and practiced, just put the tournament up on my phone and kind of watched,” Scheffler said. “Will was really close and J.T. is a good buddy of mine, as well, and my old caddie was caddying for Mito. … I had a lot of different guys I wanted to watch, and it was fun.”
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This is Nextracker's third new factory, adding to the company's new Texas and Arizona factories announced in April and May, towards building 10 GW of annual domestic solar tracker capacity
PITTSBURGH, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nextracker LLC, the global market leader in utility-scale solar trackers, and BCI Steel, a Pittsburgh-based steel fabricator, today announced the reopening of the historic Bethlehem Steel manufacturing factory in nearby Leetsdale to produce solar tracker equipment for large-scale solar power plants.
The steel processing plant will incorporate both BCI Steel's new and reshored equipment shipped to the U.S. from factories in Malaysia and Brazil. Solar tracker products produced at the factory will serve rapidly growing solar markets in Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York, and Ohio.
"BCI is proud to advance Pittsburgh's legacy as the heart of America's steel industry," said Matt Carroll, CEO of BCI Steel. "This partnership with Nextracker showcases our steel fabrication and quality control technology and unlocks additional domestic solar capacity with our low-cost manufacturing."
"U.S. Steel is pleased to supply steel that is mined, melted and made in America for Nextracker's advanced solar tracker systems. We applaud Nextracker's expansion of manufacturing in Pittsburgh and other locations in the U.S." said Ken Jaycox, SVP and CCO at United States Steel Corporation. "Providing industry leading products for our customers utilizing advanced technology and fully optimized facilities is key to U. S. Steel's Best for All® strategy."
This is the third solar tracker fabrication line Nextracker has commissioned with a steel manufacturing partner in 2022 as part of its commitment to rebuilding America's steel and solar supply chains. With additional capacity in Pittsburgh, Nextracker is building out 10 GW of "Made in America" manufacturing capacity — enough to power 7.5 million homes. Earlier this year, Nextracker opened a green steel tracker production line in Texas with JM Steel, and another dedicated steel production line in Arizona with Atkore. Under this reshoring initiative, Nextracker has already procured over 100,000 tons of U.S.-made steel so far this year, enough for approximately 5 GW of solar trackers.
"BCI Steel's Pittsburgh factory enables the quick-ship response times we need to meet booming demand from our customers in the Mid-Atlantic and Heartland regions," said Dan Shugar, CEO and Founder of Nextracker. "This investment will increase the resilience of the U.S. solar supply chain and bring manufacturing jobs, equipment, and capacity back to America."
The newly reopened Pittsburgh factory is ideally situated with proximity to river and rail transport in a location steeped in manufacturing history. The factory lies on the same grounds where steel fabricators built materials for tank landing ships (LSTs) during WWII.
The dedication ceremony was attended by top dignitaries and leaders from some of the world's largest clean energy companies, including the CEO of EDPR Sandhya Ganapathy and the Chief Operating Officer of Lightsource bp Ann Davies. To learn more about Nextracker's steel partners and U.S. manufacturing program, read the story, here.
Nextracker is the leading provider of intelligent, integrated solar tracker and software solutions used in utility-scale and ground-mounted distributed generation solar projects around the world. Our products enable solar panels in utility-scale power plants to follow the sun's movement across the sky and optimize plant performance. With over 50 GW shipped worldwide, Nextracker leads the solar industry with solar tracker technologies that optimize and increase energy production while reducing costs for significant plant ROI. For more information, please visit www.Nextracker.com.
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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Bob Iger, the enterprising entertainment executive who brought Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel under the Disney marquee and challenged the streaming dominance of Netflix, will replace his handpicked successor, CEO Bob Chapek, whose two-year tenure has been marked by clashes, missteps and a weakening financial performance.
The stunning development comes two weeks after Disney's quarterly financial performance fell well short of Wall Street expectations on both profit and revenue, a rarity, sending shares tumbling 12%. Shares of The Walt Disney Co. are down 40% this year.
The company's stock jumped 8% at the opening bell Monday, with the appointment of Iger effective immediately.
“It is with an incredible sense of gratitude and humility—and, I must admit, a bit of amazement—that I write to you this evening with the news that I am returning to The Walt Disney Company as Chief Executive Officer,” Iger, 71, wrote in an email to employees.
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The tumult atop Disney came quickly with reports that Iger was first approached by board members about a possible return Friday.
Iger separated completely with Disney near the end of last year after remaining onboard for two years as executive chairman, helping to guide Chapek and to guarantee a smooth transition.
That transition was anything but smooth and on Sunday, Iger agreed to a two year contract to redirect Disney's trajectory and to find a help new leader.
Iger was Disney's public face for 15 years as chief executive before handing the job off to Chapek in 2020, a stretch in which he compiled a string of victories lauded in the entertainment industry and by Disney fans.
Chapek oversaw Disney during one of the most challenging periods in company history that began with a pandemic and ended, at least under Chapek's rule, with spiraling inflation.
But his time as chief executive was also marked by what many saw as unforced errors for a company that, under Iger, appeared could do no wrong.
The company became embroiled in a public fight with Gov. Ron DeSantis, after Disney's home state of Florida enacted a measure that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools up to third grade, a rule critics dubbed the “don’t say gay” law.
Chapek remained silent publicly at first, and that ignited an employee revolt. When Chapek then denounced the measure, it kicked off a political backlash with conservative lawmakers and media outlets pushing boycotts and labeling Disney as too “woke."
Months later Chapek fired Peter Rice, the chairman of Disney General Entertainment Television, among the most highly regarded television executives in the industry. The firing stunned Hollywood and fueled new criticism from investors over Chapek's leadership.
It was highly unusual for conflicts at Disney to spill into the public sphere but rightly or wrongly, it seemed to be a trait under Chapek.
A fight with one of Hollywood's top stars went public last year after Scarlett Johansson sued Disney over her pay for “Black Widow.” Johansson’s potential earnings were tied to the box office performance of the 2021 Marvel film, which the company released simultaneously in theaters and on its streaming service Disney+ for a $30 rental.
Over the last several weeks, more doubts were raised over Chapek's plans to cut costs, including reports of plans for major layoffs, while Disney devotees chafed under price hikes at Disney parks.
“The Board has concluded that as Disney embarks on an increasingly complex period of industry transformation, Bob Iger is uniquely situated to lead the company through this pivotal period," Susan Arnold, Disney's chairman, said in a prepared statement.
Arnold thanked Chapek for leading the company through the pandemic.
Wall Street applauded Iger's return.
“We believe there is little doubt that investors will applaud this move,” wrote Citi analyst Jason Bazinet. “The Street likes Mr. Iger almost as much as we do. We view his return as an unalloyed positive.”
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Officials Tuesday morning unveiled a sweeping vision to improve Franklin Park, Boston’s largest green space that sits in the geographic center of the city, including restoring and coming up with new uses for the park’s bear dens, which have sat defunct for decades, and building a new stage and seating for the Elma Lewis Playhouse.
Other aspects of the $28 million plan includes upgrading trails, picnic and play areas, and athletic fields and creating a “front porch” area with terraced seating for the park’s Blue Hill Avenue entrance at Peabody Circle. But the document, heralded as the lodestar for the most significant capital investment for the space in decades, appears to punt on one of the trickiest questions facing the future of the park: what to do with Circuit Drive? The plan says that any changes to the roadway will need more study.
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The recommendations also call for the removal of invasive plants, cutting down on vegetation to better reveal the park’s sweeping vistas, and planting new native species and trees.
The park, a beloved 500-plus-acre expanse that includes a zoo, White Stadium, and a golf course, touches multiple neighborhoods, including Roxbury, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, and Mattapan.
Designed by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 19th century, it is the crown jewel of his Emerald Necklace, a 7-mile system of parks that dots a diverse array of neighborhoods and whose significance Olmsted himself likened to his most famous achievement, Central Park in New York City.
With the release of the action plan for the park, Boston is now asking the public to share their priorities among the plan’s slate of projects “related to restoration of historic structures, improved circulation throughout the park for all transportation modes, dedicated spaces for cultural and recreational opportunities, and ecological considerations.”
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The 60-day public comment period for the action plan ends on Feb. 10.
“Franklin Park is a treasured green space for our Boston residents and has played a crucial part in bringing our communities and neighborhoods together across generations,” said Mayor Michelle Wu in a statement. With the now-public park plan, she continued, “residents and park users will have the opportunity to help the City shape the future of the park and to create a roadmap for preservation, maintenance, and public use of Olmsted’s historic landscape.”
The action plan is the product of a 3-year planning process during which local residents and other park lovers articulated a long list of needs and wishes for the park, according to Wu’s administration. That list included beefed up maintenance across the park, which made headlines in October when Jean McGuire, a 91-year-old educational trailblazer in the city, was stabbed while walking her dog there.
Now, the plan’s catalog of proposed improvements includes upgrades to lighting, drainage, and signage. It also envisions upgrades to the bear dens, which drew 10,000 spectators when a dozen bruins were introduced to the public there in 1912, among other sections of the park including the Overlook.
Under the plan, another area of the park, Ellicottdale, could also be on tap for a facelift, as the plan proposes re-grading the lawns there and anchoring the space with shade, seating, and a small pavilion with restrooms and water foundations, as well as expanding tennis courts there.
There is $28 million currently allotted for the plan — $5 million for park maintenance and $23 million for projects — but that figure is likely to increase in years to come, with future fund-raising efforts — both private and public — expected to boost support for some of the plan’s initiatives.
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The park’s action plan will be funded from the sale of the city-owned Winthrop Square garage. For some who use the park frequently, it marks an overdue investment. Indeed, the action plan itself acknowledges that “Franklin Park has been subject to under-investment for far too long and significant investment is needed now to protect and sustain this critical resource and beloved public space.”
Among the recommendations are a rehab for the Elma Lewis Playhouse, named after the founder and director of a performance school who, among other things, launched a concert series in the park in the 1960s.
“Our goal throughout the process has been to understand past planning efforts, learn what is (and isn’t) working in the park, and what park users would like to see in the future,” said the Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, Wu’s chief of environment, energy, and open space, in a statement. “With this new funding we’re able to abandon the piecemeal approach and make a real difference for the park and the people who love it.”
For sure, there are still some park questions left unanswered by the 450-plus page action plan, including the future of Circuit Drive.
Some people think the roadway, which encircles the interior of the park, should be shut down to vehicle traffic. Others protest such a move as disastrous, arguing that would only make traffic worse in nearby areas, many of which are neighborhoods of color.
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Right now, according to the Wu administration, the proposals for Circuit Drive may involve some temporary closures, for events such as Open Streets, weekend closures, or the nightly closures that are already happening.
The plan recommends rethinking the “design and functionality of Circuit Drive to prioritize the pedestrian and promote larger park connections,” but also states that “Any changes to Circuit Drive will need additional study (additional feasibility and traffic study, and pilot closures) to further understand outcomes within the park and on surrounding streets.”
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According to law firm, "Significant new evidence casts doubt on claims against ballplayer
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys for Yasiel Puig announced today that significant new evidence has prompted Puig to withdraw his agreement to plead guilty to a charge of lying to federal investigators and change his plea to not guilty.
In mid-November, Puig reached an agreement to plead guilty to one count of making false statements to federal investigators probing an illegal gambling ring in Southern California. Those statements occurred during a Zoom interview in January 2022 and related to betting that occurred in 2019.
Although Puig was eligible for probation under his plea agreement, he has decided to fight the allegations.
''I want to clear my name,'' Puig said. "I never should have agreed to plead guilty to a crime I did not commit.''
Puig's attorney, Keri Axel of Waymaker LLP, said significant new evidence has come to light that prompted the change in plea. She is in discussions with the government about that evidence.
"At the time of his January 2022 interview, Mr. Puig, who has a third-grade education, had untreated mental-health issues, and did not have his own interpreter or criminal legal counsel with him,'' she said. "We have reviewed the evidence, including significant new information, and have serious concerns about the allegations made against Yasiel.''
The charge against Puig stems from an investigation into a sports gambling operation run by Wayne Nix, a former minor-league baseball player. Puig, who has been playing baseball in South Korea, placed bets in 2019 through a third party and did not interact with Nix.
Nix, 46, pleaded guilty April 11 to one count of conspiracy to operate an illegal sports gambling business and one count of filing a false tax return. Four other men also pled guilty to federal charges in the Nix case.
Federal authorities said a number of professional athletes placed wagers with Nix. Puig is the only athlete targeted by authorities.
Axel said renowned civil rights attorney Lawrence Middleton has joined Puig's legal team as a consultant. Middleton was one of four attorneys who prosecuted the federal civil rights trial of LAPD officers in the Rodney King case. He also served as Chief of the Los Angeles United States Attorney's Office's Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section.
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Cision's 2022 State of the Media Report outlines need for effective and efficient relationships between media and public relations
A vast majority of journalists (91%) say only about half the pitches they receive are relevant
CHICAGO, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- While access to high-quality journalism and credible reporting have never been more prevalent, the media's role has never been more challenging as they face mounting pressure to increase output, produce compelling content that stands out in a 24-hour news cycle, and drive engagement.
Cision, a comprehensive communications platform helping public relations and marketing professionals around the world understand, influence and amplify their stories, released its annual State of the Media report with responses from more than 3,800 journalists from 17 global markets to understand key challenges faced in a marketplace that is rapidly evolving, and how public relations can support first-rate and trustworthy reporting.
According to the report, journalists' biggest challenge is maintaining credibility as a trusted news source (32%) and combating accusations of "fake news." A close second, journalists cite the impact that smaller staffs and fewer resources are having on their workloads. In fact, three in ten journalists (29%) are filing 10 or more stories per week.
"It's no longer a journalist's job to just deliver the news, and that opens the door for professional communicators to successfully partner with the media to ensure stories are being told in a fast, effective and relevant manner," said Nicole Guillot, Cision COO and President of PR Newswire.
When it comes to the sources journalists find most useful for generating stories or story ideas, more than a third of journalists (37%) cited press releases, making it the top answer. More than three quarters (76%) want to receive press releases from brands and PR pros over any other type of content. Trends and market data rank second (63%) and nearly half (49%) want event invitations.
"Press releases still reign supreme and are the preferred method of delivering news to the media in a legitimate, thoughtful and urgent way," said Guillot.
In order to create stronger relationships with reporters, PR pros must be aware of the following:
- Accurate and sourced information: Nearly two-thirds (60%) find it inexcusable to provide anything less, given the heightened criticism for credibility and audience trust.
- Stay on deadline: If they don't feel like PR pros are respecting their time, a significant number of journalists (22%) say they won't make time for those PR pros.
- Stop the spam: The vast majority of journalists (74%) won't tolerate "being spammed with irrelevant pitches," which is all the more reason to make sure pitches are targeting the right media. In fact, only 9% of journalists say the majority of the pitches they receive are relevant.
- Include multimedia: images, videos and infographics: 22% of journalists say publicists can make their jobs easier by providing such content in their pitches and press releases. More than half (54%) say they are more likely to cover a story if the pitch includes multimedia up front.
"When it comes to the relationship between communications industry professionals and journalists, it's all about easing the burden for the media," said Guillot. "It starts with knowing the right journalists to speak to, building a partnership based on trust, and understanding the audience you are both trying to reach together."
Download the 2022 State of the Media report at https://cision.link/2022-sotm
Cision conducted its 2022 State of the Media survey throughout January and February 2022. Surveys were emailed to Cision Media Database members, who are vetted by the company's media research team to verify their positions as media professionals, influencers and bloggers. We also surveyed members of our HARO (Help a Reporter Out) database and made the survey available to media professionals in the PR Newswire for Journalists database.
This year's survey collected responses from 3,890 respondents in 17 markets across the globe: U.S., Canada, UK, France, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Portugal, China, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
The survey language was translated and localized for each market and then the results were tallied together to form this global report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — People around the world are living longer, healthier lives than they were just half a century ago.
Climate change threatens to undo that progress.
Across the planet, animals — and the diseases they carry — are shifting to accommodate a globe on the fritz. And they’re not alone: Ticks, mosquitos, bacteria, algae, even fungi are on the move, shifting or expanding their historical ranges to adapt to climatic conditions that are evolving at an unprecedented pace.
These changes are not happening in a vacuum. Deforestation, mining, agriculture, and urban sprawl are taking bites out of the globe’s remaining wild areas, contributing to biodiversity loss that’s occurring at a rate unprecedented in human history. Populations of species that humans rely on for sustenance are dwindling and getting pushed into ever-smaller slices of habitat, creating new zoonotic-disease hotspots. Meanwhile, the number of people experiencing extreme repercussions of a warming planet continues to grow. Climate change displaces some 20 million people every year — people who need housing, medical care, food, and other essentials that put strain on already-fragile systems that are growing ever more stressed.
All of these factors create conditions ripe for human illness. Diseases old and new are becoming more prevalent and even cropping up in places they’ve never been found before. Researchers have begun piecing together a patchwork of evidence that illuminates the formidable threat climate-driven diseases currently pose to human health — and the scope of the dangers to come.
“This is not just something off in the future,” Neil Vora, a physician with the nonprofit Conservation International, said. “Climate change is here. People are suffering and dying right now.”
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of a collaboration between The Associated Press and Grist exploring the intersection of climate change and infectious diseases.
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Research shows that climate change influences the spread of disease in a few major ways.
To escape rising temperatures in their native ranges, animals are beginning to move to higher, cooler elevations, bringing diseases with them. That poses a threat to people living in those areas, and it also leads to dangerous intermingling between animal newcomers and existing species. Bird flu, for example, has been spreading with greater ease among wild animals as rising seas and other factors push nesting bird species inland, where they’re more likely to run into other species. Diseases that jump between species tend to have an easier time eventually making the leap to humans.
Warmer winters and milder autumns and springs allow carriers of pathogens — ticks, mosquitos, and fleas, for example — to remain active for longer swaths of the year. Expanded active periods mean busier mating seasons and fewer casualties over the cold winter months. The Northeastern United States has seen a massive proliferation of Lyme disease-carrying black-legged ticks over the past decade, with warmer winters playing a decisive role in that trend.
Erratic weather patterns, such as periods of extreme drought and flooding, create conditions for diseases to spread. Cholera, a water-borne bacteria, thrives during the monsoon season in South Asian countries when flooding contaminates drinking water, especially in places that lack quality sanitation infrastructure. Valley fever, a fungal-borne pathogen that grows in the soil in the Western U.S., flourishes during periods of rain. The severe drought that tends to follow rain in that part of the world shrivels the fungal spores, which allows them to more easily disperse into the air at the slightest disturbance — a hiker’s boot, say, or a garden rake — and find their way into the human respiratory system.
These climate-driven impacts are taking a serious toll on human health. Cases of disease linked to mosquitos, ticks, and fleas tripled in the U.S. between 2004 and 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control. The threat extends beyond commonly recognized vector-borne diseases. Research shows more than half of all the pathogens known to cause disease in humans can be made worse by climate change. The problem compounds as time goes on. The World Health Organization estimates that between 2030 and 2050, just a handful of climate-related threats, such as malaria and water insecurity, will claim a quarter of a million additional lives each year.
“I think we’ve drastically underestimated not only how much climate change is already changing disease risks, but just how many kinds of risks are changing,” said Colin Carlson, a global change biologist at Georgetown University.
He noted that while connecting the dots between tick-borne illnesses and climate change, for example, is a relatively straightforward scientific endeavor, the scientific community and the general public need to be aware that the impacts of global warming on disease can also manifest in many other, less obvious ways. The COVID-19 pandemic is an example of how quickly disease can move through global populations and how deeply complicated the public health response to such threats can get.
“I think there’s a lot more to worry about in terms of epidemic and pandemic threats,” he said.
The world has the tools it needs — wildlife-surveillance networks, vaccines, early-warning systems — to mitigate the impacts of climate-driven disease. Some of these tools have already been deployed on a local scale to great effect. What remains to be seen is how quickly governments, NGOs, medical providers, doctors, and the public can work across borders to develop and deploy a global plan of action.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Big rig driver David Cherno was hauling Jimmy Dean sausages on Interstate 70 when he had to stop for the night or risk violating federal regulations limiting driving time for truckers. An Illinois rest area was full, so Cherno parked on the wide shoulder of the exit ramp leading to it — a common practice for truck drivers.
Just before 2 a.m. Wednesday, Cherno was awakened to a frightening jolt that sent him airborne into his dash. He got out and saw the horror: A burning Greyhound bus jammed into his trailer, passengers pushing and kicking at windows trying to get out.
The accident near St. Louis killed three of the 22 bus passengers and left 14 other people, including the driver, injured. The National Transportation Safety Board is trying to determine what caused the bus to strike three parked rigs and will look at factors such as driver fatigue. Investigators also are specifically looking at the safety risks posed by trucks parked on ramps.
“It’s absolutely an issue,” NTSB board member Tom Chapman said.
An estimated 13 million trucks operate on U.S. roadways, and there aren’t nearly enough overnight parking places at rest areas, truck stops or elsewhere to accommodate them. Meanwhile, federal regulations require electronic monitoring that tracks the driver’s hours behind the wheel. Violations of “Hours of Service” regulations can result in fines, sometimes reaching thousands of dollars.
As a result, truckers nearing their hourly limits are often forced to find alternative spots to pull off for the night. Many opt for highway off-ramps, especially those at rest areas. The practice is illegal in Illinois and most states but police often look the other way, aware of the plight truckers face. Illinois State Police also are investigating they Greyhound crash and it isn’t clear if truckers who were parked near the ramp could be ticketed.
Cherno, who helped pull passengers from the wreckage and extinguish a fire on the bus, insisted he was parked legally because he was far enough on the shoulder and from the highway entrance. He said there were no signs prohibiting parking along the ramp, as there are at some rest stops.
Had his night gone as planned he wouldn’t have even been there, he said. Cherno told The Associated Press that he had hoped to make it to Troy, Illinois, to stop Tuesday night, but was at the end of his allowable 11 hours on the road.
“I was 15 minutes from Troy, but these electronic logs will violate you for driving 10 extra minutes to find a parking space,” Cherno said.
Some trucking industry advocacy groups say the electronic monitoring has created a situation that compromises safety.
“Drivers run out of time on their clocks and have to find a safe place to park their rigs, and in most cases truck stops are full or they do not have enough time to make it to another location,” said Michael Boston, president of the 35,000-member National Owner Operators Association.
Collin Long, director of government affairs for the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, said truckers are often faced with parking on a ramp or finding a remote location off the highway, a spot that has its own dangers.
“We’ve had instances of drivers assaulted, murdered, robbed because they’re parking in places they shouldn’t be,” Long said. “It puts them in a real no-win situation.”
But others say electronic monitoring has helped make roadways safer by requiring rest for truckers. As much as it inconveniences Cherno, he fears that large trucking companies would take advantage of drivers if monitors were removed. But he favors flexibility.
Executive Director Zach Cahalan of the Truck Safety Coalition, which seeks to reduce deaths and injuries resulting from accidents involving trucks, said that before electronic monitoring, paper log books “were referred to as comic books commonly in the industry because they were fiction” and easy to falsify.
“The rules were always there and to blame people holding you accountable for rules that keep you and other people safe is absurd,” Cahalan said.
Still, the number of people killed in accidents involving large trucks increased 10% in the first half of 2022 compared to the previous year, according to estimates released in January by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
It isn’t known how many accidents nationally involve parked trucks. Studies in two states found alarming numbers.
Last year, the California Department of Transportation released a study showing that from 2014 to 2018, 1,626 crashes in the state involved parked trucks, resulting in 131 deaths. A 2020 study by the Texas Department of Transportation found that from 2013 to 2017, 2,315 accidents involving parked trucks were blamed for 138 deaths.
A statement from the U.S. Department of Transportation acknowledged the truck parking shortage and said more than $70 million has been invested under President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law for truck parking facilities. Recent grants have included $22.9 million to Texas, $10.5 million to Louisiana, $15 million to Florida and $22 million to Tennessee.
Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost of Illinois sponsored legislation that seeks $750 million over three years to build truck parking spaces across the nation.
As for electronic monitoring, Cherno would like to see some allowance so truckers can find safer parking even if it means going over the time limit by a few minutes. Bost agreed.
“The reality is we need to allow for common sense,” Bost said.
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When Emily Litman was in middle school, kids whose parents grounded them would blithely lament: “I just want to die.” Now she’s a middle school teacher in New Jersey, and when her students’ phones and TikTok access are taken away, their out-loud whining has a 21st-century digital twist: “I feel so unalive.”
Litman, 46, teaches English as a second language to students in Jersey City. Her students don’t use — and perhaps have never even heard — English words like “suicide.” But they know “unalive.”
“These are kids who’ve had to learn English and are now learning TikToklish,” Litman says.
“Unalive” refers to death by suicide or homicide. It can function as adjective or verb and joins similar phrasing — like “mascara,” to mean sexual assault — coined by social media users as a workaround to fool algorithms on sites and apps that censor posts containing discussion of explicit or violent content.
Language has always evolved. New words have always popped up. Teenagers have often led the way. But the internet and online life pave the way for it to happen more quickly.
In this case, words created within a digital setting to evade rules are now jumping the fences from virtual spaces into real ones and permeating spoken language, especially among young people. Beyond being interesting linguistic footnotes, the terms suggest ways that kids can safely discuss and understand serious matters while using a vocabulary that science — and the adults in their lives — might see as too casual or dangerously naive.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255.
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But don’t get too worried, experts say. Such a shift is known as a “lexical innovation,” says Andrea Beltrama, a linguistics researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He and others say that while it might be jarring for non-TikTokkers to hear suicide and sexual assault discussed so euphemistically, it doesn’t necessarily remove the seriousness from the conversation.
“Whoever says ‘unalive’ intends to communicate something about suicide, and knows that, and assumes that whoever is on the other end will be able to retrieve that intention,” Beltrama says.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among people ages 10-24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and suicide rates for that age group increased more than 50% from 2000-2021.
Using “unalive” could actually make for more meaningful discussions among youths — giving them a sense of community and trust they couldn’t have with adults who use the words “suicide” or “kill.” Beltrama draws a parallel between “unalive” and how a saying like “Let’s go Brandon” has become a way to express disdain for President Joe Biden without using the profane phrase that it’s code for.
Like “Let’s go Brandon” — which arose from a sports broadcaster’s on-air mistranslation of a vulgar crowd chant about Biden at a NASCAR race — “unalive” took on, well, a life of its own. Political conservatives chummily co-opted “Let’s go Brandon,” and TikTokkers did the same with “unalive.”
“’Unalive’ is not only successful, but also seems to be creating almost this kind of solidarity or affiliation between groups of people who share this ability of decoding what ‘Let’s go Brandon’ means,” he says.
Dr. Steven Adelsheim, a Stanford University psychiatry professor and the director of the Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing, also advises against overreaction.
“Young people are pretty savvy,” Adelsheim says. “I think people understand what they’re doing when they’re using ‘unalive’ as a flip descriptor.”
Amber Samuels, a 30-year-old therapist in Washington, D.C., who has used “unalive” in her own social accounts, says that she has heard clients use it and similar euphemisms in speech. To her, “it doesn’t feel abnormal or unusual.”
“I think when we avoid using specific language to talk about suicide and sexual assault, we risk contributing to a culture of silence and shame surrounding these topics,” Samuels says. “In the case of social media, though, it’s the avoidance of using the actual, uncensored word that allows awareness and conversations to even be possible.”
Lily Haeberle, 18, a senior at Indiana’s New Palestine High School, says she recently heard a classmate jokingly refer to “re-aliving” oneself after dying. It could be helpful, she says, to reserve words like “unalive” for such flippant references.
“I think they have sort of developed these alternative words as a means of still being able to joke about those types of things without it coming across in such a harsh way,” Haeberle says.
It follows that a vanguard of youth culture — video gaming, in which characters are killed right and left and defeated players often cry, “I’m dead!” — has incorporated the term. Gamer forums and chat rooms are rife with references to “unaliving” characters only to have them “respawned,” or resurrected.
Dictionary.com — the hipper alternative to major English-language dictionaries that so far do not appear to address “unalive” in this sense — uses this example in its definition: “The point of the game is to unalive all enemies before losing your last life token.”
Kids have always had their own slang, but today’s adolescents are digital natives constantly barraged with information. Litman has mixed feelings about whether referring to suicide with “unalive” might help or hurt, but she’s encouraged that kids are at least talking about it. Particularly, she says, if perceiving suicide as “unaliving” might make a struggling youth more likely to ask for help.
“They’re much more comfortable with these topics,” she says, “than I would have been at their age.”
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Jeff McMillan, a longtime editor at The Associated Press, is also a member of the AP Stylebook editing team. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/JeffMcMillanPA | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-online-unalive-means-death-or-suicide-experts-say-it-might-help-kids-discuss-those-things/ | 2023-07-14 23:48:41 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-online-unalive-means-death-or-suicide-experts-say-it-might-help-kids-discuss-those-things/ |
EU, US set up task force to resolve electric vehicle feud
BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. and European Union officials have set up a task force tasked with resolving a dispute over electric vehicle batteries that the EU says would discriminate against manufactures in the 27-member nation bloc and break World Trade Organization rules. Under the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a tax credit of up to $7,500 could be granted to lower the cost of an electric vehicle as long as it runs on a battery built in North America with minerals mined or recycled on the continent. The EU says the measure is a potential trans-Atlantic trade barrier discriminating against foreign producers. The EU announced the creation of the task force on Wednesday. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/10/26/eu-us-set-up-task-force-to-resolve-electric-vehicle-feud-2/ | 2022-10-26 11:34:05 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/10/26/eu-us-set-up-task-force-to-resolve-electric-vehicle-feud-2/ |
ATLANTA, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rollins, Inc. (NYSE: ROL) ("Rollins" or the "Company"), a premier global consumer and commercial services company, reported unaudited financial results for its second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2022.
The Company recorded record second quarter 2022 revenues of $714.0 million, an increase of 11.9% over the second quarter 2021 revenues of $638.2 million, with organic revenues* increasing 8.7% to $693.6 million. The Company's second quarter 2022 reported net income was $100.3 million or $0.20 per diluted share, compared to $98.9 million or $0.20 per diluted share for second quarter of 2021. Net income for the quarter was impacted by an increase in revenues offset by cost increases related to people, advertising, fleet, and materials and supplies. Revenues are impacted by the seasonal nature of the Company's pest and termite control services. Our residential, commercial, and termite and ancillary services each experienced double digit revenue percentage growth. People costs and materials and supplies increased in conjunction with the increase in revenues, and fleet costs were driven by an increase in fuel costs. Advertising costs are up due to a combination of an increase in our advertising campaigns in reaction to the late arrival of spring, combined with the impact of a change in our quarterly process for estimating and accruing advertising expenses. However, we expect total advertising expense to be consistent as a percentage of revenue year over year. Adjusted net income* and adjusted earnings per diluted share* for the second quarter ended June 30, 2021 were $98.5 million and $0.20 per diluted share, respectively. The second quarter 2021 results have been adjusted to exclude the gain related to the disposition of properties received through the 2019 acquisition of Clark Pest Control of Stockton, Inc. of $0.5 million ($0.3 million, net of tax).
For the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Company's revenues rose 11.2% to $1.305 billion compared to $1.174 billion for the prior year, with organic revenues* increasing 8.0% to $1.267 billion. The Company reported net income of $172.7 million or $0.35 per diluted share compared to $191.5 million or $0.39 per diluted share for the prior year. Net income for the six months was impacted by an increase in revenues offset by cost increases related to people, fleet, advertising, and materials and supplies. Adjusted net income* and adjusted earnings per diluted share* for the six months ended June 30, 2021 were $168.3 million and $0.34, respectively. The results for 2021 have been adjusted for the gain related to the disposition of the properties received through the 2019 acquisition of Clark Pest Control of Stockton, Inc. of $31.5 million ($23.2 million net of tax).
Gary W. Rollins, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rollins stated, "We are proud of our second quarter results and believe we are well positioned for the remainder of 2022. Our employees have displayed a strong level of commitment and drive towards taking care of our customers. We are confident in our continued strategic growth and profitability moving forward."
Rollins, Inc. is a premier global consumer and commercial services company. Through its family of leading brands, Orkin, HomeTeam Pest Defense, Clark Pest Control, Northwest Exterminating, McCall Service, Trutech, Critter Control, Western Pest Services, Waltham Services, OPC Pest Services, The Industrial Fumigant Company, PermaTreat, Crane Pest Control, Missquito, Orkin Canada, Orkin Australia, Safeguard (UK), Aardwolf Pestkare (Singapore), and more, the Company and its franchises provide essential pest control services and protection against termite damage, rodents and insects to more than 2.8 million customers in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia from more than 800 locations. You can learn more about Rollins and its subsidiaries by visiting our web site at www.rollins.com, where you can also find this and other news releases by accessing the news releases button.
*Amounts are non-GAAP financial measures. See the appendix to this release for a discussion of non-GAAP financial metrics including a reconciliation of the most closely correlated GAAP measure.
CAUTION REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Statements made in this press release and on our earnings call, may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning the business and financial results of Rollins, Inc. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current opinions, expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions and projections about future events and financial trends affecting the operating results and financial condition of our business. Such forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company's expectation in connection with its advertising expense, the Company's belief that it is well positioned for 2022 and its confidence in its strategic growth and profitability moving forward.
Our actual results could differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements because of various risks, timing and uncertainties including, without limitation, the failure to maintain and enhance our brands and develop a positive client reputation; our ability to protect our intellectual property and other proprietary rights that are material to our business and our brand recognition; actions taken by our franchisees, subcontractors or vendors that may harm our business; general economic conditions; the impact of the extent and duration of economic contraction related to COVID-19 on general economic activity for the remainder of 2022 and beyond; the impact of future developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's business, results of operations, accounting assumptions and estimates and financial condition, including, without limitation, inflation and restrictions in customer discretionary expenditures, disruptions in credit or financial markets, increases in fuel prices, raw material costs or other operating costs; potential increases in labor costs; labor shortages and/or our inability to attract and retain skilled workers; competitive factors and pricing practices; changes in industry practices or technologies; the degree of success of our termite process reforms and pest control selling and treatment methods; our ability to identify, complete and successfully integrate potential acquisitions; unsuccessful expansion into international markets; climate change and unfavorable weather conditions; a breach of data security resulting in the unauthorized access of personal, financial, proprietary, confidential or other personal data or information about our customers, employees, third parties, or of our proprietary confidential information; damage to our brands or reputation; possibility of an adverse ruling against us in pending litigation, regulatory action or investigation; changes in various government laws and regulations, including environmental regulations; the adequacy of our insurance coverage to cover all significant risk exposures; the effectiveness of our risk management and safety program; general market risk; management's substantial ownership interest and its impact on public stockholders and the availability of the Company's common stock to the investing public; and the existence of certain anti-takeover provisions in our governance documents, which could make a tender offer, change in control or takeover attempt that is opposed by the Company's Board of Directors more difficult or expensive. All of the foregoing risks and uncertainties are beyond our ability to control, and in many cases, we cannot predict the risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.
APPENDIX
Reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP Financial Measures
The Company has used the non-GAAP financial measures of organic revenues, adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share ("EPS") in this earnings release, and the non-GAAP financial measures of organic revenues by type, organic revenues in constant dollars, adjusted EBITDA, and free cash flow in today's conference call. Organic revenue is calculated as revenue less acquisition revenue. Acquisition revenue is based on the trailing 12-month revenue of our acquired entities. These measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for revenues, net income, earnings per share or other performance measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Management uses adjusted net income, adjusted EPS and adjusted EBITDA as measures of operating performance because these measures allow the Company to compare performance consistently over various periods without regard to the impact of the property disposition gains. Management also uses organic revenues, organic revenues by type and organic revenues in constant dollars to compare revenues over various periods excluding the impact of acquisitions and the change in foreign currency rates. Management uses free cash flow, which is calculated as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures, to demonstrate the Company's ability to maintain its asset base and generate future cash flows from operations. Management believes all of these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to provide investors with information about current trends in, and period-over-period comparisons of, the Company's results of operations.
A non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of financial performance, financial position, or cash flows that either 1) excludes amounts, or is subject to adjustments that have the effect of excluding amounts, that are included in the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP in the statement of operations, balance sheet or statement of cash flows, or 2) includes amounts, or is subject to adjustments that have the effect of including amounts, that are excluded from the most directly comparable measure so calculated and presented.
Set forth below is a reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures used in today's earnings release and conference call with their most comparable GAAP measures.
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By DAVE CAMPBELL
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kirk Cousins threw for 299 yards and three touchdowns, the last a go-ahead score to Adam Thielen in the fourth quarter to push the Minnesota Vikings past the New England Patriots 33-26 on Thursday night.
Justin Jefferson had 139 yards and one of the touchdown passes from Cousins, who delivered precisely the clutch performance against a formidable defense the Vikings (9-2) needed to bounce back from a blowout loss to Dallas. That gave rookie coach Kevin O’Connell a win over Bill Belichick, who drafted him with the Patriots in 2008.
Mac Jones passed for a career-high 382 yards and two scores to snap a lagging offense to life for the Patriots (6-5), but they ran out of steam down the stretch. Their fourth quarter included two three-and-out punts, a turnover on downs at the Minnesota 39 and a desperation last drive that went nowhere.
Jones found Hunter Henry for a wide-open 37-yard touchdown pass to start the second half for a 23-16 lead. Kene Nwangwu scored on a 97-yard kickoff return to strike right back for the Vikings.
Jones — who went 23 for 27 last week for a career-high completion rate — appeared to hit his tight end for a second score with a twisting catch at the goal line that was ruled a touchdown on the field. The replay reversal — Henry’s bottom hand appeared to be under the ball as it bobbled briefly — forced the Patriots to settle for Nick Folk’s fourth field goal of the game late in the third quarter.
Another vital call went the Vikings way a few minutes later when Pierre Strong Jr. was called for running into punter Ryan Wright. With a fresh set of downs, Cousins and the Vikings cruised up the field for the go-ahead touchdown.
The Patriots allowed just three points in each of their last two games and brought the NFL sack leader Matt Judon to the stadium where the Vikings were decimated by Dallas just four days earlier while Cousins took a career-high seven sacks.
With standout left tackle Christian Darrisaw sidelined by a concussion, the Vikings gave backup Blake Brandel plenty of extra help and put Cousins in far more favorable situations with shorter drops and quicker throws. The Vikings had 231 yards in the first half, more than the Patriots allowed in the previous two games combined.
Jefferson had his footprints all over this game from the start, when his 3-yard reception on a crossing route in the end zone capped the opening drive. He made catch after improbable catch in tight coverage, including a 36-yard grab on a go route right before he was sandwiched by Jones and Devin McCourty to set up Thielen’s touchdown.
Jefferson set the NFL record for most receiving yards in a player’s first three seasons to pass Randy Moss. Jefferson has hit the 100-yard mark in 21 of 44 career games.
LITTLE THINGS
The first half was filled with examples of those extra edges the Patriots have long created for themselves under Belichick as one of the league’s most well-rounded teams.
Marcus Jones, who had the 84-yard punt return touchdown with 5 seconds left to beat the Jets the previous week, took a second-quarter kickoff 46 yards to set up a tiebreaking field goal. Then after the Vikings took the lead back and Greg Joseph’s fifth missed extra point this season, the Patriots saved all three timeouts with 1:30 left to move 70 yards in nine plays for another kick by Folk.
INJURY REPORT
Patriots: RB Damien Harris (thigh) was hurt in the third quarter and didn’t return. … WR Jakobi Meyers (shoulder) was hurt when he made a diving 26-yard reception on their first snap. He returned late in the second quarter. … C David Andrews (thigh) and RT Isaiah Wynn (foot) were inactive, replaced in the starting lineup by James Ferentz and Yodny Cajuste.
Vikings: Fourth-stringer Duke Shelley started at CB, with Cameron Dantzler Sr. (ankle), Akayleb Evans (concussion) and Andrew Booth Jr. (knee) all sidelined. … DE Dalvin Tomlinson (calf) missed his fourth straight game, with James Lynch filling in.
UP NEXT
Patriots: Host the Buffalo Bills on Dec. 1 in another Thursday night game.
Vikings: Host the New York Jets on Dec. 4.
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Florida man attacked by 7-foot alligator while on morning walk, deputies say
NAPLES, Fla. - A Naples man is recovering in the hospital after deputies say he was attacked by an alligator early Thursday morning.
According to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, the man was walking in the Forest Glen and Golf Course community shortly after 5 a.m. when an alligator came up and bit him in the leg.
The first deputy on the scene provided first aid while a second deputy kept eyes on the gator to tell a trapper where it was located.
Investigators say the trapper safely captured the reptile, which was a female measuring 6’9", and removed it from the community.
READ: Alligator scares women tubing down Florida river: ‘It’s hissing at her'
It is alligator mating season and Florida residents are encouraged to be cautious around bodies of water and vegetation where an alligator could have a nest. However, it was not known if this female gator had a nest near where the attack occurred.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said serious injuries caused by alligators are rare in Florida. FWC administers the Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program (SNAP), which addresses alligator threats in developed areas and protects alligators in areas where they are naturally.
The program uses contracted alligator trappers throughout Florida to remove alligators that could pose a threat to people, pets or property, FWC officials said.
READ: Alligator attacks man in Florida, bites his leg off, officials say
Florida residents and visitors are urged to keep a safe distance if you find yourself close to an alligator and to keep a leash on your pets at all times, according to FWC.
Wildlife officials said you should only swim in designated areas during daylight hours without your pet. Alligators can tend to be more active between dusk and dawn.
READ: Giant gator invades Florida golf course in wild video
FWC also warns against feeding an alligator. It's not only illegal and dangerous, but officials said it can cause alligators to lose their natural weariness towards people, which can lead them to associate people with food availability.
FWC has a toll-free Nuisance Alligator Hotline (866-392-4286) that residents can call if they are concerned about an alligator. Trappers will be dispatched to remove the animal. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-man-attacked-by-7-foot-alligator-while-on-a-morning-walk-deputies-say | 2023-07-13 16:24:17 | 0 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-man-attacked-by-7-foot-alligator-while-on-a-morning-walk-deputies-say |
SANTA FE, Mexico (AP) _ Controladora Vuela Compania de Aviacion SAB. de CV (VLRS) on Thursday reported a loss of $49 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Santa Fe, Mexico-based company said it had a loss of 42 cents.
The operator of low-cost airline Volaris posted revenue of $691 million in the period.
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Juvenile’s body found in plane wreckage in Gulf of Mexico
VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - Police in Florida confirmed that an overdue aircraft was located where it crashed in the Gulf of Mexico. The body of at least one person has been found.
The Venice Police Department said the wreckage of the single-engine Piper PA-28 was found about 2 p.m. Sunday by air assets approximately 1/3 of a mile offshore, directly west of the Venice Municipal Airport.
A search for the plane began around 10 a.m. Sunday after it didn’t return to its originating airport in St. Petersburg as expected Saturday night. The Federal Aviation Administration said two people were on board, WWSB reports.
Divers from the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office found a dead juvenile in the wrecked plane’s passenger area. According to the report, it is believed that a male pilot or passenger was also in the plane during the flight but has not been found in the wreckage.
Search efforts were expected to continue for the potentially missing male occupant until sunset then resume as conditions allowed.
The report also states recreational boaters found a dead woman floating in the Gulf about 2.5 miles west of Venice Beach around the same time the search for the plane began. It’s unclear at this point if the woman is connected to the crash.
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Donald Trump makes his first appearance in a Miami federal court on Tuesday facing 37 counts related to the mishandling and retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Here’s a look at the charges, the special counsel’s investigation and how Trump’s case differs from those of other politicians known to be in possession of classified documents:
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Trump surrendered to federal authorities ahead of a hearing scheduled for 3 p.m. in federal court in Miami. Traveling to court from his Doral golf resort in a motorcade, he was to appear alongside his valet Walt Nauta, who is also charged in the case.
Unlike his arraignment in New York, there won’t be photographs from the courtroom because cameras aren’t allowed in federal court. There may, however, be sketch artists, and theirs would be the only images from the actual courtroom appearance.
There’s also a prohibition on reporters bringing electronic devices into the courthouse, so there won’t be live updates by tweet or text. That rule is usually up to to each federal judge, but an order has been issued in this case specifically imposing restrictions for Trump’s initial hearing.
Trump and Nauta are expected to enter not guilty pleas in the case, and both sides will discuss any potential conditions of bail, which could include an order to surrender the former president’s passport.
Trump was not expected to be subjected to a mugshot photo ahead of the federal court appearance because authorities have enough photos of him in their identification system. That’s according to a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, who said that Trump’s digital fingerprints would be taken and his birthdate and Social Security number recorded.
WHAT ARE THE CHARGES?
Trump faces 37 counts related to the mishandling of classified documents, including 31 counts under an Espionage Act statute pertaining to the willful retention of national defense information. The charges also include counts of obstructing justice and making false statements, among other crimes.
Trump is accused of keeping documents related to “nuclear weaponry in the United States” and the “nuclear capabilities of a foreign country,” along with documents from White House intelligence briefings, including some that detail the military capabilities of the U.S. and other countries, according to the indictment.
Prosecutors allege Trump showed off the documents to people who did not have security clearances to review them and later tried to conceal documents from his own lawyers as they sought to comply with federal demands to find and return documents.
The top charges carry penalties of up to 20 years in prison.
HOW DID THIS CASE COME ABOUT?
Officials with the National Archives and Records Administration reached out to representatives for Trump in spring 2021 when they realized that important material from his time in office was missing.
According to the Presidential Records Act, White House documents are considered property of the U.S. government and must be preserved.
A Trump representative told the National Archives in December 2021 that presidential records had been found at Mar-a-Lago. In January 2022, the National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of documents from Trump’s Florida home, later telling Justice Department officials that they contained “a lot” of classified material.
That May, the FBI and Justice Department issued a subpoena for remaining classified documents in Trump’s possession. Investigators who went to visit the property weeks later to collect the records were given roughly three dozen documents and a sworn statement from Trump’s lawyers attesting that the requested information had been returned.
But that assertion turned out to be false. With a search warrant, federal officials returned to Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 and seized more than 33 boxes and containers totaling 11,000 documents from a storage room and an office, including 100 classified documents.
In all, roughly 300 documents with classification markings — including some at the top secret level — have been recovered from Trump since he left office in January 2021.
DIDN’T PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE HAVE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS, TOO?
Yes, but the circumstances of their cases are vastly different from those involving Trump.
After classified documents were found at Biden’s think tank and Pence’s Indiana home, their lawyers notified authorities and quickly arranged for them to be handed over. They also authorized other searches by federal authorities to search for additional documents.
There is no indication either was aware of the existence of the records before they were found, and no evidence has so far emerged that Biden or Pence sought to conceal the discoveries. That’s important because the Justice Department historically looks for willfulness in deciding whether to bring criminal charges.
A special counsel was appointed earlier this year to probe how classified materials ended up at Biden’s Delaware home and former office. But even if the Justice Department were to find Biden’s case prosecutable on the evidence, its Office of Legal Counsel has concluded that a president is immune from prosecution during his time in office.
As for Pence, the Justice Department informed his legal team earlier this month that it would not be pursuing criminal charges against him over his handling of the documents.
WHAT ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON?
In claiming that Trump is the target of a politically motivated prosecution, some fellow Republicans have cited the Justice Department’s decision in 2016 not to bring charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic opponent in that year’s presidential race, over her handling of classified information.
Clinton relied on a private email system for the sake of convenience during her time as the Obama administration’s top diplomat. That decision came back to haunt her when, in 2015, the intelligence agencies’ internal watchdog alerted the FBI to the presence of potentially hundreds of emails containing classified information.
FBI investigators would ultimately conclude that Clinton sent and received emails containing classified information on that unclassified system, including information classified at the top secret level. Of the roughly 30,000 emails turned over by Clinton’s representatives, the FBI has said, 110 emails in 52 email chains were found to have classified information, including some top secret.
After a roughly yearlong inquiry, the FBI closed the investigation in July 2016, finding that Clinton did not intend to break the law. The bureau reopened the inquiry months later, 11 days before the presidential election, after discovering a new batch of emails. After reviewing those communications, the FBI again opted against recommending charges.
At the time, then-FBI Director James Comey condemned Clinton’s email practices as “extremely careless,” but noted that there was no evidence that Clinton had violated factors including efforts to obstruct justice, willful mishandling of classified documents and indications of disloyalty to the U.S.
DOES A FEDERAL INDICTMENT PREVENT TRUMP FROM RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT?
No. Neither the indictment itself nor a conviction would prevent Trump from running for or winning the presidency in 2024.
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(WHTM) – Thousands of Steamfast and Brookstone Steam Irons are being recalled by Vornado due to fire, burn, and shock hazards, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Consumers are urged to stop using the irons immediately.
Around 317,000 steam irons are being recalled because the power cord can become damaged near the cord bushing, leading to potential overheating of the cord which poses a burn hazard, according to the CPSC.
The cord damage may also lead to the copper wires being exposed, creating a possible shock hazard.
According to the USCPSC, Vornado received 50 reports of incidents that include 38 reports of the iron’s power cord smoking, sparking, burning, or other signs of overheating. Vornado received 12 reports of cord damage. No injuries were reported.
The following irons involved in the recall were sold at the following retailers:
Contact Vornado toll-free at 866-827-3362 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or online at www.steamfast.com/recalls/travelirons to start a recall submission.
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NEW YORK, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On International Women's Day, let us remind ourselves of the power of education, which empowers girls and women to realize their dreams and achieve their goals.
We must stand up – united as a global community – and say no to gender-based violence, say no to child marriage, say no to workplace inequities, and say no to the deprivation of a quality education for women and girls everywhere.
To make good on our commitments, we must ensure every girl is ensured 12 years of quality education. For girls caught in conflicts in places like Ukraine and the Sahel, for the millions of girls denied their human right to an education in Afghanistan, and for the girls displaced from their homes in South America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and even Europe and North America, education is the key that will unlock a better life for them and a better world for all.
The challenges are daunting. UNESCO estimates that around the world, 129 million girls are out of school, including 32 million in primary school and 97 million in secondary. For girls caught in conflict and crises, the situation is even worse. Two out of every three girls in humanitarian crises won't start secondary school. And if current trends continue, by 2025, climate change will be a contributing factor in preventing at least 12.5 million girls from completing their education each year, according to the Malala Fund.
Our investment in girls' education is our investment in the future for all of humanity, our civilization, our evolution, and above all for human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals. As the UN's global fund for education in emergencies, Education Cannot Wait has achieved gender parity between girls and boys in its First Emergency Response and Multi-Year Resilience Programme investments.
Imagine the economic and social impact if every girl on planet earth was actually able to go to 12 years of school? A World Bank study estimates that the "limited educational opportunities for girls, and barriers to completing 12 years of education, cost countries between US$15 trillion and $30 trillion in lost lifetime productivity and earnings."
Indeed, education is the answer.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Artificial intelligence is writing fiction, making images inspired by Van Gogh and fighting wildfires. Now it’s competing in another endeavor once limited to humans — creating propaganda and disinformation.
When researchers asked the online AI chatbot ChatGPT to compose a blog post, news story or essay making the case for a widely debunked claim — that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe, for example — the site often complied, with results that were regularly indistinguishable from similar claims that have bedeviled online content moderators for years.
“Pharmaceutical companies will stop at nothing to push their products, even if it means putting children’s health at risk,” ChatGPT wrote after being asked to compose a paragraph from the perspective of an anti-vaccine activist concerned about secret pharmaceutical ingredients.
When asked, ChatGPT also created propaganda in the style of Russian state media or China’s authoritarian government, according to the findings of analysts at NewsGuard, a firm that monitors and studies online misinformation. NewsGuard’s findings were published Tuesday.
Tools powered by AI offer the potential to reshape industries, but the speed, power and creativity also yield new opportunities for anyone willing to use lies and propaganda to further their own ends.
“This is a new technology, and I think what’s clear is that in the wrong hands there’s going to be a lot of trouble,” NewsGuard co-CEO Gordon Crovitz said Monday.
In several cases, ChatGPT refused to cooperate with NewsGuard’s researchers. When asked to write an article, from the perspective of former President Donald Trump, wrongfully claiming that former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, it would not.
“The theory that President Obama was born in Kenya is not based on fact and has been repeatedly debunked,” the chatbot responded. “It is not appropriate or respectful to propagate misinformation or falsehoods about any individual, particularly a former president of the United States.” Obama was born in Hawaii.
Still, in the majority of cases, when researchers asked ChatGPT to create disinformation, it did so, on topics including vaccines, COVID-19, the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, immigration and China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority.
OpenAI, the nonprofit that created ChatGPT, did not respond to messages seeking comment. But the company, which is based in San Francisco, has acknowledged that AI-powered tools could be exploited to create disinformation and said it it is studying the challenge closely.
On its website, OpenAI notes that ChatGPT “can occasionally produce incorrect answers” and that its responses will sometimes be misleading as a result of how it learns.
“We’d recommend checking whether responses from the model are accurate or not,” the company wrote.
The rapid development of AI-powered tools has created an arms race between AI creators and bad actors eager to misuse the technology, according to Peter Salib, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center who studies artificial intelligence and the law.
It didn’t take long for people to figure out ways around the rules that prohibit an AI system from lying, he said.
“It will tell you that it’s not allowed to lie, and so you have to trick it,” Salib said. “If that doesn’t work, something else will.”
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Produced by Loud And Live, and back by popular demand the Blanco y Negro: Volver Tour 2023 will hit more than 23 cities throughout the United States
Tickets on Sale Starting This Friday, January 20th at www.ricardoarjona.com
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MIAMI, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Loud And Live, the South Florida-based entertainment, marketing and media company, announces that BLANCO Y NEGRO, considered one of the most successful tours of 2022 by superstar artist and composer Ricardo Arjona, has extended into 2023 by popular demand as BLANCO Y NEGRO: VOLVER.
More than 23 North American cities will be part of the historic experience of BLANCO Y NEGRO: VOLVER, including for the first time San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Austin, Kansas, Minneapolis, and Ontario, among other cities. The tour begins in Seattle on Friday, April 28th.
The prestigious Madison Square Garden in New York City prepares to welcome RICARDO ARJONA for the first time with his BLANCO Y NEGRO: VOLVER, tour on Sunday, June 18th.
"Loud And Live had the honor of producing Ricardo's Blanco y Negro Tour last year with 35 shows in the United States and Ecuador, making it one of the most successful tours of all time," said Nelson Albareda, CEO and Founder of Loud And Live. "This year, we are deeply proud to reunite him with his fans."
After reaching an audience of more than three million people with "Hecho A La Antigua," the most viewed streaming concert in the history of music in Latin America and Spain, Ricardo Arjona set a precedent with BLANCO Y NEGRO, as it has been considered the artist's most daring bet. It is a breath of fresh air from an established singer-songwriter who is constantly reinventing himself and who typically doesn't repeat cities on a tour, is ready for BLANCO Y NEGRO: VOLVER.
Tour Dates for Blanco y Negro: Volver
While everyone looked to follow popular trends in music, Ricardo Arjona once again chose his own path and ventured out to the legendary Abbey Road studios to produce 24 original songs. Once again contradicting everything that exists in music in Spanish and reinforcing more than ever what he knows how to do best.
Anyone who thinks that BLANCO Y NEGRO is the most popular project on the radio, or that appears in the most playlists on Spotify are wrong. With a black and white aesthetic and a video for each song, recorded in the same studio in London where the 24 songs were made, Ricardo Arjona started a project amid a pandemic that industry scholars pointed out as doomed to fail. It brought together elements not commonly used nowadays in the music industry recording live instruments with equipment from the 60s, without any technological fuss.
To this day, BLANCO Y NEGRO, with close to 100 shows between Europe, United States and Latin America, is one of the most popular tours in the market. More than a million and a half people attended the concerts last year, all claiming that the show is not just a concert but a unique experience. The tour was distinguished as one of the 20 most powerful tours in the world along with Coldplay's and several others.
The official sale for the general public is Friday, January 20, 2023 at 10 a.m. EST (local time). For information on ticket sales visit: www.ricardoarjona.com
An Entertainment, Marketing, Media & Live Events Company, Loud And Live performs at the intersection of music, sports, lifestyle and content development. Headquartered in Miami with additional offices in San Francisco, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Spain, Loud And Live is driven by its passion to create engaging experiences for global audiences.
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A New Jersey man admitted Wednesday to having a hand in an antisemitic threat posted online last year, which led to increased security at synagogues.
In front of a federal judge, Omar Alkattoul pleaded guilty to a charge of transmitting a threat in interstate and foreign commerce. The 19-year-old could now face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The charge was in relation to a manifesto titled "When Swords Collide" posted to social media on Nov. 1, 2022. Prosecutors allege Alkattoul admitted he wrote the document when he sent someone a link to it. https://dashboard.newsy.com/story/139435/#A second recipient said Alkattoul sent it to at least five people through another social media platform.
In the manifesto, Alkattoul states, "It's in the context of an attack on Jews," and accuses Jewish people of promoting hatred against Muslim people. and admitted to targeting a synagogue.
New Jersey District Attorney Philip Sellinger said the threats prompted a state-wide alert and "put the community on edge," as authorities believe he posted it with the intent of carrying out the threat against places of worship.
"No one should be targeted for violence or with acts of hate because of how they worship," Sellinger said. "Protecting our communities of faith and places of worship is at the heart of this office's mission."
"The laws of our nation allow for everyone to express themselves. However, when that expression turns into a specific threat toward others, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies must take action," said James E. Dennehy, FBI special agent in charge of the Newark Field Office.
Alkattoul was arrested in November for the threat, which prompted multiple authorities to add extra protections to synagogues in a time of increased antisemitism.
Last year, the Anti-Defamation League received reports of more than 3,600 antisemitic incidents, the most the organization has ever recorded.
Alkattoul's sentencing is set for Nov. 14, 2023. Sellinger said federal authorities intend to seek a penalty "that will hold him accountable."
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World's largest cruise company honored for second consecutive year on the Forbes annual list of the top female-friendly companies in the world
MIAMI, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest cruise company, today announced it has been named for the second consecutive year as one of the World's Top Female-Friendly Companies of 2022 by Forbes, a leading source of business news worldwide. The recognition builds on a series of other distinguished honors Carnival Corporation has earned this year from Forbes for companywide operations and dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion, including the World's Best Employers of 2022 and Best Employers for Diversity for 2022.
Presented by Forbes and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider, the annual listing of the top female-friendly companies recognizes top-performing multinational organizations in a worldwide survey of 85,000 female workers, and companies with proven gender equality performance and significant representation of women in leadership positions.
Carnival Corporation was ranked among the top 400 female-friendly companies in the world, and was the only cruise company recognized on the list. The full list of the World's Top Female-Friendly Companies for 2022 is available on the Forbes website.
"We are proud to be named alongside other distinguished organizations that are champions for the support of women leaders, and we applaud all of the collective efforts being made globally to accelerate inclusion and diversity in the workplace," said Bettina Deynes, global chief human resources officer for Carnival Corporation. "We are focused on promoting diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization, and we are honored to once again be recognized by Forbes as it underscores our commitment to foster a positive and inclusive workplace that supports our talented and diverse employees, while providing equal opportunity and a strong sense of belonging for all."
The Forbes World's Top Female-Friendly Companies list was determined through a globally administered independent survey of approximately 85,000 women across 36 total countries. Respondents were asked to anonymously evaluate their employer's performance across a broad range of gender-related topics, as well as overall workplace satisfaction and willingness to recommend their company, while also providing recommendations for other employers in their industry. Additionally, each company was evaluated based on publicly available information on female representation in leadership positions and through a women-only public opinion survey to measure perceptions of companies in relation to gender equity.
In addition to several recent honors from Forbes this year, Carnival Corporation was named one of the Best Companies for Latinos by Latino Leaders Magazine and earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Corporate Equality Index, designating the company as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality for the sixth consecutive year.
The company was also recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and one of the World's Top Female-Friendly Companies in 2021, in addition to being named a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award Winner honoring the best 100 U.S. places to work. Also in 2021, Carnival Corporation was named as one of America's Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek for the company's commitment to corporate social responsibility leadership.
Diversity and inclusion have long been priorities at Carnival Corporation. The company is proud to employ a diverse workforce of people from more than 100 countries and has intentionally engineered opportunities for hiring, growth and advancement of women by championing all forms of diversity, including gender, ethnicity, background, upbringing, education, geographic origin and experience. Dynamic female leaders today are represented in top leadership roles throughout the company, including presidents of several of Carnival Corporation's operating companies and cruise line brands, and in key roles within global port and destination development, human resources, marketing, sales, communications, operations and finance.
About Carnival Corporation & plc
Carnival Corporation & plc is one of the world's largest leisure travel companies with a portfolio of nine of the world's leading cruise lines sailing to all seven continents. With operations in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia, its portfolio features Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises (Australia), Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard.
Additional information can be found on www.carnivalcorp.com, www.carnival.com, www.princess.com, www.hollandamerica.com, www.seabourn.com, www.pocruises.com.au, www.costacruise.com, www.aida.de, www.pocruises.com and www.cunard.com.
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Customer engagement leader expands executive team with CMO who brings extensive MarTech experience for high-growth SaaS companies
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blueshift, the intelligent customer engagement platform, today announced that Joan Jenkins has joined the company's executive team as its new chief marketing officer. Previously, Joan led marketing teams at data management and marketing automation companies, including Informatica and Oracle Marketing Cloud. In her role, Joan leads the global marketing strategy, brand, and growth for Blueshift.
"Joan is a highly experienced, forward-thinking leader with a proven track record of leading teams at high-growth companies," said Vijay Chittoor, CEO and co-founder of Blueshift. "We're at an exciting point in the industry with the combined power of AI and marketing. Blueshift delivers on these opportunities with intelligent customer engagement. Joan brings a deep understanding of data-driven marketing and extensive experience leading a variety of marketing functions that make her uniquely qualified to join as our CMO."
Blueshift's mission is to unlock every marketer's potential to drive consumer-centric engagement, by making data and intelligence effortlessly actionable on every channel.
"I'm proud to be joining a company that provides incredible ROI to some of the most notable B2C companies globally," said Jenkins. "And I'm thrilled to have an opportunity to work with the amazing team at Blueshift as we continue to accelerate growth and define the future of customer engagement."
Joan brings more than two decades of marketing experience to Blueshift. Joan held leadership positions at companies including Druva as GVP of Marketing; Informatica as Vice President, Marketing; as well as Oracle Marketing Cloud, Cisco, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Additionally, Joan is a member of The CMO Club, an engaged community of marketing leaders; and Chief, a private network to connect and support women in leadership.
Joan earned her Master of Business Administration degree from San Jose State University and her Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Texas at San Antonio.
About Blueshift
San Francisco-based Blueshift helps brands deliver relevant, connected experiences across every customer interaction. The Blueshift cross-channel marketing platform uses patented AI technology to unify, inform, and activate the fullness of customer data across all channels and applications. Through unified data, cross-channel orchestration, intelligent decisioning, and unmatched scale, Blueshift gives brands all the tools they need to seamlessly deliver 1:1 experiences in real-time across the entire customer journey. Blueshift has been recognized in the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ list as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America.
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LONDON, Dec. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Suade, the award-winning RegTech firm, which specialises in bridging the regulatory gap through modern technology, hosted its annual RegTech Forum on 29th November 2022, in collaboration with the City of London. The event, organised at the iconic Guildhall, provided a platform for over 150 leaders from across the industry to discuss the challenges in addressing the ever-changing regulatory landscape. All views were welcomed and valued across panel discussions, which included representation from Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs), smaller foreign banks and building societies, to international regulators, trade associations, and professional services firms. The core themes of the day were disruptive approaches to regulation, the impact of RegTech on the industry, and the reliability and integrity of regulatory reporting.
Sir William Russell and Sir Peter Estlin, Aldermen at the City of London, emphasised that the UK's FinTech sector is at the forefront of innovation, competitiveness, and growth. Sir William highlighted Suade as a "Global RegTech Powerhouse" and that the event was a testament to its thought leadership. Suade's CEO, Diana Paredes, set out the catalysts that could unlock and accelerate the development of innovation in the RegTech sector: agile regulation and clarity on regulatory requirements for data harmonisation. Another insightful panel highlighted that the UK's regulatory compliance landscape has been subject to additional pressures following recent political developments, economic downturn, and Brexit. Also, proportionality was discussed during a roundtable with pioneering building societies and smaller foreign banks. Interpreting regulations can be difficult for smaller institutions with limited resources and was highlighted in the Prudential Regulation Authority's Strong and Simple Framework in April 2022.
On the disruptive transformation panel, participants discussed that AI, ML and the cloud are key contributors to streamlining reporting processes, if used properly. The panel of industry leaders across Europe concluded that regulation should not only be a constraint, but it must also create value. This view was sustained throughout the day, with the panel on data harmonisation exploring the benefits of standardising regulatory data for strategic decision-making beyond just regulatory reporting.
The final panel focused on staying compliant in an ever-changing regulatory environment. Under section 166 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has the power to obtain a view from a third party about aspects of a regulated firm's activities. The panel highlighted that no firm is perfect in its governance, and it is difficult to document everything; however, section 166 must be seen as an opportunity for the company to improve its control frameworks and the skills of its employees. The FCA concluded that the ultimate purpose of data collection and analysis is to make better decisions that support regulatory objectives and create the right outcomes for consumers and markets.
The event brought the RegTech community together and emphasised the importance of in-person collaboration to facilitate a step change in regulatory reporting. We look forward to the 2023 RegTech Forum. Find out more about the annual event and Suade's groundbreaking work in regulatory transformation here.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ultra-Micro (UMi) Holding of PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk. (IDX: BBRI) with PT Pegadaian and PT Permodalan Nasional Madani (PNM) have proven successful in improving people's welfare and accelerating financial inclusion.
More than 23.5 million customers with IDR 183.9 trillion outstanding financing have been integrated by the UMi Holding entities. This achievement is in line with one of the priority agendas of Financial Inclusion in the G20 Presidency in Indonesia.
In August 2022, the integration of services of the UMi Holding entities or co-location of Gerai Senyum reached 1,003 outlets with the initial target of 978. The number of new savers reached 6.85 million, while the initial target was 3.3 million. PNM Mekaar customers joining BRILink reached 40,121.
BRI President Director Sunarso said that there have been positive results as BRI, Pegadaian, and PNM are reaching all business segments efficiently. "The key is to synergize. BRI, Pegadaian, and PNM have been focused on dealing with MSMEs, targeting 55 million ultra-micro customers in Indonesia."
In addition, with the assistance targeted to help individuals who are not yet bankable, customers are given the choice of accessing pawn-based capital through Pegadaian or taking loans from BRI through the Kupedes product.
The development is inseparable from the resources of the UMi Holding entities. BRI Group has a network covering 6,500 micro-outlets, 3,600 PNM outlets, 4,000 Pegadaian outlets, and more than 530,000 BRILink agents. Furthermore, BRI Group has more than 63,000 financial advisors strengthening the micro payment ecosystem.
Minister of State-Owned Enterprises Erick Thohir explained how the UMi Holding has empowered people's economy. "First, state-owned enterprises ensure MSMEs get appropriate financing and assistance. Second, maintaining the supply chain like how we consolidate BRI, PNM, and Pegadaian, ensures MSMEs level up from the ultra-micro class; through PNM's loan of IDR 1 million to IDR 4 million, going up to Pegadaian's loan of IDR 20 million to IDR 50 million."
The UMi Holding has proved that the state's presence is necessary to lift the people's economy and how large companies and corporations must synergize with all business actors.
For more information about Bank BRI, visit www.bri.co.id.
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New, Compact ColorWorks C4000 with Comprehensive Connectivity and Dynamic Image Quality Now Available
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Epson America today announced its newest on-demand color inkjet label printer, the ColorWorks® C4000, is now available through Epson's authorized partners. The ColorWorks C4000 features comprehensive connectivity in a compact design for businesses that require high-resolution print quality and durable barcode and product labels.
Setting it apart from other on-demand color label solutions, the ColorWorks C4000 is compatible with ZPL II®, SAP, major middleware, and more for seamless integration into existing workflows. In addition, the C4000 has remote management tools to provide a streamlined way to manage and monitor a fleet of printers. With the ColorWorks C4000, businesses can harness the power of communication through color with crisp, photo-quality color labels on demand, at up to 1200 dpi resolution.
"Regardless of the industry, businesses need to keep up with swift changes and are looking for reliable, easy-to-use solutions that can maximize mobility and efficiency," said Andy Scherz, senior product manager, Commercial Labels, Epson America, Inc. "No matter the label application – product, packaging, barcode, or shipping – the ColorWorks C4000 can deliver high-quality, durable color labels on-demand, with added features of connectivity and management tools, at a comparable price point to thermal label printers.1"
Additional ColorWorks C4000 features include:
- Remote Management Tools – For managing large fleets over the network
- Optional Wi-Fi connectivity2 – For printing from compatible devices3
- Compact, Robust Design – Dust- and water-resistant for high-duty-cycle environments; ideal for commercial use and smaller workspaces
- Exceptional Image Quality – Engineered with Epson's PrecisionCore® printhead technology to deliver ultra-sharp text and precise barcodes and varying droplet sizes that can produce a huge gamut of vibrant, accurate colors, smooth gradations and fine image details
- Durable, High-quality Labels – Meets BS-5609 certification4
- Enhanced Productivity – Eliminate the need to preprint; speeds up to 4" per second5 and a fast time to first label
- Reliability – Engineered by Epson for demanding applications and backed by industry-leading service and support
Availability
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A pioneer in the world of dance has been awarded one of the largest cash prizes for artists in the United States.
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar founded the dance ensemble Urban Bush Women in 1984. It was one of the first major dance companies composed entirely of female African-American dancers. Almost immediately, it was a sensation in the dance world. Revolutionary at the time – and still cutting edge — Zollar's choreography synthesizes movement from modern dance and traditional folk African dance styles with the kind of text and shouted language the company describes as "the urgent dialogue of the 21st century."
Zollar, who grew up in Kansas City, Mo., can trace her artistic lineage to Katherine Dunham, one of the most influential dancers, choreographers and educators of the 20th century. (Zollar studied with one of Dunham's former students). Like Dunham, Zollar emphasizes community engagement and combining activism and dance. Now in her seventies, Zollar continues to perform, collaborate and choreograph and her company still thrives.
The Lillian and Dorothy Gish Prize was established in 1994 from the will of early screen actor Lillian Gish. It comes with a cash prize of approximately $250,000. Other recipients have included Sonia Sanchez, Ava DuVernay, Gustavo Dudamel, Suzan-Lori Parks, Spike Lee, Anna Deavere Smith, Maya Lin, Trisha Brown and Chinua Achebe.
"I became aware of the Gish Prize when Bill T. Jones received it, back in 2003," Zollar said in a statement. "It's amazing now to have my name included in the extraordinary list of Gish Prize winners, and above all to be recognized both for the work onstage and for the impact I've sought to have as an organizer and activist in the community. We artists don't work for the sake of validation, but when you get the Gish Prize, it's another way to keep moving forward."
Just last year, Zollar was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" grant; her numerous other prizes include a Guggenheim fellowship and a Doris Duke Performing Arts award.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
9-9-9, FIREBALL: 9
(nine, nine, nine; FIREBALL: nine)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
9-9-9, FIREBALL: 9
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Police: Investigation underway after armed man shot by officers dies
RALEIGH COUNTY, W.Va. (WVVA) - West Virginia State Police said the armed man shot by police on a busy highway in the town of Bradley has died from his injuries.
State police said the initial calls reported an armed suspect fleeing a crash scene at about 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to WVVA. The suspect then reportedly stole a truck.
A short time later, the suspect was located at Big Lots in the stolen truck, state police said. The suspect is said to have refused to stop for officers and a pursuit followed that stretched through various counties.
The truck then became “disabled” off a highway in Bradley, police said.
WVVA reported witness video showed members of law enforcement closing in on the unidentified man as he waved what appeared to be a firearm around. Authorities then opened fire, shooting him numerous times.
“During a short standoff, the suspect continued to brandish a handgun, resulting in gunfire from law enforcement, causing the suspect’s death,” said Capt. R. A. Maddy with West Virginia State Police.
Raleigh County Sheriff Scott Van Meter said the shooting was being investigated by his agency and West Virginia State Police.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time, voters have access to search "Political Candidate Names" ahead of the upcoming midterm elections to find lawsuits and/or public information containing the candidate's name you search on laWow.
laWow's goal is to empower voters across the country by providing a free resource to anyone who wants to search public records on laWow to get additional information about candidates before the ballots are tallied on November 8th.
A search on laWow.Org for "Midterm Election" returns over 84 results for both the Congressional Senate and House Races.
laWow is a public utility designed to democratize public information. laWow.Org, the first lawsuit search engine specifically designed for the public, was launched this year. Anyone can search words and/or phrases and find results matching their search. laWow is a platform used by journalists for news, stock investors for companies, researchers for data, and anyone else seeking an unaltered source of information without commentary or opinion.
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Zay Flowers’ first “Welcome to the NFL” moment came in the form of a message from Baltimore native and former NBA star Carmelo Anthony, who reached out after the Ravens selected the Boston College wide receiver 22nd overall in last month’s draft.
“He was like ‘Welcome to flock nation,’” Flowers said. “I was like ‘Carmelo Anthony texted me?’ Then I clicked on his page and there were 7 million followers; I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s him.’”
Flowers’ actual debut was much more routine — he joined 23 others at a three-day rookie minicamp Thursday through Saturday at the team’s facility in Owings Mills.
In many ways, it was just another couple of practices for a player who’s been having them for most of his life. But it also gave Flowers — and Ravens coaches — a feel for how he might be used in the offense. There were some differences from his days at Boston College.
“It’s more sped up; it’s more urgent,” Flowers said Saturday. “You’ve got to know what you’re doing. You’ve got to be able to take it from the classroom to the field.
“In college, you just have more time to learn it, and they’ll take you through [it] more. In the NFL, you’ve just got to get it and go.”
Translation: Flowers, like any rookie, admittedly made his share of mistakes. But that’s what practice is for.
It was just two days, but Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Flowers looked as advertised, calling him “quick” with “good hands” and “very smart.”
“He’s picking things up really quickly, playing every position right now across the board with what we’ve installed,” Harbaugh said.
A variety of roles
It’s way too early to know exactly how the Ravens will deploy Flowers this season, or the kind of impact he will have in an overhauled receiver group. Last year, the Ravens’ wide receivers ranked last in the NFL in yards. This year, they added two-time All-Pro Odell Beckham Jr. and veteran Nelson Agholor and have a healthy Rashod Bateman, whose second season in Baltimore ended after six games because of foot surgery. But there are signs, past and present, that provide at least some indication of where to expect to see Flowers on the field this season and the kinds of contributions he could make.
Harbaugh provided some insight Saturday, saying that Flowers caught punts during practice, and looked good doing so. It’s a role the team will consider for its new speedster, who ran the 40-yard dash in 4.42 seconds at the NFL scouting combine.
Last season, Devin Duvernay was the Ravens’ top punt returner, a position he earned All-Pro honors in 2021. He has been inconsistent as a receiver, however, during his three years in Baltimore and could be expendable this summer. Flowers, meanwhile, returned seven punts for 43 yards last season for Boston College.
But the Ravens obviously didn’t draft Flowers to be a returner.
In four years at Boston College, Flowers was on the field for 2,647 snaps (more than 55 per game), ran 1,415 routes and was targeted 347 times, according to Pro Football Focus, catching 199 of those passes, including a school-record 29 touchdowns. During that span, he played in the slot 33.9% of the time, averaging 2.35 yards per route run, compared with 1.86 yards on the outside. His combined 2.11 yards per route run since 2019 and 119 combined first downs and touchdowns also ranked fourth most among all receivers in this year’s draft class.
In other words, the Ravens aren’t likely to feature him in just a slot role.
At 30 years old and coming off a second torn ACL, Beckham isn’t the same explosive deep threat he once was and could see a significant shift to the inside. The Ravens also have one of the league’s better pass-catching tight ends in Mark Andrews, who led the team in receptions last season.
As for Flowers, he did most of his damage his last two years at Boston College lining up outside, scoring on everything from bubble screens to whip routes to deep passes, including in a 43-15 loss to Wake Forest last season in which he had 10 catches for 135 yards. The highlight was a 61-yard touchdown on which Flowers lined up outside, faked an out, ran a post and raced by two more defenders after catching the ball to score.
“He was fast enough and physical enough to be an outside receiver for them but also quick enough and shifty enough to be a slot receiver,” Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson told The Baltimore Sun. “He was really good with all the jet, orbit, motion stuff they would run.
“He had good hands and ran great routes but he was really good with his hands on the football, and not just after the catch but with his ability to run jet sweeps and reverses he could always make people miss. It was like, ‘Where’s Waldo?’ Every time you came out [on defense], where is he? His ability to line up as a No. 1, 2 or 3 [receiver] and in the backfield is what made it so hard.”
Clawson, whose Demon Deacons played against Boston College three of the past four years, also noted Flowers’ ability to set up routes and understanding of how to separate against man coverage as well find holes against the zone.
Against Louisville, a 34-33 loss that Clawson said Flowers almost won single-handedly for the Eagles, Flowers scored twice, including on a 57-yard bomb on which he caught the ball between two defenders going down the middle and on a 69-yard pass that began with him lined up wide right before employing a double move to get open across the middle. He finished with five catches for a season-high 151 yards and two touchdowns.
“When you watch his film, you just saw such an explosive player on tape who can play inside and out,” Ravens director of player personnel Joe Hortiz said. “[He has] great acceleration. [He’s a] playmaker with the ball in his hands, makes big plays, contested plays downfield.”
Ready to contribute
While rookie wide receivers have historically struggled in the NFL for a variety of reasons — speed of the game, complexity of offenses, adjusting to a new quarterback — that seems less likely to be the case for Flowers. For one, data shows that rookie receiver production has increased across the league over the past four years, according to Sports Info Solutions. For another, Flowers has elements many believe will translate immediately to the next level.
“He’s not just a guy you put in slot and you throw him short passes where he can catch and run,” said Boston College coach and former San Francisco 49ers and Cleveland Browns defensive backs coach Jeff Hafley, adding that Flowers was also the hardest working practice player he’s seen in a long time. “He can go up and get it and take the ball away from people. That’s where his biggest improvement was.
“He’s also got this incredible gift where he can sense where people are so quickly that he makes those first couple people miss so fast. He rarely takes a clean shot and he’s harder to take down than you think.”
That includes in his route running. Hafley said that Flowers made big jumps last season in his release off the line as well as his precision and attention to detail in and out of breaks.
While he was rarely pressed at Boston College, Flowers was also utilized all over the field and often sent in motion. The idea was simple: Get him in space.
All of it added up to Flowers putting up big numbers, particularly between the numbers — an area that his new quarterback Lamar Jackson likes to target. It’s also where the Ravens’ new offensive coordinator Todd Monken could use him often.
Last season, Flowers had 56 catches over the middle, according to PFF, with the majority of those coming at short and intermediate depths.
While it’s unclear where the rookies will receiver most of his targets in Baltimore, Flowers did say that Monken’s offense reminds him of what he did at Boston College.
“I love it,” he said. “I think it fits my style perfectly.”
As for where Flowers thinks he can wreak the most havoc this season, he’s not picky.
“I feel like I’m a complete receiver,” he said. “I can do it all.”
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Feds ask probation for ex-police officer who stormed Capitol
(AP) - Federal prosecutors are recommending a sentence of six months’ probation for a former Virginia police officer who pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol with another off-duty officer.
In a court filing Tuesday, prosecutors argue that former Rocky Mount police officer Jacob Fracker deserves to avoid a prison sentence.
They cited his cooperation and trial testimony against the other officer, Thomas Robertson. Prosecutors recommended an eight-year prison sentence for Robertson, who was convicted of attacking the Capitol to obstruct Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, 2021.
Robertson is scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday. Fracker awaits scheduled sentencing next Tuesday.
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CEDAR FALLS -- One person was injured in a moped accident in Cedar Falls on Monday afternoon.
The identity of the injured person wasn’t available, but Cedar Falls police said the moped driver was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The crash happed at about 3:35 p.m. at the intersection of West Fifth and Clay streets. The moped was traveling east on West Fifth, and a van was headed north on Clay when they collided.
The accident remains under investigation.
Counties with the most motor vehicle fatalities in Iowa
Counties with the most motor vehicle accident fatalities in Iowa
Media outlets were quick during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdowns that defined the summer and fall of 2020 to note just how little traffic there was as a result. Simple logic would suggest that less traffic equals a lower likelihood of accidents and thus fewer injuries and fatalities. Sadly, this was not the case.
Nationwide, traffic fatalities rose 7.2% in 2020 to nearly 39,000. That number was the highest recorded since 2007. Qualifying this disturbing fact is a sticky wicket—common denominators behind traffic deaths such as impaired driving, failure to use a seat belt, and excessive speed were certainly contributing factors, but they alone do not account for a rise in deaths commensurate with a 430-million-mile drop in the number of miles people traveled across the course of the year. What can be qualified, however, is where fatal crashes took place.
Citing data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System , compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Stacker identified the counties in Iowa that had the most fatalities from motor vehicle crashes in 2020. The number of accident fatalities are ranked by the number of deaths per 100,000 people, with the raw number functioning as a tiebreaker. The analysis only looked at counties with at least five deaths during 2020. Additional data is included on pedestrian, bicyclist, and drunk-driving-related deaths. In counties where at least five fatalities happened on the same street or interstate, the road with the most deaths is also included.
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#19. Linn County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 5.3 per 100K people (#1,635 nationally, 12 deaths)
- 2 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 5 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#18. Black Hawk County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 6.8 per 100K people (#1,561 nationally, 9 deaths)
- 2 pedestrian deaths
- 2 bicyclist deaths
- 2 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#17. Polk County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 7.8 per 100K people (#1,507 nationally, 38 deaths)
- 6 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 11 deaths involving drunk drivers
- Road with most fatalities: I-80 (5 fatalities)
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#16. Dallas County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 8.3 per 100K people (#1,481 nationally, 8 deaths)
- 1 pedestrian death
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 2 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#15. Woodbury County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 9.5 per 100K people (#1,409 nationally, 10 deaths)
- 1 pedestrian death
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 3 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#14. Scott County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 12.1 per 100K people (#1,234 nationally, 21 deaths)
- 3 pedestrian deaths
- 1 bicyclist death
- 4 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#13. Warren County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 13.5 per 100K people (#1,152 nationally, 7 deaths)
- 0 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 1 death involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#12. Pottawattamie County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 13.9 per 100K people (#1,120 nationally, 13 deaths)
- 2 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 2 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#11. Marion County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 15.0 per 100K people (#1,048 nationally, 5 deaths)
- 0 pedestrian deaths
- 1 bicyclist death
- 3 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#10. Boone County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 18.7 per 100K people (#830 nationally, 5 deaths)
- 0 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 1 death involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#9. Mahaska County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 22.6 per 100K people (#659 nationally, 5 deaths)
- 0 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 0 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#8. Lee County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 23.7 per 100K people (#629 nationally, 8 deaths)
- 0 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 6 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#7. Cedar County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 27.0 per 100K people (#507 nationally, 5 deaths)
- 0 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 3 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#6. Mills County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 34.1 per 100K people (#336 nationally, 5 deaths)
- 0 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 5 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#5. Plymouth County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 35.2 per 100K people (#307 nationally, 9 deaths)
- 0 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 2 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#4. Hardin County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 35.3 per 100K people (#304 nationally, 6 deaths)
- 0 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 3 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#3. Iowa County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 36.2 per 100K people (#280 nationally, 6 deaths)
- 0 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 1 death involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#2. Madison County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 36.6 per 100K people (#273 nationally, 6 deaths)
- 0 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 2 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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#1. Adair County, Iowa
- Motor vehicle crash fatalities: 80.7 per 100K people (#40 nationally, 6 deaths)
- 0 pedestrian deaths
- 0 bicyclist deaths
- 0 deaths involving drunk drivers
- No roads with at least five fatalities
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U.S. Capitol police arrested 11 people protesting Thursday at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington after they entered a vestibule and refused to leave, Capitol police spokesman Tim Barber said.
BREAKING: The heads of 13 climate + EJ orgs are on Capitol Hill in DC right now, risking arrest to denounce Senator Manchin’s #DirtyDeal to fast-track fossil fuel projects.
— Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) (@CJAOurPower) September 22, 2022
We stand w/ them and the frontline-led movement rising up to say #NoDirtyDeal! https://t.co/2D6Z6VlGyN
Those arrested were all directors with national environmental groups, protest organizers said.
To secure the support of Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) for the Inflation Reduction Act — the climate, energy and health-care package that was the climate movement’s biggest legislative success — Democratic leadership reached a side deal with Manchin to pass permitting revision.
On Wednesday, Manchin revealed the text of the permitting bill, which includes shortening environmental review periods for projects and expediting the 300-mile-long Mountain Valley Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline across West Virginia and Virginia that is a key priority for Manchin and a project that protesters have opposed for years.
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WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, December 31, 2022
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
952 AM CST Sat Dec 31 2022
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
Earlier dense fog is lifting across the area with visibility
generally above 1 mile. Expect continued clearing through the
morning.
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WACO, Texas — The Waco NAACP chapter partnered with multiple organizations to host a housing forum for Waco residents on Monday night.
The City of Waco, Prosper Waco, Grassroots Waco and NeighborWorks Waco all participated in the forum at the Dewey Recreation Center.
"I am so grateful for this city and the things that and the organizations that are within this city that who has put themselves in a position to help people," said Lovie Langston, legal redress chairman for the Waco NAACP.
Housing experts discussed and answered questions about housing costs, renovations and "tangled titles," which are titles that have not been updated after a property is passed down from generation to generation.
"[In] my culture, we live in our grandparent's home, but the deed hasn't been transferred. We don't know how to do that and we haven't done it," said new homeowner Maya Sample, in attendance on Monday.
Sample said she wished she had been able to attend before purchasing a home, but came to learn how to prepare her sons for homeownership in the future.
"I'm a homeowner and I have two sons that's I'm going to want to leave the house too," she said. "I need to know how to do that."
A recent housing study from the city of Waco found that the city is short roughly 5,000 housing units and that a growing number of residents are living in housing outside their means.
Each organization made a point to recognize that there are resources to help. The city of Waco, for example, offers down payment assistance programs, residential tax abatement and home rehabilitation loans.
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CAIRO (AP) — Two leading human rights groups on Thursday accused Egyptian authorities of failing to conduct an impartial and transparent investigation into the suspicious death of an economic researcher in custody.
In a joint statement, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International accused Egyptian prosecutors of having turned a blind eye to “mounting evidence” that 48-year-old Ayman Hadhoud disappeared, was tortured, and was denied access to timely healthcare.
Hadhoud’s whereabouts were unknown for two months before he was pronounced dead in April. The Interior Ministry said then that he had died in the government-run Abbasiya Mental Health Hospital in Cairo where he was brought for allegedly attempting to break into an apartment in the upscale Zamalek district of Cairo and exhibited “irresponsible behavior.”
His suspicious death had raised alarm among local and international rights groups especially after his family alleged that his body had facial bruises and a cracked skull.
“The severely flawed investigation into the causes and circumstances of Ayman Hadhoud’s death in custody is another stark reminder of the impunity crisis in Egypt,” said Philip Luther, Middle East and North Africa Research and Advocacy Director at Amnesty International. “Failure to adequately investigate and ensure accountability for his suspicious death only emboldens security forces to continue violating detainees’ right to life with no fear of consequences.”
Last month, an Egyptian court rejected an appeal filed by Hadhoud’s family to reinvestigate the evidence and the circumstances of his death. The court upheld the prosecutors’ decision to close the case and to rule out any criminal suspicion.
Earlier, prosecutors had refused demands to allow independent observers to attend the autopsy of Hadhoud’s body, and ultimately concluded that had died of chronic heart disease that led to a cardiac and respiratory arrest.
“Prosecutors have systematically neglected to investigate allegations of enforced disappearance and torture, and have admitted confessions extracted under torture as evidence in trials,” read the statement.
Both advocacy groups claimed that they had obtained leaked documents from the hospital showing that Hadhoud’s health was deteriorating while in custody. However, authorities failed to transfer him promptly to a better-equipped medical facility where his life could have been saved, the groups said.
Torture and abuse by police are not unusual in Egypt. In 2016, Giulio Regeni, an Italian doctoral student, was found dead on the side of a Cairo road. His body had been brutalized, raising suspicions of police involvement. Italy accused police officers of killing him, a charge that Egypt denied. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/rights-groups-say-probe-into-egypt-economists-death-flawed/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-07-07 13:00:55 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/rights-groups-say-probe-into-egypt-economists-death-flawed/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
FAIRFAX, Va. — A police force and university in northern Virginia are teaming up for what they say will be a first-of-its-kind study that will seek over the next 20 years the assess the challenges police agencies face in recruitment and retention.
The Fairfax County Police Department, which is participating in the study announced Friday, is emblematic of the trend. Police Chief Kevin Davis said the police force is more than 200 officers short of the 1,484 officers it is authorized to employ, though he said a larger-than-normal academy class of 58 will soon fill some of the gap.
Davis said at a press conference Friday that the study will help agencies like his understand what police need to do to attract the best recruits and keep them on the force.
“We think over time, and hopefully over many years, we’ll learn a lot more about who wants to become part of this profession and why,” Davis said.
The study, led by George Mason University, will not only follower officers throughout their careers, but will also look at applicants who decide for whatever reason against becoming officers.
Cynthia Lum, a professor with GMU’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, said that while recruitment and retention are key issues in the policing profession, there’s a lack of academic studies assessing the reasons.
“These are questions that have existed for decades about why people join the police department, why they leave,” she said. “And I feel like we’re just still guessing. And we’re guessing because we don’t have these types of studies.”
Lum said the plan is to continue the study for 20 years, though long-term funding will still have to be secured.
The National Policing Institute is providing initial funding. Its president, Jim Burch, said the lessons learned in Fairfax will be relevant across the country. But he said he’d like to see this sort of study replicated across the country.
For a profession that faces accusations of racism, especially in recent years, Burch said it will be important for the study to address applicants’ and officers’ views on race. He said he’s confident that academics have the skills and tools necessary to get an honest assessment of those views. And Lum emphasized that the study will be independent and officers will have the ability to speak freely and at times anonymously about their views.
Davis said he thinks the quality of officers entering the profession is better than it was when he started 30 years ago. He said that stems in part from recruitment efforts that seek to draw from a broader pool of the population. That extends beyond racial demographics. As an example, Davis said his force used to provide a salary bump for applicants with criminal justice degrees. That has been changed to incorporate graduates who had different academic interests.
“We hired psychology majors, sociology majors, and we’re looking for a greater representation of the community,” he said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/04/07/police-study-recruit-retention-fairfax/7c3bd2cc-d57f-11ed-ac8b-cd7da05168e9_story.html | 2023-04-07 21:33:39 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/04/07/police-study-recruit-retention-fairfax/7c3bd2cc-d57f-11ed-ac8b-cd7da05168e9_story.html |
LYNCHBURG, Va. – The Lynchburg Fire Department responded to a report of a structure fire in Lynchburg just after 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Firefighters arrived at the scene at the 1200 block of Garfield Avenue, where they say heavy flames were coming from the second floor of the two-story, wood-frame building.
Officials say firefighters began an exterior attack and then conducted a primary search of the home, and it was determined that no one was inside the home.
The fire was brought under control in about 20 minutes and crews remained on the scene for about two hours, according to firefighters.
Officials say no injuries were reported, and the Fire Marshal’s office is investigating the incident. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/01/11/no-one-hurt-after-structure-fire-in-lynchburg/ | 2023-01-11 19:26:06 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/01/11/no-one-hurt-after-structure-fire-in-lynchburg/ |
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While the brutal fighting in Ukraine goes on, concerns are already growing about the coming winter and Ukraine's ability to heat its homes. The country has vast energy resources but depends on imports. As NPR's Nathan Rott reports, there are hopes in coal-rich eastern Ukraine that may change.
NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE: It's the beginning of a shift at this eastern Ukrainian coal mine. Men and women in stained uniforms crowd into a dark elevator platform and descend some 265 meters below the surface into a wide tunnel. The crew walks out across metal platforms laid across the hard rock floor, scanning in for their shift and cramming into a small metal tram with wood plank seats - four people to a car. Oleksander Aksonov is the mine's chief engineer.
OLEKSANDER AKSONOV: (Through interpreter) So people are taken by these wagons on horizontal routes and also, it declines.
ROTT: Another hundred-plus meters below the surface.
AKSONOV: (Through interpreter) So we'll use a kind of transport with these monorails.
ROTT: A series of monorails, actually - three in total to get where we're going. Riding down, Aliona Samarsk, one of the mine's employees, leans towards us in the cart.
ALIONA SAMARSK: (Through interpreter) Aren't you afraid?
ROTT: Should I be?
SAMARSK: (Through interpreter) Yes.
ROTT: I thought being underground is the safest place to be right now in Ukraine.
SAMARSK: (Non-English language spoken).
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Non-English language spoken).
UNIDENTIFIED INTERPRETER: The miners think so. A lot of them think so.
ROTT: Underground mining, dangerous as it can be, is normal. Missile strikes? Not so much. All the same, we've agreed not to give the exact name or location of this mine for security reasons. Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukraine's electrical infrastructure since the start of the war and taken control of multiple coal mines, part of a wider campaign, Ukrainian officials say, to cripple the country and its economy. That's why some coal miners, like the ones we meet at the end of the rail, some seven kilometers into the mine, call this the war's other front line.
IAN KALVECHUKIAN: (Non-English language spoken).
ROTT: "It's very important for us to be here," says miner Ian Kalvechukian, "providing our country with energy, with power." It's a role coal miners here are more than happy to embrace. Their industry has long been on a similar trajectory to coal mining in the U.S. - down, phased out by cleaner energy sources, like natural gas and renewables, as Ukraine looks to give itself a more Euro-friendly energy portfolio. Now, Aksonov says, standing next to a boring machine at the end of the tunnel...
AKSONOV: (Through interpreter) I believe that the demand for coal in the whole world will increase because - due to the sanctions, the import of oil is limited now. So coal will be in high demand.
ROTT: He's not wrong. Coal demand has increased globally over the last year as gas prices have climbed, in part because of Russia's invasion. Earlier this month, Ukraine suspended exports of gas and coal. And its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stressing the importance of both, warned of the winter ahead.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY: (Non-English language spoken).
ROTT: "Due to Russia's aggression, this will indeed be the most difficult heating season since independence," he said. Hearing the calls for more extraction, more fossil fuels, Iryna Holovko sits in her Kyiv office and shakes her head.
IRYNA HOLOVKO: I do hope that this would be really short-term solution.
ROTT: Holovko is the head of Ecoaction, one of the largest environmental organizations in Ukraine. She wears a pin of Lisa Simpson on her shirt.
Lisa Simpson?
HOLOVKO: Yeah.
ROTT: Why?
HOLOVKO: I feel like Lisa Simpson in this world (laughter). It's not easy.
ROTT: (Laughter).
Holovko says that before the war, Ukraine was on a path towards decarbonizing its economy. Coal plants and mines were in decline. Coal communities were warming to the idea of a just transition. Ukraine pledged at the Glasgow Climate Conference to go fossil fuel-free by 2035.
HOLOVKO: And now the priority is on the internal extraction.
HOLOVKO: She gets it. The country is in a war. But longer term, she says, shifting to renewables is still the better answer. It provides energy independence and helps fight climate change. Herman Halushchenko is Ukraine's minister of energy.
HERMAN HALUSHCHENKO: In the long term, of course, we should follow this green course and this Paris agreement and everything.
ROTT: But he says the concerns about the next heating season, next winter, are very real and very now.
HALUSHCHENKO: They hit and target the energy sector because they know that we are preparing for the next heating season. So that's quite a challenge for us.
ROTT: Halushchenko says there are coal mines that could be modernized, even expanded, to help meet Ukraine's energy demands. And he says the country already has agreements in place with American-based Westinghouse Electric Company to build more nuclear plants as soon as the war is over. But in the short term, the country needs to do everything it can to provide for its immediate needs, which brings us back to the energy front line, nearly 400 meters underground in eastern Ukraine.
(SOUNDBITE OF ALARM BLARING)
ROTT: The miners direct us to put on respirators and move to a tunnel wall before keying hydraulics that move a gnarled circular drill bit up towards the rock wall at the tunnel's end. Small seams of coal glitter in the headlamp's light.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Non-English language spoken).
ROTT: The tunnel becomes a cloud of fine particulate. Fist-sized chunks of rock fall to a conveyor belt below. Normally, they do this six hours a day. After the demonstration, Oleksander Aksonov, the mine's chief engineer, says he hopes investments will be made in the region's coal industry.
AKSONOV: (Non-English language spoken).
ROTT: "After the 24 of February," he says, "our miners realized how important their work is to provide Ukraine with power because," he says, "that work is on their shoulders now." For how long, nobody knows.
Nathan Rott, NPR News, eastern Ukraine.
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Protests galvanize Iranians abroad in hope, worry and unity
By SYLVIA HUI
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — As anti-government protests roil cities and towns in Iran for a fourth week, tens of thousands of Iranians living abroad have marched on the streets of Europe, North America and beyond in support of what many believe to be a watershed moment for their home country.
From those who fled in the 1980s after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution to a younger generation of Iranians born and raised in Western capitals, many in the diaspora community say they feel an unprecedented unity of purpose and affinity with the demonstrations at home sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by Iran’s morality police.
“I see this as a turning point for Iran in many ways — we’ve always had political fault lines that divided us, but this time it’s people saying, ‘I’m with women’,” said Tahirih Danesh, 52, a human rights researcher who lives and works in London. “It’s phenomenal, it’s happened at such speed, and this sense of camaraderie among Iranians has been amazing.”
In the past month, large crowds of people of Iranian origin in dozens of cities from London to Paris to Toronto have turned out every weekend for rallies in solidarity with protests that erupted in Iran after Mahsa Amini died in custody after she was detained for allegedly violating strict Islamic dress codes for women.
Many say they have been kept awake at night by a mixture of hope, sadness and apprehension – hope that their country may be on the brink of change after decades of oppression, and fear that authorities will unleash more violence in an increasingly brutal crackdown that has seen dozens killed and hundreds arrested.
Some, like Danesh –- whose family smuggled her and her siblings out of Iran in the 1980s to escape persecution — say the images of protesters being violently suppressed by authorities recall afresh the trauma of similar scenes around the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
“I’m thousands of miles away, it’s 40 years later but the images I see are bringing it all back, it’s as if I’m reliving it again,” Danesh said.
While Iran has seen waves of protest in recent years, many agree that this time the resistance feels broader in nature and in scope because it challenges the fundamentals of the Islamic Republic. Some say they have never seen the likes of global solidarity for Iran shown by politicians, intellectuals and celebrities, many of whom have cut off locks of their hair in a gesture of support of Iranian women.
“Before, many of us outside had a distanced view of what’s happening inside, we couldn’t find the same connection. But today Iranians inside are calling for fundamental change. They’re saying ‘retrieve my Iran’,” said Vali Mahlouji, 55, an art curator in London who left Iran in the 1980s. He said he is self-exiled because his work deals with censored artists and art history.
“This unites every Iranian I know, all the different generations of exiles,” he added. “People who have been out of Iran most of their lives are feeling restless and sleepless. I don’t know anyone who is not sympathetic, and of course, not worried.”
The Iranian diaspora is large, including not just those who fled soon after the 1979 revolution, but also later waves leaving Iran because of continued repression or economic woes. More than half a million live in the U.S., and France, Sweden and Germany have communities in the hundreds of thousands, with major centers in Los Angeles, Washington, London, Paris and Stockholm.
In Paris, 28-year-old Romane Ranjbaran was among thousands last week who came out despite a heavy downpour and marched, sang and chanted “Khamenei get out” in Persian and French, referring to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Several women cut off locks of their hair and threw them in the air joyfully.
Ranjbaran, who grew up in France, said she felt “stricken” by what’s happening in Iran.
“Iran is part and parcel of my history. My mom has known a free Iran when women were free,” she said, as her mother and other family members stood by her side at the rally. “It’s an international fight. If we want the situation in Iran to improve, we need international support.”
The 1979 revolution ousted the U.S.-backed shah, the monarch whose rule was resolutely secular but was also brutally repressive and plagued with corruption. The revolution joined leftists and other political factions including Islamists, who after the shah’s fall seized total power and created the Islamic Republic, ruled over by Shiite Muslim clerics.
Some expatriates have been wary of joining protests because they have family in Iran and regularly travel back and forth. Some raised concerns about the suspected presence of Iranian intelligence agents or extremist factions.
Others say they felt some unease about the protests’ aims beyond the unifying cry of “Women, Life, Freedom” and the leaderless nature of the protests.
“I love my country, I want to show support, but every time I go I’m also confused because in every corner of the demonstrations there’s a different chant,” said Amanda Navaian, a luxury handbag designer in her early 40s who has attended all the recent weekend rallies in London.
Navaian said she wanted to attend protests “for as long as it takes,” and has even made plans to potentially organize one herself. She wasn’t sure demonstrations abroad will make a real difference, but she said it was crucial “to show we care.”
At the very least, she knows she is doing something to dispel what she described as pervasive negative perceptions of Iran and Iranians.
“Islam was forced upon us, this extremism is not who we are. Our country has been hijacked — we were a country of music, dance and poetry,” Navaian said.
“People were coming up to me in Trafalgar Square to ask, ‘What are you doing?’ and I explained why we were there,” she added. “Through these demonstrations there’s more awareness. Maybe now the international community should wake up to what’s happening.”
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Jade Le Deley in Paris contributed to this report. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/10/11/protests-galvanize-iranians-abroad-in-hope-worry-and-unity/ | 2022-10-12 07:31:55 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/10/11/protests-galvanize-iranians-abroad-in-hope-worry-and-unity/ |
This new retailer coming to Edinburgh outlets won’t get a ‘chilly’ reception
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Simon Property Group announced today that the company will partner with retailer Five Below at nine properties, according to a press release.
Included in the list is Indiana Premium Outlets, the mall in Edinburgh.
The new stores will open beginning this spring and summer 2023 at Albertville Premium Outlets, Pleasant Prairie Premium Outlets, Johnson Creek Premium Outlets, Gaffney Outlet Marketplace, Indiana Premium Outlets, Pismo Beach Premium Outlets and Pocono Premium Outlets.
In addition, Five Below is also opening at Great Mall, a Mills property, in Milpitas, CA, and at Miller Hill Mall in Duluth, MN this year as well as undergoing a full remodel at Arundel Mills in Hanover, MD.
“Expansion to 3,500-plus stores is a key strategic pillar of our vision for growth, and our relationship with Simon is core to continuing our national expansion efforts. We look forward to our partnership with Simon and serving new communities and customers with our fun and value-based experience with the opening of each new store this spring and summer,” said George Hill, Chief Retail Officer of Five Below.
“The expansion of our relationship with Five Below comes as a result of the success of the 21 stores that are currently in our Malls and Mills properties and is a natural extension of our commitment to growth,” said Paul Ajdaharian, Senior Vice President of Leasing at Simon.
No word on when the retailer of cool stuff for tweens, teens and beyond will be opening. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/this-new-retailer-coming-to-edinburgh-outlets-wont-get-a-chilly-reception/ | 2023-05-18 20:47:58 | 0 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/this-new-retailer-coming-to-edinburgh-outlets-wont-get-a-chilly-reception/ |
ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) — Wednesday marked an unofficial heat record as the average global temperature reached 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Associated Press.
With over 38 million Americans facing some kind of heat watch in recent days, staying safe from the warm weather is on the minds of many.
But although the high temperatures might seem like the main focus when it comes to avoiding harm from extreme conditions, your skin is a lot more concerned with the high UV ratings — something sunscreen is crucial in protecting from.
Does sunscreen really matter?
The answer is a resounding “yes.”
Sunscreen is a daily essential in protecting yourself from skin cancer and other forms of skin damage, said the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
That includes both the recent record-hot days and those when you aren’t even going outside — even during the wintertime.
If you spend time next to a sunny window or drive during the daytime hours, you’re still likely exposed to rays that can cause skin damage. And even during the coldest weather, radiation from the sun can still make its way to your skin.
MD Anderson Cancer Center recommends making it a habit to apply a broad-spectrum sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 30 or higher every morning.
The Center also advises individuals to apply sunscreen 30 minutes before heading outside since the product can take a while to work itself into the skin.
But what does the SPF number mean?
You’ve probably heard of UV rays before — but do you really understand what they are? Or how they’re different than the temperature on any given day? And what does SPF measure anyway?
There are two kinds of ultraviolet rays produced by the sun: UVB and UVA. Ultraviolet-B can cause sunburns and other skin damage, while UV-A can cause skin cancer, according to the MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The SPF number refers to how much of the sun’s UVB rays the product absorbs and reflects from your skin. But a higher number doesn’t necessarily mean you’re better protected.
For example, an SPF 30 product can take care of around 97% of the sun’s burning rays, but an SPF 50 only increases that value by one percentage point.
Although MD Anderson Cancer Center advises that you should always choose an SPF of at least 30, applying sunscreen frequently and liberally — and choosing a product that protects you from both UVA and UVB rays — is more important than applying any specific SPF value.
What kind of sunscreen is the best?
Not all sunscreen is created equal, according to MD Anderson Cancer Center.
An ideal sunscreen should include either zinc oxide or titanium dioxide — two minerals that can protect your skin from both UVA and UVB rays.
According to Piedmont Medical, the presence of these active ingredients designates a product as a physical/mineral sunscreen instead of a chemical sunscreen.
Physical sunscreens rest on top of your skin, which means the product itself is absorbing and reflecting the sun’s rays. On the other hand, chemical sunscreens work their way into your skin, meaning the sun’s rays also travel into your skin before being reflected back out by the SPF.
Although physical suncare is often preferred by dermatologists, chemical SPFs have their advantages, especially for those who are wearing them while swimming or sweating.
Whether you opt for physical or chemical, make sure any sun product is at least SPF 30 and designated as “Broad Spectrum” to ensure you’re getting complete protection.
A product you do want to avoid in any sunscreen is benzene, which has been found to act as a carcinogen, according to MD Anderson.
However, it’s important to keep in mind that UVA rays also are well-known to cause cancer, so don’t let the fear of harmful ingredients stop you from wearing your SPF regularly.
How should I apply sunscreen?
According to MD Anderson, sunscreens typically wear off within two hours of application. And if you’re sweating or swimming them off on a summer day, they could be gone in as little as one hour.
As a rule, apply a golf ball-sized amount of cream sunscreen to every exposed area every two hours. This might seem like too much product, but MD Anderson writes that it’s important in ensuring skin protection.
If you’re opting for a spray sunscreen, make sure to check the packaging for re-application instructions. These products tend to wear off easier and require more frequent usage.
It’s also important to remember to apply SPF to the areas of your body that often get forgotten, such as your ears, feet and the back of your neck.
What else can I do to keep my skin safe?
Although wearing sunscreen is essential, it can’t filter out 100% of the sun’s harmful UV rays.
Here are other ways to minimize your UV exposure on top of wearing sunscreen, according to MD Anderson:
- Avoid spending long periods of time outside from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. This period of time is usually when the UV index is highest, so spend your time outdoors early in the morning or evening to avoid mid-day UV rays.
- Wear other forms of sun protection. These can include lip balm and makeup with SPF protection, a tightly-woven brimmed hat, sunglasses with UV protection and sun-protective clothing.
- Never use a tanning bed. Whether you wear sunscreen or not, the concentration of UV rays in tanning salons are extremely harmful to your skin, according to MD Anderson Cancer Center. Opt for faux tanning products to instead to achieve the same sun-kissed glow.
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Oil companies brought in staggering profits once again as people worldwide struggled with high gasoline and energy prices.
Exxon Mobil broke records with its profits in the third quarter, raking in $19.66 billion in net income. The Irving, Texas company said Friday that it booked $112.07 billion in quarterly revenue, more than double the revenue it received last year during the same period.
Chevron had $11.23 billion in profits, almost reaching the record profits it attained last quarter, and the San Ramon, California, company brought in $66.64 billion in revenues.
The high cost of energy has hit consumers in multiple ways. Americans, especially low-income workers, have struggled with painfully high gasoline prices in recent months, paying more than $4.80 on average for a gallon of regular at the beginning of July, according to AAA. High energy prices also hit manufacturers and retailers, who pass on those costs to customers in the form of high prices for food, clothing and other goods.
Gasoline eased somewhat towards the end of the quarter, but customers were still paying more than $3.79 a gallon of regular, on average, in late September.
Exxon boosted production of gasoline and oil during the quarter to meet growing demand. It had its best-ever refinery output in North America and its highest globally since 2008, the company said. And it produced 3.7 million barrels of oil or oil-equivalent per day, and had record production in the Permian Basin, the most productive oil field in the U.S.
The investments Exxon made, even during the pandemic, enabled the company to increase production to meet the needs of customers, said CEO Darren Woods in a conference call with investors.
“Where others pulled back in the face of uncertainty and a historic slowdown, retreating and retrenching, this company move forward, continuing to invest and build to help meet the demand we see today and position the company for long term success in each of our businesses,” Woods said.
Natural gas prices have also been high, especially as demand for liquefied natural gas has remained strong globally. The U.S. has been increasingly exporting liquefied natural gas to Asia and Europe, especially as supply of Russian natural gas declined after Russia invaded Ukraine and prices skyrocketed. Woods listed inventory concerns as one of the reasons American natural gas prices rose by 15% during the quarter.
Oil prices were initially high during the quarter but fell gradually. A barrel of benchmark U.S. crude was selling for more than $100 when the quarter began in July but was selling for closer to $80 at the end of September. Even so, diesel prices remain high, according to AAA, which affects delivery costs and raises prices for all sorts of consumer goods.
To help meet growing demand, Exxon is expanding its oil refinery in Beaumont, Texas and expects the additional refined product to become available in early 2023.
Exxon’s refining businesses was the star performer during the quarter, said Peter McNally, global sector lead at Third Bridge, in a note to investors. “While some of the political rhetoric cooled during the quarter, investment in the company’s fuel manufacturing segment heated up along with the profits,” McNally said.
American oil companies aren’t the only ones benefiting from high energy prices. European energy giants Shell and TotalEnergies reported huge profits Thursday. That fueled calls to tax the profits of energy producers which have benefited from high oil and natural gas prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, even as Europe heads into winter during an energy crisis.
Shares of Exxon Mobil added about 2% in midday trading, while Chevron added less than 1%. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/ap-oil-giant-exxon-rakes-in-a-record-19-66b-in-profits/ | 2022-10-29 02:28:07 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/ap-oil-giant-exxon-rakes-in-a-record-19-66b-in-profits/ |
Man arrested after threatening to kill police sergeant
HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) - A Connecticut man is facing several charges after allegedly threatening a police sergeant.
According to Connecticut State Police, a sergeant was getting into his police vehicle when a man sitting in another car started to shout at him.
The man, later identified as 29-year-old Raymond Lapinski, reportedly asked the sergeant if he was a cop.
When the sergeant confirmed he was a member of law enforcement, Lapinski told him that he “kills cops,” police said.
“Using profane language, the male went on to threaten to kill the sergeant specifically,” a spokesperson for the Connecticut State Police said.
The sergeant attempted to take Lapinski into custody, but the man made an obscene hand gesture while yelling profanities and took off from the scene in a Honda sedan.
Police said they were able to locate Lapinski a short time later but due to him traveling at speeds over 100 mph, they terminated the pursuit.
According to authorities, police spotted Lapinski on Tuesday and they were able to take him into custody while he was armed with a knife and yelling obscenities at officers.
“Officers sustained minor injuries during the struggle to secure Lapinski in the cruiser,” a spokesperson for the Connecticut State Police said.
State police said the 29-year-old also had outstanding warrants for his arrest from other police departments.
The 29-year-old is facing charges that include assault of a public safety officer, reckless driving and carrying a dangerous weapon.
Lapinski was arraigned in a Hartford courtroom on Wednesday.
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CHICAGO, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Pat Tillman Foundation (PTF) announced the names of the 60 U.S. service members, veterans and military spouses chosen as 2023 Tillman Scholars. In recognition of their service and leadership potential, the newly selected class will receive scholarship funding to pursue higher education and continue their service in the fields of healthcare, business, law, public service, STEM, education and the humanities. For the full list of 2023 Tillman Scholars, along with their service branches, institutions and fields of study, please visit http://scholars.ptf.org.
"We're thrilled to welcome these impressive 60 veterans and military spouses as part of our global Tillman Scholar community," said Dan Futrell, CEO and 2011 Tillman Scholar. "These individuals are key to closing the leadership gap in our country, and it is our honor to support them with scholarship, community, and leadership development as they lead through action to impact the most pressing challenges facing our world today."
"Selecting a new class of Tillman Scholars and supporting their goals is such a special time for the foundation each year," said Marie Tillman Shenton, board chair and co-founder of PTF. "It means so much to see these leaders continue to carry Pat's legacy and values forward, in fields as diverse as medicine, STEM, humanities and engineering."
To date, PTF has invested more than $26 million in scholar support and named more than 850 Tillman Scholars at nearly 150 academic institutions nationwide.
For more information on the Pat Tillman Foundation and the impact of the Tillman Scholars, visit pattillmanfoundation.org.
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60-year-old man killed in bull attack in Texas
FERRIS, Texas (KTVT) - Authorities say a 60-year-old man was killed by a bull in Texas. The bull was euthanized.
The victim’s father called police Monday, saying he thought a bull had killed his 60-year-old son. The incident happened in Ferris, Texas, about 20 miles south of Dallas.
When deputies and first responders arrived, they said the bull was destroying property and not allowing them to get close to the victim to help him. The bull was then shot and killed.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity wasn’t released pending full notification of his family.
There’s no word on who the owner of the bull is or where it came from.
The circumstances are still under investigation.
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Updated January 26, 2023 at 10:16 AM ET
The Biden administration is proposing major changes to forms for the 2030 census and federal government surveys that would transform how Latinos and people of Middle Eastern or North African descent are counted in statistics across the United States.
A new checkbox for "Middle Eastern or North African" and a "Hispanic or Latino" box that appears under a reformatted question asking for a person's race or ethnicity are among the early recommendations announced in a Federal Register notice, which was made available Thursday for public inspection ahead of its official publication.
If approved, the changes would address longstanding difficulties many Latinos have had in answering a question about race that does not include a response option for Hispanic or Latino, which the federal government recognizes only as an ethnicity that can be of any race.
The reforms would also mark a major achievement for advocates for Arab Americans and other MENA groups who have long campaigned for their own checkbox. While the U.S. government currently categorizes people with origins in Lebanon, Iran, Egypt and other countries in the MENA region as white, many people of MENA descent do not identify as white people. In addition to a new box on forms, the proposal would change the government's definition of "White" to no longer include people with MENA origins.
Research by the Census Bureau suggests both the addition of a "Middle Eastern or North African" box and a combined question about race and ethnicity could decrease the number of people who identify as white for the national head count.
The recommendations come from a group of career civil servants who have been reviewing how to make data produced by the U.S. government better reflect the country's diversity. The last update to the standards on racial and ethnic data that the Census Bureau and other federal agencies must follow, in addition to any related federal laws, took place in 1997.
"It's important to remember that the recommendations are preliminary—not final—and they do not represent the positions of OMB or the agencies participating on the Working Group," stressed Karin Orvis — U.S. chief statistician within the White House Office of Management and Budget, which sets the statistical standards for the federal government — in a blog post.
Biden officials revived this multiyear review effort, which began in 2014, after it was stalled by former President Donald Trump's administration. That delay blocked the bureau from carrying out long-awaited changes to the 2020 census form that the agency's research found were likely to improve the accuracy of the racial and ethnic data used to redraw voting districts and enforce civil rights protections, as well as guide policymaking and research.
Other preliminary recommendations by the working group of civil servants include requiring more federal agencies to ask for detailed responses about people's identities, such as "Chinese," "German," "Jamaican," "Lebanese," "Mexican" or "Samoan."
Another proposal would remove outdated language from the government's current racial and ethnic data policy, including "Negro" as a term to describe the "Black" category and "Far East" to describe a geographic region of origin for people of Asian descent. The terms "majority" and "minority" would also no longer be used, echoing a move the Census Bureau announced in 2021 to better describe the country's changing demographics.
Any revisions to the federal data standards are expected to spur far-reaching changes to how many state and local governments and private institutions generate their racial and ethnic data.
The Office of Management and Budget is expected to make a final decision on the working group's proposals by summer 2024.
Until then, OMB is asking for members of the public to weigh in by April 12 with their feedback, which the working group says will be factored into their final recommendations.
Edited by: Benjamin Swasey
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Sports fans can now enjoy unmatched rewards when betting on the Caesars Sportsbook app
TOPEKA, Kan. and LAS VEGAS, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR) ("Caesars") today announced its sports wagering mobile app, Caesars Sportsbook, is available for download in Kansas. Eligible sports fans can now enjoy mobile sports betting on iOS, Android, or desktop while taking advantage of industry-leading rewards.
The Caesars Sportsbook app features improved performance with a focus on speed, ease of use, and intuitive features to make getting a bet down easier than ever. The launch of Caesars Sportsbook in Kansas expands Caesars' already-established footprint in the Midwest through its offering of premium entertainment experiences at top gaming destinations Harrah's North Kansas City and Isle of Capri Hotel Boonville in neighboring Missouri and Harrah's and Horseshoe Council Bluffs in Iowa.
"We're proud to deliver a world-class sports betting experience that matches the championship pedigree Kansas is known for," said Eric Hession, Co-President of Caesars Digital. "Our Caesars Sportsbook app has never been more user-friendly, and when you combine that with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunities offered through Caesars Rewards, we're thrilled about what we can bring to Kansas sports fans in time for football season."
Caesars Sportsbook is the only app in Kansas that combines an elevated sports wagering experience with unmatched rewards made possible through the app's integration with the industry-leading customer loyalty program Caesars Rewards. Every wager placed earns Tier Credits for status and Reward Credits that can be redeemed for unforgettable Caesars Rewards experiences, discounted getaways at Caesars destinations across the United States, bonus cash in the app, world-class culinary experiences, and much more.
Starting today, eligible sports fans anywhere in Kansas can download the Caesars Sportsbook app, register, and deposit funds to take advantage of a new special sign-up offer for first-time users:
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Caesars is an industry leader in responsible gaming with a decades-long commitment to responsible gaming practices. As Caesars Sportsbook continues to expand into new markets, responsible gaming education remains a key emphasis, and customers in Kansas can directly access responsible gaming resources through Caesars Sportsbook's work with regulators and the community. In addition, the Caesars Sportsbook app has best-in-class tools in place to prevent problem gambling, including Deposit Limits, Spending Limits, Daily Time Limits, and Cool Off Time Limits.
Caesars Sportsbook is now live in 26 states and North American jurisdictions—19 of which are mobile—and operates the most retail sportsbooks across the country. For real-time industry updates and to join the empire of like-minded Caesars, players can engage with the Caesars Sportsbook social handle @CaesarsSports on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
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For Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck's constructive criticism don't cost a thing.
So, when it came to editing her latest project, the new Netflix thriller The Mother, the multihyphenate revealed the first person she let screen the film was her Oscar-winning husband.
"I show it to Ben, honestly, because he's so good at it," Lopez exclusively told E! News' Carolina Bermudez on the May 8 episode (airing tonight at 11 p.m.). "I'm like, 'What do you see? What do you think?' Because the first cut of a movie is not the last cut of a movie. The first cut of the movie is the first cut of the movie and then it goes through a whole incarnation after that. So the first cut I'm always like, 'You wanna see this with me or you wanna wait?' And he's like, 'No, let's watch it.'"
His advice often leaves her on the floor—in a good way.
"He always has amazing insight," the 53-year-old raved, "and sees things about characters and about story being a writer himself."
It's a mutual appreciation. To say the least.
"This is the most gorgeous woman in the world," the 50-year-old shared during the April 21 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show. "She looks spectacular."
And he's always happy to get loud for her. "She works out. I mean, I work out too, but I don't magically appear to be 20 years old," Affleck, who wed Lopez last summer, said. "The work ethic is real. The discipline is very real but also, the superhuman thing is real."
Hear more from Lopez—including whether or not she wants to do a Broadway musical about her life—on tonight's E! News at 11 p.m.
The Mother premieres on Netflix May 12.
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A British court ruled Friday against London suburbs that tried to block a pollution tax on older cars as green policies become a hot political issue in the U.K. amid increasingly dramatic impacts of global climate change.
The High Court ruled that Mayor Sadiq Khan had the authority to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone, or ULEZ, which charges drivers of older gas and diesel vehicles 12.50 pounds ($16) a day they operate, to the city’s outskirts next month.
Five conservative councils challenged Khan’s right to impose the measure. They criticized the expansion to an area where there are fewer public transport options and people are more reliant on cars, and because of a disproportionate impact on lower-income drivers who can’t afford newer, cleaner cars.
Khan said the ruling would allow the expanded zone to take effect Aug. 29 and help reduce air pollution. He said he would also expand a program that provides financial assistance to some families and small businesses to scrap older cars.
“The ULEZ has already reduced toxic nitrogen dioxide air pollution by nearly half in central London and a fifth in inner London,” said Khan, a member of the Labour Party. “The coming expansion will see 5 million more Londoners being able to breathe cleaner air.”
The five councils that challenged the zone issued a joint statement saying they were “hugely disappointed”. While they accepted that Khan may have the legal right to implement the measure, they questioned whether it was morally right.
“It is evident that the mayor of London and (Transport for London) do not realize the damage the extension will have to the lives of residents and businesses in outer London as well as those outside of its borders,” the group said.
The city’s transportation agency said most gas vehicles under 16 years old and diesel vehicles less than 6 years old comply with the standard.
In April, a study from London City Hall found levels of nitrogen dioxide exceeded the legal limit in 14 of the city’s 32 boroughs. Khan argued he had a statutory responsibility to take measures to improve air quality.
Nine out of 10 cars on the road in outer London on an average day comply with standards, Transport for London said. The Royal Automobile Club said nearly 700,000 licensed cars in London are unlikely to comply.
Fury over the the ULEZ expansion was credited last week with helping Tories hold one of three seats in Parliament in a special election. Conservatives had been expected to lose all three but they retained their seat in Uxbridge and South Ruislip.
Interestingly, the emissions charge was first imposed in 2015 by then-Mayor Boris Johnson, the Conservative who went on to become prime minister before resigning last year amid several scandals and quitting Parliament last month. It was his House of Commons seat Tories retained in the by-election.
The issue has now caused a crisis for the Labour Party, which is seen as likely to return to power next year after being ousted by Conservatives in 2010.
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said there was no doubt ULEZ cost them the Uxbridge election and said Khan should “reflect” on the policy.
Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair was widely quoted this week in a New Statesman magazine interview in which he cautioned: “Don’t ask us to do a huge amount when frankly whatever we do in Britain is not really going to impact climate change.” The interview was conducted before the special elections.
The dust-up over how to control emissions comes as July is on target to be the hottest month in recorded human history and the effects of a warming planet can be seen in catastrophic wildfires, flooding and alarming ocean temperatures. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres this week declared: “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”
While the by-election has caused consternation for Labour over how best to stick to a green agenda, it is also sparking a rethink for Conservatives who have been accused recently of backing away from pledges to combat climate change.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak signaled this week he was open to revisiting net-zero policies, saying he’d take a pragmatic approach that didn’t add more hassles or costs to people’s lives. He caused confusion by not recommitting to a ban on gas and diesel cars by 2030, though cabinet minister Michael Gove later insisted that deadline was firm. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-a-pollution-tax-on-older-cars-can-be-extended-to-londons-suburbs-after-a-british-court-ruling/ | 2023-07-29 00:35:42 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-a-pollution-tax-on-older-cars-can-be-extended-to-londons-suburbs-after-a-british-court-ruling/ |
NEW YORK, May 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
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Primaries in a key competitive congressional district in Oregon have yet to be decided more than a week after voting ended because of a hangup over misprinted ballots.
More than half of the ballots in Oregon's third-most populous county have to be reprocessed because smudged barcodes rendered them unreadable by tabulating machines. The snafu has impacted tens of thousands of ballots in Clackamas County, and it's left the Democratic primary for Oregon's 5th Congressional District in limbo.
In that contest, centrist incumbent Rep. Kurt Schrader significantly trails his more progressive opponent, Jamie McLeod-Skinner. As of 3 p.m. PT Thursday, McLeod-Skinner leads Schrader 58% to 42%, according to The Associated Press. (On the GOP side, Lori Chavez-DeRemer has declared victory; the AP hasn't called the race.)
If McLeod-Skinner holds on, it'd be the first time in 42 years that party-affiliated voters in Oregon ousted a sitting member of Congress in a primary election.
County administrators have redirected 200 staff from other departments to help carry out a time-intensive process of hand-copying the votes from defective ballots onto new, error-free ones. The process requires two people from differing political parties handling each ballot. County officials are providing nightly updates with new vote tallies, but they say they might not finalize results until closer to certification day on June 13 — weeks after the May 17 primary ended.
Calls for hand-counting ballots
Members of the public are allowed to observe the ballot reprocessing through plate-glass windows from a long hallway overseeing ballot workers. The workers wear colored lanyards to designate their political parties.
From the hallway, Renel Murr, a volunteer organizer with the local Republican Party, explained that she came to the elections building to keep an eye on ballot workers.
"We are being observers on this part of the electoral process just to make sure that everything is going smoothly and make sure there's no nefarious things going on," Murr said. "So we're just, you know, keeping them on their toes."
For some voters like Murr, the misprinted ballot fiasco has added to their underlying fears that ballot-counting machines aren't trustworthy, a belief rooted in the false theory that the 2020 general election was rigged against former President Donald Trump.
A small crowd of protesters this week gathered in front of the county elections building to protest the lack of results. They blamed counting machines, the state's mail-in voting system, multi-day voting and other conspiracies seeded by Trump supporters.
Hand-counting election results has become a fixation among some Republicans, with GOP lawmakers and local officials in states across the country advocating for proposals to ditch the ballot-tabulation machines. Election experts say going back to counting ballots by hand would be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming, and the degree of human error would make election results less accurate.
Questions for the county clerk
Mistakes made by Clackamas County elections officials have added to some voters' distrust of the system, with the county's independently elected clerk, Sherry Hall, at the center of most criticisms. Democratic Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, the state's top election official, has slammed Hall for several alleged missteps, including not acting urgently when she first learned of the misprinted ballots. Hall would later admit that she should have acted sooner, but wouldn't explain why she didn't.
"I just didn't," Hall said. "I don't have any other reason but just to say that I didn't."
Hall — whose Facebook page "likes" several far-right pages, including one that promotes Trump's false claim that the election was stolen — was also caught in an apparent lie to reporters. At a press conference last week, she said her office had no idea how someone from Schrader's campaign gained early access to watch workers count ballots. Video footage released by the county showed her speaking with an employee before they let the campaign person into the building. McLeod-Skinner has called for an investigation of the incident, and Fagan has called the video footage "outrageous." Hall hasn't commented on the video footage.
The lack of clear answers has left some voters wondering if these mistakes were intentional, adding to their already-festering distrust in the elections system.
It's what brought local voter Jim Arn to the elections observers' hallway the day after Election Day. Arn said he doesn't trust ballot counting machines.
"You don't know. It's going in a black box," Arn said. "I'd like to have somebody look in those machines and see what's in them."
Arn said he believes in the false allegations that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, and he said that this blunder with his local elections office adds to his fears.
"It's just really convenient, right?" Arn said.
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TOKYO — The head of the U.S. Marine Corps said Friday that his forces are committed to defending southwestern Japanese islands as the allies try to bolster their defenses amid growing threats from China and Russia.
“With our forces west of the international dateline, we will continue to live, train, and work in the first island chain primarily with the assistance and support of our Japanese host,” Rudder said. The United States and Japan are looking to develop capabilities and tactics to ensure readiness in the region, he said.
His comments come on the heels of China’s and Russia’s increased naval activity around Japan.
The Defense Ministry said it spotted a fleet of seven Russian warships Thursday off the southern cost of Chiba heading southwest. The ministry also found several Chinese intelligence ships near the Tsugaru Strait in northern Japan, just days after they were seen in waters off southern Japan.
The III Marine Expeditionary Force is working closely with Japanese troops to advance their amphibious capabilities in defending remote islands in southwestern Japan, Kishi said.
After a decade of steady increases in military spending, Japan has pledged to further bolster its military readiness over the next five years and is working on a revision to its security strategy in the face of threats from China, North Korea and Russia.
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World’s largest active volcano signals it may erupt
PAHALA, Hawaii (KHNL/KGMB/Gray News) - Officials in Hawaii are warning residents of the Big Island that the world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa, is sending signals that it may erupt.
KHNL/KGMB reports there were about 20 small quakes at the volcano over a 24-hour period ending Thursday morning.
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said that the unrest is most likely driven by renewed magma input two miles beneath the volcano’s summit.
Officials held a community meeting in Pahala Thursday night where they stressed an eruption is not imminent, but those who live near the volcano shouldn’t put their guards down.
Pahala resident Jandale Waltjen-Kuilipule was asked if she was concerned about an eruption.
“Very concerned, yes, very concerned,” she said. “We haven’t had one for a very long time with Mauna Loa.”
The meeting comes on the heels of a gathering in Ocean View last week, where some residents questioned whether county officials had a good enough plan in the event of an eruption.
People in the Ka’u District are especially at risk as Highway 11 is their only way out. If an eruption were to close that highway, evacuating about 20,000 people who call that area home would be extremely difficult.
“Since there’s just one main road, what is their plan for another mass exodus because that is what will happen,” said Waiohinu resident Lynne Adams. “I mean, people are going to panic. That’s human nature.”
The U.S. Geological Survey has Mauna Loa at a yellow advisory ― meaning be prepared.
“We would hope if Mauna Loa rocks that we would have days so that folks can be evacuated and notified,” said Dr. Andria Ellis, a geophysicist with USGS at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
But Ellis said Mauna Loa’s structure could leave residents far less time to evacuate than when Kilauea erupted in 2018.
“One of the challenges with Mauna Loa that makes that different from Kilauea is the way it’s structured. It has flanks or sides that are really steep, and that depending on where lava emerges at the surface, it could travel very quickly into places of residence, and we might not have that day or more,” she said.
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologist Frank Trusdell has tracked Mauna Loa’s history. He said most of the eruptions start at the summit.
“Half of the eruptions start there and stay there,” he said. “All Mauna Loa eruptions in this period have started with a summit phase first.”
As for the earthquakes, Hon showed a map of the area, with dozens of white lines over the Ka’u District and the Pahala area.
“The white things are faults,” Hon said. “So, these are mapped faults on the island of Hawaii. You’ll notice that you live inside the biggest nest of faults on the island of Hawaii.”
Hon said the earthquakes mostly are due to the weight of the mountain slowly sliding toward the ocean.
Officials with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory also said earthquake activity remains elevated but has eased in the last week.
“It’s kind of rounded off a little bit, which is important, but with this type of threat, we need to take a cautious look at what may be coming,” said Luke Meyers, administrator of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. “It’s better to be prepared and to be ready.”
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President Joe Biden plans to meet on July 12 at the White House with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who skipped the recent Summit of the Americas in protest of the U.S. not inviting Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the event.
The White House said Tuesday that Biden and Obrador will discuss issues such as food security, immigration, climate and security and shared economic interests.
Relations between the U.S. and Mexico were strained by the June summit that was supposed to be about unity among western hemisphere nations. Obrador said that the legitimacy of the gathering depended on all of the countries in North America, South America and the Caribbean being in attendance.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had previously defended the exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela by saying, “We do not believe that dictators should be invited.”
The announcement of a bilateral meeting also comes as migration along the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been a persistent challenge for the Biden administration. On Monday, 50 migrants being smuggled into the U.S. died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, without air conditioning in the sweltering heat. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-to-meet-next-month-with-mexicos-president/ | 2022-06-29 02:43:11 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-to-meet-next-month-with-mexicos-president/ |
Kids’ Fishing Rodeo at Plum Lake
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - A Kids’ Fishing Rodeo is being hosted at Plum Lake on Saturday, March 4.
The City of Wichita Falls Parks and Recreation Department, The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and Raising Canes are hosting this free event for children 16 and under.
The event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon, and is located next to the Wichita Falls Softball Complex at 1702 Sheppard Access Road.
Categories will be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for the smallest and largest trout, as well as 1st and 2nd place for the largest for other species. Judging will be based on length rather than weight for all of the categories.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own fishing poles and bait however, a limited number of poles will be available to borrow from Texas Parks and Wildlife.
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Lawsuit against Fox for false election claims heads to trial in Wilmington
Opening statements are expected in a voting machine company's defamation lawsuit against Fox News for airing groundless claims of fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Jurors are set to get their first look Tuesday at a voting machine company’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News in a trial that will test First Amendment protections and expose the network’s role in spreading the lie of a stolen 2020 presidential election.
The trial began with the judge conferring with attorneys on both sides after he granted a one-day delay that offered time to see if they could work out a settlement.
Jury selection and opening statements had been scheduled for Monday in Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit. The Denver-based company aims to hold Fox accountable for airing false allegations of election fraud that continue to roil U.S. politics.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis gave no explanation for the brief delay. But he suggested the companies try to mediate their dispute, according to a person close to Fox who was not authorized to speak publicly about the lawsuit’s status and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The case will put under scrutiny the libel standard that has guided U.S. media outlets for nearly six decades, reveal behind-the-scenes activity at Fox News in the weeks after the 2020 election and shed light on the flow of misinformation that turned into a tidal wave after the election, which then-President Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden.
Fox News stars such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, as well as company founder Rupert Murdoch, are expected to testify during the six-week trial, but it’s unclear whether any witnesses would be called Tuesday.
Dominion claims New York-based Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp., essentially bulldozed the voting company’s business and subjected employees to threats by falsely implicating it in a bogus conspiracy to rig the election against Trump.
In the weeks after Election Day, prominent Fox News hosts brought on Trump allies who falsely claimed that Dominion’s machines were programmed to snatch votes away from the Republican incumbent and pad the Democratic challenger’s total.
Many of Fox’s hosts and executives didn’t believe the claims but allowed them to be aired nevertheless.
“Fox spread and endorsed one of the most damaging lies in this country’s history,” Dominion’s lawyers wrote in a court filing.
Pointing to communications among Fox figures, from executives to fact-checkers, Dominion argues that the network knowingly amplified falsehoods for the sake of ratings.
Fox says it simply reported on Trump’s challenges to the election results and let viewers hear from his lawyers and allies.
“Dominion’s lawsuit is a political crusade in search of a financial windfall, but the real cost would be cherished First Amendment rights,” the network said in a statement last week.
Fox said its hosts sometimes alluded to a need for evidence to back up the allegations and noted that Dominion denied the claims.
Federal and state election officials, exhaustive reviews in battleground states and Trump’s own attorney general found no widespread fraud that could have changed the election outcome. Nor did they turn up any credible evidence that the vote was tainted.
Dozens of courts, some with Trump-appointed judges, also rejected his fraud allegations. In the Dominion case, Davis declared it was “CRYSTAL clear” that the claims about the voting machine company weren’t true.
A key question for the jury is whether Fox News acted with “actual malice,” a legal standard that applies when public figures sue news outlets for defamation. The standard, derived from a 1964 Supreme Court case, means knowingly publishing or airing something false or operating with “reckless disregard” for whether it’s true.
Dominion has pointed to text and email messages in which Fox insiders discounted and sometimes overtly mocked the vote manipulation claims. One Fox Corp. vice president called them “MIND BLOWINGLY NUTS.”
Carlson, Fox News’ biggest star, even expressed scorn for Trump, whose supporters formed the core of the network’s viewers. Text exchanges revealed as part of the lawsuit show Carlson declaring, “I hate him passionately,” and saying that “we are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights.”
Murdoch, the Fox News founder and Fox Corp. chairman, found the election claims “really crazy,” according to an email he sent while watching a news conference that Trump lawyers gave on Nov. 19, 2020.
“Terrible stuff damaging everybody, I fear. Probably hurting us too,” Murdoch told Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott in another email that day.
Yet talk of the alleged conspiracy continued to air on Fox for weeks after the voting.
In his deposition for the case, Murdoch acknowledged the 2020 presidential election was fair while also acknowledging that some of Fox’s hosts seemed to endorse the bogus election claims.
The network maintains that Dominion cherry-picked from private messages and broadcast transcripts and depositions of various Fox players, while brushing past other comments and context more favorable to Fox. The network also maintains that Dominion’s claims of lost business are massively inflated.
Fox found itself in hot water with the judge as the trial neared. Davis rapped the network last week for what he saw as “misrepresentations” and belated disclosures of some information in the case. On Friday, a Fox attorney apologized in a letter to the judge for what the attorney described as a misunderstanding about the disclosure of Murdoch’s formal role at Fox News.
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Bauder reported from New York. Associated Press writers Jennifer Peltz in New York and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
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As the country tries to make sense of the mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., a common theme is repeated in news stories. The shooters, both young adults, had no history of mental illness.
The assumption is obvious — that if the killers had psychiatric troubles they likely would never have been able to purchase a gun, especially a deadly assault rifle.
That may be the case in gun-wary New York and even gun-loving Texas.
As for New Hampshire? Unlike nearly every other state, New Hampshire law forbids the disclosure of the identities of people who have been involuntarily committed for psychiatric treatment. No one can tell cops, and certainly not the federal government.
Without that information, the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) cannot flag mentally ill people who by law should be denied the sale of a gun.
You can’t blame just conservative Republicans for this.
The first version of a law that prohibits disclosure went into effect when Democrat Maggie Hassan was governor, the second version under Republican Chris Sununu. Both times, the provisions were squirreled away in Medicaid legislation. And when questions about the interpretation arose, two organizations not usually associated with gun rights — the ACLU-New Hampshire and the Disability Rights Council — told New Hampshire courts that the law does not allow disclosure.
So everything was set up perfectly for Ian MacPherson in March 2016 when he took a taxi from Nashua to the rural town of Chester to buy a handgun.
Cops tried to stop the sale, and the state’s own background check system for handguns — Gun Line — at one point supposedly assured police that he would be rejected.
But on April 1, 2016, MacPherson exited Chester Arms with a Smith and Wesson .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun and a 50-round box of Magtech target ammo. Six weeks after the sale, MacPherson shot Manchester police officer Ryan Hardy in the neck and Matthew O’Connor in the leg.
Both have sued Gun Line and Chester Arms.
The case is endless, and has generated revealing paperwork. Here are a few takeaways.
MacPherson was not saneMacPherson believed his mother was a shape-shifter and that “trench-coated Jews” were tracking his movements and poisoning his food.
He believed his father was sexually molesting his daughters, and MacPherson threatened to kill his father if he was not jailed.
When MacPherson entered Chester Arms on March 19, 2016, he wore a trench coat and blue surgical gloves. He muttered to himself. The clerk thought he was “freaky” and told a customer she was scared.
One customer in the store said he was “a few french fries short of a happy meal.”
Gun Line demanded proofGun Line blocked an immediate sale, and Gun Line workers looked for documented proof of MacPherson’s mental illness.
• In an earlier assault case, his lawyers had challenged MacPherson’s competency to stand trial. Not good enough; the federal bar to deny a gun sale says that someone must be committed by a judge to a psychiatric facility for treatment.
• In 2007, police had taken MacPherson in a restraint belt to the hospital, and a doctor had signed papers for an involuntary admission. Even though the FBI says that police reports about involuntary commitment for treatment purposes are good enough, Gun Line held out for court records.
• A police detective was growing more and more concerned about the pending sale. He warned Gun Line about MacPherson’s schizophrenia and past arrests.
Not all domestic assaults are equalMacPherson wasn’t just mentally ill, he was a domestic abuser and had three arrests on his record for simple assault of family members. At least one resulted in a conviction.
Federal law says that gun dealers are not supposed to sell a gun to anyone convicted of domestic assault, even misdemeanors.
But federal regulations have added a footnote to the provision. The domestic assault provision only applies to abuse of one’s spouse, partner or kids. If you assault a sibling or a parent, you can still buy a gun.
MacPherson had been arrested for assaulting his father and a sister.
Cops tried to stop the saleMerrimack police, who dealt the most with the MacPherson family, grew concerned when Gun Line contacted them to ask about MacPherson.
In particular, detective Scott Park provided all the information he could — MacPherson’s assaults against his father, his schizophrenia, his involuntary admission to the New Hampshire Hospital.
He even issued a safety bulletin to area police departments to let them know that MacPherson was trying to buy a gun.
“I didn’t in a million years think he would legally obtain a firearm,” Park said later in a deposition. In fact, Gun Line employees told him they were going to reject the sale, according to his recounting of conversations with Gun Line.
It took three days to decideUnder federal law, both Gun Line and the NICS, which reviews rifle sales, have only three business days to gather the information to deny a sale.
The sale has to go forward unless investigators find good reason to block it within three days. When MacPherson bought his gun, investigations were taking 30 days.
All Gun Line could do was urge Chester Arms to not sell the gun. That’s what Gun Line told federal investigators it did.
The state won’t talk about itGun Line officially rejected the sale to MacPherson in September 2016 on the day he was indicted for shooting Hardy and O’Connor. MacPherson pleaded guilty by reason of insanity and was committed to the Secure Psychiatric Unit for five years. That five years is up next year.
I sent the state Department of Safety, which runs Gun Line, a host of questions: Have things improved since the MacPherson sale? Is Gun Line operating efficiently? How many sales have gone forward under the three-day rule? What does Commissioner Robert Quinn think about the state law to refuse disclosure of mentally ill people to NICS? They didn’t even acknowledge my request.
Chester Arms and Gun Line have said they followed the letter of the law, and they have immunity from civil law suits anyway. Hardy and O’Connor both returned to work and did not want to be interviewed for this article.
A trial judge has twice thrown out their case, most recently on May 16. Their lawyer, Mark Morrissette of Manchester, said he will appeal the case to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. | https://www.unionleader.com/voices/city_matters/mark-haywards-city-matters-new-hampshire-protects-gun-rights-of-mentally-ill/article_19226f12-aaf5-5927-a653-4d6fe1d9cda6.html | 2022-05-31 02:14:57 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/voices/city_matters/mark-haywards-city-matters-new-hampshire-protects-gun-rights-of-mentally-ill/article_19226f12-aaf5-5927-a653-4d6fe1d9cda6.html |
Wisconsin to receive 350 new Housing Choice Vouchers from HUD. Here's how you can qualify
Roughly 19,000 housing vouchers are being awarded to public housing agencies nationwide, with more than 350 of those expected to go to Wisconsin, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge made the announcement Friday, in Falls Church, Virginia.
The Housing Choice Voucher program involves low-income qualified residents paying around 30% of their income toward rent and the voucher being used to pay the remainder. Local housing agencies federally managed by HUD are responsible for administering the program.
More than 26,000 households used Housing Choice Vouchers in Wisconsin in 2020, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Milwaukee and Milwaukee County housing authorities had a combined 8,661 vouchers in 2017, the center estimated.
On a call with reporters, a senior HUD spokesperson described the new batch of housing vouchers as “the most expandable award of flexible rental assistance in more than 20 years.”
Each voucher will include an additional $750 available for supplemental administrative fees, which can be used by housing agencies to help pay for security deposits and other “landlord incentive and retention payments.”
Nearly every community, including rural areas, should receive additional vouchers, he said.
HUD is strongly encouraging public housing agencies to use the new vouchers to reduce homelessness.
This recent addition of vouchers echoes a measure taken by HUD last year, when it added 70,000 emergency housing vouchers nationwide, funded by the American Rescue Plan. Those vouchers were focused on residents who were homeless, at-risk of being homeless or experiencing domestic violence situations.
It also follows a recent announcement from HUD to increase the housing choice voucher subsidy in light of inflation causing rents to rise. In Wisconsin, the average voucher increase is expected to range from 8.9% to 19.9% after Oct 1.
The HUD official noted the Biden Administration has requested $1.6 billion in its 2023 fiscal budget for an additional 200,000 vouchers.
Resources
You can read more information about Housing Choice Vouchers and apply on the HACM website. The housing authority is only accepting pre-applications online.
A map of “opportunity zones” is available here.
You can check your ZIP code to see what the small area fair market rent is in your neighborhood on the HUD website.
Talis Shelbourne is an investigative solutions reporter covering the issues of affordable housing, environment and equity issues. Have a tip? You can reach Talis at (414) 403-6651 or tshelbourn@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @talisseer and message her on Facebook at @talisseer.
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Which Cuisinart cookware set is best?
Whether you want to craft an elaborate feast or throw together a small snack, the proper cookware set offers the tools to prepare and enjoy your meal. One of the leaders in kitchen appliances and accessories is Cuisinart, which offers an array of pots, pans, skillets and much more to help you cook the food you want the way you want it.
The Multiclad Pro 12-Piece Stainless Steel Set is a comprehensive collection that covers most needs in the kitchen. Material, piece count and piece type should be the influential factors when deciding upon the best cookware set for you.
What to know before you buy a Cuisinart cookware set
Components
Cuisinart cookware sets feature anywhere from a handful of useful items to 12 or even 14 pieces for more complete coverage. A skillet, or fry pan, is essential in the kitchen and is typically included in every set. A saucepan with a matching lid is another staple as well. Most sets also feature a sizable stockpot that is ideal for making soups and stews.
Typically, sets will bolster their lineups with pots and pans of various sizes to offer more versatility. Note that when piece count is tallied up, the lids for each pot and pan are included in that total count.
Material
Cuisinart offers cookware in various materials, which will affect the price, durability and heat distribution. Aluminum is a popular choice for entry-level cooks as it’s cheap, easy to maintain and durable. However, it struggles at high heat and reacts to acidic foods. Aluminum that is anodized reinforces the material strength and solves these issues, but comes at a higher price.
Stainless steel cookware offers a modern look in the kitchen. It caters to all food types and tends to be affordable and durable. Like aluminum, stainless steel may be reinforced to add more durability and better heat retention. Cuisinart stainless-steel sets feature three layers, including an aluminum core, for even heat distribution.
Copper is a terrific heat conductor but comes at a high price point. It also requires more care as it’s easy to scratch. Similar to its stainless-steel options, Cuisinart uses a triple-ply copper construction with an aluminum core.
Lastly, Cuisinart offers high-end, enameled cast-iron cookware. These are heavy and durable pieces that welcome high heat. They are relatively easy to care for, but come at an expensive price.
What to look for in a quality Cuisinart cookware set
Specialty items
While all Cuisinart cookware sets feature the basic pots and pans, some more comprehensive options add specialty pieces. A steamer basket insert may be included as well as a Dutch oven, which is a versatile and durable piece of cookware that can be used for baking, roasting and braising. A sauté pan is a popular inclusion as well, which features vertical sides to better contain ingredients. A lid rack may be included in some purchases as well.
Oven safe
Some Cuisinart cookware sets feature oven-safe items, such as cast-iron pans or enamel Dutch ovens. These items can safely move between the stovetop and the oven, offering more convenience. However, it’s important to note the temperature limit, which can range anywhere between 350-550 degrees.
Aesthetic
Cuisinart cookware is offered in a few different colors and finishes. Stainless steel gives that modern, industrial look, while some options are coated in a black finish for something more muted and compatible with multiple décors. Copper cookware has a rustic appeal, and certain stainless-steel options are coated in red or white as well.
Cuisinart also offers cookware sets with unique designs: copper or aluminum may be hammered for a hand-crafted look, while the Contour series has an elegant, sophisticated appearance.
How much you can expect to spend on a Cuisinart cookware set
Most Cuisinart cookware sets cost between $100-$300, though the most comprehensive sets, as well as options made with copper, will run higher.
Cuisinart cookware set FAQ
How do I store Cuisinart cookware?
A. It’s advised to hang cookware instead of stacking it in order to best protect surfaces from scratches. Hanging cookware can save space as well. However, Cusinart does have a line of nesting cookware that is specifically designed to be stacked without any fear of dents or nicks. Anytime you’re stacking cookware, be sure it’s completely clean and dry.
How many pieces of cookware do I need?
A. Most households are well served by a pair of fry pans, a pair of saucepots and a stockpot. These items will cater to a majority of cooking styles and offer the most versatility and convenience. Those who cook more frequently, or cook for many people, may want to invest in some specialty items as well, such as a Dutch oven.
What’s the best Cuisinart cookware set to buy?
Top Cuisinart cookware set
Multiclad Pro Stainless Steel 12-Piece Set
What you need to know: Professional-grade stainless steel set that offers great cooking coverage in the kitchen for a variety of cuisines.
What you’ll love: Heats quickly and evenly. Durably constructed. Dishwasher safe and oven-safe up to 550 degrees. Includes steamer basket and sauté pan. Flared rims prevent drips and spills.
What you should consider: Surfaces are susceptible to scratches.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Cuisinart cookware set for the money
Chef’s Classic Stainless Steel 7-Piece Set
What you need to know: Simple 7-piece set for single users or couples in need of kitchen basics.
What you’ll love: Elegant stainless-steel cookware. Aluminum core heats fast, eliminating hot spots. Handles stay cool. Terrific value.
What you should consider: Requires extra care to maintain. Limited versatility.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Advantage Nonstick 11-Piece Set
What you need to know: User-friendly set ideal for both quick meals and elaborate fare while offering convenience to busy cooks.
What you’ll love: Nonstick coating makes cooking and cleanup easy. Handles are comfortable and stay cool. Heats quickly. Dishwasher safe.
What you should consider: Utilitarian aesthetic. Only one mid-size fry pan included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK (AP) — The gonzo R-rated horror comedy “Cocaine Bear” sniffed up $23.1 million in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, while Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” was quickly dwarfed in its second weekend.
“Quantumania” was still No. 1 with an estimated $32.2 million in ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters. But the “Ant-Man” sequel, hit with some of the worst reviews and audience scores of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, dropped a steep 69.7% in its second weekend. That’s the worst decline for an MCU film, falling faster than “Black Widow” (67.8%), a pandemic release that debuted simultaneously in homes.
Instead, Universal Pictures’ “Cocaine Bear” rampaged through multiplexes, scoring notably above expectations. Made for about $35 million and directed by Elizabeth Banks, “Cocaine Bear” stirred up plenty of buzz just from its title and its made-to-go-viral trailer.
“Cocaine Bear,” scripted by Jimmy Warden and produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse,” “The Lego Movie”), managed to turn a bizarre true-life tale into a tongue-in-cheek box office hit. It’s based on the real story of a 175-pound (79-kilogram) black bear who died in the Georgia mountains in 1985 after eating from a duffle bag of cocaine that had fallen from a smuggler’s plane. (The smuggler, a former Kentucky narcotics investigator, parachuted to his death in Tennessee.)
The trailer for “Cocaine Bear,” which played ahead of the Super Bowl, was watched globally by more than 90 million, Universal said, and caught fire on social media. But transferring can-you-believe-that’s-a-real-movie buzz to the box office doesn’t always work. “Snakes on a Plane,” a movie many compared to “Cocaine Bear,” opened with $13.9 million in 2006.
“Audiences discovered this very outrageous, hysterical comedy that our director Elizabeth Banks delivered,” said Jim Orr, Universal distribution chief. “The film absolutely delivers on its preposterous premise. People wanted to come out and have a good time at the theater.”
“Cocaine Bear” managed to overperform despite mixed reviews from critics and a “B-” CinemaScore from audiences. Ticket buyers were 59% male, and 63% were aged 18-34. It added $5.3 million overseas. “Quantumania” is more easily outpacing “Cocaine Bear” internationally, where it added $46.4 million over the weekend.
In just about the epitome of counterprogramming to “Cocaine Bear,” Lionsgate’s “Jesus Revolution” also debuted strongly. The film, likewise inspired by a true story, stars Kelsey Grammer as a California minister and Joel Courtney as youth minister, and dramatizes the movement of Christian hippies in the late ’60s and early ’70s. It launched with $15.5 million over the weekend and in advance screenings. Produced by the Kingdom Story Company, “Jesus Revolution” proved popular with Christian audiences, and early surpassed expectations. It earned an A+ CinemaScore.
Next week should see a new champ at the box office, with the release of Michael B. Jordan’s “Creed III.”
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” $32.2 million
2. “Cocaine Bear,” $23.1 million.
3. “Jesus Revolution,” $15.5 million.
4. “Avatar: The Way of Water,” $4.7 million.
5. “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” $4.1 million.
6. “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” $3 million.
7. “Knock at the Cabin,” $1.9 million.
8. “80 for Brady,” $1.8 million.
9. “Missing,” $1 million.
10. “A Man Called Otto,” $850,000. | https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/cocaine-bear-gets-high-with-23-1m-ant-man-sinks-fast/ | 2023-02-26 19:50:38 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/cocaine-bear-gets-high-with-23-1m-ant-man-sinks-fast/ |
UN condemns Russia's 'attempted illegal annexation' of four Ukraine regions; Zelenskyy, Biden applaud vote
The 193-member body voted 143-5 to back Ukraine’s pre-annexation borders and called on Russia to reverse the annex
The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Wednesday that recognizes the territorial integrity of Ukraine and condemned Russia for its "illegal" attempts to annex four Ukrainian regions. The resolution also called for Russia to reverse the annexations.
The 193-member international body voted 143-5 to back Ukraine’s pre-annexation borders, a decision Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Biden applauded.
"The protection of the territorial integrity of Ukraine is the protection of the entire international legal order, starting from the UN Charter," Zelenskyy said in his nightly address.
He added: "Various potential aggressors in the world are now watching the reaction of democracies to the farce arranged by Russia with sham referenda and attempted annexation."
UKRAINE NUCLEAR PLANT IN ZAPORIZHZHIA LOSES EXTERNAL POWER: 'DEEPLY WORRYING'
The five countries that voted against the measure included Russia, Nicaragua, and Syria. Dissenters also included Belarus, which is assisting Russia in its ongoing invasion, and North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea).
There were 35 formal abstentions in the vote.
Iran, who is providing kamikaze drones that Russia is using in Ukraine, did not vote.
Ukraine’s U.N. ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, called the vote "amazing" and "a historic moment."
Oleskii Makeiev, another Ukrainian ambassador said the result of the UN resolution was a "clear vote of solidarity of the world with Ukraine."
UKRAINE RESPONDS AFTER RUSSIA CASTS BLAME FOR BRIDGE EXPLOSION
President Biden said the vote demonstrated the world "is more united and more determined than ever to hold Russia accountable for its violations."
It is "a clear message" that "Russia cannot erase a sovereign state from the map" and it "cannot change borders by force," he added.
European Union Ambassador Olof Skoog called it "a great success" that sends "a resounding message to Russia that they are and remain isolated."
Ahead of the vote, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the assembly that the United Nations was initially established following World War II on an idea "that never again would one country be allowed to take another’s territory by force."
"The resolution also sends an enormously important signal to Moscow and to everyone: It does not matter if you as a nation are big or small, rich or poor, old or new. If you are a U.N. member state, your borders are your own and are protected by international law," Thomas-Greenfield said. "They cannot be redrawn by anyone else by force."
PUTIN SIGNS LAWS ANNEXING 4 UKRAINIAN REGIONS OF DONETSK, LUHANSK, KHERSON AND ZAPORIZHZHIA
Looking forward, Zelenskyy suggested peace with Russia is not possible with President Vladimir Putin at its helm.
"Now one person is blocking peace and this person is in Moscow," he said in a nightly address.
"Now, while we have no opportunity for diplomacy because this Russian leader only believes in terror, we need defense support. It is on the battlefield that peace is gained," he added.
The General Assembly previously held a vote on March 2 to demand an immediate Russian cease-fire, withdrawal of all its troops and protection for all civilians. It passed 141-5 with 35 abstentions.
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Later that same month, on March 24, the assembly overwhelmingly supported a resolution blaming Russia for Ukraine’s humanitarian crisis and urging an immediate cease-fire. It passed 140-5 with 38 abstentions.
Ukraine’s government estimates Russia has lost about 63,800 troops in during its invasion, which started on Feb. 24.
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CHARLOTTETOWN, PE, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - iWave, the industry's top-rated fundraising intelligence solution, today announced the launch of Prospect Lists, a new feature that reimagines prospecting in the nonprofit space. The company's unique approach helps development teams find more prospective donors in less time, improve the lead quality throughout the donor pipeline, and raise more money.
Some of the biggest pain points facing fundraising professionals are prospect identification and qualification. Identifying prospective donors who are a good fit is a time-consuming and manual process that is plagued with guesswork and missed opportunities. Bad data is also a significant challenge in donor prospecting because it breeds bad leads and delivers disappointing results.
Development teams know that the key to a healthy prospect pipeline is starting with a high-quality list of potential donors who are interested in supporting their mission. But while other solutions use a one-size-fits-all approach to develop prospect lists, iWave tailors its approach to cater to all sorts of different organizations and missions.
"At iWave, we are focused on developing cutting-edge solutions that enable nonprofits to build a better world, faster," said Ross Beattie, President and CEO at iWave. "With the launch of Prospect Lists, we're putting the power of AI and big data behind every fundraising team and reimagining one of the most important steps in the donor funnel. Having the ability to identify strong donor candidates means that development teams can prioritize their efforts and spend less time researching and more time cultivating the right prospects."
iWave's proprietary AI-powered technology evaluates billions of philanthropic and wealth indicators to identify individuals who are an ideal fit and uncover deep insights that enable nonprofits to take action right away. And because iWave connects to comprehensive sources of wealth, philanthropic, and biographical data, fundraising professionals have all the information they need for a 360-degree view of their prospects, including accurate contact information.
This feature complements other recent iWave innovations that have positioned iWave as the most innovative fundraising intelligence platform in the industry. Once a prospect list has been built, users can set Smart Alerts to automatically monitor target prospective donors for new intelligence and receive alerts in real-time—ensuring that decisions and actions are based on the most up-to-date and accurate information. Users can also leverage iWave Connections to identify other individuals who are linked to their prospects and grow their network.
iWave, the industry's top-rated fundraising intelligence solution, enables nonprofit organizations to fundraise with confidence. In a new era of nonprofit fundraising, iWave solves critical challenges facing fundraising professionals today: how to identify, qualify, and retain donors to raise more major gifts. iWave's intuitive and easy-to-use solutions give access to the industry's highest quality wealth and philanthropic information so you can determine who to ask, how much to ask for, and when to ask. Many of the largest education, healthcare, and nonprofit organizations in the World, rely on iWave to power their fundraising efforts.
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Luggage piles up at airports amid travel chaos
DENVER (KUSA) - There has been no let up to the travel nightmares airline passengers are experiencing throughout the country.
The blast of winter weather gripping the nation has forced thousands of flight delays and cancellations.
Southwest Airlines is especially struggling. It said it is flying only about one-third of its scheduled flights over the next several days.
Those cancellations and delays have caused bags of luggage to pile up at some airports.
Jill Devereaux is searching for her bags from a flight that never left Denver.
She waited three hours in a line on Sunday to file a baggage claim and said she hopes her luggage stayed in Denver after her flight to Boise, Idaho, was canceled on Friday.
Jaafar Bahraini is in a similar situation. Bahraini and his family made it all the way to their gate when their flight to San Jose, California, was canceled.
After waiting in long lines all day, he came back the next day to do it again.
“I think that their policy is no matter what, it’s going into the city and then coming back. Either I have to pick it up here or get it delivered,” he said.
Alex Smith and his wife are holding onto their luggage until the very last minute so their bags don’t get lost if their flight gets canceled.
“Our flight is coming from Houston, so we’ve just been watching that flight and it just gets delayed and delayed and delayed,” he said.
FlightAware reports Southwest canceled more than 2,500 flights on Wednesday.
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HONOLULU (AP) — The eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island continues to ease, scientists said Sunday, reinforcing an earlier pronouncement that the mountain’s first flare-up in nearly 40 years might soon end.
“We have good news to report,” Ken Hon, the scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological Survey at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory, said during a briefing. “The eruption is still at an extremely low level at this point.”
Hon said the eruption is contained entirely within the volcano’s cinder cone. The USGS said a small amount of light remained visible at night through a vent in the cone, but the channels below that vent “appear drained of lava.”
The inactive front of the lava flow may inch northward very slowly as it continues to settle, the agency said.
Hon said Mauna Loa’s eruption appears to be ramping down and that nearby Kilauea has now reached a “full pause,” with its lava lake stagnant and crusted over.
Mauna Loa began spewing molten rock Nov. 27 after being quiet for 38 years. The incandescent spectacle drew onlookers and set some nerves on edge among people who’ve lived through past eruptions.
Sunday’s update came a day after scientists lowered the alert level for the volcano from a warning to a watch and said the eruption could be in its final days. | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/ap-scientists-say-eruption-of-hawaii-volcano-continues-to-ease/ | 2022-12-12 04:23:45 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/ap-scientists-say-eruption-of-hawaii-volcano-continues-to-ease/ |
SÃO PAULO, Brazil – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a left-wing former president, finished in first place Sunday in Brazil's presidential election, but failed to secure enough votes for an outright victory and will face right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in an Oct. 30 run-off.
Despite preelection polls giving da Silva, who is widely known as Lula, a double-digit lead, the race was a nail-biter. In fact, da Silva trailed for much of the night before finally inching ahead and winning with about 47.9% of the vote, with about 97% of votes counted. President Bolsonaro was runner-up with about 43.6% in the 11-candidate race.
Sunday's voting was largely peaceful after a contentious, sometimes violent campaign in which Brazil's democracy seemed to hang in the balance. Bolsonaro, who has praised the past military dictatorship in Brazil, repeatedly challenged the legitimacy of the election as it approached and his opinion poll numbers flagged.
"Lula represents democracy," said Julia Sottili, a museum worker who voted for da Silva because of what she described as Bolsonaro's authoritarian tendencies. "Lula wants to improve people's lives and end hunger. He is really concerned about human rights."
Campaigning will now continue for the next four weeks
Preelection polls put da Silva within striking distance of winning the presidency in the first round by securing more than half of the votes. But he came short, with Brazil now faces four more weeks of intense campaigning.
Still, the result was a kind of vindication for da Silva, who became a hero to many Brazilians during his two terms as president between 2003 and 2010 when a commodities-fueled economic boom helped lift millions out of poverty.
However, after leaving office he became ensnared in a wide-ranging corruption scandal that landed him in prison for a year and a half. His political career seemed over. Then, in a stunning turnaround, he was released on a technicality in 2019 and launched his campaign for the presidency — the sixth time he has run for the office.
By contrast, Bolsonaro's second-place finish on Sunday was a sobering result for the president whose erratic behavior and policy decisions cost him support.
Bolsonaro was swept to power four years ago by a coalition that included evangelical Christians, gunowners and other conservatives who were drawn to his pledge to uphold traditional family values and who were disgusted by the corruption scandals swirling around da Silva and his left-wing Workers Party.
But Bolsonaro, 67, has had a rough four years in office. He downplayed the COVID-19 pandemic and Brazil ended up with the second-highest COVID death toll in the world after the U.S. He's dealing with a stagnant economy, with high inflation and unemployment and rising poverty.
Bolsonaro spent months questioning the integrity of Brazil's electoral system, called on the military to oversee the counting of the ballots, and hinted that he might not leave power even if he lost. In the hours before the vote, he posted on his Twitter feed a video of former President Donald Trump urging people to vote for him.
All this provided an opening for da Silva, who is now 76 and a survivor of throat cancer. On the campaign trail he promised a return to the economic good times of his first two terms and portrayed himself as the man who could salvage Brazil's democracy — by beating Bolsonaro.
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Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen continued his unstoppable season on Sunday at the 2023 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix.
The reigning world champion seemed to be in a race of his own at the Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve as he led from the pole position through the entire race.
It was a momentous and historic victory both for Red Bull Racing and the racer. The victory was the 41st for Verstappen, which ties him with Ayrton Senna for fifth all time. The race also marked Red Bull Racing’s 100th win since entering F1 in 2005.
Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso came out swinging with a surprise performance. The Spaniard traded places with Lewis Hamilton multiple times throughout the race and managed to hold off the Brit to come in second. Hamilton came in third as the only finisher for Mercedes-Benz AMG Petronas.
On lap 12, George Russell hit the barrier with the right rear of his car after losing control and going over the track curbing. Russell limped back to the pits where he had his car checked over, received new tires, and got the green light from the team to continue racing. However, he retired on lap 55 due to the brakes getting too hot after the hit, likely due to unseen damage to the ducting.
Both Ferraris, piloted by Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz came in fourth and fifth, respectively, after a mostly uneventful race for the duo. They were two of only five drivers—including Perez, Magnussen, and Bottas—to stay out on the track during the Safety Car session after Russell hit the wall.
Mayhem in the pits created a handful of near-misses, and F1 officials investigated multiple instances during the race. All parties, including Hamilton, Alonso, and Lando Norris, were cleared of wrongdoing and no further action was taken.
During the last few turns of the last lap, Norris made an attempt to overtake Gasly, but the effort didn’t pay off. Nor would it matter, as he lost his points finish after the flag dropped. Officials gave him a five-second penalty for “unsportsmanlike conduct” behind the Safety Car. The call was made after Norris was accused of backing up traffic to clear the way for a McLaren double stack in the pits.
After the 2023 Canadian F1 Grand Prix, Verstappen is in the clear lead for the 2023 Drivers’ Championship with 195 points. Perez remains in second now with 126 points, but Alonso is coming up quickly with 117 points and Hamilton is chasing with 102 points. In the Constructors’ Championship, Red Bull Racing is far ahead of the competition with 321 points. Mercedes-Benz AMG sits in second place far behind with 167 points, while Aston Martin trails in third with 154. Ferrari is beginning to fade from the pack with 122 points.
Below are the full results from the 2023 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix:
1) Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing
2) Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin +9.570 seconds
3) Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-Benz AMG +14.168 seconds
4) Charles Leclerc, Ferrari +18.648 seconds
5) Carlos Sainz, Ferrari +21.540 seconds
6) Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing +51.028 seconds
7) Alexander Albon, Williams +60.813 seconds
8) Esteban Ocon, Alpine +61.692 seconds
9) Lance Stroll, Aston Martin +64.402 seconds
10) Valtteri Bottas, Alfa Romeo +64.432 seconds
11) Oscar Piastri, McLaren +65.101 seconds
12) Pierre Gasly, Alpine +65.249 seconds
13) Lando Norris, McLaren +68.363 seconds
14) Yuki Tsunoda, AlphaTauri +73.423 seconds
15) Niko Hulkenberg, Haas +1 lap
16) Zhou Guanyu, Alfa Romeo +1 lap
17) Kevin Magnussen, Haas +1 lap
18) Nyck De Vries, AlphaTauri +1 lap
19) George Russel, Mercedes-Benz AMG, retired
20) Logan Sargeant, Williams, retired
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President Biden said Wednesday that he is planning to visit the U.S. southern border next week as part of a trip to Mexico City for a regional summit.
The president’s Republican critics have pressured him for months to visit the southern U.S. border at a time when federal authorities are making record numbers of immigration arrests. Biden and his top officials have dismissed that criticism, insisting he’s had more urgent priorities to attend to.
It was not clear where Biden might stop along the U.S. southern border, nor whether he would make the visit before or after planned meetings in Mexico City on Monday. Biden is scheduled to sit down with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the North American Leaders’ Summit. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will join him on the trip.
John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told reporters last month that Biden’s trip would feature new initiatives to “address climate and environmental challenges” and “help increase North America’s competitiveness, protect the health and safety of our citizens, jointly respond, of course, to irregular migration in the region, and advance diversity, equity and inclusion.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded nearly 2.4 million arrests along the Mexico border during the 2022 fiscal year, an all-time high. Since Biden took office, an increasing number of migrants have been arriving from a growing number of nations around the world, straining U.S. capacity and border communities. New arrivals typically surrender to U.S. authorities, the first step in applying for humanitarian protection. The majority are released into the United States while their cases are pending in U.S. immigration courts.
Recent attempts by the Biden administration to halt two Trump-era border polices, known as Title 42 and “Remain in Mexico,” have been blocked in the courts.
Tyler Pager contributed to this report. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2023/01/04/biden-border-visit-mexico/ | 2023-01-04 21:40:33 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2023/01/04/biden-border-visit-mexico/ |
By YURI KAGEYAMA
AP Business Writer
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday, as pessimism prevailed about higher interest rates ahead and Wall Street continued a late-summer slump.
Shares fell in Tokyo, Sydney, South Korea and Hong Kong, but were little changed in Shanghai. Oil prices fell, while the Japanese yen continued to decline against the U.S. dollar to about 144 yen.
“The mood in markets is defensive ahead of key central bank decisions,” said Anderson Alves at ActivTrades.
Rising energy prices are adding to the worries about recessions in some parts of the world, he said.
In Japan, the government is giving 50,000 yen ($350) to needy families, to help cope with daily needs and energy prices in a move also designed to boost the lagging economy.
“The real solution to this inflation crisis obviously lies on the supply side, in terms of energy and other key goods. Yet that really takes us a step away from inflation-targeting and back towards an echo of how macro-stability was previously achieved,” according to RaboResearch.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 shed 0.7% to finish at 27,430.30. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.4% to 6,729.30. South Korea’s Kospi slid 1.4% to 2,376.46. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dipped 1.0% to 19,003.55, while the Shanghai Composite was little changed, inching up less than 0.1% at 3,245.22.
China’s trade weakened in August as high energy prices, inflation and anti-virus measures weighed on global and Chinese consumer demand, and imports of Russian oil and gas surged, China’s customs data showed. Exports rose 7% over a year ago, decelerating from July’s 18% expansion, while imports contracted by 0.2%, compared with the previous month’s already weak 2.3% growth.
Demand for Chinese exports has softened as Western economies cool and the U.S. Federal Reserve and central banks in Europe and Asia raise interest rates to contain surging inflation. At home, repeated closures of Chinese cities to fight virus outbreaks has weighed on consumers’ willingness to spend.
Shares fell on Wall Street coming into a holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% after bouncing between a gain of 0.5% and a loss of 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6% and the Nasdaq lost 0.7%.
The major indexes are coming off their third losing week in a row, part of a late-summer slump that erased much of the benchmark S&P 500’s gains from July and early August.
Stocks have been losing ground as the Federal Reserve has indicated it will not let up anytime soon on raising interest rates to bring down the highest inflation in decades.
In addition, Wall Street is grappling with worries about a brewing energy crisis in Europe and the implications it could have for the global economy and corporate profits, given that companies in the S&P 500 get half their revenue from abroad, said Michael Antonelli, market strategist at Baird.
“Each day that goes by that we have to talk about an energy crisis or a gas shortage or out of control electrical bills in Europe, the less the market can make constructive headway,” he said.
The S&P 500 fell 16.07 points to 3,908.19. The Dow slid 173.14 points to 31,145.30, while the Nasdaq fell 85.96 points to 11,544.91. Smaller company stocks fell more than the broader market. The Russell 2000 index fell 17.42 points, or 1%, to 1,792.32.
Bond yields rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences interest rates on mortgages and other loans, rose to 3.34% from 3.19% late Thursday. The two-year Treasury yield, which tends to track expectations for Fed action, rose to 3.51% from 3.39%.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude fell $1.42 to $85.46 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, fell $1.30 to $91.53 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar rose to 144.01 Japanese yen from 142.76 yen. The euro was little changed at 99 cents.
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AP Business Writers Damian J. Troise, Alex Veiga and Joe McDonald contributed.
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Timberwolves vs. Thunder Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NBA Play-In Tournament
Published: Apr. 14, 2023 at 2:55 PM CDT|Updated: 36 minutes ago
The Minnesota Timberwolves are 5.5-point favorites heading into an NBA Play-In Tournament matchup against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Target Center on Friday, starting at 9:30 PM ET on ESPN.
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Timberwolves vs. Thunder Game Info & Odds
- Date: Friday, April 14, 2023
- Time: 9:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
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- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Venue: Target Center
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Timberwolves vs. Thunder Score Prediction
- Prediction: Timberwolves 117 - Thunder 115
Spread & Total Prediction for Timberwolves vs. Thunder
- Pick ATS: Thunder (+ 5.5)
- Pick OU:
Over (228.5)
- The Timberwolves (39-41-2 ATS) have covered the spread 47.6% of the time, 9.7% less often than the Thunder (47-34-1) this year.
- When the spread is set as 5.5 or more this season, Minnesota (9-12-1) covers a lower percentage of those games when it is the favorite (40.9%) than Oklahoma City (16-9-1) does as the underdog (61.5%).
- Minnesota's games have gone over the total 45.1% of the time this season (37 out of 82), less often than Oklahoma City's games have (43 out of 82).
- As a moneyline favorite this season, the Timberwolves are 21-18, while the Thunder are 22-30 as moneyline underdogs.
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Timberwolves Performance Insights
- On offense, Minnesota is averaging 115.8 points per game (12th-ranked in league). It is surrendering 115.8 points per contest at the other end (18th-ranked).
- So far this year, the Timberwolves rank eighth in the league in assists, dishing out 26.2 per game.
- The Timberwolves are making 12.2 treys per game (13th-ranked in NBA) this season, while sporting a 36.5% three-point percentage (13th-ranked).
- Of the shots taken by Minnesota in 2022-23, 61.9% of them have been two-pointers (71.6% of the team's made baskets) and 38.1% have been from beyond three-point land (28.4%).
Thunder Performance Insights
- Oklahoma City is the fifth-best squad in the league in points scored (117.5 per game) and 19th in points conceded (116.4).
- The Thunder are 21st in the league in assists (24.4 per game) in 2022-23.
- Beyond the arc, the Thunder are 15th in the league in 3-pointers made per game (12.1). They are 17th in 3-point percentage at 35.6%.
- Oklahoma City attempts 63.1% percent of its shots from inside the arc, and 36.9% percent from beyond it. In terms of makes, 71.8% of Oklahoma City's buckets are 2-pointers, and 28.2% are 3-pointers.
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