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Deere Reports Net Income of $2.246 Billion for Fourth Quarter, $7.131 Billion for Fiscal Year
Published: Nov. 23, 2022 at 5:45 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
Fourth-quarter net income rises sharply on net sales gain of 40%, demonstrating strong execution in face of continued supply-chain constraints.
Market environment bolstered by favorable industry fundamentals and continuation of strong demand for farm and construction equipment.
Full-year 2023 forecast calls for higher sales and net income of $8.0 to $8.5 billion.
MOLINE, Ill., Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) reported net income of $2.246 billion for the fourth quarter ended October 30, 2022, or $7.44 per share, compared with net income of $1.283 billion, or $4.12 per share, for the quarter ended October 31, 2021. For fiscal-year 2022, net income attributable to Deere & Company was $7.131 billion, or $23.28 per share, compared with $5.963 billion, or $18.99 per share, in fiscal 2021.
Worldwide net sales and revenues increased 37 percent, to $15.536 billion, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 and rose 19 percent, to $52.577 billion, for the full year. Equipment operations net sales were $14.351 billion for the quarter and $47.917 billion for the year, compared with corresponding totals of $10.276 billion and $39.737 billion in 2021.
"Deere's strong performance for both the fourth quarter and full year is a tribute to our dedicated team of employees, dealers, and suppliers throughout the world," said John C. May, chairman and chief executive officer. "We're proud of their extraordinary efforts to overcome supply-chain constraints, increase factory production, and deliver products to our customers."
Company Outlook & Summary
Net income attributable to Deere & Company for fiscal 2023 is forecast to be in a range of $8.0 billion to $8.5 billion.
"Deere is looking forward to another strong year in 2023 based on positive farm fundamentals and fleet dynamics as well as an increased investment in infrastructure," May said. "These factors are expected to support healthy demand for our equipment. At the same time, we have confidence in the smart industrial operating model and our ability to deliver solutions that help our customers be more profitable, productive, and sustainable."
Results for the periods shown were affected by special items. See Note 1 of the financial statements for further details.
Production and precision agriculture sales increased for the quarter due to higher shipment volumes and price realization. Operating profit rose primarily due to improved shipment volumes / mix and price realization. These items were partially offset by higher production costs, higher R&D and SA&G expenses, and the impact of higher reserves on the remaining assets in Russia.
Small agriculture and turf sales increased for the quarter due to higher shipment volumes and price realization, partially offset by the negative effects of currency translation. Operating profit rose primarily due to price realization and improved shipment volumes / mix. These items were partially offset by higher production costs, higher R&D and SA&G expenses, and the unfavorable effects of foreign exchange.
Construction and forestry sales moved higher for the quarter primarily due to price realization and higher shipment volumes, partially offset by the negative effects of currency translation. Operating profit improved mainly due to price realization and higher sales volume. Partially offsetting these factors were increases in production costs and the impact of higher reserves on the remaining assets in Russia.
Financial services net income for the quarter rose mainly due to income earned on a higher average portfolio partially offset by less-favorable financing spreads. The provision for credit losses increased, reflecting economic uncertainty in Russia. Financial services received an intercompany benefit from the equipment operations, which guarantees financial services' investments in certain international markets, including Russia.
Financial Services. Fiscal-year 2023 net income attributable to Deere & Company for the financial services operations is forecast to be $900 million. Results are expected to be slightly higher in fiscal 2023 due to income earned on a higher average portfolio, partially offset by less-favorable financing spreads and lower gains on operating-lease residual values. Excluding the portfolio in Russia, a higher provision for credit losses is forecast for 2023.
John Deere Capital Corporation
The following is disclosed on behalf of the company's financial services subsidiary, John Deere Capital Corporation (JDCC), in connection with the disclosure requirements applicable to its periodic issuance of debt securities in the public market.
Net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 was higher than in the previous fourth quarter primarily due to income earned on higher average portfolio balances, partially offset by less-favorable financing spreads. Full-year 2022 net income moved lower than 2021 due to less-favorable financing spreads, a higher provision for credit losses, higher SA&G expenses, and unfavorable discrete income-tax adjustments. These factors were partially offset by income earned on a higher average portfolio.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements contained herein, including in the sections entitled "Company Outlook & Summary," "Industry Outlook for Fiscal 2023," and "Deere Segment Outlook for Fiscal 2023," relating to future events, expectations, and trends constitute "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve factors that are subject to change, assumptions, risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Some of these risks and uncertainties could affect all lines of the company's operations generally while others could more heavily affect a particular line of business.
Forward-looking statements are based on currently available information and current assumptions, expectations, and projections about future events and should not be relied upon. Except as required by law, the company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements. Further information concerning the company and its businesses, including factors that could materially affect the company's financial results, is included in the company's other filings with the SEC (including, but not limited to, the factors discussed in Item 1A. "Risk Factors" of the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q).
Factors Affecting All Lines of Business
All of the company's businesses and their results are affected by general global macroeconomic conditions, including but not limited to inflation, including rising costs for materials used in our production, slower growth or recession, higher interest rates and currency fluctuations which could adversely affect the U.S. dollar and customer confidence, customer access to capital, and overall demand for our products; delays or disruptions in the company's supply chain, including work stoppages or disputes by suppliers with their unionized labor; shipping delays; government spending and taxing; changes in weather and climate patterns; the political and social stability of the markets in which the company operates; the effects of, or response to, wars and other conflicts, including the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine; natural disasters; and the spread of major epidemics or pandemics (including the COVID-19 pandemic).
Significant changes in market liquidity conditions, changes in the company's credit ratings, and any failure to comply with financial covenants in credit agreements could impact our access to or terms of future funding, which could reduce the company's earnings and cash flows. A debt crisis in Europe (including the recent volatility of the United Kingdom's bond market), Latin America, or elsewhere could negatively impact currencies, global financial markets, funding sources and costs, asset and obligation values, customers, suppliers, and demand for equipment. The company's investment management activities could be impaired by changes in the equity, bond, and other financial markets, which would negatively affect earnings.
Additional factors that could materially affect the company's operations, financial condition, and results include changes in governmental trade, banking, monetary, and fiscal policies, including policies and tariffs for the benefit of certain industries or sectors; actions by environmental, health, and safety regulatory agencies, including those related to engine emissions, carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions, and the effects of climate change; changes to GPS radio frequency bands and their permitted uses; speed of research and development; effectiveness of partnerships with third parties; the dealer channel's ability to support and service precision technology solutions; changes to accounting standards; changes to and compliance with economic sanctions and export controls laws and regulations (including those in place for Russia); and compliance with evolving U.S. and foreign laws when expanding to new markets and otherwise.
Other factors that could materially affect the company's results and operations include security breaches, cybersecurity attacks, technology failures, and other disruptions to the information technology infrastructure of the company and its suppliers and dealers; security breaches with respect to the company's products; the loss of or challenges to intellectual property rights; the availability and prices of strategically sourced materials, components, and whole goods; introduction of legislation that could affect the company's business model and intellectual property, such as so-called right to repair or right to modify legislation; events that damage the company's reputation or brand; significant investigations, claims, lawsuits, or other legal proceedings; the success or failure of new product initiatives or business strategies; changes in product preferences, sales mix, and take rates of products and life cycle solutions; gaps or limitations in rural broadband coverage, capacity, and speed needed to support technology solutions; oil and energy prices, supplies, and volatility; the availability and cost of freight; actions of competitors in the various industries in which the company competes, particularly price discounting; dealer practices, especially as to levels of new and used field inventories; changes in demand and pricing for used equipment and resulting impacts on lease residual values; the inability to deliver precision technology and agricultural solutions to customers; labor relations and contracts, including work stoppages and other disruptions; changes in the ability to attract, develop, engage, and retain qualified personnel; and the integration of acquired businesses.
Production & Precision Agriculture and Small Agriculture & Turf Operations
The company's agricultural equipment operations are subject to a number of uncertainties, including customer profitability; consumer purchasing preferences; housing starts and supply; infrastructure investment; and consumable input costs. Additionally, these operations are subject to certain factors that affect farmers' confidence and financial condition. These factors include demand for agricultural products; world grain stocks; soil conditions; harvest yields; prices for commodities and livestock; availability and cost of fertilizer; availability of transport for crops; the growth and sustainability of non-food uses for some crops (including ethanol and biodiesel production); real estate values; availability of technological innovations; available acreage for farming; changes in government farm programs and policies; changes in and effects of crop insurance programs; changes in environmental regulations and their impact on farming practices; animal diseases and their effects on poultry, beef, and pork consumption and prices on livestock feed demand; and crop pests and diseases.
Production and Precision Agriculture Operations
In addition to the uncertainties discussed above, the production and precision agriculture operations rely in part on hardware and software, guidance, connectivity and digital solutions, and automation and machine intelligence. Many factors contribute to the company's precision agriculture sales and results, including the impact to customers' profitability and/or sustainability outcomes.
Small Agriculture and Turf Equipment
In addition to the uncertainties discussed above, factors affecting the company's small agriculture and turf equipment operations include spending by municipalities and golf courses.
Construction and Forestry
Factors affecting the company's construction and forestry equipment operations include real estate and housing prices; the number of housing starts; commodity prices such as oil and gas; the levels of public and non-residential construction; and investment in infrastructure, while prices for pulp, paper, lumber, and structural panels affect sales of forestry equipment.
John Deere Financial
The liquidity and ongoing profitability of John Deere Capital Corporation and the company's other financial services subsidiaries depend on timely access to capital to meet future cash flow requirements, and to fund operations, costs, and purchases of the company's products. If general economic conditions deteriorate further or capital markets become more volatile, funding could be unavailable or insufficient. Additionally, customer confidence levels may result in declines in credit applications and increases in delinquencies and default rates, which could materially impact write-offs and provisions for credit losses.
In the first quarter of 2022, the company had a one-time payment related to the ratification of the UAW collective bargaining agreement, totaling $90 million.
In the third quarter of 2021, the company sold a closed factory that previously produced small agriculture equipment in China, resulting in a $27 million pretax gain. During the first quarter of 2021, the fixed assets in an asphalt plant factory in Germany were impaired by $38 million, pretax and after-tax. The company also continued to assess its manufacturing locations, resulting in additional long-lived asset impairments of $12 million pretax. The impairments were the result of a decline in forecasted financial performance that indicated it was probable future cash flows would not cover the carrying amount of the net assets. These impairments were offset by a favorable indirect tax ruling in Brazil of $58 million pretax. There were no special items in the fourth quarter of 2021.
The following table summarizes the operating profit impact, in millions of dollars, of the special items recorded for the three months and fiscal years ended October 30, 2022 and October 31, 2021:
DEERE & COMPANY OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION
The company evaluates its business results on the basis of accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. In addition, it uses a metric referred to as Shareholder Value Added (SVA), which management believes is an appropriate measure for the performance of its businesses. SVA is, in effect, the pretax profit left over after subtracting the cost of enterprise capital. The company is aiming for a sustained creation of SVA and is using this metric for various performance goals. Certain compensation is also determined on the basis of performance using this measure. For purposes of determining SVA, each of the equipment segments is assessed a pretax cost of assets, which on an annual basis is approximately 12 percent of the segment's average identifiable operating assets during the applicable period with inventory at standard cost. Management believes that valuing inventories at standard cost more closely approximates the current cost of inventory and the company's investment in the asset. The Financial Services segment is assessed an annual pretax cost of approximately 13 percent of the segment's average equity. The cost of assets or equity, as applicable, is deducted from the operating profit or added to the operating loss of each segment to determine the amount of SVA.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
6-5-9-1
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Snailfish becomes deepest fish ever photographed
Published: Apr. 3, 2023 at 12:53 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
(CNN) – Scientists have recorded the deepest ever fish.
Last September, a sea robot filmed this snailfish just above the seabed off Japan at a depth of 27,000 feet.
Scientists also physically caught two other fish at 26,000 feet, a new record for the deepest catch.
The fish have tiny eyes, a translucent body and no swim bladder.
Scientists from the University of Western Australia and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology released the footage.
The discovery is part of a 10-year study into the deepest fish populations in the world.
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5-year-old boy loses part of leg, hand in lawn mower accident
BONNEAU, S.C. (WCSC/Gray News) – A 5-year-old boy in South Carolina lost part of his leg and part of his hand in a lawn mower accident.
According to the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the home Saturday afternoon.
The boy’s parents told deputies their son was playing in the backyard while his father was cutting the grass. The incident report states the child’s mother said the boy was playing in the yard and had “come out of nowhere” just before the accident.
No foul play is suspected, officials said.
The child was flown by helicopter to MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital for treatment of serious injuries to his left leg and left hand.
According to a GoFundMe page set up for the family, the boy lost his left leg below the knee and half of his left hand after multiple surgeries.
The boy’s mom, Lorena Carr, said in a GoFundMe update that her son has a long road to recovery, but they are staying hopeful.
“Wyatt has a long road ahead of him and still several surgeries. He’s going to be at the hospital for 2 weeks but we know how resilient he is and he WILL bounce back without a doubt,” she wrote.
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New technology insights and on-trend product innovations further support the snacks and treats maker's industry-leading omnichannel strategy, creating better moments
NEWARK, N.J., May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For more than 100 years, Mars Wrigley, a leader in the snacks and treats category, has kept a pulse on consumer trends to ensure its business and its retail partners identify and adopt innovations to exceed shoppers' expectations. Today, at Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago, the company is announcing its latest initiative to support retail customers – The Transaction Zone Team: a newly established internal consultancy of front-end experts dedicated to identifying and implementing market solutions that help category managers, store operations, and shoppers grow the transaction zone.
"At Mars Wrigley, we're always listening to our consumers and working with our retail partners to re-shape the future of the industry by creating better moments in-store and on-shelf," said Tim LeBel, President of Sales at Mars Wrigley. "Beyond being at the forefront of the snacks and treats category, we are thought leaders in understanding retail challenges and identifying pivotal solutions to make the shopping experience more efficient and engaging, maximizing shopper loyalty and retailer profits."
Self-checkout has been around for more than two decades, but only about half of transactions go through it.1 Less than a year after Mars Wrigley revealed its Accelerating Impulse Moments (AIM) program – a four-pillar platform focused on developing conversion strategies to reimagine impulse shopping through transaction zone reinvention, snack aisle optimization, secondary display growth, and digital solutions execution - the company has invested heavily in strategically growing The Transaction Zone Team around shopper insights that are critical to evolving check out.
"At Mars Wrigley, we're committed to category leadership and are laser focused on industry growth," said Mike Weinstock, Vice President of Category Leadership at Mars Wrigley. "That's why we're doubling down efforts to identify solutions that solve for front-end challenges, including the industry-wide self-checkout gap. Our new Transaction Zone Team has already established itself as a go-to resource for retail partners looking to reinvent the transaction zone."
Since the consultancy was initially formed in September 2021, it has built proprietary tools that unlock insights around transaction zone performance at retail, developed a new conversion model that identifies solutions for key transaction zone audiences, and extended the company's reach by engaging not just with large retail, but with all retail formats. Together, these actions have informed Mars Wrigley and its retail partners about the most impactful ways to optimize checkouts now, reimagine the self-checkout terminal and queue area next, and grow frictionless checkout in the future.
Beyond the transaction zone, this past year Mars Wrigley has also helped retail partners reach shoppers through Voice AI advancement studies and has motivated consumer purchases with innovative, on-trend product offerings that satisfy shoppers' values and evolved tastes.
Leveraging Voice AI Technology to Reach Consumers
An important omnichannel tool, Voice AI is increasingly becoming embedded in all areas of consumers lives. This new technology is shifting consumer behavior, evolving how brands show up, and making shopping easier than ever. Informed by one-of-a-kind research, Mars Wrigley recently piloted a series of Voice driven programs around Halloween that increased brand engagement via a spooky Voice alarm and social media, facilitated hands-free shopping with a Voice activated shopping list, and reached new-to-brand buyers via Voice activated ads.
To learn more, attendees of this year's show can join the "What's Next in Shopping with Voice AI?" session on May 24, 2022, at 3pm CT, at the Insights Stage.
Aligning With Shopper's Societal and Environmental Values
As a purpose-led organization, Mars Wrigley is constantly innovating and evolving in ways that affirm its commitment to make a positive impact on the world. The global commitment made by Mars Wrigley's M&M'S® brand to leverage the power of fun to increase the sense of belonging for 10 million people by 2025 is one of many actions being taken by the treats and snacks manufacturer to help foster a more inclusive society. Similarly, Mars is committed rethinking its approach to packaging. Recently, the M&M'S brand eliminated the traditional plastic overwrap from its theater boxes, making the packaging fully recyclable and removing 98 metric tons of plastic waste a year. Mars also announced that all Mars bars sold in the UK, Ireland and Canada will be certified as carbon neutral by 2023. That's over 220 million chocolate bars a year that will be carbon neutral.
Evolving Product Innovations to Meet Consumers' Needs
To ensure product innovations continue to surprise and delight shoppers, Mars Wrigley consistently keeps a pulse on what motivates consumers. Like last year, the snacks and treats manufacturer is positioning seasonal products as year-round opportunities and this summer, its M&M'S brand will be rolling out new music-centric programming to attract and engage shoppers and drive conversion by tapping into nostalgia to spark fun and connection. Additionally, across its portfolio, Mars Wrigley is unveiling several new offerings that deliver on shoppers' requests for a wider variety of offerings that balance satisfaction, taste, and preference.
- M&M'S Crunchy Cookie - A hybrid of the iconic M&M'S candy and nostalgic chocolate chip cookie, M&M'S Crunchy Cookie candies feature a great-tasting cookie center covered in delicious milk chocolate, all wrapped in the colorful, M&M'S candy shell offering shoppers a satisfying treat with one-of-a-kind taste and texture.
- M&M'S Munchums – Available at select retailers, this limited time offering delivers a totally new experience that bridges the world of chocolate and snacking, while serving as a gluten free option. The chocolate-based snack features a proprietary, one-of-a-kind crunchy baked outer shell made with chickpea. Its two flavors – Milk Chocolate and Salted Caramel – give consumers more options while still providing the satisfying crunch and taste they have come to expect from the brand.
- M&M'S Nut Brownie MIX: Rolling out later this Summer, this new variety features a delicious blend of fan favorite M&M'S Peanut Chocolate Candies and M&M'S Fudge Brownie Chocolate Candies. Requested more than 35,000 times on social media, shoppers won't be able to get enough of this nutty, chocolatey mix that combines tastes and textures into one bag.
- DOVE® Large PROMISES®: DOVE Chocolate expanded its PROMISES collection with its two new DOVE Large PROMISES flavor variations: Milk Chocolate & Caramel and Dark Chocolate & Peanut Butter, to bring consumers a more indulgent experience to eat on the go, with a larger size and irresistible filling.
- TWIX® Salted Caramel: The newest addition to the TWIX portfolio, TWIX Salted Caramel Crunchy Cookie Bars, feature the same three layers that everyone loves, with an extra pinch of salt for a new crunchy sweet & salty experience.
- SKITTLES® PRIDE Packs: As part of its ongoing mission to increase LGBTQ+ visibility and celebrate those within the community, SKITTLES is once again giving up its signature rainbow during Pride to celebrate the one that matters most. The brand's annual Pride packs – which have historically been all-gray to represent the brand's cemented efforts of support – received a splash of color in 2022 thanks to six talented artists within the LGBTQ+ community who crafted original designs that represent how they "see the rainbow" every day. From May 9 - July 15 for every SKITTLES Pride pack purchased, $1 will be donated (up to $100,000) to GLAAD.
- STARBURST® Airs: A first-of-its-kind aerated gummi candy, STARBURST Airs, offer a twist on the original STARBURST candy. Available in Original and Sour Tropical packs, the new candy has an inflated texture, resulting in a fluffy gummi packed with the juicy STARBURST flavor shoppers know and love.
- EXTRA® Refreshers Fruit Mix: Uniquely combining three refreshing fruity flavors together in one bottle, EXTRA Refreshers Fruit Mix is perfect for everything from first dates to weekend getaways. Consumers can enjoy incredibly fresh breath with this delicious new mix of strawberry freeze, tropical mist and lemonade chill.
For more information on the latest news from Mars Wrigley, visit www.mars.com/made-by-mars/mars-wrigley. If you are attending the Sweets & Snacks Expo, please stop by booth 11504.
About Mars, Incorporated
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating, and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and pet care products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world's best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M's®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, BEN'S ORIGINAL™,
WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world's pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people, and pets can thrive.
For more information about Mars, please visit www.mars.com. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
1. Videomining, Grocery Checkout Meta Study, October 2020
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How technology led to three Black men arrested and wrongfully accused
The law enforcement agencies involved used facial recognition technology to “match” innocent individuals to crimes they did not commit
(InvestigateTV/Atlanta News First) - Some law enforcement agencies using facial recognition technology (FRT) are not following agency policy because one does not exist, an InvestigateTV investigation uncovered.
“I swear to God, I ain’t never been to Louisiana,” Randall Reid told the DeKalb County police officer arresting him after a traffic stop along I-20. The officer questioned: “Who would use your name? Who would get you involved?”
“I don’t even know nobody in Louisiana,” Reid pleaded.
The 28-year-old was wanted out of Jefferson Parrish and Baton Rouge for stealing purses. But Reid said he’d never even been to the state.
Louisiana law enforcement used FRT — software that analyzes facial features comparing one image to another, to find a match or offer a limited set of results with similarities — to “match” Reid to a crime he did not commit, according to his attorneys.
Two years before Reid’s arrest, a similar case unfolded in 2020. Detroit police arrested Robert Williams outside his Michigan home in Farmington Hills.
Police used FRT to link the father of two to security video which showed a man stealing watches at a jewelry store. But detectives failed to thoroughly investigate beyond using the software, Williams’ attorneys alleged in a lawsuit.
“There was no questioning, no asking for an alibi,” Melissa Williams said.
“Arresting me for absolutely no reason other than whatever you seen on a picture, that’s just not real,” Robert Williams, who now wants the technology banned, said.
A year earlier, police in Woodbridge, New Jersey, used FRT to link Nijeer Parks to theft at a hotel gift shop. In that case, the actual suspect sped away in his car, nearly hitting police.
“Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, shoplifting, eluding, my jaw just dropped. I was like, ‘Where did you get all this from?’” Parks recalled.
In each case, the agencies which used FRT did not follow agency policy because one did not exist, or what did exist had no clearly defined standards, lawsuits claim.
When Reid was arrested, neither Louisiana law enforcement agency followed a facial recognition policy because neither had one on record, according to open records requests submitted by InvestigateTV.
The Cobb County Police Department does have a policy, and is one of two agencies in Georgia to use FRT.
“Just two people that look alike, that is not proof beyond reasonable doubt,” Cobb County Police Department Chief Stuart VanHoozer said.
Only nine of Cobb County Police Department’s roughly 1,000 personnel are authorized to use FRT. VanHoozer said two reasons are behind that policy.
“Number one, the training is easier to do with a small number of people. Number two, accountability,” he said.
According to Captain Darin Hull, accountability begins with how photos are matched.
“To us, it’s a lead,” he said, explaining officers need to vet matches the same as they would any other information tip.
Based on the police department’s six-page policy, specialists must follow specific steps when using the system:
- Software-based facial recognition through a repository.
- Human-based facial comparison of candidates within a candidate list.
- Peer review of likely candidates in a candidate list.
- Investigation of a likely candidate to reveal corroborating or exculpatory evidence.
- Investigative supervisor review prior to taking criminal charges.
- Judge review of evidence prior to warrant issuance.
“I would use facial recognition with any criminal act because I trust it,” VanHoozer said. “I don’t trust it to make a case for me. I trust it to open doors of investigations for us. Then I trust our staff and policy to determine whether or not that is actually viable.”
The vendor for Cobb County’s facial recognition contract has faced criticism for “scraping,” or pulling publicly available images from social media like Facebook and Instagram. Experts have argued it could be a violation to that website’s terms of service.
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Fresh off an emotional win over Ridge in the semifinals, Hillsborough ensured there would be no letdown in the championship of the NJSIAA North Group 4 tournament on Thursday morning.
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NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear. Festival red carpets are rolled out. Oscar campaigns are primed. Long-awaited blockbusters, like “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Avatar: The Way of Water,” are poised for big box office.
But after the tumult of the pandemic, can the fall movie season just go back to way it was? Many are hoping it can. After two springtime editions, the Academy Awards have returned to a more traditional early March date. The Golden Globes, after near-cancellation, are plotting a comeback. Some movies, too, are trying to recapture a before-times spirit. At the Toronto Film Festival in September, Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” has booked the same theater “Knives Out” premiered to a packed house almost exactly three years ago.
“Seems like yesterday,” Johnson says, laughing. “OK, a few things have happened.”
After an all-but-wiped-out 2020 autumn and a 2021 season hobbled by the delta and omicron COVID-19 variants, this fall could, maybe, just maybe be something more like the normal annual cultural revival that happens every fall, when most of the year’s best movies arrive.
“We’re all, I think, just trying to will it into existence as at least some version of what we knew before,” says Johnson. “As with everything, you kind of just have to dive into the pool and see what the water’s like. I’m really hoping that at least the illusion of normalcy holds. I guess that’s all normalcy is.”
But “Glass Onion,” with Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc in a new mystery, is also a reminder of how much has changed. After “Knives Out” was a box-office hit for Lionsgate, grossing $311 million worldwide for Lionsgate, Netflix shelled out $450 million to snap up the rights to two sequels. And while exhibitors and the streaming company discussed a larger theatrical release for “Glass Onion” — a surefire hit if it did — a more modest rollout in theaters is expected before the films lands Dec. 23 on Netflix.
The balance between theatrical and streaming remains unsettled. But after a summer box-office revival and an evolving outlook for streaming by Wall Street, theatrical moviegoing — with its billions in annual ticket sales and cultural footprint — is looking pretty good. For the first time in years, moviegoing has a strong wind at its back. Or at least it did until an especially slow August sapped momentum due largely to a dearth of new wide releases.
“If you look at how many movies we had compared to what business we did, we were operating at 2019 levels,” says John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theater Owners. “We had 70% of the supply of wide-release movies in the first seven months and we did 71% of the business we did in the same period in 2019. Moviegoers are back in pre-pandemic numbers, it’s just we still need more movies.”
That will be less of an issue as the fall season ramps up. “Wakanda Forever” (Nov. 11) and “The Way of the Water” (Dec. 16) may each vie with the summer smash “Top Gun: Maverick” ($1.36 billion worldwide and still counting) for the year’s top film. Less clear, though, is if the fall’s robust slate of adult-driven films and Oscar contenders can once again drive moviegoing. Last year’s best-picture winner, “CODA,” from Apple TV+, ran the awards gauntlet without a cent of box office.
Among the most anticipated films hitting the fall festival circuit and theaters are Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans” (Nov. 23); “Blonde” (Sept. 23), starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe; Todd Fields’ “TÁR” (Oct. 7), with Cate Blanchett; Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light” (Dec. 9); “The Son” (Nov. 11), Florian Zeller’s follow-up to “The Father”; Chinonye Chukwu’s Emmett Till saga “Till” (Oct. 14); Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Oct. 21); James Gray’s “Armageddon Time” (Oct. 28); and the Cannes Palme d’Or winner “The Triangle of Sadness” (Oct. 7).
Superhero films (“Black Adam,” Oct. 21, starring Dwayne Johnson), kids movies (“Lyle Lyle Crocodile,” Oct. 7), horror flicks (“Halloween Ends,” Oct. 14) rom-coms (“Ticket to Paradise,” Oct. 21, with Julia Roberts and George Clooney) and more high-flying adventures (“Devotion,” Nov. 23) will also mix in, as will prominent titles from streamers. Those include Amazon’s “My Policeman” (Oct. 21), with Harry Styles; and Netflix releases “Bardo” (in theaters Nov. 4), by Alejandro González Iñárritu; “White Noise” (in theaters Nov. 25) by Noah Baumbach; and Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” (streaming Dec. 9).
But if much of the fall movie season is about restoring what was lost the last few years, for some upcoming movies, change is the point. “Woman King” (Sept. 16), directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood and starring Viola Davis, is muscular fact-based epic about a West African army of female warriors. To Prince-Blythewood, the filmmaker of “Love & Basketball” and “The Old Guard,” “Woman King” represents “the chance to reframe what it means to be female and feminine.”
“I don’t think we have ever seen a movie like this before. So much of our history has been hidden or ignored or erased,” says Blythewood. “‘Braveheart,’ ‘Gladiator,’ ‘Last of the Mohicans.’ I love those movies. Now, here was our chance to tell our story in this genre.”
“Bros” (Sept. 30), too, is something different. The film, starring and co-written by “Billy on the Street” comedian Billy Eichner, is the first gay rom-com by a major studio (Universal). All of its principal cast members are LGBTQ. Comedies have struggled in theaters in recent years but “Bros,” produced by Judd Apatow, hopes a new perspective will enliven a familiar genre.
“It’s a historic movie in many ways,” says Eichner. “That’s not something we thought about when we were first developing it. Nobody sits down and says, ‘Let’s write a historic movie.’ We said, ‘Let’s make a hilarious movie.’ It will make people laugh but it’s unlike anything the vast majority of people have seen.”
“Bros” and “Woman King” are productions meant to challenge the status quo of Hollywood. That’s also part of the nature of “She Said” (Nov. 18), a dramatization of New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s investigation into movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” (Dec. 2) likewise chronicles a real-life female uprising. It’s based on events from 2009, when Bolivian Mennonite women gathered together after having been drugged and raped by the men in their colony.
Olivia Wilde’s buzzed-about “Don’t Worry Darling,” starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles as a married couple living in a 1950s-style suburban nightmare-slash-male fantasy, approaches some similar themes through a science-fiction lens.
“I want to make something that is just really entertaining and fun and interesting, but actually is my way of provoking conversations about real issues like body autonomy,” says Wilde. “I didn’t know it would be as timely as it is right now. Never in my wildest nightmares did I believe Roe would have been overturned right before the release of this film.”
Other movie production timelines seem to exist almost apart from our earthly reality. James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of the Water” will debut 13 years after 2009’s “Avatar” (still the highest grossing film ever), a follow-up originally scheduled for release in 2014. Since then, so many dates have come and gone that the sequels — four films are now slated to launch in the next five years — have sometimes seemed like blockbuster Godots that might forever wait in the wings.
Speaking from the New Zealand where “The Way of the Water” was being mixed and scored, producer Jon Landau promised the wait is, in fact, nearly over.
“This is finally happening,” said Landau. “Those delays, as you would call them, were really about us creating a foundation for a saga of movies. It wasn’t about going: ‘Let’s get one script right.’ It was about: ‘Let’s get four scripts right.’”
Measuring the change in the movie industry is even harder when it comes to the span in between “Avatar” installments. When the first “Avatar” was in theaters, 3-D was being billed (again) as the future. Barack Obama was in the first year of his first term. Netflix was renting DVDs by mail.
“A lot has changed but a lot hasn’t,” says Landau. “One of the things that has not changed is: Why do people turn to entertainment today? Just like they did when the first ‘Avatar’ was released, they do it to escape, to escape the world in which we live.”
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Ohio (WDTN) – Ohio members of the American Red Cross have deployed to Florida in anticipation of the destruction caused by Hurricane Ian.
According to Marita Salkowski, Regional Com. Director for the ARC, approximately ten workers from central and southern Ohio joined hundreds of trained disaster workers from all around the country to provide relief in Florida. Salkowski says many more workers will be sent later during the long recovery process.
Already, approximately 13,000 people spent the night in ARC evacuation centers across the state to escape Hurricane Ian. The ARC has moved truckloads of additional cots, blankets and comfort kits, along with tens of thousands of relief supplies into the region and has pre-positioned dozens of emergency vehicles across the state, Salkowski said. The ARC is currently prepared to help as many as 60,000 people during this disaster.
At this time, the American Red Cross is not accepting donations of items such as clothing, blankets or household items, as they do not have the resources to process and distribute them. Instead, Salkowski explains that financial donations are the most efficient way to ensure those affected can have shelter and support during this time.
To donate, you can call the ARC at 1-800-REDCROSS or visit their website at redcross.org/donate | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ohio/hurricane-ian-ohio-red-cross-workers-join-hundreds-in-florida/ | 2022-09-28 19:29:59 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ohio/hurricane-ian-ohio-red-cross-workers-join-hundreds-in-florida/ |
Security guard fatally shot man who stabbed him with axe, police say
CHICAGO (WLS) - Police are investigating a deadly confrontation between a security guard and a man with an axe outside of a marijuana dispensary in Chicago.
Police say a male suspect hit an armed security guard in the leg with an axe during an argument Monday morning outside the Zen Leaf Dispensary in Chicago’s Greektown neighborhood.
After the guard was sliced in the leg, a struggle ensued, and the guard fired at least four shots, witnesses say. The suspect was taken to the hospital in critical condition, where he died.
“I don’t know what’s with people. It’s crazy that we have to get to these extremes to be safe,” resident Maca Navas said.
The security guard was taken to the hospital in good condition with lacerations to his leg. He is expected to be OK.
“I think he did the right thing,” resident Jake Wilson said.
Investigators shut down the block for several hours as they photographed evidence, including the axe that was left lying on the sidewalk and towels used to stop the security guard’s bleeding wound.
Witnesses say the suspect was carrying the axe in a large backpack. It’s unclear if he was a potential customer at the dispensary.
Police are hoping to find surveillance video that may indicate a motive for the attack.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
7-6-2, FIREBALL: 7
(seven, six, two; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
7-6-2, FIREBALL: 7
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NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wix.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX), today announced that Lior Shemesh, CFO, and Joe Pollaro, GM of the US, will participate in a fireside chat at the 2022 RBC Global Technology, Internet, Media and Telecom Conference at the InterContinental Barclay New York Hotel on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 3:10 p.m. ET.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fallece el legendario compositor Burt Bacharach a los 94 años.
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Day care provider charged with murder of 5-month-old boy in North Dakota
CARRINGTON, N.D. (KVLY/Gray News) - Four months after a child was found unresponsive at a North Dakota day care, criminal charges have been filed against the woman prosecutors say caused the fatal injuries, KVLY reports.
Patricia Wick, 48, is charged with murder, child abuse and operating a day care without a license.
Police were called to Wick’s home on Sept. 26, 2022, for an unresponsive child.
A 5-month-old boy named Reed was life-flighted to a hospital where medical experts say he had “clearly suffered a traumatic head injury and subsequently had a cardiac arrest,” according to court documents. Reed died two days later and autopsy results stated he died as a result of complications of blunt-force head and neck trauma. His manner of death was determined to be a homicide.
When investigators spoke with Wick, she said that she had just fed Reed and laid him down. Court documents state that Wick said Reed woke up about 15 minutes later and woke up another child from crying. Wick said she put Reed on a blanket in the living room while she helped another child in the kitchen. A few minutes later, Wick said she heard Reed coughing and saw him vomiting, so she called Reed’s mother and 911.
Wick later admitted that she may have put Reed down too hard and may not have been gentle with him because “she was frustrated” with him that day, according to court documents.
During her interview with police, Wick also said that another child had broken his arm while in her care two weeks prior to Reed’s death.
When that child’s parents were interviewed, they stated the boy broke his arm while on Wick’s swing set. The parents said that they were not called after the incident. They say Wick told them when they arrived to pick their child up and say that Wick downplayed the boy’s injury. When they took the boy to the emergency room, it was determined he had a broken arm. Wick never inquired about the boy’s well-being after the incident, court documents say.
A search warrant was executed at Wick’s home on Sept. 28, where court documents say investigators found Wick’s swing set was not secured to the ground and could lift while in use.
Wick’s first appearance in court has not yet been set.
A GoFundMe was set up for the family shortly after Reed’s death. You can find it here.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Voters in five states are deciding on Election Day whether to approve recreational marijuana, a move that could signal a major shift toward legalization in even the most conservative parts of the country.
The proposals are on the ballot in Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota and follow moves by President Joe Biden toward decriminalizing marijuana. Biden last month announced he was pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of simple possession of marijuana under federal law.
Advocates of the marijuana initiatives have said Biden’s announcement may give a boost to their efforts.
Recreational marijuana is legal in 19 states, and polls have shown opposition to legalization softening. All of the states with recreational marijuana on the ballot, except for Maryland, voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
The five states also currently have legal medical marijuana programs. That includes Arkansas, which in 2016 became the first Bible Belt state to approve medical marijuana. The state’s dispensaries opened in 2019, and more than 91,000 patients have cards to legally buy marijuana for medical conditions.
The legalization campaigns have raised about $23 million in the five states, with the vast majority in Arkansas and Missouri. More than 85% of contributions in those two states have come from donors associated with companies holding medical marijuana licenses, according to an Associated Press analysis of the most recent campaign finance reports.
In Arkansas, supporters have been running upbeat ads touting the thousands of jobs they say will be created by the measure. Opponents have run more ominous spots, warning voters to “protect Arkansas from big marijuana.”
The initiative has drawn the criticism of traditional legalization opponents as well as some medical marijuana advocates, who say the Arkansas proposal places too many limits and would only benefit a handful of dispensaries. Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a former head of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, has also opposed the measure.
Missouri’s proposal would legalize recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older and expunge records of past arrests and convictions for nonviolent marijuana offenses, except for selling to minors or driving under the influence. Maryland’s proposal would also make changes in criminal law and create automatic expungements of past marijuana possession convictions.
North Dakota’s measure would allow people 21 and older to legally use marijuana at home as well as possess and cultivate restricted amounts of cannabis. It also would establish policies to regulate retail stores, cultivators, and other types of marijuana businesses.
South Dakotans, including a sizable number of Republicans, voted to legalize marijuana possession in 2020, but that law was struck down by the state Supreme Court in part because the proposal was coupled with medical marijuana and hemp. This year, recreational pot is standing by itself as it goes before voters.
In Colorado, where recreational marijuana has been legal for nearly a decade, voters on Tuesday are taking up a proposal that would allow the use of certain psychedelic substances. If approved, it would make Colorado the second state to take such a step.
Melody Finley, a Republican in Little Rock, Arkansas, said she voted for the state’s legalization measure because she thinks it can help some people for certain conditions.
“If you can buy alcohol, you can buy that too,” Finley, 47, a dance instructor, said.
But Rick Huffman, a voter in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Tuesday voted against that state’s legalization proposal, two years after supporting recreational marijuana on South Dakota’s ballot in 2020.
“I’ve got a kid that’s a teenager now,” he said. “So I think it’ll eventually happen, but maybe I’ll wait until my kids grow up.”
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Associated Press Writer Stephen Groves in Sioux Falls, South Dakota contributed to this report
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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Kia is recalling some of its 2023 Sportage vehicles due to a braking system problem.
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration said the recall affects about 98,944 and involves the brake booster diaphragm, which could become misaligned and leak, potentially causing a loss of power brake assist.
The problem could result in a crash since it may increase the distance needed to stop the vehicle.
Notification letters are expected to be mailed to owners on July 21.
Owners of the vehicles covered by the recall should contact their local dealer, who will do an inspection and provide a free replacement part if necessary.
Owners may also contact the NHTSA Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 or go online at nhtsa.gov. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/kia-recalls-2023-sportage-vehicles-due-to-braking-issue/ | 2023-06-13 16:40:28 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/kia-recalls-2023-sportage-vehicles-due-to-braking-issue/ |
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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) — On a September day in 2020, New York City Police Officer Baimadajie Angwang kissed his toddler goodbye and was about to drive to work when he was surrounded by rifle-toting FBI agents.
You’re under arrest, the bewildered cop was told. The charge: Being a secret agent for China.
Angwang, a former U.S. Marine, spent six months in a federal detention center before he was freed on bail while awaiting trial on charges that he fed information about New York’s Tibetan community to officials at the Chinese consulate in New York.
Then, just as suddenly, it was over. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn dropped the charges Jan. 19, saying only that they were acting “in the interest of justice.” They didn't explain further.
Now Angwang says he wants to be reinstated to the police force, which suspended him with pay while the case was pending. But more than that, he wants answers.
“Why did you start the investigation on me? Why did you drop all the charges?” said Angwang, who was born in Tibet but was granted political asylum in the U.S. as a teenager.
“We want an explanation. We’re demanding it because you owe me,” he said during an interview at his attorney’s office. “You can’t just put me in jail for six months and ruin my name, ruin my reputation and give all this stress to my family members and friends, and then you say, ‘in the interest of justice.’ You just going to leave it like that?”
China’s Communist Party has ruled over Tibet for seven decades and China has claimed a vast stretch of the Himalayas as part of its territory since the 13th century. But the relationship has been fraught with tension, with many Tibetans — some in exile — seeking independence.
The original charge against Angwang was that he began supplying information to Chinese officials on Tibetan independence groups in New York in 2018.
In court documents, prosecutors said Angwang was a threat to national security. He was charged with being an unregistered foreign agent, making false statements to federal investigators, obstruction of justice and wire fraud. There were no allegations of espionage, a more serious accusation.
In building its initial case against Angwang, prosecutors argued that he provided intelligence on ethnic Tibetans who might cooperate with Chinese officials and advised them on how to expand China’s “soft power” in New York.
Specifically, the government said, he sought a tit-for-tat arrangement that would give him a 10-year visa to his homeland in return for surveillance information and access to the police department.
The case was built partly on recorded phone calls, including some in which authorities said Angwang called a consular official “big brother” and “boss.”
Angwang told The Associated Press his words were either mistranslated from Mandarin or taken out of context. He said he became superficially friendly with Chinese officials because he needed the visa to visit his homeland, so his parents and other relatives could finally meet his daughter.
The judge presiding over the case sought answers about why the charges were dismissed, but federal prosecutors declined to divulge classified information that might have given clues.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn declined to comment.
The judge agreed to dismiss the case without prejudice, meaning the government could press charges again, a possibility hanging over Angwang but his lawyer suggests is unlikely.
The attorney, John Carman, surmised his client became caught up in the Trump administration’s effort to root out Chinese espionage across U.S. institutions, including the economy, academics and other facets of public life. Angwang contends there were shades of racism targeting people with Chinese links.
“I think our criminal justice system sometimes goes off the track when it has a publicity aspect to it and when it has a political aspect to it. And this case had both,” Carman said.
Angwang first visited the U.S. as a teen on a cultural exchange visa. He went back to Tibet but later returned to the U.S., saying he had been arrested and beaten by Chinese authorities. He moved in with an uncle in Queens and was granted asylum at age 17.
In his adopted country, Angwang enlisted in the U.S. Marines and served in Afghanistan. After being discharged, he joined the Army Reserves and enrolled in the police academy.
He said it was his way of giving back to a country that has been so good to him.
With the charges dropped, he said he wants to regain the good graces of his Tibetan community, which remains suspicious.
“I’m very proud of my heritage. I love my culture and I love the community,” Angwang said. He said he was wrongly depicted as a three-way traitor.
“So I’m a traitor of my birthplace? I’m a traitor of America? I’m a traitor of the Tibetan community — which I was never a traitor. I never betrayed anyone — my fellow Tibetans, my fellow Americans, anybody.”
Norbu Choezung, the president of the Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey, a group comprising some 10,000 members of Tibetan heritage, remains wary. He, too, wants the government to provide more details about why it dropped the case.
“It’s a little fishy,” Choezung said. “We as a community definitely want to dig deeper why his charges have been dropped, and how those things happened.”
U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee, who presided over the case, was left with questions but said he was glad Angwang’s ordeal was over.
“In some ways a straightforward case but also in some ways, especially given the landscape of statutes at issue, a complicated matter,” the judge said, also noting the “fanfare” in which the case was brought.
“It’s unfortunate, obviously, that Mr. Angwang did serve as much time as he did in jail pretrial or in detention pretrial,” the judge said, “but better late, as they say, than never.” | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/the-spy-who-wasn-t-new-york-police-officer-wants-17773294.php | 2023-02-09 06:45:02 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/the-spy-who-wasn-t-new-york-police-officer-wants-17773294.php |
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Porto’s review: In the Feb. 19 Weekend section, the hours given for Porto’s restaurants are incorrect. Its locations are open from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
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HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) — A judge has declined to dismiss the case against a western Michigan restaurant owner who was jailed and fined $15,000 for violating state orders that banned indoor dining during the pandemic.
Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, owner of Marlena’s Bistro and Pizzeria, had asked an Ingham County judge to dismiss the case against her and award her damages.
However, Circuit Judge Wanda Stokes sided Thursday with the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, which filed a complaint against here in February 2021, The Grand Rapids Press reported.
That complaint eventually resulted in the restaurant being shuttered for five months after the agency suspended her food license.
Her food license was eventually restored, allowing her to reopen in September 2021.
Pavlos-Hackney was jailed five days after she kept her restaurant open and the court ordering the closure.
Stokes ordered that Pavlos-Hackney to comply with future orders issued by MDARD or the Allegan County Health Department.
In an email sent to her supporters, Pavlos-Hackney said that her arrest and jailing were “unconstitutional and unlawful. The government should be servants of the people, they overreach their authority and don’t follow their own mandates and they try to take our constitutionally protected rights away, but we the people are in charge and need to fight and stand up.”
State officials said Pavlos-Hackney ignored rules other businesses had to follow. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Judge-doesn-t-dismiss-case-against-Holland-17494804.php | 2022-10-07 22:40:49 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Judge-doesn-t-dismiss-case-against-Holland-17494804.php |
DALLAS (AP) — Tim Hardaway Jr. had to watch when his Dallas Mavericks lost to the Golden State Warriors in last season’s Western Conference finals.
He found himself in the middle of some playoff intensity in their first meeting this season.
Hardaway hit a go-ahead 3-pointer late, Luka Doncic scored 41 points in his NBA-leading fifth triple-double and the Mavericks held off the Warriors 116-113 on Tuesday night.
Dallas ended a four-game losing streak, the longest in two seasons under coach Jason Kidd. Golden State, a winner in five games last spring on the way to the title, lost for just the second time in seven games after a slow start to its season.
“For me, it was,” Hardaway, who missed the 2022 postseason recovering from a broken foot, said of whether he felt the playoff vibe.
“Just because of the excitement, and me not being able to play in the Western Conference finals. Just wanting to go out there and compete, have fun. Playing against the champs.”
Stephen Curry scored 32 points for Golden State, including a quick-draw 3-pointer over Maxi Kleber for a 110-108 lead, but Dallas responded by scoring the next five points to go ahead for good.
Hardaway, who scored 22 points, answered Curry’s 3 on Doncic’s 12th and final assist with 1:49 remaining. Josh Green’s short jumper came after Doncic blocked Curry’s layup try.
“Hardaway’s shot was the key, I thought, down the stretch,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “We have to expect that teams are going to make shots against us. We’re going to be circled on every team’s calendar.”
The Warriors were down two when Curry was called for traveling — the 10th of the game between both teams — with 10 seconds remaining.
“Bang, bang situation,” Curry said. “Dumb play by me to not take the layup. I got a little confused on what the time and score was. Going for the hero shot. I didn’t think it was a travel to the point where let the play run out. But who am I to say?”
Golden State had one more chance after Dorian Finney-Smith missed one of two free throws to keep the deficit at three. Klay Thompson got a good look off for 3, but the shot was short as Curry’s Splash Brother finished 1 of 6 from deep with five points.
Doncic also had 12 rebounds in his 51st career triple-double.
Jonathan Kuminga had 14 points and 10 rebounds for Golden State, which trailed by 17 in the first quarter but took its first lead before halftime.
Spencer Dinwiddie scored 14 points for Dallas before he was ejected for a flagrant-2 penalty when his elbow hit Jordan Poole in the face on an offensive foul early in the fourth quarter.
BACK-AND-FORTH 4TH
Hardaway’s go-ahead shot was the last of six lead changes in the fourth quarter. After the Warriors took their biggest lead at 100-96, Doncic came back early in part because of Dinwiddie’s ejection and started a 7-0 run with a 3. Thompson later put Golden State back in front with his only 3.
TIP-INS
Warriors: Kuminga and Anthony Lamb had eight points apiece off the bench in the second quarter, combining to go 7 of 8 from the field. Lamb hit consecutive 3-pointers early in the quarter. Lamb scored 11. … Draymond Green had his third consecutive double-figure game with 12 points. He had just two in the previous 11.
Mavericks: Four-time All-Star G Kemba Walker signed, but the timeline for him to play is uncertain. The club hopes to get him on the court for practice Wednesday. The 32-year-old with a history of knee issues was unsigned the first six weeks of the season. … Josh Green scored seven of his 13 points in the fourth quarter.
UP NEXT
Warriors: Chicago visits Friday to start a three-game homestand. The Warriors have a 10-game winning streak in the series.
Mavericks: A two-game trip starts Thursday in Detroit before the first meeting with former Dallas guard Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks in a Saturday matinee game.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
7-6-2-9, SB: 7
(seven, six, two, nine; SB: seven)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
7-6-2-9, SB: 7
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LaPORTE COUNTY, Ind. (WGN) — In freezing temperatures in rural LaPorte County, Indiana, a skywatcher was able to capture the rare “green comet” passing by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years.
Space enthusiasts like Patrick Thompson have been talking about C/2022 E3 — more commonly known as the “green comet” — for the last couple of weeks. The comet was discovered only last year as part of a survey that monitors the solar system for moving objects with a wide-field survey camera.
Late Tuesday night, Thompson, a professional photographer by trade, packed up his equipment and set it up in Mills Creek, located in rural LaPorte County.
While battling the extreme cold, Thompson looked up early Wednesday morning and saw something that hasn’t been seen in 50,000 years.
“You can barely make it out with your own eyes,” he said. “Binoculars made it easy. I used a telescope.”
A timelapse image of the comet is below.
To capture the comet, Thompson used a modified Canon 60D camera guided by a star tracker.
“It’s a motor that spins at the same rotation of Earth,” Thompson said. “The camera, it will follow the star and wherever you point it, it will follow it.”
Thompson said shortly after the timelapse was taken, the moon’s brightness made it harder to track the comet.
“It was a pretty powerful thing to see, but it was also really cold out,” Thompson laughed. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and I feel like it’s been cloudy lately.”
The icy celestial object, discovered by astronomers Bryce Bolin and Frank Masci last year with the Zwicky Transient Facility telescope, is expected to pass the Earth at a distance of 26 million miles, which is more than 100 times the distance from the Earth to the moon.
According to The Hill, the comet, which appears as a faint green smudge visible near Polaris (aka the North star), originates from the outer solar system and takes roughly 50,000 years to orbit the sun only once — so this is the only time it will be visible to stargazers for ages.
Scientists said the comet may remain visible in the night sky through Sunday. | https://www.koin.com/news/pretty-powerful-indiana-man-captures-rare-green-comet/ | 2023-02-03 18:03:55 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/pretty-powerful-indiana-man-captures-rare-green-comet/ |
George Santos has been on Capitol Hill for less than a month, but he has already been under more scrutiny than many members face in a career.
"How many times do I have to answer the same question? Yes, I’m not going," Santos said.
It began with a series of false claims he made about his work history and education, and now he’s being investigated for campaign transactions — all for the same exact amount.
$199.99 — that’s just one penny below the Federal Election Commission threshold that requires candidates to preserve all receipts for expenses greater than $200.
Adav Noti is the senior director of the Campaign Legal Center, a watchdog group focused on campaign finance laws based in Washington.
We told him our investigation had turned up that same number in Santos’ campaign expenses 37 times — totaling over $7,000.
"No other campaign in the country, anywhere or the hundreds of other people ran for Congress, were reported spending anywhere near that frequency at that exact amount. It sets up red flags. It's, it's implausible to the point of being essentially impossible," Noti said.
Scripps News dove into the most recent FEC data and discovered a few other candidates in 2022 did report spending $199 a handful of times, but no other campaign came close to Santos in terms of the volume of these expenses. In fact, our investigation found Santos reported spending $199.99 more times than all the other 2022 campaigns combined.
We learned his campaign made nine separate payments to big box stores: Target, BJs, Best Buy, Walmart and Staples months apart — each for exactly $199.99. There were seven different trips on Amtrak, Delta, American Airlines — also all for $199.99. And then, multiple Ubers — five rides, months apart, each for exactly $199.99.
"Anybody who's taken an Uber or a taxi of any kind, I can say, the chances that you end up with the exactly the same charge multiple for multiple fares. Seems, seems a strain in credulity," Noti said.
When asked is it possible that somebody could have a bill, and then just tip enough to make it come out to the number, Noti said, "Sure. Once."
It was a lot more than once — and there were a wide range of expenses: three different hotels in cities across the country including $199.99 at the W Hotel in South Beach in Miami — we couldn’t find a room there advertised for less than about $600. And Santos' campaign said it paid $199.99 for parking at JFK Airport, but the Campaign Legal Center noted in its complaint to the FEC that "there is no combination of fees from that airport parking facility that would end in .99 (cents)."
Arguably the biggest head-scratcher of all revolves around this New York restaurant, known as II Bacco. We learned Santos had a relationship with the owners and they contributed more than $5,850 to his campaign. On election night, his campaign racked up nearly $19,000 in debt at the restaurant.
Over the course of his congressional run, Santos expensed more than 31 transactions at this one restaurant. The campaign reported seven separate visits, each expensed for exactly $199.99, including this past November when Santos' campaign expensed that amount twice — on a single day.
"I think those charges are probably fictitious, or perhaps they or legitimate charges in the sense that they get paid to disperse $199 to the restaurant all those times. But if that's the case, that the money was almost certainly going to something else, not to meals, where that wouldn't be, you know, law enforcement will need to take a look into that," Noti said.
All of these $199 expenses are pretty small compared to the millions of dollars Santos spent during his campaign, but Noti says federal investigators will want to determine whether they reflect a deliberate effort to mislead the FEC.
He told us that’s why Santos’ treasurer, who according to FEC guidelines "must ensure committee reports are complete, accurate, and timely" is also currently under scrutiny from watchdog groups like his.
"The buck does not always stop with the candidate when it comes to reporting campaign finance information. The primary responsibility is with the campaign treasurer. And in this case, it does look like the campaign treasurer may have some legal exposure herself in her personal capacity," Noti said. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/scripps-news-investigates-george-santos-199-99-campaign-spending | 2023-02-02 14:17:33 | 1 | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/scripps-news-investigates-george-santos-199-99-campaign-spending |
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The husband of a Massachusetts woman who has been missing since New Year’s Day went online to look up ways to dismember and dispose of a body, and items belonging to the woman with her DNA were found at a trash processing facility, a prosecutor said at his arraignment Wednesday on murder and other charges.
Not guilty pleas were entered on behalf of Brian Walshe, 47, and he was held without bail in Quincy District Court. Dressed in a gray sweater and beige pants, he stood expressionless as the prosecutor laid out the state’s case and did not speak except to say “I do,” when asked by the judge if he understood the charges.
His attorney, Tracy Miner, did not contest bail but in the past has said her client has cooperated with investigators.
She said in a statement that “I intend to win this case in court.”
“I am not going to comment on the evidence, first because I am going to try this case in the court and not in the media,” Miner said in a statement. “Second, because I haven’t been provided with any evidence by the prosecution. In my experience, where, as here, the prosecution leaks so-called evidence to the press before they provide it to me, their case isn’t that strong.”
Walshe was already in custody on $500,000 bail after pleading not guilty earlier this month to misleading investigators searching for Ana Walshe, 39, whose body has not been found.
The couple, who have three young children who are now in state custody, lived in the affluent coastal community of Cohasset, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southeast of Boston.
Starting Jan. 1 and for several days after, Brian Walshe made multiple online searches using an iPad belonging to one of his sons using terms such as “dismemberment and best ways to dispose of a body,” “how long before a body starts to smell,” and “hacksaw best tool to dismember,” prosecutor Lynn Beland said in court.
Investigators also found Jan. 3 surveillance video of man resembling Brian Walshe throwing what appeared to be heavy trash bags into a dumpster at an apartment complex in Abington, which is not far from Cohasset.
“Surveillance shows the defendant’s Volvo, as well as a man fitting the defendant’s appearance, exit the car near the dumpster,” Beland said. “He walks to the dumpster carrying a garbage bag. He’s leaning, and it appears to be heavy, as he has to heft it into the dumpster.”
Police tried to locate those bags but they had already been taken away and incinerated, Beland said.
When police went to the family’s home Jan. 4 to perform a well-being check when it was still considered a missing person case, they noted the car had its seats folded down and a plastic liner in the back. Chemists later found the presence of blood in the car, Beland said.
During a Jan. 8 search of a trash processing facility in Peabody, north of Boston and not far from Brian Walshe’s mother’s home, investigators found trash bags that contained a hatchet, a hacksaw, towels and a protective Tyvek suit, cleaning agents, a Prada purse, boots similar to the ones Ana Walshe was last seen wearing, and a COVID-19 vaccination card with her name, Beland said.
Some items had what appeared to human blood on them and testing determined that both Ana and Brian Walshe were “contributors” to the DNA on them, she said.
Ana Walshe was reportedly last seen leaving their home in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, purportedly to take a ride-hailing vehicle to Logan International Airport for a flight to Washington, authorities said. But police have found no indication that she either took a vehicle or boarded any flight out of Logan.
She was reported missing Jan. 4 by her employer in Washington, where the couple has a home and to which she often commutes during the week for work at a real estate company, authorities said.
Authorities have searched the family’s home, a wooded area near the home, the trash processing facility in Peabody north of Boston, and a condo complex where Brian Walshe’s mother lives. Authorities previously said knives and blood were found in the family home’s basement.
Authorities have also previously said Brian Walshe was spotted on surveillance video buying hundreds of dollars worth of cleaning supplies at a home improvement store.
Brian Walshe had been on home confinement with some exceptions while awaiting sentencing in a fraud case involving the sale of fake Andy Warhol paintings, according to federal court records. Police have said Ana Walshe’s disappearance and her husband’s case appear to be unrelated.
The mother of Ana Walshe, who is originally from Serbia, told Belgrade’s Kurir daily prior to Wednesday’s arraignment that she does not believe her son-in-law harmed her daughter.
“My son-in-law would not do anything to harm my Ana, and I do not believe any of the statements that have so far been related to the possibility that Brian harmed her,” Milanka Ljubičić said.
“He assured me that Ana is fine and alive and I believe him. I am shocked by the new details that she was allegedly killed because I still hope that she is alive and well.”
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Associated Press writer Dusan Stojanovic in Belgrade, Serbia, contributed to this report. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-husband-of-missing-woman-looked-up-ways-to-dispose-of-body/ | 2023-01-19 11:56:32 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-husband-of-missing-woman-looked-up-ways-to-dispose-of-body/ |
Judge says fire retardant drops are polluting streams but allows use to continue
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A judge ruled Friday that the U.S. government can keep using chemical retardant to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice pollutes streams in western states in violation of federal law.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Montana came after environmentalists sued the U.S. Forest Service dropping the red slurry material into waterways hundreds of times over the past decade.
Government officials say chemical fire retardant is sometimes crucial to slowing the advance of dangerous blazes. Wildfires across North America have grown bigger and more destructive over the past two decades as climate change warms the planet.
Christensen said halting the use of fire retardant would “conceivably result in greater harm from wildfires — including to human life and property and to the environment.”
More than 200 loads of retardant got into waterways over the past decade. Federal officials say those situations usually occurred by mistake and in less than 1% of the thousands of loads annually.
A coalition that includes Paradise, California — where a 2018 blaze killed 85 people and destroyed the town — had said a court ruling that stopped the use of retardant would have put lives, homes and forests at risk.
“This case was very personal for us,” Paradise Mayor Greg Bolin said. “Our brave firefighters need every tool in the toolbox to protect human lives and property against wildfires, and today’s ruling ensures we have a fighting chance this fire season.”
State and local agencies often depend heavily on the U.S. Forest Service to help fight fires, many of which originate or include federal land.
The Oregon-based group Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics argued in its lawsuit filed last year that the Forest Service was disregarding the Clean Water Act by continuing to use retardant without taking adequate precautions to protect streams and rivers.
The judge said the ruling was limited to 10 western states where the members of the group alleged they had suffered harm due to pollution into waterways that they use.
After the lawsuit was filed the Forest Service applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for a permit that would allow it to continue using retardant without breaking the law. That process could take years. Christensen ordered federal officials to report every six months on their progress.
Experts say climate change, people moving into fire-prone areas, and overgrown forests are creating more catastrophic megafires that are harder to fight.
More than 100 million gallons of fire retardant were used during the past decade, according to the Department of Agriculture. It’s made up of water and other ingredients including fertilizers or salts that can be harmful to fish, frogs, crustaceans and other aquatic animals.
A government study found misapplied retardant could adversely affect dozens of imperiled species, including crawfish, spotted owls and fish such as shiners and suckers.
Health risks to firefighters or other people who come into contact with fire retardant are considered low, according to a 2021 risk assessment.
Forest Service officials said they are trying to come into compliance with the law by getting a pollution permit but that could take years.
As the 2023 fire season gets underway, California Forestry Association President Matt Dias said the prospect of not having fire retardant available to a federal agency that plays a key role on many blazes was “terrifying.”
Many areas of the Western U.S. experienced heavy snowfalls this past winter, and as a result fire dangers are lower than in recent years across much of the region.
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ISELIN, N.J., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hexaware has been named on the Forbes list of Mexico's Best Employers 2022. This prestigious award is presented by Forbes and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The awards list was announced on October 18th, 2022 and can currently be viewed on the Forbes website.
Forbes and Statista selected Mexico's Best Employers 2022 through an independent survey applied to a vast sample of approximately 10,000 Mexican employees working full or part time. 400 employers were awarded. The evaluation was based on direct and indirect recommendations from employees that were asked to rate their willingness to recommend their own employers to friends and family. Employee evaluations also included other employers in their respective industries that stood out either positively or negatively.
Furthermore, the employees were asked questions about work related topics like working conditions, salary, potential for development, and company image regarding their current employer.
Based on the results of the study, Hexaware is ecstatic to be recognized on the Forbes list of Mexico's Best Employers 2022.
Miguel Herrera, Country Manager & Head of Competencies – Mexico, Hexaware Technologies said, "We are proud to be recognized as one of Mexico's Best Employers. We know that delivering meaningful impact for our customers begins with our people reaching their full potential. That's why we are fully committed to enabling them to thrive professionally and personally. We continuously strive to ensure that our employees feel supported, valued, and engaged, so that we can 'create smiles through great people and great technology,' in Mexico and everywhere else across the world where we do business."
About Hexaware
Hexaware is a global technology and business process services company. Our 30,000 Hexawarians are driven by our purpose; to create smiles through great people and technology. With 54 offices in 19 countries, we empower enterprises to realize digital transformation at scale and speed by partnering with them to build, modernize, run, and optimize their IT landscapes. We put people first in everything we do and seek to improve people's lives by collaborating with our stakeholders to build a better, more sustainable tomorrow.
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HONG KONG and SHANGHAI, March 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Benjamin Deng, Chief Investment Officer of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. ("Ping An" or the "Group", HKEx:2318; SSE:601318), says the Group's responsible investment priorities are aligned to China government's green transition policy.
"ESG in China is coherent. We follow the national policies toward net zero, and so we don't have to fight our own battles to do better things," Mr. Deng said at the Insurance Asset Risk 2023 Conference.
Insurance companies are encouraged to make green investments with regulatory support, such as the 10% discount for the credit risk factor in green bonds under the China-Risk-Oriented Solvency System (C-ROSS) phase 2, Mr. Deng said. "All these things are helping in the same direction for us to invest in socially responsible and green target projects," he said.
In line with China's goals to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, Ping An set annual growth rates for its green investments of no less than 20%, green insurance premiums no less than 70% and green credit balance no less than 20%. Ping An aims to achieve the overall targets by 2025, with green investments and green credit of RMB400 billion and total green insurance premiums of RMB250 billion. As of September 30, 2022, Ping An's green investment and financing totaled approximately RMB319.8 billion, and its green banking business totaled RMB184.2 billion. Premium income of environmentally sustainable insurance products totaled approximately RMB110.5 billion in the first nine months of 2022.
Ping An is investing in green and low carbon assets, while reducing the proportion of high carbon emitting assets. According to Ping An's TCFD report published in 2021, less than 2% of the estimated RMB7.92 trillion in Ping An's assets in investment and banking services were related to major high carbon-emitting sectors. It has pledged to support innovations in clean technology, renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy technology, carbon capture and ecological carbon sinks, carbon trading and other environmental fields.
Ping An was the first Mainland Chinese asset owner to sign the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and to join Climate Action 100+, the investor-led initiative to ensure the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters act on climate change. Ping An has maintained a market-leading A- rating since 2020 in climate change by the internationally renowned non-profit organization CDP for its transparency and execution in addressing climate change. It was rated A in the Morgan Stanley Capital Investment (MSCI) 2022 ESG Ratings, ranking first in the multi-line insurance and brokerage industry in Asia Pacific and rated as "Low ESG Risk" by Sustainalytics, the best score among Mainland China's insurance companies.
To support responsible investing more widely in China, Ping An also participated in drafting China's first ESG disclosure standard, the "Guidance for Enterprise ESG Disclosure", which took effect in June 2022, and upgraded its proprietary AI-based ESG evaluation system, which covers more than 4,500 A-share listed companies and more than 2,700 Hong Kong listed companies. It evaluates more than 4,600 corporate credit bond issuers and 58,000 green bonds, nearly 140 fund management companies and more than 14,900 funds.
About Ping An Group
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. ("Ping An") strives to become a world-leading retail financial services group. With nearly 228 million retail customers, Ping An is one of the largest financial services companies in the world. Ping An advances intelligent digital transformation, and employs technologies to improve the quality and efficiency of its financial businesses and enhance risk management. The Company believes "Expertise Creates Value" and "Expertise makes life simple". Ping An develops the "integrated finance + healthcare" service system and builds the "finance + elderlycare" and "finance + healthcare" industry ecosystems to provide professional "financial advisory, family doctor, and elderlycare concierge" services. As China's first joint stock insurance company, Ping An is committed to upholding the highest standards of corporate reporting and corporate governance. The Group is listed on the stock exchanges in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Ping An ranked 17th in the Forbes Global 2000 list in 2022 and ranked 25th in the Fortune Global 500 list in 2022.
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The state has terminated the contract of a West Haven hazardous waste remediation company ensnared in the federal investigation into former state official Konstantinos Diamantis.
The state did not offer any explanation for why the contract was ended other than “it would be in the best interest of the state.”
AAIS Corp. was one of two companies named in a subpoena by a federal grand jury investigating Diamantis, who ran the state Office of School Construction Grants & Review until he retired in October 2021. Municipal officials have said Diamantis pressured them to hire specific contractors, construction managers and hazardous waste and asbestos removal companies, including AAIS.
A CT Mirror investigation last February revealed that AAIS and a second company, Bestech Inc. of Ellington, got all but 15 of the 284 purchase orders issued by the state for hazardous waste disposal and demolition from fiscal year 2017 through February 2022.
The same day the CT Mirror asked questions about the contract in February 2022, the state Department of Administrative Services cancelled the contract. Months later, DAS created a new contract that included six vendors, including AAIS, and later amended it to limit its use.
In a letter dated Jan. 9, 2023, Robert E. Burk, the Director of Procurement Programs and Services for DAS, informed AAIS officials they were terminating them from state contract 20PSX0154 effective immediately.
“DAS has determined that it would be in the best interest of the State of Connecticut to terminate the Contract,” Burk wrote. “I am taking this action pursuant to the authority granted to me under the Connecticut General Statutes and, more specifically, the provisions of Section 33 of the Contract.”
The letter said the termination would take effect the next day and that there were no jobs left that AAIS needed to complete.
A man who answered the phone at AAIS offices in West Haven said that the company would have no comment on the state’s decision or whether they planned to fight it.
The state’s decision to disqualify AAIS comes at a time when the state Department of Administrative Services is waiting to receive an audit report about the demolition and abatement contracts that the state authorized in recent years.
DAS hired Marcum LLP, an independent auditing firm, in early 2022 to look into those contacts. It paid the firm to review several dozen abatement contracts and to analyze some of that work to ensure the contractors didn’t improperly bill the state.
DAS officials told the CT Mirror this week that audit report was not complete yet.
From the 2017 fiscal year through February 2022, the state paid about $29.2 million for hazardous waste and asbestos abatement work under DAS contract 16PSX0110. AAIS received $20.6 million of that and Bestech $8.2 million, purchase orders show — about 98.8% of all the money spent through the contract.
The state issued 284 purchase orders under the emergency contract. AAIS was named on 214 purchase orders, including exclusive agreements to do work at all state colleges and vocational schools. Some of the work was assigned by other state agencies, such as the Military Department, but the majority were assigned by DAS.
One of the contractors, Haz-Pros, got five jobs. Environmental Services Inc. got 10. Bestech Inc. got the remaining 55.
DAS contract 20psx0154 added more contractors to the emergency list. In addition to AAIS, Bestech and Haz-Pros, four new companies are included: Manafort Brothers Inc., New England Yankee Construction, Omni Environmental and Stamford Wrecking Company, which had been battling the state for nearly a year.
The new contract soon included guidelines that placed restrictions on when towns can hire the companies on the state’s approved list, including that they can be used only for minor rehabilitation projects that cost less than $500,000 and “emergency projects,” defined as work that needs to begin within 24 hours. Demolition projects were explicitly excluded from the contract.
The original DAS contract was designed to be an on-call emergency list for towns to use for hazardous waste abatement ranging from asbestos removal to mold remediation in state buildings.
But under Diamantis, many municipalities started using the list to bid for hazardous waste removal and demolition on school construction projects. | https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2023-01-25/state-fires-hazmat-company-involved-in-diamantis-investigation | 2023-01-25 12:26:31 | 0 | https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2023-01-25/state-fires-hazmat-company-involved-in-diamantis-investigation |
481, Joe Burrow, CIN vs. ATL 10/23 (34-42, 3 TD)
469, Tua Tagovailoa, MIA at BAL 9/18 (36-50, 6 TD)
446, Patrick Mahomes, KC vs. TEN 11/6 (OT) (43-68, 1 TD)
424, Josh Allen, BUF vs. PIT 10/9 (20-31, 4 TD)
423, Patrick Mahomes, KC at SF 10/23 (25-34, 3 TD)
400, Josh Allen, BUF at MIA 9/25 (42-63, 2 TD)
389, Matt Ryan, IND vs. JAC 10/16 (42-58, 3 TD)
385, Tom Brady, TB vs. KC 10/2 (39-52, 3 TD)
382, Tua Tagovailoa, MIA at DET 10/30 (29-36, 3 TD)
382, Mac Jones, NE at MIN 11/24 (28-39, 2 TD)
380, Jalen Hurts, PHI vs. TEN 12/4 (29-39, 3 TD)
378, Jared Goff, DET vs. SEA 10/2 (26-39, 4 TD)
369, Mike White, NYJ at MIN 12/4 (31-57, 0 TD)
367, Geno Smith, SEA at LAR 12/4 (28-39, 3 TD)
361, Andy Dalton, NO at ARI 10/20 (30-47, 4 TD)
360, Patrick Mahomes, KC at ARI 9/11 (30-39, 5 TD)
359, Carson Wentz, WAS vs. TEN 10/9 (25-38, 2 TD)
357, Kirk Cousins, MIN at BUF 11/13 (OT) (30-50, 1 TD)
356, Matt Ryan, IND vs. TEN 10/2 (27-37, 2 TD)
355, Joe Burrow, CIN at PIT 11/20 (24-39, 4 TD)
355, Zach Wilson, NYJ vs. NE 10/30 (20-41, 2 TD)
353, Jameis Winston, NO at CAR 9/25 (25-41, 1 TD)
352, Matt Ryan, IND at HOU 9/11 (OT) (32-50, 1 TD)
351, Tom Brady, TB vs. ATL 10/9 (35-52, 1 TD)
341, Daniel Jones, NYG vs. DET 11/20 (27-44, 1 TD)
340, Jalen Hurts, PHI at WAS 9/25 (22-35, 3 TD)
340, Justin Herbert, LAC at HOU 10/2 (27-39, 2 TD)
340, Jared Goff, DET vs. JAC 12/4 (31-41, 2 TD)
340, Russell Wilson, DEN at SEA 9/12 (29-42, 1 TD)
338, Patrick Mahomes, KC vs. BUF 10/16 (25-40, 2 TD)
338, Joe Burrow, CIN vs. PIT 9/11 (OT) (33-53, 2 TD)
337, Carson Wentz, WAS at DET 9/18 (30-46, 3 TD)
335, Justin Herbert, LAC at LAS 12/4 (28-47, 1 TD)
334, Justin Herbert, LAC at KC 9/15 (33-48, 3 TD)
333, Ryan Tannehill, TEN at GB 11/17 (22-27, 2 TD)
333, Jalen Hurts, PHI vs. MIN 9/19 (26-31, 1 TD)
331, Patrick Mahomes, KC vs. JAC 11/13 (26-35, 4 TD)
330, Josh Allen, BUF vs. MIN 11/13 (OT) (29-43, 1 TD)
329, Patrick Mahomes, KC at LAC 11/20 (20-34, 3 TD)
329, Teddy Bridgewater, MIA vs. MIN 10/16 (23-34, 2 TD)
329, Josh Allen, BUF at KC 10/16 (27-40, 3 TD)
328, Geno Smith, SEA vs. LAS 11/27 (OT) (27-37, 2 TD)
327, Kenny Pickett, PIT at BUF 10/9 (34-52, 0 TD)
326, Kyler Murray, ARI at MIN 10/30 (31-44, 3 TD)
325, Geno Smith, SEA vs. ATL 9/25 (32-44, 2 TD)
325, Tom Brady, TB vs. BAL 10/27 (26-44, 1 TD)
324, Jacoby Brissett, CLE at BUF 11/20 (28-41, 3 TD)
321, Mac Jones, NE vs. BAL 9/25 (22-32, 0 TD)
321, Trevor Lawrence, JAC vs. BAL 11/27 (29-37, 3 TD)
321, Jared Goff, DET vs. MIA 10/30 (27-37, 1 TD)
320, Geno Smith, SEA at DET 10/2 (23-30, 2 TD)
320, Patrick Mahomes, KC vs. LAR 11/27 (27-42, 1 TD)
319, Davis Mills, HOU at NYG 11/13 (22-37, 1 TD)
318, Lamar Jackson, BAL vs. MIA 9/18 (21-29, 3 TD)
317, PJ Walker, CAR at ATL 10/30 (OT) (19-36, 1 TD)
317, Josh Allen, BUF vs. TEN 9/19 (26-38, 4 TD)
315, Mike White, NYJ vs. CHI 11/27 (22-28, 3 TD)
314, Kyler Murray, ARI vs. LAR 9/25 (37-58, 0 TD)
313, Carson Wentz, WAS vs. JAC 9/11 (27-41, 4 TD)
310, Trevor Lawrence, JAC vs. NYG 10/23 (22-43, 0 TD)
309, Bailey Zappe, NE at CLE 10/16 (24-34, 2 TD)
309, Joe Flacco, NYJ vs. BAL 9/11 (37-59, 1 TD)
308, Matthew Stafford, LAR vs. DAL 10/9 (28-42, 1 TD)
307, Derek Carr, LAS at DEN 11/20 (OT) (23-37, 2 TD)
307, Joe Flacco, NYJ at CLE 9/18 (26-44, 4 TD)
303, Jimmy Garoppolo, SF vs. KC 10/23 (25-37, 2 TD)
303, Derek Carr, LAS at TEN 9/25 (26-44, 2 TD)
302, Tua Tagovailoa, MIA at CHI 11/6 (21-30, 3 TD)
302, Davis Mills, HOU at LAS 10/23 (28-41, 2 TD)
300, Joe Burrow, CIN at NO 10/16 (28-37, 3 TD) | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/NFL-Top-Performers-Passing-17640082.php | 2022-12-08 16:31:08 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/NFL-Top-Performers-Passing-17640082.php |
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — On the eve of Ukraine's independence day and the half-year mark of Russia's invasion of its neighbor, there was increasing unease in the country on Tuesday that Moscow could be focusing on specific government and civilian targets during the holiday.
The United States reinforced those concerns when its embassy in Kyiv issued a security alert, saying it “has information that Russia is stepping up efforts to launch strikes against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and government facilities in the coming days.”
On Tuesday's Ukrainian Flag Day, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed defiance rather than worry when he raised the flag at a memorial.
“The blue and yellow flag of Ukraine will again fly where it rightfully should be. In all temporarily occupied cities and villages of Ukraine," he said, including the Crimea peninsula which has been annexed by Russia since 2014.
At the weekend, Zelenskyy sensed a threat coming when he said in his daily address that “we should be aware that this week Russia may try to do something particularly nasty, something particularly cruel.”
The U.S. warning came on the heels of Russia's claim that Ukrainian intelligence was responsible for the car bombing that killed the daughter of a leading right-wing Russian political thinker over the weekend. Ukraine denied involvement.
Hundreds of people lined up Tuesday to pay tributes to Darya Dugina, a 29-year-old commentator with a nationalist Russian TV channel who died when her SUV blew up Saturday night as she was driving on the outskirts of Moscow.
Her father, Alexander Dugin, a philosopher and political theorist who was believed to be the target, ardently supports Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to send troops into Ukraine. “She lived for the sake of victory, and she died for the sake of victory. Our Russian victory, our truth," Dugin said at a farewell ceremony.
The sense of dread pervading the war centers in part on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, at Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine, where continued shelling and fighting in the area has raised fears of a nuclear catastrophe.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres late Monday warned about the nuclear threat in general, particularly since Russia alluded to its massive nuclear arsenal early in the war.
Guterres demanded a halt to “nuclear saber-rattling” on Monday, saying the world is at a “maximum moment of danger” and all countries with nuclear weapons must make a commitment to “no first-use."
That didn't prevent shelling close to Zaporizhzhia early Tuesday. Regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko said Russian forces fired on nearby Marhanets and Nikopol on the right bank of the Dnieper River, continuing weeks of relentless overnight shelling.
Meanwhile, the fate of Ukrainian prisoners of war is also raising worries. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said she was “concerned by reports that the Russian Federation and affiliated armed groups in Donetsk are planning — possibly in the coming days — to try Ukrainian prisoners of war." She said it is being labeled an "international tribunal" but that due process and a fair trial would not be guaranteed.
Amid the death and destruction, there was one small point of light. All professional soccer was stopped in February, but a new league season starts Tuesday in Kyiv.
The Olympic Stadium will see the the opening-day meeting of Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalist 1925 from Kharkiv — teams from eastern cities that are fighting for their very existence.
No fans will be allowed in the 65,000-capacity downtown stadium for the kickoff at 1 p.m. local time, and the players must be rushed to bomb shelters if air-raid sirens sound.
"The teams, the players will be proud of this event,” Shakhtar captain Taras Stepanenko said Monday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
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Proceeds from Valour sales to support veteran organizations across Canada
EDMONTON, AB, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Aurora Cannabis Inc. (NASDAQ: ACB) (TSX: ACB), the Canadian company opening the world to cannabis, today announced the launch of Valour, a new cannabis cultivar designed for veterans, by veterans. Five per cent of net profits from the sale of Valour products will be used to support veteran organizations across Canada.
Sold under the MedReleaf brand, Valour, aptly named by Canadian veterans, was developed alongside the veteran community to embody their most desired aroma, flavour and appearance traits. An original cultivar bred by Occo, Aurora's leading science and genetics business, Valour, is derived from Chemdawg, OG18 and Skunk genetics and features notes of forest pine, sweet citrus and pungent gas. A premium indica, Valour contains 20-26% THC and is available in 5g and 15g dried flower, as well as pre-rolls which are exclusive to veteran Aurora medical patients.
"We're honoured to support Canadian veterans, and proud that we were able to work hand-in-hand with the veteran community to provide a product that best serves their needs and preferences," says Andre Jerome, Interim SVP of Medical Sales at Aurora Cannabis. "We are committed to serving those who have served our country and are giving back a portion of the proceeds from the sale of Valour to fund the important work that veteran-focused organizations do to support their community."
Proceeds from the sale of Valour, up to $200,000 per year, will be used to contribute cash and in-kind donations to veteran-focused organizations and clinics across Canada, including: Fondation Le Balancier / The Pendulum Foundation, The Post Traumatic Growth Association, The Valhalla Project and Thunder Ride Trois-Rivières, among others.
For more information about Valour or to learn more about becoming an Aurora medical cannabis patient, visit Aurora Medical.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — All elevators inside vacation cottages or similar short-term rentals in North Carolina would have to include life-saving space guards in legislation advancing in the state Senate.
The measure, which cleared a Senate committee on Wednesday and could be on the floor later this week, is a response to last summer's death of a 7-year-old child at a rental home on the northern Outer Banks. The Ohio boy became trapped between the elevator car and elevator shaft, authorities said.
The bill would no longer exempt elevators in such short-term rentals from state Department of Labor regulation, although annual inspections wouldn't be required. These elevators would have to meet safety standards designed to prevent a small child from becoming trapped. That would include installing space guards or baffles that close the gap.
Sen. Todd Johnson, a Union County Republican shepherding the bill, said such products cost roughly $150.
The elevator owner would have to tell the Labor Department the improvement was made, the bill says, and if not completed the elevator's electrical supply would have to be disconnected.
The bill, which would have to pass the House as well, also would direct the state building code to require such elevator safety measures in new short-term rental construction. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NC-elevator-safety-upgrade-in-cottage-rentals-17244008.php | 2022-06-15 20:11:19 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NC-elevator-safety-upgrade-in-cottage-rentals-17244008.php |
OKLAHOMA CITY — A seasonal virus that takes a toll on young children and older adults has returned this fall with a vengeance.
Surges in respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, typically parallels flu season, running from late fall into the spring, but this year’s outbreak started earlier than normal. This month, the Oklahoma State Department of Health reported rising case numbers and hospitalizations for RSV in many parts of the state. The figures mirror national trends.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation physician-scientist Hal Scofield, M.D., said the current deluge in cases could be traced to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We saw a dramatic reduction in RSV during the pandemic due to the precautions we took to curb the spread of the coronavirus,” said Scofield, an immunologist. “Infants and young children whose immune systems had never been exposed to the virus were in a protective bubble. Now that bubble has burst.”
RSV typically causes a mild cold. But among children younger than 5, RSV is responsible annually for 100-300 deaths and up to 80,000 hospitalizations in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus is even deadlier among older adults. A 2022 National Institutes of Health study estimated more than 6,000 people 65 years and older die each year from RSV complications.
OMRF scientist Susan Kovats, Ph.D., studies RSV. She noted that before the pandemic, almost all children contracted the virus by age 2. Kovats said that because so many children avoided exposure to it in 2020 and 2021, the virus appears to be “playing catch-up” in pediatric populations.
Kovats is working to understand why RSV impacts children more frequently than adults and why it hits some infants so hard. The work is setting the stage for better treatments and will aid in vaccine design for the condition.
“Our early indications are that neonatal cells are less likely to make the proteins that stop a virus from replicating in the body,” Kovats said. “In essence, it appears to confirm previous evidence that babies’ immune systems are not quite developed enough to fight off RSV.”
Research teams worldwide are working on RSV vaccines. Pfizer plans to submit its vaccine, which protects infants from RSV by inoculating pregnant women, for Food and Drug Administration approval by year’s end. The results of the FDA review of British drugmaker GSK’s vaccine for older adults are expected in spring 2023.
Until a vaccine is available, Scofield said the best ways to avoid — and avoid spreading — RSV mirror those for the flu and Covid-19. “Wash your hands, wear a mask in crowded places and stay home if you’re sick,” he said. And if, despite your best efforts, you or a loved one has a run-in with a respiratory virus this holiday season, monitor symptoms closely.
“RSV can usually be managed at home. But when someone is having difficulty breathing or is exhibiting symptoms of dehydration, it’s important to get an evaluation from a health care professional.” | https://www.swoknews.com/styles/health/rsv-cases-on-the-rise-in-oklahoma/article_12d818a8-72a8-535b-949d-7b8af899ea4d.html | 2022-11-29 07:54:40 | 1 | https://www.swoknews.com/styles/health/rsv-cases-on-the-rise-in-oklahoma/article_12d818a8-72a8-535b-949d-7b8af899ea4d.html |
REDMOND, Wash., April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. will publish fiscal year 2023 third-quarter financial results after the close of the market on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, on the Microsoft Investor Relations website at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/. A live webcast of the earnings conference call will be made available at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on the site that day.
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is signaling more sharply than ever that Republicans’ performance in the midterm elections may not be as strong as the party had hoped, dampening GOP hopes for a Senate takeover.
During a stop in Kentucky on Thursday, McConnell conceded that the House has a better chance of flipping red than the Senate — a statement that, while in line with election forecasts, shows just how concerned Republicans are becoming about races in the upper chamber less than three months before the midterm elections.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,” McConnell told reporters when asked about his midterm expectations, according to NBC News.
“Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” he added.
McConnell’s remarks were a clear reference to candidates endorsed by former President Trump in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arizona and Georgia who are trailing their Democratic opponents in at least some recent polls.
On Thursday, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report changed its rating for the Pennsylvania Senate race from “toss up” to “lean Democrat,” signaling headwinds for Republican Mehmet Oz in his race against Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D).
The shift came amid the crudité controversy in the Keystone State. Oz came under fire after Fetterman’s campaign recirculated a video the TV doctor posted in April showcasing him grocery shopping for crudité in an effort to show the effects of inflation.
The Democratic campaign seized on the video, with the candidate writing on Twitter “In PA we call this a … veggie tray,” the most recent move in his attempt to paint Oz as a carpetbagger from New Jersey.
Fetterman’s team said it had raised more than $500,000 in the 24 hours after the video went viral. The lieutenant governor remains comfortably ahead of Oz in FiveThirtyEight’s average average, 49.1% to 37.7%.
Republican worries in Ohio’s Senate race also became clearer this week when the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund was dumping $28 million into the state for television and radio ads boosting “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance, the Republican Senate candidate battling with Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio).
The investment marked a large jump from the roughly $5 million national Republicans had previously funneled into the race. Ryan has a slight edge on Vance, 43.9% to 42.7%, according to FiveThirtyEight’s average of polls.
In Georgia, GOP nominee Hershel Walker has struggled to pull ahead of incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D). Walker, a former college football Heisman Trophy winner, was forced into the spotlight for various falsehoods and amid revelations that he has more children than was publicly known.
In Arizona, Sen. Mark Kelly (D) has a polling lead on Republican Blake Masters, who is backed by Trump. Kelly is up 50.3% to 42% in the FiveThirtyEight average of polls.
McConnell — who in November said he was “optimistic” that the 2022 midterm elections would be “very good” for Republicans — has been managing expectations for months. In April, he said it was “actually possible” for Republicans to “screw up” in November, despite a perfect storm brewing for the GOP, including low approval ratings for President Biden and elevated inflation.
Earlier this month, he predicted during a television interview that the Senate race in November would be “very tight.”
“I think when this Senate race smoke clears, we’re likely to have a very, very close Senate still, with us up slightly or the Democrats up slightly,” he said.
Since then, the outlook has worsened for Republicans, with more candidate controversies and concerning polls plaguing the party.
And McConnell’s latest prognosis shows that he is taking note.
“Right now, we have a 50-50 Senate and a 50-50 country, but I think when all is said and done this fall, we’re likely to have an extremely close Senate, either our side up slightly or their side up slightly,” McConnell said in Kentucky on Thursday.
Democrats are favored to win the Senate 64% to 36%, according to FiveThirtyEight.
“I think what McConnell said is objectively true, but it has been objectively true,” Scott Jennings, who previously worked for the Kentucky Republican, told The Hill in an interview.
“Going back several months, it was pretty obvious that everybody, including the forecasters, said that it was gonna be a much easier and expected thing for the Republicans to take over the House,” he added.
The Senate map makes things tougher for Republicans in this cycle, despite positive national headwinds.
The handful of states that will ultimately determine control of the Senate are mostly contests in places where Biden won in 2020 over Trump. Republicans are also defending open seats in Pennsylvania and Ohio, while trying to take out Democratic incumbents in other swing states.
“The Senate map just wasn’t as good,” Jennings said. “Obviously the environment is good, but the Senate map just isn’t as hospitable to a takeover as it is in the House.”
“The midterms were always going to be challenging under the best of circumstances because of the nature of the map and how many of these competitive races were taking place, purple and blue states, like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that have historically gone Democrat more often than Republican in the last 30 years,” Republican strategist Colin Reed told The Hill.
Strategists also noted that a number of these GOP nominees emerged from fierce primaries bruised, and are still reeling from the competition.
“It’s pretty apparent in the polling that they’re still suffering some hangover from the brutality of these primaries,” Jennings said, pointing to the fierce intraparty races won by Vance and Oz in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Zeroing in on Oz — who bested former hedge fund CEO David McCormick — Jennings said the primary race “took a real toll on his image.”
“It’s just gonna take some time to repair that, and get him back to a place where he can fundamentally operate,” he added.
Candidates also need to “tailor [their] message accordingly” following the GOP primaries, according to Reed. He emphasized the need for Republicans to move away from re-litigating the 2020 presidential election.
“Those folks who are unable to kind of make that pivot and make those adjustments are the ones that struggle,” the strategist said.
With just over 80 days to go until the elections, strategists noted that there is plenty of time for GOP candidates to course-correct and gain steam in the polls.
But Republicans are still prepared for the fate of the Senate to come down to the wire.
“It’s very easy to see that the Republican majority in the Senate next year is a coin flip, at best, and far from a sure thing,” Reed said. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/gops-senate-outlook-grows-dimmer-amid-candidate-quality-concerns-polling-shows/ | 2022-08-20 19:13:35 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/gops-senate-outlook-grows-dimmer-amid-candidate-quality-concerns-polling-shows/ |
Homeless woman buys 3-year-old boy new bike after his was stolen
ROCKLAND, Maine (WMTW) - A 3-year-old Maine boy and his mother can’t thank a woman, who is homeless, enough after she used what little money she had to replace the boy’s stolen bike.
The parents of 3-year-old Will Fuller-Wright bought him his very first bike featuring his favorite superhero, Spider-Man.
“He saves everybody by catching bad guys in the net,” Will said.
But on March 26, Will’s first day out with the bike, it was stolen while he and his mother, Liz Fuller-Wright, were in Walgreens.
“We stopped and put his bike on the sidewalk and then decided to get him a little candy treat as a ‘Woohoo, you made it half a mile.’ We came out, and the bike wasn’t there,” Will’s mother said.
Security footage showed someone saw the bike and took it, along with Fuller-Wright’s faith in her fellow neighbor.
“It was a mix of emotions. I mean, sad, disappointed, angry at the state of humanity. He’s 3 years old. This is his first bike, and you don’t want to think that anybody would do that,” she said.
Rockland Police posted a surveillance photo of the suspect on Facebook to try and find the stolen bike, but what they found instead was something priceless: a homeless woman, who wanted to remain anonymous, saw the story and decided to act.
“What this little boy was thinking when he came out of that store with his mom and saw his bike missing, I cried. I worried about what that little boy would be growing up and thinking about the world,” she said.
The woman, who is currently living out of her car, went to Walmart and bought an identical bike, along with a helmet and bike lock, then dropped it all off at the Rockland police station. The department’s subsequent Facebook post received an overwhelming reaction.
As for Will, he learned that heroes really do exist. The 3-year-old’s mother says she spoke to the generous woman on the phone.
“She told me her story, and I couldn’t believe it. She’s not someone flush with cash. But she gave so much, so generously to a little boy she’d never met, never known, because she wanted him to be happy. She didn’t want him to think that there were bad guys in the world. She wanted him to have faith in humanity,” Fuller-Wright said.
In an interview, the woman talked about what her reaction would be if she ever met Will.
“I think I would probably just cry to see the happy joy in his face. And I’d probably let him know that no matter what happens in life, we go through our troubles, our ups and downs, but there’s always somebody out there that’s watching over us. He’s never alone,” she said.
The Mid-Coast Recovery Coalition started a fundraiser to help thank the woman for her good deed. As of Saturday, the nonprofit said more than $5,000 had been donated.
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IRVINE, Calif., May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Building Industry Association of Southern California (BIASC) and their Los Angeles/Ventura (LA/V) Chapter hosted the Economic Forecast & Housing Strategy Summit at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. on April 25th. The event was co-hosted by Southern California Leadership Council (SCLC) and had over 200 registered attendees.
The event took place from 3pm - 8pm consisting of a library tour, all-regions board meeting, VIP Reception and concluded with a special guests panel featuring local elected representatives. In attendance were BIASC leadership and Chapter Presidents, along with Southern California's top builders and landowners.
Former California Governor Pete Wilson, the 36th Governor of California, recorded a message for the audience stating Sacramento must reduce the regulatory burdens homebuilders face in order to reverse the state's declining homeownership rates. "Ten years ago, 50% of Californians could afford a medium priced home, but now it's less than half that, and each time the home affordability statistic drops another point, another swath of our population loses its hold on the American dream of ownership," he said. "That is a tragedy, because it also means that all the economic and social benefits that come with home ownership have been lost for them."
Guests heard opening remarks from Los Angeles Supervisor Fifth District Kathryn Barger. The moderator of the event was Bill McReynolds, BIA LA/V Chapter President and Vice President of Land Acquisitions at Warmington Residential. Former Governor Gray Davis, the 37th Governor of California and Co-Chair of SCLC, was a highlighted speaker at the event on Wednesday. Christopher Thornberg, founder of Beacon Economics, provided insight into the 2022 building economic forecast and beyond.
The Land and Development Panel included:
- Greg Bielli, President and CEO, Tejon Ranch
- Mike Balsamo, Senior Vice President, Governmental Relations, Rancho Mission Viejo
- Randall Lewis, Senior EVP of Marketing, Lewis Group of Companies
- Nicole Murray, Division President, Shea Holmes
- Greg McWilliams, Chief Policy Officer and VP, Fivepoint
The Land and Development Panel set the tone for the evening by expressing the need for predictability to exist in order for land purchasing and building to continue successfully. The regulatory agencies need to be stopped from promulgating more rules and hurdles to get over to get away from the massive economic transformation forcing gentrification. All hands on deck are needed in order to get neighborhoods and quality of life back on track.
"Our Economic Forecast & Housing Strategy Summit provides invaluable information for our members and elected officials to better engage on housing solutions," said BIASC CEO Jeff Montejano. "The growing large number of attendees for these leadership summit's are outstanding and a clear indication about the growing need for better regional housing policies."
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The Building Industry Association of Southern California (BIASC) is the voice of the region's building industry, with four chapters offering localized services to building professionals from Ventura to the southern tip of Orange County. Throughout its 99-year history, the association has served its builder and associate members by anticipating, protecting and promoting their common interests through its many programs, services, councils and committees. For more information on the Building Industry Association of Southern California, visit https://biasc.org/.
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El Paso Electric will close its payment centers. Here’s how to pay your bill
LAS CRUCES – For El Paso Electric utility customers who rely on in-person payment centers in New Mexico and Texas to pay their bills, big changes are coming. Over the last two months, El Paso Electric has quietly begun nudging customers away from in-person payments and onto their online bill collection systems.
According to EPE’s Regional Director for Governmental Affairs Eric Montgomery, the move is an attempt to eliminate in-person payments.
“A lot of this is really due to new technologies and advancements that we are implementing,” Montgomery told the Doña Ana Board of County Commissioners Tuesday.
According to EPE’s Director of Customer Care Robert Heimer, less than 5 percent of all utility customers pay in person at one of the four branch offices in New Mexico and Texas.
“The majority of our customer traffic we see… has been mainly over the phone,” Heimer said. “It’s also been growing online.”
Heimer said closing the branches comes down to saving money. In addition, since so few people use the centers, Heimer said EPE wants to focus on meeting people via other access points.
In Texas, EPE has already shut down in-person payment centers. That change occurred on Jan. 13. The two Las Cruces centers will end in-person collections on Feb. 10.
How can customers pay their bills?
For the 5 percent of in-person payers, EPE has a few alternatives for bill payment.
Via EPE’s website, utility customers can pay via credit card, ATM/debit card, or electronic check. For every bill, this option tacks on a $1.50 to $2.35 fee.
Another option includes using payment kiosks in El Paso, Van Horn and Las Cruces. However, the kiosks may have a fee depending on how customers pay. In addition, third-party payment agencies like CheckFree or Western Union accept payments with an attached cost. According to a news release from EPE, over 100 third-party payment agencies are in EPE’s service area. Stores like Walmart, Dollar General and many grocery stores host these agencies.
With the payment centers closing, third-party payment agencies and kiosks will be the only way to pay electric bills with cash.
Utility customers can also arrange a bank draft with EPE via their website. In that system, the utility takes the money directly from utility customers’ bank accounts when the bill is due. There is no fee for this method.
EPE also accepts mailed checks via a stamped envelope to their office in El Paso at El Paso Electric, P.O. Box 982, El Paso, Texas 79960. Other than the envelope and stamp cost, this method has no fee.
Lastly, EPE accepts payment via the phone from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday or through their mobile app. Both of those methods have fees in the range of $1.95 to $2.35.
What about the workers?
Across the four locations, EPE employs 21 workers. None will be laid off, Heimer said.
Instead, EPE will create new roles for the workers.
“We’re currently working to make sure that everyone working at a branch can successfully transition into other channels,” Heimer said.
Heimer didn’t specify how the branch workers’ jobs would change. However, he said that increased online or over-the-phone customer communications have created a demand for EPE’s attention in those areas and suggested EPE would train the workers in those areas. He also said that many would begin working from home.
“By reutilizing those employees, we’re going to be able to do more for our customers than we are today," Heimer said.
Heimer acknowledged that relationships between customers and EPE representatives at the in-person centers run deep.
“Customers bring (workers) treats and gifts and ask ‘how are you kids’ and things of that nature,” Heimer said. “There’s a big relationship there.”
But, ultimately, Heimer said those workers would have to get used to working with people without seeing them in person.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — 4-year-old Tanner Davis will represent America in the Strider World Cup in Osaka, Japan in May. He is one of just 10 kids from America to be chosen to compete in the event.
“It’s one of my favorite things to do, I like seeing him ride. He always has a smile on his face when he rides. He’s reluctant, but as soon as he gets on the seat, he’s just having the time of his life,” said Taylor Davis.
Tanner’s dad, Taylor Davis says he’s glad his love of cycling has rubbed off on his son, but Tanner's bike is a little different than his dad's. Taylor says striders don’t have pedals, which can help kids like Tanner develop balance early in life.
“Sometimes they don't even need training wheels after because they already know how to ride on the bike and handle everything ... It's a lot different than other bikes that get really heavy for kids. So he can pick that one up, throw it around,” he said.
Tanner has competed in the Bentonville world cup for the last two years
and his mom Kelsey says the big trip to Japan is even more exciting.
“We decided to fill out the application, and shoot our shot just to see if we could possibly get in, but we didn't have our hopes high for it. Around the end of January, we got the email from them that Tanner was one of 10 picked,” said Kelsey Davis.
She says they’ve been helping Tanner prepare for the big race by going to the NWA BMX track and just riding as much as possible.
“He realized 'I'm gonna go race bikes in Japan,' and it's kind of starting to become a bigger deal. But I don't think he realizes it's as big as what it actually is,” said Kelsey Davis.
The family has started a GoFundMe to help with travel expenses to Japan in May.
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- Firm has opened offices in Milan, headed by Anastasia Di Carlo; in Stockholm, headed by Katrin Boström; and in Zug, headed by Ralph Aerni
- Added senior leaders across London, Frankfurt and Zug in response to client demand and platform expansion
LONDON, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As investor demand for private markets strategies continues to grow, leading private markets investment management firm Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) has expanded its footprint across Europe, hiring a number of senior executives across London and Frankfurt, and adding outposts in Milan, Stockholm and Zug since the beginning of 2021.
The firm has grown its team and presence in key regions throughout Europe in an effort to better service clients locally:
- Earlier this year, Christian D'Amico joined the firm's Frankfurt outpost as a Principal on the Client Solutions team, covering Germany and Austria.
- D'Amico comes from BNY Mellon Investment Management, where he served as Director of Institutional and Wholesale Sales and brings 20 years of experience in the financial and capital markets, including Director of Institutions Germany & Austria at Janus Capital International and Director Business Development at Feri Institutional Advisors. He reports to Ralph Aerni, Head of Client Solutions, EMEA.
- Carolin Blank, who has been with the firm since 2017, recently assumed a new leadership role as Head of Relationship Management, EMEA, focused on the oversight of client servicing within the region and further integrating with the Investment Team. She reports to Drew Schardt, Head of Global Investment Strategy and Co-Head of Investments.
- Ben Edwards recently joined the firm's Client Solutions Group as a Principal, responsible for UK institutions and their advisers. Edwards brings more than 20 years of experience in finance, with 15 years of his career spent overseeing UK institutional clients. Most recently, he led GAM's institutional business in the UK and Ireland. Prior to GAM he was an Executive Vice President at PIMCO for nearly a decade, heading the UK institutional client group. He reports to Aerni.
- John Stake, an Investment Committee member and Co-Head of the firm's Fund Investment Team, recently relocated to London from Conshohocken, PA, to support Hamilton Lane's expanding investment footprint across Europe. He has been with the firm for nearly 14 years and oversees the recommendation of all primary fund investments globally. He reports to Richard Hope, Head of EMEA, and Tom Kerr, Co-Head of Investments.
- After serving clients in the region for several years, Principal Anastasia Di Carlo relocated to Milan in 2021, and the firm established a formal presence there this year. Di Carlo has more than 15 years of international experience in private capital investing as well as client relations.
- Di Carlo is responsible for client management locally and plays a significant role in the development of Hamilton Lane's investment activities and client relationships in Italy. She relocated to Milan from the firm's Sydney office, where she had worked since 2019. She reports to Blank.
- Managing Director Katrin Boström joined Hamilton Lane earlier this year to lead the firm's new office in Stockholm. Boström sits within the firm's Client Solutions Group, where she is responsible for business development across both institutional and private wealth channels in Sweden and the wider Nordic region. She has more than 15 years of experience in the space, having previously served as Head of Client Relations at Carneo Asset Managers. She reports to Aerni.
- In June, Victor Jung joined the firm as Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets, based in Zug. He is responsible for developing and overseeing the execution of the firm's global digital asset strategy, and reports to Frederick Shaw, Chief Risk Officer and Global Head of Operations.
- Jung brings nearly a decade of leadership experience in financial services across both institutional and private wealth channels to Hamilton Lane. He was most recently Head of Distribution Partners & Liquid Private Markets – Asia Pacific, at Partners Group.
- The firm's Zug office continues to grow, having first opened in early 2022 in conjunction with the appointments of Aerni and Vice President Rainer Kobler.
Hope said: "Continued expansion in Europe and bolstering our local teams are key strategic initiatives for our organisation. Against the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment, institutional and private wealth investors are taking into account the strong historical performance of private markets and are looking to increase their exposure to the asset class."
Aerni commented: "We have grown intentionally and thoughtfully, adding talent in key geographies and within our institutional and private wealth channels across EMEA. We've continued to reinforce our presence due to increasing client demand and interest in Hamilton Lane's suite of institutional and private wealth products, and today we believe we are well positioned to provide the highest calibre of service to our clients."
With the addition of the Milan, Stockholm and Zug offices, Hamilton Lane now has six offices across the EMEA region, double the number than at the end of 2020.*
*In the EMEA region, the firm already had established offices in London, Frankfurt and Tel Aviv.
Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) is one of the largest private markets investment management firms, providing innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world. Dedicated exclusively to private markets investing for more than 30 years, the firm currently employs more than 540 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Hamilton Lane has more than $832 billion in assets under management and supervision, composed of $108 billion in discretionary assets and more than $724 billion in non-discretionary assets, as of June 30, 2022. Hamilton Lane specializes in building flexible investment programs that provide clients access to the full spectrum of private markets strategies, sectors and geographies. For more information, please visit www.hamiltonlane.com or follow Hamilton Lane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hamilton-lane/.
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SANTA ANA, Calif., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The REMM Group reimagined, purchased, and designed their ideal post-COVID workspace in the heart of Orange County. The 2,900 square foot craftsman office building at 207 W 20th Street in Santa Ana, California is adjacent to Bowers Museum. The REMM Group purchased the building in May for 1.15M. The multifamily and commercial management company immediately renovated the space to best fit their new hybrid workstyle.
Sara D'Elia, CEO at The REMM Group, said "We began looking for a new office as the pandemic hit. Our vision of the ideal location changed as our teams demonstrated that they could be highly productive, and had a higher degree of job satisfaction, working from home. Technology links our teams and we increased the scope of the Office Manager and Administrative positions to provide them with additional on-site support.
"Not coming into the office allowed our Regional and Commercial Property Managers and Senior Management to spend more time at the properties we manage and meeting with clients. Our clients select The REMM Group for that personal approach, so the transition allowed our growth to continue robustly during the COVID crisis."
Most recently The REMM Group has added Desert Flower Apartment Homes, with 129 luxury units in Palm Springs, the stunning new Macro at Echo Park, featuring a rooftop Sky Lounge in Los Angeles. And The Landing retail property in Newport Beach.
The REMM Group's new corporate location has several flexible conference rooms and executive/flex offices, along with more traditional workspaces and offices.
CFO, Shawn Conerty, says the efficient office space helps The REMM Group meet their ESG goals. "We use less resources heating and cooling rooms that are not needed, we all spend less time in traffic burning fuel, and our associates are much happier."
The REMM Group is an award-winning IREM Accredited Commercial Real Estate Management Organization (AMO). Their expanding portfolio includes multifamily, lease up, mixed-use and commercial properties. The REMM Group ranks in the top 10 companies nationwide in The Best Place to Work Multifamily 2022. For additional information contact Sara D'Elia at (714) 974-1010 x 213, sdelia(at)remmgroup(dot)com.
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Best-in-class sportsbook continues expansion with a new, fully native iOS experience
CHEYENNE, Wyo. and LAS VEGAS, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR) ("Caesars") today announced its sports wagering mobile app, Caesars Sportsbook, is available for download throughout Wyoming. Eligible sports fans in the state can now enjoy a new Caesars Sportsbook experience on iOS ahead of its rollout in other states, as well as on Android and desktop.
The new native iOS Caesars Sportsbook app features improved performance with a focus on speed, ease of use, and intuitive features to make getting your bet down easier than ever. Caesars Sportsbook combines this elevated sports wagering experience with the unmatched rewards that Wyoming sports fans can enjoy through the app's integration with the industry-leading customer loyalty program, Caesars Rewards.
"We're ready to give sports fans in Wyoming the first-class sports betting experience they deserve," said Eric Hession, Co-President of Caesars Digital. "Our upgraded mobile sports wagering app together with unforgettable experiences through Caesars Rewards is a special combination we're excited to bring to this market."
In addition to mobile betting on a wide variety of sports from anywhere in the state, Caesars Sportsbook is the only app in Wyoming that rewards sports bettors with exclusive industry-best opportunities at Caesars destinations across the United States and at locations on the famed Las Vegas Strip. Bettors can now earn Tier Credits and Reward Credits on every wager placed that can be redeemed for Caesars Rewards experiences or bonus cash in the app.
Starting today, eligible sports fans anywhere in Wyoming can download the Caesars Sportsbook app on iOS, register, and deposit funds to take advantage of a special sign-up offer for first-time users. In the event that a first-time wager isn't a winner, new users receive a free bet equal to the amount of that first wager up to $1,500.
Caesars is an industry leader in responsible gaming with a decades-long commitment to responsible gaming practices that have carried over as an emphasis for Caesars Sportsbook. Wyoming sports bettors will have access to responsible gaming resources through Caesars Sportsbook's commitment to working 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 live in 24 states and jurisdictions—18 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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The addition of Republican Reps. Chip Roy (Texas), Ralph Norman (S.C.), and Thomas Massie (Ky.) to the House Rules Committee — one of the concessions from Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that helped him secure the gavel — means that the frequent antagonists of leadership have the opportunity to create significant barriers to getting legislation to the House floor.
But the three say that if they use their leverage, it will be to enforce the kind of open-process demands that fueled resistance to McCarthy in the drawn-out Speakership battle.
“We just need to make sure that we’re applying the rules, the germaneness rules, the, you know, single-subject rules, and then figure out how that’s all gonna get down to the floor under the right rules. Is it going to be a structured rule, an open rule?” Roy said.
Lawmakers got their first taste of a more open rules process last week with a modified open rule on a bill to limit the president’s ability to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Any member could submit an amendment for the first time in seven years. More than 140 amendments were submitted, and 56 of them got votes in fast-moving marathon floor sessions over two days.
“We’re actually being the people’s house,” Roy said.
The House Rules Committee gets final say over legislation before it heads to a final vote, crafting the process that governs consideration of each bill and how much input members can have on the floor. It was central to the group 20 hard-line conservatives who pushed the Speakership election into a historic four-day saga over demands for rules change demands and policy priorities.
One of the concessions from McCarthy, according to a person familiar with the deal, was to name three House Freedom Caucus or “Freedom Caucus-adjacent” members to the Rules Committee. Massie is not a member of the confrontational conservative group like Roy and Norman, but frequently votes with them.
Roy said repeatedly during the Speakership fight that he was not necessarily pining to be on the Rules Committee, which will require more time in Washington and away from his family, but was willing to do so if it meant ensuring the panel did not waive process agreements — like single-subject bills and a rule requiring 72 hours from release of final bill text to a floor vote — as had become commonplace.
Lawmakers frequently bemoaned spending bills thousands of pages long being released just hours before a final vote, ushered through the Rules Committee with waived rules and not open to amend on the floor.
With nine Republican members to four Democratic members set to be on the panel, the three together could derail bills if they do not conform to their standards — “veto power,” as Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) put it in an MSNBC interview last week.
Rep. Jim McGovern (Mass.), the top Democrat on the panel, summed up the tricky dynamic in a one-word tweet: “Yikes.”
Republicans on the Rules Committee held their first meeting on Thursday, during which Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) laid out the committee’s processes for the new members.
“I don’t see it as us against them,” Norman said. “Guy Reschenthaler” — a Pennsylvania Republican also on the committee — “is a straight thinking, good guy. Tom Cole, I think he’s a veteran who’s done this a lot longer than we have.”
The threat of the three defecting could itself prevent Republican leadership from attempting what Massie called “creative” rules.
“There’s a few rules in the past that were a little too creative that I already expressed displeasure with before joining the committee,” Massie said. “If there was any doubt, they know where I stand on some of the shenanigans that have happened over the last 10 years.”
He mentioned a 2018 instance where a rule for the must-pass farm bill included language preventing a vote for the rest of a year on any war powers resolution limiting U.S. involvement in Yemen.
But the libertarian-conservative Massie, who has often been a lone “no” vote on floor measures, says that he does not plan to use his position on the Rules Committee to try to sway policy or final outcomes.
“I’m ready and fully prepared to vote for rules on bills that I’ll be a ‘hell no’ on the bill when it gets to the floor,” Massie said.
Norman, though, said that he could foresee using his influence not only to enforce structural rules but also to get more favorable policies. One of Norman’s major sticking points during the Speakership battle was wanting the House to pass a plan to balance the budget in seven to 10 years.
There could be times, though, when the three hard-liners are asked to be flexible on House rules.
Congress this year must deal with a looming debt limit deadline in early June, as well as measures to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, the farm bill and annual government spending. And it has a history of waiting until the last minute to strike a deal and take action.
“My default position is going to be a better be damn good thing like, you know, a 9/11 attack or something, If you’re going to be waiving the 72 hours. We cannot start that game,” Roy said.
But, Roy added, he will “never say never.”
“We will not accept, as an example with the omnibus 4,155 pages long, getting it the night before,” Norman said.
“There’s something that’s pretty simple that’s got some urgency to it, then present it, and then let us make the judgment call,” Norman continued. “But in Washington, D.C., a lot of things proposed as urgent that are not urgent. It’s kind of like, beauty’s in the eyes of the beholder.”
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Residents can prepare to conquer the hills and heat Saturday morning during the annual Norman Conquest.
Now in its 25th year, the anniversary charity bicycle ride will begin at 7 a.m. Saturday at the J.D. McCarty Center, 2002 E. Robinson St. in Norman.
The ride features four distances: a 10-mile town tour that’s family friendly, plus longer routes of 23, 48 and 64 miles that go through Norman and the county’s hilliest parts.
Participants can receive T-shirts or jerseys featuring 25th anniversary logos and the event’s business sponsors. The ride is hosted each year by the Bicycle League of Norman.
Cost for the longer routes is $45, $25 for the 10-mile and $15 for the 10-mile without a shirt. Jerseys can be bought separately for $65. All proceeds benefit the J.D. McCarty Center’s summer camp for children with disabilities, Camp ClapHans.
“People are up for the challenge to go out and ride those hills in the heat. It’s something that people actually aspire to go do. The bicycle community is always up for challenges like that,” said Todd Hamm, Conquest event director. Hamm has been involved in the event for the last 10 to 12 years.
He said the most popular ride, by far, is the longest route.
Hamm, who has participated in the 64-mile ride in the past, described the course as challenging but enjoyable, friendly and fun.
Currently, he said about 200 people have signed up, but he anticipates about 300 by Saturday. Online registration expires at 4 p.m. today at bicycleleagueofnorman.com or via the group’s Facebook page. People also can register the morning of the ride.
Jim McCall, a frequent volunteer who is participating in the 64-mile ride this year, said his usual time for the long course is four hours, but some have done it in three hours, while others finish in five. He estimated that the 10-mile town tour takes about an hour to complete.
McCall said the toughest challenge for him is often the heat, though multiple rest stops are available to help recharge riders with liquids and nutritious snacks.
He said he plans on riding with friends this year, and they encourage one another through the hard parts. He suggested riding hills every week to prepare.
He said the hilliest parts include east of Noble around Etowah Road, and a hill nicknamed “The Wall” near Lake Thunderbird within the first 15 miles.
With the Conquest celebrating 25 years, McCall said it’s a “vote by people with bicycles that is has been an organized ride that provides a challenge, and it’s for a good cause to raise funds.”
Sharla Bardin, J.D. McCarty Center marketing director, described the event as phenomenal, and said funds raised help pay for programs at Camp ClapHans and children’s scholarships.
Some McCarty staff will be on hand to volunteer where needed at the ride, she said. Sometimes staff and McCarty volunteers will participate in the ride.
One year, Bardin said she participated in the town tour, which gave her a taste of the full Conquest.
“It was definitely a fun experience. I loved it,” she said, adding that it works as an outreach tool, too.
She said the ride offers something for everybody with the four routes, and offers residents the chance to see other parts of the county and scenic beauty.
“I really feel like it gives you such a great perspective of our area and you’re out exercising and meeting other enthusiasts, and I think all of just combines to be a really fun event that gives back to the community,” Bardin said.
Hamm said no roads will be closed off for the event, but the busiest intersections will be monitored by law enforcement to keep riders and drivers safe.
He said each rest stop will be monitored by at least four volunteers, and volunteers are currently working on moving necessary supplies from storage to the McCarty Center and marking off the routes.
In addition to being a rider, McCall said he volunteered for multiple years at the rest stops, which requires a lot of preparation months in advance and equipping each rest stop with proper quantities of supplies at the right times, based on the possible numbers of riders who would likely stop there.
Necessary supplies for riders, in addition to a bike, are helmets, shoes, sunglasses and water bottles, he said.
People who can’t participate in the ride may donate to Camp ClapHans directly through the J.D. McCarty Center.
McCall said he likes the McCarty Center and the summer camp because they provide for the physical needs of children with disabilities and breaks and instructions for parents.
Sarah Shanks, Bicycle League of Norman vice president, who was in charge of coordinating jersey orders, described the ride as well supported and unique in that all proceeds go to Camp ClapHans. She appreciates the service the McCarty Center provides to children with developmental disabilities and their parents, she said.
“Twenty-five years on now, it’s a well supported, well attended ride by everybody from amateur bicycle racers to newer enthusiast T-shirt riders,” Shanks said.
Hamm said the event typically raises $5,000 to $10,000 for the McCarty Center. | https://www.normantranscript.com/news/norman-conquest-celebrating-25th-anniversary-saturday/article_1c3e1bae-fdfe-11ec-84b7-e344ef326c8b.html | 2022-07-08 13:38:35 | 0 | https://www.normantranscript.com/news/norman-conquest-celebrating-25th-anniversary-saturday/article_1c3e1bae-fdfe-11ec-84b7-e344ef326c8b.html |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is offering formula manufacturers and retailers transportation and logistics support to ease the nationwide shortage of baby formula, as the administration works to bring the largest domestic plant back on line after it was shut down early this year due to safety issues.
The White House said it is working with all major formula producers to boost production, including reaching out to their suppliers to encourage them to prioritize production and delivery of formula ingredients. It comes as the Biden administration has come under intense pressure over the last week to do more to ease the shortage of formula that has forced parents of infants to go to significant lengths to feed their children.
The shortage stems from a February recall by Abbott, the nation’s largest formula maker, that shuttered the company’s Michigan plant and exacerbated ongoing supply chain disruptions among formula makers, leaving fewer options on stores shelves across much of the country. The shortage has led retailers like CVS and Target to limit how many containers customers can purchase per visit and forced some parents to swap and sell formula online.
On Monday, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf told ABC News’ “Good Morning America” that the federal agency is “working really closely with Abbott” to reopen the closed Michigan factory and he expects that “in a very short period of time we’re going to have an announcement about the path forward.”
Califf said an announcement is forthcoming about importing baby formula from abroad, noting that the key is making sure the instructions for the formula are in languages that mothers and caregivers can understand.
The FDA warned families against making their own baby formula because it has 30 distinct constituents that have to be in the right amount, otherwise the formula can possibly be dangerous to consume.
Abbott’s voluntary recall was triggered by four illnesses reported in babies who had consumed powdered formula from the Michigan plant. All four infants were hospitalized with a rare type of bacterial infection and two died.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The attorney for Jan. 6 insurrectionist Richard “BigO” Barnett has filed an appeal of his conviction and sentencing.
Barnett was sentenced in District of Columbia federal court in May to 54 months in prison for charges related to his entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. During the insurrection, Barnett was seen with his feet on then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk in widely circulated photographs.
In the two-sentence filing, Barnett’s attorney Jonathan S. Gross of Baltimore also asked for Barnett to be assigned a new lawyer “pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act for the purpose of his appeal.”
Barnett remains at his home in Gravette pending transfer to the federal Bureau of Prisons.
Gross had earlier filed a request for Barnett’s date to report to prison to be delayed until Aug. 22 and for him to be assigned to a minimum-security prison more than 500 miles from his home. Both of these requests were denied. | https://www.fox16.com/news/state-news/arkansas-january-6-insurrectionist-richard-barnett-files-appeal-of-federal-conviction/ | 2023-06-06 22:05:09 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/state-news/arkansas-january-6-insurrectionist-richard-barnett-files-appeal-of-federal-conviction/ |
In today’s world, it’s hard to tell where the things we buy come from and how they’re made. Even if we do know, it’s all too easy to turn a blind eye because we like the product and the foul things that may be occurring are far away.
That’s where Cotopaxi comes in. It’s one of the few brands committed to sourcing sustainable materials and following humanitarian work policies. It’s a bonus that the bags it makes look good and are crafted well.
In this article: Cotopaxi Cusco Backpack, Cotopaxi Tarak Climbing Pack and Cotopaxi Uyuni Duffle Bag.
Cotopaxi bag types
Cotopaxi makes many types of bags, including backpacks, travel bags, duffel bags, hip packs, carry-ons and daypacks.
B Corporation
Cotopaxi is a certified B corporation, meaning it uses its position to further social, environmental and economic good.
Charity
Cotopaxi dedicates a minimum of 1% of its revenue to its Cotopaxi Foundation. The foundation focuses on supporting nonprofits dedicated to assisting communities experiencing poverty, especially Latin American communities. It also accepts donations and has a yearly impact report with records available on its website as far back as 2015.
Nonprofits it supports include:
- International Rescue Committee.
- United to Beat Malaria.
- CARE Ecuador.
- Escuela Nueva.
- Mona Foundation.
- Mercy Corps.
- The Chain Collaborative.
- Range of Motion Project.
- True Colors United.
Environment
Cotopaxi is a certified carbon-neutral company. It has a goal of using only repurposed, recycled or responsible materials in every product by 2025.
Factories
Cotopaxi is committed to human rights and partners with factories that agree to codes of conduct and audits to ensure the codes are adhered to. Partner factories and what they make include:
- Bataan, Philippines: Backpacks and bags.
- Tianjin, China: Insulation and outwear.
- Chinnakarai, India: Logowear and T-shirts.
- Shanghai, China: Headwear.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Activewear.
- Jawa Barat, Indonesia: Woven apparel and gloves.
Gear for Good
This is the name of Cotopaxi’s promise to make durable bags and other products that are ethically and sustainably sourced.
Guaranteed for Good
This is the name of Cotopaxi’s warranty policies. It accepts returns and exchanges of unwashed, new items within 60 days of purchase, accepts claims to repair worn gear and accepts used gear in return for gift cards.
Cost
The smallest bags typically cost $30 to $50. Medium-sized bags typically cost $50-150. The largest bags typically cost $150 to $250.
FAQ
Q. What else does Cotopaxi make?
A. In addition to its wide range of bags, Cotopaxi makes hats for both hot and cold weather, scarves, gloves, headbands, shoes, socks, athletic wear and tops, jackets and bottoms of various types.
Q. Where does the Cotopaxi name come from?
A. Cotopaxi (koh-toh-PAHK-see) is the name for one of the world’s highest active volcanoes, which is located in Ecuador. It had a major impact on the life of Cotopaxi’s founder, Davis Smith, during his childhood, so he named his company after it. The llama logo is inspired by the wild llamas that wander the area around the volcano.
Best Cotopaxi bags
This backpack has a top and side handles, so you can carry it how you want to. It has an adjustable waist and chest buckle, plus each shoulder strap is adjustable. It comes in three colors.
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If you’re the type who always wears your backpack with only one of its straps, maybe it’s time to consider a sling bag. This one comes in four colors.
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This backpack has all manner of pockets so you can keep everything you need to carry perfectly organized. It has an internal laptop sleeve that fits most 15-inch laptops or smaller.
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This hiking pack has a zippered pocket with an internal divider just for your shoes. It has mesh shoulder straps for breathability and dual mesh water bottle pockets.
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This tote bag is perfect for going on a quick trip to the grocery store and avoiding having to use any plastic bags. The “Do Good.” wording might even inspire others.
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This climbing pack is perfect whether you like to go rock climbing or ice climbing. It has a hydration sleeve and a removable foam frame.
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This is the ultimate travel bag for your trip around the world, thanks to its multiple carrying methods and roomy interior. It also has a front zippered pocket.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Manuel Margot Player Prop Bets: Rays vs. Pirates - May 4
Published: May. 4, 2023 at 12:24 PM EDT|Updated: 41 minutes ago
The Tampa Bay Rays, including Manuel Margot (.367 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 65 points above season-long percentage), take on starting pitcher Vince Velasquez and the Pittsburgh Pirates at Tropicana Field, Thursday at 1:10 PM ET.
In his last appearance, he went 1-for-2 against the Pirates.
Manuel Margot Game Info & Props vs. the Pirates
- Game Day: Thursday, May 4, 2023
- Game Time: 1:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Tropicana Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Pirates Starter: Vince Velásquez
- TV Channel: BSSUN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -161)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +825)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +310)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +165)
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Manuel Margot At The Plate
- Margot is batting .247 with three doubles, two home runs and five walks.
- Margot will look to extend his five-game hitting streak. He's batting .462 in his last outings.
- In 55.6% of his games this year (15 of 27), Margot has picked up at least one hit, and in three of those games (11.1%) he recorded multiple hits.
- In 27 games played this year, he has homered in two of them.
- Margot has had an RBI in eight games this year.
- In eight games this season (29.6%), he has scored, including multiple runs twice.
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Manuel Margot Home/Away Batting Splits
Pirates Pitching Rankings
- The 8.8 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Pirates pitching staff ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Pirates have the ninth-ranked team ERA among all league pitching staffs (3.64).
- Pirates pitchers combine to surrender 26 home runs (0.8 per game), the fifth-fewest in baseball.
- The Pirates are sending Velasquez (4-2) to the mound for his seventh start of the season. He is 4-2 with a 3.06 ERA and 32 strikeouts through 32 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent time out on Saturday, the right-hander threw six scoreless innings against the Washington Nationals while surrendering five hits.
- The 30-year-old's 3.06 ERA ranks 26th, 1.175 WHIP ranks 34th, and 8.9 K/9 ranks 35th among qualifying pitchers this season.
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy energy industry press releases from PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the energy and natural resources industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- Sinopec Announces Major Discovery of Shale Gas in Sichuan Basin: First Breakthrough in Cambrian Qiongzhusi Formation
With a daily natural gas production reaching 258,600 cubic meters and an evaluated resource capacity of 387.8 billion cubic meters, it is a major breakthrough for China's shale gas exploration, and the first discovery in the Cambrian Qiongzhusi Formation. - Jereh Turbine Fracturing Equipment Delivers Improvements of Unconventional Energy Exploitation
In addition to the vast application cases in Turbine Frac fleets, Jereh announces the successful completion of their new generation "Apollo" direct drive turbine fracturing units pilot trial, achieving a new milestone in the Direct Drive Turbine Frac industry. - Duke Energy Florida's smart-thinking grid improves response, power restoration for customers during Hurricane Ian
As Hurricane Ian made its way across Florida, Duke Energy's grid improvements were already on the job helping to combat power outages from the storm. Smart, self-healing technology helped to automatically restore more than 160,000 customer outages and saved nearly 3.3 million hours (nearly 200 million minutes) of total lost outage time. - Drive System Design and Alvier Mechatronics Establish Joint Operating Agreement to Provide Sustainable Electrified Propulsion Solutions
Drive System Design (DSD), a company specializing in the rapid engineering and development of electrified propulsion systems and Alvier Mechatronics, an engineering service company with special competence in advanced materials and production methods for sustainable, high-volume applications, are joining forces to provide the mobility industry with engineering services to support sustainable electrified propulsion solutions across automotive, commercial vehicle, off-highway, marine and aerospace applications. - Ideanomics announces the startup of operations at North America's largest electric tractor assembly facility in Windsor, California
Ideanomics, a global company focused on accelerating the commercial adoption of electric vehicles (EV), announced this week that a new vehicle assembly line at the Solectrac Windsor facility is fully operational, effectively tripling the production capacity of the e25 electric tractor. Ideanomics can now produce a total of 4,100 powerful, quiet and zero-emission Solectrac tractors annually. - Govts across US & Canada - including cold climate areas - are moving off methane gas, to all-electric buildings
Over 30 local and state governments in the US and Canada – several in cold weather climates – passed or introduced new building electrification policies in the last six months to protect health, safety, and the global climate.
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JOHANNESBURG, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gold Fields Limited (Gold Fields) (JSE: GFI) (NYSE: GFI) is pleased to provide a market update regarding the proposed acquisition of all the outstanding common shares of Yamana Gold Inc. (TSX: YRI) (NYSE: AUY) (LSE: AUY) (Yamana) (the Transaction), including additional information on the quality and investment case of the combined company.
Full media release is available on the company website:
www.goldfields.com
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About Gold Fields
Gold Fields Limited is a globally diversified gold producer with nine operating mines in Australia, Peru, South Africa, and West Africa (including the Asanko Joint Venture) and one project in Chile. We have total attributable annual gold-equivalent production of 2.34Mo, attributable gold-equivalent Mineral Reserves of 48.6Moz and gold Mineral Resources of 111.8Moz. Our shares are listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and our American depositary share trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Sponsor: J.P. Morgan Equities South Africa (Pty) Ltd
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Give our country $100 billion — or stop lecturing us about making money from fossil fuels.
That was the message East Timor President and Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos-Horta had Wednesday for those raising environmental concerns about his nation’s proposal to build a new gas-processing plant.
Ramos-Horta was speaking in Australia after the two countries signed a new defense agreement. He delivered his remarks at the National Press Club in Canberra with humor but also with an edge.
East Timor, an impoverished nation of 1.5 million, is hoping to break a 20-year deadlock with the new Australian government over the development of the Greater Sunrise gas field that lies beneath the seabed separating the two countries.
Australia wants the gas piped to an existing gas hub at its northern city of Darwin. East Timor expects more economic benefit if the gas is piped to its south coast.
Ramos-Horta was visiting Australia in part to try and resolve the dispute. A reporter asked how East Timor could justify the project given the climate impacts.
Ramos-Horta replied that gas was cleaner than some fossil fuels. He then listed countries that had benefitted from fossil fuels, including the U.S. and Japan, and then later China and India.
“But first the Europeans, you were the ones who polluted the whole world with coal, with oil, and everything that you can imagine,” he said. “And we, unfortunately, discover oil and gas only now. And the Europeans are lecturing us: We have to move away from fossil fuel.”
He said the gas field could generate $100 billion or more in revenue.
“I have no authority to make any proposal, but I can make one off the top of my head,” Ramos-Horta said. ”The Europeans, Australia, the U.S., give us $100 billion and we give up on the Greater Sunrise development. As simple as that.”
Earlier Wednesday, Australia and East Timor signed a defense agreement aimed at increasing the military and security cooperation, especially along their shared maritime border.
The agreement aims to increase joint military exercises and training, as well as cooperation on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
“We have been working towards a DCA (defense cooperation agreement) for over a decade and today’s signing is a significant step forward in our partnership,” said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
The agreement comes at a time of heightened tensions in the region, particularly after the Solomon Islands in April signed a new security pact with China.
Asked about his views on the move by the Solomon Islands, Ramos-Horta said he wasn’t that familiar with the nation but that the wider region is a “very sensitive strategic location.”
“Any leader that is serious about being a leader, you have to be sensitive to your neighbors,” he said. “Don’t bring in extraterritorial, regional interests, powers, that might not be welcomed by our neighbors.”
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With the addition of Verkada Alarms, organizations in the U.K. and across Europe are now able to leverage the power of the complete Verkada platform
SAN MATEO, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Verkada began as an innovative approach to video security, helping organizations around the world protect their people and assets from harm. As Verkada has expanded, organizations across Europe have been able to leverage the additional power of Verkada's access control, environmental sensors, and visitor management solutions to improve security and building management.
Today, with the addition of Verkada's Alarm solution, we're excited to announce that the entire Verkada platform is now available in the United Kingdom and across Europe. From single-site retailers to major hospitals, organizations in these countries are now able to leverage the power of the complete Verkada platform.
Verkada Alarms: Cloud-Managed Intrusion Detection
Verkada Alarms is a suite of cloud-managed intrusion sensors and professional monitoring that makes it easier for organizations to detect, verify, and respond to threats in real-time.
Like all Verkada products, Alarms is built on top of Command, our web-based platform that lets organizations easily manage physical security across every location. Sites and users can be configured in minutes, with no service fees for setup or configuration changes. Users can see at a glance which sites are armed or disarmed, any recent incidents, and the status of every Alarm device.
Sites can be armed or disarmed with a single click, and admins can customize an unlimited list of contacts that should be notified in case of emergency.
24/7 Peace of Mind
Real-time visual context can be enormously helpful when an alarm is triggered and an incident is potentially in progress.
Verkada Alarms includes 24/7 professional monitoring with unlimited video verification bundled into the Alarms license. When an alarm is triggered, organizations can choose to have video footage of the event sent to a team of trained security experts standing by to review and respond to the incident.
If there is no visible threat, agents will dismiss the event, helping organizations avoid false alarms. If agents determine the threat to be legitimate, they will immediately notify an organization's pre-selected contact list via phone, SMS, or email.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, agents are also able to directly contact emergency services if there is a visible threat in progress, as well as send police live video links to provide crucial context into what is happening on-site.
Complete Building Coverage
Because Verkada products integrate seamlessly with each other, events from any Verkada device can be used to trigger an alarm. A person appearing on camera after hours, a door being forced open, or a noise level spiking can all be configured as alarm triggers.
For organizations that desire even more complete building coverage, Verkada offers wired and wireless intrusion detection sensors, including door contact, motion detection, glass break, and water leak sensors.
The BP41 Alarm Panel includes 32 wired inputs, and allows organizations to pull data from their existing wired sensors into Command. The Panel also has two outputs to connect devices such as sirens or strobe lights, which can be activated remotely via Command to deter intruders.
Verkada's wireless sensors connect via the BH61 Wireless Hub, which utilizes our proprietary wireless communication protocol that is optimized for range, battery life, and network security.
To ensure that alarm devices stay connected in the event of power or internet loss, our Cellular Backup Module provides redundant connectivity via an embedded multi-carrier SIM with automatic failover across multiple LTE networks.
On-Site Safety with the Alarm Console
In addition to traditional intrusion sensors, Verkada's BC51 Alarm Console is a unique, multifunctional tablet that gives users greater control and visibility into what is happening in a given location.
The Alarm Console features include:
- Traditional arm/disarm capabilities
- Live video streaming and recording via an integrated camera
- Two-way talk down video from Command to address visitors, staff, or possible intruders
- Text-to-speech announcements
- A duress code to silently raise an alarm
- A digital panic button
Call for Help Anytime, Anywhere
In an emergency, Verkada Alarms gives staff multiple options to call for help. In addition to digital panic buttons on the Alarm Console, the Alarms mobile app and on Command, we offer wireless panic buttons. These can be mounted on a wall or under a desk, or worn on a lanyard or a belt for a constant sense of security.
Admins can customize what happens when a panic button is pressed, from initiating a door lockdown sequence to calling on-site security. Thanks to Verkada's integrated devices, Verkada cameras can also be paired with a panic button, allowing admins to immediately pull up live video of the area in which a panic button was pressed.
Availability
Verkada Alarms is now available in the United Kingdom and many European countries, as well as other countries around the world. Emergency dispatch capabilities are available only in the U.K., Ireland, U.S., and Canada.
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(AP) – The first federal capital case tried under President Joe Biden ended with a split among jurors, which means the life of an Islamic extremist who killed eight people in a New York City will be spared. It came at a rare federal death penalty trial in a state without the death penalty.
That Biden’s Justice Department continued to pursue the death penalty for Sayfullo Saipov, who used a truck to mow down pedestrians and cyclists on a popular bike path, was a surprise to many given Biden’s opposition to capital punishment and his 2016 campaign pledge to end it federally.
The jury’s failure to reach a unanimous decision means Saipov receives an automatic sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for the October 2017 attack.
The initial decision to seek the death penalty came under then-President Donald Trump, who tweeted a day after the attack that Saipov “SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!”
But Attorney General Merrick Garland, under Biden, gave his prosecutors the green light to continue pursuing it even though Garland has imposed a moratorium that means no federal executions are likely to happen anytime soon.
The federal death penalty wasn’t a high-profile issue until Trump resumed them in 2020 after a 17-year hiatus. With 13 inmates put to death in his last months in office, Trump oversaw more federal executions than any president in more than 120 years.
Here is a look at the current status of the federal death penalty under Biden:
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HOW WAS THERE A CAPITAL CASE IN A STATE WITHOUT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT?
Saipov’s case was a rare instance of the Department of Justice seeking the death penalty in one of the more than 20 states that does not have capital punishment, drawing on U.S. laws that allow executions by federal authorities for exceptional crimes.
The death penalty was effectively abolished in New York by 2007, after years of efforts to restore it, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Historically, over 1,000 people have been executed in New York. The last execution in the state was in 1963.
Federal juries in Brooklyn twice gave a death sentence to a man who murdered two New York police detectives, once in 2007 and again in 2013, but both sentences were vacated on appeal. A judge ultimately ruled the killer was intellectually disabled.
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death at a 2015 federal trial in Massachusetts, which abolished capital punishment in 1984. The current Justice Department has continued to fight Tsarnaev’s bid to have his death sentence tossed out.
If Tsarnaev is ever executed, it would likely be at a death chamber at a U.S. prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where federal death row is located and where the 13 prisoners executed under Trump received lethal injections of pentobarbital.
WHAT HAS BIDEN DONE TO DATE?
Biden himself has not issued any formal directives or policy statements on federal capital punishment. During the 2016 campaign, he vowed both to end the federal death penalty for good, and to work at ending it in all states. He has been silent on both federal and state death penalties.
The lack of clear steps toward abolishing the death penalty or clearing federal death row using executive authority would leave to the door open to a future pro-death penalty president once against resuming executions by the U.S. government.
Under Garland, the Justice Department hasn’t sought the death penalty in any new cases. It also has withdrawn requests for capital punishment sought by prior administrations against more than two dozen defendants.
The Justice Department announced in January that it would not seek the death penalty for Patrick Crusius, who is accused of fatally shooting nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a West Texas Walmart in 2019. Crusius later pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and weapons charges.
While many have praised the White House for not wanting to interfere in the Justice Department’s day-to-day decision-making, capital punishment opponents say that shouldn’t stop it from establishing an overall policy on executions.
WHAT HAS THE WHITE HOUSE SAID?
In an email to The Associated Press earlier this year, the White House said the president “has long talked about his concerns about how the death penalty is applied and whether it is consistent with the values fundamental to our sense of justice and fairness.” It added Biden supports the attorney general’s decision to impose the moratorium.
“The DOJ makes decisions about prosecutions independently. It would be inappropriate for us to weigh in on specific cases underway, but we believe it’s important for victims, survivors, and their families to get justice,” it said.
WHAT ABOUT THE MORITORIUM?
Garland announced a halt to federal executions in 2021, meaning the Justice Department won’t issue orders to execute anyone, at least while the moratorium is in place.
But the moratorium doesn’t stop the department from pursuing the death penalty and it doesn’t stop U.S. prosecutors from continuing to fight legal action by death row inmates trying to avoid execution.
The Garland moratorium is similar to one ordered in 2014 by President Barack Obama following a botched state execution in Oklahoma. That Obama didn’t take more far-reaching action on the federal executions enabled Trump to restart them.
Trump officials argued that carrying out the executions was a matter of complying with U.S. law and bringing long-delayed justice to victims’ relatives.
WHAT DOES THE REVIEW DURING THE MORATORIUM ENTAIL?
The Justice Department hasn’t offered details, including end goals or timetables.
Garland has said the review would look at protocols put in place by Trump’s attorney general, William Barr. Attorneys for death row inmates criticized the protocols, saying they allowed for hurried executions.
What the review does not entail is an assessment of whether the federal death penalty should be scrapped entirely.
WHAT ABOUT THE PROTOCOLS?
In September, the Justice Department issued a public notice seeking comment about changes to Trump protocols, including one permitting execution methods other than lethal injection, such as firing squads.
In a recent letter, Democratic U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Sen. Dick Durbin urged the Justice Department to quickly annul all the Trump protocols, including one authorizing the use of state facilities and staff in federal executions, calling the orders “irreparably tainted.”
Another authorizes the use of a single drug, pentobarbital, to replace a three-drug cocktail deployed in the 2000s — the last time federal executions were carried out prior to Trump.
Most critics of the death penalty responded to the moratorium and review with faint praise — calling it a first step. Any changes in protocol could easily be undone by a future administration.
WHAT DO DEATH PENALTY OPPONENTS WANT DONE?
They say Biden should draw on his presidential powers to commute all federal death sentences to life in prison, which would prevent those death sentences from ever being restored.
There’s also proposed legislation to strike the death penalty from U.S. statutes and resentence the more than 40 inmates still on federal death row to life. Biden has given no indication he supports any such measures.
The issue is a sensitive one for Biden. In 1994, then-Sen. Biden shepherded legislation through Congress that added 60 additional crimes for which someone could be executed. Some inmates executed under Trump were sentenced under those provisions.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — President Joe Biden promised Saturday that the United States would work with a strategically vital coalition of southeast Asian nations, telling leaders that “we're going to build a better future that we all want to see” in the region where U.S. rival China is also working to expand its influence.
Citing the three Association of Southeast Asian Nations summits he's participated in as president, Biden said the 10-country bloc is “at the heart of my administration's Indo-Pacific strategy” and promised to collaborate to build a region that is “free and open, stable and prosperous, resilient and secure.”
“I look forward to continuing our work together with ASEAN and with each one of you to deepen peace and prosperity throughout the region to resolve challenges from the South China Sea to Myanmar and to find innovative solutions to shared challenges," Biden said, citing climate and health security among areas of collaboration.
Biden’s efforts at this year's ASEAN summit are meant to lay the groundwork for his highly anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping — the first face-to-face encounter of Biden’s presidency with a leader whose nation the U.S. now considers its most potent economic and military rival.
Biden and Xi will meet on Monday at the Group of 20 summit that brings together leaders from the world’s largest economies, which is held this year in Indonesia on the island of Bali.
Traveling to Phnom Penh earlier Saturday, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Biden will raise issues such as freedom of navigation and illegal and unregulated fishing by China with the ASEAN leaders — aimed at demonstrating U.S. assertiveness against Beijing.
Freedom of navigation refers to a dispute involving the South China Sea, where the United States says it can sail and fly wherever international law allows and China believes such missions are destabilizing. Sullivan said the U.S. has a key role to play as a stabilizing force in the region and in prevention of any one nation from engaging in “sustained intimidation and coercion that would be fundamentally adverse to the nations of ASEAN and other countries.”
“There’s a real demand signal for that,” Sullivan told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday. Referring to the People’s Republic of China, Sullivan continued: “I think the PRC may not love that fact, but they certainly acknowledge it and understand it.”
One new initiative related to those efforts that Biden will discuss Saturday focuses on maritime awareness, specifically using radio frequencies from commercial satellites to better track dark shipping and illegal fishing, Sullivan said.
Biden’s visit to Cambodia — the second ever by a U.S. president — continues his administration’s push to demonstrate its investments in the south Pacific, which was highlighted earlier this year when the White House hosted an ASEAN summit in Washington, the first of its kind. He also tapped one of his senior aides, Yohannes Abraham, as the official envoy to ASEAN, another way the White House has highlighted that commitment.
ASEAN this year is elevating the U.S. to a “comprehensive strategic partnership” status — a largely symbolic enhancement of their relationship but one that puts Washington on the same level as China, which was granted the distinction last year.
Biden opened Saturday in Phnom Penh by meeting with Hun Sen, the prime minister of Cambodia, the host for the regional summit. He also participated in the traditional family photo with southeast Asian leaders — one that required a re-do as the gregarious Biden was too busy shaking hands with other heads of state — and later, will attend a gala dinner hosted by a parallel summit in Cambodia focusing on east Asia.
Another topic Biden focused on is Myanmar, where the military junta overthrew the ruling government in February 2021 and arrested its democratically elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. As he met with Hun Sen, Biden stressed that the U.S. was committed to the return of democracy in Myanmar, which had steadily headed toward a democratic form of governance before the coup.
Biden also raised human rights concerns in Cambodia. In a statement after the meeting with Hun Sen, the White House said Biden urged the prime minister — an authoritarian ruler in a nominally democratic nation — to “reopen civic and political space” before its 2023 elections.
Biden, according to the White House, also pushed Hun Sen to release activists including Theary Seng, a Cambodian-American lawyer who was convicted of treason as the prime minister's long-running rule aimed to crack down on his opposition. The White House said Biden also raised concerns about activities at Ream Naval Base, whose expansion Cambodian officials have described as a collaborative effort between it and China.
At the U.S.-ASEAN summit, there was an empty chair where a representative from Myanmar would have sat had its leaders not been barred from participating in official ASEAN meetings.
In his brief remarks Saturday, Biden mistakenly identified host nation Cambodia as “Colombia,” a flub he also made on Thursday night as he was leaving the U.S.
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Prepare for some amazing performances at the 2022 BET Awards! On Thursday, the network dropped the first round of performers taking the stage on Sunday, June 26 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The annual awards show will be hosted by Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actress Taraji P. Henson for the second year in a row, and features an impressive lineup of musicians putting on their best moves for their fans.
The star-studded list includes Babyface, Chance The Rapper, Chlöe, Doechii, Ella Mai, Fireboy DML, GIVĒON, Jack Harlow, Joey Bada$$, Maverick City Music x Kirk Franklin, Latto, Lizzo, Muni Long, Roddy Ricch and more to be announced.
Additionally, up-and-coming artists GoGo Morrow and OGI will be gracing the BET Amplified Stage, getting BET Music's stamp of approval on the next big thing in music.
This year's list of nominees is also filled with familiar famous faces. Doja Cat sits at the top with six nominations under her belt, including Best Female R&B/Pop Artist, Best Female Hip Hop Artist, Album of the Year, BET Her, Video of the Year and Best Collaboration, for her GRAMMY-winning hit, "Kiss Me More," featuring SZA.
Ari Lennox and Drake scored the second-most nods with four nominations each, and Baby Keem, Silk Sonic, Chlöe, Future, H.E.R., Jazmine Sullivan, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Baby, Mary J. Blige and Tems all tied for the third-most nods with three nominations each.
The show is sure to be an exciting one and includes mega-producer Sean "Diddy" Combsreceiving this year's Lifetime Achievement Award.
The award honors industry giants who have not only significantly shaped culture through their extensive careers, but who have also been transformative leaders that consistently inspire generations by setting a true standard of excellence. Past Lifetime Achievement Award recipients include industry legends such as Whitney Houston, Prince, Queen Latifah, Anita Baker, Mary J. Blige, Samuel L. Jackson, Lionel Richie and New Edition.
The road to the BET Awards hasn't been completely smooth -- the award show came under fire when Lil Nas X called out the network for leaving him off the list of this year's nominees, alleging discrimination. The openly gay artist took to Twitter to vent his frustrations about being snubbed by the show for the second year in a row, despite being a chart-topping artist, while a white artist (Jack Harlow) scored a nomination.
BET responded to Lil Nas X's tweet storm with a statement, saying that they not only love the rapper, but have showcased "his extraordinary talent and creativity" twice on their show, once at the BET Awards in 2019 and again in 2021.
"Unfortunately, this year, he was not nominated by BET’s Voting Academy, which is comprised of an esteemed group of nearly 500 entertainment professionals in the fields of music, television, film, digital marketing, sports journalism, public relations, influencers, and creative arts. No one from BET serves as a member of the Voting Academy," BET went on to explain.
Lil Nas X responded to the statement, saying, "These are literally just buzz words placed together." Learn more in the video below.
The 2022 BET Awards will air Sunday, June 26, on BET at 8 p.m. ET/ PT.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee police officer who was shot at a public library while responding to a trespassing complaint remained in “extremely critical condition” on Friday, Memphis Police said.
The officer was hospitalized Thursday after the shooting at the Poplar-White Station Public Library, a small building on a busy Memphis street surrounded by high-rise office buildings, restaurants and stores.
The shooting came amid heighted scrutiny nationally of how much force police use after five officers in the same department were fired last month and charged with murder and other crimes in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols. The cases weren't connected, though the policies of the Memphis Police Department are under intense review locally and nationally.
Officers were called to the library and encountered a man who had been the subject of a trespassing call in the same neighborhood, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Keli McAlister said.
The man had started a confrontation with another person inside the library, and when two officers attempted to talk with him, he pulled out a weapon and shot one of them, McAlister said. The other officer drew his weapon, shooting and killing Torence Jackson Jr., 28, of Indianapolis, the TBI said in a statement. Jackson was a Black man. The two officers involved are also Black.
There were employees and patrons inside the library at the time of the shooting, but no one else was injured, McAlister said.
The TBI is working on the case at the request of the Shelby County prosecutor. The bureau often investigates shootings and other use-of-force incidents around the state when officers are involved.
The agency also investigated how Memphis Police officers responded in the Nichols case, which led to criminal charges against five Black officers.
Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was beaten after police stopped him for an alleged traffic violation Jan. 7. He died Jan. 10 at a hospital. Video released after pressure from Nichols’ family shows officers holding him down and repeatedly punching, kicking and striking him with a baton as he screamed for his mother.
In the weeks since Nichols’ death, the officers' specialized unit was disbanded and two more officers have been suspended. Two Memphis Fire Department emergency medical workers and a lieutenant were also fired. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/officer-shot-at-public-library-remains-in-17762015.php | 2023-02-03 18:15:21 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/officer-shot-at-public-library-remains-in-17762015.php |
EAST LANSING, MI – Michigan State University police will up its presence this week as students and faculty return to the East Lansing campus seven days after a deadly mass shooting.
MSU students and faculty are scheduled to resume classes Monday, Feb. 20, university officials announced on Sunday, Feb. 19. Classes were canceled for the remainder of last week after a gunman opened fire on campus Monday night, killing three and wounding five others.
Safety on campus is a high priority moving forward, MSU Interim Deputy Police Chief Chris Rozman said during a Feb. 19 news conference.
RELATED: Michigan State students will return to classes one week after mass shooting, university says
On Monday, Feb. 13, two MSU students were killed at Berkey Hall before the gunman moved to the nearby Union building, where one additional MSU student was shot and killed.
The gunman, 43-year-old 43-year-old Anthony McRae, who had no ties to MSU, later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound as police closed in. The shooting has called for, among many things, heightened security on campus.
“We have listened to our community and we know that people just want to see extra police as well,” Rozman said on Sunday, adding that there will be an increased visible police presence on campus this week.
“We feel we have a robust response in place – a robust system in place that we are ready to adequately respond to any needs on this campus,” he said.
Classes that were being held in Berkey Hall and the Union, where the shootings occurred, have been moved elsewhere on campus. Faculty and students have been notified of these changes, administrators said.
This week, police will start processing details of the shooting and review additional locations around campus that could benefit from security cameras.
As others return to campus, the community continues to mourn.
Two of the three students killed in the shootings, Brian Fraser and Alexandria Verner, were laid to rest on Saturday, Feb. 18, at two separate funeral services.
A mass funeral service for a third victim, MSU sophomore Arielle Diamond Anderson, is planned for Tuesday, Feb. 21, in Detroit.
Many still don’t feel safe returning to campus and for that, the university is making some accommodations.
MSU is offering a credit/no credit grade reporting option for all undergraduate courses for the remainder of the spring semester. Students have the entire semester to decide if they use the credit/no credit option.
Students will continue to receive support and counseling services on campus, officials said.
If you’re interested helping those impacted, MSU set up a donation fund called Spartan Strong to support the needs of the community. Possible uses include implementing campus safety upgrades and health services for students, faculty and staff.
Free crisis counseling is available to the MSU community by scheduling an appointment online or calling 517-355-8270 for immediate help.
For all MLive coverage of the MSU shootings, go here.
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Mel Tucker still processing fatal shooting at Michigan State
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DCS Corporation is pleased to announce the award of a 10-year Scientific, Technical, Engineering and Program Support Services (STEPSS) contract. STEPSS is a multiple-award, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract with a $869M shared ceiling to support the United States Army Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) and other Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high-yield Explosive (CBRNE) defense agencies.
"DCS is excited for the opportunity to expand our support to DEVCOM CBC and CBRNE agencies," said Jim Benbow, DCS CEO. "We look forward to building on our technical expertise and delivering technologies to the U.S. Army and the Warfighter."
Under STEPSS, DCS will compete for task orders to provide technical support for research, development, test and evaluation, engineering, acquisition (product development, fielding and support) and chemical and biological demilitarization operations. DCS currently supports DEVCOM CBC in the areas of bioinformatics, decontamination science, and NBC battlefield integration. The STEPSS contract will allow DCS to expand its customer base and footprint.
DEVCOM CBC is the primary Department of Defense technical organization for non-medical chemical and biological defense providing innovative CBRNE defense capabilities to enable the Joint Warfighters' dominance on the battlefield and interagency defense of the homeland. CBC possesses an unrivaled chemical biological research and development infrastructure with scientists, engineers, technicians and specialists located at four different sites in the United States: Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; Pine Bluff, AR; Rock Island, IL; and Dugway Proving Ground, UT.
An employee-owned company, DCS offers advanced technology, engineering, and management solutions to Government agencies in the national security sector. The transformative ideas, commitment to quality, and entrepreneurial spirit that characterize our employee-owners allow us to ensure the success of each customer's mission and actively contribute to the well-being of the Nation.
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Crusader costumes worn by England fans are ‘offensive,’ says FIFA
Chris Eldergill and Zayn Nabbi, CNN
Ahead of England’s World Cup clash with the United States on Friday, world soccer’s governing body FIFA said that Crusader costumes worn by England fans are “offensive.”
Some England fans attend sports events dressed as the English patron Saint George, equipped with helmets, crosses and plastic swords.
FIFA told CNN: “Crusader costumes in the Arab or Middle East context can be offensive to Muslims. That is why anti-discrimination colleagues asked fans to wear things inside out or change dress.”
Christian armies fought Muslims for more than 200 years to get back control of Jerusalem and its surrounding areas that were under Islamic rule.
FIFA says that “it strives to create a discrimination-free environment, to promote diversity across the organization and in all of its activities and events.”
During the tournament in Qatar, soccer fan attire has been in the spotlight — particularly any clothing or paraphernalia that has rainbow colors.
The rainbow flag is a symbol for LGBTQ rights, and in Qatar homosexuality is illegal.
At the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium on Monday, ahead of the United States Men’s National Team’s (USMNT) match with Wales, American soccer journalist Grant Wahl and former Wales captain Laura McAllister both said they were told to remove rainbow-colored items of clothing by security staff.
Wahl said he was detained and briefly refused entry to the match because of the “rainbow soccer ball t-shirt” he was wearing, posting on Twitter that security staff had told him: “You have to change your shirt. It’s not allowed.”
“One security guard told me that my shirt was ‘political’ and not allowed,” Wahl wrote on Substack.
Wahl told CNN on Tuesday that he had been given assurances beforehand he would be allowed to wear rainbow-decorated clothing, and that he “probably will” wear the shirt again as he has “no fear here about any of this.”
McAllister — who captained the Welsh women’s national soccer team in the 1990s — said she was stopped by security officials and had her rainbow-colored hat confiscated before she was allowed to enter the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium.
“So, despite fine words from @FIFAWorldCup before event, @Cymru (Wales) rainbow Bucket hats confiscated at stadium, mine included,” McAllister tweeted of the incident.
“I had a conversation about this with stewards — we have video evidence. This #WorldCup2022 just gets better but we will continue to stand up for our values,” added McAllister.
The Welsh Football Association (FAW) said FIFA told the federation on Thursday that rainbow-colored flags and hats would be permitted at World Cup stadiums in Qatar.
Posting on Twitter, it added: “The FAW urges FIFA to adhere to their message that everybody will be welcome in Qatar during the World Cup and continue to highlight any further human rights issues. We remain with the belief that football is for EVERYONE.”
When asked to clarify the dress code, FIFA referred CNN to the tournament handbook, which states “expats and tourists are free to wear the clothing of their choice, as long as it is modest and respectful to the culture.”
In this handbook it also states that “body protection gear,” “weapons of any type” and “items with political, offensive or discriminatory messages” are banned.
Aside from this document, FIFA have a human rights monitor inside of each stadium and they will be responsible for determining what is acceptable or not.
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NEW YORK, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: March 5, 2021 to March 22, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 19, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Okta, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Okta had inadequate cybersecurity controls; (ii) as a result, Okta's systems were vulnerable to data breaches; (iii) Okta ultimately did experience a data breach caused by a hacking group, which potentially affected hundreds of Okta customers; (iv) Okta initially did not disclose and subsequently downplayed the severity of the data breach; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Okta's business, financial condition, and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Okta you have until July 19, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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The Mitchell Republic Minute for June 8, 2023.
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LOS ANGELES, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Discovery Behavioral Health, Inc., an expanding nationwide network of evidence-based mental health, substance use and eating disorder treatment centers, announced today the launch of DiscoveryMD locations in West Los Angeles, Calif. and Tacoma, Wash.
DiscoveryMD has been designed to offer medical solutions to people with chronic mood and addiction disorders resistant to conventional treatment methods. This includes medication management, TMS, ketamine and medical addiction support combined with traditional individual and group therapy. These services add a medical and long-term care component to Discovery's traditional acute residential, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs, providing greater access to patients by providing every level of care to meet their needs. It also includes a telehealth component for traditional therapy, medication management, assessment and referrals.
Chris Diamond, president of Discovery's Professional Psychiatric Services division, says, "DiscoveryMD gives patients the option of traditional or telehealth services to get the kind of care that best fits their therapeutic needs, lifestyle, preferences and geography. To date we've treated more than 22,000 patients and we will continue to expand our service locations throughout the US."
About Discovery Behavioral Health
Everyone deserves a happy, rewarding life. That's why Discovery Behavioral Health has made evidence-based, outcome driven healthcare accessible and affordable since inception. With a full continuum of care – detoxification, medical residences, residential treatment centers, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, outpatient, psychiatric and addiction medicine, TMS, virtual and telehealth services, we can offer the right care at the right time for adults or teens struggling with mental health, substance use or eating disorders. We are a contracted provider with 100 payers and other managed care organizations. Our portfolio of more than 130 treatment centers includes service lines in successful operation since 1985. When treatment is complete, our patients become part of Discovery's growing family of alumni, connected through free aftercare programs, support groups, activities, and a caring community. Because when quality behavioral healthcare is within reach, so is happiness.
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Arizona Democrats sue to keep ‘No Labels’ candidates off ballots
By Eric Bradner, CNN
The Arizona Democratic Party said Thursday it is suing to keep the business-friendly centrist group “No Labels” from being recognized as a political party with the ability to place candidates on the state’s ballot.
The lawsuit is an effort to keep a third-party candidate from playing a spoiler role in 2024, when Arizona — where President Joe Biden edged former President Donald Trump out by just 10,000 votes in 2020 — is poised to be a critical presidential swing state.
Democrats have also fretted that independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who left the Democratic Party last year, could also seek reelection on the “No Labels” party line, reducing the number of signatures she would need to qualify for the ballot.
The Arizona Democratic Party said it filed a complaint in Maricopa County court against Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat who earlier this month recognized the No Labels Party — granting it the ability to place candidates on primary and general election ballots — after saying the group had met the minimum signature requirement. Fontes’ office on Thursday did not respond to a request for comment.
No Labels is registered as a non-profit and does not disclose its donors — which the state party argued means it does not meet the requirements for a political party, including disclosing donors, registering with the Federal Election Commission and following contribution limits.
“No Labels is not following the rules for political party recognition, while attempting to be placed on the ballot alongside actual, functioning political parties who do,” Arizona Democratic Party executive director Morgan Dick said in a statement.
No Labels chief strategist Ryan Clancy shot back that the state party’s actions are hypocritical.
“This undemocratic and unscrupulous lawsuit is a disgrace,” he said in a statement posted on No Labels’ Twitter account. “Next time you hear this crowd talking about protecting democracy, remember what they are really doing is protecting their turf.”
The group added on Twitter: “Trying to silence the voters of Arizona is immoral and blatantly un-American.”
The Arizona Democrats’ move comes amid concerns that a No Labels candidate could siphon more votes away from Biden’s expected reelection bid in 2024 than it would from the Republican nominee. Already, No Labels has qualified for ballot access in Arizona, Colorado and Oregon, and the group is seeking spots on the ballot in several other key swing states.
The centrist group Third Way said in a memo earlier this month that No Label’s hopes of winning in 2024 are “an illusion.”
“No Labels is committed to fielding a candidate that will, intentionally or not, provide a crucial boost to Republicans — and a major obstacle to Biden,” the Third Way memo said. “As a result, they’ll make it far more likely — if not certain — that Donald Trump returns to the White House.”
No Labels communications deputy Maryanne Martini, in a fundraising email this week, described the group’s actions as an “insurance policy” for 2024.
“We’ve run the numbers with polling and modeling in all 50 states, and our latest numbers show an independent could win outright in the Electoral College, and that they would draw votes equally from both sides,” Martini said. “This is why we’re collecting signatures, recruiting volunteers, and laying the groundwork for an independent ticket IF, and ONLY IF, both parties put up unappealing candidates for the next presidential election.”
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
5-7-3-0
(five, seven, three, zero)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
5-7-3-0
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Oath Keepers jury hears about massive weapon cache on Jan. 6
(AP) - WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the Oath Keepers who traveled to Washington before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol testified Wednesday about a massive cache of weapons the far-right extremist group stashed in a Virginia hotel room.
Taking the stand in the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates, Terry Cummings showed jurors an AR-15 firearm and an orange box for ammunition that he contributed to the so-called quick reaction force the Oath Keepers had staged at the hotel outside of Washington in case they needed weapons.
“I had not seen that many weapons in one location since I was in the military,” said Cummings, a veteran who joined the Oath Keepers in Florida in 2020.
Prosecutors have said teams of Oath Keepers guarded the arsenal of firearms and were prepared to rush them into the hands of extremists in the capital if needed.
The alleged teams and the cache of weapons are a central piece of the Department of Justice’s case against Rhodes and four associates charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack. Members of the Oath Keepers stashed the firearms just outside Washington district limits, given the capitol’s tougher gun laws.
Authorities have alleged the teams and the stockpile of arms were designed to get weapons into Oath Keepers’ hands quickly if they were needed to support a plot to stop the transfer of power from Republican Donald Trump to Democrat Joe Biden.
Cummings’ testimony came in the second week of the trial that is expected to last several weeks. The others on trial are Thomas Caldwell of Berryville, Virginia; Kenneth Harrelson of Titusville, Florida; Jessica Watkins of Woodstock, Ohio; and Kelly Meggs of Dunnellon, Florida.
Defense lawyers have not denied the existence of the quick reaction teams but noted that they were never deployed on Jan. 6. They have accused prosecutors of falsely portraying them as an invasion force.
Defense lawyers have said the Oath Keepers often set up quick reaction forces for events, but insist they were defensive forces only to be used to protect against violence from antifa activists or in the event Trump invoked the Insurrection Act. They are not facing any gun charges for bringing the weapons to Virginia.
Rhodes’ lawyers have said they will argue that cannot find him guilty of seditious conspiracy because all the actions he took before Jan. 6 were in preparation for orders he anticipated from Trump under the Insurrection Act, which gives presidents wide discretion to decide when military force is necessary.
Cummings told jurors that he traveled to Washington on Jan. 6 with other Oath Keepers to be part of a VIP security detail for Trump’s rally at the Ellipse. He said he saw it as an opportunity to “express my First Amendment rights” and see a sitting president speak, which he had never done.
Cummings said his understanding was the quick reaction forces “would potentially be used not as an offensive situation, but more as a show of force.”
Cummings said he was part of a group that acted as a security team for a VIP at Trump’s rally before the riot. Cummings and other Oath Keepers left before Trump’s speech was finished and went toward the Capitol.
He recalled Meggs talked about entering the Capitol – something Cummings didn’t think was a good idea. He then split off to find a bathroom, and when he returned the group was gone. The group entered the Capitol while he was away, he said. Up to an hour later, Cummings rejoined fellow Oath Keepers from Florida, and eventually Rhodes appeared as well.
Cummings said he did not hear any talk about plans to storm or attack the Capitol, though he also said he wasn’t in a position of leadership. He has not faced criminal charges, was subpoenaed to testify for the government and acknowledged on the stand that he has contributed to the legal defense fund of some of the defendants.
Authorities have said that Meggs and the Florida Oath Keepers on Jan. 5 brought gun boxes, rifle cases and suitcases filled with ammunition to the Virginia hotel that served as the home for the quick reaction force. Another team from Arizona brought weapons, ammunition, and supplies to last 30 days, according to court papers. A team from North Carolina had rifles in a vehicle parked in the hotel lot, prosecutors have said.
Prosecutors have described surveillance footage that they say shows Oath Keepers rolling bags, large bins and what appears to be at least one rifle case into the hotel.
Over several days in early January, Rhodes spent $15,500 on guns, including an AR-platform rifle, magazines, mounts, sights and other equipment, prosecutors have said. Caldwell, in one message, suggested getting a boat to ferry “heavy weapons” across the Potomac River into the Oath Keepers’ “waiting arms.”
A former Oath Keeper from North Carolina last week described setting up a quick reaction force for the “Million MAGA March” in Washington on Nov. 14, 2020, in case Trump invoked the Insurrection Act. Thousands of Trump supporters that day gathered at Freedom Plaza along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington to rally behind Trump’s false election claims.
The former Oath Keeper, John Zimmerman, told jurors that the Oath Keepers stashed at least a dozen rifles and several handguns in his van parked at Arlington National Cemetery to serve as the quick reaction force on that occasion. He said they never took the guns into Washington.
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SEATTLE, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
SUMMARY NOTICE OF (I) PENDENCY OF CLASS ACTION AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT; (II) SETTLEMENT HEARING; AND (III) MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS' FEES AND LITIGATION EXPENSES
TO: All persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired The Kraft Heinz Company ("Kraft Heinz") common stock or call options on Kraft Heinz common stock, or sold put options on Kraft Heinz common stock, from November 6, 2015 through August 7, 2019, inclusive ("Class Period"), and were damaged thereby ("Settlement Class"):
PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY; YOUR RIGHTS WILL BE AFFECTED BY A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT PENDING IN THIS COURT.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and an Order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ("Court"), that the above-captioned action ("Action") has been provisionally certified as a class action for purposes of settlement, except for certain persons and entities who are excluded from the Settlement Class by definition as set forth in the Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement dated May 2, 2023 ("Stipulation") and the detailed Notice of (I) Pendency of Class Action and Proposed Settlement; (II) Settlement Hearing; and (III) Motion for Attorneys' Fees and Litigation Expenses ("Notice"). The Stipulation and Notice can be viewed at www.KraftHeinzSecuritiesLitigation.com.
YOU ARE ALSO NOTIFIED that Court-appointed Lead Plaintiffs Sjunde AP-Fonden and Union Asset Management Holding AG and additional named Plaintiff Booker Enterprises Pty Ltd. (collectively "Plaintiffs"), and defendants Kraft Heinz, Bernardo Hees, Paulo Basilio, David Knopf, Alexandre Behring, George Zoghbi, Rafael Oliveira, and 3G Capital Partners and its affiliates, including the following affiliated funds and business entities: 3G Capital, Inc. (a Delaware corporation) and the Cayman Islands entities 3G Global Food Holdings, L.P., 3G Global Food Holdings GP LP, 3G Capital Partners LP, 3G Capital Partners II LP, and 3G Capital Partners Ltd (collectively, "Defendants") have reached a proposed settlement of the Action on behalf of the Settlement Class for $450,000,000 in cash ("Settlement"). If approved by the Court, the Settlement will resolve all claims in the Action.
A hearing ("Settlement Hearing") will be held on September 12, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. Central Time, before the Honorable Jorge L. Alonso, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, in Courtroom 1903 of the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60604, to determine, among other things: (i) whether, for purposes of settlement, the Action should be certified as a class action on behalf of the Settlement Class, Plaintiffs should be appointed as class representatives for the Settlement Class, and Lead Counsel should be appointed as class counsel for the Settlement Class; (ii) whether the Settlement on the terms and conditions provided for in the Stipulation is fair, reasonable, and adequate to the Settlement Class, and should be finally approved by the Court; (iii) whether the Action should be dismissed with prejudice against Defendants and the releases specified and described in the Stipulation (and in the Notice) should be granted; and (iv) whether Lead Counsel's motion for attorneys' fees in the amount of 20% of the Settlement Fund and payment of expenses in an amount not to exceed $3.2 million (which amount may include a request for reimbursement of the reasonable costs and expenses incurred by Plaintiffs directly related to their representation of the Settlement Class) should be approved. Any updates regarding the Settlement Hearing, including any changes to the date or time of the hearing or updates regarding in-person or remote appearances at the hearing, will be posted to the website for the Settlement, www.KraftHeinzSecuritiesLitigation.com.
If you are a member of the Settlement Class, your rights will be affected by the pending Action and the Settlement, and you may be entitled to share in the Settlement Fund. This notice provides only a summary of the information contained in the detailed Notice. You may obtain a copy of the Notice, along with the Claim Form, on the website for the Settlement, www.KraftHeinzSecuritiesLitigation.com. You may also obtain a copy of the Notice and Claim Form by contacting the Claims Administrator by mail at Kraft Heinz Securities Litigation, c/o JND Legal Administration, P.O. Box 91207, Seattle, WA 98111; by calling toll free 1-844-798-0760; or by sending an email to info@KraftHeinzSecuritiesLitigation.com. Copies of the Notice and Claim Form can also be found on Lead Counsel's websites www.ktmc.com and www.blbglaw.com.
If you are a Settlement Class Member, in order to be eligible to receive a payment from the proposed Settlement, you must submit a Claim Form postmarked (if mailed), or online via www.KraftHeinzSecuritiesLitigation.com, no later than October 10, 2023, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Claim Form. If you are a Settlement Class Member and do not submit a proper Claim Form, you will not be eligible to share in the distribution of the net proceeds of the Settlement, but you will nevertheless be bound by any releases, judgments, or orders entered by the Court in the Action.
If you are a member of the Settlement Class and wish to exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you must submit a request for exclusion such that it is received no later than August 22, 2023, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Notice. If you properly exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you will not be bound by any releases, judgments, or orders entered by the Court in the Action and you will not receive any benefits from the Settlement.
Any objections to the proposed Settlement, the proposed Plan of Allocation, and/or Lead Counsel's motion for attorneys' fees and Litigation Expenses must be filed with the Court and delivered to Lead Counsel and Defendants' Counsel such that they are received no later than August 22, 2023, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Notice.
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT, THE CLERK'S OFFICE, DEFENDANTS, OR DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL REGARDING THIS NOTICE. All questions about this notice, the Settlement, or your eligibility to participate in the Settlement should be directed to Lead Counsel or the Claims Administrator.
Requests for the Notice and Claim Form should be made to the Claims Administrator:
Kraft Heinz Securities Litigation
c/o JND Legal Administration
P.O. Box 91207
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1-844-798-0760
info@KraftHeinzSecuritiesLitigation.com
www.KraftHeinzSecuritiesLitigation.com
All other inquiries should be made to Lead Counsel:
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP
Sharan Nirmul, Esq.
Richard A. Russo, Jr., Esq.
Joshua A. Materese, Esq.
280 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087
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Jennifer L. Joost, Esq.
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San Francisco, CA 94104
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BERNSTEIN LITOWITZ BERGER & GROSSMANN LLP
Katherine M. Sinderson, Esq.
Salvatore J. Graziano, Esq.
Jesse L. Jensen, Esq.
1251 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
1-800-380-8496
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 18, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service New York NY
932 AM EDT Mon Jul 18 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 AM EDT THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Portions of southern Connecticut and southeast New York,
including the following counties, in southern Connecticut,
Fairfield. In southeast New York, Westchester.
* WHEN...Until 1130 AM EDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways. Overflowing poor drainage areas. Ponding of
water in urban or other areas is occurring or is imminent.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 932 AM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 0.5 and 1 inch of rain
has fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1 inch are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Stamford, New Canaan, Mount Kisco, Ridgefield, Wilton and
Bedford.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Democrats defied expectations up and down the ballot in 2022 despite facing historic headwinds and other challenges going into the midterms.
Throughout the year, Democrats braced for losses as Republicans worked to tie the party’s candidates over a plethora of issues including rising inflation, crime and the flow of migrants over the southern border. President Biden was also seen as a liability for Democrats as he suffered low approval ratings.
However, Democrats were able to grow their majority in the Senate, retain and win a number of gubernatorial and state-level races, and temper their losses in the House.
While Republicans are blaming the GOP’s losses on former President Trump and poor GOP candidates, many Democrats argue that their candidates’ wins came down to their party’s messaging.
On Wednesday morning, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) credited the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and the House Jan. 6 Committee hearings as factors in his party expanding its majority this election.
“In May and June, the public began to realize how far right these MAGA Republicans had gone. The Dobbs decision was the crystallization of that, of course, when people said, ‘Wow these MAGA Republicans are serious about turning the clock all the way back,’ ” Schumer told reporters.
Democratic strategists and operatives agree that abortion access and the Supreme Court striking down the federal right to an abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization played a pivotal role in turning the tide for the party, despite skepticism that either issue would trump concerns about rising inflation.
“A huge part of the Democratic message that I think sunk in, that worked so well also because it was the reality that Americans were facing, is that abortion rights is an economic issue,” said Christina Polizzi, communications director at the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.
“You are not fully in control of your financial future if you cannot decide when to start a family, how to start a family, how to expand your family. All of those things matter to your finances,” she added.
And exit polling shows that abortion proved to be a top priority for voters in a number of competitive races. Twenty-seven percent of voters said that abortion was the most important issue in deciding their vote, only behind inflation at 31 percent.
Meanwhile, voters in California, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana and Vermont weighed on abortion ballot measures in their states and the abortion rights side came out victorious.
“Not only did Dobbs play a role but the Republican response to Dobbs when they introduced things like a national abortion ban [and] when these states moved quickly to try to limit peoples’ reproductive freedoms,” Antjuan Seawright, Democratic strategist and senior adviser to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said. “I think that that collectively made a heck of a difference, and it gave us a unique constituency that made up a unique coalition to give us the chance of a 50-50 jump ball.”
Additionally, Democrats say they delivered on financial relief for voters through legislation passed by lawmakers in state legislatures and in Congress, including the Inflation Reduction Act and COVID-19 stimulus measures.
“Republicans were screaming their heads off about these issues but they weren’t actually offering any solutions,” Polizzi said.
In competitive governor’s races, Democrats point to incumbent governors like Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) as taking the economy and inflation head-on in their messaging.
“A lot of our incumbents were successful because they were able to communicate that they understand the tough economic times that families were facing and that they were actually doing things about it,” said Noam Lee, executive director at the Democratic Governors Association.
Seawright echoed this sentiment.
“The Republicans had no ability to be able to define us from a policy perspective because every single legislative item that has passed the House and the Senate, signed into law by the president, has had bipartisan applause and approval all across the country,” he said.
Democrats have also touted what they say was their high candidate quality and the GOP’s poor candidate quality, pointing to Trump-backed candidates like Senate candidates Herschel Walker and Mehmet Oz and gubernatorial candidates Doug Mastriano and Kari Lake.
“The American people rejected the right-wing, MAGA, election-denying extremists who now have a large say so and chemically make up the Republican Party,” Seawright said.
But Democrats push back on the notion that their candidates performed better than expected due to Republicans running bad candidates, noting that it’s the Republican base that elects these candidates in the primaries in the first place.
“It is right to ask that question but essentially it’s sort of almost a moot point because Republicans cannot get themselves out of this cycle where they are running more extreme candidates because it’s the way they’ve allowed their party to drift,” Polizzi said.
From a logistical standpoint, Democrats say a lot of credit is due to early investments in the campaigns. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee put more money into its ground game than it did into television and other media. The DCCC launched seven-figure advertising investments to galvanize Latino and AAPI voters and rolled out its earliest-ever radio and print outreach campaign to Black voters.
“There was a real concentration not just on registration but on engagement, motivation, and then in the end participation,” Seawright said.
Polizzi called for further investment for Democrats in state legislature races.
“We can win big at the state legislative level of the ballot and we need investments that allow us to do that,” she said. “I think Democrats have a tendency to look at state legislatures and think oh well this problem is really big and it’s really hard, so let’s just focus on federal power. But I think what this election showed is that if you hone in on state legislature chambers, you can win them.”
Still, some of the Democrats’ biggest victories were won by relatively narrow margins. Incumbent Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) defeated Walker by just under 3 points, while incumbent Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D) defeated Republican Adam Laxalt by roughly 1 point.
While Democrats are taking a moment to celebrate their victories after a contentious midterm cycle, the party will still face tough contests going into 2023 and 2024.
“Voters do not want extreme elected officials, they want elected officials that are going to focus on the issues that matter to them,” Polizzi said. “Democrats need to continue focusing on those issues [and] talk about our policies because the reality is when we run on what Democrats actually want to do, we win.” | https://cw33.com/news/how-democrats-won-the-midterms/ | 2022-12-08 16:24:52 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/how-democrats-won-the-midterms/ |
ARMINGTON — Royce and Mary Gottschalk of Armington will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with a family dinner.
Royce and Mary Lay were married on Dec. 16, 1962 at Christ Lutheran Church in Normal, IL.
Royce and Mary are the parents of Kristy (Brad), McLean; Robin (Mike), Deer Creek; and Tim (Holly), Armington. They have seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
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BALTIMORE, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Urological Association (AUA) and the Urology Care Foundation—the official foundation of the AUA—announced today Ryan K. Flannigan, MD, as the latest recipient of the Rising Stars in Urology Research Award. Dr. Flannigan is an assistant professor in the Department of Urological Sciences at the University of British Columbia.
Over the last 15+ years, the Rising Stars in Urology Research Award program has encouraged urologists to contribute to their field as both surgical specialists and scientists investigating causes, prevention, treatment, and cures that will improve patients' lives. The award program offers up to five years of supplemental salary support to urologists who have successfully competed for career development awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other major funding organizations.
"Each year the research presented for the Rising Stars in Urology Research Award is more and more extraordinary and groundbreaking; this year is no different," said Steven Kaplan, MD, chair of the AUA Research Council. "Dr. Flannigan's research can change the lives of so many and we are eager to see how it will evolve."
Dr. Flannigan aims to establish a regenerative therapy platform to grow sperm from a patient's stem cells in a laboratory setting by leveraging computational modelling and 3D bioprinting in pursuit of a regenerative therapeutic approach for male infertility. His project proposes to utilize state-of-the-art single cell sequencing and associated computational technologies to reveal molecules that are key regulators of developing sperm from stem cells. Since the production of sperm from a stem cell involves several stages of changes to the cell, his lab has uniquely segmented this process into well described stages, so that each stage can be studied independently and precisely. Stage-specific findings will then be screened with small molecules and growth factors to identify the most critical molecules that promote stem cells to mature into sperm. Lab-grown patient testis cells will be 3D bio printed into tubular structures like those found within the human testis that naturally coordinate sperm production. Results from this study will contribute to developing the understanding and technology to regenerate sperm for males lacking any ability to father biological children. This technology is particularly salient considering the pervasiveness of infertility in prepubertal men surviving cancer treatment and among 15% of couples globally, with male factors contributing to 50% of infertility cases.
"Dr Flannigan's innovative research brings together different advanced technologies to address previously unsolvable issues. Efforts like his represent an exciting frontier paramount in the efforts of many to helping change the lives of others," said Dr. Nagler, Urology Care Foundation Board President. "Each year I stand in awe of the work of our rising stars."
Dr. Flannigan earned his MD at University of Calgary, completed his urology residency at University of British Columbia, and completed a male reproduction and sexual medicine fellowship at the Weill Cornell School of Medicine. He is mentored by Martin Gleave, MD, PhEd; Peter Schlegel, MD; Dolores Lamb, PhD and Amina Soubeidi, PhD.
For more information on the Rising Stars in Urology Research Award, visit: https://www.auanet.org/research-and-data/research-awards/aua-funding/rising-stars-in-urology-research-awards
About the American Urological Association: Founded in 1902 and headquartered near Baltimore, Maryland, the American Urological Association is a leading advocate for the specialty of urology and has more than 23,000 members throughout the world. The AUA is a premier urologic association, providing invaluable support to the urologic community as it pursues its mission of fostering the highest standards of urologic care through education, research and the formulation of health policy.
About the Urology Care Foundation: The Urology Care Foundation is the world's leading nonprofit urological health foundation, and the official foundation of the American Urological Association. Partnering with physicians, researchers, healthcare professionals, patients, caregivers, families and the public, the Foundation supports and improves urologic clinical care by funding research, developing patient education and pursuing philanthropic support. To learn more about the Urology Care Foundation and its programs visit: www.urologyhealth.org.
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Police: 5 people killed in shooting at home north of Houston
Published: Apr. 29, 2023 at 5:03 AM MDT|Updated: 29 minutes ago
CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — Five people were killed in a shooting at a home in southeast Texas late Friday night, authorities said.
Four people were pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting in Cleveland and the fifth died at a hospital, the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office said early Saturday.
The shooting in the community about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northeast of Houston was reported around 10:30 p.m.
No further details about the shooting or the victims were immediately available.
A rifle was used in the shooting and no arrests have been made, ABC News reported.
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PIDIE, Indonesia (AP) — A United Nations agency is seeking information about the voyage of over 100 Rohingya Muslim refugees who landed on an Indonesian beach this week, and warned Tuesday that there will likely be more.
A distressing video circulated widely in social media showed the dehydrated and exhausted Rohingya, crumpled weakly and emaciated, many crying for help.
At least 185 men, women and children disembarked from a rickety wooden boat Monday at dusk on Ujong Pie beach at Muara Tiga, a coastal village in Aceh’s Pidie district, said local police chief Fauzi, who goes by a single name.
“They are very weak because of dehydration and exhaustion after weeks at sea,” Fauzi said.
Muhammad Rafki Syukri, the Protection Associate at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said the agency would provide Rohingya language translators and counseling to determine if they were from the group of 190 Rohingya who were reported by the U.N. to be drifting in a small boat in the Andaman Sea for a month.
“With prolonged conflict and insecure situations in their country of origin, it is possible that the movement of refugees to find safe places will continue to grow,” he said.
Chris Lewa, the director of the Arakan Project, which works in support of Myanmar’s Rohingya, confirmed Tuesday that the boat that landed Monday on Ujong Pie beach was from the group of 190 Rohingya.
But Syukri said the UNHCR could not verify that information and was still coordinating with governments in the region.
“But we will continue to search for further information to ensure the actual data,” Syukri told reporters Tuesday while visiting the Rohingya refugees at a school that was closed for the holiday season in Muara Tiga village.
Lewa told AP by email that the arrivals were among five groups of Rohingya refugees that had left Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh in late November by smaller boats to avoid detection by local coast guards before they were transferred onto five larger boats for their respective journeys.
The fourth and fifth boats “finally landed in northern part of Aceh, Indonesia, early Sunday and late afternoon on Monday,” Lewa said, after weeks of her organization pleading with south and southeast Asian countries to help.
One of the refugees who spoke some Malay and identified himself as Rosyid, told The Associated Press that they left a camp in Bangladesh at the end of November and drifted on the open sea. He said at least “20 of us died aboard due to high waves and sick, and their bodies were thrown into the sea.”
Myanmar security forces have been accused of mass rapes, killings and burning of thousands of homes belonging to Rohingya, sending them fleeing to Bangladesh and onward.
Malaysia has been a common destination for many of the refugees arriving by boat, but they also have been detained in the country.
Although neighboring Indonesia is not a signatory to the United Nations’ 1951 Refugee Convention, the UNHCR said that a 2016 presidential regulation provides a legal framework governing the treatment of refugees on boats in distress near Indonesia and helps them disembark.
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(KTLA) – One avid Disney fan has completed the ultimate Disney parks challenge by visiting all 12 Disney theme parks worldwide in just 12 days.
Nathan Firesheets started his journey, known as The Disney Global Ride Challenge, on March 8. He documented it on Twitter as he stopped at all of Disney’s locations worldwide:
- Disneyland Paris
- Walt Disney Studios
- Shanghai Disneyland
- Hong Kong Disneyland
- Tokyo Disneyland
- Tokyo DisneySea
- Disneyland
- Disney California Adventure
- Epcot
- Animal Kingdom
- Hollywood Studios
- Magic Kingdom
Firesheets started the challenge at Disneyland Paris and finished his two-week adventure at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World on Sunday. Firesheets says he rode more than 200 rides at the 12 theme parks during his global tour.
In each location, he would post a photo of himself in front of notable attractions and landmarks.
“It was pretty awesome and kind of surreal,” Firesheets told KTLA. “I still can’t quite believe I did it.”
Firesheets, who didn’t disclose how much this expedition cost him, told KTLA that traveling to the Disney parks worldwide costs a “fraction” of what the company plans to charge customers for its luxury private jet tour of Disney theme parks worldwide.
According to Adventures by Disney, that tour “spans 24 days and covers 6 countries that includes all 12 uniquely magical Disney theme parks worldwide, as well as 3 iconic landmarks: the Taj Mahal, Pyramids of Giza and Eiffel Tower.” It also costs $109,995.
Firesheets isn’t the only Disney fan to recently make headlines for visiting theme parks.
In February, Jeff Reitz was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for visiting Disneyland for a record 2,995 days in a row. The Huntington Beach, California, resident visited the parks daily from 2012 until 2020 when the Disneyland Resort shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/disney-fan-visits-all-12-disney-theme-parks-in-12-days-rides-over-200-attractions/ | 2023-03-21 19:16:01 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/disney-fan-visits-all-12-disney-theme-parks-in-12-days-rides-over-200-attractions/ |
CHICAGO, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UScellular customers can now preorder the Google Pixel 7 Pro and Pixel 7 online or in stores. The new devices will be available Oct. 13. For a limited time, new and qualifying current customers can get the Google Pixel 7 Pro and Pixel 7 for free*. The smartphones join the company's 5G device portfolio and its family of Google products that include smartphones, and a variety of Google Nest smart home products.
Google's best-of-everything Pixel 7 Pro and Pixel 7 are powered by Google Tensor G2, making them fast and secure while still maintaining an amazing battery life. In addition to enhanced security and longevity, users will also enjoy:
- Everything a Battery Should Be: Pixel's Adaptive Battery can last over 24 hours. 1 Turn on Extreme Battery Saver, and the battery can last up to 72 hours.1 And your Pixel charges super-fast.2
- A Dream Display: The Pixel 7 display is super sharp, with rich and vivid colors. The screen is fast and responsive for smoother gaming, scrolling, and moving between apps.3 The Pixel 7 Pro's 6.7-inch Smooth Display makes everything stunning and immersive, and it intelligently adjusts up to 120Hz for a smoother, more responsive performance.4
- An All-Around Advanced Camera: The Pixel 7 camera takes incredible photos and videos in stunning color and detail. And with Cinematic Blur, you can now bring cinematic quality to your videos. Meanwhile, the Pixel 7 Pro triple rear camera system includes a 5x telephoto lens and the upgraded ultrawide lens with autofocus now powers Macro Focus which uses the smallest of details to make magnificent shots.
- Extra Protection Online: Coming soon a VPN by Google One built in, the Pixel helps protect your online activity no matter what app or web browser you use.5
"We are proud to add powerful and cutting-edge smartphones like the Google Pixel 7 Pro and Pixel 7 to our portfolio of Google offerings at UScellular. Google devices are all about innovation and we are delighted to offer them to our customers," said Eric Jagher, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for UScellular. "Along with the latest Google products, UScellular customers will also be able to enjoy the combination of our expanding 5G network and commitment to price protect their plans through 2023."
For information about UScellular's customizable Unlimited plans, please go to uscellular.com/plans.
* Offer available in participating markets only, see UScellular.com for eligibility. Requires smartphone purchase via 36-month installment contract, eligible postpaid service plan, and paperless billing. Paid via 36 monthly bill credits. Credit varies. Trade-in may be required. Taxes, fees and additional terms apply.
1 For "over 24 hours": Estimated battery life based on testing using a median Pixel user battery usage profile across a mix of talk, data, standby, and use of other features. Average battery life during testing was approximately 31 hours. Battery testing conducted on a major carrier network. For "Up to 72 hours": Estimated battery life based on testing using a median Pixel user battery usage profile across a mix of talk, data, standby, and use of limited other features that are default in Extreme Battery Saver mode (which disables various features including 5G connectivity). Battery testing conducted on a major carrier network. For both claims: Battery testing conducted in California in mid 2022 on pre-production hardware and software using default settings, except that, for the "up to 72 hours" claim only, Extreme Battery Saver mode was enabled. Battery life depends upon many factors and usage of certain features will decrease battery life. Actual battery life may be lower.
2 Fast wired charging rates (up to 20 watts on Pixel 7 and up to 23 W on Pixel 7 Pro) are based upon use of the Google 30W USB-C® Charger plugged into a wall outlet. Actual results may be slower. Adapters sold separately.
3 Based on use of Smooth Display (not available for all apps or content).
4 Smooth Display is not available for all apps or content.
5 Coming soon. Restrictions apply. Some data is not transmitted through VPN. Not available in all countries. All other Google One membership benefits sold separately. Use of VPN may increase data costs depending on your plan. See g.co/pixel/vpn for details.
UScellular is the fourth-largest full-service wireless carrier in the United States, providing national network coverage and industry-leading innovations designed to help customers stay connected to the things that matter most. The Chicago-based carrier provides a strong, reliable network supported by the latest technology and offers a wide range of communication services that enhance consumers' lives, increase the competitiveness of local businesses and improve the efficiency of government operations. Through its After School Access Project, the company has pledged to provide hotspots and service to help up to 50,000 youth connect to reliable internet. Additionally, UScellular has price protected all of its plans, promising not to increase prices through at least the end of 2023. To learn more about UScellular, visit one of its retail stores or www.uscellular.com. To get the latest news, visit newsroom.uscellular.com.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Easy 5" game were:
07-08-12-18-20
(seven, eight, twelve, eighteen, twenty)
Estimated jackpot: $90,000
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Easy 5" game were:
07-08-12-18-20
(seven, eight, twelve, eighteen, twenty)
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This is the first of many VIP events for Azazie
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Azazie, the leading direct-to-consumer bridal and special occasion dress brand, hosted their first-ever VIP Influencer and celebrity event in Los Angeles on Saturday, December 17 at the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl, an annual college football game at Sofi Stadium. Azazie hosted a suite for college celebrity fashionistas and influencers decked out in Azazie apparel showing you can still be glam on game day.
Guests included Nickelodeon star and USC student, Kyla Drew, who wore Azazie's Clue in To Chic Black Two- Piece Blazer Set ($52) and fellow Trojan and Disney star Nina Lu, who styled Azazie's Wondrous Romance Brown Long Sleeve Midi Dress ($39).
This is the first of many future VIP events that Azazie will be hosting. Follow Azazie on Instagram to see photos from their exclusive events.
About Azazie
The leading DTC e-tailer for bridal gowns, bridesmaid dresses and accessories, Azazie offers direct-to-consumer, high-quality, gowns at affordable prices. Based in the tech capital of Silicon Valley, Azazie is disrupting the traditional bridal industry while garnering high ratings from customers and review sites alike. With 200+ bridal gowns and 400+ bridal party dresses in over 80 colors, Azazie is committed to body-positive fashion, offering all dresses from size 0-30, cut and sewn to order like expensive bespoke designs. Azazie has appeared on The Today Show, CNBC and other top media outlets and won the Glossy Beauty and Fashion Award for the Best E-Commerce Experience in addition to being recognized as one of Newsweek's Fastest Growing Online Shops in 2022. Visit the website at www.azazie.com.
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Primary takeaways from Aug. 23: Abortion politics, DeSantis rival emerges
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis learned who his Democratic challenger will be this fall. The impact of redistricting was on full display. Democrats sorted through rivalries amongst themselves. And abortion may give Democrats a lifeline in an otherwise rough November.
The most intense stretch of the midterm primary season ended Tuesday with results that will set up fierce general election contests across the United States.
Takeaways from Tuesday's contests in Florida and New York:
ABORTION WILD CARD
Midterm elections are usually miserable for the party in power. But Democrats hope one of their biggest losses in memory may ultimately salvage 2022 for them.
Ever since the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the constitutional right for a woman to obtain an abortion, Democrats have seen a boost in donations, polling and performance in special elections for open congressional seats. The latest came Tuesday in a Hudson Valley swing district that, in a Republican wave year, should have been an easy GOP win. Instead, Democratic Ulster County executive Pat Ryan defeated his Republican counterpart from Duchess County, Marc Molinaro.
The stakes, governing-wise, were small — the seat will disappear in the fall as a new congressional map goes into effect. But because the race became a referendum on abortion after the high court's ruling, the political implications are huge. It comes after a ballot measure to ban the procedure was crushed in solidly conservative Kansas.
Republicans were anticipating a typical midterm landslide, with inflation high and President Joe Biden's approval rating low. It may still end up a solid GOP year, but Ryan's win is the latest indication that Democrats don't have to abandon hope.
DESANTIS FLEXES HIS MUSCLES
One Florida politician wasn't facing a primary challenge on Tuesday but made sure to dominate the news anyway — DeSantis.
DeSantis is considered former President Donald Trump's top rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, partly due to the way he's leaned into political and cultural divides in the Sunshine State. On Tuesday, he demonstrated why.
The governor began the day with a Cabinet meeting, which included the only Democrat elected statewide in Florida, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried. She was competing for her party's nomination to face DeSantis that evening.
DeSantis shook Fried's hand as the meeting concluded and told her "good luck" before criticizing her campaign and predicting — accurately, it turned out — her loss in brief remarks to reporters.
"I think that you know she had an opportunity as being the only Democrat elected statewide to exercise some leadership and maybe get some things done and instead she's used her time to try and smear me on a daily basis, that's all she does," DeSantis said of Fried.
After polls closed in the evening, DeSantis grabbed the spotlight again, speaking to a crowd in Miami. "We're not going to let this state be overrun by woke ideology, we will fight the woke in the business, we will fight the woke in government agencies, we will fight the woke in our schools," DeSantis said. "We will never, ever surrender to the woke agenda. Florida is the state where woke goes to die."
Expect to hear a lot more like that from DeSantis in the months — and possibly years — ahead.
GERRYMANDERING'S LONG SHADOW
Florida and New York, which held primary elections Tuesday, were two of the states whose legislative maps were most radically redrawn this year to favor one political party. It was part of a centuries-old political gambit known as gerrymandering.
But Tuesday night showed two different sides of gerrymandering. The New York map that Democrats redrew to ruthlessly target vulnerable Republicans got tossed out by the state's highest court as an illegal partisan act.
The Democratic-appointed court redrew the map to be more balanced, disregarding the political fortunes of some of New York's most prominent members of Congress and lumping several high-profile lawmakers in the same district in a push for equity. Ignoring scattered protests that its April ruling came too late in the process to change the map, the court moved the state's congressional primary to Tuesday, two months after its June primary for state offices.
That's why New York's Democratic primaries Tuesday were so fractious and chaotic.
In contrast, Florida's Republican-appointed State Supreme Court declined to change the partisan map that DeSantis pushed the Republican-controlled Florida legislature to approve. Unlike the New York court, the Florida court declined to mess with the map close to the election.
As a result, Florida's incumbent House members generally stayed put Tuesday night, not forced into any career-ending primary battles because of districts being moved. The great exception was Rep. Charlie Crist, who ran for — and won — the Democratic nomination for governor partly because DeSantis' map transformed his district into a solidly Republican one. The new map also effectively eliminated two seats, currently represented in Washington by Black Democrats, where African Americans comprise the largest share of voters.
Nationally, both parties tried to gerrymander during the past redistricting cycle, but Democrats were reined in slightly more than Republicans — largely due to Florida and New York. Florida's top court may change that in the coming years when it rules on challenges to DeSantis' maps.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering multiple cases that could change the ability of courts to redistrict gerrymanders. That may help determine whether we see more congressional primaries like New York's, or more like Florida's.
DEMOCRATIC DIVISIONS
It's been muted by the spectacle of Trump's makeover of the GOP, but Democrats also spent the primary season torn over the direction of their party.
Left-wing contenders continued to mount primary challenges to centrist Democrats. The left lost its most prominent bids to dislodge incumbent House members in south Texas and Cleveland. A new loss came Tuesday, when a liberal state assemblywoman was crushed by Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney in a congressional primary north of New York City.
But the left has won some victories this primary season, nabbing a nomination for a House seat in Pennsylvania and seeing one of its favorite politicians, that state's Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, win the party's nomination for Senate. On Tuesday, liberal New York state lawmaker Yuh-Line Niou, was in a neck-and-neck race with attorney Daniel Goldman, who helped run Trump's first impeachment, for a solidly Democratic seat centered in Brooklyn.
Neither side has been crushed, so expect more left-on-center primaries next election cycle.
TRUMP'S PARTY, WITH AN ASTERISK
Trump set out to demonstrate his dominance of the GOP this primary season, and he succeeded — to a point.
His approval helped set the party's Senate field and was pivotal in a number of hotly contested primaries. He claimed his biggest prize last week, when his chosen candidate beat Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming's Republican primary. On Tuesday, his chosen candidate, Air Force veteran and conservative activist Anna Luna, won her primary in an open GOP-leaning seat on Florida's Gulf Coast.
But Trump had some huge humiliations — especially when he tried to intervene in governor's races in Idaho, Nebraska and especially Georgia, where Trump failed to oust Gov. Brian Kemp for refusing to overturn the 2020 election in his state and award it to Trump.
Even more significantly, Trump elevated candidates who may not be able to win competitive races — or may even pose a threat to democracy itself. Last week, the GOP's Senate leader, Mitch McConnell, warned that his party may not win a Senate majority due to "candidate quality" among its nominees. They include Trump-backed candidates struggling in swing states, like Herschel Walker in Georgia, JD Vance in Ohio and Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania.
Others, like the GOP's nominees for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano, and Arizona governor, Kari Lake, have denied that Trump lost the 2020 election, raising questions about whether they'd certify the actual winners of future elections if they take over their statehouses.
Trump does not always have to intercede for extreme candidates who have mimicked his style to rise in Republican primaries. On Tuesday, Laura Loomer, a conservative provocateur who's been banned from several social media websites for posting anti-Muslim remarks, surprised many with a strong — albeit unsuccessful — showing in a primary challenge to 73-year-old Florida Rep. Daniel Webster.
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Today in History
Today is Monday, June 13, the 164th day of 2022. There are 201 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On June 13, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
On this date:
In 1865, Nobel Prize-winning poet-playwright William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland.
In 1942, a four-man Nazi sabotage team arrived on Long Island, New York, three days before a second four-man team landed in Florida. (All eight men were arrested after two members of the first group defected.) President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of Strategic Services and the Office of War Information.
In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional right to consult with an attorney and to remain silent.
In 1971, The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America’s involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967 that had been leaked to the paper by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg.
In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recaptured following his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison.
In 1981, a scare occurred during a parade in London when a teenager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
In 1983, the U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune.
In 1996, the 81-day-old Freemen standoff ended as 16 remaining members of the anti-government group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch.
In 1997, a jury voted unanimously to give Timothy McVeigh the death penalty for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. The Chicago Bulls captured their fifth NBA championship in seven years with a 90-86 victory over the Utah Jazz in game six.
In 2005, a jury in Santa Maria, California, acquitted Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.
In 2016, a day after the Orlando, Florida, nightclub shooting rampage that claimed 49 victims, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton offered drastically different proposals for stemming the threat of terrorism and gun violence; Trump focused heavily on the nation’s immigration system (even though the shooter was U.S. born) and redoubled his call for temporarily banning Muslims from the United States, while Clinton said that as president she would prioritize stopping “lone wolf” attackers and reiterated her call for banning assault weapons.
In 2020, Atlanta’s police chief resigned, hours after the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks; protests over the shooting grew turbulent, and the Wendy’s restaurant at the scene of the shooting was gutted by flames.
Ten years ago: Federal prosecutors dropped all charges against former Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards after his corruption trial ended the previous month in a deadlocked jury. Matt Cain pitched the 22nd perfect game in major league history and the first for the San Francisco Giants, beating the Houston Astros 10-0.
Five years ago: A comatose Otto Warmbier (WARM’-beer), released by North Korea after more than 17 months in captivity, arrived in Cincinnati aboard a medevac flight; the 22-year-old college student, who had suffered severe brain damage, died six days later. Rolling Stone magazine agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by a University of Virginia fraternity over a debunked story about a rape on campus.
One year ago: Israel’s parliament narrowly approved a new coalition government, ending the historic 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sending the polarizing leader into the opposition; Naftali Bennett, a former ally of Netanyahu, became prime minister after the 60-59 vote. Character actor Ned Beatty, whose films included “Deliverance,” “Network” and “Superman,” died at his Los Angeles home at 83. Novak Djokovic came all the way back after dropping the first two sets to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in the French Open final for his 19th Grand Slam title. A Pekingese named Wasabi won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club, notching a fifth-ever win for the toy breed. (Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the event was held outdoors in a New York suburb in June instead of at Madison Square Garden in February, and it was closed to the public.)
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Bob McGrath is 90. Actor Malcolm McDowell is 79. Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is 78. Singer Dennis Locorriere is 73. Actor Richard Thomas is 71. Actor Jonathan Hogan is 71. Actor Stellan Skarsgard is 71. Comedian Tim Allen is 69. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is 65. Actor Ally Sheedy is 60. TV anchor Hannah Storm is 60. Rock musician Paul De Lisle (deh-LYL’) (Smash Mouth) is 59. Actor Lisa Vidal is 57. Singer David Gray is 54. R&B singer Deniece Pearson (Five Star) is 54. Rock musician Soren Rasted (Aqua) is 53. Actor Jamie Walters is 53. Singer-musician Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) is 52. Country singer Susan Haynes is 50. Actor Steve-O is 48. Country singer Jason Michael Carroll is 44. Actor Ethan Embry is 44. Actor Chris Evans is 41. Actor Sarah Schaub is 39. Singer Raz B is 37. Actor Kat Dennings is 36. Actor Ashley Olsen is 36. Actor Mary-Kate Olsen is 36. DJ/producer Gesaffelstein is 35. Actor Aaron Johnson is 32. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Today-in-History-June-13-Johnson-nominates-17222209.php | 2022-06-13 04:50:42 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Today-in-History-June-13-Johnson-nominates-17222209.php |
The White House announced Tuesday it will host a second summit on democracy next year, following up on efforts to push back on authoritarianism and present a united front among democratic nations.
“As President Biden has said, we know democracy remains the best tool humankind has to unleash our collective potential and deliver our security and prosperity for all,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One. “That’s why he’s made strengthening democracy a cornerstone of both his domestic and international agenda.”
The second democracy summit will take place March 29 and March 30. Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Zambia and South Korea will act as co-hosts, Jean-Pierre said. Government leaders and private sector officials from many of the attending countries will take part in the summit.
Biden in December 2021 hosted the first Summit for Democracy, which focused on strengthening democracy, defending against authoritarianism, fighting corruption and promoting human rights.
The first summit led to more than 700 commitments intended to strengthen and safeguard democracy.
Biden has made protecting democracy a running theme of his time in the White House as well as his 2016 campaign. He has given multiple speeches warning against election deniers within the U.S. and pushing back against former President Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen and fraudulent. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/hill-politics/white-house-to-host-second-democracy-summit-next-march/ | 2022-11-29 22:24:34 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/hill-politics/white-house-to-host-second-democracy-summit-next-march/ |
Saints TE Foster Moreau says he’s in ‘full remission’ after cancer diagnosis
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Saints tight end Foster Moreau is in “full remission” after four months of treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, he announced Monday (July 3) in a tweet.
“After a few tumultuous months, I’ve been blessed with the news that I am in full remission from Hodgkin lymphoma,” Moreau wrote. “I’m so grateful to everyone who reached out to offer their love and support; our prayers were answered.”
After a few tumultuous months, I’ve been blessed with the news that I am in full remission from Hodgkin Lymphoma! I’m so grateful to everyone who reached out to offer their love and support; our prayers were answered. From here I will continue to live my life as God intended
— Foster Moreau (@fhmoreau) July 3, 2023
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Moreau, 26, received the Stage 2 diagnosis in March after Saints team physician Dr. John Amoss noticed an abnormality during a physical examination of the free agent who played the previous four seasons for the Las Vegas Raiders.
Two months later, the Saints signed the former Jesuit High and LSU player to a three-year contract worth a reported $12 million, including $8 million in guaranteed money.
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Scotland has become the first country in the world to provide period products, like tampons and sanitary pads, free of charge.
CNN reported that it was made possible after the Period Products Act was passed by Scottish lawmakers unanimously in November 2020.
According to Scottish Parliament's website, the new law states that schools, colleges, and universities must make a range of period products available for free in their bathrooms.
"The Scottish Government will have the power to make other public bodies provide period products for free," Parliament's website said.
The bill's author, Monica Lennon, said she introduced the bill to tackle "period poverty," when those in need of period products struggle to afford them.
“Proud of what we have achieved in Scotland,” Lennon said on Twitter. “We are the first but won’t be the last.”
Proud of what we have achieved in Scotland. We are the first but won’t be the last. 🏴🩸🙌#PeriodDignity #FreePeriodProducts #MenstrualJustice follow @Period_Poverty for updates. https://t.co/8bFTML3MkK
— Monica Lennon MSP (@MonicaLennon7) August 15, 2022
According to the Associated Press, the law went into effect on Monday. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/scotland-becomes-first-country-to-make-period-products-free-of-charge | 2022-08-16 16:42:40 | 0 | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/scotland-becomes-first-country-to-make-period-products-free-of-charge |
HUNT VALLEY, Md., Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- McCormick & Company, Incorporated (NYSE: MKC), a global leader in flavor, was recognized as one of America's Most JUST Companies by JUST Capital. The Company ranked No. 1 overall within the Food, Beverage & Tobacco industry and entered its first year in the JUST 100 coming in 57th overall out of 951 companies.
"McCormick is honored to be recognized as one of America's Most JUST Companies," said Lawrence E. Kurzius, Chairman and CEO of McCormick & Company. "This ranking demonstrates our continued commitment to doing what's right for people, communities where we live, work, and source, and the planet we all share. As an industry leader, we care about the issues impacting our stakeholders and we're actively working to help improve the world around us."
The JUST Capital rankings evaluate the 1,000 largest public U.S. companies across 20 issues identified through comprehensive, ongoing public opinion research on Americans' attitudes toward responsible corporate behavior. Each company is ranked based on its work to serve its employees, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders.
McCormick's progress toward its ambitious goals, which include emissions reduction targets to achieve 1.5oC as part of its long-term commitment to reaching Net Zero by 2050 and other goals to champion equality, develop their employees and increase the resilience of over 35,000 smallholder farmers, is just a small part of the Company's work factored into this year's JUST ranking. McCormick was also recently named to Fortune's 2022 Change the World list.
To learn more about McCormick's journey and commitments, read our 2021 Purpose-led Performance Progress Report or visit the PLP section of our Corporate website.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor. With over $6 billion in annual sales across 170 countries and territories, we manufacture, market and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce channels, grocery, food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands with trademark registrations include McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Stubb's, OLD BAY, Lawry's, Zatarain's, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane and Gourmet Garden. Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick.
Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland USA, McCormick is guided by our principles and committed to our Purpose – To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor. McCormick envisions A World United by Flavor where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand. To learn more, visit www.mccormickcorporation.com or follow McCormick & Company on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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A group of people with disabilities is suing to upend California's assisted suicide law, saying the bias they faced trying to get health care during the pandemic shows the system is too quick to offer death as an appropriate outcome.
The lawsuit, filed against state officials and agencies, argues that California's 7-year-old law that allows terminally ill people to choose to get lethal drugs to end their life — the End of Life Option Act — puts disabled people at greater risk of being coerced into seeking assisted suicide.
The lawsuit says people with disabilities often face a denial of the medical care they need and, as a result, may be quick to seek assisted suicide as an option.
Ingrid Tischer, who is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, says she experienced that.
Tischer, who lives with a form of muscular dystrophy, has been around doctors her entire life. In 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, Tischer was hospitalized for pneumonia. When she asked for therapy to regain her strength, the doctor said she didn't qualify.
"He kind of looked at me and said, 'Well, I mean, look at you, there's nothing we can do for you. And you've known this is coming for a long time. So why are you surprised?'" Tischer says.
Tischer, who was 55 then, says she was devastated. She thought she was facing the end of her life. "For me, it was a very solid gut punch," she says.
If a doctor had told her she should apply for California's assisted suicide law, she says she might well have said yes.
No doctor ever suggested that to Tischer. The lawsuit doesn't mention any cases of that kind of coercion.
Tischer, instead, got another doctor, who gave her a different diagnosis. She left the hospital and recovered.
Tischer and the other plaintiffs raise fears of a subtle kind of discrimination — what Michael Bien, the lawyer who filed the challenge, calls "steering." Bien says people who have difficulty getting the care they need may feel compelled, instead, to see assisted suicide as their best option.
The End of Life Option Act requires people to make a clear choice to end their lives. But, Bien argues, the choice of people with disabilities gets clouded by whether they get the medical care and support that helps them live.
"Is it really a choice," Bien asks, "when society makes it very difficult to access home health care support?"
For many people in California with disabilities, there are long waits — often months long — to get a direct support professional to provide the in-home support that allows them to live independently. California is known to have a generous program. But a report by the state auditor in 2021 found that even when people get into the In-Home Supportive Services Program, some 40,000 a month don't get all the care they require. For someone with quadriplegia, getting an attendant to help them get in and out of bed may determine whether they can go to school or work, and stay out of a nursing home.
Lonnie VanHook, another individual plaintiff in the lawsuit, has quadriplegia and needs round-the-clock assistance, including people who can move him in his bed or wheelchair to prevent him from getting painful bedsores. But when he couldn't get enough hours of care, he became depressed and considered assisted suicide.
Jules Steimnitz, a rehabilitation doctor, calls this "attendant deficiency diagnosis, that you can't get attendants." Steimnitz, who first treated VanHook more than three decades ago, kept in touch and helped talk him through that desperation. "This is his main problem. This is what's causing his depression. He doesn't need suicide. He needs attendants."
"Over the years, it has been a continuous uphill battle" to get that assistance, VanHook told NPR. "It's a mental drain. It's debilitating."
The lawsuit says VanHook, as a Black man with little income, is at an increased risk because of racial disparities in health care.
The limits of health care systems became more clear early in the pandemic. When health care providers feared possible shortages of ventilators and other treatments, states issued guidelines — called "crisis standards of care" — that sometimes gave doctors and hospitals permission to put disabled and elderly people at the back of the line if care got scarce.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stepped in and stopped it.
Among several states that agreed to rewrite their triage guidelines: Tennessee revised rules that let care be denied to people who already use a ventilator, those with advanced neuromuscular conditions like ALS, and some people with dementia and traumatic brain injuries. Officials in Pennsylvania changed standards that told hospitals it was OK to cut off care to some people with chronic lung disease or cancer. Alabama rewrote rules that allowed the denial of ventilators to people with "moderate to severe dementia."
People who work with California's assisted suicide law acknowledge that disabled people often struggle to get adequate medical care, but they say the state's end-of-life law is set up to avoid precisely that kind of discrimination.
"Having a disability would not qualify someone for aid-in-dying," says Nathan Fairman, a psychiatrist and palliative care doctor who oversees cases at UC Davis Health in Sacramento. "Someone who's disabled and has end-stage cancer would potentially qualify. And they would have to step through all of the safeguards that are set out in the law."
Two doctors, he notes, need to confirm that someone is terminally ill and mentally competent to choose to die. Health care systems like his, Fairman says, add psychological and other evaluations that go beyond the state law to further protect against abuse.
Oregon went first and other states followed
The lawsuit was filed by four disability rights groups — United Spinal Association, which advocates for veterans and others with spinal cord injuries; Not Dead Yet and the Institute for Patients' Rights, two groups that oppose assisted suicide laws; and CALIF, a Los Angeles nonprofit run by people with disabilities.
A spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health, the agency that keeps the statistics on who uses the assisted suicide law, said it "does not comment on litigation."
Oregon was the first state to implement a right-to-die law, in 1997. Washington state was next, in 2009. Since then, such laws have spread quickly. Now, 10 states and the District of Columbia allow assisted suicide for terminally ill people who are competent to make that choice.
In California, between 2016, when the law took effect, and the end of 2021, 3,766 people got prescriptions for the medications and 64.3% of them are known to have taken those pills, according to the most recent annual report by the California Department of Public Health.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, argues that the state's assisted suicide law violates due process protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and violates the anti-discrimination provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Some want to use the law to end their lives — but can't
But that's not the only challenge to the law under the ADA. Dr. Lonny Shavelson, a proponent of assisted suicide laws, recently sued California on behalf of disabled people who want to use the law to end their lives but can't.
The End of Life Option Act says that a person who gets lethal medications must be able to take those pills themselves. That's a common safeguard in assisted suicide laws, to prevent coercion by family members or others.
But Shavelson, a co-founder of the American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying, says it ends up discriminating against some of the people who most clearly want to use the law — but can't take the pills themselves because of the progression of their disease, such as people with ALS and Parkinson's.
They are denied "the same access to the law that able-bodied people receive because they're unable to self-administer the medications, " he says. "We've denied them assistance to a legal medical procedure."
Shavelson's lawsuit was rejected by one U.S. District Court in California and is now on appeal.
Today, Ingrid Tischer is working again, helping nonprofits do fundraising. She looks back at the time two years ago when she was hospitalized, having difficulty breathing and ready to give up. She says she was driven then by fear — of dying or moving to a nursing home and of a "mass of misplaced guilt" that she'd become a burden to her husband. "I just wanted out," she says. "I don't think I was thinking very clearly."
But Tischer had resources that turned her around — that supportive spouse, a solid family income, a house, reliable health insurance and her long personal experience navigating the medical system.
"There are many people in this world who are a lot more vulnerable than I," she says, and — as a result — more likely, she believes, to seek assisted suicide.
This story was edited by Robert Little. It was produced by Meg Anderson.
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Trial date set for man accused of murdering Cleveland Detective James Skernivitz
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A trial date is now scheduled for David McDaniel, the man accused of fatally shooting Cleveland Police Detective James Skernivitz, 53, and civilian Scott Dingess, 50, in September 2020.
McDaniel, 21, faces the death penalty if convicted.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin on March 31, 2023 in front of Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael Shaughnessy.
Detective Skernivitz and Dingess were shot while they sat in the detective’s vehicle around 10 p.m. on Sept. 3, 2020 in the area of W. 65th Street and Storer Avenue.
On July 6, Kevin Robinson, 19, pleaded guilty for his role in the murders.
Robinson was convicted of two counts of aggravated murder and two counts of robbery.
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Joan Synenberg sentenced him to life in prison with the first eligibility of parole after 28 years. | https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/06/01/year-old-accused-killing-cleveland-detective-james-skernivitz-now-faces-death-penalty-if-convicted-5/ | 2022-10-03 10:55:45 | 0 | https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/06/01/year-old-accused-killing-cleveland-detective-james-skernivitz-now-faces-death-penalty-if-convicted-5/ |
MERRYVILLE, La. (AP) — Search crews found the body of a little boy Monday miles from the Louisiana sandbar where he was swept away by the Sabine River while playing in shallow water and three men drowned trying to save him, the sheriff said.
Beauregard Parish Sheriff Mark Herford did not release the boy’s name or age but described him as very young.
He identified the men who drowned trying to save him as Troy M. McCollough, who lived nearby in the Junction community, Kelly Bailey of Hornbeck, and Austin Scott of DeRidder. Bailey was engaged to the boy’s mother, the sheriff said, and Scott was his best friend. McCollough just happened to be there, Herford said.
“They’re heroes and should be remembered that way,” Herford said.
Herford says the child was playing in shallows by a sandbar near Merryville and was swept away by the river. His body was found Monday at a spot Herford estimated was several miles downriver.
The sheriff said he is working with the parish police jury to get warning signs posted.
“I’ve been with the sheriff’s office since ’92. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stood in this exact same spot and worked drownings,” he said, adding: “That spot is deadly.”
The current and depth vary widely with power generation from Toledo Bend, and a week of rains made the current even stronger than usual, Herford said.
He said one man’s body was found late Saturday and the other two Sunday morning. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/young-boy-3-men-who-tried-to-save-him-die-in-river/ | 2022-08-29 18:31:36 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/young-boy-3-men-who-tried-to-save-him-die-in-river/ |
ROME (AP) — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, a Mafia boss convicted of helping to mastermind some of the nation’s most heinous slayings, was arrested Monday when he sought treatment at a private clinic in Sicily after three decades on the run.
Matteo Messina Denaro was tried in absentia and convicted of dozens of murders, including helping to mastermind, along with other Cosa Nostra bosses, a pair of 1992 bombings that killed top anti-Mafia prosecutors — and led the Italian state to stiffen its crackdown on the Sicilian crime syndicate. He faces multiple life sentences that he is expected to serve in a maximum security prison and under the particularly restrictive conditions reserved for top organized crime bosses.
He went into hiding a year after those bombings while still a young man — but he was still considered one of Cosa Nostra’s top bosses even as a fugitive. Hundreds of police officers were tasked over the years with tracking him, the last of three longtime top-level Mafia bosses who managed to elude capture for decades.
He is now 60, and his health condition helped investigators zero in on him, according to Carabinieri Gen. Pasquale Angelosanto, who heads the police force’s special operations squad.
“It all led to today’s date (when) he would have come for some tests and treatment” at the clinic, the Carabinieri general said.
Authorities did not say what he was being treated for, but he was captured at La Maddalena clinic in Palermo, an upscale medical facility with a reputation for treating cancer patients, and Italian media said he was undergoing treatment for a year.
During an evening news conference, authorities said Messina Denaro’s treatment could continue at a hospital prison ward.
Investigators said he was unarmed and dressed like a typical patient at the clinic, though wearing a watch worth at least 30,000 euros (about $33,000).
“He didn’t resist at all,” Carabinieri Col. Lucio Arcidiacono told reporters.
A pair of Carabinieri officers, each holding an arm, walked Messina Denaro down the front steps of the clinic to a waiting black van in pouring rain. He was dressed in a brown leather jacket trimmed in shearling, a matching white-and-brown skull cap and his trademark tinted glasses. His face looked wan and he stared straight ahead.
Shortly after his arrest, the sun peeked through, and a rainbow could be seen in the sky over the clinic.
When dozens of police officers, wearing ski masks, converged on the clinic, local residents knew something big was about to happen. When Messina Denaro was brought outside, applause rang out on the sidewalks.
Palermo Chief Prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia told reporters that the fugitive had used the pseudonym Andrea Bonafede and had an Italian identity card in that name. He used the alias — the surname roughly means “good faith” in Italian — to book a morning appointment at the clinic.
In addition to convictions for the killings of prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, he was also found guilty of killing Falcone’s wife and several of their bodyguards as well as the grisly murder of a Mafia turncoat’s young son, who was abducted and strangled before his body was dissolved in a vat of acid.
He also was among Cosa Nostra bosses convicted of ordering a series of bombings in 1993 that caused fatalities and damaged the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, two major churches in Rome and an art gallery in Milan.
“We captured the last of the massacre masterminds” of the 1992-1993 Mafia killings, prosecutor De Lucia said. “It was a debt that the Republic owed to the victims of those years.”
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni tweeted that Messina Denaro’s capture is a “great victory of the state, which shows that it doesn’t surrender in the face of the Mafia.”
Monday’s arrest came 30 years and a day after the Jan. 15, 1993, capture of Mafia “boss of bosses” Salvatore “Toto” Riina, in a Palermo apartment, after 23 years on the run. Messina Denaro went into hiding during the summer of that year.
The Italian Mafia boss who set the record for the longest time on the lam was Bernardo Provenzano. He was captured in a farmhouse near Corleone, Sicily, in 2006 after 38 years as a fugitive. Once Provenzano was in police hands, the hunt focused on Messina Denaro, who managed to elude arrest despite numerous reported sightings, including in northern Italy.
That all three top bosses were ultimately arrested in the heart of Sicily while they conducted clandestine lives for decades won’t surprise Italy’s police and prosecutors. Law enforcement officials have long said that such bosses rely on contacts and the confidentiality of fellow mobsters and complicit family members to move them from hideout to hideout, supply food, clean clothing and communication, and a code of silence known as “omertà.”
But Messina Denaro, besides staying in hideouts in Sicily, also traveled abroad while a fugitive, including to Marseille, the French port city, where he underwent surgery some years ago, according to investigators.
Riina and Provenzano lived out the last years of their lives in the strictest of Italian prison conditions reserved for unrepentant organized crime bosses and refused to cooperate with investigators.
Some have speculated whether Messina Denaro might agree to cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for more lenient prison conditions.
During his years on the run, he had a series of lovers and passed time by playing video games, according to Italian media reports. Messina Denaro is believed to have fathered two children while a fugitive. One of his girlfriends was arrested and convicted of having hidden him for a time.
Right after he went into hiding, Messina Denaro sent a letter to his then-girlfriend that Italian news agency ANSA said read: “You’ll hear talk about me, they will paint me like the devil, but it’s all falsehoods.”
Wary of being located through cellphone use, Mafia bosses frequently resort to handwritten notes known as “pizzini.” When Provenzano was nabbed in his rustic hideaway, police found a stash of such notes.
On Monday, Italian state TV transmitted what it said was an audio recording of a 1993 appearance by Messina Denaro before a Sicilian court. A judge sought to confirm his identity and asked basic questions to fill out documents.
When asked his occupation, he replied “farmer” and added that his brother was a banker and his four sisters homemakers. For his residence, he cited Castelvetrano, a farm town near Trapani, which was his crime clan’s power base and where he was assured of logistics support during his time as a fugitive, according to investigators.
The brother was convicted years ago of Mafia association. One of the sisters was convicted of helping run the crime clan during Messina Denaro’s years on the run, Italian news reports said.
With the crackdown that began in the 1990s against Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, the island’s mafiosi started losing their dominance in Italy compared to other organized crime syndicates.
As the Sicilian Mafia was significantly weakened by a small army of turncoats, on the mainland, the ‘ndrangheta syndicate, based in the “toe” of the Italian peninsula, steadily eclipsed Cosa Nostra in reach and influence.
Unlike Sicily’s crime syndicates, the ‘ndrangheta draws its foot soldiers based on family ties, leaving it less vulnerable to those who cooperate with investigators. The ’ndrangheta is now one of the world’s most powerful cocaine traffickers.
But the Sicilian Mafia still runs drug trafficking operations. Other lucrative illicit businesses include infiltration of public works contracts and extortion of small business owners who are threatened if they don’t regularly pay “protection money.”
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This story has been updated to correct that Messina Denaro is one of six children, not the father of six children, and to correct the date of his court statements to a 1993 appearance before a judge. | https://www.kark.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-italy-arrests-sicilian-mafia-boss-matteo-messina-denaro/ | 2023-01-16 22:18:53 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-italy-arrests-sicilian-mafia-boss-matteo-messina-denaro/ |
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LAKE FOREST, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BIOLASE, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOL), the global leader in dental lasers, today announced that it will release second quarter 2022 financial and operating results on Thursday, August 11, 2022 after the close of the U.S. financial markets and will host a conference call and webcast that day at 4:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT to discuss the results and corporate developments.
To access the live call, dial 877-545-0320 (U.S.) or +1 973-528-0002 (International) and provide the following earnings code: 838343.
A live and archived webcast of the conference call will be accessible on the BIOLASE Investor Relations Page. In addition, a phone replay will be available approximately two hours following the end of the call, and it will remain available for one week. To access the call replay dial 877-481-4010 or +1 919-882-2331 (International) and enter replay passcode: 46222.
BIOLASE is a medical device company that develops, manufactures, markets, and sells laser systems in dentistry and medicine. BIOLASE's products advance the practice of dentistry and medicine for patients and healthcare professionals. BIOLASE's proprietary laser products incorporate approximately 302 patented and 31 patent-pending technologies designed to provide biologically and clinically superior performance with less pain and faster recovery times. BIOLASE's innovative products provide cutting-edge technology at competitive prices to deliver superior results for dentists and patients. BIOLASE's principal products are revolutionary dental laser systems that perform a broad range of dental procedures, including cosmetic and complex surgical applications. BIOLASE has sold over 43,300 laser systems to date in over 80 countries around the world. Laser products under development address BIOLASE's core dental market and other adjacent medical and consumer applications.
For updates and information on Waterlase iPlus®, Waterlase Express™, and laser dentistry, find BIOLASE online at www.biolase.com, Facebook at www.facebook.com/biolase, Twitter at www.twitter.com/biolaseinc, Instagram at www.instagram.com/waterlase_laserdentistry, and LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/biolase.
BIOLASE®, Waterlase® and Waterlase iPlus® are registered trademarks of BIOLASE, Inc.
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'Once-in-a-generation storm' causing travel trouble in every direction
The FOX Forecast Center has compiled a list of air travel delays and cancelations across the U.S., highlighting some of today's worst airports to travel in and out of before Christmas.
NEW YORK – Your holiday travel plans might have run into gridlock as a "once-in-a-generation storm" officially became a bomb cyclone on the eve of Christmas Eve. The weather nightmare is causing travel trouble in just about every part of the country.
DEADLY CHRISTMAS WEEK BLIZZARD BECOMES BOMB CYCLONE; POWER OUTAGES EXPLODE AMID TRAVEL NIGHTMARE
The historic winter storm has placed ground stops at airports across the U.S. as winter alerts are up from Oregon to Florida. Let's not forget the dangerous arctic blast from Montana to Maine that has plunged 150 million Americans into a deep freeze. Power outages are skyrocketing, with more than a million customers without power as of Friday morning.
On the western side of the country, a separate ice storm has led to transportation issues in major Pacific Northwest cities such as Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.
All of this is making it difficult to drive or fly in some parts of the country.
AAA predicted this week to be the busiest travel stretch since 2019, with millions of people excited to get home for Christmas.
HERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THE WORST CHRISTMAS TRAVEL CONGESTION ACROSS THE US
As of 11 a.m. EST Friday, the FFA has placed ground stops at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Denver International Airport, Memphis International Airport, Portland International Airport and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Airport closures are underway at Sioux Falls Regional Airport, MBS International Airport (Freeland, Michigan), Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport and Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport.
The FOX Forecast Center has compiled a list of air travel delays and cancelations across the U.S., highlighting some of today's worst airports to travel in and out of before Christmas.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) are warning the CIA they could subpoena the agency if it does not produce documents related to a 2020 letter pushing back on the Hunter Biden laptop story.
“If the CIA does not produce all responsive documents, the Committees may resort to compulsory process,” Turner and Jordan wrote in the Wednesday letter to CIA Director William Burns, giving a May 30 deadline.
The letter is part of the House GOP’s probe into suppression of news about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive obtained by former President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and then reported by the New York Post in the weeks before the 2020 election.
Fifty-one former senior intelligence officials signed a letter that warned the report’s contents and emails “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” — a letter that now-President Biden referenced in a debate against Trump. But the former intelligence officials noted that they did not have evidence of Russian involvement, and contents of the hard drive were later authenticated by other news outlets.
Republicans have argued that suppression of the story on social media and former intelligence officials pushing back on the story likely influenced the election in its final weeks.
Committee Republicans investigating the origins of the letter released a report last week on findings that included a message from now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then a Biden campaign adviser, to former CIA acting Director Michael Morell prompted Morell to draft the letter. The agency’s Prepublication Classification Review Board (PCRB) approved the letter via email in a standard process.
But based on an email from one of the signatories, Republicans are probing whether at least one active CIA employee was involved in getting signatures for the letters. Former CIA employee David Cariens wrote in a 2023 email that a publications review board employee, in a phone call while approving one of his books, told him about the letter and asked if he wanted to sign.
“If accurate, this information raises fundamental concerns about the role of the CIA in helping to falsely discredit allegations about the Biden family in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election,” Turner and Jordan wrote in the Tuesday letter to the CIA director.
Democrats on the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees say Republicans’ concerns are misleading. In a document last week sharing excerpts of transcripts with other witnesses, Democrats noted that Cariens responded to an email request from a former CIA employee to sign the letter eight minutes later. And Cariens has not yet been interviewed under oath.
“Jordan’s claim that the CIA promoted this letter is not justified by his investigation,” House Intelligence Committee ranking member Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said in a statement last week. “I’m sorry that Judiciary Committee Republicans publicized unexamined allegations on an incomplete record. [The House Intelligence Committee] will continue to conduct effective, fact-driven oversight of the Intelligence Community.”
Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said in a statement last week that Jordan is “fabricating these conspiracy theories and ignoring the evidence in front of him.”
Jordan and Turner said that after their report was released last week, the CIA in a phone conversation with committee staff committed to searching for documents with the names of the letter signatories in October 2020; searching for all documents and communications in relation to Cariens’s book; and a search of all CIA phone records for communications between CIA employees and the 51 letter signatories in October 2020.
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New research shows how AI architectures will fundamentally change HR technology, and points out the three "models" of Generative AI in the marketplace
OAKLAND, Calif., July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Josh Bersin Company, the world's most trusted global human capital advisory firm, has today announced new research findings highlighting the huge potential of ChatGPT-style "Generative AI" to help companies sharpen their hiring and development practices—but only if organizations dispel their fear of the technology.
The Josh Bersin Company interviewed senior AI-aware execs, engineers, and product leaders, about Generative AI's potential to create powerful new insights for HR leaders and Learning and Development teams. The advisory firm, which also spoke with a cross-section of top global HR leaders at its recent Irresistible 2023 conference, discovered clear gaps in confidence and understanding linked to AI technology and its potential to deliver novel HR and talent management insights.
The research found that while many HR leaders and their company's technology teams appreciate AI's scope to uncover new talent management opportunities by spotting patterns across different data sources, many admitted to a limited understanding of the technology.
Additionally, the research also defines three categories of AI solutions: Emerging (AI added on), First Generation (where the AI is built in), and Second Generation (where the solution is built on AI). The HR leaders also expressed a sense of apprehension about AI's role and are unsure how to effectively harness AI's potential for HR and talent-related use cases.
The study highlights AI's considerable scope in unlocking talent intelligence, which has become a growing necessity as businesses globally look for new toolsets to help them find, attract, develop, and retain the talent they'll require in the future.
The findings are unpacked and core questions are addressed in a new white paper from The Josh Bersin Company, Understanding AI in HR–A Deep Dive—a detailed guide to evaluating AI for HR use cases
The paper's aim is to make the technology more accessible and comfortable for HR strategists–particularly those looking to build a more systemic and sustainable approach to finding, attracting, and honing the skill sets critical to an organization's success over the long term.
Its groundbreaking insights, distilled into a guide to evaluating HR-oriented AI technologies, provide an up-to-the-minute educational report for those pushing the boundaries in HR and talent development.
Commenting on the findings, Josh Bersin, global industry analyst and CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, says:
"The aim of this new research is to understand exactly what's preventing HR from fully exploiting artificial intelligence in core business strategies, like understanding where the new, untapped opportunities are to think and act differently in recruitment and talent management. What emerged from both this study and from conversations at our recent Irresistible event is that there's a hesitation attached to the lack of clarity around AI's scope to transform HR.
"Our aim is to help overcome that sense of intimidation. Specifically, we've translated AI barriers into a relatable problem and reminded the CHRO that this is not the first time that HR departments have had to adapt and evolve their technology architecture or their data and how they harness it.
"Rather than try to preach the basics of AI engineering, we want to help HR leaders become more comfortable with the technology and what it can do. We show that could be in better targeting and reducing the time to hire, or in identifying less obvious talent pipelines, among many, many use cases.
"Using Generative AI to understand the subtler but more transformative learnings from recruitment and talent data is also just the first step in an exciting ongoing tech and data-based HR AI journey.
"Ultimately, we are clarifying AI's role in the future of HR so that employers can proactively convert its potential."
The Josh Bersin Company previewed its own AI solution, The HR Copilot, at its June Irresistible 2023 event. The Josh Bersin Company HR Copilot provides an intelligent means of interrogating the rich and diverse HR knowledge base and labor market insights amassed by the research and advisory firm over the last 25 years—signposting just some of the many use cases HR in AI is beginning to reveal.
To download a copy of the educational white paper Understanding AI in HR–A Deep Dive visit here
About The Josh Bersin Company
The most trusted human capital advisors in the world. More than a million HR and business leaders rely on us to help them overcome their greatest people challenges.
Thanks to our understanding of workplace issues, informed by the largest, and most up-to-date data sets on workers and employees, we give leaders the confidence to make decisions in line with latest thinking and evidence about work and the workplace. We're great listeners, too. There's no one like us, who understands this area so comprehensively and without bias.
We help CHROs and CEOs be better at delivering their business goals. We do that by helping you to manage people better. We are enablers at our core. We provide strategic advice and counsel supported by in-depth research, thought leadership, and unrivaled professional development, community and networking opportunities.
We empower our clients to run their businesses better. And we empower the market by identifying results-driven practices that make work better for every person on the planet.
For more information, visit www.joshbersin.com or email info@bersinpartners.com.
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Man shot in Cleveland’s Lee Harvard neighborhood
Published: Jul. 8, 2022 at 10:22 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Cleveland police said a man was found shot outside a home on the city’s East side Friday morning.
According to officers, the victim was discovered around 9:30 a.m. in the 3900 block of Wendy Drive.
This is in the city’s Lee Harvard neighborhood.
Cleveland EMS transported the victim to a local hospital.
This is developing story and will be updated.
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Bills' Hamlin says 'heart is with' team at game, he's home
Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who is still recovering after going into cardiac arrest on the field in Cincinnati two weeks ago, said he will be cheering from home Sunday during Buffalo's wild-card playoff home game against the Miami Dolphins.
"My heart is with my guys as they compete today!" Hamlin tweeted less than hour before kickoff.
"Supporting from home as I focus on my recovery. Nothing I want more than to be out there with them!" Hamlin posted, along with a video of himself greeting fans during the Bills' last game against Miami, on Dec. 17.
A person with direct knowledge of the player's schedule had told The Associated Press on Sunday that Hamlin planned to attend the game in person. He later said those "plans may have changed."
The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because Hamlin has kept his schedule and recovery private since being released from a Buffalo hospital on Wednesday.
Hamlin visited teammates at the Bills' stadium on Saturday but has not been seen in public since being rushed off the field in Cincinnati in an ambulance on Jan. 2. He spent more than a week in the hospital, much of the time in critical condition.
Charged up fans are eager to blunt the memory of Hamlin's collapse, when the 24-year-old from the Pittsburgh exurb of McKees Rocks stood up after making a tackle against the Bengals, then fell backwards, landing motionless on the turf at Paycor Stadium.
The Bills did not release any details about Hamlin's plans for the game.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Immunic, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMUX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of selective oral immunology therapies focused on treating chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, today announced participation in the following investor and scientific conferences in November and December:
- November 17: Immunic's Multiple Sclerosis R&D Webcast. Immunic's management will be joined by renowned key opinion leaders to discuss the unmet medical need and recent scientific findings in the multiple sclerosis space as well as to provide an update on the development progress of lead asset, vidofludimus calcium (IMU-838), in multiple sclerosis in a webcast on Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 11:00 am ET. Featured key opinion leaders will be:
- November 29 - December 1: Piper Sandler & Co. 34th Annual Healthcare Conference. Daniel Vitt, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer and President of Immunic, will participate in a fireside chat at this conference in New York on Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 12:30 pm ET. A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the "Events and Presentations" section of Immunic's website at: ir.imux.com/events-and-presentations. An archived replay will be available on the company's website for a period of 90 days after the conference.
- November 29 - December 1: Evercore ISI HealthCONx Conference 2022. Members of Immunic's management and investor relations teams will attend this virtual conference. To schedule a meeting, please contact an Evercore representative.
- November 29 - December 2: Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association (APSA) and Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (ASCEPT) 2022 Joint Conference. Dr. Thomas M. Polasek, Clinical Pharmacology Registrar, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia, will present data from Immunic's phase 1 clinical trial of IMU-856, an orally available, small molecule modulator of a transcriptional regulator of intestinal barrier function and regeneration of bowel epithelium, in a poster presentation at this conference in Perth, Australia. The poster presentation will be accessible on the "Events and Presentations" section of Immunic's website at: https://ir.imux.com/events-and-presentations.
- November 30 - December 1: Outsourcing in Clinical Trials DACH 2022. Jelena Mihajlović, Ph.D., Clinical Operations Program Lead at Immunic, will present during a session entitled "Stream A: Clinical Operations and Outsourcing," at this conference in Munich, Germany on Wednesday, November 30, 2022, at 2:00 pm CET (8:00 am ET). The presentation entitled "Choosing a CRO as a small to mid sized biotech company: factors to consider," will be accessible on the "Events and Presentations" section of Immunic's website at: https://ir.imux.com/events-and-presentations.
Immunic, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMUX) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a pipeline of selective oral immunology therapies focused on treating chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The company is developing three small molecule products: its lead development program, vidofludimus calcium (IMU-838), a selective immune modulator that inhibits the intracellular metabolism of activated immune cells by blocking the enzyme DHODH and exhibits a host-based antiviral effect, is currently being developed as a treatment option for multiple sclerosis. IMU-935, a selective inverse agonist of the transcription factor RORγ/RORγt, is targeted for development in psoriasis, and castration-resistant prostate cancer. IMU-856, which targets the restoration of the intestinal barrier function, is targeted for development in diseases involving bowel barrier dysfunction. For further information, please visit: www.imux.com.
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Homeowner accused of shooting Ralph Yarl pleads not guilty
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old white man accused of shooting Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager, pleaded not guilty in his first court appearance Wednesday.
Lester was in court to answer charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting, which has attracted presidential attention and renewed national debate about gun policies. Lester turned himself in Tuesday and was later released on bond after agreeing to relinquish any weapons and have no contact with Yarl or his family. He also agreed to have his cellphone monitored.
The Kansas City case is among three in recent days involving young people who were shot after mistakenly showing up in the wrong places. A 20-year-old woman was killed in upstate New York when the car she was in pulled into the wrong driveway. In Texas, two cheerleaders were shot after one of them mistakenly got into a car thinking it was hers.
Yarl was shot at point-blank range in the head but miraculously survived the bullet, his family’s attorney said Tuesday.
Some civil rights leaders have urged prosecutors to charge Lester with a hate crime, an action attorney Lee Merritt said was warranted in Yarl’s shooting “because he was armed only with his Black skin.”
Lester could face up to life in prison on the assault charge if convicted.
Clay County prosecutor Zachary Thompson said first-degree assault is a higher-level crime allowing a longer sentence than a hate-crime charge would. Though activists have called for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate, it was unclear whether it would do so. Messages seeking comment from the department were not returned.
The shooting happened about 10 p.m. Thursday. Police Chief Stacey Graves said that Yarl’s mother asked him to pick up his twin brothers at a home on 115th Terrace.
Yarl, an honors student and all-state band member, mistakenly went to 115th Street — a block away from where he meant to be. When he rang the bell, Lester came to the door and used a .32 caliber Smith and Wesson 1888 revolver to shoot Yarl in the forehead, then in the right forearm.
Lester told police he lives alone and was “scared to death” when he saw Yarl on the porch because he thought someone was trying to break in, according to the probable cause statement.
No words were exchanged before the shooting, but afterward, as Yarl got up to run, he heard Lester yell, “Don’t come around here,” the statement said.
Merritt said Yarl is hardly an imposing figure.
“The question is, at 5-8 and 140 pounds, what did Andrew Lester look out and see?” Merritt asked at a downtown rally Tuesday. “And the answer is he saw a Black person. And for him, that was enough justification. And that would just be a tragedy except law enforcement agreed with him.”
Yarl ran to multiple homes asking for help before finding someone who would call the police, according to court documents.
The shooting outraged many in Kansas City and across the country. President Joe Biden spoke with Yarl on Monday, and on Tuesday invited him to the White House.
“No parent should have to worry that their kid will be shot after ringing the wrong doorbell,” Biden tweeted. “We’ve got to keep up the fight against gun violence.”
Republican Gov. Mike Parson, who had remained silent on the shooting until Wednesday, accused Biden of politicizing it.
“I don’t want some 16-year-old kid to be getting shot because he went to the wrong house — we just don’t want those kinds of things to happen. It’s a tragedy,” Parson told the Kansas City Star. “When the president of the United States is trying to make a political statement over a very serious tragedy, it is very unfortunate.”
Thompson, the prosecutor, said Monday that there was a “racial component” to the shooting. He did not elaborate. Merritt said the Yarl family met privately with Thompson. The prosecutor said he was “echoing the words from law enforcement that obviously there’s a racial dynamic at play in this case,” said Merritt, who called the answer “shallow.”
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Salter reported from O’Fallon, Missouri. Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kansas, contributed to this report.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: DHIL) today reported unaudited financial results for the second quarter of 2022.
The following are selected highlights for the quarter ended June 30, 2022:
- Assets under management ("AUM") were $25.8 billion compared to $31.0 billion as of December 31, 2021, and $32.4 billion as of June 30, 2021.
- The AUM as of June 30, 2021 included $3.4 billion in AUM related to our high-yield focused advisory contracts which were sold in the third quarter of 2021.
- Average AUM was $28.2 billion compared to $32.1 billion for the second quarter of 2021.
- Net client outflows were $515 million, compared to $550 million of net inflows for the second quarter of 2021.
- Revenue was $39.0 million, compared to $45.1 million for the second quarter of 2021.
- Operating profit margin was 52% compared to 39% for the second quarter of 2021. Operating profit margin, as adjusted,6 was 40% compared to 43% for the second quarter of 2021.
- Investment loss was $17.7 million compared to investment income of $5.9 million for the second quarter of 2021.
- Net income attributable to common shareholders was $4.4 million compared to $16.9 million for the second quarter of 2021.
- Earnings per share attributable to common shareholders - diluted was $1.40 compared to $5.28 for the second quarter of 2021.
- Net operating income, as adjusted after tax per diluted share,5 was $3.77 compared to $4.44 for the second quarter of 2021.
- The Company returned $12.4 million to its shareholders via 69,693 shares repurchased during the quarter and $4.7 million via a $1.50 per share dividend during the quarter.
"Despite the difficult environment during the quarter, our core operating results were resilient," said Heather Brilliant, president and CEO. "Our net income and corresponding earnings per share were impacted significantly by the market downturn, which resulted in large unrealized losses on our corporate investments. While these seed capital investments may cause short-term volatility in our earnings, we believe they are important for the long-term growth of our business."
Dividends:
The Company announced today that its board of directors has approved the payment of a regular quarterly cash dividend of $1.50 per share. The dividend will be paid on September 16, 2022, to its shareholders of record as of September 1, 2022.
About Diamond Hill:
Diamond Hill invests on behalf of clients through a shared commitment to its valuation-driven investment principles, long-term perspective, capacity discipline and client alignment. An independent active asset manager with significant employee ownership, Diamond Hill's investment strategies include differentiated U.S. and international equity, alternative long-short equity and fixed income. As of June 30, 2022, Diamond Hill had $25.8 billion in AUM. For more information visit www.diamond-hill.com.
Use of Supplemental Data as Non-GAAP Performance Measure
As supplemental information, the Company is providing performance measures that are based on methodologies other than U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("non-GAAP"). Management believes the non-GAAP measures below are useful measures of its core business activities, are important metrics in estimating the value of an asset management business, and may enable more appropriate peer comparisons. These non-GAAP measures should not be used as a substitute for financial measures calculated in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") and may be calculated differently by other companies. The following schedule reconciles GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures for the three- and six-months ended June 30, 2022, and 2021, respectively.
The Company does not recommend that investors consider the above non-GAAP financial measures alone, or as a substitute for, financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Throughout this press release, Diamond Hill may make forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, relating to such matters as anticipated operating results, prospects and levels of assets under management, technological developments, economic trends (including interest rates and market volatility), expected transactions and similar matters. The words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "should," "hope," "seek," "plan," "intend" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date thereof. While we believe that the assumptions underlying our forward-looking statements are reasonable, investors are cautioned that any of the assumptions could prove to be inaccurate and, accordingly, our actual results and experiences could differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed in our forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from the results referred to in the forward-looking statements are discussed under "Item 1A. Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, as well as under "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. These factors include, but are not limited to: the adverse effect from a decline in the securities markets; a decline in the performance of our products; the effect of national, regional, and global economic conditions generally, including the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the actions taken in connection therewith; political uncertainty caused by, among other things, political parties, economic nationalist sentiments, and tensions surrounding the current socioeconomic landscape; changes in interest rates; changes in national and local economic and political conditions; the continuing economic uncertainty in various parts of the world; changes in government policy and regulation, including monetary policy; changes in our ability to attract or retain key employees; unforeseen costs and other effects related to legal proceedings or investigations of governmental and self-regulatory organizations; and other risks identified from time-to-time in other public documents on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In light of the significant uncertainties in the forward-looking statements included herein, the inclusion of such information should not be regarded as a representation by Diamond Hill or any other persons, that our objectives and plans will be achieved. All forward-looking statements made in this press release are based on information presently available to the management of Diamond Hill and speak only as of the date on which they are made. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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