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4th arrest made in Alabama Sweet 16 birthday party shooting
DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A fourth man was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in connection with a shooting at a Sweet 16 birthday party that killed four young people in Alabama, authorities announced.
Johnny Letron Brown, 20, of Tuskegee, is charged with four counts of reckless murder, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said. A total of four defendants are now facing reckless murder charges in connection to the fatal shooting.
The shooting rampage at the Sweet 16 birthday killed four young people, ranging from ages 17 to 23 and shocked the small east Alabama city of Dadeville. In addition to the four slain, 32 others were injured, four of them critically. The party, at a dance studio just off the town square, was in full swing when gunfire erupted.
Tyreese “Ty Reik” McCullough, 17, of Tuskegee and Travis McCullough, 16, of Tuskegee were arrested Tuesday. Wilson LaMar Hill Jr., 20, of Auburn, was arrested Wednesday. The district attorney said the teens will be tried as adults as required by Alabama law when anyone 16 or older is charged with murder.
The birthday girl’s brother, 18-year-old Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell of Camp Hill, died as his sister knelt beside him begging him to keep breathing. He and another fatal victim, 17-year-old Shaunkivia Nicole “KeKe” Smith of Dadeville, were high school seniors. Also slain were Marsiah Emmanuel “Siah” Collins, 19, of Opelika, and Corbin Dahmontrey Holston, 23, of Dadeville.
The shooting was the 16th mass killing in the U.S. this year. A 17th took place in Maine on Tuesday. A total of 88 people have died in the killings so far in 2023.
A mass killing is defined as the slaying of four or more people other than the perpetrator, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.(AP) -
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Recycles capital from mature asset in U.S. to reinvest in growing, global platform
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell a non-core, mixed-use data center property in a transaction valuing the asset at approximately $205 million. The property is expected to generate 2022 cash net operating income of approximately $10.7 million, representing a 5.2% cap rate.
Digital Realty originally acquired the 370,000 square foot facility in 2004, prior to its IPO. The majority of the rental revenue is derived from a Tier III Powered Base Building data center, while a portion of the property is leased to commercial and retail tenants on a longer-term basis.
"This disposition opportunistically recycles an operationally mature asset to fund strategic investments aimed at enhancing our longer-term growth profile," said Digital Realty Chief Investment Officer Greg Wright. "Since 2018, Digital Realty has sold approximately $4 billion of assets and redeployed proceeds into highly connected facilities around the world, providing our customers with a global, full spectrum data center solution."
Digital Realty expects proceeds from the transaction will initially be used to pay down debt and will ultimately be used to fund future investment activity.
The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022 and is subject to customary closing conditions. Eastdil Secured served as advisor to Digital Realty on the transaction.
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data "meeting place" and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 27 countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Former Stanford and Detroit Lions football player Stanley Wilson Jr. died at 40 years old earlier this month after collapsing at a mental facility, TMZ reported Wednesday.
Wilson died Feb 1. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner told SFGATE there was no evidence of foul play.
Wilson collapsed and died during a transfer from a local jail to Metropolitan State Hospital in Los Angeles County, according to the TMZ report.
The former athlete played cornerback for Stanford from 2001 to 2004, catching an interception in each season before being drafted in the third round by the Lions. Wilson’s father, Stanley Wilson Sr., also played in the NFL and had legal issues. The elder Wilson was sentenced to 22 years in prison in 1999 for a property theft in Beverly Hills.
The younger Wilson’s Stanford teammates remembered their time together fondly. Former Stanford and Dolphins receiver Greg Camarillo recalled Wilson making it to the NFL in 2005.
“I remember the joy from that moment, getting to share that excitement with his friends, getting to share his dream and watching it come true,” Camarillo told SFGATE.
Wilson played for the Lions from 2005 to 2007, eventually suffering a career-ending Achilles injury in 2008.
After his NFL career, the former player had a number of criminal charges and arrests. Wilson was arrested three times between 2016 and 2017, twice after attempting break-ins while naked and once after roaming around a Portland, Oregon, neighborhood naked. He was shot by the homeowner during one of the attempted break-ins in 2016.
Wilson was arrested again in August 2022 after another alleged break-in, where he was accused of raiding a $30 million Hollywood Hills home and taking a bath in a fountain. He was in jail for the August arrest when he was ruled incompetent to stand trial, according to TMZ, and subsequently transferred to the mental facility where he died.
According to court records, Wilson was also struggling with drug use, including the use of methamphetamine.
Camarillo told SFGATE he was never able to reestablish his same camaraderie with Wilson after college, calling his recent struggles a “hard pill to swallow.”
“If you look at Stan through his college years at the time, ... there was no sign of anything like this coming on,” Camarillo said. “He was a happy, bright, social and loveable guy without any sort of sign to have any problems.”
Another teammate, Leigh Torrence, who played cornerback at Stanford and in the NFL and is now an assistant coach with the New York Jets, echoed the sentiment.
“It just almost feels like one of the people with the biggest smiles was maybe holding it all inside,” he told SFGATE.
Torrence added that during college, Wilson was heavily involved in volunteer work and mentored East Palo Alto youths through a program at Stanford.
A Stanford statement called Wilson a “great friend and teammate during his five years at Stanford.” | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/stanford-stanley-wilson-jr-dies-17789554.php | 2023-02-17 02:09:56 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/stanford-stanley-wilson-jr-dies-17789554.php |
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Rasmus Andersson had a goal and two assists to lead the Calgary Flames to a 6-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday.
Nazem Kadri, Tyler Toffoli, Dillon Dube, Jonathan Huberdeau and Blake Coleman also scored for Calgary (22-16-9).
Steven Stamkos, Vladislav Namestikov and Anthony Cirelli scored for Tampa Bay (29-15-1), which dropped both games in Alberta to finish 3-2-0 on longest trip of the season.
Dan Vladar got the start for Calgary and finished with 21 saves to improve to 8-0-3 in his last 11 appearances. His last regulation loss was Nov. 26, and he is 9-4-4 this season.
Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 35 shots and slipped to 20-12-1 on the season.
Down 2-1 in the second period, Tampa Bay got goals 48 seconds apart from Stamkos and Namestikov to take a short-lived lead.
Just over a minute later, Calgary tied it when Toffoli’s wraparound went in off Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman’s skate.
Five minutes later Calgary, went ahead 3-2 when Andersson’s slap shot from the point deflected off Hedman in front and past Vasilevskiy.
Calgary moved out to a 4-2 lead 7:40 into the third when Dube burst down the left wing and scored.
The Lightning cut the deficit to 4-3 on Cirelli’s goal with the goalie pulled at 15:58. But the Flames cemented the victory scoring twice into an empty net.
The Flames led 1-0 after 20 minutes when Kadri scored his team-leading 18th on a power play.
Less than a minute later, the Flames went back on the power play, a full two-minute, two-man advantage after Zach Bogosian took a roughing penalty in a post-whistle scrum after Nikita Kucherov had already been called for tripping.
Calgary had plenty of chances for a two-goal lead but the Flames failed to convert. The Lightning tied it at 10:20 of the second.
Noah Hanifin’s turnover went to Stamkos at the faceoff circle and he scored on a slap shot under the crossbar. That extended Stamkos’ point streak to eight games (six goals, six assists).
On an innocent-looking play, the Lightning surged ahead when Vladar tried to poke the puck away in front. Instead, it hit Namestnikov’s skate and went into the net. It was reviewed for a distinct kicking motion, but the goal was allowed.
The Lightning lost Pat Maroon to an injury in the third when he was involved in a collision in front of the Flames net. He went off the ice appearing to be favor his arm.
PELLETIER DEBUT
After sitting for six games as a healthy scratch since being called up two weeks ago from the AHL, Flames 2019 first-round pick Jakob Pelletier made his NHL debut, playing left wing on a line with Trevor Lewis at center and rookie Walker Duehr on right wing. He finished with one shot in his 6:35 of ice time.
POWER FAILURE
Tampa Bay entered action with the league’s second-ranked power play. After going 0 for 6, the Lightning have been blanked in four games, doing 0 for 11 in the span.
UP NEXT
Lightning: Open up a three-game homestand Tuesday against the Minnesota Wild.
Flames: Host former Flame Johnny Gaudreau and the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday.
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LONDON (AP) — A top U.S. health official urged the World Health Organization to address allegations first reported by The Associated Press that one of its doctors repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct.
“There are many of us who stand with survivors and stand with those who identify as victims and are truly committed, but also frustrated by where things have stood to date,” Loyce Pace, assistant secretary for global affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told a meeting of WHO’s Executive Board on Tuesday.
Last month, the AP reported that a WHO doctor accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a Berlin conference in October was flagged to senior WHO directors years ago for allegedly harassing another staffer. The earlier allegation didn’t result in any significant consequences for the doctor, Temo Waqanivalu, who was preparing to run for regional director of the Western Pacific, with help from WHO colleagues and the presidential office in his home country of Fiji.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the meeting that a probe into the October incident had been completed.
“We regret that the media identified the alleged perpetrator,” Tedros said during a discussion on preventing sexual abuse. There are no plans to publicly release the investigation into Waqanivalu’s reported misconduct.
“If the allegations are substantiated, disciplinary action will be taken,” Tedros said.
Speaking to the WHO board, Pace cited the issue of sexual misconduct by a staffer who reportedly “had a record of prior accusations,” saying the case “really needs to be addressed by WHO.”
“It’s important to many of us who have faced this personally in our experience working in the global health and development space, and not just in terms of earlier in our careers, but even now,” she added.
According to confidential documents obtained by the AP, senior WHO directors were informed of a sexual harassment allegation made against Waqanivalu in 2018. The accuser was later informed that pursuing a formal investigation might not be the best option for her. Waqanivalu was later given an informal warning that didn’t cite the woman who made the claim or his specific behavior.
In his interviews with WHO investigators, Waqanivalu “categorically” denied that he had ever sexually assaulted anyone. He declined to comment to the AP.
In recent years, WHO has been plagued by numerous reports of misconduct. In May 2021, the AP reported that senior WHO managers were informed of sex abuse allegations during an Ebola outbreak in Congo but did little to stop it. A panel appointed by WHO later found that more than 80 workers under WHO’s direction sexually abused women.
No senior WHO officials tied to the exploitation have been fired. Tedros said Tuesday that three WHO staffers who had been on administrative leave following the abuse allegations had now returned to work, after a U.N. investigation disputed findings by an independent panel that they had engaged in “managerial misconduct.”
At the session on Tuesday, a Fijian delegate to WHO said all individuals accused of sexual misconduct should be treated fairly. She said the officials at WHO who had leaked “highly confidential information” should be held responsible. “Due process must be respected and all individuals involved must be treated fairly,” the official said.
The Western Pacific regional director Waqanivalu was seeking to replace at WHO was put on leave in August, months after the AP reported that numerous staffers had accused him of racist and abusive behavior that compromised the U.N. agency’s response to COVID-19. | https://www.qcnews.com/health-care/ap-top-us-official-urges-who-to-address-sexual-misconduct/ | 2023-02-02 11:14:28 | 0 | https://www.qcnews.com/health-care/ap-top-us-official-urges-who-to-address-sexual-misconduct/ |
Gonzaga vs. Grand Canyon: Betting Trends, Record ATS, Home/Road Splits - First Round
The No. 3 Gonzaga Bulldogs (28-5) and the No. 14 Grand Canyon Antelopes (24-11) will meet on Friday to compete for a spot in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Gonzaga is favored by 15.5 points in the opening round matchup, which begins at 7:35 PM on truTV. Here are the insights you need when filling out your bracket for this 3-14 matchup. The over/under in the matchup is 156.5.
Gonzaga vs. Grand Canyon Odds & Info
- Date: Friday, March 17, 2023
- Time: 7:35 PM ET
- TV: truTV
- Where: Denver, Colorado
- Venue: Ball Arena
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Gonzaga vs Grand Canyon Betting Records & Stats
- So far this season, the Bulldogs have put together a 13-17-0 record against the spread.
- Gonzaga has been at least a -2000 moneyline favorite seven times this season and won all of those games.
- The implied probability of a win from the Bulldogs, based on the moneyline, is 95.2%.
- Grand Canyon is 13-16-0 against the spread this year.
- The Antelopes have yet to play a game this season with longer moneyline odds than +950.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that Grand Canyon has a 9.5% chance of pulling out a win.
Gonzaga vs. Grand Canyon Over/Under Stats
Additional Gonzaga vs Grand Canyon Insights & Trends
- Gonzaga has gone 9-1 in its last 10 games, with a 6-4 record against the spread during that span.
- Eight of Bulldogs' last 10 outings have gone over the total.
- Grand Canyon has gone 7-3 over its past 10 contests, with a 6-4 record against the spread in that span.
- In their past 10 games, the Antelopes have hit the over seven times.
- The Bulldogs put up 20.7 more points per game (87.5) than the Antelopes allow (66.8).
- Gonzaga is 12-13 against the spread and 25-3 overall when scoring more than 66.8 points.
- The Antelopes score an average of 75.3 points per game, just 2.4 more points than the 72.9 the Bulldogs give up.
- Grand Canyon is 6-7 against the spread and 14-3 overall when it scores more than 72.9 points.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Amber Heard says she doesn’t blame the jury that awarded Johnny Depp more than $10 million after a contentious six-week libel trial in her first post-verdict interview.
She told Savannah Guthrie of NBC's “Today” in a clip aired Monday that she understood how the jury reached its conclusion and said Depp is a “beloved character and people feel they know him.”
She called her ex-husband a “fantastic actor” and decried social media, calling her treatment online unfair.
"Even somebody who is sure I’m deserving of all this hate and vitriol, even if you think that I’m lying, you still couldn’t tell me, look me in the eye and tell me, that you think on social media there’s been a fair representation," Heard told Guthrie.
“Today” plans to air more of its interview with Heard on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Depp sued Heard for libel in Virginia over a December 2018 Washington Post piece in which she described herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”
Heard reportedly plans to appeal the verdict. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/amber-heard-says-she-doesnt-blame-jury-in-depp-libel-case | 2022-06-13 17:45:48 | 1 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/amber-heard-says-she-doesnt-blame-jury-in-depp-libel-case |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said its troops began pulling out of a strategic Ukrainian city on Thursday amid growing signs it was following through on a retreat that would mark a turning point in the grinding war.
Ukrainian officials acknowledged Moscow’s forces had no choice but to flee Kherson but remained cautious, fearing an ambush. It was difficult to know what was happening in the industrial port city, from which tens of thousands have fled in recent weeks and where remaining residents are frightened to leave their homes.
A forced pullout from Kherson — the only provincial capital Moscow has captured — would mark one of Russia’s worst setbacks yet, recalling its retreat from Kyiv in the early days of the war. Recapturing Kherson could allow Ukraine to win back lost territory in the south, including Crimea, which Moscow illegally seized in 2014.
A Russian retreat is also almost certain to raise domestic pressure on the Kremlin to escalate the conflict — which U.S. assessments showed may have already left tens of thousands of civilians and hundreds of thousands of soldiers dead or wounded.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported Thursday a “maneuver of units of the Russian group” to the opposite side of the Dnieper River from where Kherson lies — a day after the minister ordered a troop withdrawal from the city and nearby areas during a choreographed briefing by his top general carried on state TV.
Some Western observers, including the highest-ranking U.S. military officer, said they believed the Kremlin’s forces have been forced to pull out — though a full withdrawal could take some time.
And on Thursday, Ukrainian officials appeared to soften their skepticism somewhat. The armed forces commander-in-chief, Valeriy Zaluzhny, said that “the enemy had no other choice but to resort to fleeing,” since Kyiv’s army has destroyed supply systems and disrupted Russia’s military command in the area.
Zaluzhny also noted recent Ukrainian advances over the past month, saying that Kyiv’s forces have retaken 41 settlements in the Kherson region — which the Kremlin illegally annexed in September. That included 12 just on Wednesday.
Still, he said that Ukrainian military could not confirm or deny that Russian forces were indeed withdrawing.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, meanwhile, warned that Russian forces had laid mines throughout Kherson, saying they wanted to turn it into a “city of death.”
Alexander Khara, of the Kyiv-based think tank Center for Defense Strategies, echoed those concerns, saying that he remains fearful of the possibility that Russian forces could destroy a dam upriver from Kherson and flood approaches to the city. The former Ukrainian diplomat also expressed fears about booby traps and possible other dangers left behind by the retreating Russians.
“I would be surprised if the Russians had not set up something, some surprises for Ukraine,” Khara said.
Residents said that Kherson was completely deserted Thursday and that explosions could occasionally be heard from the area of the Antonivskyi Bridge — a key crossing point on the Dnieper River that has been repeatedly targeted by Ukrainian bombardment.
“Life in the city seems to have stopped, everyone has disappeared somewhere and no one knows what will happen next,” said Konstantin, who insisted that his last name to be withheld for security reasons.
Russian flags have disappeared from the city’s administrative buildings, and there is no sign of the Russian military personnel who earlier moved into the apartments of evacuated residents, he said.
Ukrainian officials have been cautious throughout the war in declaring any victories against a Russian force that at least initially outgunned and outmanned them.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak were careful in their assessments. Sunak spoke Thursday to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and his office said both men agreed “it was right to continue to exercise caution until the Ukrainian flag was raised over the city.”
Still, Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a day earlier that he believed a retreat was underway, but that Russia had amassed 20,000 to 30,000 troops in Kherson and a full withdrawal could take several weeks.
One analyst noted that the Ukrainian army has been systematically destroying bridges and roads for several months, making a quick transfer of Russian troops from one side of the river to the other an impossibility.
“The main question is whether the Ukrainians will give the Russians the opportunity to calmly withdraw, or fire at them during the crossing to the left bank,” Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said. “The personnel can be taken out on boats, but the equipment needs to be taken out only on barges and pontoons, and this is very easily shelled by the Ukrainian army.”
In other developments:
— An Indonesian government official said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not attend the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia next week, avoiding a possible confrontation with the United States and its allies over his war in Ukraine.
— The head of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said Thursday that three civilians had been killed in the region and another 12 wounded in the last 24 hours. Writing on Telegram, the official also reported that law enforcement officers had found the bodies of five people killed during the Russian occupation of the town of Yarova, which was retaken by Ukraine on September 19.
— Russian forces overnight pounded the city of Nikopol and nearby areas, Dnipropetrovsk Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said. The shelling wounded a 80-year-old woman and damaged 10 residential buildings, a gas station, a gas pipeline and a power line. The neighboring Zaporizhzhia region was also shelled on Thursday morning, according to deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
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Karmanau reported from Tallinn, Estonia. Raf Casert contributed from Brussels.
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San Ysidro Day: Community gathers for acequia blessing
Many people gathered in the South Valley Saturday morning around the San Ysidro carousel for the annual San Ysidro Day celebration.
Santiago Maestas, one of the leaders of the celebration, says the tradition goes back hundreds of years.
“San Ysidro would not go to church and so an angel came and admonished him,” Maestas said. “He suffered as a result of still refusing to go to church and such. So he suffered, first, a plague of grasshoppers, during a plague of hail.”
Maestas said finally San Ysidro fell in love with going to church, and the angel agreed to plow the fields so he could go to church every day. Now, New Mexicans still ask him to watch over the waters and the crops.
A procession was led to Sanchez Farm Open Space, where children get to help bless the acequia, offering flowers. Everyone got to offer white cornmeal into its waters.
“I think it’s something really powerful,” said Ruben Loza, who was experiencing the celebration for the first time.
Loza saw firsthand how the blending of Indigenous and Spanish Catholic traditions come together. | https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/san-ysidro-day-community-gathers-for-acequia-blessing/ | 2023-05-14 01:08:29 | 0 | https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/san-ysidro-day-community-gathers-for-acequia-blessing/ |
CHERRY HILL, N.J. (WPVI) -- At Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao soup dumplings are the star of the menu and robots are the star of the dining room.
In an open kitchen just off the main dining area, you can see an assembly line of chefs preparing the soup dumplings.
And the robots have been a big hit delivering food tableside.
Each flavor comes in a different color shell with fillings that include pork, shrimp, scallop, truffle and crab.
The menu expands beyond dumplings, featuring mostly Northern Chinese cuisine. The beverage menu includes a collection of handcrafted teas.
This is the first location for Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao outside of New York.
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901 Haddonfield Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 | https://6abc.com/nan-xiang-xiao-long-bao-soup-dumplings-chinese-food-where-to-eat/13208798/ | 2023-05-10 11:00:20 | 1 | https://6abc.com/nan-xiang-xiao-long-bao-soup-dumplings-chinese-food-where-to-eat/13208798/ |
A major fire burned down the remaining pieces of the Grossinger's Hotel property, a former vacationing spot in the Catskills and inspiration for the 1987 hit film Dirty Dancing.
The Liberty Fire Department was dispatched to calls of a fire on the old property on Tuesday night. They arrived to find a large, three-and-a-half story building fully engulfed in flames. The blaze was so large that the smoke column could be seen for several miles away, according to the department.
In recent years, the property had become largely overgrown and abandoned. This impeded the responder's ability to get to the site of the fire. Firefighters had to cut through a gate in order to access the roadway to the building. Concrete barriers in the road further blocked firefighters' easy access to the scene, the fire department said.
Once the fire was out, an excavator was brought in to knock down the remaining pieces of the building, officially ridding the Catskills of what remained of the Grossinger Hotel.
The fire is still under investigation, according to the Liberty Fire Department.
Grossinger's heyday was after World War II, according to the Associated Press. Hundreds of thousands of vacationers made their way to the Catskills to visit the spot. One such visitor was Eleanor Bergstein, writer and producer of Dirty Dancing, who vacationed there with her family.
The film tells the romantic story of a young woman (played by Jennifer Grey), named Francis "Baby" Houseman, who falls in love with a dance instructor named Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), while on vacation in 1963 at a resort just like Grossinger.
Before it finally closed in 1986, the hotel encompassed a complex of 35 buildings on 1,200 acres that served 150,000 guests a year at its height.
Though the movie is based on this resort, the filming took place in North Carolina and Virginia.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Top U.S. insurance companies and associations say California is risking a crisis in the nation’s largest automobile insurance market by refusing to approve any rate increases for more than two years, since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
The companies already are cutting back and say they can't continue operating at a loss while Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara delays rate cases filed by companies representing three-quarters of the California market. Allstate, Geico, Kemper, Liberty Mutual and State Farm all reported paying more in claims than they collected in California premiums in the first half of the year, though they were profitable as recently as last year.
It's part of Lara's effort to compensate consumers who he says were overcharged during the pandemic's early months, when traffic all but disappeared after California imposed the nation’s first stay-home order. His office couldn't say how much it thinks insurers still owe, but the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog puts the amount at more than $3 billion.
“Data we collected directly from the insurance companies themselves shows many of them failed to fully return premiums that they overcharged consumers,” said Deputy Insurance Commissioner Michael Soller. Part of the department's effort is “to make it right for consumers who continue to have been overcharged on premiums during the pandemic.”
But a state appeals court ruled last year that Lara can't impose “retroactive rates and refunds.” The state Supreme Court declined review, and while Lara's office interprets the ruling narrowly, insurers say it's a blanket ban on his attempts to require further refunds.
The dispute comes as Lara runs for reelection against Republican Robert Howell, who is not expected to pose a serious threat to Lara's re-election.
“The commissioner is an elected official and he’s trying to serve his constituents in a way that does not favor market forces," said David Russell, a professor of insurance and finance at California State University, Northridge. "But if you suppress rates, you’re going to get availability problems.”
It's similar to the dilemma companies face in insuring homes in wildfire-prone areas or along the Florida coast, he said.
“There is an obvious, and avoidable, market crisis looming,” three associations representing insurers writing more than 90% of California auto insurance premiums warned Lara in April.
“Auto insurers cannot operate indefinitely in California without the ability to collect adequate rates,” the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, the Personal Insurance Federation of California and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) said in their joint letter. “Criticism of decisions made during the pandemic, including allegations by some that insurers should have provided more relief for customers, do not justify ignoring the financial realities of the present.”
Since pandemic restrictions eased, traffic is back nearly to what it was in 2019 before the coronavirus struck, while drivers have become less safe so crashes, injuries and fatalities increased, said Bob Passmore, an APCIA vice president and auto claims expert. Deaths fell slightly last spring for the first time in two years, but any drop in those payments is offset by supply chain shortages and rapidly rising inflation.
Insurers should pay back their pandemic windfall, but Lara hasn't proposed the regulations needed to make them do so, said Consumer Watchdog founder Harvey Rosenfield.
“In fact, it’s not clear to us exactly what the commissioner is doing other than … he’s not approving rate increases,” Rosenfield said. "So while I don't think any company should get a rate increase until they've paid back what they illegally took from California motorists, it’s got to be done through a formal process.”
Thirty-eight rate increase filings are now backed up, along with five new requests filed this month.
Since then, Geico in August closed its three-dozen brick-and-mortar storefronts in California and stopped allowing drivers to buy insurance by phone, although it's still allowing online sales.
Progressive President and Chief Executive Officer Tricia Griffith said in an earnings call last month that the company was slowing its growth in California because of the moratorium, while Allstate has stopped using independent agents and tried to limit customers' payment options until it was blocked from doing so by Lara's office.
“To have them doing things here in California that indicates a pulling back as much as they feasibly can, that’s an indication of an unhealthy marketplace, and we think that’s directly tied to the fact that the insurance commissioner has not reviewed a rate filing in 2 1/2 years,” said Denni Ritter, APCIA's vice president for state government relations.
Massachusetts and New York also stopped considering rate increase requests during the pandemic but have now started again, the insurers said.
Insurers “are becoming increasingly less willing to write new business” in California because of the moratorium, Joseph Lacher Jr., Kemper's president, chief executive officer and chairman said during an earnings call last month.
“In the relative short order, my personal belief is we’ll start to see the markets seize up,” he said. "And I just hope the commissioner doesn’t push it to that point because it will take a long time to restart it.”
Rosenfield doesn't think the industry is in trouble, but he fears that Lara's inaction may give insurers grounds to challenge him in court.
“If there’s one tactic the insurance industry has perfected, it’s trying to blackmail the public by threatening to pull out," he said.
Rosenfield thinks the companies are using the opportunity to cherry-pick their best customers to boost profits by making it tougher for higher-risk consumers to buy insurance. But he criticized Lara for “sort of precipitating a crisis” by not using his regulatory authority to block what he believes to be insurers' discriminatory behavior.
Insurers collectively refunded $2.4 billion to California drivers during the pandemic, though Lara calculated that the rebates fell far short of what consumers were owed. The state has 137 licensed insurance companies that collected more than $17 billion in private passenger auto insurance premiums in 2020, Soller said.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored five of his 34 points in the final two minutes Monday night to help the Milwaukee Bucks hold off a late Orlando rally in a 109-102 win over the Magic. Bobby Portis added 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Bucks, and Jrue Holiday added 17 points, eight rebounds and 10 assists. Franz Wagner led Orlando with 25 points. Markelle Fultz and Paolo Banchero added 20 points each. Banchero also had 12 rebounds for the Magic, who lost their ninth straight.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Authorities throughout southwest Florida will hit the road on Thursday in communities battered by the massive Hurricane Ian to assess damage, clear debris and respond to calls for help as millions of Floridians remain sheltered in place.
Ian, now weakened to a tropical storm, made landfall near Cayo Costa, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon, bringing powerful Category 4 hurricane-strength winds, rain, and surge to the doorsteps of millions. Many coastal communities remained under several inches of floodwater on Thursday and an estimated 2.5 million people were left without electricity.
Videos and images started emerging on Wednesday, as Ian’s eyewall made its way onshore, showing devastating damage and incredibly dangerous flooding.
“The impacts of this storm are historic and the damage that was done has been historic,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a press briefing on Thursday morning.
The governor said teams were deployed throughout the region Thursday morning to begin rescue efforts. No official death toll was stated during the briefing, but the governor did clarify a comment made by the Lee County sheriff, who said there were likely hundreds of fatalities.
“None of that is confirmed. I think what that is, is there were 911 calls for people saying, ‘Hey, the water is rising in my home, I’m going to go up in the attic but I’m really worried,'” DeSantis said. “Of course, those folks are now going to be checked on and I think you’ll have more clarity about that in the next day or so as they’re able to go to those locations to determine whether people need services or are able to be rescued.”
The governor said there are two “unconfirmed” fatalities, meaning authorities don’t know if the deaths are linked to the storm.
“Our assumption is it likely is, and so basically, FDLE [Florida Department of Law Enforcement] will make that assessment and then that will be reported,” he said.
Authorities confirmed at least one death, a 72-year-old man was found dead early Thursday in water in a canal behind his home in Deltona near Daytona Beach. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said he appeared to be using a hose to drain his pool into the wide canal and fell down an incline that was “extremely soft and slippery due to the heavy rain.”
Authorities are urging people in areas hit by the storm to avoid going outside for now until crews can assess the damage.
“Please do not rush outside and think you can travel the roads,” said Andy Fossa, director of Pasco County Emergency Management. “There is going to be debris, downed powerlines and structural damage to some structures.”
Fossa said if residents must go outside, they are urged to use extreme caution before venturing out.
“A lot of injuries and fatalities happen post-storm because of these kinds of actions,” Fossa added.
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Seattle could become first U.S. city to outlaw caste discrimination
Among Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she “otherwise loved very much” — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid.
The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 years old when she questioned her grandfather about it. He responded that his granddaughter “talked too much.”
Now 50, and an elected official in a city far from India, Sawant has proposed an ordinance to add caste to Seattle’s anti-discrimination laws. If the council approves it Tuesday, Seattle will become the first U.S. city to specifically outlaw caste discrimination.
In India, the caste system’s origins can be traced back 3,000 years as a social hierarchy based on birth. While the definition of caste has evolved, under Muslim and British rule, the suffering of those at the bottom of the caste pyramid, known as Dalits, has continued.
In 1948, India banned caste discrimination, and enshrined that policy in the constitution in 1950. Yet the undercurrents of caste continue across Indian society; caste-based violence is rampant.
The U.S. caste debate has divided the South Asian community. Dalit activists say caste discrimination is prevalent in diaspora communities, surfacing in social relations, housing, education and the tech sector.
Caste discrimination happens in the U.S., too. Activist and artist Thenmozhi Soundararajan discusses her book and her experience in California.
The U.S. is the second-most popular destination for Indians living abroad, according to the Migration Policy Institute, which estimates that the Indian diaspora in the country grew from about 206,000 in 1980 to about 2.7 million in 2021. The group South Asian Americans Leading Together says nearly 5.4 million South Asians live in the U.S. — up from 3.5 million counted in the 2010 census. Most trace their roots to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
There has been strong pushback to anti-discrimination laws and policies that target caste from some groups. They say it will hurt a community that already faces discrimination.
But over the last decade, Dalit activism has garnered support from parts of the diaspora. One recent trend: More Dalits are telling their stories, energizing this movement.
Prem Pariyar, a Dalit Hindu from Nepal, gets emotional as he recalls escaping caste violence in his native village. His family was attacked for taking water from a community tap, said Pariyar, now a social worker in California who serves on Alameda County’s Human Relations Commission. He moved to the U.S. but says he couldn’t escape discrimination.
The policy came after years of activism from Dalit students to bring an end to caste discrimination they encountered on campus.
“I’m fighting so Dalits can be recognized as human beings,” he said.
Pariyar helped caste become a protected category in the California State University system in January 2022. In 2019, Brandeis University near Boston became the first college to include caste in its nondiscrimination policy. Other universities have adopted similar measures.
In a survey of 1,500 South Asians in the U.S. by Oakland-based Equality Labs, 67% of Dalits who responded reported being treated unfairly at their workplace because of their caste and 40% of Dalit students who were surveyed reported facing discrimination in educational institutions, compared with 3% of upper-caste respondents. Also, 40% of Dalit respondents said they felt unwelcome at their place of worship because of caste.
Caste needs to be a legally protected category because Dalits and others harmed by it do not currently have legal redress, said Thenmozhi Soundararajan, founder of Equality Labs. Her parents fled caste oppression in India in the 1970s.
Dudhabhai Kalabhai knew the rules: He could stand outside the village temple and join his hands in a quick, whispered prayer.
“We South Asians have so many difficult historical traumas,” she said. “When we come to this country, we shove all that under the rug and try to be a model minority. The shadow of caste is still there.”
The Dalit American community is not monolithic. Aldrin Deepak, an Indian-born Dalit living near San Francisco, said he has never faced caste discrimination during 35 years in the U.S. He has decorated local Hindu temple deities and hosted community members for Diwali celebrations.
“Making an issue where there is none is only creating more fractures in our community,” he said.
Nikunj Trivedi, the Coalition of Hindus of North America president, views the narrative around caste as “completely twisted.”
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“The understanding of Hinduism is poor in this country,” Trivedi said. “Many people believe caste equals Hinduism, which is simply not true. There is diversity of thought, belief and practice within Hinduism.”
Trivedi said Seattle’s proposed policy is dangerous because it is based on anecdotal reports, not reliable data. He suggests it would be difficult to verify someone’s caste.
Suhag Shukla, executive director of the Hindu American Foundation, called Seattle’s proposed ordinance unconstitutional because it targets an ethnic minority and “sends that message that we are an inherently bigoted community that must be monitored.” Shukla says caste is already covered under existing anti-discrimination laws.
Nikhil Mandalaparthy, deputy executive director of Hindus for Human Rights, disagrees. His Washington, D.C.-based group supports the proposed ordinance. A United Nations report in 2016 said at least 250 million people worldwide still face caste discrimination, which surfaces in various religions.
Indian Independence Day means vastly different things across a country shaped by religious and ethnic conflicts, as well as caste discrimination.
“We want South Asians to have similar access to opportunities and not face discrimination,” he said. “Sometimes that means airing the dirty laundry of the community in public.”
Seattle Councilmember Sawant said current anti-discrimination laws are insufficient and her legislation doesn’t single out one community. More than 150,000 South Asians live in Washington state, with many employed in the tech sector, where Dalit activists say caste-based discrimination has gone unaddressed.
D.B. Sagar faced caste oppression growing up in the 1990s in Nepal. He fled to the U.S. in 2007. Sagar says he still bears physical and emotional scars from it. His family was Dalit and felt shunned by Hinduism and Buddhism.
“We were not allowed to participate in village festivals or enter temples,” he said. “You could change your religion, but you still cannot escape your caste identity.”
Dudhabhai Kalabhai knew the rules: He could stand outside the village temple and join his hands in a quick, whispered prayer.
Sagar, who started the International Commission for Dalit Rights, said he was shocked to encounter similar attitudes in social settings among the U.S. diaspora and wants caste discrimination addressed under the U.S. Civil Rights Act.
His organization is looking into about 150 complaints of housing discrimination from Dalit Americans, he said.
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Musician Cass McCombs’ new album has achieved something he strives for in his songwriting: growth.
Since his 2003 debut album, “A,” he’s been keen to avoid repetition. Nineteen years on, and despite being hailed by The New York Times as “one of the great songwriters of his time,” he still finds songwriting a mysterious process. There’s no predictable method. Developing one’s craft requires digging through layers of hard earth – “mostly shale, and rock, and dirt,” he says – in order to mine rich seams of inspiration. He describes songwriting as a devotional act.
Why We Wrote This
What makes growth possible? With the arrival of his 10th album, “Heartmind,” acclaimed songwriter Cass McCombs discusses what inspires him to progress.
“Heartmind” spans eclectic subjects including the travels of a fictitious jazz-blues band, a discharged soldier wrestling with his conscience, and the birth of a new Earth in which “dinosaurs lumber down Market St.” Mr. McCombs says his songs are like inner dialogues. He tries not to edit too much, capturing the way one’s thoughts can be profound one minute, contradictory the next. Humor figures prominently in his songs.
“The idea was to make something that sounded like something we’d never heard before,” says Mr. McCombs, who is also a published poet. “Like a new territory. Some undiscovered country. Futuristic in a way.”
When Cass McCombs finished recording his 10th album, he emerged with something different from what he’d originally intended. While living in Northern California, the songwriter had been inspired to write about the Old West. His previous album included a precursor, a tune titled “The Great Pixley Train Robbery.” But he found himself intuitively making instead an album titled “Heartmind” (debuting Aug. 19) as a way to handle the loss of several friends.
“Music has a mind of its own,” says Mr. McCombs, whose Americana style encompasses folk, jazz, country, and the improvisational jamming of psychedelic rock. “It always does the opposite of what you want.”
Mr. McCombs’ new album has, however, achieved something he strives for in his songwriting: growth. Since his 2003 debut, “A,” he’s been keen to avoid repetition. Nineteen years on, and despite being hailed by The New York Times as “one of the great songwriters of his time,” he still finds songwriting a mysterious process. There’s no predictable method. Developing one’s craft requires digging through layers of hard earth – “mostly shale, and rock, and dirt,” he says – in order to mine rich seams of inspiration. He describes songwriting as a devotional act.
Why We Wrote This
What makes growth possible? With the arrival of his 10th album, “Heartmind,” acclaimed songwriter Cass McCombs discusses what inspires him to progress.
“If you rest on your laurels or you trust in things that have worked in the past, then the recipe is just mediocrity,” says Mr. McCombs, who is also a published poet. “Then you’re not going to create anything new.”
Eclectic stories
“Heartmind” spans eclectic subjects including the travels of a fictitious jazz-blues band, a discharged soldier wrestling with his conscience, and the birth of a new Earth in which “dinosaurs lumber down Market St.” Mr. McCombs says his songs are like inner dialogues. He tries not to edit too much, capturing the way one’s thoughts can be profound one minute, contradictory the next. Humor figures prominently in his songs.
On the opening track, “Music Is Blue,” Mr. McCombs describes his relationship to the muse as a marriage with ups and downs. But the playful chorus concludes, “I wouldn’t have any other way / I love her, she loves me.”
“Cass’ lyrics have always really stood out to me. They’re just such beautiful storytelling,” says Nicole Schneit (aka Air Waves), whose imminent album “The Dance” features Mr. McCombs on a song called “Alien.” “He dives in a little deeper than other people. ... They can be really deep topics, but he’ll make it kind of catchy.”
“Heartmind” is dedicated to the memory of three fairly young musicians, and McCombs collaborators, who died in 2019 and 2020: Chet “JR” White, Sam Jayne, and Neal Casal.
There’s one song on the album that addresses the loss of a musician friend. But it isn’t a morose eulogy. On the sprightly “Belong To Heaven,” angelic female voices coo over a drum rhythm that snaps like a clapper board. Mr. McCombs’ warm guitar lines are a throwback to the soft rock of FM radio in the 1970s.
The rest of “Heartmind” is infused with the spirit of Mr. McCombs’ former collaborators. As he put it in a press release, “Their memories guided me throughout and hopefully they live through the music.” The result is the most energetic and musically upbeat album of his career.
“Something new”
Making a breakthrough presents its own challenges because you’re upping the ante for the next time, he says.
“A lot of rock music [relies] on set rules and structural things that people have already established years and years ago,” he says. “I’m interested in working with people who want to throw that away and come up with something new.”
When Mr. McCombs enters a recording studio, he comes prepared with songs built on strong foundations. If they’re sturdy, they can support the experimental ideas of producers, engineers, and guest musicians such as Wynonna Judd, multi-instrumentalist
Shahzad Ismaily, and drummer Danielle Haim from the sister trio Haim.
For instance, the “Heartmind” title track features an instrumental coda in which the prevailing winds of a saxophone and Irish uilleann pipes converge. That’s not a combination you hear every day.
“There wasn’t a lot of conversation or deliberations about the arrangements,” says Mr. McCombs. There was, however, plenty of talk about striving for musical progression.
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El Cerrito, Calif. (BCN) — Police in Oakland arrested a man Sunday morning on suspicion of kidnapping after he allegedly failed to return his daughter to her biological mother after having visitation.
The El Cerrito Police Department had issued an earlier alert asking for the public’s assistance in locating the child, Royale Gant, who was last seen on Nov. 15 with her biological father, Dupree Gant, according to the statement from police.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a double blow as voters rejected his Conservative Party in two special parliamentary elections dominated by questions about his leadership and ethics.
He was further wounded when the party’s chairman quit after the results came out early Friday, saying Conservatives “cannot carry on with business as usual,” and a former party leader said the country needed “new leadership.”
The centrist Liberal Democrats overturned a big Conservative majority to win the rural southwest England seat of Tiverton and Honiton, while the main opposition Labour Party reclaimed Wakefield in northern England from Johnson’s Tories.
The contests, triggered by the resignations of Conservative lawmakers hit by sex scandals, offered voters the chance to give their verdict on the prime minister just weeks after 41% of his own MPs voted to oust him.
“The people of Tiverton and Honiton have spoken for Britain,” said the area’s newly elected Liberal Democrat lawmaker, Richard Foord. “They sent a loud and clear message: It’s time for Boris Johnson to go, and go now.”
Defeat in either district would have been a setback for the prime minister’s party. Losing both increases jitters among restive Conservatives who already worry the ebullient but erratic and divisive Johnson is no longer an electoral asset.
Party chairman Oliver Dowden resigned, saying “our supporters are distressed and disappointed by recent events, and I share their feelings.”
“We cannot carry on with business as usual,” said Dowden, previously a staunch Johnson loyalist.
“I will, as always, remain loyal to the Conservative Party,” he said, without offering an endorsement of Johnson.
Former Conservative leader Michael Howard, who like Johnson was a strong backer of Britain’s exit from the European Union, urged the party to remove him as leader.
“The party, and more importantly the country, would be better off under new leadership,” Howard told the BBC.
The prime minister was 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers) away at a Commonwealth summit in Rwanda as the drama unfolded.
The electoral tests came as Britain faces the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation, with Russia’s war in Ukraine squeezing supplies of energy and food staples at a time of soaring consumer demand while the coronavirus pandemic recedes.
“I’m not going to pretend these are brilliant results,” Johnson said at a news conference in Kigali. “We’ve got to listen, we’ve got to learn. … When people are finding it tough, they send messages to politicians, and politicians have got to respond.”
Johnson won a big majority in a 2019 general election by keeping the Conservatives’ traditional voters — affluent, older and concentrated in southern England — and winning new ones in poorer, post-industrial northern towns where many residents felt overlooked by governments for decades.
Thursday’s elections brought defeat on both fronts. Rural Tiverton and Honiton has voted Conservative for generations, while Wakefield is a northern district that the Tories won in 2019 from Labour.
Labour’s widely expected victory in Wakefield — whose previous Conservative legislator resigned after being convicted of sexual assault — is a boost to a party that has been out of office nationally since 2010.
Labour leader Keir Starmer said it showed the party “is back on the side of working people, winning seats where we lost before, and ready for government.”
Pollsters had said the Tiverton and Honiton race was tight, but the Liberal Democrats overturned a 24,000-vote Conservative majority to win by more than 6,000 votes. The election was called when the district’s Conservative lawmaker resigned after being caught looking at pornography in the House of Commons chamber.
Even with the defeats, which erode his already shaky authority among his own lawmakers, Johnson his party holds a large majority in Parliament. But Conservatives are increasingly concerned that the qualities that led them to make Johnson their leader — including a populist ability to bend the rules and get away with it — may now be a liability.
Ethics allegations have buffeted the prime minister for months, culminating in a scandal over parties held in government buildings while millions of others were banned from meeting friends and family during coronavirus lockdowns.
Johnson was one of 83 people fined by police for attending the parties, making him the first prime minister found to have broken the law while in office. A civil servant’s report on the “partygate” scandal said Johnson must bear responsibility for “failures of leadership and judgment” that created a culture of rule-breaking in government.
He survived a no-confidence vote by his own party this month but was left weakened after 41% of Conservative lawmakers voted to remove him.
Under party rules, Johnson can’t face another such vote for a year, but Friday’s defeats will increase pressure to change that.
“These are pretty dire results,” said Conservative lawmaker Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, a senior member of the committee that oversees party no-confidence votes.
“Serious discussions will be had in the next few days and weeks and then we will all have to make difficult decisions,” he said.
Johnson also faces a parliamentary ethics probe that could conclude he deliberately misled Parliament over “partygate” — traditionally a resigning offense.
Conservative lawmaker Roger Gale, a long-time Johnson critic, reiterated his calls for the prime minister to quit now.
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IRVINE, Calif., April 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Motor Corporation (Alpha) announced today that the company successfully debuted its Wolf and Wolf Plus Electric Trucks at the Seoul Mobility Show. Over 500,000 visitors attended Korea's premiere automotive exhibition with 164 affiliated companies participating from 12 countries. The Seoul Mobility Show is said to be the largest mobility show in Korea.
Alpha's exhibition at the Seoul Mobility Show is now available to view at https://youtu.be/IaOuurt36uo. High resolution photos from the event are accessible at https://www.alphamotorinc.com/sms2023.
Edward Lee and Jada Lee, Founders of Alpha Motor Corporation presented to the public at the 2023 Seoul Mobility Show, where the Wolf and Wolf Plus Electric Trucks made their international debut.
"We are incredibly honored to be here today to share a memory with you, which we hope will spark a chain reaction.
Our vision to Move Humanity® is intended to provide anyone who wishes to contribute to our goals and vision an opportunity to follow their own passion.
At the heart of our creation, we aspire to create a culture that positively reinforces giving recognition where it is due. This is an important pillar for a venture that will shape the way people are motivated and inspired, which will consequently bring about remarkable innovations.
Success of Alpha Motor will hinge on its authenticity, empowerment, and support from all of its believers. We are created for those believers.
We invite you to experience our Wolf, Wolf+ and our vision moving forward. Please come witness how a dream became reality," said Jada Lee Co-Founder, Vice Chairman of Alpha Motor Corporation.
The 2023 Seoul Mobility Show opened on March 30 to Press and Media organizations. Alpha's exhibition was located at the front of the main entrance of the Seoul Mobility Show, which made it easy for visitors to find Alpha.
News and media outlets in Korea provided reviews of Alpha which also included interviews with its leadership. The Seoul Mobility Show officially opened to the general public from March 31 and continued into the weekend when the highest number of visitors were recorded with an estimated 200,000 people. The event concluded on April 9.
Through the experience at the 2023 Seoul Mobility Show, Alpha was able to receive confirmation on its direction:
Authentic Brand – People of the Seoul Mobility Show resonated with Alpha's Move Humanity® vision of innovating mobility to accelerate a green economy. Alpha's genuine commitment to commercialize its EVs was presented to and welcomed by the public. Alpha's brand was perceived to be on par with what the market in Korea may consider to be a premium brand.
Unique Market Position – Consumers in Korea felt that Alpha's trucks were a much-needed innovation to the EV segment as well as a solution for niche markets such as camping, which have been rapidly rising in popularity. Considering Alpha's ability to swiftly bring about tangible products, consumers in Korea expressed their interest for more vehicles in Alpha's lineup including SAGA, JAX, ACE, and REX.
Product Design Excellence – An ongoing strength of Alpha, visitors of all ages were drawn to Alpha's EV designs. Several people commented that they could relate with Alpha and at the same time felt that its designs were refreshingly new and functionally well resolved.
Commercial Feasibility – Wolf and Wolf Plus electric trucks demonstrated mature and detailed execution in feasibility. Spanning across the overall footprint, architecture, materials, fit and finish, to projected performance specifications within such footprint, Alpha's products were well accepted as a desirable future product by potential consumers in Korea.
Visionary Leadership – Visitors of the Seoul Mobility Show looked favorably towards Alpha's industry experience, positive vision to Move Humanity®, and the company's product roadmap which was presented at the Seoul Mobility Show.
"We are moving forward in commercializing Alpha because the world needs our electric vehicles. Alpha is committed to Move Humanity® and we are closer to achieving our goal after successfully exhibiting to over 500,000 people at the Seoul Mobility Show," said Edward Lee, Founder, CEO of Alpha Motor Corporation.
About Wolf Plus Electric Truck
The Alpha Wolf Plus puts an additional emphasis on utility, while preserving the persona of Alpha's revolutionary Wolf Plus electric truck. The multipurpose Wolf Plus is built for utility and adventure. It has an extended cabin that accommodates four passengers, with access provided through two full-size doors for the driver and front passenger, and two three-quarter size doors that hinge backwards for open rear seat occupancy.
Wolf Plus vehicle dimensions measure approximately 5,287mm (208in) in length, 1900mm (75in) in width, and 1765mm (69in) in height. The truck bed measures approximately 1652mm (65in) in length, 1490mm (59in) in width, and 450mm (18in) in depth for a total of 40 cubic feet of truck bed storage.
About Alpha Motor Corporation
Alpha Motor Corporation (Alpha) is an award-winning American automobile company focused on manufacturing mobility solutions that Move Humanity®. We innovate sustainable transportation for the wellness of people and our environment by implementing advanced automotive technologies and disruptive industrial practices. Based in Irvine, California, Alpha is committed to creating the kinds of electric vehicles we believe the world has always wanted to see but that have not existed – until now.
About Seoul Mobility Show
The Seoul Mobility Show is a biannual international event and is the only automobile exhibition in Korea accredited by the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers. The first show was held in 1995.
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Shortages for key drugs continue amid surge in illnesses
(CNN) - Grocery stores aren’t the only places sometimes dealing with empty shelves.
Many people in the U.S. are also having trouble finding high-profile prescription drugs. Among those hard-to-find medications: the antibiotic amoxicillin and the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder treatment Adderall.
Experts said shortages are common for a variety of reasons, including expense.
However this time, some of these shortages are being caused by a significant recent rise in three viral illnesses: COVID-19, RSV and the flu.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association said drugmakers are working nonstop to fill the demand and recommends that patients should follow the advice of their healthcare providers for alternatives, if necessary.
The Food and Drug Administration also said it is keeping close watch on the matter and will do what it can to help increase production.
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NPR's Michel Martin talks to Washington Post reporter Lizzie Johnson about continuing the work of a slain Las Vegas journalist who had investigated a huge Ponzi scheme.
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NPR's Michel Martin talks to Washington Post reporter Lizzie Johnson about continuing the work of a slain Las Vegas journalist who had investigated a huge Ponzi scheme.
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KLAMATH NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. – CAL FIRE said the Yeti Fire’s behavior was moderate overnight.
However, officials said it was the most active in the Highway 96 Klamath River Corridor.
CAL Fire says there’s still a considerable amount of the fire that doesn’t have containment lines.
The Yeti Fire is nearly 6,500 acres and is 0% contained.
The Forest Service said the lightning-sparked fire currently threatens 336 structures.
The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said due to the fire near Happy Camp, the following zones are under evacuation warnings:
ZONE SIS-1221
NORTH OF China Grade Road, Indian Creek Road
SOUTH OF Highway 96, Indian Creek Road
EAST OF Indian Creek Road
WEST OF Mill Road
ZONE SIS-1212
NORTH OF Buckhorn Road, Indian Creek Road
SOUTH OF Indian Meadows Drive, Indian Creek Road
EAST OF Buckhorn Road
WEST OF Indian Creek Road
ZONE SIS-1215
NORTH OF Highway 96, Lower Elk Creek Road, FR 17n16
SOUTH OF FR 17n16, Lower Airport Road, Buckhorn Road
EAST OF Lower Elk Creek Road
WEST OF 2nd Avenue, Indian Creek Road
ZONE SIS-1218
NORTH OF Forest Route 15n12
SOUTH OF Highway 96
EAST OF Highway 96
WEST OF Forest Route 45n85, Elk Creek Road
ZONE SIS-1230 A
NORTH OF Cougar Creek
SOUTH OF Forest Route 45n85
EAST OF Highway 96, Lower Elk Creek Road, FR 15n12
WEST OF Forest Route 45n19
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Grindr to distribute free home HIV tests
(CNN) - A popular LGBTQ+ dating app is working to combat the spread of HIV.
Grindr is distributing free at-home HIV tests to users in the United States as part of a new public health initiative.
HIV continues to affect the gay, bi and trans-community more than many other groups.
The test is now available to order from the app’s main menu. Just look for the “free HIV home test” button.
People will get an OraQuick kit. It is an FDA-approved, over-the-counter test that works by swabbing the gums. Results take about 20 minutes.
Grindr partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University and Building Healthy Online Communities, a consortium of public health programs and gay dating apps.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Lucy McBath wins reelection to U.S. House in Georgia's 7th Congressional District.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Hundreds of Sri Lankans on Tuesday rallied against a government crackdown and the use of emergency laws against peaceful protesters demanding answers to the country’s worst economic crisis.
Protesters led by religious and trade union leaders marched to the Independence Square in Colombo and made several demands to the government including the withdrawal of emergency laws, an end to the arrests of peaceful protesters, the immediate dissolution of Parliament and relief for those burdened by the hardship and shortages of basic supplies.
Four months of street protests culminated last month when former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to Singapore and resigned after demonstrators stormed his official home and occupied several key government buildings. His brother Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned as prime minister in May and four other family members had quit as ministers before him.
Protesters accuse the Rajapaksa family of plunging the country into the crisis through mismanagement and corruption.
The former prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was elected by Parliament to complete Rajapaksa’s five-year term until 2024, but many of the protesters are unhappy with him and say he was backed by lawmakers who are still loyal to the Rajapaksas to protect the former ruling family from being held accountable.
Several groups had initially called a major rally to force Wickremesinghe out of office but a lack of support forced them to hold smaller protests. They called for a temporary government, the dissolution of Parliament and fresh elections.
Since his election, Wickremesinghe has authorized the military and police to violently dismantle protest camps and arrest those they identified to have trespassed the presidential palace and other state buildings.
Wickremesinghe on Tuesday visited the army headquarters and thanked soldiers who protected Parliament when protesters tried to enter last month.
“If we had lost Parliament, it would have created a big problem … we would have lost the governance system that we know,” Wickremesinghe said, adding that now it was up to lawmakers to win over the confidence of the people. | https://pix11.com/ap-international/sri-lankans-rally-against-crackdown-on-protesters/ | 2022-08-10 16:39:57 | 1 | https://pix11.com/ap-international/sri-lankans-rally-against-crackdown-on-protesters/ |
oVice, a Japan-based virtual office platform, announces a 45 billion yen (around $32.5 million) Series B funding round led by multiple investors. The company plans on creating solutions that streamline remote and hybrid work and facilitate employee onboarding, team management, and online collaboration.
NANAO, Japan, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- oVice was launched in 2020 as a way to give teams, disconnected during the pandemic, a common meeting point. It offers fully customizable virtual spaces for offices, online classrooms, and event venues.
As of 2022, oVice has long-term contracts with over 2,200 organizations and boasts over $6 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). More than 60,000 daily active users log into the platform to work in over 30,000 spaces created since its launch.
oVice plans to solidify its standing as a leading online collaboration platform in Japan and grow its user base overseas. Furthermore, the company is focusing on creating new solutions for hybrid work — an approach that combines in-office work and telecommuting.
To that end, oVice secured a $32 million Series B funding round led by a group of Japanese and overseas investors. The investment puts the company's total raised capital at $45 million.
The oVice team is allocating these resources in four key directions:
- Building solutions tailored to hybrid workplaces that help align office and remote teams
- Overseas expansion in North America, Europe, and other regions.
- Attracting top talent to the project
- Marketing and PR activities
According to Sae Hyung Jung, the CEO of oVice: "The end goal is to create a platform that would eliminate friction in remote and hybrid workflows: employee onboarding, instant communication, and team building. oVice is hoping to achieve this by bringing the social benefits of the physical office — visibility, accessibility, and immediacy — to online interactions".
During the last two years, the platform's consistent growth proved that organizations have a long-term interest in virtual office technology. In the future, the oVice team aims to make virtual offices an integral part of remote and hybrid collaboration tech stacks.
About oVice
oVice is a global virtual office space provider designed to facilitate collaboration and talent management in hybrid and remote workplaces. The platform pioneered the concept of the virtual office — an online space that resembles a physical office by design and features - in Japan and became one of the leading SaaS companies in the country.
Like a physical office, oVice enables instant connections and gives a clear view of who is available at the moment. First-time users can experience the features of the platform and directly connect with the product team in a public tour space.
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A dozen people came down with mpox in Chicago around early May, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to warn doctors of a potential mpox resurgence.
To those that were watching mpox closely, the increase in U.S. cases wasn't a surprise. New cases had been recently reported in Europe, and U.S. health officials had been warning that low mpox vaccination rates in many parts of the country left at-risk people particularly vulnerable.
"We've been beating the drum around the possibility of an increased number of mpox cases for months," says Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, deputy coordinator of the White House National Mpox Response. "But it wasn't until the cases in Chicago were reported that people started to say 'Oh my gosh, we're at risk for a resurgence.'"
The Chicago outbreak has now grown to more than 30 mpox cases. While those numbers are far lower than last summer, they show that mpox never fully went away.
Health officials say the conditions in the U.S. are ripe for a summer surge, if actions are not taken to avert it.
Low vaccination rates
More than half a million people at risk live in areas with low vaccination rates, according to CDC. This puts them in danger of large, sustained outbreaks that could last for months, if mpox reappears.
During the U.S. outbreak that started last spring, most cases of mpox have been in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. "This is moving primarily through close skin-to-skin contact, often in the context of sexual activity and often related to sexual activity between men," Daskalakis says.
Cities such as Jacksonville, Fla., Memphis, Tenn., Cincinnati, Baltimore, Houston and Dallas are in counties where many at risk aren't vaccinated, according to a CDC analysis. Other cities, including San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C., are in places with high vaccination rates, where mpox is more likely to be quickly contained if it resurfaces.
Over all, CDC data shows that only around 23% of the 1.7 million people at high risk in the U.S. have been fully vaccinated with two doses of the JYNNEOS vaccine. The disease is disproportionately affecting Black and Latino men, who represent around two-thirds of U.S. cases.
Recent studies found that getting two doses of vaccine is more protective than one. However "even among those who received vaccinations last summer, [many] people who got their first dose of vaccine never returned for their second dose, because they thought we were done with the outbreak," once case numbers dropped last year, says Dr. Boghuma Titanji, an assistant professor of medicine and an infectious diseases specialist at Emory University.
Prior immunity only partially protects
New evidence also shows that people with prior immunity, either through vaccination or recovering from an infection, can get mpox again.
Many people in the recent mpox clusters in Chicago and abroad in France were fully vaccinated. This does not mean that vaccination isn't useful, Daskalakis says. So far, the evidence shows that full vaccination is somewhere between 66% and 86% effective at preventing infection – and anecdotally, the new cases of mpox in fully vaccinated people haven't been severe. "They just have very low-grade infections, some with almost no symptoms," he says, "If it doesn't prevent infection, it prevents a lot of the bad stuff that happened in summer 2022."
While the U.S. has seen low fatalities with mpox, it can cause serious illness. "It's still a disease that can be disfiguring. It can cause severe pain, and for people who are immunocompromised can even be fatal. It's not a trivial occurrence," Titanji says.
As Pride Month starts, health officials are urging revelers to promote good health. "Pride is the opportunity to reach out to people and prevent impacts," Daskalakis says. Those who are eligible for mpox vaccination should get their two doses. Everyone – including those who had mpox before – should be aware of the risk. "If you got a funny rash, it could be mpox, so go get tested," he says, adding that tests are much more plentiful and easier to get than last summer.
From Daskalakis' perspective, there appears to be a storm brewing. Low vaccination rates, prior immunity that's only partially protective, and warm weather partying could combine to give mpox opportunities to spread — but there are also ways to limit the impacts of that storm. "Models are an attempt to forecast the future, and action is our ability to change the future," he says. Improving vaccination rates and awareness among those at risk could prevent a widespread summer surge.
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SAN ANTONIO — An 8-month-old baby girl was fatally shot during a struggle over a gun by her parents Wednesday, police say.
It happened in the 2100 block of NE Loop 410 near Starcrest on the northeast side of town around 6:55 p.m.
Police say the baby's mother and father got into an argument about a gun that the father was carrying. The baby's mother claimed the gun belonged to her and that she wanted it back.
They struggled over the gun and during the struggle, the gun accidentally discharged hitting the baby.
She was rushed to the hospital by a family member, but was pronounced dead.
The suspect fled the scene before the officers arrived.
Officers searched the area for him, but he was not found.
This case is pending further investigation.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lupus Foundation of America is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 Gary S. Gilkeson Career Development Award (CDA). The two-year grant supports early career scientists studying important areas of lupus research, while providing mentorship and guidance, helping continued professional growth that builds the lupus research field.
The 2022 recipients are:
- Tala El Tal, MD, Hospital for Sick Children
- Yevgeniya Gartshteyn, MD, Columbia University
- Rufei Lu, MD, PhD, The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco
- Rachel Randell, MD, Duke University
"The Lupus Foundation of America's Gary S. Gilkeson Career Development Award continues to play an important role in growing the number of lupus-focused researchers by supporting them with funding and mentorship during this pivotal time in their career. These early career scientists bring a fresh perspective and drive to lupus research that have the promise to lead to the next breakthrough, a better understanding of lupus and innovative treatments," shared Karen H. Costenbader, MD, MPH, Chair of the Lupus Foundation of America's Medical-Scientific Advisory Council.
This year's grantees will focus their research on pediatric lupus, neuropsychiatric lupus and cognitive challenges, and potential new treatment pathways. Each grantee works with an established clinical scientist as a mentor.
"The Lupus Foundation of America's Gary S. Gilkeson Career Development Award encourages young investigators to engage in lupus research early in their careers, setting the stage for their long-term commitment in the field," shared Laura Schanberg, MD, professor of pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, one of this year's grantee mentors. "The grant not only provides the opportunity and funding for young scientists to pursue research, but it ensures they receive the support and guidance needed from experienced mentors."
The 2022 Career Development Award recipients are committed to advancing the field by studying the following important areas of lupus research:
- Tala El Tal, MD, will study cognitive impairment in children and adolescents with lupus. The study will help improve the understanding of possible links between other lupus factors and cognitive impairment in pediatric patients, and how it affects children and adolescents over time as their brains develop.
- Yevgeniya Gartshteyn, MD, PhD, will study T-cell subtypes as a potential treatment pathway for lupus. While many lupus treatments target T-Cells, part of the immune system that normally fights infection, this study will look at subtypes to better understand how they work to be able to design better treatments.
- Rufei Lu, MD, PhD, will be looking at the potential causes of neurological lupus symptoms, such as confusion and anxiety disorders. The research aims to create an enhanced understanding of how unhealthy immune cells attack the cells in the brain. This could pave the way for future studies and the development of potential therapies for people with lupus with neurological complications.
- Rachel Randell, MD, aims to improve medication taking behaviors among children and adolescents with lupus. The study will help further the understanding of factors associated with taking medications correctly, as well as the feasibility of using an app to measure medication taking as prescribed to improve patient health over time.
Each research study by the CDA grantees will strategically advance the Foundation's research agenda, which includes serving as the leader in supporting childhood lupus research. Established in 2006, the LFA's Michael Jon Barlin Childhood Lupus Research Program is the first and only national childhood lupus research program, and calls on some of the greatest minds in the field to address the most urgent challenges in this area of medicine.
Learn more about the Gary S. Gilkeson Career Development Award and its 2022 grantees, here.
Lupus is an unpredictable and misunderstood autoimmune disease that ravages different parts of the body. It is difficult to diagnose, hard to live with and a challenge to treat. Lupus is a cruel mystery because it is hidden from view and undefined, has a range of symptoms, strikes without warning, and has no known cause and no known cure. Its health effects can range from a skin rash to a heart attack. Lupus is debilitating and destructive and can be fatal, yet research on lupus remains underfunded relative to diseases of similar scope and devastation.
The Lupus Foundation of America is the national force devoted to solving the mystery of lupus, one of the world's cruelest, most unpredictable and devastating diseases, while giving caring support to those who suffer from its brutal impact. Through a comprehensive program of research, education, and advocacy, we lead the fight to improve the quality of life for all people affected by lupus. Learn more about the Lupus Foundation of America at lupus.org.
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Percentages: FG .451, FT .500.
3-Point Goals: 8-25, .320 (Alston 5-10, Norris 2-3, Schwieger 1-5, Kennedy 0-1, Welch 0-1, Wilson 0-2, Quinn 0-3).
Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 2 (Quinn, Schwieger).
Turnovers: 18 (Norris 4, Kennedy 3, Quinn 3, Schwieger 3, Alston 2, Golden 2, Hutson).
Steals: 5 (Kennedy, Norris, Quinn, Welch, Wilson).
Technical Fouls: None.
Percentages: FG .431, FT .929.
3-Point Goals: 9-27, .333 (Grant 3-9, Gunn 2-4, Brewer 2-6, Reece 1-3, Clark 1-5).
Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 4 (Williams 2, Reece, Rotroff).
Turnovers: 11 (Brewer 2, Clark 2, Reece 2, Williams 2, Barre, Grant, Hronsky).
Steals: 9 (Clark 4, Reece 2, Brewer, Grant, Rotroff).
Technical Fouls: None.
A_1,964 (4,406). | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/duquesne-72-loyola-chicago-58-17742464.php | 2023-01-26 03:05:07 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/duquesne-72-loyola-chicago-58-17742464.php |
(NewsNation) — If you’ve found yourself dipping into your savings to deal with inflation, you’re not alone. A Forbes Advisor survey found that two-thirds of Americans say they’re using savings as prices for goods and services continue to spike.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. households started to save. At the end of 2021, Americans stashed away a combined $2.7 trillion, according to Moody’s Analytics.
But as the world reopened, so did wallets.
“I was so inclined to do things now that I had that money saved, and I was like, ‘Cool, great, I have this, so much money,'” California resident Jennifer LaMonaca said. “And now I want to hang out with my friends, I want to go to happy hour, I want to go to brunch. I want to go those places.”
This urge to go out again, combined with soaring inflation caused by strong consumer demand, a hot labor market and outside factors such as the war in Ukraine, have caused people’s rainy day funds to dwindle. The latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows people’s personal savings rates were just under 5.5% in May. That’s very close to its lowest rate since the 2008 recession.
“With inflation the highest it’s been in 40 years, everyone has taken a pay cut. At the same time, we’re all trying to race out, take vacations, go out to happy hours,” said Dan Roccato, a finance professor at the University of San Diego. “That money has to come from somewhere.”
Still, Roccato says, there are a few ways people can start making small changes and build their savings back up.
- Go through your budget: “I guarantee you there’s at least one streaming service that you picked up and I picked up over the course of the pandemic that we probably don’t need. Get rid of it.”
- Defer major purchases: “Now’s not the time to sign up for some big-money buys. Let’s wait on those for a few months at least.”
- Focus on whittling down credit card debt: “A lot of us have credit cards the size of Wyoming. Let’s see if we can get those balances down. That’ll free up some space in our budgets.”
- Add a side gig: “Maybe you got some spare time. You can walk some dogs, babysit some kids, whatever the case may be, but add another stream of income.”
Roccato’s main advice, especially for those living paycheck to paycheck, is to tuck away one’s month’s worth of savings. Then, do the same next month.
“Let’s focus on that baby step,” Rocatto said. “Let’s take it one month at a time.” | https://www.koin.com/news/americans-savings-dwindle-as-inflation-continues-to-soar/ | 2022-07-06 20:12:31 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/americans-savings-dwindle-as-inflation-continues-to-soar/ |
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The United Nations says "famine is at the door" in Somalia with "concrete indications" famine will occur later this year in the southern Bay region. This falls just short of a formal famine declaration in Somalia as thousands are dying in a historic drought made worse by the effects of the war in Ukraine.
U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told reporters that he was "shocked to my core these past few days" on a visit to Somalia in which he witnessed starving babies too weak to cry.
A formal famine declaration is rare and a warning that too little help has come too late. At least 1 million people in Somalia have been displaced by the worst drought in decades, driven by climate change, that also affects the wider Horn of Africa including Ethiopia and Kenya.
Famine is the extreme lack of food and a significant death rate from outright starvation or malnutrition combined with diseases like cholera. A declaration means data shows more than a fifth of households have extreme food gaps, more than 30% of children are acutely malnourished and over two people out of 10,000 are dying every day.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been described as a disaster for Somalia, which has suffered from a shortage of humanitarian aid as international donors focus on Europe. Somalia also sourced at least 90% of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine before the war and has been hit hard by scarcity and the sharp rise in food prices.
"Ukraine has occupied the narrative," Griffiths said.
Hungry families in Somalia have been staggering for days or weeks on foot through parched terrain in search of assistance. Many bury family members along the way. Even when they reach camps outside urban areas, they find little or no help.
At one camp outside the capital, Mogadishu, Fadumo Abdi Aliyow showed The Associated Press the graves of her two small sons next to their makeshift home. Disease had overwhelmed their weakened bodies. One was 4. The other was eight months old.
"I wanted to die before them so they could bury me," Aliyow said. Another resident of the camp of 1,800 families, Samey Adan Mohamed, said the last meal she and her eight children had was rice a day ago. Today they had only tea.
Camps like theirs are ringed by death, bringing aid workers to tears. "I couldn't get out of my head the tiny mounds of ground marking children's graves," UNICEF's deputy regional director Rania Dagash said last week. "I'm from this region and I've never seen it so bad."
A formal famine declaration would bring desperately needed funding. But "tragically, by the time a famine is declared, it's already too late," the U.N. World Food Program has said.
When famine was declared in parts of Somalia in 2011, the deaths of a quarter-million people were well underway.
"This is not a repeat of the 2011 famine. It is much worse," the U.N. humanitarian agency said last week. So far, at least 730 children have died in nutrition centers across Somalia, it said, and more than 213,000 people are at "imminent risk" of dying.
"You feel like you're looking at the face of death," Mercy Corps CEO Tjada McKenna told the AP after visiting the badly hit city of Baidoa. There is not enough therapeutic food to treat the acutely malnourished, said McKenna, who saw many young children and pregnant women. "For every one person I saw, imagine all the people who couldn't get that far. And so many people were arriving each day."
At the same time, aid funding has dropped more than 60% from the response to Somalia's previous drought in 2017, USAID administrator Samantha Power said last week, noting a "degree of despair and devastation" not seen before in her career.
The Horn of Africa region has seen four straight failed rainy seasons for the first time in well over four decades. The upcoming rainy season is also expected to fail. That endangers an estimated 20 million people in one of the world's most impoverished and turbulent regions.
"Sadly, our models show with a high degree of confidence that we are entering the fifth consecutive failed rainy season," the director of the regional climate prediction center, Guleid Artan, has said. "In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, we are on the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe."
The rainfall in this year's failed March-to-May season was the lowest in the last six decades, Artan told the AP. Next year's March-to-May season doesn't look good either, he said, worrying that "this could be the seven-year drought, the biblical one."
Formal famine declarations are rare because data to meet the benchmarks often cannot be obtained because of conflict, poor infrastructure or politics. Governments can be wary of being associated with a term of such grim magnitude. Somalia's recently elected president, however, appointed a drought envoy in one of his first acts in office, which Griffiths called "impressive."
Because of the remote nature of Somalia's drought, and with some hard-hit areas under the control of the al-Shabab extremist group which has been hostile to humanitarian efforts, no one knows how many people have died — or will in the months to come.
Hundreds of calls from across Somalia, including from al-Shabab-controlled areas, come in daily to the Somali-run Radio Ergo. Some say no aid is available in camps. Others say water sources have run dry or lament the loss of millions of livestock that are the foundation of their health and wealth.
"People don't cry because they want their voice to be heard," radio editor Leyla Mohamed told the AP. "But you can feel they are hurting, that they feel more than we can hear."
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WELLINGTON – Sarah Leslie thought she was witnessing a stunt when she saw an American soldier start sprinting toward North Korea.
Leslie and her father, tourists from New Zealand, were part of a group that left Tuesday morning from Seoul to visit the Demilitarized Zone that divides South and North Korea.
Private 2nd Class Travis King was among the group of 43 tourists, Leslie told The Associated Press, although he was casually dressed in jeans and a T-shirt and she had no idea at the time that he was a soldier, or in legal trouble.
King, 23, was a cavalry scout with the 1st Armored Division who had served nearly two months in a South Korean prison for assault. He was released on July 10 and was supposed to travel home Monday to Fort Bliss, Texas, where he could have faced additional military discipline and discharge from the service.
Leslie said her tour group went a step further than many by visiting the Joint Security Area in the village of Panmunjom, allowing tourists to effectively step on North Korean soil inside one of the buildings, which are jointly held. To get on such a tour, she said, required submitting their passports and getting permits in advance.
The group left Seoul by bus in the early morning, and Leslie noticed that King was traveling alone and didn't seem to talk to others on the tour. At one point, she said, he bought a DMZ hat from a gift shop.
The tour was nearing its end Tuesday afternoon — the group had just walked out of the building and were milling about taking photos — when she saw King running “really fast.”
“I assumed initially he had a mate filming him in some kind of really stupid prank or stunt, like a TikTok, the most stupid thing you could do,” Leslie said. “But then I heard one of the soldiers shout, ‘Get that guy.’"
Leslie said the command was shouted by an American soldier, one of a group that patrols the area along with South Korean troops.
But the soldiers didn't have time to respond. She said that after running about 10 meters (30 feet) down a narrow passageway between the distinctive blue buildings, King was over the border and then disappeared from sight. It was all over in a few seconds.
Leslie said she didn't see any people on the North Korean side. The tour group had been told earlier the North Koreans there had been lying low since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
After King ran, she said, the soldiers hustled all the tourists into a building and then took them to an information center to give statements. She said many of the tourists, including her father, hadn't seen King run but a soldier explained the events to them.
“People couldn't really quite believe what had happened,” Leslie said. “Quite a few were really shocked. Once we got on the bus and got out of there we were all kind of staring at each other."
Leslie, a lawyer from New Zealand's capital, Wellington, said she'd long had an interest in the Koreas after studying politics at university and seeing South Korean movies.
She said she found it hard to understand why King would head to North Korea.
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Vigil held after newborn baby’s body found abandoned in a field
WHITEWATER, Wis. (WMTV/Gray News) - A vigil was held Saturday night for an unnamed baby found dead in a field near a Wisconsin mobile home park.
WMTV reported there were about 70 people gathered outside of Twin Oaks mobile home park in Whitewater a week after the newborn infant’s body was discovered.
Pam Brotzman, who has been a Whitewater resident for over 60 years, said she has seen a lot in her time there, but had never witnessed the body of a baby found abandoned in the cold near there.
“This is a first for Whitewater,” she said. “My heart jumped in my throat. I just kept saying, ‘Don’t let it be true. Don’t let it be true.’ It turned out it was.’’
Brotzman said she felt people needed closure, so she organized the vigil for the unnamed child.
Chapel Whitewater Pastor Kevin Tranel, who has five children of his own, said the baby’s death feels personal.
“This is very painful for anyone that is experiencing the loss of a baby that young and a community that’s losing a baby at that age,” he said.
Tranel spoke at the vigil, although he said words were hard to find when consoling the community about a life taken too soon.
“It’s tough. Sometimes that’s where I don’t always have the words but it’s more about being able to give kindness and love,” he said. “I know from my own life that’s what brings healing amidst the pain.”
Whitewater’s chief of police has not released details regarding the investigation into the baby’s death.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The flu shut down Anthony Davis. That’s the only thing that has stopped him lately.
Davis was forced to leave Los Angeles’ game against the Cleveland Cavaliers after the first quarter on Tuesday night and the Lakers struggled without their All-Star center in a 116-102 loss.
Davis had scored 99 points in his previous two games and had been on a tear over the past 10 as the Lakers went 8-2 to erase most of a horrible start this season. He scored just one point in eight minutes before he was forced to leave.
Davis didn’t attempt a shot while adding three rebounds and two assists before being forced to call it a night.
Lakers coach Darvin Ham said Davis’ symptoms gradually got worse during the course of the day.
“His temperature was 101 and some change,” Ham said. “A-D wanted to try to play, but he felt too weak. He’s drained and dehydrated. That’s a huge loss, obviously, with the way he’s been playing lately.”
Ham said Davis is unlikely to play on Wednesday in Toronto. He also stressed Davis had not tested positive for COVID-19.
“Because of COVID, people forget that there is a common cold and a common flu out there,” Ham said. “That’s what we’re dealing with here.”
The eight-time All-Star, who has played just 76 games over the past two seasons due to injuries, was chosen Western Conference player of the week on Monday after averaging 37.8 points, 13.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 3.3 blocks in four games.
In his previous 10 games, the 29-year-old averaged 34.2 points and 15.4 rebounds. He also shot 63% from the floor and 86% from the free throw line.
Davis scored 55 points in Sunday night’s win at Washington, adding 17 rebounds and three blocked shots. He dropped 44 points in the previous game against Milwaukee.
Without him, the Lakers lacked an inside defensive presence and Cavs center Jarrett Allen scored 24 points, 22 in the first half on 10-of-11 shooting.
LeBron James tried to pick up the slack, grabbing 17 rebounds — his most ever in a road game. Reserve Thomas Bryant replaced Davis and scored a season-high 19 points in 28 minutes but Los Angeles couldn’t offset the loss of Davis.
“That’s a tall task,” James said. “Literally and figuratively.”
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Two Step" game were:
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Texas vs. Penn State Predictions & Picks: Spread, Total - NCAA Tournament Second Round
Saturday's contest that pits the Texas Longhorns (27-8) against the Penn State Nittany Lions (23-13) at Wells Fargo Arena has a projected final score of 75-68 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of Texas, who is the favorite in this matchup by our model. Tipoff is at 7:45 PM ET on March 18.
According to our computer prediction, Texas should cover the point spread, which is listed at 5.5. The two sides are projected to go over the 139.5 total.
Texas vs. Penn State Game Info & Odds
- Date: Saturday, March 18, 2023
- Time: 7:45 PM ET
- TV: CBS
- Where: Des Moines, Iowa
- Venue: Wells Fargo Arena
- Line: Texas -5.5
- Point Total: 139.5
- Moneyline (To Win): Texas -250, Penn State +200
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Texas has a 17-16-0 record against the spread this season compared to Penn State, who is 20-12-0 ATS. A total of 15 out of the Longhorns' games this season have gone over the point total, and 18 of the Nittany Lions' games have gone over. The two teams combine to score 150.3 points per game, 10.8 more points than this matchup's total. In the last 10 games, Texas is 7-3 against the spread and 7-3 overall while Penn State has gone 8-2 against the spread and 9-1 overall.
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- The Longhorns have a +374 scoring differential, topping opponents by 10.7 points per game. They're putting up 77.9 points per game to rank 37th in college basketball and are giving up 67.2 per contest to rank 88th in college basketball.
- Texas records 31.9 rebounds per game (173rd in college basketball) compared to the 31 of its opponents.
- Texas hits 7.3 three-pointers per game (192nd in college basketball), while its opponents have made 6.4 on average.
- The Longhorns rank 50th in college basketball with 98.9 points scored per 100 possessions, and 38th in college basketball defensively with 85.3 points conceded per 100 possessions.
- Texas has committed 4.1 fewer turnovers per game than its opponents, averaging 11.1 (100th in college basketball play) while forcing 15.2 (20th in college basketball).
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ROME (AP) — Giorgia Meloni on Friday formed Italy’s new ruling coalition, assembling the country’s first far-right-led government since the end of World War II and becoming the first woman to obtain the premiership.
A presidential palace official announced that Meloni and her Cabinet would be sworn in on Saturday. Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, a party with neo-fascist roots, was the top vote-getter in Italy’s national election last month.
A few hours before the new government’s formation was announced, Meloni, 45, a career politician, told reporters that she and her allies had unanimously asked President Sergio Mattarella to give her the mandate to govern.
Obtaining the premiership capped a remarkably quick rise for the Brothers of Italy. Meloni co-founded the party in December 2012, and it was considered a fringe movement on the right during its first years.
Meloni made no public comments before leaving the Quirinal presidential palace. Earlier in the day, she met with Mattarella along with her two main, sometimes troublesome, right-wing allies — Matteo Salvini and former Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
Mattarella expressed satisfaction that the government was formed in a “brief time” following the Sept. 25 election. After the last election, in 2018, it took three months for a new ruling coalition to come together.
Quickly giving the country a new government “was possible due to the clarity of the vote outcome and to the need to proceed swiftly, also because of the domestic and international conditions that require a government in its fullness to carry out its tasks,” Mattarella told reporters.
Italy and much of the rest of Europe are struggling with soaring energy costs and the drama of Russia’s war in Ukraine, which could crimp gas supplies this winter and continue increasing household and business power bills.
Berlusconi and Salvini are longtime admirers of Russian President Vladimir Putin; Meloni staunchly backs Ukraine in its defense against the Russian invasion. Those differences could produce challenges for their governing coalition.
Berlusconi, a three-time premier, had chafed at the election victory of Meloni’s party. The Brothers of Italy took 26%, while Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and the anti-migrant League of Salvini snagged just over 8% apiece in an election with record-low turnout.
In 2018, when Italy held its previous parliamentary election, Meloni’s party took just over 4%.
Still, while her party’s members are the largest force in the Italian Parliament, Meloni needs the support of both her allies to command a solid majority.
Berlusconi, who fancies himself a rare leader on the world stage, recently derided her as “arrogant” in written comments, apparently after Meloni refused to make a lawmaker who is one of the media mogul’s closest advisers a government minister.
During a meeting this week with Forza Italia’s lawmakers, the former premier expressed sympathy for Putin’s motivation in invading Ukraine. A recording of the conversation leaked to Italian news agency LaPresse also captured Berlusconi bragging that Putin had sent him bottles of vodka for his 86th birthday last month and that he gave the Russian leader bottles of wine while the two exchanged sweetly worded notes.
In response to Berlusconi’s comments, which included derogatory remarks about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Meloni insisted that anyone joining her government must be solidly in sync with the West in opposing Putin’s war. If that meant her government couldn’t be formed, Meloni said, she’d take that risk.
As a bulwark against possible wavering on Ukraine by her coalition allies, Meloni named as defense minister one of her closest advisers, Brothers of Italy co-founder Guido Crosetto.
Meloni’s determination could serve her well in contending with pushback from her allies.
Italy’s new premier is “a woman that managed to get to the top of a very, very, very male party in a very male dominated country,″ said Nathalie Tocci, director of the International Affairs Institute, a Rome-based think tank.
Meloni chose as foreign minister Antonio Tajani, a top aide to Berlusconi in Forza Italia and a former president of the European Union’s parliament. His pro-EU background could reassure European partners worried about a Meloni government wavering in its international alliances
Salvini has at times also questioned the wisdom of tough Western sanctions against Russia. A fellow lawmaker in Salvini’s League party who was recently elected president of the Italian Parliament’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, has publicly expressed doubts about continuing the sanctions.
While campaigning, Salvini advocated increasing Italy’s already staggeringly high public debt to pay for energy relief assistance.
Meloni, who has resisted ballooning the debt, appointed as finance minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, considered one of the most moderate League leaders. He is seen in Italy and abroad as a likely guarantor of the continuity of the economic strategies of outgoing Premier Mario Draghi, in whose government he served as industry minister.
Salvini had lobbied hard to be appointed interior minister by Meloni — a position he held in a 2018-2019 government formed by populists. Salvini’s crackdown on migrant rescue boats while in that post led to a criminal prosecution against him, with one case still pending in Sicily.
Meloni instead picked a longtime Interior Ministry official, Matteo Piantedosi, for the portfolio.
Draghi’s national pandemic unity coalition collapsed in July, after Salvini, Berlusconi and populist 5-Star Movement leader Giuseppe Conte refused to back his government in a confidence vote. That prompted Mattarella to dissolve Parliament and paved the way for an election some six months early.
On Thursday, Mattarella received opposition leaders, who raised concerns that Meloni, who campaigned with a “God, homeland, family” agenda, would seek to erode abortion rights and roll back rights such as same-sex civil unions.
On Friday, Meloni tapped an ultra-conservative Catholic, Eugenia Maria Roccella, to be her minister for family, birthrates and equal opportunities.
At a 2018 event in Rome that Meloni attended, Roccella pledged to work against Italy’s law legalizing same-sex civil unions and called same-sex marriage “the end of humanity.” Italy doesn’t allow same-sex marriage.
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Trisha Thomas contributed reporting.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will provide live coverage on Wednesday, Aug. 17, of a spacewalk with two Russian cosmonauts to continue outfitting the European robotic arm on the International Space Station's Nauka laboratory.
Coverage will begin at 9 a.m. EDT on NASA Television, the NASA app, and agency's website. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin around 9:20 a.m.
Expedition 67 Commander Oleg Artemyev and Flight Engineer Denis Matveev, both of Roscosmos, will begin the six-and-a-half-hour excursion by exiting the station's space-facing Poisk module. The primary objective of the spacewalk is to install cameras on the European robotic arm, relocate an external control panel for the arm from one operating area to another, remove launch restraints near the two end effectors or "hands" of the arm, and test a rigidizing mechanism on the arm that will be used to facilitate the grasping of payloads.
The European robotic arm will be used to move payloads and equipment outside the Russian segment of the station, joining the Canadian-built Canadarm2 robotic arm and the Japanese arm already supporting station maintenance, operations, and research.
Artemyev will wear a Russian Orlan spacesuit with red stripes, while Matveev will wear a Russian Orlan suit with blue stripes. This will be the seventh spacewalk for Artemyev and the third for Matveev.
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It turns out a winner can still have something to prove.
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7 is the first all-winners season in the franchise's history, bringing back illustrious queens from all different seasons, both regular and All Stars, from the show's legendary run. There's even a queen from across the pond!
Just because these queens have their legacies firmly in tact, however, doesn't mean they didn't enter the competition with chips on their shoulders.
"We see our criticisms more than anyone else," said Drag Race season five winner Jinkx Monsoon. "I felt like all of the things that I was proud of often got overshadowed by not being as polished a drag queen as some of my competitors. I'm really excited, this time, to show off my talents and be a little bit more polished from the diamond in the rough that I might have been the first time."
For season three Drag Race winner Raja, there was a similar desire to show fans and the judges how much she's grown in the decade-plus since she first walked the show's runway.
"We're all show-offs and narcissists," she joked. "So why not go back on TV and show off? It's been 11 years for me, so I really wanted to show people my evolution."
The Vivienne, who won the inaugural season of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, came in with an even more specific goal: proving people wrong.
"I definitely came out of my season experiencing the whole ‘the other person was robbed' situation." she said. "That's never a nice place to be. I'm happy with where my career has gone. I wanted to show ‘Yeah, I did deserve this win.'"
For Trinity the Tuck, who finished fourth on Drag Race season nine before being crowned co-winner of All Stars 4 with Monét X Change, it was all about letting down the guard she had up during her previous experiences.
"The first two times [on the show], I was really competitive," Trinity said. "This time, of course I wanted to win. But I really just wanted to have fun. I wanted to take in the entire experience because the first two times I didn't really do that."
With more experience and notoriety, it stands to wonder if taking critiques from the judges became more difficult.
"Yeah, for sure. Especially when a lot of us have gone on to work with some of the judges, you know what I mean?" Monét admitted. "I was on a tour with Michelle Visage, I was on a tour with Ross Mathews. But RuPaul, I don't care. When I am a 97-year-old and RuPaul is still alive and I'm doing drag, he can always critique me."
Shea Couleé, who competed on season nine of Drag Race before winning All Stars 5, had the viewers in mind when she entered the Werk Room for a third time.
"To come back and re-reintroduce myself," she said, "I just wanted to come into a room with a bunch of icons and amazing artists and make some unforgettable television."
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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — U.S. Rep. George Santos, infamous for fabricating his life story, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he duped donors, stole from his campaign and lied to Congress about being a millionaire, all while cheating to collect unemployment benefits he didn’t deserve.
Afterward, he said he wouldn’t drop his reelection bid and defied calls to resign.
Santos’ 13-count federal indictment was a reckoning for a web of fraud and deceit that prosecutors say overlapped with the New York Republican’s fantastical public image as a wealthy businessman — a fictional biography that began to unravel after he won election last fall.
Santos, 34, was released on $500,000 bond following his arraignment, about five hours after turning himself in to face charges of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and making false statements to Congress. He surrendered his passport and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
“This is the beginning of the ability for me to address and defend myself,” a cheerfully combative Santos told reporters swarming him outside a Long Island federal courthouse. He said he’s been cooperating with the investigation and vowed to fight the prosecution, which he labeled a “witch hunt.”
His lawyer, Joseph Murray, was more circumspect, saying: “Any time the federal government comes after you it’s a serious case. We have to take this serious.”
Santos said he planned to return to Washington, where the indictment is amplifying doubts about the freshman’s ability to serve. House Republican leaders are taking a wait-and-see approach, saying Santos is innocent until proven guilty. Others are reiterating previous calls for Santos to step aside.
“I think we’re seeing that the wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind fine,” said Sen. Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican who confronted Santos on the House floor at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in February.
Asked about Santos on Wednesday, Biden said, “I’m not commenting,” adding that anything he said would be construed by some interfering in the investigation. Asked if Congress should expel Santos, Biden said, “That’s for Congress to decide.”
Among the allegations, prosecutors say Santos created a company and then induced supporters to donate to it under the false pretense that the money would be used to support his campaign. Instead, they say, he used the money for personal expenses, including designer clothes and credit card and car payments.
Santos also is accused of lying about his finances on congressional disclosure forms and obtaining unemployment benefits while he was making $120,000 as regional director of an investment firm that the government shut down in 2021 over allegations that it was a Ponzi scheme.
The indictment “seeks to hold Santos accountable for various alleged fraudulent schemes and brazen misrepresentations,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said. “Taken together, the allegations in the indictment charge Santos with relying on repeated dishonesty and deception to ascend to the halls of Congress and enrich himself.”
Santos didn’t directly address the specifics of the charges to reporters, but when asked why he received unemployment benefits while employed, Santos cited a job change and confusion during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Santos, sporting his usual crewneck sweater, blazer and khakis, said little during the arraignment, which lasted about 15 minutes. Reporters spilled from the gallery to the jury box, joined by a handful of constituents.
“He should be thrown out of Congress and put in prison,” declared Jeff Herzberg, a Long Island resident who spent hours waiting to see Santos’ arraignment. “I hope that day comes soon.”
Santos was elected to Congress last fall after a campaign built partly on falsehoods. He told people he was a wealthy Wall Street dealmaker with a substantial real estate portfolio who had been a star volleyball player in college, among other things.
In reality, Santos didn’t work at the big financial firms he said employed him, didn’t go to college and struggled financially before entering politics. He claimed he fueled his run largely with self-made riches earned from brokering deals on expensive toys for wealthy clients, but the indictment alleges those boasts were also exaggerated.
In a House financial disclosure form, Santos reported making $750,000 a year from a family company, the Devolder Organization, but the charges unsealed Wednesday allege that Santos never received that sum, nor the $1 million and $5 million in dividends he listed as coming from the firm.
Santos has described the Devolder Organization as a broker for sales of luxury items like yachts and aircraft. The business was incorporated in Florida shortly after Santos stopped working for Harbor City Capital, the company accused by federal authorities of operating an illegal Ponzi scheme.
In November 2021, Santos formed Redstone Strategies, a Florida company that federal prosecutors say he used to dupe donors into financing his lifestyle. According to the indictment, Santos told an associate to solicit contributions to the company and gave the person contact information for potential donors.
Emails to prospective donors falsely claimed the company was formed “exclusively” to aid Santos’ election bid and that there would be no limits on how much they could contribute, the indictment said. Santos falsely claimed the money would be spent on television ads and other campaign expenses, it said.
But a month before his election, Santos transferred about $74,000 from the company to bank accounts he maintained, the indictment said. He also transferred money to some of his associates, it said.
Santos’ legal troubles date to his late teens, when he was investigated in Brazil for allegedly using stolen checks to buy clothes — a case that authorities say they’ve since reopened.
In 2017, Santos was charged with theft in Pennsylvania for allegedly using thousands of dollars in bogus checks to buy puppies from breeders. That case was dismissed after Santos claimed his checkbook was stolen and someone else took the dogs.
Federal authorities have separately been looking into complaints about Santos’ fundraising for a group that purported to help abused pets. A New Jersey veteran accused Santos of failing to deliver $3,000 he raised to help his dog get needed surgery.
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Leading global institutional crypto data and software provider, Lukka, further demonstrates commitment to risk management with ISO Certification.
NAPLES, Fla., Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lukka, the leading institutional crypto data and software provider, has completed its ISO/IEC 27001 Certification, furthering its long-standing commitment to putting risk management first in order to serve the most risk-mature businesses in the crypto ecosystem. This international standard is used to certify that organizations establish, implement, and maintain continually improving Information Security Management Systems.
The ISO/IEC 27001 is the world's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS) and is often required as part of vendor selection processes. Certifications are conducted by independent accredited certification bodies following a comprehensive audit of the requirements outlined within its framework. Lukka's ISO/IEC 27001 Certification was issued by the British Standards Institution (BSI), an independent certifying organization. BSI is one of the world's first National Standards Body, was an integral part in forming the ISO/IEC 27001 framework, and is globally recognized as a leader in certifying ISO standards.
"Participating in the crypto ecosystem requires partnership and interaction with many different entities across a complex value chain. Receiving the ISO 27001 ISO/IEC 27001 certification shows our customers that they can rely on Lukka to deliver innovative software and data solutions with a commitment to the highest standards of security risk management and data protection." - Michael Quilatan, Head of Risk at Lukka.
Lukka was the first service provider in the crypto ecosystem to complete AICPA SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II audits in 2018 and 2019 respectively. With the addition of this ISO/IEC 27001 Certification, Lukka further emphasizes its commitment to ensuring customer trust to establish financial transparency for their businesses.
About Lukka
Founded in 2014, Lukka serves the most risk mature businesses in the world with institutional data and software solutions. Lukka bridges the gap between the complexities of blockchain data and traditional business needs. Its customers include both Traditional and Crypto Asset Exchanges and Trading desks, CPA & Accounting Firms, Fund and Financial Auditors, Fund Administrators, Miners, Protocols, individuals, and any other businesses interacting with crypto assets. All of Lukka's products are created with institutional standards, such as AICPA SOC Controls, which focus on accuracy and completeness. Lukka is a global company headquartered in the United States. | For information about Lukka, visit lukka.tech
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
10-12-21-33-34, Lucky Ball: 4
(ten, twelve, twenty-one, thirty-three, thirty-four; Lucky Ball: four)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
10-12-21-33-34, Lucky Ball: 4
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The scholarship program that was recently launched by Francis Santa is a scholarship program that is directed towards young aspiring student entrepreneurs who want to seriously pursue their career paths in the future. This scholarship program is opening its doors for applications towards any eligible students which are university students who are currently enrolled in a course that is intended to help them with the path to becoming an entrepreneur. Additionally, the doors for these applications are also open to high school students who have a desire to become an entrepreneur and are graduating with plans on attending university for their ambition to become an entrepreneur. The student that will be chosen will be awarded scholarship funds that will go towards financing their university studies as it intends to cover both education and tuition fees.
Francis Santa hopes that this scholarship program will allow any aspiring entrepreneur the opportunity to become successful in the future through the opportunities it will open. The scholarship will not only serve as his way of giving back to the community but also bring awareness of the struggles of entrepreneurs and the rising costs of education that makes it difficult for students to overcome as well as nurture the next generation of successful entrepreneurs.
The scholarship program is intended to allow the chosen student to attend university and help with finances. This allows them all the time they need to focus on their academics rather than juggling between academics and their finances. Francis greatly sympathizes with this and understands the central role of education and wishes that this scholarship will allow him to give back to a future entrepreneur. Francis Santa himself was able to become a successful entrepreneur thanks to his time at the University of Hartford which allowed him to become the CEO and founder of his own business in 2014, Business Image Lift.
Interested students can grab the opportunity for this scholar and head on over to the official Francis Santa scholarship page. The page will contain everything they need to learn about the scholarship as well as explore tidbits of Francis' own life. The scholarship website will also contain the list of requirements alongside any updates as well as the place where you need to submit your scholarship application.
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Rep. Carbajal thanks firefighters for saving newborn, parents
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CALIFORNIA (KSBY) — Rep. Salud Carbajal visited the Lompoc Fire Department headquarters on Wednesday to thank firefighters and first responders for helping rescue a family during the January 9 storm.
On January 9, firefighters and first responders recued a newborn and the baby’s parents immediately following the birth of the baby.
Rep. Carbajal also visited Lompoc City Hall and met with Mayor Jenelle Osborne and City Manager Dean Albro.
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How to Watch the Oilers vs. Kings Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for NHL Playoffs First Round Game 2
Published: Apr. 18, 2023 at 10:12 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Game 2 of the NHL Playoffs First Round at Rogers Place on Wednesday, April 19 features the Edmonton Oilers and the Los Angeles Kings meeting at 10:00 PM ET on ESPN, CBC, SportsNet, TVAS, and BSSC. The Kings are up 1-0 in the series.
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You can catch the action on ESPN, CBC, SportsNet, TVAS, and BSSC as the Oilers square off against the Kings.
Oilers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info
- When: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 10:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN, CBC, SportsNet, TVAS, and BSSC
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- Where: Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta
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Oilers vs. Kings Head-to-Head
Oilers Stats & Trends
- Defensively, the Oilers are giving up 256 total goals (3.1 per game) to rank 17th in NHL play.
- The Oilers lead the league with 325 total goals (4.0 per game).
- In their past 10 games, the Oilers have gone 9-0-1 to earn 90.0% of the possible points.
- Over on the defensive end, the Oilers have allowed 1.8 goals per game (18 total) over those 10 matchups.
- They have totaled 42 goals during that span.
Oilers Key Players
Kings Stats & Trends
- The Kings give up 3.1 goals per game (254 in total), 16th in the league.
- The Kings' 274 goals on the season (3.3 per game) rank them 10th in the NHL.
- In their last 10 games, the Kings have gone 5-5-0 to earn 75.0% of the possible points.
- On the defensive side, the Kings have given up 23 goals (2.3 per game) over those 10 outings.
- They have averaged 2.6 goals per game (26 total) over that time.
Kings Key Players
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LONDON (AP) — Tyson Fury has decided to “walk away” from boxing, only three days after saying he was returning to the sport.
Fury turned 34 on Friday and posted a message on social media saying: “Massive thanks to everyone who had an input in my career over the years & after long hard conversations (I’ve finally) decided to walk away & on my 34th birthday I say Bon voyage.”
That seemingly puts Fury back into retirement, after he announced on Tuesday that he was returning to boxing in order to set up a fight against Derek Chisora, a fellow Briton whom he beat twice early in his career.
That announcement had sparked speculation that Fury, the reigning WBC heavyweight champion, was targeting a possible unification bout against the winner between Oleksandr Usyk, the reigning WBA, IBF and WBO title-holder, and Anthony Joshua, who are fighting on Aug. 20 in Saudi Arabia.
Fury did not give a reason for his apparent change of heart.
The undefeated Fury initially said after his win over Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium in April that he was retiring from the sport.
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GERMANTOWN, Tenn., March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc., or MAA (NYSE: MAA), today announced that the Company is scheduled to present at the 2023 Citi Global Property CEO Conference.
H. Eric Bolton, Jr., Chairman and CEO of MAA plans to give a company overview followed by an informal question-and-answer session that may include discussion regarding market conditions and MAA's previously disclosed guidance. The presentation and Q&A will take place on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at approximately 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time and is expected to last for approximately 35 minutes.
A live webcast of the presentation is accessible through the "For Investors" page of MAA's website at www.maac.com, and through the following link: https://kvgo.com/citi/mid-america-apartment-communities-march-2023.
The webcast replay will be available on the Company's website after the conclusion of the live event.
About MAA
MAA is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) and member of the S&P 500. MAA owns or has ownership interest in apartment communities primarily throughout the Southeast, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. focused on delivering strong, full-cycle investment performance. For further details, please refer to the "For Investors" page at www.maac.com or contact Investor Relations at investor.relations@maac.com.
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Weather Authority: Spring-like St. Patrick's Day ahead for Delaware Valley
PHILADELPHIA - Balmy late-winter temperatures across the Delaware Valley will continue to climb on St. Patrick's Day, with highs forecasted to reach the 60s in some spots.
Forecasters expect moderate-to-heavy cloud cover to accompany the above-average temperatures to kick off the weekend.
The pleasantly warm temperatures will be short-lived for St. Patrick's Day weekend shenanigans. Sunshine will re-emerge from the clouds, but forecasters only expect temperatures to peak in the low-50s.
A similar weather day will follow on Sunday, with slightly colder temperatures dipping down into the 40s.
Spring officially starts on Monday and a warming trend will start right on cue. Forecasters expect temperatures to gradually climb and return to the 60s by next Thursday.
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FRIDAY: Mostly cloudy. High: 61, Low: 41
SATURDAY: Sunny, cooler. High: 53, Low: 40
SUNDAY: Temps tumble. High: 43, Low: 30
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia, officials said. The fighter jet caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the capital region.
Hours later, police said rescuers had reached the site of the plane crash in a rural part of the Shenandoah Valley and that no survivors were found.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethtown, Tennessee, on Sunday and was headed for Long Island’s MacArthur Airport. Inexplicably, the plane turned around over New York’s Long Island and flew a straight path down over D.C. before it crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Virginia, around 3:30 p.m.
It was not immediately clear why the plane was nonresponsive, why it crashed or how many people were on board. The plane flew directly over the nation’s capital, though it was technically flying above some of the most heavily restricted airspace in the nation.
A U.S. official confirmed to The Associated Press that the military jet had scrambled to respond to the small plane, which wasn’t responding to radio transmissions and later crashed. The official was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the military operation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Flight tracking sites showed the jet suffered a rapid spiraling descent, dropping at one point at a rate of more than 30,000 feet per minute before crashing in the St. Mary’s Wilderness.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command later said in a statement that the F-16 was authorized to travel at supersonic speeds, which caused a sonic boom that was heard in Washington and parts of Virginia and Maryland.
“During this event, the NORAD aircraft also used flares – which may have been visible to the public – in an attempt to draw attention from the pilot,” the statement said. “Flares are employed with highest regard for safety of the intercepted aircraft and people on the ground. Flares burn out quickly and completely and there is no danger to the people on the ground when dispensed.”
Virginia State Police said officers were notified of the potential crash shortly before 4 p.m. and rescuers reached the crash site by foot around four hours later. No survivors were found, police said.
The plane that crashed was registered to Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc, which is based in Florida. John Rumpel, who runs the company, told The New York Times that his daughter, 2-year-old granddaughter, her nanny and the pilot were aboard the plane. They were returning to their home in East Hampton, on Long Island, after visiting his house in North Carolina, he said.
Rumpel, a pilot, told the newspaper he didn’t have much information from authorities but hoped his family didn’t suffer and suggested the plane could’ve lost pressurization.
“I don’t think they’ve found the wreckage yet,” Rumpel told the newspaper. “It descended at 20,000 feet a minute, and nobody could survive a crash from that speed.”
A woman who identified herself as Barbara Rumpel, listed as the president of the company, said she had no comment Sunday when reached by The Associated Press.
The episode brought back memories of the 1999 crash of a Learjet that lost cabin pressure and flew aimlessly across the country with professional golfer Payne Stewart aboard. The jet crashed in a South Dakota pasture and six people died.
President Joe Biden was playing golf at Joint Base Andrews around the time the fighter jet took off. Anthony Guglielmi, spokesperson for the U.S. Secret Service, said the incident had no impact on the president’s movements Sunday. Biden was playing golf at the Maryland military base with his brother in the afternoon.
A White House official said the president had been briefed on the crash and that the sound of the scrambling aircraft was faint at Joint Base Andrews.
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Google Workspace will give Central Dutch Government more flexibility and choice for collaboration and productivity, supporting new hybrid-working environments
AMSTERDAM, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Google Cloud today announced that it has signed a new agreement with the Central Dutch Government that will enable the Dutch public sector to take advantage of Google Workspace's suite of tools and offerings. This new agreement, which follows the Google Workspace for Education agreement signed last year, will also help facilitate multicloud adoption for Central Dutch public sector entities, such as government departments.
The intent of the new agreement is to make it easier and more efficient for Central Dutch public sector entities to leverage the full range of Google Workspace tools under preset negotiated terms. Organizations will be able to take full advantage of a range of technologies―including industry leading tools such as Chat, Docs, Meet and Sheets―bringing better digital services to Dutch citizens and supporting new hybrid-working environments.
In 2020, the Central Dutch Government started a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) on Google Workspace, and Dutch education sector representatives started a DPIA on Google Workspace for Education, a standard step when such institutions are looking to purchase certain new technologies. DPIAs help organizations better understand how companies process and protect personal data and define parameters for GDPR compliance. As a result of this process, the Central Dutch Government, the Dutch education sector organisations/institutions and Google Cloud found agreement and will continue working together on the DPIA recommendations.
"This is a milestone for Google Cloud's relationship with the Central Dutch Government, as we see the results of the DPIAs come to fruition. We've designed Google Workspace products and solutions, including Google Workspace for Education, to secure and protect the privacy of our customers' data. Our tools will empower the Dutch public sector, while adhering to strict security and privacy requirements. We are also looking forward to supporting greater choice and flexibility for public sector entities and are already doing so for education institutions across the Netherlands, providing access to innovative solutions, with cutting-edge security and greater resiliency," said Joris Schoonis, managing director Benelux, Google Cloud.
This agreement marks a new chapter in an ongoing relationship between the Central Dutch Government, Dutch public sector entities and Google Cloud.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
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Canada is one of the largest car producers in North America. The transition toward electric vehicles provides new opportunities to build on this legacy.
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Canada is one of the largest car producers in North America. The transition toward electric vehicles provides new opportunities to build on this legacy.
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High school football player dies after suffering head injury, family says
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD/Gray News) - A high school student in Texas has died after sustaining a severe head injury during a junior varsity football game.
KCBD reports that sophomore Yahir Cancino was injured during Thursday’s game when the Dalhart Golden Wolves were taking on the Sundown Roughnecks.
Officials stated the Dalhart High School student lost consciousness during the game. When medical staff could not revive him, he was airlifted to a hospital and placed in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Yahir’s family started a GoFundMe account, asking for assistance through prayer and donations.
“I believe in the power of prayers. I believe in miracles. We continue to ask for your prayers. Thank you all for those who have prayed over us,” the organizer wrote.
On Saturday, Yahir’s mother shared on social media that her son had succumbed to his injuries.
“We ask for prayers for peace and healing not only for us but for all the people Yahir touched in his life,” Yahir’s mother wrote in the post. “We have chosen to donate his organs because Yahir was always about helping people and we want to honor his memory.”
After Thursday’s game, Sundown expressed their support for Yahir and his family.
“Yahir Cancino, a Dalhart JV football player, was sent to the hospital during the game and needs prayers, love and support. The community of Sundown lifts up our neighbors from Dalhart at this time,” the social media post stated.
Friday’s game between the two schools was also canceled.
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WINTERBORO — Zakhia Buchanan knows how the game is played.
Buchanan is a key fixture on the high-powered girls basketball team at Winterboro High School.
The Bulldogs are always thinking and playing on the positive side of life. They hit the court expecting to win, game in and game out. The Bulldogs always go to work with a purpose. Just ask the 5-foot-10 Buchanan, the freshman forward for Winterboro.
“We pay attention, and we work as a team. We hustle,” Buchanan said.
Winterboro was riding high and making noise again Tuesday evening as the Bulldogs defeated the Alabama School for the Deaf 75-16 in the Class 1A, Area 8 girls tournament semifinals.
Next, the top-seeded Bulldogs will collide with second-seeded Wadley in the championship tilt Thursday at 5 p.m. at Winterboro.
Winterboro (20-5) has come to expect wins like what the team experienced Tuesday.
“We play our hardest, and we make good passes. We take good shots. This is important,” Bulldogs senior forward Kya Brown said.
Of course it is.
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Alabama School for the Deaf's Jaycee Tucker aims a three pointer.
Photos: Winterboro vs. Alabama School for the Deaf, Class 1A, Area 8 girls basketball
Photo gallery: Scenes from Winterboro's win over the Alabama School for the Deaf in the Class 1A, Area 8 girls basketball tournament hosted by Winterboro High School on Tuesday.
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Alabama School for the Deaf's Jaycee Tucker aims a three pointer.
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Alabama School for the Deaf's A. Fanning goes in for the layup.
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Winterboro's Katelyn Brown drives to the basket.
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Winterboro's Katelyn Brown drives to the basket.
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Winterboro's Katelyn Jones drives to the basket for a layup.
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Winterboro's Zakhia Buchanan drives to the basket.
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Winterboro's Katelyn Jones drives to the basket for a layup.
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Winterboro's Kya Brown puts back the rebound.
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Brown and Buchanan were just two of five double-figure scorers for Winterboro against the Silent Warriors. Putting the ball in the cylinder while smiling were Winterboro's Katelyn Jones (16 points), Katelyn Brown (14 points), Buchanan (12 points), Kya Brown (10 points) and seventh-grade forward Kaniya Duncan (10 points).
So why do the Bulldogs have such a rocking offense?
“This comes with a mindset,” Winterboro girls basketball coach Lamonyn Burney said. "The girls trust each other. We’re on the same page. We’re building this (program) brick-by-brick."
The Bulldogs own the passing lanes, the backboards and the corner traps on defense. The Alabama School for the Deaf could see that.
The Silent Warriors were behind at the end of every quarter in the game, from 19-9 in the first period, to 37-11 in the second quarter, to 65-13 in the third. The Winterboro High girls also outscored the Alabama School for the Deaf 10-3 in the fourth period.
The Silent Warriors still went toe-to-toe with the Bulldogs as best they could. Senior guard Jaycee Tucker drained a 3-pointer for ASD.
They also got some buckets from senior forward Lily Tucker, Aiyana Fanning and guard Tusi Silas. The Alabama School for the Deaf knows the game. The Silent Warriors were just caught flat-footed too many times by the quicker Bulldogs from Winterboro.
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BEIJING, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In less than a week, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will be solemnly held. Since the reform and opening-up, the Party's National Congress has been held every five years, becoming a vivid manifestation of the institutionalization of the Party's political life and the certainty of China's politics. Against the backdrop of the complex and turbulent international situation, the 20th CPC National Congress will also inject strong and stable expectations into the world confronting changes and disorders. Its significance is particularly special and momentous, and therefore it has been widely anticipated and attracted worldwide attention.
The 20th CPC National Congress will clearly declare what flag the CPC will hold on its new journey, what road it will take, what state of mind it will be in, and what goals it will continue to move toward. In the context of unresolved regional conflicts in the world, the raging COVID-19 pandemic, the obstruction of the global economic recovery, and the surging right-wing populist ideology, the maturity and stability of a big party and a big country is itself a "cure" for the global anxiety. The signal sent by China in the new era to the world is clear and resounding: We will adhere to realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation by Chinese-style modernization, continue to actively promote building a community with a shared future for mankind, bring new opportunities to the world with China's new development, and contribute wisdom and strength to world peace and development, as well as the progress of human civilization.
This is the blessing for China and the world. Under the leadership of the CPC, for the first time in human history, China has advanced large-scale modernization by means of peace rather than war and plunder. It has provided new possibilities for human development, and has continually injected positivity into the world. Such contribution is obvious to all. In terms of economic development, from 2013 to 2021, China's average contribution to global economic growth exceeded 30 percent, ranking first globally. When it comes to global governance, China's Global Development Initiative and Global Security Initiative have effectively responded to the concerns of the times. To be a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a defender of the international order, and a provider of public goods is the vision and international responsibility of Chinese Communists.
Even amid high winds and rough seas, or even the most dangerous situation, China as an enormous ship has been steadily moving toward its goals under the strong leadership of the CPC. Political certainty at the highest level of the CPC fundamentally ensures the coherence of China's policies, having paramount importance for a rapidly developing country that accounts for one-fifth of the world's population. In terms of both top-level design and political practice, China's energy and focus are on "doing a good job in managing its own affairs." To others in the world, this will mean that China's determination to maintain world peace, promote common development, form partnerships, and support multilateralism is consistent and long-lasting. It is in line with the expectations of the larger part of the global community for China.
What needs to be especially emphasized to the international public opinion interested in the 20th CPC National Congress is that, first of all, China is determined with reform and opening-up, which will be brought up to a new level in the upcoming 20th CPC National Congress. Second, China is determined with the path of peaceful development, which will be consolidated at the level of top-level design in the Congress. As a matter of fact, these two points have long been incorporated into the blood of the CPC and China and have become a belief of the Chinese people, which will undoubtedly be carried forward and strengthened at the Congress. We believe that the world will have a fuller and more accurate understanding of this.
China stands firmly on the side of unity and cooperation, the trend of the times, and the common interests of most countries. This is determined by the nature of the CPC and reflects the adherence to the shared values among humankind: peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom. There is consistency and continuity about always being people-centered and standing on the right side of history and human progress, and this is the root of the stability China provides to the world. This is why the pessimistic views and smearing of China's development by some people with ideologically tinted glasses have failed time and again. This is also why more developing countries have learned valuable lessons from China's governance.
People see that China's vigorous development and political cohesion are intertwined and integrated as never before and that China is steadily walking on the new path. As this great Party and country set sail for a new journey, it will be another historical accumulation of energy while strengthening certainty. And history will continue to prove that the CPC is a party that works for the happiness of the Chinese people and strives for the cause of human progress.
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When I was a kid growing up in Orange County, I often found myself riding past the headquarters of the famous Trinity Broadcasting Network — an enormous circular building that resembled the bottom tier of a wedding cake. It was a spectacularly tacky sight, an example of the excesses of the "prosperity gospel" — the belief that extravagant wealth is a sign of God's favor. Having been raised in a modest Baptist church, I'd been taught early on to sneer at this notion and all the televangelists and other religious hucksters who upheld it.
In recent years, the movies have also taken on the prosperity gospel, sometimes with a sneer, and sometimes with a measure of sympathy. Jessica Chastain recently won an Oscar for her barbed yet heartfelt portrayal of Tammy Faye Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. And now, in the uneven but entertaining comedy Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul., Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall give wonderfully complex performances as a disgraced Christian power couple trying to salvage what remains of their spiritual empire.
Brown plays Lee-Curtis Childs, the pastor of a Black megachurch in Atlanta that, at its peak, boasted 25,000 congregants. Hall plays his steadfast wife, Trinitie Childs, who's chosen to stand by him through a humiliating scandal that drove away their flock and forced their church to close. Now, after some time away from the spotlight, the two are ready to resurrect their ministry.
Lee-Curtis hires a documentary filmmaker to follow him and Trinitie as they prepare to reopen their church on Easter Sunday. He hopes that the resulting film will paint them in a forgiving light.
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. was written and directed by Adamma Ebo, who adapted it from her earlier short film of the same title. Her twin sister, Adanne Ebo, is one of the producers. We see a lot of that mock-documentary footage as it's being shot. Lee-Curtis and Trinitie lead the camera crew on a tour of their church, which features a room with gilded thrones for the pastor and his wife to sit on and a private closet filled with Lee-Curtis' expensive, colorful suits.
It's both fun and a little depressing to watch these two constantly performing in front of the cameras, but also revealing more of themselves than they realize. One minute they're praising God to the heavens, and the next they're cursing up a storm when something doesn't go their way. Trinitie learns that a rival Black church — led by a younger, hipper couple, played by the actors Conphidance and Nicole Beharie — is also planning to launch on Easter Sunday. The fate of their own reopening looks grim, especially when Trinitie keeps running into former friends who want nothing more to do with her, her husband or their church.
The two leads are terrific in these mockumentary scenes. As Lee-Curtis, Brown radiates swaggering charisma and energy, while Hall is all nervous chuckles and side glances as Trinitie tries to keep it together for the cameras. But the actors reveal even deeper emotional layers away from those cameras. One remarkably intimate moment takes place in the couple's bedroom, where we get a sense of the deep cracks in their marriage. And that's before we learn the more sordid details of Lee-Curtis' scandal.
As satire, Honk for Jesus is both blunt and broad — but then, as the movie shows us, so is the megachurch tradition it's skewering. And while Adamma Ebo certainly pokes fun at her protagonists, she never denies them their humanity. It's clear enough that a happy, redemptive ending isn't in the cards for Lee-Curtis and Trinitie, but even still, the characters find ways to keep surprising and even moving us. Hall, an outstanding dramatic actor as well as a skilled comedian, gets a doozy of a monologue in which she finally peels away her glossy exterior and unleashes a genuinely anguished cry from the heart. Trinitie Childs may not be a character you can trust, but in these moments, Hall's performance is truly something to believe in.
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Stolen dog reunited with her original family 5 years later
BELOIT, Wis. (WMTV/Gray News) - A dog stolen from her family has finally been reunited with them after five years.
The Humane Society of Southern Wisconsin recently announced the happy reunion between Ginger and her owner Barney, according to WMTV.
The agency said that Ginger was stolen from her family about five years ago.
Since then, her family did all they could to get her back and investigated any lost dog that resembled their own, only to be let down.
However, their luck changed when the Beloit Police Department posted a picture on Facebook of a stray dog they found in hopes of reuniting her with her owner.
The dog was taken to the Humane Society where they continued the search.
They reported Barney called a few days later, hoping the lost dog was his Ginger. When he came to the shelter to make sure it was her, the Humane Society reported there was no doubt.
The moment they were reunited, it was as if not a day had gone by.
“The excitement on the family’s faces, as well as Ginger’s, when they were finally reunited, was beyond memorable,” the Humane Society said in a statement.
The family took Ginger back home where she is making up for lost time and getting acclimated to the dogs they adopted while she was gone. She also discovered her human family grew a little with the birth of another child.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who rose to national prominence as the lead prosecutor in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial, said Thursday he is running for the Senate seat held by long-serving Democrat Dianne Feinstein.
The 2024 race is quickly emerging as a marquee Senate contest even as Feinstein, at 89 the oldest member of Congress, has yet to say whether she will seek another term. Schiff is jumping in two weeks after Rep. Katie Porter became the first candidate to declare her candidacy for the safe Democratic seat.
Schiff, a former federal prosecutor, made clear he intends to anchor his campaign to his role as Trump’s chief antagonist in Congress. In his campaign kickoff video, he called his role as impeachment manager the “biggest job of my life” and he promised to be a “fighter.”
“If our democracy isn’t delivering for Americans, they’ll look for alternatives, like a dangerous demagogue who promises that he alone can fix it,” Schiff said of Trump, who has announced his 2024 campaign for the presidency.
Feinstein, a former San Francisco mayor who joined the Senate in 1992, told reporters in Washington this week that she will make a decision about 2024 in the “next couple of months.”
The jockeying for the seat has created a politically awkward dynamic for Feinstein, who has broken gender barriers throughout her decadeslong career in local and national politics. In recent years, questions have arisen about her cognitive health and memory, though she has defended her effectiveness in representing a state that is home to nearly 40 million people.
Schiff said in an interview Thursday that he had spoken to Feinstein a day earlier to inform her about his plans.
“I want to make sure that everything I did was respectful of her and that I did so with her knowledge and her blessing,” Schiff told The Associated Press.
Asked if he was aware of the senator’s plans, Schiff said, “I don’t want to presume to speak for Sen. Feinstein, and I think she’s earned the right to announce her decision when she’s ready to make that announcement.”
Schiff was first elected to Congress in 2000 and represents parts of Hollywood. He has been a frequent target of conservatives — Trump in particular — since the then-GOP-led House Intelligence Committee he served on started investigating Trump’s ties to Russia in the 2016 election. Schiff was frequently on television questioning Trump’s actions.
That criticism intensified when Democrats took the House majority in early 2019 and he became the committee chair, and it reached a full-on roar with his role in the impeachment investigation of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. Trump was impeached in December 2019 on charges he abused the power of the presidency to investigate rival Joe Biden and obstructed Congress’ investigation.
In an impassioned plea to the Senate in early 2020, Schiff urged Trump’s removal from office and framed the choice in moral terms. “If right doesn’t matter, we’re lost,” he said at the time.
“You know you can’t trust this president do what’s right for this country,” Schiff said. “You can trust he will do what’s right for Donald Trump. He’ll do it now. He’s done it before. He’ll do it for the next several months, he’ll do it in the election if he’s allowed to. This is why if you find him guilty you must find that he should be removed. Because right matters.”
The Republican-led Senate acquitted Trump of both charges. In 2021, he became the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice, this time for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol after he lost the 2020 election. He was again acquitted by the Senate.
Republicans are still angry about Schiff’s starring role at the impeachment trial, with new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy accusing him of using his leadership position to “lie to the American public again and again.” McCarthy, R-Calif., said this week that he intended to block Schiff from continuing his service on the House Intelligence Committee.
With the centrist Feinstein in the twilight of her career, the race in the heavily Democratic state already is shaping up as a showcase for an ambitious, younger generation on the party’s left wing.
Asked how he would stand out in what is expected to be a crowded field, Schiff said he would emphasize his central role of national struggles over democracy and the economy.
“I think that record of leadership, that record of staunch defense of our democracy, and the way that I’ve championed an economy that works for everyone, I think are a powerful record to run on,” he said.
In his video, Schiff mixes shots of his family and highlights from his courtroom work with video from the impeachment proceedings and clips of Trump and other Republicans.
He warns that the threat of extremism is not over.
“Today’s Republican Party is gutting the middle class, threatening our democracy” Schiff says. “They aren’t going to stop. We have to stop them.” | https://www.kark.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-impeachment-leader-schiff-joins-california-senate-race/ | 2023-01-26 19:54:09 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-impeachment-leader-schiff-joins-california-senate-race/ |
ESPN2 OCHO TO SHOWCASE MAJOR LEAGUE TABLE TENNIS: COUNTDOWN TO INAUGURAL SEASON THIS SEPTEMBER
NAPLES, Fla., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Major League Table Tennis (MLTT) is excited to announce its upcoming appearance on ESPN2's 'The Ocho', scheduled for August 4th at 5pm EST. This milestone event highlights MLTT's diverse player base, representing over 40 countries, in anticipation of the league's inaugural season.
The broadcast will offer an unprecedented dive into the universe of professional table tennis - an Olympic sport and one of the most viewed globally - featuring exclusive match highlights, insightful player interviews, and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage. This broadcast serves as the perfect preamble to the eagerly awaited inaugural team play season, set to start on September 15-17 in Daytona Beach.
"As an Olympic sport and one of the most viewed sports globally, table tennis has mesmerized audiences with its intensity and finesse," says Flint Lane, CEO and Commissioner of MLTT. "We couldn't be more excited to be featured on ESPN2's 'The Ocho', especially since we formed the league less than six months ago. Leveraging our unique blend of athletic talent and cutting-edge technology, we aim to invigorate the U.S. table tennis landscape and deliver an electrifying experience for fans nationwide."
Adam Bobrow, globally recognized voice of table tennis will be providing commentary for this event and added, "MLTT's showcase on 'The Ocho' is a long-awaited chapter for table tennis in the U.S. Globally, table tennis is massively popular and I'm thrilled that MLTT is bringing professional table tennis to the US."
MLTT extends its gratitude to ESPN2 for this remarkable opportunity and invites all sports fans and table tennis enthusiasts to tune in on August 4th at 5pm EST.
About MLTT
Major League Table Tennis (MLTT) was founded in 2023 by software entrepreneur and table tennis enthusiast, Flint Lane. Flint and his wife Kathy own two table tennis clubs, Princeton Pong and Naples Pong. Flint previously served on the USATT Clubs Committee.
MLTT's mission is to bring the best table tennis experience to athletes and fans alike. One of the merits of our league is the diversity of our athlete rosters. Players come from all over the world, bringing with them different styles and techniques that make match play exciting and competitive.
MLTT is committed to advancing the sport of table tennis by providing the ultimate table tennis experience for all involved. We are dedicated to growing our league and supporting our athletes as they compete at the highest levels of the sport.
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Starbucks to mix coffee and olive oil in new beverages
(CNN) - Starbucks is adding an unexpected ingredient to its newest cup of joe - olive oil.
The coffee chain is introducing a new line of drinks made with a spoonful of extra virgin olive oil.
The new line includes the Oleato Caffe Latte, the Oleato Iced Shaken Espresso and the Oleato Golden Foam Cold Brew.
The latte has in it oat milk and olive oil, while the espresso takes those two ingredients and add a hazelnut flavor.
The cold brew features a sweet milk foam infused with two olive oil servings.
Starbucks will make the new beverages available at its cafes in Italy this week. Versions will then hit southern California this spring,
Starbucks said the drinks will eventually go global sometime this year.
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Hundreds of Chesterfield County students returned to classrooms on Monday, marking the beginning of another year-round calendar for kids at Falling Creek and Bellwood elementary schools.
The rest of the school division comes back to school on Aug. 22.
"It's just good to be back," said Principal Reshaud Johnson on Monday afternoon. "A lot of our kids have been on vacation and a lot of them are excited to be back. The parents are excited to be back, and our teachers are excited for the kids to be back as well."
It was Johnson's first day as a principal, too, following three years as an Exceptional Education teacher, four years as a school counselor, two years as the dean of students and an associate principal for another two.
Bellwood first started its year-round schooling back in 2018, making Chesterfield one of eight districts in Virginia at the time to have at least one school operating with the uncommon schedule. Falling Creek Elementary followed the following year before being disrupted by the pandemic.
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Both have among the highest concentration of poverty in the 61,000-student school district, with more than 66% qualifying for free-or-reduced lunch. More than a third are English learners and nearly every student is Black or Latino.
Superintendent Merv Daugherty said the push for this change four years ago stemmed from wanting to close the differences in what's known as "achievement gaps" in education, specifically proficiency in reading and math, where different groups have different outcomes in areas such as standardized test scores.
During the pandemic, students' performance on SOL tests plummeted, which Black and Latino kids and children from low-income households facing the greatest drop — a predictable trend following decades of inequities in education.
A 2018 brief from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found that schools nationwide “find it increasingly difficult to provide a quality education to all students” and the allocation of funds “exacerbates rather than remedies achievement and opportunity gaps.”
A 2012 study from the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, the legislative watchdog of the Virginia General Assembly, found that extending year calendars aided students who were falling behind on Standards of Learning assessments.
Debbie Bailey, a Chesterfield school board member representing the Dale district, said it's too soon to know whether Bellwood and Falling Creek students are benefitting from the year-round calendar due to the pandemic ejecting students nationwide from in-person learning for much of the past two-and-a-half years.
What's most important, Bailey said, is the children's education and fully gauging whether they're benefiting from the shorter breaks scattered throughout the school year. If the data doesn't support year-round schooling, Bailey said, Chesterfield schools could reconsider the path forward.
"You have to go through probably a good five years to see that data ... But I think for the most part, families, and I know some of the staff, really like the schedule," Bailey said. "I was a teacher for 34 years so the joke about day one is get them in their classrooms, feed them and get them home and that's a good first day."
On Monday afternoon, Bailey — alongside the superintendent and Principal Johnson — looked on as Falling Creek students, many of them masked when not eating, sat in the freshly and brightly re-painted lunchroom with encouraging words splattered across the walls.
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ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) — A girl who was allegedly abducted in suburban Chicago in 2017 by her noncustodial mother has been found safe in North Carolina after she was spotted at a business, authorities said.
Officers found a woman and a minor child at the business in Asheville, North Carolina, and were able to confirm their identities, police said. They said the woman, Heather Unbehaun, 40, was wanted on an extradition warrant out of Illinois for child abduction.
Unbehaun posted $25,000 bond Tuesday and was released from custody, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office said. Unbehaun declined to waive extradition, the office said.
It wasn’t clear whether Unbehaun has an attorney who might comment on the allegations against her.
South Elgin, Illinois, police said they were notified Saturday by police in Asheville that they had received a tip from a store employee who recognized Unbehaun and recalled that the child was missing. A store employee immediately notified Asheville police, who contacted South Elgin police.
Asheville police then took Unbehaun into custody. The child has since been reunited with her father.
“We are overjoyed to report that the child is in good condition and in good spirits since being reunited with her father,” South Elgin Police Chief Jerry Krawczyk said in a statement.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said the girl was 9 when Unehaun, her noncustodial mother, allegedly abducted her from South Elgin on July 5, 2017.
In its news release, the center included a statement from the girl’s father, identified only as “Ryan,” where he said he’s “overjoyed” that his daughter “is home safe.” He thanked the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, South Elgin police and other law enforcement agencies for their efforts.
“We ask for privacy as we get to know each other again and navigate this new beginning,” he added.
The girl’s 2017 abduction was featured on the Netflix Unsolved Mysteries reboot, WLOS-TV reported. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/ap-top-headlines/girl-allegedly-abducted-by-noncustodial-mother-found-safe-in-north-carolina/ | 2023-05-16 23:07:58 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/ap-top-headlines/girl-allegedly-abducted-by-noncustodial-mother-found-safe-in-north-carolina/ |
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A local North Carolina grand jury on Monday advanced its consideration of possible criminal charges against state Attorney General Josh Stein and two aides over an investigation into a political ad targeting Stein’s 2020 election opponent.
After hearing from a State Bureau of Investigation agent, the Wake County grand jury asked in writing that the Wake district attorney’s office submit an indictment for consideration “against any and each” of three people, including Stein himself.
The Democratic attorney general, his 2020 campaign manager Eric Stern and current state Justice Department chief of staff Seth Dearmin — a former Stein campaign manager — were identified in Monday’s “presentment” document signed by the jury foreperson. They have not been charged with any crime.
Stein, a potential 2024 candidate for governor, lashed out in a statement at what he called a “nonsense investigation.”
The investigation stems from a State Board of Elections complaint filed in fall 2020 by Stein’s Republican opponent, Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill. He accused Stein’s campaign of circulating a political ad that violated a 91-year-old libel law.
The O’Neill campaign said Stein’s commercial, which accused the Republican of letting more than a thousand rape kits go untested, was “false and derogatory” because police rather than prosecutors are responsible for testing rape kits. Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman’s office began investigating in 2021.
Freeman, also a Democrat, said Monday that her office could present the grand jury with a possible indictment as soon as next month. But a ruling as early as this week from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could derail the district attorney’s push for prosecution.
Stein’s campaign committee has said the ad was truthful.
Freeman “continues to pursue her nonsense investigation over a campaign ad that is true from an election that is long since passed, using a 91-year-old statute that has never been used against any other candidate,” the Stein campaign wrote in a statement Monday. “While the attorney general is disappointed by this ongoing distraction, he continues to focus on his work to test sexual assault kits and get justice for survivors of sexual assault.”
Freeman has recused herself from the case — citing her working relationship with O’Neill and Stein — and gave it to a senior assistant in her office.
Stein’s campaign committee asked the appeals court last week to issue a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the state law while the committee and other plaintiffs seek to strike it down as unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles refused last week to grant the injunction.
Dating to at least 1931, the law makes it illegal to deliberately disseminate a false “derogatory report” that could harm a candidate’s chance of election.
The misdemeanor for violating the law carries a penalty of up to 60 days in jail with up to $1,000 in fines, but someone with an otherwise clean criminal record would avoid serving time if convicted. Any criminal charge against Stein or his aides could harm the Democrat’s electoral prospects.
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‘Titanic’ filmmaker James Cameron reveals Leonardo DiCaprio almost wasn't cast in classic film
Leonardo DiCaprio’s behavior was almost the tip of the iceberg for "Titanic" director James Cameron.
During an interview with GQ, Cameron revealed DiCaprio almost was not cast for his famous role as Jack in the classic romantic drama after he refused to read lines with Kate Winslet during the audition process.
"There was a meeting with Leo and then there was a screen test with Leo," Cameron explained.
"The meeting was funny because I am sitting in my conference room, waiting to meet an actor… I look around, and all the women in the entire office are in the meeting… They all wanted to meet Leo. It was hysterical."
The "Titanic" director recalled the initial meeting with DiCaprio going smoothly, as he "charmed everybody."
Since Cameron took a liking to his acting, he requested DiCaprio return for a read with Winslet, who was already locked in to play the part of Rose.
"He came back a couple of days later, and I had the camera set up to record the video," Cameron continued.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s behavior was almost the tip of the iceberg for "Titanic" director James Cameron. (Getty Images)
"He didn't know he was going to test. He thought it was another meeting to meet Kate. So I said, 'Okay, we'll just go in the next room, and we'll run some lines, and I'll video it.' And he said, 'You mean, I'm reading?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'Oh, I don't read.' I shook his hand and said, 'Thanks for coming by.'"
A confused DiCaprio at the time responded with, "Wait, wait, wait. If I don't read, I don't get the part? Just like that?"
Cameron responded with, "Oh, yeah. Come on. This is a giant movie that is going to take two years of my life, and you'll be gone doing five other things while I'm doing post-production…I'm not going to f--- it up by making the wrong decision in casting. So, you're going to read, or you're not going to get the part."
James Cameron has directed some of the most successful films of all time, including "Titanic" and "Avatar." (Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images for Absolut Elyx)
He further explained that "The Wolf of Wall Street" star continued to groan and complain about reading the lines before proceeding with the audition.
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"He comes in, and he's like every ounce of his entire being is just so negative…right up until I said, 'Action.' Then he turned into Jack," Cameron noted.
"Kate just lit up, and they played the scene. Dark clouds had opened up, and a ray of sun came down and lit up Jack. I'm like, 'All right. He's the guy.'"
The Oscar-winning filmmaker’s comments come on the heels of the film’s 25th anniversary next month.
Cameron’s epic love story grossed $600.78 million during its initial run in the late ‘90s.
After the success of "Titanic," Cameron continued to work on several other iconic movies, including "Avatar." His previous works include "The Terminator" and "Aliens." | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/james-cameron-reveals-leonardo-dicaprio-almost-wasnt-cast-titanic | 2022-11-24 17:34:52 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/james-cameron-reveals-leonardo-dicaprio-almost-wasnt-cast-titanic |
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — This morning, temperatures in the mid-upper 70s with some spotty showers/storms near the coast. This afternoon, highs in the low 90s, scattered afternoon-evening showers and storms possible as front remains stalled out across the state.
Tomorrow, highs in the upper 80s with some storms around.
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Wednesday and Thursday, drier air settles in for a couple of days and rain chances go down. Highs in the upper 80s-low 90s.
Friday-weekend, increasing rain chances as moisture returns to the area. Highs in the low 90s but feeling like the triple digits with the humidity. Sunday looks to be the wetter of the two weekend days. | https://www.wptv.com/weather/storms-picking-up-for-this-afternoon | 2022-06-20 11:52:40 | 1 | https://www.wptv.com/weather/storms-picking-up-for-this-afternoon |
Back in my personal chef days, I worked for a wonderful family that had a bit of a dinner conundrum. The father longed for his Sicilian American mother’s beef ragu, but his kids wouldn’t touch it because it contained — gasp! — vegetables.
Wanting to find a compromise, I added something to the recipe that few kids can resist: cheesy garlic bread. I made the family recipe as instructed, moving the stew from a deep pot to a sauté pan and reducing the liquid slightly. Then I popped open a can of biscuits, divided them into 16 portions, and wrapped them around little cubes of string cheese. I put these “bombs” on top of the stew, brushed the biscuits with garlic butter, and baked the whole thing in the oven until the biscuits were golden-brown.
The kids were so excited by the gooey cheese-stuffed biscuits that they ate the stew that happened to come with it. (Full disclosure: I got a report that some mushrooms were left on their plates, but they did plow through the rest with delight.) The parents loved that their kids learned to like the family recipe, and the parents welcomed the new addition of biscuits, too. Mission accomplished.
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A few notes
Don’t buy pre-cubed stew meat. It’s convenient, but it’s often a combination of different cuts — including meat from the top and bottom round, which won’t be as tender or juicy as meat from the chuck primal. Buy a piece of chuck roast and cut it up yourself for the best results.
When trimming the roast, cut away all the fat. Lots of extra fat will make the stew greasy.
Brown the meat in batches. Get the oil hot and brown the beef in two to three batches. If you overcrowd the meat in the pan, the heat will dissipate too much and you’ll end up with stewed gray meat instead of flavorful seared meat.
Test for tenderness. It’s best to bite into a chunk of beef to check for doneness, rather than just going by time. Taste a piece of beef and if you’d prefer it more tender, continue to simmer, covered, until the beef is cooked to your liking. It doesn’t hurt to try two pieces, just to make sure.
Finish with fresh herbs. Adding fresh basil right before serving adds a lovely herbal fragrance and flavor and makes this dish taste more vibrant.
One Pot Italian Beef with Garlic-Butter Bread Bombs
Serves 4
- 1 medium yellow onion
- 8 ounces cremini mushrooms
- 2 large carrots, divided
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning, divided
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2 1/4 pounds beef chuck roast
- 1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt, divided, plus more as needed
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more as needed
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided, plus more as needed
- 1/2 cup dry red wine
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can beef broth (1 3/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons)
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can petite diced tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 to 4 (1-ounce) sticks string cheese, or 2 ounces low-moisture mozzarella cheese
- 1 (16.3-ounce, 8 count) can Pillsbury Grands original Southern Homestyle biscuits
- 4 to 6 fresh basil sprigs
1. Prepare the following, adding each to the same medium bowl as it is completed. Halve and thinly slice 1 medium yellow onion. Trim and quarter 8 ounces cremini mushrooms. Peel and dice 1 of the large carrots. Add 1 tablespoon of the dried Italian seasoning.
2. Prepare the following, keeping each separate: Peel and slice the remaining 1 large carrot crosswise into 1/4-inch thick rounds. Finely chop 4 garlic cloves and place in a small microwave-safe bowl.
3. Cut 2 1/4 pounds of beef chuck roast into 1-inch cubes and trim and discard any large pieces of fat or bits of connective tissue. Season with 1 teaspoon of the kosher salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, and toss to combine.
4. Heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil in an oven-safe 3 to 4-quart high-sided sauté pan or Dutch oven over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add half of the beef and sear until browned all over, about 4 minutes. Transfer to a medium bowl.
5. Add 1 tablespoon of the olive oil to the pan and repeat browning the remaining beef. Add 1/2 cup dry red wine to the pan (keep the beef in the pan). Simmer, scraping up the browned bits on the bottom of the pan, until reduced by half, about 2 minutes. Pour out into the bowl with the first batch of beef.
6. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil to the now-empty pan and heat over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add the onion mixture and remaining 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt. Sauté until the vegetables begin to brown (add more oil to the pan if the pan is dry), about 6 minutes. Add 1 tablespoon of the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 45 seconds.
7. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour into the pan and cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute. Add the sliced carrot, 1 (14.5-ounce) can beef broth, 1 (14.5-ounce) can petite diced tomatoes and their juices, 2 tablespoons tomato paste, and 1 bay leaf. Return the beef mixture and wine to the pan and bring to a boil. Partially cover and reduce the heat to low. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the beef is tender, about 1 1/2 hours.
8. Arrange a rack in the middle of the oven and heat the oven to 375 F. Meanwhile, uncover the pan and simmer for 30 minutes to thicken the sauce a bit.
9. Remove the pan from the heat. Taste and season with more kosher salt and black pepper as needed. (The stew can be made up to this point, cooled, and refrigerated covered for up to four days. Reheat over medium-low heat until simmering before proceeding.)
10. Add the remaining 1 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning and 2 tablespoons unsalted butter to the bowl of garlic. Microwave on High until melted, 30 seconds. (Alternatively, place everything in a small saucepan and melt over medium heat on the stovetop.)
11. Unwrap and cut 2 to 4 string cheese sticks crosswise into 1-inch pieces until you have 16 pieces, or cut 2 ounces low-moisture mozzarella cheese into 16 (1/2-inch) cubes. Open an 8-count (16.3-ounce) can Pillsbury Southern Style original biscuits and separate them into individual biscuits. Cut each biscuit in half to form 2 semi circles.
12. Place a piece of cheese in the center of each piece of dough. Bring the edges of the dough around the cheese and gently pinch edges together to create a ball. Do not over-handle the dough or the biscuit will not rise as well. Place the “bombs” seam side-down on top of the stew around the edges of the pot. Brush each bomb with a little garlic butter.
13. Bake uncovered for 13 minutes. Rotate the pot and continue baking until the biscuits are golden brown, about 12 minutes more. Meanwhile, pick the leaves from 4 to 6 fresh basil sprigs and coarsely chop (about 2 tablespoons).
14. When the biscuits are ready, brush with the remaining garlic butter and sprinkle with the basil.
Recipe notes
- The beef can be cooked up to four days in advance. Cool and refrigerate in an airtight container or covered in the pan it was cooked in. Reheat over medium heat until simmering, top with the biscuit bombs, and proceed with the baking.
- To store leftovers, take the biscuit bombs off the top of the stew and refrigerate both in separate airtight containers. Reheat the stew in an oven-safe baking dish, topped with the biscuits, in a 325 F oven until heated through, about 25 minutes.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – The newest and cutest Tampa Bay Buccaneers are here! Ahead of the 2023 NFL Draft, AdventHealth has partnered with the Bucs to announce the “newest recruits” as part of their “Baby Bucs Program.”
For the year-round program, all babies born at any AdventHealth hospital in the Greater Tampa Bay area during the week of the NFL Draft are officially welcomed as part of the “rookie class.”
The infants also receive a special Bucs Babies draft kit, which includes several important items that new parents need, such as newborn wash and shampoo, lotion, and of course, plenty of Bucs gear.
“As the exclusive hospital of the Bucs, AdventHealth is thrilled to welcome these tiny recruits and their families with open arms,” Lauren Key, Senior Executive Officer of Consumer Strategy for AdventHealth West Florida said in a statement. “This program also creates an avenue for families to meet and connect with each other as both football fans and new parents. Let’s cheer on the Bucs Babies together!”
On top of all the draft kit goodies, the Bucs Babies Program also includes an invite to the annual “Bucs Babies Birthday Bash.” The bash is a free event that’s held every year at the AdventHealth Training Center.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch lawmakers broke into their summer vacations Tuesday to debate the government's contentious plans to slash nitrogen emissions that have sparked angry protests by farmers.
The debate was called after Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said in a newspaper interview that the goal of reducing emissions by 50% by 2030 was not set in stone. Hoekstra's Christian Democrats party, which traditionally wins votes among farmers and in rural communities, has been losing support in polls since the government published its nitrogen targets.
Hoekstra's comments caused friction in Prime Minister Mark Rutte's four-party ruling Cabinet and led to lawmakers backing a call for a debate that will be the first major test of unity since the coalition took office in January after the country's longest ever government formation negotiations.
Lawmaker Geert Wilders, whose Party for Freedom is the largest opposition group in parliament and who called for the debate, also used it to criticize the government for not doing enough to tackle a cost-of-living crisis that is hitting the Netherlands and many other European nations amid soaring energy costs and inflation.
“This Cabinet is totally detached from reality,” Wilders said as the debate began. He said he would file a motion of no confidence in the government later in the debate.
The leader of the centrist D66 party, Sigrid Kaag, did not attend the debate because she was ill. Her party has pushed hard for the emission reduction targets.
The government says emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which livestock produce, must be drastically reduced close to nature areas that are part of a network of protected habitats for endangered plants and wildlife stretching across the 27-nation European Union.
Rutte's administration has given local authorities a year to draw up plans for how to achieve the reductions.
Farmers argue that will force many of them out of business and destroy rural communities reliant on agriculture. To protest the measures, they have dumped manure and garbage, including asbestos, on highways over the summer and blockaded supermarket distribution centers to halt the flow of food to stores. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Dutch-government-under-fire-in-debate-over-17391403.php | 2022-08-23 10:45:47 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Dutch-government-under-fire-in-debate-over-17391403.php |
Maryland vs. Notre Dame Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - NCAA Tournament Sweet 16
Published: Mar. 20, 2023 at 12:39 AM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
Friday's game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (27-5) and Maryland Terrapins (27-6) matching up at Bon Secours Wellness Arena has a projected final score of 71-69 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of Notre Dame, so it should be a competitive matchup. The game will tip off at TBA on March 24.
The Terrapins are coming off of a 77-64 win against Arizona in their most recent outing on Sunday.
Maryland vs. Notre Dame Game Info
- When: Friday, March 24, 2023
- Where: Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina
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Maryland vs. Notre Dame Score Prediction
- Prediction: Notre Dame 71, Maryland 70
Maryland Schedule Analysis
- The Terrapins' signature win of the season came in a 96-68 victory versus the No. 3 Iowa Hawkeyes on February 21.
- The Terrapins have 11 wins against Quadrant 1 opponents, tied for the fifth-most in Division 1.
- Maryland has four wins over Quadrant 2 opponents, tied for the 46th-most in the nation.
- Against Quadrant 3 opponents, the Terrapins are 8-0 (1.000%) -- tied for the 26th-most wins.
Maryland 2022-23 Best Wins
- 96-68 at home over Iowa (No. 3/AP Poll) on February 21
- 85-78 at home over UConn (No. 6/AP Poll) on December 11
- 74-72 on the road over Notre Dame (No. 10/AP Poll) on December 1
- 76-74 on the road over Ohio State (No. 12/AP Poll) on February 24
- 90-54 at home over Ohio State (No. 12/AP Poll) on February 5
Notre Dame Schedule Analysis
- The Fighting Irish took down the No. 4 Virginia Tech Hokies in a 63-52 win on December 18, which was their best victory of the season.
- The Fighting Irish have nine wins against Quadrant 1 opponents, tied for the 11th-most in the nation.
- Against Quadrant 2 opponents, Notre Dame is 6-0 (1.000%) -- tied for the 22nd-most victories.
- Based on the RPI, the Terrapins have eight wins over Quadrant 3 teams, the most in Division 1.
Notre Dame 2022-23 Best Wins
- 63-52 on the road over Virginia Tech (No. 4/AP Poll) on December 18
- 74-60 at home over UConn (No. 6/AP Poll) on December 4
- 68-65 on the road over Louisville (No. 23) on February 26
- 78-76 at home over Louisville (No. 23) on February 16
- 66-60 over NC State (No. 24) on March 3
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Maryland Performance Insights
- The Terrapins average 79.4 points per game (ninth in college basketball) while giving up 68.5 per outing (281st in college basketball). They have a +358 scoring differential overall and outscore opponents by 10.9 points per game.
- Maryland's offense has been more productive in Big Ten games this year, tallying 80.0 points per contest, compared to its season average of 79.4 PPG.
- The Terrapins are averaging 82.6 points per game when playing at home. In away games, they are averaging 76.0 points per contest.
- Maryland surrenders 70.1 points per game in home games, compared to 65.7 away from home.
- The Terrapins have been scoring 81.6 points per game in their last 10 times on the court, an average that's slightly higher than the 79.4 they've scored over the course of the 2022-23 season.
Notre Dame Performance Insights
- The Fighting Irish are outscoring opponents by 15.9 points per game, with a +511 scoring differential overall. They put up 74.3 points per game (37th in college basketball) and allow 58.4 per outing (43rd in college basketball).
- In conference action, Notre Dame is putting up fewer points (70.1 per game) than it is overall (74.3) in 2022-23.
- The Fighting Irish are putting up more points at home (77.8 per game) than on the road (68.8).
- Notre Dame gives up 56.2 points per game at home, and 57.9 on the road.
- The Fighting Irish are averaging 68.6 points per contest in their previous 10 games, which is 5.7 fewer points than their average for the season (74.3).
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MELVILLE, N.Y., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- P&F Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ GM: PFIN), plans to release its results for the three-month period ended June 30, 2022, before the market opens on Thursday, August 11, 2022. The Company has scheduled a conference call beginning at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time the same day.
Additionally, as a reminder, the Company has revised its procedures relating to the question-and-answer portion of the conference call. It will limit the length of the questions from any particular shareholder or other caller, together with the responses from management to 20 minutes per shareholder/caller.
The dial-in number for the conference call is 1-888-221-3881. For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, a replay of the call will be accessible through the Company's web site beginning approximately twenty-four hours later.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Members of California’s Black reparations task force handed off their historic two-year report to state lawmakers Thursday, beginning the next chapter in the long struggle to compensate the descendants of slavery.
The first U.S. panel of its kind met one last time Thursday, urging supporters to press lawmakers into action on more than 100 recommendations. State legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom must agree for any money to be paid or for any policy changes to be adopted.
“This book of truth will be a legacy, will be a testament to the full story,” said Lisa Holder, a civil rights attorney and task force member. “Anyone who says that we are colorblind, that we have solved the problem of anti-Black animus and racism, I challenge you to read this document.”
The mood was buoyant, but tinged with frustration and anger that hours earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in higher education, programs that have disproportionately helped Black students. Task force members said their suggestions will pass legal muster because the proposed benefits would only go to descendants of enslaved people, not to all Black residents.
The panel narrowly voted to limit any financial redress to residents who can document lineage from Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century.
The 1,100-page report details California’s role in perpetuating discrimination against Black residents. Ideas for repairing the harm range from formally apologizing to paying descendants of enslaved people for having suffered under racist actions such as over-policing and housing discrimination. The panel also recommended creating a new agency to oversee reparations efforts.
Turning the proposals into policies won’t be easy. State Sen. Steven Bradford said there are “a lot of folks” in the Legislature who do not support reparations and a 2021 Pew Research Center survey found that only 30% of U.S. adults favored the concept.
A more recent survey by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found 54% of respondents had a negative opinion of California creating a reparations task force, although 59% said they would support a formal apology from the state to descendants.
More than 200 people gathered at the Thursday meeting in Sacramento, with an overflow crowd outside the room. Inside, many stood at one point and began a call-and-response to demand action.
“What do we want?” someone shouted.
“Reparations,” the crowd responded.
“When do we want them?” he asked.
“Now!”
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, who wrote legislation creating the task force, said slavery stripped her of her identity and heritage and that she has visited Africa dozens of times, only to conclude there is nowhere for her to go back to.
“I am an American,” she said. “This country has shaped and formed us and we have given to it. And we have a right to be here. We have a right to have the benefits.”
Rev. Amos C. Brown, a longtime civil rights activist and vice-chair of the task force, said California’s projected $31.5 billion budget deficit should not stop the state from making reparations.
“This state has committed a crime against Black folks, and it’s time for them to pay,” Brown said to cheers from the audience. “Deficits don’t last always.”
The nine-member reparations panel convened in June 2021, the year after Newsom signed legislation creating the group. He and legislative leaders picked the members, including lawyers, educators, elected officials and civil rights leaders descended from enslaved people.
Federal reparations efforts have stalled for decades, but cities, counties, school districts and universities have taken up the cause. An advisory group in San Francisco recommended that qualifying Black adults receive a $5 million lump-sum, guaranteed annual income of at least $97,000 and personal debt forgiveness. San Francisco supervisors are supposed to take up the proposals later this year.
New York may soon follow California by creating a commission to examine the state’s involvement in slavery and consider addressing present-day economic and educational disparities experienced by Black people. Lawmakers approved the legislation earlier this month, but Gov. Kathy Hochul has yet to sign it.
Illinois approved a reparations commission last year.
California entered the union as a free state in 1850. In practice, it sanctioned slavery and approved policies and practices that thwarted Black people from owning homes and starting businesses. Black families were terrorized, their communities aggressively policed and their neighborhoods polluted, according to a groundbreaking report released last year as part of the committee’s work.
The panel did not recommend a fixed dollar amount for financial redress, but endorsed economic methodologies to calculate what is owed for decades of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination. Initial calculations pegged California’s potential cost in those areas at more than $800 billion — more than 2.5 times the state’s annual budget. The estimated cost was cut to $500 billion in a later report, though no explanation was given for the change.
The panel has recommended prioritizing elders for financial compensation.
Economists recommended nearly $1 million for a 71-year-old Black person who lived all their life in California — or $13,600 per year — for health disparities that shorten the average life span.
Black people subjected to aggressive policing and prosecution in the “war on drugs” from 1971 to 2020 could each receive $115,000 if they lived in California throughout that period, or more than $2,300 for each year.
Kamilah Moore, an intellectual property and entertainment lawyer who led the task force, called the last two years a whirlwind.
“It’s been very work intensive, but also very cathartic and very emotional,” she said. “We’re standing in the shoes of our ancestors to finish, essentially, this sacred project.”
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This story corrects an earlier version that inaccurately stated New York could become the second state to create a reparations commission. Illinois approved one in 2022. It also corrects the length of the report. It is 1,100 pages.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S. plunged into uncertainty Friday following conflicting court rulings over the legality of the abortion medication mifepristone that has been widely available for more than 20 years.
For now, the drug the Food and Drug Administration approved in 2000 appeared to remain at least immediately available in the wake of two separate rulings that were issued in quick succession by federal judges in Texas and Washington.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, ordered a hold on federal approval of mifepristone in a decision that overruled decades of scientific approval. But that decision came at nearly the same time that U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice, an Obama appointee, essentially ordered the opposite and directed U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to the drug in at least 17 states where Democrats sued in an effort to protect availability.
The extraordinary timing of the competing orders revealed the high stakes surrounding the drug nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and curtailed access to abortion across the country. President Joe Biden said his administration would fight the Texas ruling.
The whiplash of the conflicting decisions is likely to put the issue on an accelerated path to the Supreme Court.
“FDA is under one order that says you can do nothing and another that says in seven days I’m going to require you to vacate the approval of mifepristone,” said Glenn Cohen of Harvard Law School.
Abortion providers slammed the Texas ruling, including Whole Woman’s Health, which operates six clinics in five states and said it would continue to dispense mifepristone in person and by mail over the next week as they review the rulings.
The abortion drug has been widely used in the U.S. since securing FDA approval and there is essentially no precedent for a lone judge overruling the medical decisions of the Food and Drug Administration. Mifepristone is one of two drugs used for medication abortion in the United States, along with misoprostol, which is also used to treat other medical conditions.
Kacsmaryk signed an injunction directing the FDA to stay mifepristone’s approval while a lawsuit challenging the safety and approval of the drug continues. His 67-page order gave the government seven days to appeal.
“The Court in this case has substituted its judgment for FDA, the expert agency that approves drugs,” Biden said. “If this ruling were to stand, then there will be virtually no prescription, approved by the FDA, that would be safe from these kinds of political, ideological attacks.”
Clinics and doctors that prescribe the two-drug combination have said that if mifepristone were pulled from the market, they would switch to using only the second drug, misoprostol. That single-drug approach has a slightly lower rate of effectiveness in ending pregnancies, but it is widely used in countries where mifepristone is illegal or unavailable.
The lawsuit in the Texas case was filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was also involved in the Mississippi case that led to Roe v. Wade being overturned. At the core of the lawsuit is the allegation that the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone was flawed because it did not adequately review its safety risks.
Courts have long deferred to the FDA on issues of drug safety and effectiveness. But the agency’s authority faces new challenges in a post-Roe legal environment in which abortions are banned or unavailable in 14 states, while 16 states have laws specifically targeting abortion medications.
Since the Texas lawsuit was filed in November, legal experts have warned of questionable arguments and factual inaccuracies in the Christian group’s filing. Kacsmaryk essentially agreed with the plaintiffs on all of their major points, including that the FDA didn’t adequately review mifepristone’s safety.
“The Court does not second-guess FDA’s decision-making lightly.” Kacsmaryk wrote. “But here, FDA acquiesced on its legitimate safety concerns — in violation of its statutory duty — based on plainly unsound reasoning and studies that did not support its conclusions.”
Mifepristone has been used by millions of women over the past 23 years, and complications from mifepristone occur at a lower rate than that seen with wisdom teeth removal, colonoscopies and other routine medical procedures, medical groups have recently noted.
Elsewhere, Kacsmaryk sided with plaintiffs in stating that the FDA overstepped its authority in approving mifepristone, in part, by using a specialized review process reserved for drugs to treat “serious or life-threatening illnesses.” The judge brushed aside FDA arguments that its own regulations make clear that pregnancy is a medical condition that can sometimes be serious and life-threatening, instead calling it a “natural process essential to perpetuating human life.”
His order also agreed with plaintiffs in invoking a controversial 19th century law that anti-abortion groups are now trying to revive to block sending abortion medications through the mail. Originally passed in 1873 and named for an “anti-vice crusader,” the Comstock Act was used to prohibit the mailing of contraceptives, “lewd” writings and “instruments” that could be used in an abortion. The law was seldom invoked in the 50 years after Roe established a federal right to abortion.
Kacsmaryk, though, agreed with plaintiffs that the law — as literally interpreted — prohibits mailing mifepristone.
His order, if upheld, would also dismantle a number of recent FDA actions intended to ease access to the drug.
In late 2021 the FDA — under the Biden administration — dropped a requirement that women pick up the drug in person, opening the door to delivery by mail-order pharmacies. In January the agency dropped another requirement that prevented most brick-and-mortar pharmacies from dispensing the pill.
Anti-abortion groups, which are newly encouraged about their ability to further restrict abortion and prevail in court since last’s year’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, embraced the Texas ruling.
“The court’s decision today is a major step forward for women and girls whose health and safety have been jeopardized for decades by the FDA’s rushed, flawed and politicized approval of these dangerous drugs,” said March for Life President Jeanne Mancini.
Legal experts warned that the ruling could upend decades of precedent, setting the stage for political groups to overturn other FDA approvals of controversial drugs and vaccines.
“This has never happened before in history — it’s a huge deal,” said Greer Donley, a professor specializing in reproductive health care at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. “You have a federal judge who has zero scientific background second guessing every scientific decision that the FDA made.”
Still, because of the contradictory nature of the rulings, Donley and other experts said there would be little immediate impact.
“In the short term, nothing’s going to change,” Donley said. “This is the time to be preparing for the fact that in a week, potentially, mifepristone becomes an unapproved drug in this country.”
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EAST HANOVER, N.J., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FGI Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: FGI) ("FGI" or the "Company"), a leading global supplier of kitchen and bath products, today announced that it will issue financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2022 after the market close on Monday, March 27, 2023. Management will conduct a conference call on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at 8:00 am Eastern Time to discuss the quarterly results.
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FGI Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: FGI) is a leading global supplier of kitchen and bath products. For over 30 years, we have built an industry-wide reputation for product innovation, quality, and excellent customer service. We are currently focused on the following product categories: sanitaryware (primarily toilets, sinks, pedestals and toilet seats), bath furniture (vanities, mirrors and cabinets), shower systems, customer kitchen cabinetry and other accessory items. These products are sold primarily for repair and remodel activity and, to a lesser extent, new home or commercial construction. We sell our products through numerous partners, including mass retail centers, wholesale and commercial distributors, online retailers and specialty stores.
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The new partnership will design aviation-inspired programming for Boys & Girls Clubs across the country
LAS VEGAS, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegiant Travel Company (NASDAQ: ALGT) has pledged $1 million to Boys & Girls Clubs of America to develop and launch a new program that will inspire children to choose future careers in aviation.
The gift, which will be paid out over two years, will also include a fundraising campaign to match donations made by individuals who make a new monthly pledge or increase their current amount. Through this matching program, Allegiant plans to create twice the impact, all year long. This ensures that kids at every stage of development have resources they need to succeed academically.
"We are excited to join Boys & Girls Clubs of America in its life-changing mission to empower youth," said Allegiant President Greg Anderson. "The organization provides critical programs in many of the cities we serve, and we hope this partnership complements their efforts in a meaningful way. By connecting children to fulfilling opportunities in aviation, our goal is to inspire them to dream big while hopefully helping to build the necessary workforce of tomorrow."
Promoting STEM education with an emphasis on careers in the aeronautical sciences is one of Allegiant's core pillars of corporate giving. Through the new Allegiant Aviation Journey, the airline and Boys & Girls Clubs will collaborate to give kids and teens in select cities an exciting look at what it's like to work in one of the world's most fascinating and rewarding industries. The program will start at a local Club in Las Vegas and expand over the next two years to at least seven other cities Allegiant serves. The program will showcase various aviation career paths related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), ranging from flight crews and airport operations to maintenance and data science, among others.
Kids will discover a variety of experiential activities with an aviation focus, including touring airplanes, riding in flight simulators, visiting airports and more. Educational materials about aviation and STEM will also be made available to select Clubs.
"Preparing young people for a dynamic workplace and positioning them for a successful career is a hallmark of our organization," said Jim Clark, President and CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of America. "Our partnership with Allegiant reflects that goal, creating pathways for youth to explore the vast and unique career tracks available to them within aeronautics, which is bursting with opportunities. We are excited to welcome Allegiant and to further strengthen our commitment to workforce readiness."
The commercial aviation industry is facing a global staffing shortage at a time when demand is at historically high levels. This year alone, North American airlines are facing a significant shortage of about 17,000 pilots – which could grow to nearly 30,000 by 2032, according to industry experts. Additionally, almost half of all U.S. airline pilots are 50 or older and must retire at age 65.
Airline maintenance careers will be impacted as well, as more aircraft become operational and maintenance engineers retire. More than 13,000 U.S. openings for aircraft mechanics are projected annually. Thousands of in-demand, high-paying jobs remain unfilled, including pilots, flight attendants, maintenance engineers, airport operations personnel, and others.
The new partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America is one of several solutions Allegiant is pursuing to help ease this staffing shortage. While inspiring kids to choose a career in aviation is part of a long-term solution, several studies show that providing the right environment and promoting learning opportunities about a topic can have a major influence on a child's career choice. According to research by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, "exposure to STEM during early childhood is critical to establishing an optimal educational trajectory." A report from the University of California at San Diego concludes that "students are more likely to pursue STEM majors at universities and colleges if introduced to those topics in grade school."
Through this partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Allegiant aims to engage children of all ages to empower and inspire them to pursue careers in aviation. By matching recurring gifts to Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Allegiant will give more kids the meals, mentors, and meaningful life experiences necessary to reach new heights. Please visit www.BGCA.org/monthly to learn more.
Allegiant – Together We FlyTM
Las Vegas-based Allegiant (NASDAQ: ALGT) is an integrated travel company with an airline at its heart, focused on connecting customers with the people, places and experiences that matter most. Since 1999, Allegiant Air has linked travelers in small-to-medium cities to world-class vacation destinations with all-nonstop flights and industry-low average fares. Today, Allegiant serves communities across the nation, with base airfares less than half the cost of the average domestic roundtrip ticket. For more information, visit us at Allegiant.com. Media information, including photos, is available at http://gofly.us/iiFa303wrtF
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
For 160 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA.org) has provided a safe place for kids and teens to learn and grow. Clubs offer caring adult mentors, fun and friendship, and high-impact youth development programs on a daily basis during critical non-school hours. Boys & Girls Clubs programming promotes academic success, good character and leadership, and healthy lifestyles. Over 5,000 Clubs serve over 3.6 million young people through Club membership and community outreach. Clubs are located in cities, towns, public housing and on Native lands throughout the country, and serve military families in BGCA-affiliated Youth Centers on U.S. military installations worldwide. National headquarters are located in Atlanta. Learn more about Boys & Girls Clubs of America on Facebook and Twitter.
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Brazil’s economy contracted last quarter for the first time in over a year, government data showed Thursday, in a downturn expected to complicate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s first year in office.
Latin America’s largest economy shrank 0.22% in the final three months of last year, weighed down by declines in industry, according to data from the country’s statistics institute.
Oil production was the only bright spot of the industrial sector in the fourth quarter, with manufacturing, construction and utilities all contracting, the institute said.
“It’s a scenario of economic reversal at the end of last year that tends to continue this year,” said Sérgio Vale, chief economist at MB Associados, who also said high interest rates were impacting the economy.
Brazil’s President Lula has spent considerable time bemoaning the fact that the central bank has held its benchmark rate at its highest level since 2016 — 13.75% — most recently at its monetary policy meeting last month. There have been calls from members of his party to force the removal of the central bank’s president, despite the fact the monetary authority has formal independence.
“A recession is Lula’s big nightmare,” said Thomas Traumann, an independent political analyst, adding that the president has begun “pushing all the buttons he can reach to try to mitigate the effects of an economic retraction among the poor, his main electoral base.”
Such moves include boosting the minimum wage above inflation, exempting taxes for low-income workers as well as plans to create a program to renegotiate poor peoples’ debts, Traumann said. Lula campaigned on eradicating poverty and plans to revamp the social welfare program, Bolsa Familia.
Alberto Ramos, Goldman Sachs’ chief Latin America economist, wrote in an emailed statement that he anticipates further headwinds for Brazil’s economy in the first half of 2023, pointing to high interest rates, elevated household debt levels, declining job creation and soft business and consumer confidence.
GDP expanded 2.9% in the full year of 2022, down from the 5% rebound registered in 2021 following the pandemic-induced recession, according to the statistics institute.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A judge overturned Georgia’s ban on abortion starting around six weeks into a pregnancy, ruling Tuesday that it violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it was enacted.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney’s ruling applies statewide. The ban had been in effect since July.
It prohibited most abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” is present. Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound in cells within an embryo that will eventually become the heart as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. That means most abortions in Georgia were effectively banned at a point before many women knew they were pregnant.
Kara Richardson, a spokesperson for Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, said in an email that the office intends to pursue an “immediate appeal.”
McBurney’s ruling came in a lawsuit filed in July by doctors and advocacy groups that sought to strike down the ban on multiple grounds, including that it violates the Georgia Constitution’s right to privacy and liberty by forcing pregnancy and childbirth on women in the state.
McBurney’s ruling agreed with a different argument made in the lawsuit, that the ban was invalid because it violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent at the time it became law.
Georgia’s law was passed by state lawmakers and signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in 2019 but had been blocked from taking effect until the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had protected the right to an abortion for nearly 50 years. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Georgia to begin enforcing its abortion law just over three weeks after the high court’s decision in June.
McBurney wrote in his ruling that when the law was enacted, “everywhere in America, including Georgia, it was unequivocally unconstitutional for governments — federal, state, or local — to ban abortions before viability.”
He wrote that the state’s law “did not become the law of Georgia when it was enacted and it is not the law of Georgia now.”
The state had argued that the Roe decision itself was wrong and the Supreme Court ruling wiped it out of existence.
McBurney did leave the door open for the state Legislature to revisit the ban.
Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the prohibition on abortions provided for in the 2019 law “may someday become the law of Georgia,” he wrote.
But, he wrote, that can happen only after the General Assembly “determines in the sharp glare of public attention that will undoubtedly and properly attend such an important and consequential debate whether the rights of unborn children justify such a restriction on women’s right to bodily autonomy and privacy.”
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WASHINGTON, July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- We congratulate the Harris Ownership Group on yesterday's unanimous League approval of their purchase of the Washington Commanders. We are proud to have built the most diverse leadership group of any NFL Team, including having the highest representation of women, underrepresented groups, and the first full time black female coach in League history.
We are immensely grateful to the best fans in football, the Commanders' faithful, for the passion and unwavering support they have shown for this team and those who represented it on and off the field. From the players who battled every week for that extra inch, to those who worked behind the scenes to enhance every facet of the organization, we thank you for your hard work, dedication and commitment to our team, fans, pursuit of excellence and most importantly, to each other.
Being stewards of this historic organization for the last quarter century has been the privilege of a lifetime. When we purchased the team nearly 25 years ago, Dan was quoted as saying "I'm a fan. A huge fan. It's that simple." That is as true today as it was then. During our next chapter, we are looking forward to spending time with family and devoting our energy to the causes that matter very much to us, including furthering our long-standing support of breast cancer research.
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Tiger Woods returns to Riviera to play 1st event of the year
(AP) - Tiger Woods is returning to competition for the first time without the use of a cart since July, announcing Friday he will play at the Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles.
Woods was hopeful of playing next week’s tournament at Riviera, where he is the host of an event that typically had the strongest field of the West Coast swing even before it became elevated with a $20 million purse.
The uncertainty came from a bout with plantar fasciitis as he was preparing to play in December. That kept him from playing in his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. He played a made-for-TV exhibition over 12 holes and the PNC Championship with his son. Both times he was allowed to ride in a cart.
Carts are not allowed on the PGA Tour — Casey Martin used one under the Americans with Disabilities Act — and Woods has said he was not interested in using one to play at the highest level.
“I’m ready to play an ACTUAL PGA Tour event next week,” Woods said on Twitter, a reference to playing only three majors last year.
It will be his first regular PGA Tour event since Oct. 25, 2020, when he tied for 72nd against a 78-man field in his title defense of the Zozo Championship. The tournament had moved that year from Japan to Sherwood Country Club in California because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Woods has said he can hit all the shots, “I just can’t get from Point A to Point B.”
That he can play next week is an encouraging sign that he will return to the Masters in April, although missing the Bahamas was an indication Woods doesn’t entirely control when his legs and feet will act up.
Woods was recovering from a fifth back surgery in February 2021 when he crashed his SUV on a coastal road in Los Angeles two days after the Genesis Invitational, suffering multiple fractures of his right leg and ankle.
Woods missed 14 months, and it was remarkable that he returned to the Masters last April and made the cut. He also made the cut in the PGA Championship, only to withdraw after the third round of Southern Hills with a severe limp. He skipped the U.S. Open to make sure he was ready for St. Andrews, but missed the cut in the British Open.
Riviera is where Woods made his PGA Tour debut as a 16-year-old amateur in 1992, and remains the one course he has never quite mastered. He played 11 times at Riviera as a pro, the most of any course without winning.
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LONDON (AP) — U.K. telecom company BT Group said Thursday that it plans to shed up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade as part of an overhaul aimed at slimming down its workforce to slash costs.
BT, which has 130,000 workers including both staff and contractors, said in its latest earnings report that its number of employees would be reduced to between 75,000 and 90,000 by 2030.
“By the end of the 2020s BT Group will rely on a much smaller workforce and a significantly reduced cost base," CEO Philip Jansen said. "New BT Group will be a leaner business with a brighter future.”
Tech and telecom companies have been cutting jobs as the industry undergoes a painful shakeup amid flagging economic growth and surging inflation.
U.K.-based wireless carrier Vodafone, which operates in Europe and Africa, said days earlier that it's laying off 11,000 workers as part of a major revamp.
BT, a former state monopoly previously known as British Telecom, said that once its fiber-optic broadband and 5G mobile networks are fully rolled out, it won't need as many workers to build and maintain them.
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Centene Charitable Foundation and Western Sky partner with One Albuquerque Fund to build new health services
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Centene Charitable Foundation and Western Sky Community Care committed funds of $3 million to the One Albuquerque Fund for "The Gateway" project. The Gateway focuses on key service gaps for homeless populations including providing a new center for emergency overnight beds with wrap-around services such as case management, a 24/7 receiving area for first responders, medical sobering, and medical respite.
According to the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness, more than 1,300 people in Albuquerque sleep in shelters or on the streets each night. Despite a growing need, there are currently limited options for comprehensive, trauma-informed services in Albuquerque. The Gateway will promote healing and recovery by providing safe, dignified, emergency shelter with wrap-around services to help guests transition to stable, permanent housing in addition to other community resources.
"Reducing homelessness is a community effort, and we all need to be part of the solution," said Mayor Tim Keller. "We are grateful to Western Sky and the Centene Charitable Foundation for stepping up to support the Gateway. With the services coming, including the city's first ever 24/7 first responder receiving area, Albuquerque will be better positioned to move the needle and get people the help they need."
The City of Albuquerque acquired the Gibson Medical Center, which already serves as a health hub with six existing tenants providing care services. As part of this health hub, the Gateway will add more health resources for the homeless community, as well as centrally located emergency overnight beds and supportive services toward permanent housing.
Gateway will be built in stages, with completion of the first phase anticipated in the spring of 2023. Phase one will include:
- Emergency Housing Program and Engagement Center which will serve 200 single, adult women per year with 50 initial emergency overnight beds and 90-day transitions to housing.
- 24/7 Receiving Area for First Responders which will make up to 1,500 transports per year to needed services.
"Western Sky is pleased to join the Centene Charitable Foundation in supporting our state. Gateway will close some existing gaps in available health and community resources," said Western Sky President and CEO Jean Wilms. "Our mission is to bring quality healthcare to all New Mexicans, and by joining the efforts to create tangible solutions, we are achieving that goal at its foundation."
In addition to the financial contributions, Western Sky Community Care will continue to be committed to local support and community engagements including care coordination, health equity, behavioral health, and outreach in the community.
About Centene Charitable Foundation
The Centene Charitable Foundation (the "Foundation"), a private nonprofit focused on investing in economically challenged communities, is the philanthropic arm of Centene Corporation ("Centene"). The Foundation supports projects and initiatives strategically aligned with Centene's purpose-driven culture and enhances the work Centene is doing to remove the barriers to wellness underserved and low-income populations face. The Foundation is committed to addressing social determinants of health and improving health equity in three distinct areas of focus: Healthcare Access, Social Services, and Education.
About Western Sky Community Care
Established to deliver quality healthcare in the state of New Mexico through local, regional, and community-based resources, Western Sky Community Care is a Managed Care Organization and subsidiary of Centene Corporation. Western Sky Community Care exists to improve the health of its beneficiaries through focused, compassionate, and coordinated care. Our approach is based on the core belief that quality healthcare is best delivered locally. For more information, visit www.westernskycommunitycare.com.
About One Albuquerque Fund
The goal of the One Albuquerque Fund is to connect the community, businesses, and nonprofit organizations to come together to support the people in the community. The One Albuquerque Fund is a completely nonpartisan organization, focused on allocating resources directly to organizations that help address Albuquerque's key initiatives. It aims to fund critical programs to address some of the core challenges in Albuquerque including housing vouchers, workforce support, youth opportunity, and officer recruitment.
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Saturday's results
Red Deer at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Calgary at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Portland, 6 p.m.
Lethbridge at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Seattle at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's results
Calgary at Saskatoon, 4 p.m.
Lethbridge at Regina, 4 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 4:05 p.m.
Tuesday's results
Brandon at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Thursday's games
Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Friday's games
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Lethbridge at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Portland at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Prince Albert at Calgary, 4 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Regina, 4 p.m.
Saskatoon at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Kamloops at Vancouver, 4 p.m. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17518621.php | 2022-10-19 03:55:37 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17518621.php |
Music Industry Opening Up • Soundstr • Stage It • Tours
NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VNUE Inc. (OTC "VNUE") is pleased to provide an update to its shareholders. With the concert industry slowly but surely kicking into gear after all of the Covid related closures and cancellations, VNUE, Inc's Chairman and CEO Zach Bair sees a bright future ahead for the Company.
"There is light at the end of the tunnel," said Bair. "More and more tours are being announced, and live music is definitely back. We are currently courting several tours for potential work with DiscLive (disclive.net) and for Set.fm, as well as working to leverage the Stage It platform (StageIt.com) to extend revenue opportunities for artists.
Back on the table is the Matchbox Twenty tour, which was originally slated for 2020. Now, the tour is set to go in May of 2023. And, with all of the new tours being announced (and many not yet announced), VNUE is aiming to capitalize on artists and labels who would like to recover some of the revenue lost during the pandemic, including tours in 2022.
Further, the Company has significantly streamlined Stage It since its acquisition earlier this year, implementing a leaner and more focused management team, which has lowered costs significantly and leaves the platform well positioned going forward.
The Company has also been aggressively working on our proprietary Soundstr MDM platform, which identifies live, recorded, and streaming music and its associated stakeholders such as songwriters, publishers and Performing Rights Organizations (PROs), and has initiated several early adopter programs in certain markets. This not only includes brick and mortar establishments and touring live concert bands, but extends to radio and to streaming as well. VNUE has been successful in deploying Sounsdtr for live concerts, and identifying the vast majority of music played by major and mid-level artists, which is a huge step up from the current method of artists having to submit set lists in an attempt to collect their royalties. VNUE sees this use as a huge benefit to promoters and venue owners as well as the artists themselves.
Additionally, VNUE is actively implementing methodology to capture Stage It streams to automate music identification, and to address the disparity in what is paid to PROs vs. what is actually paid to the songwriters in question. This methodology is also being presented to a variety of other streaming companies. "
Mr. Bair continued, "It was a pivotal moment for the Company with the acquisition of Stage It. We are actively exploring other potential acquisitions that are complimentary in nature to our suite of products and services and which will positively impact our bottom line and revenue growth."
About VNUE, Inc. (www.vnue.com)
VNUE, Inc., (OTC: VNUE) is a leading music technology company dedicated to further monetizing the live music experience for artists, labels, writers, and publishers, with products such as its set.fm instant content distribution platform (www.set.fm), exclusive license partner and "instant live" pioneer DiscLive (www.disclive.net), and the largest and most well-known ticketed livestreaming platform, Stage It (www.stageit.com); and protecting the rights of artists and writers with the company's groundbreaking Soundstr music recognition technology (MRT) platform (www.soundstr.com). The veteran entrepreneurs, artists and songwriters behind VNUE are passionate about the future of their industry and ensuring that rights holders' value is not lost amid always-changing technology. For more information, please visit www.vnue.com.
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Radioactive capsule that fell off truck found in Australia
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Western Australia on Wednesday recovered a tiny but dangerous radioactive capsule that fell off a truck while being transported along a 1,400-kilometer (870-mile) Outback highway last month in what an official said was like finding the needle in the haystack.
Officials said the capsule the size of a pea was found south of the mining town of Newman on the Great Northern Highway. It was detected by a search vehicle traveling at 70 kilometers (43 miles) per hour when specialist equipment picked up radiation emitting from the capsule.
Portable search equipment was then used to locate it 2 meters (6.5 feet) from the side of the road.
“This is an extraordinary result ... they have quite literally found the needle in the haystack,” said Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson.
Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson said the capsule did not appear to have moved and no injuries had been reported.
It contains the caesium 137 ceramic source, commonly used in radiation gauges, which emits dangerous amounts of radiation, equivalent of receiving 10 X-rays in an hour. It could cause skin burns and prolonged exposure could cause cancer.
Search crews had spent six days scouring the entire length of the highway.
The capsule measures 8 millimeters by 6 millimeters (0.31 inches by 0.24 inches), and people have been warned it could have unknowingly become lodged in their car’s tires.
A government investigation has been launched into how the capsule fell off the truck, and a report will be provided to the health minister.
Defense officials were verifying the identification of the capsule, which has been placed into a lead container for safety. It will be stored in a secure location in Newman before being transported to a health facility in the city of Perth.
The capsule got lost while being transported between a desert mine site and Perth on Jan. 10. The truck transporting the capsule arrived at a Perth depot on Jan. 16. Emergency services were notified of the missing capsule on Jan. 25.
The chief executive of the mining giant Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Simon Trott, has apologized for the incident and expressed gratitude for the find.
“A pretty incredible recovery when you think of the distances involved, and also the remoteness of the terrain, and I think that really speaks to the tenacity of all those who were involved in the search,” Trott said.
“The simple fact is this device should never have been lost. We’re sorry that that has occurred and we’re sorry for the concern that that has caused within the Western Australian community,” Trott added.
Robertson said the investigation of the mishap could lead to a prosecution.
“We have the ability to prosecute under the Radiation Safety Act and we will certainly look at such prosecutions, and we’ve done that in the past,” Robertson said.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said a 1,000 Australian dollar ($708) fine was an inadequate maximum penalty for mishandling radioactive material.
“It shouldn’t have been lost, that’s the first thing. And second, yeah of course that figure is ridiculously low,” Albanese said.
Dawson said the state government was reviewing the penalties under the Radiation Safety Act.
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ATLANTA, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pye-Barker Fire & Safety – the largest full-service and fully integrated fire protection, life safety and security services provider in the United States – is pleased to announce its acquisition of Acadiana Security Plus, a leading security and fire alarm systems provider in Louisiana. Pye-Barker, which was named No. 9 on this year's SDM 100 Top Security Companies list, continues an impressive streak of acquisitive activity on its mission to becoming the nation's largest full-service partner for complete fire code compliance and life safety protection. With this addition, Pye-Barker enters its 37th state and extends its foothold in the commercial security and alarms space.
Acadiana Security Plus (ASP) – currently No. 43 on the SDM 100 list – offers security systems, access control, video verification, fire and burglar alarms, 24/7 monitoring and rapid emergency dispatch for commercial and government customers. The company was founded in 1997, growing from a 10-person team to over 85 employees today. From its headquarters in Lafayette, ASP's team of NICET-certified technicians and consultants monitor, service and install security and alarm systems throughout Southwest Louisiana.
"Over the past 25 years of service, Acadiana Security Plus has never wavered from our mission to put life safety first and help our neighbors feel secure and protected," said Paul Courts, President of ASP. "We look forward to continuing our service to our communities with the support of Pye-Barker."
"As a consistent player on the top half of the SDM 100 list, Acadiana Security Plus has a great reputation as a growing security and alarms provider with a culture that values both employees and customers," said Bart Proctor, CEO of Pye-Barker. "We're proud to welcome Acadiana to the Pye-Barker family and expand our services to the people of Louisiana."
ASP's team of highly skilled technicians will continue to serve customers in Louisiana.
Mark Sandler, Managing Director at SPP Advisors, LLC, represented Acadiana Security Plus in the transaction.
About Pye-Barker Fire & Safety
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety is the U.S. leader in fire protection, life safety and security systems. Founded in 1946, Pye-Barker is the largest private single-source provider of testing, maintenance and installation of fire detection systems, fire alarms, extinguishers, fire suppression and sprinkler systems, security and monitoring services for businesses nationwide. The company operates over 160 locations and puts significant focus on customer experience and training, competitive benefits and a caring work environment for its 5,000 team members.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Bitcoin-boosting president has asked people to be patient after the price of the cryptocurrency fell below $20,000 — less than half the price the government paid.
According to the tracking site nayibtracker.com, El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele’s administration has spent about $105 million on Bitcoin, starting last September and paying an average of almost $46,000 per coin.
The value of that investment in the currency, also known as “BTC,” is now calculated to have fallen by over 57%, or around $61 million.
“I see that some people are worried or anxious about the #Bitcoin market price,” Bukele wrote in his Twitter account late Saturday. “My advice: stop looking at the graph and enjoy life. If you invested in #BTC your investment is safe and its value will immensely grow after the bear market.”
“Patience is the key,” the president wrote.
On Tuesday, when a Bitcoin publication crowed that El Salvador has lost “only” $40 million on its investment, Bukele tweeted with apparent incredulity: “You’re telling me we should buy more #BTC?”
Bukele became the first leader in the world to make the cryptocurrency legal tender last year and was a devoted booster at least up to May, when he boasted of “buying the dip” in the currency’s price. But the coin has slid further since then.
Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya sought to put a good face on the situation Wednesday in an interview with a local television station, saying that because El Salvador hasn’t sold any of its Bitcoins, it hasn’t really suffered any loss.
“When they tell me that El Salvador’s budgetary risk has increased because of the supposed loss, that loss doesn’t exist,” Zelaya said. “That must be made clear, because we have not sold.”
However, most companies and governments do write down the value of what accountants call an “unrealized loss,” even if they don’t sell the distressed asset.
Zelaya also insisted the Bitcoin slide doesn’t matter very much for El Salvador, saying that “this doesn’t even represent 0.5% of our budget.”
That might prove a hard sell in a country where about one-fifth of the people live on less than $5.50 per day.
In January, El Salvador rejected a recommendation by the International Monetary Fund to drop Bitcoin as legal tender.
Zelaya said at the time that “no international organization is going to make us do anything, anything at all,” calling it an issue of “sovereignty.”
The IMF recommended that El Salvador dissolve the $150 million trust fund it created when it made the cryptocurrency legal tender and return any of those unused funds to its treasury.
The IMF cited concerns about the volatility of Bitcoin prices, and the possibility of criminals using the cryptocurrency.
Bukele has touted Bitcoin as a way to significantly increase financial inclusion, drawing millions of people who previously lacked bank accounts into the financial system. He has also spoken of the parallel tourism promotion targeting Bitcoin enthusiasts.
Bukele led the push to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar. El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly made the country the first to do so in June 2021. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/ap-top-headlines/bitcoin-boosting-salvadoran-leader-asks-for-patience/ | 2022-06-19 23:43:28 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/ap-top-headlines/bitcoin-boosting-salvadoran-leader-asks-for-patience/ |
The writing was on the wall. Shoppers are cautious with their spending this holiday season, but those predictions turned out to be far from reality.
Richard Wobbekind, a senior economist with the University of Colorado Boulder, said indulgence of spending is what's preventing a recession.
"The numbers that have come out in retail sales and holiday sales have really exceeded expectations," Wobbekind said.
"We're anticipating a slow down in the economy, somewhat significantly in 2023, it's in our forecast, and that is really going to be driven by consumers slowing down their spending at some point. So without the consumer spending at this level, you really can't envision the economy staying out of a sort of extremely slow or recessionary environment," he said.
The National Retail Federation says a record 196 million Americans shopped in stores and online over the thanksgiving holiday weekend. That is a 10% increase from last year.
Consumers also spent a total of $11.3 billion on Cyber Monday, which set a new annual sales record.
Professor of economics, Christina Huber with Metropolitan State University of Denver, says it will be telling to see how the December numbers shape up.
"It could be the case that consumers still spent a lot on Black Friday and the weekend after thanksgiving because with inflation they are really looking at those deals," Huber said.
The current economic reality is confusing. A pandemic in our rearview mirror, major supply chain issues and excess savings from stimulus checks and rebates.
"It disrupts the models completely because you don't normally have that level of stimulus that we saw, you don't normally have zero interest rates for such a long period of time so when you put those things together the fiscal and the monetary stimulus makes it very difficult to interpret what's the next thing that's going to happen," Wobbekind said.
"On the positive side the end of 2022 we've recovered all the employment we've lost in the COVID pandemic and that's not a normal thing either. We've also started to see wages rising. So there are some positive things out there but we're also seeing inflation that we haven't seen in 40 years," he said.
"On the one hand we have a housing market that's in recession, on the other hand we have this labor market that's very hot, and then another hand we have the federal reserve raising interest rates to try to bring down inflation because inflation has skyrocketed. So we have all of these economic indicators that are going in very different directions and that's very unusual," Huber said.
Experts say exuberant spending can usually be a major driver of the economy and push off a recession, but when the federal reserve is actively trying to squash high inflation rates, the risk becomes high. There is more inflationary pressure and demand pressure on the economy.
The federal reserve is currently working to increase interest rates. The goal is to do it slowly enough not to plunge into a recession, which is referred to as a soft landing. These experts say if the last few years have taught us anything it's how unpredictable the economy can be and how often it changes. | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/unexpected-record-breaking-holiday-spending-numbers-could-prevent-a-recession | 2022-12-08 00:30:49 | 0 | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/unexpected-record-breaking-holiday-spending-numbers-could-prevent-a-recession |
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RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s national soccer team is set to return home Tuesday after accomplishing the seemingly impossible feat of finishing fourth at the World Cup in Qatar. Tens of thousands of Moroccans were expected to turn out to greet the players.
As the to reach the World Cup semifinals, the Moroccan team, known as the Atlas Lions, made history and was one of the big success stories of this year’s tournament, the first hosted by an Arab nation.
Big crowds were in the streets of the Moroccan capital, Rabat, and the rest of the North African kingdom for the homecoming. After the team beat former European colonial powers Belgium, and , it . Its record-setting performance means the players are likely to receive a hero’s welcome.
“Morocco’s run in the 2022 FIFA World Cup will be remembered in the history books as one of the most exciting campaigns since the tournament’s inception,” café owner Reda Ghazi, 27, told The Associated Press. “It was the dream of every Moroccan to win something, especially because Morocco is a country where the passion for football is overwhelming.”
After their plane touches down, the players are set to ride an open-top bus through the major avenues of the capital. The royal court said Monday that King Mohammed VI would receive the team at the palace in Rabat “to celebrate their great and historic accomplishment.”
Morocco finished fourth in the competition after losing to Croatia 1-2 in the third-place play-off on Saturday, exceeding the expectations of most Moroccans.
“I still can’t wrap my head around what happened in this World Cup,” added student Anour El Berkaoui, 23. “The team has now set the bar so high that we won’t be happy with anything less than winning the upcoming African Cup of Nations.”
The Moroccan team charmed many Arab soccer fans who saw in the team a reflection of themselves. Players waved the Palestinian flag after their wins and
The team also galvanized support across Africa.
“As an African team, we broke a lot of records and made the whole continent proud,” Rabat resident Omar Zorgane said .
“Morocco as a whole will gain a lot from this year’s World Cup, from tourism to getting the attention of other countries to possibly hosting one of the biggest tournaments in the world in the future,” he said.
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Crescent, a fintech best known for crypto-backed high yields, has announced it raised a $5M pre-seed round from strategic angels and tech founders including Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley — launches platform to help companies improve cash management.
LINCOLN, Neb., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spend management and sustainable growth are amongst the hottest topics in Silicon Valley right now. Tech companies and startups are cutting costs through layoffs, revoking job offers, and expense management to extend runway in what could be a long fundraising bear cycle. While many companies are looking at ways to trim spending, Grant Roscoe, the founder of Crescent, noticed that most were ignoring the other side of the equation: how effectively their idle capital was being used.
For years, corporate cash management has consisted of a checking and money market account. Both offer negligible yields and provide little in the form of automation or insights. The current solution also requires finance teams to regularly shop for rates, which is time-consuming.
This idea led Roscoe and Crescent to create their latest product — a cash management platform that aggregates top business-friendly yields and helps companies deploy idle capital easily through automation and cash flow insights. Current yields include a 4% APY USDC-backed yield and 1% APY FDIC insured yield option.
"We kept hearing investors say they wanted access to better business yields. After some testing, we decided to shift our focus toward building a platform that pairs top yields with automated cash management strategies to empower businesses to use their cash more effectively."
While spend management and accounting products such as Ramp and Quickbooks help companies understand their financial picture through post-purchase tracking, Crescent is determined to help them go further with existing cash, without introducing friction to finance teams.
"It's important that Crescent integrates with tools our customers use. We want to be a complementary layer that puts cash to work, but never interrupts daily operations. This includes connecting to existing bank accounts and integrating with spend management, payroll, and accounting software."
Crescent's pre-seed round was led by strategic angels and tech founders including: Nathan McCauley, CEO of Anchorage Digital, the first OCC-chartered crypto bank. Crescent, which is onboarding early clients, sees its fundraise as a catalyst for growing its userbase, expanding its feature suite, and building out its automation and integration library to help finance teams put cash management on autopilot.
"This is only the beginning of our journey to transform cash management into a value-adding component of an otherwise overlooked area of corporate finance. Previously, cash management has been seen as something that companies should do. We want to turn it into an engine for growth and something they want to engage with."
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VALLETTA, Malta (AP) —
Malta on Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of the car bomb slaying of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, just two days after two key suspects reversed course and pleaded guilty to the murder on the first day of their trial.
The archbishop of the small Mediterranean island nation, Charles Scicluna, celebrated a morning Mass in the small Bidnija church near where Caruana Galizia lived. Sunday’s daylong commemoration also includes a silent gathering at the site of the bombing, an evening demonstration organized by civil society organizations calling for justice and a vigil at a makeshift memorial to her in front of Valletta’s law courts.
Caruana Galizia, who had written extensively on her website “Running Commentary” about suspected corruption in political and business circles in the EU nation, was killed Oct. 16, 2017, when a bomb placed under her car detonated as she was driving near her home. The murder shocked Europe and triggered angry protests in Malta.
A 2021 public inquiry report found that the Maltese state “has to bear responsibility” for the murder because of the culture of impunity that emanated from the highest levels of government. But as recently as last month, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights had decried the “lack of effective results in establishing accountability.”
When the trial opened Friday for brothers George Degiorgio, 59, and Alfred Degiorgio, 57, the alleged hitmen reversed their pleas and pled guilty to carrying out the murder and were sentenced to 40 years in prison apiece. The sentencing brought to three the number of people serving time, after Vincent Muscat pleaded guilty last year for his part in the murder and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The government and opposition both welcomed Friday’s sentencing as a step forward, but said full justice still needed to be delivered.
“Daphne still cannot write her blog, enjoy her children and grandchildren, potter in her garden or be with her loved ones,” the president of the EU Parliament, Roberta Metsola, wrote on social media. “Today is not justice, it is a small step. Now for those who ordered and paid for it, those who protected them and those who spent years doing everything imaginable to try to cover it up.”
Caruana Galizia, 53, was a top Maltese investigative journalist who had targeted people in then-Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s inner circle whom she accused of having offshore companies in tax havens disclosed in the Panama Papers leak. She also targeted the opposition. When she was killed she was facing more than 40 libel suits.
There are other court cases currently under way in Maltese courts relating to the murder.
Yorgen Fenech, a top businessman with ties to the former government, is awaiting trial following his 2021 indictment for alleged complicity in the slaying and for conspiracy to commit murder. His arrest in 2019 sparked a series of mass protests in the country that culminated with Muscat’s resignation.
Fenech had entered not-guilty pleas to all charges in the pre-trial compilation of evidence. Two other men have been accused of supplying the bomb and are currently undergoing a pre-trial compilation of evidence. They have pleaded not guilty.
A self-confessed middleman, taxi driver Melvin Theuma, was granted a presidential pardon in 2019 in exchange for testimony.
The Maltese government issued a statement after the Degiorgios' guilty pleas on Friday, calling it an “important step forward” in delivering justice for a case that “represents a dark chapter in Malta’s history.” The statement said the government was committed to delivering “full justice to the Caruana Galizia family, and to the Maltese people.”
The leader of the opposition, Bernard Grech, also said the sentencing was “another step towards justice.” But he said on social media: "We must continue insisting for the whole truth to come out, We want justice to be carried out in full.”
One of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s sons, Matthew, said outside the courthouse on Friday that he was “relieved” that the two brothers had been convicted and sentenced. “Now it’s about the remaining cases,” he said. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Malta-marks-5-years-since-journalist-killed-17512575.php | 2022-10-16 09:12:27 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Malta-marks-5-years-since-journalist-killed-17512575.php |
HOUSTON, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) ("Summit", "SMLP" or the "Partnership") announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Summit Midstream Holdings, LLC ("SMP Holdings"), successfully closed on the previously announced DJ Basin acquisitions of Outrigger DJ Midstream LLC ("Outrigger DJ") and Sterling Energy Investments LLC, Grasslands Energy Marketing LLC and Centennial Water Pipelines LLC (collectively, "Sterling DJ") for approximately $305 million in cash. The acquisition of Outrigger DJ and Sterling DJ combined with the previously announced divestitures of the Lane G&P and Bison Gas Systems represents a meaningful step forward on Summit's overall corporate strategy to streamline its portfolio and create value through reinvestment in accretive transactions that build scale in our core growth basins. Summit funded these acquisitions through a combination of borrowings under Summit's credit facility and an issuance of $85 million of Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due in 2026. With the official closing of these transactions, efforts are now fully underway to integrate and optimize the Outrigger DJ, Sterling DJ and Summit-Hereford gas gathering and processing assets, which we believe will meaningfully improve the availability of safe, reliable and efficient midstream services for northern DJ Basin producers while creating meaningful value for SMLP's stakeholders going forward.
SMLP is a value-driven limited partnership focused on developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets that are strategically located in the core producing areas of unconventional resource basins, primarily shale formations, in the continental United States. SMLP provides natural gas, crude oil and produced water gathering, processing and transportation services pursuant to primarily long-term, fee-based agreements with customers and counterparties in five unconventional resource basins: (i) the Appalachian Basin, which includes the Utica and Marcellus shale formations in Ohio and West Virginia; (ii) the Williston Basin, which includes the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations in North Dakota; (iii) the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which includes the Niobrara and Codell shale formations in Colorado and Wyoming; (iv) the Fort Worth Basin, which includes the Barnett Shale formation in Texas; and (v) the Piceance Basin, which includes the Mesaverde formation as well as the Mancos and Niobrara shale formations in Colorado. SMLP has an equity method investment in Double E Pipeline, LLC, which provides interstate natural gas transportation service from multiple receipt points in the Delaware Basin to various delivery points in and around the Waha Hub in Texas. SMLP also has an equity method investment in Ohio Gathering, which operates extensive natural gas gathering and condensate stabilization infrastructure in the Utica Shale in Ohio. SMLP is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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Led by Renowned IP Litigator Alfred Zaher, Seven Senior-Level IP Lawyers Join Berger Montague with a Mission to Provide Premier IP Legal Services to Clients Worldwide
PHILADELPHIA, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Berger Montague is pleased to announce that effective today, it has added one of the leading intellectual property groups in the country to represent clients worldwide in all facets of intellectual property law. In doing so, Berger Montague, an award-winning national complex litigation firm, will fill a critical need in the marketplace for a full-service IP firm that can represent clients in all their IP legal needs on a cost-effective basis. The new practice area is opening with a group of seven senior IP lawyers plus staff, who have joined Berger Montague after leaving a large defense-side law firm in Philadelphia.
The head of the new IP Group is Alfred W. Zaher, and joining him are his longstanding colleagues, Shawn S. Li, Ph.D., Richard L. Moss, Patrick J. Farley, Ph.D., Aaron S. Haleva, Stephanie K. Benecchi, Maryellen Madden, and an accomplished staff.
In the current market environment, clients seeking top quality IP representation concerning patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, have often been limited to working with large firms that do not offer creative hybrid/contingent arrangements, reasonable hourly rates, or the opportunity to represent clients both as plaintiffs and defendants. By retaining Berger Montague for their IP legal needs, clients will benefit from more personalized, boutique, and bespoke service. Rather than be slowed down by red tape, Berger Montague's IP practice will have autonomy to operate for clients with flexible and reasonable billing arrangements, while providing thoughtful, cutting-edge legal services. Berger Montague's goal is to build out the IP practice by attracting the best and brightest IP lawyers who desire more autonomy and a better work environment and culture in which to serve clients.
As the group led by Alfred Zaher remains intact from their previous law firm, they have hit the ground running at Berger Montague with a large portfolio of clients and legal matters. The group focuses on patent, trade secret, and trademark prosecution involving healthcare, medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies, among many other industries. For example, the group is currently engaged in patent litigation against C.R. Bard on behalf of Medical Components Inc., including allegations of infringement involving implantable port devices. With previous successes representing global manufacturers, including those in China, the group can support clients in the most complex intellectual property matters worldwide.
Berger Montague Chairman Eric L. Cramer stated, "We're thrilled to be building out an intellectual property and patent infringement litigation practice at Berger Montague, and there isn't a better group of attorneys than Alfred's team to usher the firm into this area of law. The combination of our resources and litigation abilities, with the experience in complex IP work that this group of lawyers brings, will provide creativity, flexibility, and unparalleled service to our existing and new clients. We are committed to building one of the top IP boutique litigation firms in America, and this is a great start."
This has been a record-breaking year of expansion for Berger Montague. In the past year, the firm has opened new offices in San Francisco, Chicago, and Toronto, and has hired many lawyers and staff. Berger Montague is helping more businesses and consumers than ever before and looks forward to continuing to shape the legal industry by pioneering new litigation strategies while delivering unequaled client service and successful outcomes.
The IP group at Berger Montague includes the following talented professionals:
Alfred W. Zaher focuses his practice on patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation, licensing, and counseling. He counsels companies in the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, electronics, and software industries. Mr. Zaher has a particular focus on managing clients' patent and trademark portfolios in the United States, China, and worldwide, including securing and prosecuting infringers in both the U.S. and foreign countries. Mr. Zaher will also join Berger Montague's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion task force. Mr. Zaher remarked, "Joining a premiere complex litigation law firm such as Berger Montague is an honor. I look forward to helping more U.S. and international businesses navigate patent infringement and other intellectual property matters. With Berger Montague's support, I know we can continue to reinvent how IP legal services are delivered and ensure our clients receive the best services possible."
Shawn S. Li, Ph.D. joins Berger Montague as Senior Counsel. Dr. Li has developed global protection strategies, drafted and prosecuted U.S. and international patent applications, prosecuted patent reexaminations, and negotiated and prepared complex licenses and related agreements. Relying on his education in the medical sciences, he provides counsel to clients in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, chemical, medical device, and other technology-related industries. He also advises U.S. and multinational clients on issues related to protecting intellectual property in China, including patent, trademark, and trade secret enforcement actions, as well as cross-border technology transfers and joint ventures.
Richard L. Moss joins Berger Montague as Senior Counsel. Mr. Moss focuses his practice on U.S. and foreign patent prosecution matters in electrical, electromechanical, general mechanical, medical device, computer software, and process technology areas. Mr. Moss also represents clients in intellectual property litigation matters and post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as well as in business transactions involving intellectual property assets, including licensing and corporate due diligence matters.
Patrick J. Farley, Ph.D. joins Berger Montague as Senior Counsel. He has more than 20 years of international experience in intellectual property law and concentrates his practice on all aspects of intellectual property, including patent drafting, patent prosecution, patent litigation, patent and trademark portfolio management, and licensing. Dr. Farley represents companies in the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industries with a particular focus on patent and trademark portfolios, agreements, and due diligence. He also served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of State's BioIndustry Initiative Program.
Aaron S. Haleva joins Berger Montague as Senior Counsel. Mr. Haleva focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation, as well as patent and trademark preparation and prosecution in various industries. These include healthcare, pharmaceuticals and immunology, chemical preparations and manufacturing, computing systems and architecture, digital technology and coding, memory devices and interfaces, artificial intelligence, internet of things, and complex data mining and decision-making algorithms. On the technical side, he has personally developed vision/image processing systems for autonomous robots, as well as analytical tools to process medical informatics, thus navigating the patenting and licensing arenas as both inventor and attorney.
Stephanie K. Benecchi joins Berger Montague as Senior Counsel. Ms. Benecchi focuses her practice on commercial litigation, including IP litigation. Her practice focuses on the healthcare sector, where she represents entities and individuals from health systems, medical practices, and medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers, in conjunction with government investigations, including billing, labeling, and monitoring of medical devices, and pharmaceutical sales practices. Ms. Benecchi is a member of the Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility committee for the Pennsylvania Bar Association and has devoted time to speaking and writing articles on legal ethics issues which have been published by the ABA Section of Litigation Ethics and Professionalism.
Maryellen Madden joins Berger Montague as Of Counsel. She brings a wealth of experience in complex litigation and commercial disputes, including those involving securities, corporate governance, real estate, commercial contracts, healthcare, and the sale and distribution of goods. Ms. Madden has led litigation—including complex, multidistrict litigation—in 22 states, as well as before domestic and international arbitration panels, administrative agencies, and industry self-regulatory organizations.
Berger Montague PC is a national law firm focusing on complex civil litigation in federal and state courts throughout the United States. For 53 years, Berger Montague has played lead roles in consequential, precedent-setting cases and has recovered over $36 billion for its clients and the classes they have represented. Berger Montague is headquartered in Philadelphia and has offices in Minneapolis, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Toronto. Berger Montague encourages U.S. and international businesses and individuals to contact the firm for more information concerning representation in intellectual property matters, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and domain names.
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Alfred Zaher, Chair, Intellectual Property Group
Email: azaher@bm.net
Telephone: 215.875.4625
Melania Stepanenko, Marketing Project Manager
Email: mstepanenko@bm.net
Telephone: 860.634.7114
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Beverly Hills Luxury Real Estate Expert Managed Record-Breaking Sale of The Playboy Mansion, Many Other Iconic Estates
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Coldwell Banker Realty in Southern California and Coldwell Banker Global Luxury are pleased to announce that Gary Gold, a paragon of the luxury real estate market in Los Angeles, has affiliated with the company at its Beverly Hills office. Gold was previously executive vice president of renowned Beverly Hills real estate firm, Hilton & Hyland, where he was a top producer in the luxury realm for 27 years.
Gold is a trendsetter, shattering the record for home sales in Los Angeles with his negotiation of the $100,000,000 deal for The Playboy Mansion in 2016. He represented the seller, with Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker Realty representing the buyer. Gold surpassed himself with the $150 million sale of the historic Chartwell Estate in Bel-Air in 2019, the first single-family home in the United States to ever reach that price point. In 2021, Gold represented the iconic Hearst Estate in Beverly Hills, the most expensive single-family home in the U.S. to ever sell at auction, for $63,100,000. Gold also holds records for the highest sales in Brentwood, Brentwood Circle, Larchmont Village and on Oak Pass Road.
"Gary is the gold standard for selling luxury estates in the L.A. market. He combines 30 years of expertise with supremely effective digital marketing to draw in highly affluent buyers from around the world. I am overjoyed to welcome Gary to Coldwell Banker Realty as a distinguished Luxury Property Specialist," said Jamie Duran, president of Coldwell Banker Realty in Southern California.
Partnered with Coldwell Banker Realty, Gold will launch a new podcast during which he will interview agents from all over the world and share advice on how they can compete at the highest level in luxury real estate. Gold is highly in-demand as a media personality and industry speaker, with appearances in outlets such as CNN, Fortune, Barron's, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Access Hollywood, CBS Evening News, E! Entertainment Television and The London Telegraph. He is recognized internationally for his innovative marketing and thousands of luxury sales, with high-end developers regularly consulting his extensive expertise.
"California's finest estates require a nuanced marketing approach, and I am dedicated to providing my clients with the most competitive real estate strategies available. Coldwell Banker has the resources, global reach and elite luxury programs that will offer an even greater advantage to clients and elevate my service to new heights. I am excited to begin this new chapter as part of the Coldwell Banker team," said Gold.
About Coldwell Banker Realty
Coldwell Banker Realty, the No. 1 residential real estate brokerage in Southern California, operates approximately 57 offices with about 4,980 affiliated agents. Real estate agents affiliated with the company are independent contractor agents and are not employees of the company. Coldwell Banker Realty is owned by a subsidiary of Realogy Holdings Corp. (NYSE: RLGY). For more information, visit ColdwellBankerHomes.com. CalRE# 00616212
About Coldwell Banker Global Luxury®
The Coldwell Banker Global Luxury® program legacy traces its roots to 1933 and has been a world leader in luxury real estate since. Coldwell Banker Global Luxury Property Specialists are an exclusive group within the Coldwell Banker organization, making up under ten percent of independent sales associates affiliated with the brand worldwide. Coldwell Banker affiliated agents conducted 50,355 transactions of homes priced at $1 million or more in 2021. This equates to $267 million in luxury sales every day (+59% from 2020) with an average sales price of $1.9 million in this category. Coldwell Banker, the Coldwell Banker logo Coldwell Banker Global Luxury and the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury logo are registered marks owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. Each franchise is independently owned and operated.
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Marisa Vallbona
Marisa@CIMIncorporated.com
619-708-7990
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Migrants bused from Texas to Los Angeles in move mayor calls ‘despicable stunt’
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A group of migrants who arrived by bus in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday were sent from Texas in a move the city’s mayor called a “despicable stunt” by a Republican governor.
Forty-two people, including some children, were dropped off at Union Station around 4 p.m. and were being cared for by city agencies and charitable organizations, Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León’s office said.
“They left yesterday and it was 23 hours on the bus and they did not have a chance to eat or to have water,” said Jorge Mario Cabrera of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, who spoke to several migrants.
“They are being fed; they’re taking shelters; they’re talking to attorneys,” he said. “These are migrants that have been allowed by the U.S. to enter because they have credible fears. They have not yet received asylum.”
Many were from Latin American countries, including Honduras and Venezuela, and one person had an immigration appointment in New York, he said.
Mayor Karen Bass said she had instructed city departments to prepare to accept migrants from out of state, after GOP governors began sending asylum-seekers to Democratic states in recent months.
“This did not catch us off guard, nor will it intimidate us,” Bass said in a statement. “Los Angeles is not a city motivated by hate or fear and we absolutely will not be swayed or moved by petty politicians playing with human lives.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the migrants were sent to Los Angeles because California had declared itself a “sanctuary” for immigrants, extending protections to people living in the country illegally and allowing them to apply for some state benefits.
“Our border communities are on the frontlines of President Biden’s border crisis, and Texas will continue providing this much-needed relief until he steps up to do his job and secure the border,” Abbott said in a statement.
Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew groups of migrants from border states to Sacramento, California, at taxpayer expense. Last fall, Florida flew 49 Venezuelans to the upscale Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard.
The migrants in Los Angeles were receiving help at St. Anthony’s Croatian Catholic Church near downtown.
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WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - A bridge west of Ann Arbor that has been closed for more than a decade will soon be no more.
Crews working for the Washtenaw County Road Commission are set to begin removing the bridge on Liberty Road in Lima Township beginning on Monday, Feb. 6.
The bridge across Mill Creek between Guenther and Dancer roads, some seven miles west of Ann Arbor city limits, closed in 2011 after a regular inspection revealed extensive structural deterioration, making it unsafe, officials said.
The structure is being removed because of its condition and the duration of the closure, under an agreement between the road commission and the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Road Commission officials said they will attempt to leave existing abutments in place after requests from community members, but if they fail the structures will be taken out to preserve the integrity of Mill Creek.
Read more: 10 Washtenaw County bridges in ‘severe’ need of rehab or replacement, state report shows
The bridge dates back to 1932, according to a state bridge database.
The removal of the structure is expected to take about a week, though the schedule is tentative and subject to change due to weather, officials said.
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