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Tariq 'the corn kid' donates 50,000 cans of corn to NYC food bank
NEW YORK - Tariq "the corn kid," who rose to social media stardom over his deep love of the vegetable, has come out of "retirement" to help families in New York have a corn-tastic Thanksgiving.
The 7-year-old internet sensation teamed up with Green Giant to donate nearly 90,000 cans of vegetables — 50,000 of those are cans of corn — at City Harvest, NYC’s largest food rescue organization. Joined by the Green Giant himself, Tariq stopped by City Harvest three days before he rides on the Green Giant float for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
"What is Thanksgiving without corn?" Tariq said. "This is the one day that we get to stay home with family, watch a big parade, and then eat corn. Lots and lots of corn. It's my favorite day of the year!"
Tariq quickly became known as "the corn kid" when he appeared on an episode of the online show "Recess Therapy" and told the world why he loves corn so much.
"When I tried it with butter, everything changed," he told the host in August. "I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing."
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Nearly 10 million views later, "the corn kid" inspired a new song and partnerships with major brands like Green Giant and Chipotle. But when school started up again in the fall, he retired to focus on his studies.
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In New York, monthly visits to the City Harvest food bank are up nearly 70% since 2019. NYC food pantries and soup kitchens are seeing 14% more visitors now than they did in January of this year, according to City Harvest. | https://www.fox4news.com/news/tariq-the-corn-kid-donates-50000-cans-corn-nyc | 2022-11-23 22:51:57 | 0 | https://www.fox4news.com/news/tariq-the-corn-kid-donates-50000-cans-corn-nyc |
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics USA, exclusive free streaming service, LG Channels, is offering LG smart TV owners access to a wide range of on-demand movies, TV series and streaming options for a limited time throughout January.
This month welcomes new free channels such as LG Channels exclusive, Majordomo TV with David Chang, and additional free on-demand movie options including "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective," "Looper" and more. LG smart TV Owners can now also watch the entire first season of LG Channels' original series "The Rivalries" as featured content on the video-on-demand tab on LG Channels, or find encore presentations on the NCAA Channel (100). Its season finale "The Dutchman Shoes," offers a behind-the-scenes look into New York State's oldest college football rivalry.
LG Channels offers a wide selection of premium live and on-demand programming, including movies, TV shows, news, sports, children's programs, and more. LG smart TV owners can easily discover their favorite programs by launching the LG Channels application on their LG TV's webOS platform.
Here's a look at LG Channels' newest additions this month:
New to LG Channels in the United States
Majordomo TV with David Chang (1011) (Majordomo Media): From acclaimed chef David Chang and Majordomo Media comes a nonstop stream of original culinary programming, featuring honest and entertaining advice on how to live your life more deliciously.
Cheddar News (146): Feed your curiosity about what's next. Watch Cheddar News for live news and original shows that explore the people, ideas and innovations that are shaping your world.
CINEVAULT: 80s (215) (GSN): Think 80s hair was big? Our stars are bigger. Hollywood's biggest stars are for sure the highlight of these totally awesome movies from an epic decade.
CINEVAULT: Classics (218) (GSN): Hollywood's brightest stars and movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
CINEVAULT: Westerns (264) (GSN): Kick off your spurs and hitch a ride back to the Old West for an action-packed adventure with CINEVAULT Westerns.
FOX Weather (148) (FOX News Media): Whether you're planning your morning commute or keeping a close eye on a severe storm, no one keeps you prepared like FOX Weather - the perfect resource to keep you safe and secure.
Game Show Central (1032) (GSN): Game Show Central is a channel of fast and fun game show programming with something for everyone.
LiveNOW from FOX (123) (FOX): Watch a non-stop stream of breaking news, live events and stories across the nation.
New to LG Channels Video-On-Demand
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective: He's the best there is, in fact, he's the only one there is! He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies.
Looper: In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination.
Visit the LG Channels Home App for more free on-demand titles available this month including About Last Night (1986), Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Angel Eyes, Snatch (2000), How Do You Know, and more.
1 Channel number will change to 700 after 1/31/2022.
2 Channel number will change to 328 after 1/31/2022.
About LG Electronics USA
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $63 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, energy solutions and vehicle components. LG is a seven-time ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year. The company's commitment to environmental sustainability and its "Life's Good" marketing theme encompass how LG is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. www.LG.com.
About LG Channels
LG Channels is LG's exclusive free streaming service, offering a wide selection of premium live and on-demand programming, including movies, TV shows, news, sports, children's programs, and more. With more than 300 channels and growing, LG TV owners can easily discover their favorite programs by launching the LG Channels application on their LG TV's webOS platform (LG smart TV models 2016-present).
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The NCAA is a diverse association of more than 1,000 member colleges and universities that prioritize academics, well-being and fairness to create greater opportunities for nearly half a million student-athletes each year. The NCAA provides a pathway to higher education and beyond for student-athletes pursuing academic goals and competing in NCAA sports. More than 54,000 student-athletes experience the pinnacle of intercollegiate athletics by competing in NCAA championships each year. Visit ncaa.org and ncaa.com for more details about the association and the corporate partnerships that support the NCAA and its student-athletes. NCAA is a trademark of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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In the wake of the law, searches and downloads for virtual private networks (VPNs) — which mask a user’s personal information — have soared in Utah, according to data shared with The Technology 202. That suggests residents may already be trying to circumvent the rules.
The uptick underscores the enforcement challenges officials are likely to face as they advance rules aimed at protecting children online, including efforts cropping up around the country imposing fresh age-verification requirements.
And it could expose companies that don’t shut out VPNs to fresh legal risk.
Several VPN service providers said they either saw a major jump in traffic or a spike in downloads after the law kicked in Wednesday — and since the site Pornhub announced it will shut out users in Utah in protest. The tools could allow users to still access impacted sites without coughing up their information.
“VPN is an easy way to circumvent age-verification requirements,” said Suzanne Bernstein, a law fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center advocacy group.
- Surfshark VPN said the number of downloads of its product in Utah has approximately doubled in the past few days.
- Private Internet Access said visits to its website from Utah more than doubled in the 24 hours after the age-verification law went into effect.
- ExpressVPN said their website has seen a 300 percent boost in traffic from users in Utah since the law took effect.
Shoshana Weissmann, digital director and fellow at the R Street Institute think tank, said the age-verification rules could force companies to either collect more personal data, such as government-issued identification, or biometric data, including by scanning users’ faces.
“Age-verification technology is really invasive in its current form,” she said.
The Utah law (S.B. 287), meant to keep minors off porn sites, is part of a mounting push in the United States to expand protections for kids online, including by vetting their ages.
A separate Utah law (S.B. 152) requiring that social media platforms obtain parental consent to let minors use their services would force companies to “verify the age of a Utah resident seeking to maintain or open” an account.
A similar law in Arkansas (S.B. 396) requiring parental consent for users under 18 to go on social media obligates companies to “verify the age of an account holder.”
Some states have taken a less direct approach to age verification, including a California law requiring platforms to vet their products for potential risks to kids before rolling them out.
That law, the California Age Appropriate Design Code (A.B. 2273), applies to platforms “likely to be accessed by children” but does not explicitly require companies to vet users’ ages.
Samir Jain, vice president of policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said the difference can be moot. “There are lots of different ways that these laws are imposing de facto or implicit age-verification requirements,” he said.
The think tank receives funding from tech companies including Google, Facebook and Amazon. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
While users may be able to use VPNs to avoid getting shut out by sites, companies could still be on the hook for letting them evade the rules, Weissmann and Jain said.
Utah’s social media law, set to take effect next year, states that a “social media company shall not permit a Utah minor account holder to change or bypass restrictions on access.” That type of language could expose social media companies and VPNs to legal threats, Jain said.
“There’s a danger that you end up discouraging the use or even outlawing the use of VPNs or encryption or other … methods of maintaining privacy that might make it difficult to enforce these kinds of laws,” Jain said.
A spokesperson for Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) did not return a request for comment.
Cox said in March that their age-verification laws won’t be “foolproof,” but they will be “working with social media companies … to figure out what that's going to look like.”
“We don’t want them having copies of driver's licenses on hand,” he said. “That's not what we're trying to do here. We believe that there are technical, logical fixes that we can work around this.”
Utah’s porn law is also facing legal challenges: A trade group representing the adult entertainment industry this week accused the state of violating constitutional privacy and free speech rights, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.
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Microsoft proposes selling versions of Office without Teams to ward off antitrust investigation
Microsoft proposed not including the Teams workplace communications app in certain versions of its Office product to ward off a potential antitrust investigation and a fine from E.U. enforcers, Foo Yun Chee reports for Reuters.
The European Commission (EC) antitrust regulator is also weighing the proposal with Microsoft rivals, the report said, citing two people familiar with the matter.
The proposal comes after Salesforce-owned workplace communications tool Slack in 2020 complained that Microsoft had unfairly integrated the Teams app into its Office suite of workplace products.
“We have received several complaints regarding Microsoft, including by Slack, regarding Microsoft's conduct in relation to its Teams product. As you know the assessment is ongoing so we cannot comment further,” an EC spokesperson told Reuters.
Microsoft said it was “open to pragmatic solutions that address its concerns and serve customers well.” Salesforce declined to comment.
U.K. probing large language and generative AI models for competition, risk concerns
Britain’s antitrust enforcer opened an investigation into large language and generative artificial intelligence models to examine competition and consumer risk concerns in the AI space, Ryan Browne reports for CNBC.
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) plans to explore how the market for those tools, labeled “foundation models,” evolves and would release guidance on how to best spur competition and protect consumers as the technology is adopted, according to the report.
“AI has burst into the public consciousness over the past few months but has been on our radar for some time,” CMA head Sarah Cardell said. “It’s a technology developing at speed and has the potential to transform the way businesses compete as well as drive substantial economic growth.”
Global policymakers are making sweeping attempts at AI regulations amid a boom in popularity for AI language tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan this week published an op-ed in the New York Times describing how to best regulate AI.
The White House yesterday hosted chief executives of tech and AI companies, and emphasized that their AI tools must be developed and deployed safely.
Half of Americans want Congress to regulate AI, poll finds
About half of Americans want Congress to take regulatory action on AI technologies, Rebecca Klar reports for the Hill, citing a poll conducted for the Omidyar Network-backed Tech Oversight Project.
“Fifty-four percent of polled registered voters said Congress should take ‘swift action’ to regulate the technology in a way that promotes privacy, fairness and safety to ensure ‘maximum benefit to society with minimal risks,’” Klar writes.
Just 15 percent of respondents said that regulating AI would stifle innovation. Additionally, 41 percent said Congress should take charge of the regulations, versus 20 percent that argued tech companies should lead them.
The poll conducted by Change Research surveyed about 1,200 registered voters nationwide between April 28 and May 2 with a margin of error of 3 percentage points, the report says.
The Biden administration yesterday launched a trustworthy AI investment and invited major tech companies to participate in public auditing of their AI systems at the Def Con cybersecurity conference this summer.
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Tech Twitter reacts to Google’s teaser of its first foldable phone set to be revealed next week. Bloomberg News’s Mark Gurman:
Google just announced the Google Fold it is announcing next week - you read that right. https://t.co/NNIR4ONPkZ
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) May 4, 2023
Stripe’s Owen Williams:
On one hand this looks rad as hell
— Owen Williams ⚡ (@ow) May 4, 2023
On the other hand i just don’t get the foldable phone thing at all https://t.co/IdepXfGz6u
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New launch strategy: Leave nothing up to the imagination https://t.co/wxtVbx7MhJ
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DETROIT – U.S. securities regulators are questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform.
The Securities and Exchange Commission in June asked the company about its methodology for calculating the false or spam accounts and "the underlying judgments and assumptions used by management.”
The agency's Division of Corporation Finance made the request in a June 15 letter, shortly before Tesla CEO Elon Musk raised the issue as grounds to back out of a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion.
Such questions can be routine, and it wasn't clear whether the SEC has opened a formal investigation into Twitter's fake accounts. The SEC wouldn't comment Wednesday; Twitter didn't immediately reply to a request for comment.
The law firm Wilson Sonsini of Palo Alto, California, replied in a June 22 letter saying the company believes it adequately disclosed the methodology in its annual report filed for 2021.
The letter says that Twitter makes its estimates of false accounts with an internal review of sample accounts. The number of fake accounts "represent the average false or spam accounts in the samples during each monthly analysis period during a quarter," the letter said.
It added that fewer than 5% of Twitter's “Monetizable Daily Active Usage or Users,” or mDAU, were fake accounts in the fourth quarter of last year, the period that the SEC had questioned.
The letter was disclosed in a filing posted by the SEC on Wednesday, a day after Twitter’s former head of security alleged that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation.
Peiter Zatko, who served as Twitter’s security chief until he was fired early this year, filed the whistleblower complaints last month with the SEC, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. The legal nonprofit Whistleblower Aid, which is working with Zatko, said he exhausted all attempts to get his concerns resolved inside the company before his firing in January.
Among Zatko’s most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users. Zatko also accuses the company of deceptions involving its handling of “spam” or fake accounts, an allegation that is at the core of Musk’s attempt to back out of the Twitter takeover.
Twitter said Tuesday that Zatko was fired for “ineffective leadership and poor performance” and said the “allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders.” The company called his complaint “a false narrative” that is “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context.”
Musk called off the sale in July, alleging that Twitter had failed to provide detailed methodology for calculating fake accounts. But Twitter sued in Delaware Chancery Court, asking a judge to order Musk to go through with the purchase.
Twitter has set Sept. 13 as the date for its shareholders to vote on the company’s pending buyout by Musk, and the board is recommending approval.
A trial on Twitter’s lawsuit is scheduled for October.
Musk agreed in April to buy Twitter and take it private, offering $54.20 a share and vowing to loosen the company’s policing of content and to root out fake accounts. As part of the deal, Musk and Twitter had agreed to pay the other a $1 billion breakup fee if either was responsible for the deal collapsing.
In its response, Twitter said that the review of fake accounts is done manually by humans who check thousands of them. The accounts are chosen randomly, and the employees use a complex set of rules “that define spam and platform manipulation.” An account is deemed to be false if it violates one or more of the rules, the letter said. The fake accounts go through a multi-step review and are investigated by multiple trained employees, it said.
The SEC also questioned Twitter’s disclosure that it overestimated the number of monetizable accounts from the first quarter of 2019 through the end of last year. The agency wrote that the error persisted for three years and asked why the company didn’t consider that a weakness in its financial reporting and controls.
In response, Twitter said the overstatement of accounts had no impact on its financial statements, and that the overstatement was less than 1% of its monetizable daily average users.
Twitter’s share price were up just over 1% in Wednesday afternoon trading. | https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2022/08/24/sec-questions-twitter-on-how-it-counts-fake-accounts/ | 2022-08-24 17:52:50 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2022/08/24/sec-questions-twitter-on-how-it-counts-fake-accounts/ |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa judge on Friday afternoon will consider a request to postpone the state's new ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, just as Gov. Kim Reynolds is scheduled to sign the measure into law in front of 2,000 conservative Christians barely a mile away.
The split screen punctuates a bitter battle between abortion advocates and opponents in Iowa that has dragged on for years and will likely, for now, remain unresolved as the courts assess the law’s constitutionality.
Abortion is currently legal in Iowa up to 20 weeks of pregnancy but will be far more restricted when Reynolds puts pen to paper Friday — unless or until the district court judge issues a temporary hold.
The new legislation prohibits almost all abortions once cardiac activity can be detected, which is usually around six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant. The bill passed with exclusively Republican support late on Tuesday at the conclusion of a rare, 14-hour special legislative session.
The legal challenge was filed Wednesday morning by the ACLU of Iowa, Planned Parenthood North Central States and the Emma Goldman Clinic.
The new measure will be considered in the context of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and Iowa's Supreme Court last year, when both reversed themselves on rulings that had affirmed a woman's fundamental constitutional right to abortion.
Those decisions prompted Reynolds to ask the court to reinstate her blocked 2018 law, which is nearly identical to the new one. The state’s high court deadlocked last month, prompting Reynolds to call lawmakers back to the Iowa Capitol.
“The Iowa Supreme Court questioned whether this legislature would pass the same law they did in 2018, and today they have a clear answer,” Reynolds said Tuesday in a statement. “Justice for the unborn should not be delayed.”
Planned Parenthood North Central States said Wednesday they are preparing to have to refer patients to other states if the law isn’t blocked but are hopeful there will not be an interruption in their services.
“We are seeking to block the ban because we know that every day this law is in effect, Iowans will face life-threatening barriers to getting desperately needed medical care — just as we have seen in other states with similar bans,” Rita Bettis Austen, legal director for the ACLU of Iowa, said in a statement.
As of Wednesday, 200 patients were scheduled for abortions at Iowa Planned Parenthood or the Emma Goldman Clinic this week and next, according to the court filings. Most of them past the six-week mark in their pregnancies.
There are limited circumstances under the measure that would allow for abortion after the point in a pregnancy where cardiac activity is detected: rape, if reported to law enforcement or a health provider within 45 days; incest, if reported within 145 days; if the fetus has a fetal abnormality “incompatible with life”; or if the pregnancy is endangering the life of the pregnant woman.
Most Republican-led states have drastically limited abortion access in the year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and handed authority on abortion law to the states. More than a dozen states have bans with limited exceptions and one state, Georgia, bans abortion after cardiac activity is detected. Several other states have similar restrictions that are on hold pending court rulings.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Move over Instagram (or Snapchat) — the Met Gala was the place to announce pregnancies Monday night, at least if you’re Serena Williams or Karlie Kloss.
The tennis legend and supermodel each revealed their pregnancies in interviews on the Met Gala’s not-so-red carpet. Williams’ announcement had particular poignance given that she stepped away from tennis last year, saying she had to in order to have a second child.
“Believe me,” the 23-time Grand Slam champion wrote in an August essay for Vogue magazine, “I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family. I don’t think it’s fair. If I were a guy I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family.”
Williams was also afforded more agency in announcing her pregnancy this time, sharing the news alongside her husband Alexis Ohanian in an interview with Vogue livestream host La La Anthony. The first time around, Williams publicly posted a picture in profile on Snapchat, captioned “20 weeks” — which she said was an accident.
Williams, 41, also said in her Vogue essay that she wanted to focus more on her business interests. Their daughter, Olympia, is now 5.
Kloss, 30, sporting black hair, shared her pregnancy earlier in the night in an interview with another Vogue livestream host, Emma Chamberlain, prompting squeals of delight and an offer to babysit from the influencer.
Kloss and husband Josh Kushner also have a son, Levi, who was born in March 2021. | https://www.yourbasin.com/sports/serena-williams-karlie-kloss-reveal-pregnancies-at-met-gala/ | 2023-05-02 03:01:27 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/sports/serena-williams-karlie-kloss-reveal-pregnancies-at-met-gala/ |
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Authorities said a northern Iowa couple drowned their newborn in a bathtub shortly after she was born, fearing her cries would draw the attention of police. They're charged with first-degree murder, even though the baby's remains have not been found in weeks of searching.
Brandon D. Thoma, 31, and Taylor K. Blaha, 24, both of Fort Dodge, were charged Wednesday in the presumed death of the infant, and Thoma also was charged with a felony count of abusing a corpse, court documents show.
In an arrest affidavit, Webster County Sheriff's Detective Amy Stringer said police received a call on Nov. 22 from a caseworker who said Blaha had shown up at a Fort Dodge hospital saying she had given birth days earlier at the apartment she shared with Thoma, the father of the baby and of Blaha's 2-year-old child.
In a subsequent interview with Stringer, Blaha said she had discovered in April that she was pregnant, and that she gave birth on Nov. 16 in the apartment bathroom after Thoma gave her methamphetamine to deal with the pain, the affidavit said.
Blaha confirmed that the baby was born alive, Stringer said, and was crying, moving her arms and legs, and opening her eyes. Blaha said she and Thoma agreed to name the baby Kayleen Lee.
Blaha said they planned to give the baby to Blaha’s sister to adopt, but grew fearful her cries would draw the attention of neighbors and police, so they held the baby underwater in the bathtub until she drowned. Thoma then placed the baby's body in a plastic storage container, wrapped the container in trash bags and carried it out of the apartment in a backpack, the affidavit said.
“Thoma and Blaha have both confirmed ... that once Kayleen was born, Thoma cut the umbilical cord with a pair of scissors that was present within their apartment and shortly thereafter cut additional sections of the cord to be kept to remember the baby,” Stringer wrote in the affidavit.
A search of the apartment turned up what appeared to be a piece of umbilical cord or placental remains in a dresser drawer.
Stringer said she also questioned Thoma, who admitted to drowning the baby, saying he feared police would discover meth in her system and take their 2-year-old child from them.
The affidavit said text messages between Blaha and Thoma indicate he dumped the baby's body in a wooded area, but a search there turned up nothing. Thoma also led police to an area where he said he had buried the baby, but extensive excavation also turned up nothing. Police have also searched an area landfill, but have been unable to find the remains.
Cellphones and other devices belonging to the couple showed searches for how to force a miscarriage, police said, and Blaha told the detective that she and Thoma tried unsuccessfully to cause a miscarriage, the affidavit said.
The Mason City Public Defender's office has been appointed to represent Blaha, but said Thursday that an attorney had not yet been assigned. Story County Public Defender Paul Rounds, representing Thoma, declined to comment except to say that Thoma will plead not guilty.
Both were ordered held Thursday on bonds of $1 million, with preliminary hearings set for Dec. 15. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Police-say-Iowa-couple-drowned-newborn-in-17640955.php | 2022-12-08 21:08:00 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Police-say-Iowa-couple-drowned-newborn-in-17640955.php |
(KTLA) – An anti-racism protest at Indian Springs High School in San Bernardino, California, turned unruly and led to a campus safety officer using pepper spray on students Tuesday, authorities said.
The protest, which began around 11:30 a.m., started peacefully, but got out of hand when a group of students “attempted to enter and disrupt” a teacher’s classroom, according to a statement released by the San Bernardino City Unified School District.
When that group of students refused repeated requests from school staff to return to class, the campus safety officer started to use pepper spray, officials said.
Video posted on social media shows a campus security officer detaining a student as another student wrestles with a school official.
Two students were sent to the nurse’s office for examination and no further injuries were reported, district officials said.
Indian Springs High School was in a precautionary Secure and Hold status from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. while authorities assessed the situation. Normal campus activities resumed thereafter.
The district planned to deploy additional personnel and police officers to the campus on Wednesday.
“We have plans to give students opportunities to dialogue with each other and staff so they can express their viewpoints in a manner that is constructive and conductive to greater understanding,” said Maria Garcia, Communications Officer for the San Bernardino City Unified School District. “We discourage students from engaging in non-peaceful protests because they disrupt teaching and learning and can have negative, unintended consequences.” | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/high-school-students-pepper-sprayed-at-anti-racism-protest-in-california/ | 2023-03-01 19:16:38 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/high-school-students-pepper-sprayed-at-anti-racism-protest-in-california/ |
LAVAL, Quebec (AP)Dezi Jones’ 16 points helped Quinnipiac defeat Montana State 70-53 on Saturday night.
Jones also added seven rebounds for the Bobcats (7-0). Matt Balanc scored 15 points while going 6 of 15 (3 for 7 from distance) and added five rebounds. Luis Kortright shot 5 for 16 (1 for 4 from 3-point range) and 2 of 5 from the free-throw line to finish with 13 points. The Bobcats picked up their seventh straight win.
Jubrile Belo finished with 14 points and nine rebounds for the Bobcats (3-4). Robert Ford III added eight points, four assists, two steals and two blocks for Montana State. In addition, Raequan Battle finished with eight points.
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With record-high inflation and fears of a recession, singles are cutting back on expenses, including spending on dating
NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Dating.com – part of the Dating Group, the company behind over 30 online dating sites, with offices and dating experts in seven countries – revealed survey findings about the impact rising inflation and economic uncertainty are having on the dating lives of many singles. In fact, within the past three months, 47% of respondents reported that they have held back on scheduling a date to save money.
"The increase in prices of food, gas, clothing and many other products and services has left singles rethinking their usual dating habits and patterns as they make an effort to save money," says Maria Sullivan, Dating Expert and Vice President of Dating.com. "We're seeing that inflation has also led to many couples choosing to move in together within an accelerated timeline to help cut living costs in the short term. In some cases, this happens before couples are truly ready to take this next step in their relationship."
Key survey findings include:
- No date? No problem: 52% of respondents reported that they are content with holding back on scheduling dates to prevent themself from spending money on clothing, gas, public transportation, dinner and drinks, outings, and more.
- Taking it slow: Findings included that 58% of respondents reported wanting to get to know potential partners better before putting excessive amounts of money into activities, dinners, and more to avoid wasting their time and dollars if it doesn't work out.
- Common cutbacks: Dating.com found that 67% of respondents reported that they cut back on their typical romantic night out for simpler, cheaper date options.
- Romance turned roommates: With rent prices through the roof, especially in big cities, many newer couples are rushing to move in together to cut the cost of living. About 45% of respondents have noted that they've talked seriously with their partner about living together, despite not being ready for it, to save money.
"The increasing price of dating has made it even more of a challenge for singles to enjoy dating and putting themselves out there, but there are ways singles can still meet new people and have fun dates without worrying about how much it will cost," continued Sullivan. She provided the following tips for ways to save money and still have an active dating life:
- Simplify your night out: Spending a night out with a date doesn't have to break the bank. Instead of making a reservation at an upscale restaurant, opt for a cheaper, more affordable choice that is known for being fun and for having a good time. If your date is interested in making a genuine connection, then a more casual bar or restaurant should work just as well as a fancy one as you're getting to know each other.
- Get creative: A free date can be a fun one. – Casual activities such as taking a walk in the park, bike riding, hiking, or a game night are great ways to spend quality time with someone as you're deciding whether your connection with them is worth the current cost of dating.
- Save up for later: While inflation is hitting everyone's wallet, it doesn't hurt to get funds together for a special experience or a quick trip soon. Couples new and old can benefit from having something to look forward to, but they don't have to break the bank right away.
To join Dating.com's extensive, international network of singles and to find your match please visit www.dating.com.
About Dating Group: Dating Group is a global social discovery platform, enabling people from around the world to connect through the power of shared interests and mutual benefits. Dating Group has offices in seven countries and a team of more than 700 professionals with more than 73 million registered users across the entire portfolio. Dating Group brands include Dating.com, Dil Mil, Once, Cupid Media, DateMyAge, LovingA, and many more, each with a unique platform tailored to different communities defined by interest, geography and demographics.
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The razor-thin Arizona attorney general race tightened even further on Thursday following an automatic recount, but the results pave the way for the Democratic candidate to be certified as the winner.
Democrat Kris Mayes led Republican Abe Hamadeh by just 280 votes out of more than 2.5 million ballots cast following the recount, a gap of 0.01 percentage points that marks one of the closest contests in the state’s history.
The state’s canvass earlier this month had shown Mayes leading by 511 votes, triggering an automatic recount under Arizona law for the attorney general contest and two other races close enough to fall within the threshold.
An Arizona judge ordered counties to keep the recount results confidential until Thursday’s hearing.
The updated standings tightened Mayes’s lead by nearly half after a discrepancy, although the judge did not specify during the hearing which county adjusted its results.
As rumors grew of the discrepancy in the hours prior to the judge’s announcement, Hamadeh on Thursday asked the judge for a delay and requested the current attorney general, Republican Mark Brnovich, remain in office until “all issues are resolved.”
The judge on Thursday rejected the motion.
Hamadeh had cited Arizona’s 1990 gubernatorial race, when the sitting governor remained in office through the March following the election until a successor was certified as the winner.
That delay occurred because Arizona’s constitution at the time required a candidate to receive a majority of votes to be elected. No candidate received a majority in the general election, so officials scheduled a runoff more than three months after Election Day and delayed the certification of a winner.
The judge on Thursday declared that Mayes had received the highest number of votes in the race, and Arizona law instructs the judge to deliver a copy of Thursday’s order to Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D), who is also governor-elect. The statute further instructs Hobbs to subsequently issue a certificate of election to Mayes.
“A shockingly high discrepancy,” Hamadeh wrote on Twitter. “Again, a recount just puts the ballots in the machine again. My legal team will be assessing our options to make sure every vote is counted.”
Hamadeh had formally contested his race’s result following the state canvass, but a judge threw out his challenge on Friday, ruling that he did not prove his case of mistakes in the election process impacting the outcome.
The recount results were originally scheduled to be announced last week, but the judge overseeing the recount delayed the proceeding as Hamadeh proceeded with his challenge.
Thursday’s results also affirmed Republican Tom Horne’s victory in the race for superintendent of public instruction, although Democrat Kathy Hoffman previously conceded the race after trailing Horne by nearly 9,000 votes in the earlier canvass.
Horne increased his lead by 221 votes in the recount.
A state legislative seat in the Phoenix area also went to an automatic recount after Republican Liz Harris led Republican Julie Willoughby by 270 votes. The updated standings added a net gain of five votes to Harris’s lead, affirming her victory. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/arizona-attorney-general-recount-affirms-democratic-win-in-razor-thin-race/ | 2022-12-29 19:26:34 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/arizona-attorney-general-recount-affirms-democratic-win-in-razor-thin-race/ |
Updated April 26, 2023 at 3:43 PM ET
President Biden said that his own age doesn't register with him, despite recent polling that shows Americans have concern over the president's age as he runs for a second term.
At a press conference with the South Korean president on Wednesday, Biden fielded questions from reporters about concerns from voters.
"With regard to age, I can't even say I guess how old I am, I can't even say the number. It doesn't register with me," Biden said on his age, adding that people are going to watch the campaign and judge for themselves.
"I respect them taking a hard look at it — I'd take a hard look at it, as well. I took a hard look at it before I decided to run, and I feel good. I feel excited about the prospects," he said.
An NBC poll released this weekend found that 70% of Americans don't want Biden to run for reelection, with half of those citing age as a major factor.
Biden was 29 when he was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, becoming the fifth youngest person to do so. Decades later, at age 78, he became the oldest living president the day he was sworn into office. If elected to a second term, he would be 86 by the end of it.
The president said the same polling data that shows concern for his age also shows support for what he's done in office.
"When the same polling data asks what kind of job I've done, it gets overwhelmingly positive results," Biden said at a press conference Wednesday.
The data from the NBC poll shows 41% of adults polled approve of Biden's job performance and 54% disapprove, which is down from January. Biden seemed to separate that from approval of particular legislative accomplishments, including creating manufacturing jobs and climate investments.
Biden works out five days a week and received a clean bill of health at his annual physical earlier this year, with his physician concluding that he "remains fit for duty, and fully executes all of his responsibilities without any exemptions or accommodations."
That doesn't mean that his age won't be an issue on the campaign trail.
In fact, his age as a factor is "indisputable," says David Axelrod, chief strategist for President Obama's campaigns and senior political commentator for CNN.
"When you look at polling, when you watch focus groups, it's the thing that people bring up first," he says. "We are in uncharted waters, we've never had a president this old."
Still, Axelrod says, there are "upsides" to Biden's age: wisdom, experience and perspective.
"And at a time when there's so much churn and turmoil, those three qualities are assets for him," he told Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep.
Cristina Tzinzún Ramirez, president of the progressive nonprofit NextGen America, says what is most important to young voters is progressive policy change — not age.
"Young voters in the last few elections have turned out in historic numbers. Young people overwhelmingly in 2020, during the Democratic primary, supported the oldest candidate in the race, Bernie Sanders. And then they turned out in overwhelming numbers to vote for Joe Biden."
Ramirez says she thinks young people will turn out again, because Joe Biden has delivered on specific issues they care about: gun reform, climate change legislation, marijuana reform and student debt cancellation. "Ultimately, that's what people are going to measure him by," she said.
Biden's defense: "Watch me"
Questions about Biden's age are nothing new. His opponents used it against him when he ran in 2020, and have continued pointing to his on-camera stumbles to insinuate he is suffering from cognitive issues (a line of attack that often backfires, as NPR has reported).
When asked about Biden's age in a recent White House press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said "It's the same thing that we heard in 2020. Right? If you look at what the President has done this past two years, he's been able to deliver and get things done."
Axelrod argues that Biden's approach — particularly when it comes to things like being less reactive on social media — is part of why voters elected him in the first place, and that those qualities were what people wanted after the tenure of former President Donald Trump.
Biden's approach is basically "watch me," Axelrod points out, using the phrase the president himself has used.
Axelrod describes being president as "the hardest job on the planet," because of the endless hours and weighty decisions. He says Biden's staff would point to some of his high points as proof he can do it, such as his February State of the Union address, in which he made a pitch to "finish the job."
"He stood on his feet for an hour, he engaged his hecklers and he was triumphant," Axelrod says. "And that's what they're going to say is 'just watch him.'"
But that won't necessarily be enough, says Axelrod, advising Biden to address his age openly, both the "obvious risks" and the advantages.
"He often says 'don't judge me versus the almighty, judge me versus the alternative,'" he adds. "And I think that's what they're counting on now, his strategists — that this isn't going to be a referendum on Joe Biden, this is going to be a choice. And the choice very well may be the same choice we faced four years ago."
Trump isn't a young man either
Trump, the current frontrunner in the Republican primary field, is only four years younger than Biden. He will be 77 in June.
A rematch between the two is looking likely, with a recent NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finding that two-thirds of Republicans would still vote for Trump even if he is found guilty of a crime.
His age could be a concern for voters too, Axelrod says, noting that former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is making "generational change a fundamental aspect of her campaign."
In her kickoff speech, Haley called for "mandatory mental competency tests" for candidates over the age of 75.
Axelrod believes others will make a similar argument about Trump's age, "because you can't really exploit this vulnerability as well in Biden if you run a candidate who's basically the same age."
And if either party ends up with a younger candidate, can they make the argument that it's time to move on from the politics of the past?
"They can make that argument and I think it will land with some voters," Axelrod says. "And they'll choose between that and those qualities I mentioned before: wisdom, experience and perspective."
Kaity Kline contributed production and reporting, and John Helton and Miranda Kennedy edited.
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To science teachers attending a recent convention, the comic book about “Simon the solar-powered cat” seemed unremarkable at first. The story began with Simon, an orange-and-white cat, begging for more food in typical feline fashion.
That message, and the comic book, were the brainchild of the CO2 Coalition, a group that rejects the scientific consensus that carbon emissions are causing catastrophic climate change. The group claims that it distributed about 700 comic books to teachers at the National Science Teaching Association’s convention in Atlanta last month before being kicked out of the event.
“We were overwhelmed by the positive response from the teachers at the convention,” Gregory Wrightstone, executive director of the CO2 Coalition, said in an interview. “In fact, by the second day, we had handed out all of the comic books we had brought.”
The episode, details of which have not previously been reported, raised concerns among scientists and education experts that the teachers could spread climate misinformation to their students. It comes as states take divergent approaches to climate instruction in public schools, with New Jersey requiring students to learn about climate change in nearly every class, while Texas’s Board of Education recently called for science textbooks to emphasize the “positive” effects of fossil fuels.
The vast majority of climate scientists agree that humans are causing global warming by emitting massive amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Humanity must rapidly reduce these emissions, scientists say, or face catastrophic consequences such as dramatic sea level rise over the next few decades.
“By focusing 100 percent on this idea that plants need CO2, they’re intentionally misleading people by avoiding the real problems of CO2, which they didn’t talk about at all,” said Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University. “It’s kind of like if you’re talking about cigarettes, and all you talk about is how cool they make you look.”
The influence of climate denial groups has waned over the past several decades, as the science has become clearer and the impacts of global warming have become starker. But the Virginia-based CO2 Coalition, which describes its mission as informing policymakers and the public of the “important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy,” has persisted in spreading its message.
Members of the coalition, which has received money from far-right organizations and donors with ties to the fossil fuel industry, obtained a booth at the National Science Teaching Association’s convention. They spent the first day distributing three comic books and accompanying lesson plans to some of the roughly 6,500 attendees.
All of the comics featured three young sisters named Sophia, Ariana and Elyssa — the owners of Simon the cat — and their neighbor, a scientist named Mr. Gordon. In a book titled “Once upon a time: A true story about the miracle molecule carbon dioxide,” Gordon tells the sisters that CO2 has net benefits for the planet.
“Everything green in our very green world owes its existence to carbon dioxide,” Gordon says to them. “And every person and every animal … are built from the carbon in CO2, which we get from eating vegetables and meat.”
While it is true that CO2 helps plants grow, its accumulation in the atmosphere will have net negative effects for plants and people alike, Dessler said. Telling kids they need CO2 to survive, he said, “is like telling a drowning person they need water to survive. It’s not helpful.”
On the second day of the convention, an official with the National Science Teaching Association asked members of the CO2 Coalition to stop distributing their materials or leave, according to a YouTube video uploaded by the coalition.
“You can take down your literature or you can go home — it’s your choice,” NSTA chief operating officer Ryan Foley says in the video. When Wrightstone refuses to comply, Foley responds, “All right, then you’re being kicked out. You should pack up and get out.”
When coalition members requested a booth at the convention, they signed a contract certifying that their materials were consistent with the association’s position statement on the teaching of climate science, NSTA executive director Erika Shugart said in an email. But then they violated the contract, she said.
The comic books, she said, were at odds with the position statement, which recognizes the “overwhelming scientific consensus” that the “Earth’s climate is changing, largely due to human-induced increases in the concentrations of heat-absorbing gases” such as CO2.
Debating the science
The CO2 Coalition does not disclose its source of funding, and it declined to do so for this story. But in 2017, the coalition received $170,000 from the Mercer Family Foundation and more than $33,000 from the Charles Koch Institute, according to tax filings obtained by the Climate Investigations Center, a watchdog group.
The Mercer Family Foundation — financed by New York hedge fund executive Robert Mercer and directed by his daughter Rebekah — has also helped finance the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank that has denounced climate science as rigged. Heartland in 2017 mailed some 200,000 teachers books titled “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming.”
It remains unclear whether the Mercers have continued to fund the coalition. Wrightstone said in an email that although “we cannot release details on our funding sources,” the “vast majority” of donors are individuals making small contributions. While the CO2 Coalition paid an artist to create the comic books, the members of the group’s Education Committee are unpaid volunteers, he said.
These volunteers include William Happer, a physicist at Princeton University who has challenged the idea that carbon dioxide could damage the planet. Under President Donald Trump, Happer served as a senior director on the National Security Council, where he oversaw a controversial initiative to reassess the federal government’s analysis of climate science.
Sharon Camp, a retired high school science teacher, designed the lesson plans accompanying the comic books. One lesson plan encourages teachers to use beads, Legos or Styrofoam balls to help students visualize CO2 molecules.
Camp, who taught Advanced Placement environmental science at Walton High School in Marietta, Ga., for 15 years, said students should be allowed to reach their own conclusions about climate science.
“This is the only branch of science where you are not allowed to debate, you are not allowed to question,” she said in an interview. “Science is not supposed to work that way.”
Climate in the classroom
The coalition’s efforts come as some states have failed to update their standards for teaching climate change in public schools, leaving students at risk of learning incorrect ideas.
In a 2020 report, the National Center for Science Education and the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund graded all 50 states on their standards for teaching climate change. The groups examined whether the standards helped students understand that climate change is real, caused by humans, and already affecting nature and society, among other criteria.
Only 27 states scored a B+ or better. Of the rest, 20 got a C+ or lower. In the coal state of West Virginia, the standards require students to debate climate change in their science classrooms, despite little debate among scientists. It received a D. And in Alabama, which received an F, the standards suggest that human activity “may have caused” a rise in global temperatures, similarly downplaying the scientific consensus.
In March, the Republican-dominated Texas State Board of Education altered its internal guidance to say science textbooks should emphasize the “positive” aspects of fossil fuels, a leading cause of global warming. As a result, the state would probably still receive an F if the report were conducted today, said Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Center for Science Education.
Some Democratic-led states have moved in the opposite direction. New Jersey in 2020 became the first state to adopt learning standards obligating teachers to instruct kids about climate change across grade levels and subjects.
Shannon Falkner, an English teacher at Chatham High School in Chatham, N.J., said her freshman English students have written climate fiction, or “cli-fi.” Some students have penned dystopian tales about flooded cities, while others have offered more hopeful stories about the nation’s transition to renewable energy. Falkner said the reaction from students has been largely positive, and no parents have complained about the assignment.
There is evidence that climate instruction is popular. About 77 percent of Americans agreed with the statement that “schools should teach about global warming” in a 2021 poll by Yale University’s Program on Climate Change Communication, while about 22 percent disagreed.
“It’s actually one of the most supported policies we have measured,” said Tony Leisorowitz, director of the Yale program. Both the CO2 Coalition and conservative policymakers, he said, “are standing in front of the tide of public opinion and trying to hold it back with a piece of cardboard.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/11/co2-coalition-climate-denial/ | 2023-04-11 10:36:48 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/11/co2-coalition-climate-denial/ |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors have arrested and indicted a former executive of Samsung Electronics suspected of stealing trade secrets while attempting to establish a copycat computer chip plant in China.
The Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office said Monday that the unnamed 65-year-old unlawfully obtained Samsung’s factory blueprints and clean-room designs from 2018 and 2019 while trying, unsuccessfully, to replicate a chip factory in the Chinese city of Xi’an, near where Samsung operates a plant.
The technology allegedly stolen by the man’s China-based company would have been worth at least 300 billion won ($233 million) for Samsung, prosecutors said. They charged six people employed by the man with “active participation” in the tech theft.
South Korea is highly sensitive to breaches of technologies related to semiconductors, which accounted for nearly 17% of its total exports in 2022. Samsung, the world’s largest manufacturer of computer memory chips, didn’t immediately comment on the charges.
In a statement, prosecutors described the arrested man as an “undisputed top domestic expert in semiconductor manufacturing.” After an 18-year career at Samsung he held executive roles for a decade at SK Hynix, another major South Korean chip maker which trails Samsung in the memory chip market.
The man later created chip manufacturing companies in China and Singapore with the backing of Chinese and Taiwanese investors and lured more than 200 chip experts from Samsung and Hynix with higher pay before arranging to smuggle out crucial technologies from Samsung, prosecutors said.
The manufacturing secrets allegedly taken from Samsung included processing blueprints and “basic engineering data” for designing clean-room environments to prevent contamination during semiconductor manufacturing, which prosecutors described as “core national technologies.”
“The suspect … attempted to duplicate an entire (Samsung) factory to manufacture and mass-produce semiconductors in China,” said the prosecutors’ office, who described his crime as incomparable in damage and scale to previous theft cases.
It said South Korea’s semiconductor industry would have been “irreversibly damaged” and the country’s security interests greatly compromised if the factory was actually built and produced chips similar to Samsung’s products. | https://www.yourbasin.com/technology/ap-technology/ex-samsung-exec-charged-with-stealing-trade-secrets-to-create-copycat-chip-factory-in-china/ | 2023-06-13 00:10:45 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/technology/ap-technology/ex-samsung-exec-charged-with-stealing-trade-secrets-to-create-copycat-chip-factory-in-china/ |
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EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Sonia Citron finished with 24 points and 10 rebounds, Olivia Miles added 21 points before getting ejected and No. 9 Notre Dame pounded Northwestern 92-58 on Wednesday night.
Lauren Ebo chipped in with 19 points and seven rebounds. Dara Mabrey broke a tie with her sister for career 3-pointers in an otherwise rough outing and the Irish (3-0) rolled to an easy win. They led by 17 at halftime after things took a heated turn late in the second quarter.
Notre Dame’s Natalija Marshall and Northwestern’s Paige Mott got tied up and had some words. The Wildcats’ Caileigh Walsh, Courtney Shaw and Jasmine McWilliams were ejected for leaving the bench. Miles also got involved and picked up a technical.
“I thought we lost our composure ,and we have to do a better job of not allowing circumstances to take us out of our character and our composure,” coach Niele Ivey said. “That’s who we are, what we represent at Notre Dame, just making sure we do things the right way, play the right way.”
She called it a “teaching moment” and “a lesson for both teams.”
Northwestern coach Joe McKeown said he wasn't sure exactly what happened and needed to look at the video.
“Our players were all trying to do the right thing,” he said. “I don't know if Notre Dame's players came off the bench. I don't have 12 camera angles yet. Like I said, I'll let the league deal with it and just go from there.”
Miles was called for another technical late in the third after exchanging words with Northwestern’s Hailey Weaver, resulting in her getting thrown out of the game.
The temper flareups aside, there wasn’t much drama in this one.
IRISH SHINE
Citron, the ACC Rookie of the Year last season, was 8 of 10 from the field and made four 3-pointers.
Mabrey scored seven points and made two from beyond the arc. That gave her 276 3-pointers in her career and 121 since transferring from Virginia Tech prior to the 2020-21 season. Marina Mabrey, who plays for the WNBA’s Dallas Wings, made 274 for Notre Dame from 2015-19 and is the program’s all-time leader.
Melannie Daley led Northwestern (1-2) with eight points.
EARLY EDGE
The game between the programs located 110 miles apart was the first since 1988 and fourth in all.
Notre Dame scored the first nine points and led 21-14 through the first quarter thanks to a dominant start by Ebo. The 6-foot-4 center scored 11 in the period, though she also picked up two fouls.
Mabrey missed her first five shots and first four 3-pointers before nailing one from the left side in transition early in the second quarter to break the tie with her sister.
Notre Dame led 42-26 with just under 2 1/2 minutes left in the second quarter after Miles fed Sonia Citron for a fast-break layup, then stole a pass and scored on a layup.
“We show spurts and moments of when we look really, really good," Citron said. “But we also do have those moments when we don't look so good. I think that we know if we just play together and play with composure and discipline, we can be super good.”
BIG PICTURE
Notre Dame: The Irish missed their share of open shots in the early going. Once they found their rhythm, they ran away with this one.
Northwestern: The Wildcats were outclassed by one of the nation's best teams. Even so, they'll have to do a better job shooting, whether they're taking jumpers and layups or free throws. Northwestern shot about 36% from the field and was 4 of 17 on 3-pointers. At the foul line, the Wildcats were 10 of 22.
UP NEXT
Notre Dame: Hosts Ball State on Sunday.
Northwestern: Hosts Southern Illinois on Saturday.
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Communities and cities all over Vermont are grappling with the aftermath of severe rain and flooding this week. One of those places is Ludlow, a ski town in the southern part of the state.
Vermont Public’s Nina Keck reports.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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All organizations are nominated and chosen by ECMC Group employees
LOS ANGELES, July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For the ninth straight year, ECMC Foundation is distributing funding to nonprofit organizations working to improve education through innovation and racial equity. The national philanthropic organization has announced that 98 nonprofits will receive a portion of the total $1 million in grants, which will go to organizations nominated and chosen by employees of its parent organization, ECMC Group.
"As a national foundation committed to postsecondary students' success, we recognize that institutions and nonprofit organizations play a central role in making a meaningful impact on communities and across the nation," said Jacob Fraire, president of ECMC Foundation. "The GO! Program allows our employees throughout the country to become part of that mission and support the organizations they believe are the most deserving in the areas where they live and work."
Since 2015, ECMC Foundation has funded the GO! Program (Generating Outcomes: Funding Innovation and Racial Equity in Education), which provides grants to nonprofits selected by employees. Each year, team members are invited to nominate local organizations to receive grants in support of their educational work that aligns with ECMC Group's and ECMC Foundation's mission to help students succeed.
Grant dollars fund education programs spanning from early childhood through postsecondary education.
"Not only does the GO! Program provide creative and innovative education programs and solutions, but it also helps our team members feel connected to our efforts to give back and to our mission," said Dan Fisher, president and CEO of ECMC Group. "These organizations are addressing some of the major gaps exacerbated by the pandemic, from support for early learning to addressing workforce readiness and career preparation for our most under-resourced communities."
Here are a few testimonials from ECMC Group employees that illustrate the importance of the program in their own words:
- Brittany Scott, an operations specialist at ECMC Group's headquarters in Minneapolis, nominated Boys & Girls Club of the Twin Cities because of a personal connection to their programs. The organization received a $20,000 grant.
"As a child, I went there to do after-school activities while my mom, who was a single mom of four, worked longer hours to provide for our household," said Scott. "I wanted to give back to the same place that helped shape me years ago. I felt that with the donation, they can reach more families and keep more children out of harm and danger."
- Josephine Estepa, a records coordinator at ECMC Group's Sacramento office, nominated Loaves & Fishes because of the mission behind its work. The organization received a $20,000 grant.
"I nominated Loaves & Fishes because of their purpose to provide survival services to those in need," said Estepa. "I believe that education is an essential part of our path to success, but because of homelessness, some children may not be given this opportunity. The organization's commitment to providing children a safe, structured and nurturing environment is a great way to help children get the education they need and deserve."
- Saúl Valdez, a program officer for ECMC Foundation in Los Angeles, nominated First Gen Empower because he understands the experience of being a first-generation college student. The organization received a $20,000 grant.
"As a first-gen college graduate myself, I know how transformational it is when students are empowered and supported in high school and college to become leaders on campus and champions for change," said Valdez. "First Gen Empower is working to be a part of the solution by providing critical trainings and supports to students and educators alike in high schools and college campuses."
Including this year's GO! Program recipients, ECMC Foundation has awarded 734 GO! Program grants for a total of more than $10 million since 2015.
About ECMC Foundation
ECMC Foundation is a Los Angeles-based, nationally focused foundation whose mission is to improve higher education for career success among underserved populations through evidence-based innovation. It is one of several affiliates under the ECMC Group enterprise based in Minneapolis. ECMC Foundation makes investments to remove barriers to postsecondary completion; build the capacity of institutions, systems and organizations; and transform the postsecondary ecosystem using a spectrum of funding structures, including strategic grantmaking and program-related investments, to support both nonprofit and for-profit ventures. Working with grantees, partners and peers, ECMC Foundation's vision is for all learners to unlock their fullest potential. Learn more about ECMC Foundation by visiting www.ecmcfoundation.org and ECMC Group by visiting www.ecmcgroup.org.
About ECMC Group
ECMC Group is a nonprofit corporation focused on helping students succeed by creating, providing and investing in innovative educational opportunities. Headquartered in Minneapolis, ECMC Group and its family of companies are focused on advancing educational opportunities through financial tools and services; support for postsecondary access, persistence and completion; and impactful and mission-aligned funding for innovative programs to help students achieve their academic and professional goals and to address the future of work. To learn more, visit www.ecmcgroup.org.
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DALLAS, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brazos Residential, LLC, a Dallas-based real estate private equity firm specializing in multifamily investments, announces the acquisition of a two-property portfolio in Benbrook, TX, marking the firm's twelfth transaction in 2022.
The 334-unit portfolio consists of two 1980's-built communities—Clear Fork Trail, and Trinity Oaks— situated southwest of downtown Fort Worth, in one of the most affluent communities in the DFW metroplex. The properties are directly adjacent to Forth Worth Country Day, one of Fort Worth's most prestigious private schools, and are surrounded by top retailers, such as Whole Foods and Neiman Marcus.
"Brazos—along with its partners—was able to circumvent the standard bidding process, and its associated cost premium, by acquiring the 'Benbrook Two-Pack' completely off-market", explains Managing Partner and Cofounder, William Hancock. "Our team knows the metroplex extremely well. My business partner, James Roberts, and I have transacted on over 80,000 units across DFW in our previous roles as multifamily and debt brokers. Clear Fork Trail and Trinity Oaks present an incredible opportunity for our partners in one of the best real estate markets in the country."
Founded in 2022, Brazos Residential owns, operates, and manages multifamily real estate assets for institutional and high-net-worth investors across the country. Brazos holds over 2,000 multifamily units across the American Sun Belt, predominately in Texas and North Carolina. The firm employs a dynamic team of real estate, private equity, accounting, and capital market professionals and controls over $263 million in multifamily real estate investments.
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a personal trainer and I often shower with a washcloth after exercising at the gym. Due to the condensation and mildew buildup in my gym bag, it became expensive replacing them," said an inventor, from Atlanta, Ga., "so I invented the SUPER SCRUBBER. My design eliminates the need to transport washcloths in a gym bag/luggage, which tend to cause the growth of mold and mildew. My invention's breathable exterior eliminates this by allowing you to hang it outside your bag or in the bathroom. It also has an extendable handle for hard-to-reach areas."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to scrub the back and other hard-to-reach areas. In doing so, it increases personal hygiene, comfort and convenience. It also reduces physical strain, it saves time and effort and it could help to eliminate mold and mildew build-up within a gym bag or travel bag. The invention features a portable design that is easy to use and transport so it is ideal for households, fitness enthusiasts, travelers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Atlanta sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-ALL-3050, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
6-6-3
(six, six, three)
¶ Top Prize $500
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
6-6-3
(six, six, three)
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Walmart and CVS Pharmacy have settled with the state of West Virginia for a combined total of $147 million in a lawsuit over the companies’ roles in contributing to the oversupply of prescription drugs that fueled the opioid epidemic in the country’s most impacted state, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Tuesday.
Walmart and CVS were two lawsuits that were part of a larger trial that was pushed back to June of next year along with Kroger and Walgreens. Morrisey recently announced a settlement with Rite Aid for up to $30 million to resolve similar litigation.
The lawsuits allege the pharmacies’ contributions to the oversupply of prescription opioids in the state have caused “significant losses through their past and ongoing medical treatment costs, including for minors born addicted to opioids, rehabilitation costs, naloxone costs, medical examiner expenses, self-funded state insurance costs and other forms of losses to address opioid-related afflictions and loss of lives.”
It brings the total settlements by the state in opioid lawsuits to $875 million, including $296 million with manufacturers, $400 million with wholesalers and $177.5 million involving pharmacies.
“These settlements won’t bring back the lives lost from the opioid epidemic, but these and other settlements will hopefully provide significant help to those affected the most by this crisis in our state,” Morrisey said during a news conference. “This development also avoided a costly and lengthy trial and at the end of the day, West Virginia will have the highest per capita settlement results in the nation fighting for our people.”
Walmart agreed to a settlement of just over $65 million and CVS for $82.5 million. Morrisey said the deal with CVS includes a provision that means West Virginia can still receive money from any future national settlements that arise.
The money from all opioid settlements will be distributed throughout the state to abate the opioid crisis.
In August, West Virginia cities and counties reached a $400 million tentative settlement with three major U.S. drug distributors: AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. In April, Morrisey announced the state would receive $99 million in a settlement finalized with Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/ap-w-va-announces-147m-opioid-settlement-with-cvs-walmart/ | 2022-09-21 13:30:17 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/ap-w-va-announces-147m-opioid-settlement-with-cvs-walmart/ |
Police: Son arrested after father stabbed, killed at apartment
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - A man is in custody after police in Las Vegas said he stabbed his father to death early Tuesday morning.
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the incident occurred at an apartment complex around 4 a.m.
LVMPD Lt. David Valenta said a 54-year-old Hispanic man was found dead in an apartment.
Valenta said the victim’s son was detained in connection with the stabbing. LVMPD identified the suspect as 21-year-old Jacob Racilis. Police said Racilis checked himself into a hospital to be treated for lacerations to his hand and reported the incident to staff himself.
LVMPD said Racilis was arrested and charged with murder. Police didn’t provide information on what led to the stabbing, KVVU reported.
LVMPD said the victim would be identified once his family has been notified.
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Correa expected to play for Astros in Division Series
By KRISTIE RIEKEN
AP Sports Writer
HOUSTON (AP) - Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch expects shortstop Carlos Correa to play on Friday the AL Division Series opener.
Correa missed the last week of the regular season because of a sore back, but Hinch said Wednesday that he has been working out all week and feels great.
Hinch says Justin Verlander will start Game 1 on Friday against Oakland or Tampa Bay, followed by Cole on Saturday in Game 2 and Zack Greinke in the third game. Hinch wouldn’t commit to a Game 4 starter. Houston could go with rookie José Urquidy instead of veteran Wade Miley after the left-hander had a 16.68 ERA in five starts in September.
The 25-year-old Correa played just 75 games this season after sitting out from May 26-July 26 with a broken rib. He missed a month with the back problem, which also caused him to sit out last week.
Hinch said Correa took pitches in batting practice on Wednesday and faced Will Harris in one inning of a simulated game.
Hinch says Correa: “looks great and was moving around in a normal fashion.”
Correa hit .279 with 21 homers and 59 RBIs this season.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Doris Matsui advances to November general election in California's 7th Congressional District.
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NEW YORK, May 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of: (i) Allbirds, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIRD) Class A Common Stock pursuant and/or traceable to the Registration Statement in connection with the Company's November 2021 IPO; and/or (ii) Allbirds securities between November 4, 2021 and March 9, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period") of the important June 12, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Allbirds securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Allbirds class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=12941 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 12, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Allbirds was overemphasizing products that extended beyond the Company's core offerings; (2) that the Company's non-core products had a narrower appeal and were not resonating with customers as well as the Company's core products; (3) that Allbirds was underinvesting in its core consumers' favorite products to push the Company's newer products with narrower appeal; (4) that underinvesting in Allbirds' core products was negatively impacting the Company's sales; and (5) that as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects, were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Allbirds class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=12941 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Metro Police are searching for multiple suspects after the city had three shootings and one hit-and-run Saturday night.
One person was killed from the shootings and the victim from the hit-and-run died.
The first shooting happened around 11:00 p.m. on the westside, by Rockville Road and Lynhurst Drive. The victim is in the hospital in critical condition.
IMPD was called to the second shooting at midnight in Fountain Square. They say the man who was shot was killed. Police believe the victim was actually shot at Raymond and Shelby Streets, but moved to Fountain Square before he died.
Then, around 1:00 a.m., a man was shot in the middle of Broad Ripple, next to Guilford Avenue and Broad Ripple Avenue. He is in stable condition.
The hit-and-run that killed a man Saturday night was on the northwest side of Indy. IMPD says it happened around 43rd and N. High School road and the man died at the scene.
No car has been identified in the hit-and-run, and no arrests have been made for any any shooting. | https://wibc.com/150967/2-dead-from-saturday-night-shootings-and-a-hit-and-run/ | 2023-05-07 19:20:24 | 0 | https://wibc.com/150967/2-dead-from-saturday-night-shootings-and-a-hit-and-run/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KRON) – A Tesla was in flames after the car’s battery compartment “spontaneously” caught fire on the highway Saturday, the Sacramento Metro Fire District said on Twitter.
The Tesla Model S was traveling at “freeway speeds” when the fire broke out, officials said. Photos shared by the Sacramento Metro Fire District, seen below, show the front of the vehicle severely damaged.
The photos also show how crews had to lift the car to access the battery compartment.
No injuries were reported from this incident. Authorities shared video, which you can see at the top of this story, showing firefighters working to put the fire out on the shoulder of eastbound Highway 50 and Sunrise Boulevard in Rancho Cordova.
Crews used approximately 6,000 gallons of water to put out the fire. Officials said they needed to use so much water because the Tesla’s battery cells continued to combust.
Last summer, crews in Sacramento were called to a Tesla fire at a wrecking yard. Despite multiple attempts to put out the blaze, crews ultimately had to put the vehicle – which had been in an accident three weeks earlier – in a small pit filled with water to stop the battery compartment from reigniting. Crews used about 4,500 gallons of water on the fire.
In October, when the battery of a Tesla submerged in hurricane floodwaters became corroded and caught fire, Florida firefighters had to use roughly 1,500 gallons of water to put out the flames. It was one of many electric vehicles that were left disabled after Hurricane Ian moved through, Nexstar’s WFLA reports.
In November, Pennsylvania firefighters had to use 12,000 gallons of water to extinguish a Tesla Model S that had caught fire after hitting debris in the roadway, according to Nexstar’s WTAJ.
Sacramento Metro Fire Captain Parker Wilbourn told Nexstar’s KTXL in August that electric vehicle fires pose a more difficult challenge for fire crews than traditional combustion engines that use gasoline.
“When one battery catches fire, it preheats the next battery, the next battery and the next battery. It causes a fire and it is a chain reaction from there,” Wilbourn explained.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is also investigating a separate Tesla-related incident that closed part of a California roadway and left 16 people – including eight minors – injured on Thanksgiving. Authorities released video showing a Tesla Model S moving into the fast lane on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco before quickly coming to a halt. The unexpected deceleration, which reportedly happened while the vehicle was in Full Self-Driving mode, caused an eight-car pileup.
It’s unclear if Saturday’s Tesla fire is under investigation by federal officials. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/tesla-spontaneously-caught-fire-on-california-highway-officials/ | 2023-01-29 23:54:19 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/tesla-spontaneously-caught-fire-on-california-highway-officials/ |
'There may be more homicides,' detective in Duane Owen case says
It was a grisly murder that shook the city of Boca Raton nearly 40 years ago — horrific, brutal and terrorizing.
Sgt. Kevin McCoy, now retired, was at the time the lead detective on a case with the Boca Raton Police Department that would become his most powerful. The case still carries a deep connection with him today.
"Basically we had to prove circumstantially who she was because she never had her fingerprints taken. That's how bad she was beaten," McCoy said.
The date was May 28, 1984. The scene happened inside a Boca Raton neighborhood.
On that horrific evening, Georgianna Worden, 38, was fast asleep. Her two children, ages 13 and 9, were sleeping in the front bedroom.
"On the northeast side of the house is where her bedroom is, and he could look through the window and saw her there, and so he was intent on getting in," McCoy said.
The calm of the night was shattered when Duane Owen prowled and lurked around the home and then broke in — murdering Worden with a hammer.
McCoy often drives by the house where the attack occurred. Each time the memory of the crime that captivated his life for decades comes into focus and so does the man who he said carried it out.
"He thought he was smart," McCoy said. "He thought he wouldn't make mistakes, but fortunately, he made a couple."
Worden's murder came just weeks after another similar tragedy, the brutal beating of Karen Slattery, 14, in Delray Beach. Immediately, two cases with so many similarities brought two cities and dozens of investigators together. McCoy knew they were on to something.
"That was a big factor was the fact that you have a female victim," McCoy said. "You have two children that were left alone not harmed at all and the same in the Helms' residence. Karen, she was babysitting the two kids, and they were in bed when it happened."
Neither of the children, in either case, was touched. It didn't take long for McCoy to use a sketch to help in the investigation. It came from the victim of a nearby indecent exposure case. When McCoy compared it to other cases police were investigating, something struck.
"As soon as we put him in a lineup and started showing them it was like, 'Yeah that's him, that's him," McCoy said.
Owen would soon become a prime suspect in Worden's murder.
"He was active in the area within a few blocks of where the homicide was," McCoy said. "He lived not too far from the homicide on the other side of the tracks, and so we just started compiling this, and we just couldn't eliminate him."
An arrest warrant on an unrelated case to Worden's murder went out for Owen. Now, they just needed him in custody.
Owen was spotted riding a bicycle days later not far from Worden's crime scene. Once in custody, a series of interviews and questions were unloaded on Owen. It was clear he knew a lot and wasn't shy about talking, according to McCoy.
"It was like once he knew you had him pretty good, he gave it up," McCoy said. "Eventually, he went down through other aspects of the crime that only he would know."
A confession in both cases would come, however not without controversy. He would be re-tried on the confession for Slattery's murder.
"In my opinion, there may be more homicides out there," McCoy said. "It's kind of hard to believe it just started with Karen Slattery."
Both cases are nearing 40 years old and a final chapter in the investigation is about to close. For this former detective who studied it so closely, it will never leave his mind, including the dark secrets that would emerge from it.
"He was the beginning, in my opinion, of a serial killer because you just don't pick out people like that," McCoy said. "When you talk to him, he described what he would do, he called it, 'going on maneuvers.' He was a prowler, no relation to any of the victims, was prowling the neighborhoods looking into windows, so on so forth, and he would have killed again no doubt."
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LAS VEGAS, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE: AMH) (the "Company"), a leading provider of high-quality single-family homes for rent, announced today that members of the Company's management team will participate in a roundtable discussion during the BofA Securities 2022 Global Real Estate Conference (the "Conference") taking place September 13-14, 2022.
The Company's roundtable discussion will begin at 12:40 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, September 14, 2022. A live audio webcast will be available on the Company's website at www.americanhomes4rent.com under "Investor relations." A replay of the webcast will be available through September 28, 2022.
About American Homes 4 Rent
American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE: AMH) is a leading single-family property owner, leasing operator, and build-to-rent developer. Recent achievements include being named a 2022 Great Place to Work®, a 2022 Top U.S. Homebuilder by Builder100, one of America's Most Responsible Companies 2022 and America's Most Trusted Companies 2022 by Newsweek and Statista, and a Top ESG Regional Performer by Sustainalytics. We are an internally managed Maryland real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on acquiring, developing, renovating, leasing, and managing homes as rental properties. As of June 30, 2022, we owned 58,715 single-family properties in selected submarkets in 22 states.
Additional information about American Homes 4 Rent is available on our website at http://www.americanhomes4rent.com.
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World leaders will gather at the U.N. to address poverty, hunger and inequality. NPR's A Martinez talks to Amanda Gorman, who reads part of a poem she wrote for an appearance at the General Assembly.
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World leaders will gather at the U.N. to address poverty, hunger and inequality. NPR's A Martinez talks to Amanda Gorman, who reads part of a poem she wrote for an appearance at the General Assembly.
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BALTIMORE — There will be a second meeting on the Brooklyn Park mass shooting, but not for nearly two months.
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Baltimore City council member Mark Conway says the first council meeting on the attack brought more questions.
Baltimore Police are expected to write up a report on the attack and said it would be done 45 days after the meeting.
The meeting will focus on that report, as well as concerns about 911 calls made, BPD protocols and safe streets data.
The shooting happened July 1.
Two young adults, 18-year-old Aaliyah Gonzalez and 20-year-old Kylis Fagbemi, were killed.
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28 other people were injured.
The meeting is set for September 13. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/city-council-to-hold-second-meeting-about-brooklyn-mass-shooting | 2023-07-20 22:11:16 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/city-council-to-hold-second-meeting-about-brooklyn-mass-shooting |
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KOWACH, South Sudan (AP) — Martha Nyanguour didn’t have time to bury her husband, son or granddaughter when they were killed by gunfire in September. Instead, the 50-year-old paid her respects by throwing bits of grass over their bodies, grabbed her remaining children and fled.
It had taken years for the mother of seven to muster the courage to return to South Sudan and trust its fragile peace deal ending a civil war. But weeks after she arrived in Atar town in Upper Nile state, fighting erupted between militias aligned with government and opposition forces.
“I thought if there was peace I was supposed to go back to my land,” said Nyanguour, seated under a tree in Kowach village in Canal Pigi county where she now lives with thousands of other displaced people, five days’ walk through swamp water from her home village. “I thought maybe there would be peace in the future, but now, hearing gunshots daily, I think South Sudan will remain in war.”
In 18 months, South Sudan is supposed to hold its first presidential elections, the culmination of the peace agreement signed nearly five years ago to pull the young nation out of fighting that killed some 400,000 people. While large-scale clashes have subsided, violence in parts of the country persists, killing 2,240 people last year, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. Earlier this month at least 20 people were killed and more than 50 wounded during inter-communal clashes in a United Nations protection camp in the north of the country.
Implementation of the peace agreement has been sluggish. The elections, originally scheduled for this year, were postponed until December 2024. Other key elements of the deal have not been implemented, sparking concern that the country could see a return to war instead of a transfer of power.
“We are going to go for (the) electoral process without meeting the benchmarks that create a conducive environment for the conduct of elections,” said Edmund Yakani, executive director for Community Empowerment for Progress Organization, a local advocacy group. “The return of the country to violence is more evident than the country staying in stability.”
A permanent constitution still has not been drafted. A census has not been conducted. Security arrangements, considered the backbone of the agreement, are only partially complete. Some 83,000 soldiers from opposition and government forces are meant to unite in a national army, but so far 55,000 have graduated and are yet to be deployed.
Others languish in training centers with poor conditions and little food. Soldiers say many are rarely paid. Locals involved with the security arrangements say there’s so little trust that the main parties have held back key fighters, sending less seasoned ones or new recruits.
In addition, Joshua Craze, a researcher on South Sudan, says, “The peace agreement signed in 2018 has enabled the government to fragment the opposition by encouraging defections and setting commanders against each other, intensifying violent conflict.”
The opposition accuses the government of lacking political will to hold elections so it can keep plundering the nation’s resources, which include oil. “They don’t have genuine political will to implement the peace agreement because they look at the agreement from the angle that it is crippling their powers,” said Puok Both Baluang, acting press secretary for the first vice president, head of the main opposition and former rebel leader Riek Machar.
South Sudan has billions of dollars in reserves but there is little transparency on where the money goes. The country was voted the second most corrupt in the world last year by Transparency International.
The international community is exasperated with South Sudan’s lack of progress.
At a press conference in May, United Nations representative Nicholas Haysom cautioned that the conditions did not currently exist to hold transparent, free and fair elections. But some diplomats are concerned that another extension to the peace deal would send a negative message to South Sudanese citizens, investors and aid donors.
The government says it’s serious about the peace process and will hold elections on time. During a conference in May on reconciliation and healing, President Salva Kiir vowed that “I will never take South Sudan and its people to war again.”
The capital, Juba, appears peaceful. Billboards of Kiir and Machar shaking hands above the words “peace, unity, reconciliation and development” line the streets. Children of the political elites are returning with money and opening trendy restaurants, and construction is booming.
But outside the capital is a different reality.
The fighting that killed Nyanguour’s family last year also sent tens of thousands fleeing, part of the highest displacement levels since the peace agreement was signed, according to a report by a U.N. panel of experts. It said government and opposition forces played facilitating roles in the violence.
The conflict in Upper Nile cut off access to healthcare, with some severely wounded people having to travel up to four days by canoe to the closest clinic, aid workers said. “The biggest issue was accessibility. It was hard to bring in supplies,” said Kudumreng David, a supervisor for the International Medical Corps in Kowach.
Food has also become scarce as fighting worsens conditions after years of floods and cuts in food aid. In Kowach, some children rip leaves from trees into a pot for their only meal of the day.
Many people outside Juba said they didn’t even know elections were set for next year.
“We heard there’s peace but it hasn’t reached here,” said Roda Awel, a resident of Kowach. “People are still afraid.” | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/south-sudans-sluggish-peace-deal-and-unsteady-road-to-elections/ | 2023-06-13 17:32:59 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/south-sudans-sluggish-peace-deal-and-unsteady-road-to-elections/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a mixed verdict on more than three dozen criminal justice laws before his bill-signing deadline Friday, approving measures to seal criminal records and free dying inmates but denying bids to restrict solitary confinement and boost inmates’ wages.
Backers estimate that 70 million Americans and eight million Californians are hindered by old criminal convictions or records. They estimated that the law could give more than a million Californians better access to jobs, housing and education.
Newsom also approved related measures, one allowing record sealing and expungement even if former offenders still owe restitution and other court debt, and another making it easier to apply for certificates of rehabilitation.
“Old records that no longer reflect the reality of who someone is and what they have accomplished should not be a barrier to opportunity,” said Tinisch Hollins, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice, which was among reform groups seeking the legislation.
The bills were opposed by law enforcement organizations that said they could imperil public safety and rehabilitation efforts.
Newsom also relaxed standards to allow more ill and dying inmates to be released from state prisons. The new law will allow inmates to be freed if they are permanently medically incapacitated, or have a serious and advanced illness “with an end-of-life trajectory,” the standard used by the federal prison system.
“It reduces incarceration costs, but more importantly, ensures there is a more humane and effective relief process for all people in California’s state prisons,” said Claudia Gonzalez of Root & Rebound, one of the reform groups that sought the measure.
Law enforcement opponents said the existing standards were adequate.
Among other new laws, Newsom approved requiring police agencies to screen prospective officers and fire current officers for participation in hate groups and allowed noncitizens to become police officers.
He also expanded a 2020 law that allowed suspects to allege that they were harmed by racial bias in their criminal charges, convictions or sentences. The earlier law was limited to cases after Jan. 1, 2021. But this measure extends the safeguards to prior convictions.
Newsom, a Democrat who says he supports second chances and reducing incarceration, has had a mixed record on criminal justice bills. He has backed many reform efforts but in years past also vetoed other legislation he felt went too far or duplicated existing efforts.
This year, he blocked a bill that would have made California the latest state to restrict segregated confinement in prisons and jails, as well as for the first time adding immigration detention facilities.
Newsom said he supports the concept, but the bill would have set standards “that are overly broad and exclusions that could risk the safety” of detainees and staff. He directed state prison officials to develop their own regulations to restrict isolation “except in limited situations, such as ... violence in the prison.”
He also vetoed one bill that would have given the state prison system five years to marginally boost the wages of inmates who usually earn just dollars a day, and a second bill that would have increased the “gate money" inmates are given upon their release from the current $200 to $1,300. The bills had survived even as lawmakers this year rejected a constitutional change that might have required much more compensation for inmate workers.
In both rejections, Newsom cited the unbudgeted cost of the bills as state revenues are slumping — a theme in many of his vetoes this year. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/newsom-has-mixed-verdict-on-california-criminal-justice-laws/2022/09/30/1f675ce0-4102-11ed-8c6e-9386bd7cd826_story.html | 2022-09-30 21:24:36 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/newsom-has-mixed-verdict-on-california-criminal-justice-laws/2022/09/30/1f675ce0-4102-11ed-8c6e-9386bd7cd826_story.html |
Announced by CPT Group, Inc.
IRVINE, Calif., May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CPT Group, Inc. announces a certified class action lawsuit now pending called Rohinton T. Aresh, a.k.a. Roy Aresh beneficiary of G Reit Liquidating Trust v. Gary H. Hunt, et al, Orange County Superior Court Case No. 30-2018-00982195 (the "Action").
What is this about? Rohinton T. Aresh, a.k.a. Roy Aresh ("Plaintiff"), on behalf of the purported class of over 13,000 Beneficiaries, alleges wrongdoing associated with each of the three properties held by the Trust in 2012. Plaintiff alleges that each of the properties were sold for less than fair value to insider entities or affiliate entities. In addition to the above, Plaintiff asserts wrongdoing associated with a promissory note payable to G REIT for $12 million dollars, to purchase and replace common stock in a company acquired by G REIT from the sale of one of the properties. Defendants deny any wrongdoing. Plaintiff also alleges the G REIT Trust terminated as of January 28, 2014, and Defendants deny this assertion.
Who is affected? All persons who, as of January 1, 2012, owned Beneficial Interests in GREIT LIQUIDATING TRUST (the "Class").
What are the options? If you come within the definition of the class set forth above in this notice, you will be automatically included in the class, unless you elect to exclude yourself from the class in accordance with the procedures described below. If you wish to remain in the class, you do not need to take any action at this time. Your choice to stay in the class or exclude yourself from the class has certain consequences, detailed below.
Do Nothing: If you wish to remain a member of this class action, you need not do anything. If you remain a member of this class, you will be represented by Plaintiff and his counsel (hereinafter "Class Counsel"). As a member of the class, you will be bound by the class judgment or settlement, whether favorable or unfavorable, including any judgment issued in connection with the litigation or any settlement between the parties.
Exclude Yourself: If you do not want to participate in this lawsuit, you can exclude yourself by "opting out." By electing to opt out of this litigation, you will not receive the benefits of any judgment or settlement in this class action, and you will not be bound by any decision in this lawsuit. Rather, you will remain free to pursue individually any legal rights you may have against Defendants. In determining whether you want to be excluded from the class, you may want to consult your own attorney, as there are legal issues which may require consideration. To exclude yourself, you must submit a "Request for Exclusion" form available at www.cptgroupcaseinfo.com/GREITclassaction and mail it to the Notice Administrator: CPT Group, Inc., 50 Corporate Park, Irvine, CA 92606 by June 25, 2023.
How do I get more information? For more information and to view the full notice, go to www.cptgroupcaseinfo.com/GREITclassaction, or contact the Notice Administrator by calling toll-free 1-(833) 816-0679.
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT OR THE COURT CLERK'S OFFICE
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LOS ANGELES (WGHP) — TikTok star Cooper Noriega has died at the age of 19, according to a Los Angeles County coroner report.
Someone found Noriega unconscious in a Los Angeles mall parking lot on Thursday and called 911.
Medical personnel arrived to the scene a short time after but were unable to revive Noriega.
Noriega was not inside a car when he was found, and there were no signs of trauma on his body. Police do not suspect foul play.
An autopsy will take place sometime later, according to TMZ.
Just hours before being found, Noriega posted a video of himself laying in bed with the caption “who else b thinking they gon di€ young af.”
Noriega had over 1.7 million followers on TikTok. He would have turned 20 on June 28. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/tiktok-star-cooper-noriega-dead-at-19/ | 2022-06-11 00:01:05 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/tiktok-star-cooper-noriega-dead-at-19/ |
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a property insurance reform bill into law one week ago, and so far, consumers are still dealing with rising rates.
News 6 also found that one program, meant to give you cash back for money spent to harden your home against storms, is barely taking shape, even as we enter hurricane season.
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Bronson and Elizabeth Collins said the latest increase in their property insurance premium was jaw-dropping.
“Shock. We were shocked and angry I guess at such an increase,” Elizabeth Collins told News 6.
Their premium went from $1,680 a year to $2,473.00, according to their insurance paperwork.
Not only that, but just weeks ago, the Collins’ insurer requested a 48% increase from the Office of Insurance Regulation for next year.
“It just seemed unreasonable to see that much at one time,” Bronson Collins said.
Collins is 88 years old and said an increase like that is tough on seniors.
“Unless we get some relief from the state, I don’t think it’s gonna get better with any insurance company,” he said.
News 6 has been combing through the legislation since the special session and found relief from the state is slow going. The earliest rate reduction could come at the end of the month.
The state has earmarked $2 billion dollars for a fund to act as reinsurance, which is basically insurance for insurance companies if Florida had a catastrophic storm and they couldn’t pay out their claims.
Like many things, the cost of reinsurance has gone up, according to insurance companies.
The idea is, if insurers get reinsurance from the state that they don’t have to pay for, they will pass that savings along to consumers.
According to the legislation, insurers that participate in the Reinsurance to Assist Policyholders Program this year said they “shall reduce its rates to reflect the cost savings realized by participating in the program,” according to the legislation.
Insurers are to file their rate reductions no later than June 30, the property reform law states. Republicans who authored the bill, however, couldn’t say how much that reduction would be.
“I don’t have an exact number. That’s something that we’ll be able to see after those rate filings happen June 30,” Rep. Jay Trumbull said on the house floor during the special session.
But don’t expect much, according to Democrats. An amendment that required insurers to make at least a 5% reduction failed during the special session.
Financial Grants
Bronson Collins said he is interested in the My Safe Florida Home Program, which offers financial grants to property owners to retrofit their properties to make them less vulnerable to hurricane damage.
Grants are matched—for every dollar the homeowner spends, the state will spend two.
“In other words, if I spend $5,000, they’ll give me $10,000? Where do I sign up?” he asked.
But News 6 found homeowners can’t sign up because the program isn’t set up.
“The CFO’s top priority is to set up the program as quickly and efficiently as possible,” according to an email from Devin Galetta, the spokesperson for the Department of Financial Services.
The department anticipates the applicants will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis.
“I just wonder how much money they wasted having their special session,” Bronson Collins said. “I don’t think anything was accomplished.”
The first come, first served is key because the program only has so much funding. If all participants qualified for the maximum $10,000 grant, that would mean less than 12,000 homeowners could take advantage of it out of millions of property owners in the state.
The property insurance law is already being challenged in court.
A group of contractors have already filed a lawsuit challenging the portion of the law that limits attorney’s fees. Check back with News 6 for updates. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/investigators/2022/06/03/florida-property-owners-waiting-on-insurance-savings-after-special-session/ | 2022-06-03 17:34:37 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/investigators/2022/06/03/florida-property-owners-waiting-on-insurance-savings-after-special-session/ |
‘Insidious 5’ topples ‘Indiana Jones’ before ‘Mission: Impossible’ launches
(AP) - Indiana Jones’ reign atop the box office was short-lived. In its second weekend in theaters, the Disney release was usurped by another franchise fifth – " Insidious: The Red Door.” The horror film starring and directed by Patrick Wilson scared up $32.7 million in ticket sales from 3,188 theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
It did better than the last installment, “Insidious: The Last Key,” from 2018 and is the most any PG-13 horror movie has earned in its debut in the past two years.
“Insidious 5″ was not well reviewed — but modestly budgeted scary movies are often critic-proof when it comes to the box office. This Blumhouse-produced franchise starring Wilson and Rose Byrne began in 2011 under the direction of James Wan and has been responsible for over $570 million in global box office returns — and none of the films have cost more than $16 million to produce. Only the first movie received a “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes; The “Insidious” films more often garner sub 40% scores.
“The horror genre seems to have a never-ending allure for audiences,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. “Horror movies are profitable and they’re popular. Audiences love them and the accountants love them, too.”
It was shrewd of Sony to release “Insidious” on the weekend between two Hollywood tentpoles, in this case " Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny " and " Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part I,” which opens on Wednesday. But it was still a surprise that it was able to take No. 1 from something as well-known as “Indiana Jones.”
“It was a perfect release date,” Dergarabedian said. “This adds more complexity to the dynamics of the marketplace.”
“Indiana Jones 5″ took second place in its second weekend with $26.5 million in North America (down 56% from its opening), bringing its domestic total to $121.2 million. Globally it’s earned an estimated $247.9 million.
Indy had some other competition too, in “Sound of Freedom,” a child trafficking drama starring Jim Caveziel, that opened on July 4 and nearly boasted similar ticket sales for the day. “Sound of Freedom” was made and distributed by Angel Studios, a faith-based, crowdfunded operation, and managed to come in third place this weekend with an estimated $18.2 million from 2,850 theaters.
Brandon Purdie, head of theatrical distribution at Angel Studios, said in a statement that the numbers exceeded expectations and attributed its success to word of mouth.
“We’re deeply grateful to AMC, Cinemark, Regal, and all our theater partners — and their hard-working theater staff members — for working with us to accommodate the surging demand for this film and having the courage to release ‘Sound of Freedom’ during the busiest movie season of the year,” Purdie said.
Part of Angel Studios operation involved the ability to buy “pay it forward” tickets on behalf of others. On opening day, the studio estimated that $11.6 million came from direct box office and $2.7 million through the pay it forward option. The film has been popular among right-wing pundits too and has appeared on QAnon message boards.
" Joy Ride " also made its theatrical debut this weekend in 2,820 locations and earned an underwhelming $5.9 million to take sixth place behind “Elemental” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” The R-rated comedy directed and co-written by Adele Lim follows four friends on an international trip, played by Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu.
The modestly budgeted Lionsgate release got rave reviews out of the South by Southwest Film Festival and maintains a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but it didn’t motivate big crowds this weekend. Those that did go (58% women, 72% over age 25, according to PostTrak) gave it a B- CinemaScore, suggesting the movie did not meet expectations, which can sometimes be because of how the film was marketed. The hope is that word-of-mouth might help “Joy Ride” in the coming weeks.
“Joy Ride” is one of several raunchy, adult comedies in theaters this summer, including the Jennifer Lawrence movie “No Hard Feelings,” which earned $5.3 million in its third weekend, bringing its domestic total to $40.3 million.
In more limited release, “The Lesson,” a literary chamber thriller starring Richard E. Grant and Daryl McCormack, opened to $157,752 from 268 screens.
With the summer movie season at its midway point, there is concern about the overall box office, which is about on par with where it was at the same point in 2022.
“By now, we thought we’d be well ahead of last year,” Dergarabedian said. “But (movies like ‘Insidious’ and ‘Sound of Freedom) add more revenue to the bottom line that a lot of people didn’t expect. Sometimes surprises come along and that’s great for theaters.”
He added: “But we need the next few weeks to really overperform.”
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Insidious: The Red Door,” $32.7 million.
2. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” $26.5 million.
3. “Sound of Freedom,” $18.2 million.
4. “Elemental,” $9.6 million.
5.” Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” $8 million.
6. “Joy Ride,” $5.9 million.
7. “No Hard Feelings,” $5.3 million.
8. “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” $5 million.
9. “The Little Mermaid,” $3.5 million.
10. “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken,” $2.8 million.
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CHICAGO, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: FR), a leading fully integrated owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate, will host its first quarter 2023 results conference call on Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. CDT (11:00 a.m. EDT). The conference call may be accessed by dialing (888) 317-6003, passcode "First Industrial". The conference call will also be webcast live on the Investors page of the Company's website at www.firstindustrial.com.
First Industrial's first quarter 2023 results will be released on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 after market close and will be available on the Company's website.
A replay of the conference call will be available shortly after the call through Thursday, May 4, 2023. For the replay, please dial (877) 344-7529 and enter passcode 5382779. The replay will also be available on the Company's website.
About First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc.
First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: FR) is a leading fully integrated owner, operator, and developer of industrial real estate with a track record of providing industry-leading customer service to multinational corporations and regional customers. Across major markets in the United States, our local market experts manage, lease, buy, (re)develop, and sell bulk and regional distribution centers, light industrial, and other industrial facility types. In total, we own and have under development approximately 68.9 million square feet of industrial space as of December 31, 2022. For more information, please visit us at www.firstindustrial.com.
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Courtney Clenney has entered a plea in the murder case of her late boyfriend, Christian "Toby" Obumseli.
The OnlyFans and Instagram model, who professionally goes by Courtney Tailor, pleaded not guilty to one count of second-degree murder with a deadly weapon on Aug. 18, according to online court records reviewed by E! News. Per the records, Clenney submitted a written plea and her arraignment has been scheduled for Aug. 31, four days after she was denied bond in her first court appearance.
The 26-year-old is accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend Christian on April 3. According to the Miami-Dade Police Department, officers responded to a domestic violence incident around 5 p.m. local time and found Obumseli, 27, suffering from "an apparent knife wound" upon arrival.
He was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he died of his injury.
Clenney was arrested in Laupāhoehoe, Hawaii, on Aug. 10 in connection to Christian's murder. However, the model has maintained that she acted in self-defense, with her lawyer Frank Andrew Prieto telling E! News earlier this month that there was "clear evidence" Clenney had been defending herself on the night of the stabbing.
"Obumseli attacked her and choked her that evening; Courtney had no choice but to meet force with force," Prieto said in a statement issued on Aug. 10. "There is no doubt the two of them had a tumultuous relationship; moreover, there is evidence that Courtney was a victim of physical, emotional, and mental abuse at the hands of Obumseli."
Prieto added that Clenney was "was seeking treatment for her PTSD and related issues to this case" at the time of her arrest and "it is an absolute injustice to charge a victim of domestic violence and human trafficking with a crime."
"We will vigorously defend Courtney," his statement read, "and clear her of this unfounded and baseless charge."
On the other hand, Obumseli's family has disputed Clenney's self-defense claim and contends that he was the victim of domestic violence instead. In a statement shared on Aug. 12, Obumseli's brother, Jeffrey Obumseli, alleged that he was "unarmed when Clenney brutally stabbed him in the chest from behind."
"I'd truly give anything in the world to have Toby alive today," the statement read. "He didn't deserve this and no one else does."
Since her arrest, Clenney has since been extradited back to Florida, where she remains in jail.
E! News reached out to Clenney's attorney for comment but did not hear back. | https://www.eonline.com/news/1344088/onlyfans-model-courtney-clenney-pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-boyfriend-christian-toby-obumseli | 2022-08-30 05:09:33 | 1 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1344088/onlyfans-model-courtney-clenney-pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-boyfriend-christian-toby-obumseli |
Two suspects who allegedly planned to attack NYC synagogues arraigned
Two suspects who allegedly planned to attack New York City synagogues have been arraigned, CBS New York’s Lisa Rozner reports.
Police say 21-year-old Christopher Brown, of Long Island, was found with an 8-inch knife and high-capacity magazine when he was arrested Friday night in Penn Station.
Also arrested with him was 22-year-old Matthew Mahrer, of Manhattan, whose family reportedly is Jewish, including his grandfather, who is a Holocaust survivor.
Criminal complaints against both men cite Twitter messages that warned early last week, “Big moves being made on Friday,” and then Thursday: “Gonna ask a priest if I should become a husband or shoot up a synagogue and die.”
Brown’s family told CBS New York exclusively that he’s schizophrenic.
“He’s not a bad person. He’s just very sick, you know, and he needs help,” Brown’s sister said.
Police say Brown told them, “Matt is one of my followers. I have Nazi paraphernalia in my house. I think it is really cool. I also operate a white supremacist Twitter group.”
Mahrer, who faces charges of criminal possession of a weapon, reportedly has bipolar disorder.
Attorneys for both suspects say they have no criminal records.
New York City synagogues such as Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan e-mailed congregants reminding them “security has been and will remain vigilant keeping us physically safe. … Our emotional safety will depend on our commitment to addressing every instance of anti-Jewish sentiment we encounter.”
Rabbi Joshua Stanton, of the East End Temple, agrees.
“Unfortunately, each and every time there’s an attack or a threat, we revisit the issue of security,” Stanton told Rozner. “This feels like a moment in the history of our country when we can’t have bystanders. This is a moment to be an upstander.”
As for the thwarted attack, the Manhattan District Attorney specify what had been targeted.
Prosecutors asked that both suspects are being held without bail and are due in court Wednesday. | https://www.wsgw.com/two-suspects-who-allegedly-planned-to-attack-nyc-synagogues-arraigned/ | 2022-11-21 14:05:19 | 1 | https://www.wsgw.com/two-suspects-who-allegedly-planned-to-attack-nyc-synagogues-arraigned/ |
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A vote to impeach former President Donald Trump led to an outcome Washington Democrats had unsuccessfully sought for years: the ousting of long-time Republican U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler from her seat representing the southwest corner of the state.
Now an open seat heading into November, the 3rd Congressional District is a key race for both parties as the House is up for grabs amid an environment of increasing polarization.
Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Trump-endorsed Republican Joe Kent advanced out of the state’s crowded top two August primary that left the moderate Republican incumbent in third place. Herrera Beutler, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, has not endorsed a candidate in the race, and has not said how she plans to vote.
Where the 22% of voters who voted for Herrera Beutler in the primary fall in the general will be key for who ultimately prevails, said Mark Stephan, an associate professor of political science at Washington State University-Vancouver.
“Even though Republicans continue to dominate the 3rd District, they are split in their perspectives,” he said. “This is a Republican district and it will be for a while. But there’s this small sliver of chance for the Democrats now.”
The former president garnered just 38% of the statewide vote in 2020 but narrowly won southwest Washinton’s 3rd District with 50.6% of the vote. In comparison, Herrera Beutler captured more than 56% in her race that year.
With an “America First” Republican candidate and a rural Democrat now the choice before voters, Stephan said “the polarization of the rest of the country can be visualized in the 3rd District.”
A recent debate in Vancouver, the largest city in the district, showed the vast difference between the two candidates, with Gluesenkamp Perez saying Kent is too extreme for the district and Kent countering that she would be a rubber stamp vote for Democrats .
Kent, a former Green Beret who is a regular on conservative cable and podcasts, has called for the impeachment of President Joe Biden and an investigation into the 2020 election. He’s also called to defund the FBI after the search on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home for classified documents.
He railed against COVID shutdowns and vaccine mandates at the debate, calling the vaccine “experimental gene therapy” and saying Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, “must be held accountable.”
“Does anyone else here feel like they just spent a month on YouTube?” Gluesenkamp Perez asked the crowd, saying that Kent’s comments are “doing nothing to heal our country.”
Kent responded that the loss of his wife, a Navy cryptologist who was killed by a suicide bomber in Syria during a mission to fight the Islamic State in 2019, was “because our ruling class, Republicans and Democrats, consistently lied to the American people to keep us engaged in wars abroad.”
“That is why I have a skepticism of our federal government,” he said.
Gluesenkamp Perez — who co-owns an auto shop with her husband just across the border in Portland, Oregon — said that as a small business owner who lives in a rural part of the district, she is more in line with voters. She supports abortion access and policies to counter climate change, but also is a gun owner who said she opposes an assault rifle ban, though she does support raising the age of purchase for such guns to 21.
“I am not your typical Democrat,” she told the crowd. “We have got to get people in Congress who fix things again, not people that are out starting flame wars.”
Kent said Gluesenkamp Perez “will vote in lock step” with Democrats.
“How’s your 401k doing right now, how’s your future look for your kids? Very bleak,” he said. “We cannot have two more years of the Democrats at the helm. I’m going there to be a check and a balance on Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden.”
Kent has had to address connections to right-wing extremists throughout his campaign, something Gluesenkamp Perez pointed to during the debate, saying that he wanted to ban immigration “to ensure a white majority.”
“This nonsense about me being a white nationalist is absolutely despicable,” Kent countered. “I fought for this country for over 20 years, I placed my life in the hands of minorities and people of every single race and creed and sexuality, and they’ve placed their lives in my hands.”
Ron Moon, 79, attended the debate wearing a red “Fire Pelosi” hat with a Joe Kent button attached. Moon said he had voted for Herrera Beutler in previous elections, calling her the “lesser of two evils.”
Her impeachment vote following the attack on the U.S. Capitol was the last straw: “That was the end,” he said. “I never again thought about supporting her.”
Nearby, 70-year-old Nancy Everly was wearing a shirt supporting Gluesenkamp Perez and a necklace of Scrabble tiles that spelled out “Vote.”
“I have to support a candidate who is pro-choice,” she said. “We can’t go backwards.”
Ballots will be mailed by Oct. 21 to the state’s nearly 4.8 million registered voters, including the more than 499,000 in the 3rd Congressional District. Because Washington is a vote-by-mail state and ballots just need to be in by Election Day, it often takes days to learn final results in close races as ballots arrive at county election offices throughout the week. | https://www.kron4.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-impeachment-vote-gives-dems-chance-at-washington-house-seat/ | 2022-10-12 20:00:40 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-impeachment-vote-gives-dems-chance-at-washington-house-seat/ |
This story was adapted from Episode 5 of Louder Than A Riot, Season 2. To hear more about Kim Osorio and her sexual harassment trial against The Source, stream the full episode or subscribe to the Louder Than A Riot podcast.
The Source was a hip-hop monument.
While the current media landscape makes it hard to imagine a single publication — printed or otherwise — holding sway over an entire culture, for more than a decade, no rapper, label, show or network, was bigger than The Source.
Starting out in 1988 as a newsletter out of a college dorm room, hip-hop's longest-running periodical built its following by writing about rap with respect, and an air of prestige. By the turn of the century, the name had weight of its own to throw around. Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, it helped launch the careers of The Notorious B.I.G, Jay-Z, Nas, Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown and more. It shipped regional sounds across the country to a national readership and the viewers of its very own, sometimes-televised awards show. For rap nerds, there was a high that came from the pages: the smooth artifice of the ads, the bluntness of the op-eds, the iconic cover stories and the reviews section that made "5 mics in The Source" one of the most coveted cosigns. The power held by The Source represented one of those rare occasions in rap when the pen is just as mighty as the tongue.
That's how Kim Osorio felt about the magazine in the years before she worked there.
A Bronx native with confidence, writing chops and a deep love of hip-hop music to offer, Osorio entered The Source's offices as an employee for the first time in 2000, ready to step into her dream job. Between 2000 and 2002, Osorio landed interviews and cover stories with the likes of Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan, Snoop Dogg, Trick Daddy, Trina and more. But as she worked her way up the masthead, becoming the magazine's first woman editor-in-chief by 2002, she saw the gloss and prestige of the pages fade fast. What Osorio and many other women dealt with behind the scenes was a standard far from gold — and when she called out those dangerous double standards with a lawsuit, she realized just how grimy things could get.
In the spring of 2005, Osorio sued The Source magazine, along with its co-owners, Dave Mays and Raymond 'Benzino' Scott, for gender discrimination, sexual harassment and hostile work environment, retaliation, defamation. The lawsuit and trial that followed was a moment where those in hip-hop who leverage their power were put on notice. It was a moment where Kim Osorio was breaking one of hip-hop's unwritten rules. This was a piece of hip-hop history steeped in misogynoir that Louder Than A Riot found essential to reexamine. But as we attempted to tell the story, the actions of one person in it ironically reinforced one of hip-hop's most rigid rules, the same rule Osorio attempted to combat with that suit almost 20 years ago: If you see something, say nothing.
Business As Usual
From the outside, The Source in the 1990s was the most important publication in hip-hop: bold, divisive and influential. But internally, it was something less glamorous and cutting edge: an entrenched boys' club culture that normalized sexism. Men on staff would slap women's butts, buy inappropriate "gifts" for them and tack pornographic images to their cubicles.
Aliya King Neil, a former staffer who worked alongside Osorio, says that working around this culture was an unavoidable part of her routine, dictating how she moved. "Backpack, baggy shorts, baggy pants, Timbs. I can't look like a guy obviously, but I'm trying to be tomboyish," Neil remembers. "It's as deep as rounded shoulders when I'm not a rounded shoulders person. [...] So I give off this aura of, non-threatening, still cute, and dressed down and quiet. Just be quiet."
The boys' club also required women in the office to share information on the low.
"They were telling me, 'OK, do this, do that. Try to catch him in the hall,'" Neil says of one male staffer in another department whom she found too handsy. "My first step was to make sure that I left the door open when I came in. My second step was to take a buddy. My third thing was, 'Hey, I gotta go to dude's in two minutes. If you don't see me coming back to my office, come get me.' "
Osorio became the magazine's editor-in-chief in 2002, but even then, she wasn't immune. According to many women who worked at The Source, the toxicity flowed top down from the magazine's co-owners, Raymond "Benzino" Scott and Dave Mays. Scott was an active aggressor, Mays passively let it all happen. He said nothing.
"Dave was also almost at Benzino's mercy," said Khary Turner, a former freelancer for The Source, when describing Scott. "It seemed like Dave was almost in an unenviable position. He was the guy who had to carry out Benzino's will, as it related to The Source, at least."
The power Benzino wielded over Dave editorially mirrored his office behavior.
"He could be erratic. He could be combative," remembers Turner of Benzino. "Reputation wise, he was a street cat, you know, he was hard and he had a large crew. And Benzino was not, he wasn't a code switcher. In hip-hop, as an artist, it was appropriate. But in The Source, it wasn't always appropriate."
As the lawsuit would later spell out in detail, Osorio alleges that Scott would regularly abuse his power — snapping womens underwear, touching staffers inappropriately, making lewd comments — while Mays let it rock.
After Osorio was promoted, Scott's behavior toward her changed. Osorio testified that Scott repeatedly asked her about her sex life and that he volunteered information about his. Osorio also wrote about Scott's badgering in her book, Straight from the Source: An Expose from the Former Editor in Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible: "It's not that I was ashamed to tell Ray whom I had been with. It was that I knew exactly what he wanted to know and more importantly, I knew that he would use it against me."
According to court transcripts and Osorio's book, one night as she and Scott were leaving The Source offices, he made a move on her. She testified that he propositioned her in the elevator and asked her to take a trip to Atlantic City with him. "We would be the king and queen of The Source," he told her. That same night, Scott called her at home repeatedly, even though she'd never given him her number.
After Osorio dodged him that night, Scott and Mays spread gossip that Osorio was sleeping with rappers, calling her credibility into question because of it. "I wasn't surprised that both Ray and Dave had been talking about me behind my back," Osorio wrote. "I have spoken to former male editors of the magazine who were never asked the same questions. So why was my situation so different? Why the f*** are they so obsessed with my sex life?"
Feeling uncomfortable, Osorio went to an attorney, who advised her to file a complaint with the HR department. Osorio built up the courage to email an official complaint in February 2005. "Once you hit send, it's no coming back. She knew it," said Osorio's friend, Tia Bowman, who helped her carefully word her complaint and was on the phone with her when Osorio hit send. After two weeks of radio silence, Osorio got an angry phone call from the two men, ordering her to retract her complaint. When she refused, they unceremoniously fired her.
All Falls Down
In April 2005, Osorio filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, then sued The Source and its leadership. As news of the lawsuit spread through the industry, Osorio's peers had mixed reactions. Some fellow writers started a petition to show public support for Osorio; others covered the trial with snickering vulturism. Even those who were close to her questioned why she would take the risk.
"As sad as it is, my first thought was, 'Whatever happened, was it that deep that you now wanna go through a whole thing?" Neil remembers. "I want to make it clear that I'm talking about my 25-year-old self, and I'm 50. ... There is not a single woman in this industry who can say, 'I never had to deal with any of this stuff, and if I did, I always did X, Y and Z.' No, you didn't. You had to deal with it, and you didn't always do something about it. So my thought was, 'Is this what it had to be?' "
The consequences of going public were not subtle. Scott gave interviews disparaging Osorio's name in the months that followed, calling her a 'slut' and 'incompetent.' In a statement to AllHipHop.com denying the claims, Mays attempted to discredit her as promiscuous: "It is a fact that Ms. Osorio had sexual relations with a number of high profile rap artists during her employment as editor-in-chief."
The trial began in New York's Southern District Courthouse in Manhattan in October 2006. Because of the high profile name-dropping in the suit, The New York Post ran headlines that read "'Source' Of Sex Harass" and paparazzi greeted Osorio at the steps of the courthouse the first morning.
Louder reviewed hundreds of pages of court transcripts, which reveal witnesses corroborating Osorio's story. The head of human resources at The Source, Julie Als, ignored multiple complaints, and even referred to her own dynamic with Scott as being like 'Ike and Tina Turner.' At one point, Als herself testified that she never investigated a sexual harassment claim during her time at The Source; she had little training and received none while she worked at the magazine.
A previous sexual harassment allegation, filed to the EEOC by photographer Janene Outlaw in 1997, before Als' tenure, pointed to an established pattern of behavior on Scott's part. Outlaw, who worked at the magazine just under a year, testified that Scott gave her lingerie on Valentine's Day, hit on her in her hotel room during a work trip to Boston and implied it would benefit her to hook up with him. Though investigators stopped short of saying Scott harassed Outlaw, they wrote a memo insisting he refrain from sexual relationships with any employees, even if consensual.
Osorio's lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, pointed to the elevator incident as the final straw following ongoing misconduct. In their defense, The Source's lawyers weaponized the perception of hip-hop in order to shift complicity onto Osorio. In a particularly pointed moment, they drew a comparison between the song "P**** (Real Good)," which Osorio had written about, and a comment Scott had made in front of Osorio and another woman at the magazine, saying that the singer Ashanti had a "fat p****." One lawyer said of Osorio, "She chose to work in hip-hop. The Source is not Martha Stewart Living."
Flipping the script on the complainant in this way is a legal tactic, common in sexual harassment cases, known as DARVO: Deny the accusations, Attack the victim, Reverse the Victim and Offender. During his testimony, Mays rationalized the environment of The Source, suggesting the workplace culture reflected the audience: "We had to understand that we were serving a 65 to 80 percent male readership." The lawyers for Scott and Mays used some of their closing arguments to claim that Osorio wasn't fired for the complaint but for other reasons: "Her inability to manage the job. Her insubordinate reaction to constructive criticism. Her poor leadership. Her failure to meet deadlines on a consistent basis, and her repeated failure to follow the directions that she received from Dave and Ray on the editorial content of the magazine."
In his closing remarks, Thompson argued that no one deserves to be harassed at work, no matter the workplace. "Because she worked at The Source magazine, they think that she gave up her rights as a person, as a woman? And if you believe that, then you have to agree that the female editor-in-chief of Victoria's Secret shouldn't be able to object to any vulgar comment, to any sexual propositions in the workplace, because she puts out a catalog every year with women who are scantily clad wearing underwear." He closed his summation with an appeal to posterity: "The eyes of a hip-hop music industry are upon you. You have a great opportunity here ... to impose standards on that industry, and standards on other parts of the music industry. You have a chance to teach them something about dignity. You have a chance to teach them something about respect."
After a trial that took about two and a half weeks, the jury reached a verdict on Oct 23, 2006. Six men and two women found that Osorio's firing was indeed retaliation for the HR email, and that Scott had defamed her in interviews after she'd been fired. However, the claims of working in a hostile environment and being the victim of sexual harassment and gender discrimination were dismissed. During reporting for this story, legal experts told Louder that the official standard for proving harassment — the severe or pervasive standard — was so high, it meant a certain level of workplace sexual harassment was effectively legal in New York State at the time (and continues to be on a federal level).
In spite of the multi-million dollar judgment in her favor, amounting to one of the largest judgements in the history of the state of New York, the dismissal of those latter claims meant what Osorio had endured was likely to continue in the culture without repercussion. As Neil puts it, "I don't think anything changed. All the things that happened to her in that suit happened the next day, and the day after that. Maybe now it's a little bit better, but that suit — I think [it] put people on notice, but I don't know if it changed behavior."
My Time Now
Nearly two decades after Osorio's case, the practice of calling attention to sexually inappropriate behavior in professional circles has a name. But the Me Too movement, which infiltrated almost every major industry in 2017, actually dates back to 2006 — the same year as The Source trial — when activist Tarana Burke coined the phrase. And from Burke's perspective, even after a worldwide reckoning, hip-hop's most powerful have remained largely unchallenged.
"I've heard stories for years," Burke says. "I have friends who dated rappers or people in the industry and were horribly mistreated. None of that came forward. And I think it's because they didn't see space for Black women or women of color. They didn't see an opening in our community, quite frankly."
Burke envisioned "Me Too" as a tool of solidarity, a way for the young Black women she'd seen survive sexual abuse to take back some agency. Though the phrase would come to be more widely associated with a handful of white celebrities, Burke says she's less disturbed by how her words were co-opted, and more by the missed opportunity Osorio's lawsuit represents — a moment when hip-hop could have been ahead of the curve on a major shift in society.
"I think people need to recognize that winning the court case is not the thing, stepping forward is the thing." Burke says. "You had this sister, who was seeped in the most deeply masculine, sexist, macho, male-driven thing that there is in entertainment and culture, have the wherewithal to step forward and say, 'Nah, I'm not standing for this.' [This] is a predecessor to, and a catalyst for, the cultural moment that we saw happen in 2017."
In hip-hop media's current ecosystem, The Source doesn't hold nearly as much power as it did two decades ago. In its wake, other publications have come into prominence, some of which have engendered the same dangerous behavior. Staffers past and present of Complex Media, The Fader and OkayAfrica have publicly aired out men in positions of power for sexual harassment, coercion, racism and gender-based discrimination. But when asked to go on record for this story about the current state of harassment in music media today, ultimately, none of the former employees of those companies would speak — due to ongoing settlement negotiations and, in some cases, restrictive non-disclosure agreements. Organizations such as New York's Sexual Harassment Working Group are actively challenging the the legal legitimacy of silencing survivors with a campaign to overturn NDAs as part of settlement agreements, but progress is slow.
Kim Osorio initially agreed to be interviewed for this story. Louder Than A Riot reached out to both Raymond Scott and Dave Mays for comment; both declined. More precisely, Scott asked, "Is there a check involved?" and refused to talk otherwise. Mays on the other hand, responded via his lawyer, informing Louder that he had sent Osorio a cease and desist letter, threatening to sue her if her statements in this podcast breached her settlement agreement with him.
Whether a claim is legitimate or not, just the threat of filing a lawsuit can intimidate someone. Ultimately, after receiving the cease and desist letter, Osorio requested to have all of her interviews for this episode pulled, a request Louder respected. Even with Osorio's courage to speak out about the toxicity in hip-hop in 2005 and a continued fight in the space since, the cost of speaking out this time proved to be too high, which means the rule of "see something, say nothing" has never been more true. Misogynoir is always there to show that it's safer to keep quiet.
"If we really loved hip-hop, like accountability is a part of love," Burke said. "If we really loved hip-hop, then we would hold ourselves accountable. We would hold it accountable. Those two things can happen at the same time. We don't have to tear hip-hop down and hold it accountable. That's how you actually build it up."
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Hackers accessed data on some American Airlines customers
DALLAS (AP) — Hackers gained access to personal information of some customers and employees at American Airlines. The airline said Tuesday that information on a “very small number” of people was compromised after a phishing attack that breached some employee email accounts. American Airlines says it has no indication that the attackers have misused any of the personal information. It won’t say how many people’s information was compromised by the attack. American says it is putting additional safeguards in place to prevent similar breaches in the future. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/09/20/hackers-accessed-data-on-some-american-airlines-customers/ | 2022-09-20 17:16:47 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/09/20/hackers-accessed-data-on-some-american-airlines-customers/ |
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A drive-by shooting killed one person and wounded five others early Sunday in the south Louisiana city of Lafayette.
Police said unidentified people traveling in a vehicle began shooting at people in another vehicle around 3 a.m. at an intersection of two major roads just west of downtown Lafayette.
Police arrived to find five people shot, one of whom later died. The other four were taken to hospitals. A sixth person later arrived at a local hospital with a gunshot wound was in critical condition early Sunday.
Investigating police did not name the person who died, or any suspects in the shooting. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/drive-by-shooting-in-louisiana-shooting-kills-1-17998851.php | 2023-04-30 17:25:49 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/drive-by-shooting-in-louisiana-shooting-kills-1-17998851.php |
Bed Bath & Beyond's list of store closings
Bed Bath & Beyond shares continue to dwindle one day after the home retailer told investors and customers it may not be able to continue operating.
Its stock, now trading in the $1 range, has lost nearly 90% of its value over the past 12 months.
On Thursday in a company update, CEO Sue Gove disclosed the mounting challenges.
BED BATH & BEYOND INTERIM CEO TO STAY IN POST FOR AT LEAST A YEAR - SOURCE
"While the Company continues to pursue actions and steps to improve its cash position and mitigate any potential liquidity shortfall, based on recurring losses and negative cash flow from operations for the nine months ended November 26, 2022, as well as current cash and liquidity projections, the Company has concluded that there is substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern," she said.
In September, the company released a list of 56 stores that will close. At the time, the company was putting together a turnaround plan, which has since fallen flat based on the latest update.
Inquiries by FOX Business to the company about whether this list would be expanding were not immediately returned.
Below is the full list of affected store locations by state as of the September update.
Arizona
- Phoenix: 34750 N. North Valley Parkway
- Tucson: 5225 South Calle Santa Cruz
California
- Burbank: 201 East Magnolia Blvd.
- Lakewood: 75 Lakewood Center Mall
- Larkspur: 2601 Larkspur Landing Circle
- Marina: 117 General Stilwell Drive
- Palmdale: 39421 10th Street West
- Redding: 1140 Hilltop Drive
- San Leandro: 15555 East 14th Street, Suite 240
- Santee: 9918 Mission Gorge Road
Connecticut
- Stamford: Ridgeway Shopping Center, 2275 Summer Street
- Waterford: 850 Hartford Turnpike
Florida
- Sanford: 111 Towne Center Blvd.
- Sunrise: 12801 W. Sunrise Blvd., Anchor C
Georgia
- Snellville: Presidential Market Center, 1905 Scenic Hwy Suite 5000
- Suwanee: 2623 Peachtree Pkwy
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Illinois
- Bourbonnais: 2056 North State Route 50
- Carbondale: University Mall, 1265 E. Main Street
- Fairview Heights: Fairview Center, 6611 N. Illinois
- Gurnee: 6132 Grand Ave., Gurnee Mills Mall
- Joliet: 2850 Plainfield Road
- Schaumburg: 915 East Golf Road
Iowa
- Dubuque: 2475 N.W. Arterial
- Waterloo: 1522 Flammang Drive
Louisiana
- Bossier City: 2900 Meadow Creek Drive
Massachusetts
- Dorchester: 8B Allstate Road, Suite 1
- Milford: 230 Fortune Boulevard
- Seekonk: 35 Highland Avenue
BED BATH & BEYOND APPOINTS INTERIM CFO
Michigan
- Chesterfield: 50551 Waterside Drive
- Farmington Hills: 31075 Orchard Lake Road
- Northville: Northville Retail Center, 17223 Haggerty Road
- Walker: Green Ridge Square, 3410 Alpine Avenue NW
- White Lake Twp.: 9050 Highland Road
Minnesota
- St. Cloud: 3959 Second Street South
New Jersey
- Flanders: 30 International Drive, Suite 1
- Manalapan: 13 Route 9 South
- Paramus: 34 E Ridgewood Ave
New York
- Farmingdale: 251 Airport Plaza Blvd.
- Middletown: 470 Route 211 East, Suite 3
- Mt. Vernon: 500 East Sandford Blvd.
- New Hartford: 4805 Commercial Drive
- Plattsburgh: 73 Centre Drive, Suite 100
Nevada
- Sparks: 195 Los Altos Pkwy
North Carolina
- Charlotte: The Arboretum, 3413 Pineville-Matthews Road
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Ohio
- Cincinnati: 3681 Stone Creek Blvd.
- Hamilton: Bridgewater Falls, 3451 Princeton Road
- Perrysburg: 10027 Fremont Pike
- Sandusky: 4020 Milan Road Unit# 910
Oregon
- Beaverton: 2780 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
Pennsylvania
- Wynnewood: 70 E. Wynnewood Boulevard
Puerto Rico:
- Bayamon Plaza Del Sol, 725 West Main Avenue
Texas
- Port Arthur: Central Mall 3100 Highway 365 Suite 114
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Bed Bath & Beyond said it expects to report net sales of approximately $1.259 billion compared to $1.878 billion from the same time last year, reflecting lower customer traffic and reduced levels of inventory availability.
MARK TEPPER WARNS OF A ‘RUDE AWAKENING’ FOR THE MARKETS
And it anticipates a net loss of approximately $385.8 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, including impairment charges of approximately $100 million, compared to a net loss of $276.4 million from the same time last year.
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(NEXSTAR) – Despite recent rounds of forgiveness for thousands of borrowers, nearly 43 million Americans are responsible for roughly $1.6 trillion in federal student loans.
The Biden administration has indicated that they intended to move forward with forgiving at least a portion of federal student loans. Late last month, President Joe Biden confirmed that while he “is not considering $50,000” in forgiveness per borrower, he is “considering dealing with some debt reduction.”
Student loan forgiveness in any form would undoubtedly impact borrowers, but especially those living in certain states.
Reviewing data from the Federal Student Aid office, the Education Data Initiative found which states have the highest amount of federal student loan debt and the average debt per borrower in each.
As seen in the interactive map below, states with larger populations – California, Texas, Florida, and New York – have the highest totals of federal student loan debt.
Residents of California owe a cumulative $141.8 billion in federal student loan debt as of December 2021. Texas residents aren’t far behind with $120 billion.
On the lower end, residents in Wyoming owe the least at $1.7 billion. The next-lowest is Alaska, with a total federal student loan debt of $2.3 billion.
Indiana ranks 39th, according to the data, with a cumulative student debt of nearly $30 billion and an average debt load of $32,874 per borrower.
The table below shows the states with the most federal student loan debt, on the left, compared to states that owe the least, on the right.
While those dollar amounts may seem vast, they're less overwhelming when broken down by the average amount owed per borrower in each state.
A borrower in the District of Columbia owes, on average, nearly $55,000 in federal student loans based on data from the Federal Student Aid office. Maryland borrowers came in second, owing an average of nearly $43,000 in federal student loans.
The interactive map below shows the average student loan debt per borrower in each state.
Borrowers in North Dakota have the lowest average student loan debt at around $28,600. This makes it the only state where the average debt is less than $30,000. Iowa borrowers have the second-lowest debt at roughly $30,800.
Below are the five states with the highest average student loan debt as well as those with the lowest.
Overall, the Education Data Initiative found the District of Columbia carries the highest number of indebted student borrowers per capita with 17.2% of residents in debt. Hawaii has the lowest rate, with 8.4% of its residents in debt.
Under the Biden administration, roughly $17 billion in federal student loan debt has been canceled for some 725,000 borrowers. Last week, the Department of Education announced another $238 million in student loan relief for roughly 28,000 borrowers defrauded by Marinello Schools of Beauty.
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LONDON – The funeral of the only monarch most Britons have known involves the biggest security operation London has ever seen.
Mayor Sadiq Khan says Monday’s state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II is an “unprecedented" security challenge, with hundreds of thousands of people packing central London and a funeral guest list of 500 emperors, kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers and other leaders from around the world.
“It’s been decades since this many world leaders were in one place,” said Khan. “This is unprecedented ... in relation to the various things that we’re juggling.”
“There could be bad people wanting to cause damage to individuals or to some of our world leaders,” Khan told The Associated Press. “So we are working incredibly hard — the police, the security services and many, many others — to make sure this state funeral is as successful as it can be.”
Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said the “hugely complex” policing operation is the biggest in the London force’s history, surpassing the London 2012 Olympics.
More than 10,000 police officers will be on duty Monday, with London bobbies supplemented by reinforcements from all of Britain’s 43 police forces. Hundreds of volunteer marshals and members of the armed forces will also act as stewards along the processional route.
They are just the most visible part of a security operation that is being run from a high-tech control center near Lambeth Bridge, not far from Parliament.
Street drains and garbage bins are being searched and sealed. On Monday there will be police spotters on rooftops, sniffer dogs on the streets, marine officers on the River Thames and mounted police on horseback.
Flying drones over central London has been temporarily banned, and Heathrow Airport is grounding scores of flights so that aircraft noise does not disturb the funeral service.
Authorities face the challenge of keeping 500 world leaders safe, without ruffling too many diplomatic feathers. Presidents, prime ministers and royalty will gather offsite before being taken by bus to the abbey — though an exception is being made for U.S. President Joe Biden, who is expected to arrive in his armored limousine, known as The Beast.
Another challenge is the sheer size of the crowds expected to gather around Westminster Abbey and along the route the coffin will travel after the funeral, past Buckingham Palace to Hyde Park. From there it will be taken by hearse about 20 miles (32 kilometers) to Windsor, where another 2,000 police officers will be on duty.
The queen is due to be interred in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle alongside her husband Prince Philip, who died last year aged 99.
Police are deploying more than 22 miles (36 kilometers) of barriers in central London to control the crowds, and transit bosses are preparing for jam-packed stations, buses and subway trains as 1 million people flood the ceremonial heart of London. Subways will run later than normal and train companies are adding extra services to help get people home.
While many will be mourning the queen, support for the monarchy is far from universal. Police have already drawn criticism for arresting several people who staged peaceful protests during events related to the queen’s death and the accession of King Charles III.
Cundy said it had been made clear to officers that “people have a right to protest.”
“Our response here in London will be proportionate, it will be balanced, and officers will only be taking action where it is absolutely necessary,” he said.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley said the goal was to keep the event safe, “and try to do it in as unobtrusive a way as possible, because this is obviously a solemn occasion.”
Dean of Westminster David Hoyle, who will conduct the funeral service in the 900-year-old abbey, said preparations were going smoothly — despite the occasional security-related glitch.
“There was a wonderful moment when I had flower arrangers waiting in the abbey, and no flowers, because, quite properly, the police didn’t recognize what the van was and the flowers were sent back,” he said.
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Novartis commits additional $17.7 million to create Clinical Trial Centers of Excellence at Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, bringing total planned grants to $50 million over 10 years
Morehouse School of Medicine to initiate first clinical trial at Center of Excellence with Novartis in LDL-C management, key to addressing highest coronary heart disease mortality rate among African Americans
Sanofi and Merck sign on to Beacon of Hope to conduct clinical trials through the four Historically Black Medical School clinical trial Centers of Excellence
Novartis offers Beacon of Hope Summer Fellowship program at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research to train students for careers in drug discovery and clinical research
EAST HANOVER, N.J., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novartis and the Novartis US Foundation are proud to announce significant progress on Beacon of Hope, our 10-year collaboration with 26 Historically Black Colleges, Universities (HBCUs) and Medical Schools, Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), Coursera and the National Medical Association, to co-create programs that address the root causes of disparities in health and education, and create greater diversity, equity, inclusion and trust across the research and development ecosystem.
"Within one year of launching this unique collaboration, we have made tangible progress in tackling social determinants of health like education and discrimination, and creating enduring solutions for increasing diversity and inclusion in clinical trials," said Patrice Matchaba, MD, Head of US Corporate Responsibility at Novartis and President of the Novartis US Foundation. "Last year we issued a call to action to other like-minded companies and organizations to join us in creating this paradigm shift in health equity, and we are honored and humbled that Merck and Sanofi have answered the call."
New collaborations to increase diversity in clinical trial participants and investigators
Novartis and the Novartis US Foundation are working with Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science to create Clinical Trial Centers of Excellence at each school to conduct trials by investigators and trial managers of color among participants from underrepresented populations to more accurately represent the US population and improve health outcomes.
The three new clinical trial Centers of Excellence will be established with grants totaling $17.7 million over 10 years from the Novartis US Foundation, bringing our commitment in Beacon of Hope initiatives to more than $50 million over 10 years.
Howard, Meharry and Charles Drew will work together with the Clinical Trial Center of Excellence already established at Morehouse School of Medicine to form a consortium under the Beacon of Hope. Together they will collectively strengthen clinical trial capabilities and improve the quality and inclusivity of clinical trials to contribute to improved health outcomes for communities of color and help rebuild their trust in the healthcare system.
"Howard University College of Medicine plays a critical role in the pursuit of groundbreaking research that significantly impacts health outcomes for the African American community who have historically been overlooked for practices like clinical trials that are integral to medical research," said Howard University President Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick. "By making it our mission to encourage research that has a particular impact on African Americans, and especially that which impacts overall public health, Howard University College of Medicine continues to serve as a leader and innovator in our community. This contribution to the creation of a Clinical Trial Center of Excellence will inform the work of Howard's National Research Center on Health Disparities allowing us to create robust collaborations with pharmaceutical and biomedical companies that lead to better-informed solutions to some of the world's most challenging public health issues. We are tremendously grateful to Novartis and the Novartis US Foundation for partnering with us to realize this vision."
"The Novartis team has truly risen to the occasion to accelerate diversity in clinical trials and the research and development ecosystem across our nation," added Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, President and CEO of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. "We are grateful for the many critical next steps this initiative will take, which include fostering new groundwork for discovery through new clinical trial Centers of Excellence and increased access to resources to train the next generation of Black health care leaders at the four HBCU medical schools."
"Health equity isn't just a goal, it's a right," declared Dr. David M. Carlisle, President and CEO of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles. "But like so many rights we now enjoy, sheparding it from idea to movement to reality takes a concerted effort, unyielding will, and strong partnerships. That's why we value our relationship with Novartis, the Novartis US Foundation, and all other Beacon of Hope participants as we work together towards a healthier tomorrow for everyone."
Pharmaceutical companies working together to run trials with the Centers of Excellence
Merck and Sanofi have signed on to the Beacon of Hope to run their clinical trials through the four Clinical Trial Centers of Excellence.
"We as an industry have an obligation to address health disparities through our research and development. To make sure all patients can benefit from our medicines, we must understand how these medicines work in diverse populations, especially in groups that have been historically underrepresented in clinical trials," said Dietmar Berger, Chief Medical Officer, Global Head of Development at Sanofi. "We are excited to join the Beacon of Hope collaboration and look forward to working with the Clinical Trial Centers of Excellence to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in our clinical trials."
"Merck is proud to participate in a collaboration focused on improving enrollment of underrepresented people into clinical trials with the common goal of ensuring these trials appropriately reflect the diversity of the patients we serve worldwide," added Andy Lee, Merck's head of global clinical trial operations.
Morehouse COE initiates first clinical trial
Morehouse School of Medicine's Clinical Trial Center of Excellence is now operational and will initiate its first study with Novartis on a clinical trial evaluating a cholesterol management pathway in patients on maximally tolerated statin therapy who have also experienced a recent acute coronary syndrome event. The Center of Excellence is evaluating additional Novartis clinical trials including cardiovascular, breast cancer and prostate cancer trials, and soon will begin to evaluate Merck and Sanofi clinical trials as well.
"Morehouse School of Medicine is proud to be the first Historically Black Medical School to establish and operate a Beacon of Hope Clinical Trial Center of Excellence. Through this collaboration, MSM has expanded our longstanding leadership in the creation and advancement of global health equity," said Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG, President and CEO of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. "Beacon of Hope opens new doors for Morehouse School of Medicine students and researchers, who are innovating new treatments for chronic, acute, and emerging medical conditions to directly improve the health and wellbeing of patients and communities now and for generations to come."
Improving access to high-quality education and promising jobs
The Beacon of Hope collaboration also has made significant progress in empowering the next generation of African-American and Black students to become healthcare leaders. The parties have created several programs to address gaps in generational wealth by eliminating barriers and creating pathways through mentorship and training, including:
- Beacon of Hope Summer Fellowship at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research – Novartis has created a 10-week paid summer fellowship program for 17 Historically Black Medical School students to learn drug discovery, data analytics and clinical research practices. Each student will be paired with a Novartis scientist mentor to gain first-hand experience running innovative research, science and technology projects. The program is expected to continue annually for 10 years, with the goal of training up to 250 scientists.
- TMCF-Novartis US Foundation HBCU Alliance Scholarship and Mentorship program – In August, TMCF and Novartis US Foundation will award three-year scholarships of $10,000 a year to 120 students at 26 Historically Black Colleges, Universities and Medical Schools. Each scholarship recipient will be paired with a Novartis mentor for three years to help them navigate their academic career and professional future. TMCF and Novartis US Foundation will award additional three-year scholarships again in 2025 and 2028. An additional 280 students will be paired with mentors in each three-year cohort, with the goal of training up to 1,200 students over 10 years.
- TMCF-Novartis US Foundation HBCU Alliance Faculty grants – In May, TMCF and Novartis US Foundation awarded ten $25,000 grants to HBCU faculty for research substantiating key drivers of health disparities and informing areas for change. TMCF and Novartis US Foundation plan to continue to award 10 research grants annually for 10 years.
- Coursera virtual training courses – Coursera and Novartis have co-developed online programs to support STEM training in underserved communities and increase exposure to biomedical research career opportunities. The first three courses – training for clinical trial leaders, community health workers, and pharmaceutical research and development – will launch in 2023, with additional courses to follow.
About Beacon of Hope
Launched in July 2021 as a $33.7 million commitment from Novartis and the Novartis US Foundation, Beacon of Hope began as a 10-year collaboration with Morehouse School of Medicine and 26 other Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Coursera, and the National Medical Association, to work together to increase diversity among clinical trial participants and investigators; improve access to high-quality education and promising jobs; address inherent bias in the data standards used to diagnose and treat disease; and find actionable solutions to environmental and climate issues that disproportionately affect health among communities of color.
A guiding principle of Beacon of Hope is a recognition that achieving consequential changes in health and education equity at population scale, and addressing the systemic racism that has caused decades of disparity, is a long-term endeavor that will take sustained, collective effort from industry, academia and the communities. For more information on Beacon of Hope programs, please visit: https://www.novartis.us/corporate-responsibility/beacon-hope
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JOHNSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment when there’s also a national shortage of people working in the trades.
At hand is the $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing operation near the state’s capital, announced by Intel earlier this year. When the two factories, known as fabs, open in 2025, the facility will employ 3,000 people with an average salary of around $135,000.
Before that happens, the 1,000-acre site must be leveled and the semiconductor factories built.
“This project reverberated nationwide,” said Michael Engbert, an Ohio-based official with the Laborers’ International Union of North America.
“We don’t field calls every day from members hundreds or thousands of miles away asking about transferring into Columbus, Ohio,” he said. “It’s because they know Intel is coming.”
To win the project, Ohio offered Intel roughly $2 billion in incentives, including a 30-year tax break. Intel has outlined $150 million in educational funding aimed at growing the semiconductor industry regionally and nationally.
Construction is expected to accelerate following Congress’ approval last month of a package boosting the semiconductor industry and scientific research in a bid to create more high-tech jobs in the United States and help it better compete with international rivals. It includes more than $52 billion in grants and other incentives for the semiconductor industry as well as a 25% tax credit for those companies that invest in chip plants in the U.S.
For the central Ohio project, all 7,000 workers aren’t required right away. They’re also only a portion of what will be needed as the Intel project transforms hundreds of largely rural acres about 30 minutes east of Columbus.
Just six months after Intel revealed the Ohio operation, for example, Missouri-based VanTrust Real Estate announced it was building a 500-acre (200-hectare) business park next door to house Intel suppliers. The site’s 5 million square feet (464,515 square meters) is equivalent to nearly nine football fields. Other projects for additional suppliers are expected.
California-based Intel will rely on lessons learned in building previous semiconductor sites nationally and globally to ensure enough construction workers, the company said in a statement.
“One of Intel’s top reasons for choosing Ohio is access to the region’s robust workforce,” the company said. “It will not be without its challenges, but we are confident there is enough demand that these jobs will be filled.”
Labor leaders and state officials acknowledge there’s not currently a pool of 7,000 extra workers in central Ohio, where other current projects include a 28-story Hilton near downtown Columbus, a $2 billion addition to The Ohio State University’s medical center, and a $365 million Amgen biomanufacturing plant not far from the Intel plant.
And that’s not counting at least three new Google and Amazon data centers, plans for a new $200 million municipal courthouse south of downtown Columbus and solar array projects that could require nearly 6,000 construction jobs by themselves.
Federal data shows about 45,000 home and commercial construction workers in central Ohio. That number increased by 1,800 from May 2021 to May 2022, meaning a future deficit given current and future demands.
(asterisk)I don’t know of a single commercial construction company that’s not hiring,” said Mary Tebeau, executive director of the Builders Exchange of Central Ohio, a construction industry trade association.
Offsetting the imbalance are training programs, a push to encourage more high school students to enter the trades, and pure economics. Including overtime, pay for skilled tradespeople could hit $125,000 annually, said Dorsey Hager, executive secretary-treasurer of the Columbus Building Trades Council.
Or as Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, the state’s economic development point person, puts it, the Intel project is so big and lucrative it will create opportunities for people who didn’t see construction jobs in their future.
“When you’re willing to pay people more to do something, you will find the talent,” he said.
In addition to new and out-of-state workers, some will likely be pulled from the residential construction industry, thinning out an already short supply of homebuilders, said Ed Brady, CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Home Builders Institute.
That creates a housing shortage risk that could slow the very type of economic development that Intel is sparking, said Ed Dietz of the National Association of Home Builders.
“How do you attract those business investments if you can’t also provide additional housing available for the growth in the labor force?” he said.
Central Ohio is expected to reach 3 million residents by 2050, a rate that would require 11,000 to 14,000 housing units a year. That was before Intel was announced, said Jennifer Noll, the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission’s associate director for community development. Meanwhile, the closest the region came to hitting that goal was in 2020 with 11,000 units.
“We know we’ve got some work to do as a region,” Noll said.
Shortage or not, work is underway at and near the Intel site, where parades of trucks rumbled down country roads on a recent August morning as the beeping of multiple construction vehicles sounded in the distance.
It was just another day for pipe layer Taylor Purdy, who made his regular 30-minute drive from Bangs, Ohio, to his construction job helping widen a road running alongside the Intel plant.
Purdy, 28, spends his days in trenches helping position storm and sanitary sewers and waterlines. Overtime is plentiful as deadlines approach. The Intel construction work is in its earliest phases as earthmovers reshape the 1,000 acres (400 hectares) of former farm and residential land being transformed into an industrial site.
Purdy said he likes the job security of being involved on such a big project. He’s also noticed that, unlike other jobs he has worked, he does not need to explain to people what he is up to.
“They all know what I’m talking about,” he said. | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/wanted-7000-construction-workers-for-intel-chip-plants/ | 2022-08-22 13:28:25 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/wanted-7000-construction-workers-for-intel-chip-plants/ |
John Oliver hits Tennessee rep for saying race wasn't a factor in Dem expulsion vote: 'Definitely lying'
Oliver also called Lamberth's remarks on firearms 'a hall of fame s---y response'
Tennessee state Rep. William Lamberth, R., came under fire from comedian John Oliver last week following the contentious debacle that rocked the state House of Representatives and led to the expulsion of two Democratic lawmakers who disrupted proceedings by leading a protest on the House floor.
Lamberth, who represents an area northeast of Nashville, responded to state Rep. Gloria Johnson, D., in a recent video after she claimed she was the lone Democrat spared from expulsion after protesting with her colleagues Rep. Justin Jones, who is Black and Filipino, and Rep. Justin Pearson, who is also Black, and the two were later expelled.
"It might have to do with the color of our skin," Johnson told a reporter last week.
TENNESSEE DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATOR FACING EXPULSION CLAIMS ‘NORTH KOREA HAS MORE DEMOCRACY THAN WE DO’
Lamberth dismissed the notion, saying, "Our members literally didn't look at the ethnicity of the members that were up for expulsion."
Oliver, who roasted Tennessee Republicans during the show, used the opportunity to home in on Lamberth's statement.
"Ok, legally, I can't say that guy is lying," Oliver said. "Which is why it's going to be an interesting day for our lawyers tomorrow when they find out I said, 'That guy is definitely lying!' We literally don't see color is the universal tell for people who spent all day thinking about how they'd like to see less color."
DEMOCRAT LAWMAKER SUGGESTS SHE AVOIDED EXPULSION FROM TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE BECAUSE SHE IS WHITE
The remarks coincided with others on Lamberth for his take on defending assault weapons, particularly one in which he stated the tragic Covenant School shooting was "not about this one gun."
"You're not going to like my answer… If there is a firearm out there that you're comfortable being shot with, please show me what it is," he continued.
Oliver mocked the response, saying, "That is a hall of fame s---y response. But also, if your opening is, 'you're not going to like my answer,' maybe start thinking of the better ones."
He also roasted other Volunteer State Republicans, including House Speaker Cameron Sexton, for comments regarding the three Democrats under scrutiny, particularly Sexton's remark that "you can't prove" the representatives encouraged protesters to be violent.
The Republican-led Tennessee House voted to expel Jones and Pearson last week for their role in bringing the protests into the House chamber where they led protesters standing in the balcony in a chant while standing on the House floor. | https://www.foxnews.com/media/john-oliver-hits-tennessee-rep-saying-race-wasnt-factor-dem-expulsion-vote-definitely-lying | 2023-04-10 20:06:46 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/media/john-oliver-hits-tennessee-rep-saying-race-wasnt-factor-dem-expulsion-vote-definitely-lying |
A coalition of three right-wing parties swept to victory in Italy’s elections. It’s the latest win for far-right populists in Europe, prompting fears that democratic institutions could erode on the continent.
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong talks with Nadia Urbinati, political scientist at Columbia University.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kbia.org/2022-09-27/3-right-wing-parties-sweep-to-victory-in-italy-elections | 2022-09-27 17:50:30 | 1 | https://www.kbia.org/2022-09-27/3-right-wing-parties-sweep-to-victory-in-italy-elections |
NEW YORK, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Momcozy, the renowned maternity and baby brand endorsed by over two million moms globally, has announced it will host an online breastfeeding seminar on July 13 to provide more professional support to moms following its impressive product showcase at FIME 2023 from June 21-23.
Momcozy's booth design and the brand's pink tone stood out from the crowd of exhibitors and looked particularly warm and bright, attracting many visitors, especially a large number of female users and exhibitors.
Being the Top 1 in Amazon's mother and baby category, as well as the Top 1 in Amazon category sales for three consecutive years, Momcozy is dedicated to supporting more moms in their breastfeeding journeys, which is reflected not only in the informative and emotional support it offers, but also in its continuous investment providing the best products and services for moms all over the world. At the recent FIME 2023, Momcozy showcased its extensive range of offerings, with the M5 wearable breast pump standing out as one of the most popular products on display.
The M5 breast pump features a unique baby mouth-shaped design with a precise angle of 105 degrees and a soft silicone flange, reducing the risk of nipple pain and discomfort and ensuring a comfortable pumping experience. The M5 also features an exclusive vibration suction mode that stimulates milk flow and enhances the pumping experience, providing fast and efficient milk extraction for moms. Its lightweight and compact design makes it easy to transport, and the hard-shell storage bag that comes with the set offers protection for the breast pumps and parts.
"At Momcozy, we are committed to providing professional products, support, and guidance to moms," said Athena Pan, CEO of Momcozy.
The coming webinar will feature Colette Wiseman, MD, a renowned expert in the field of lactation and breastfeeding. The webinar will offer practical tips and guidance to empower new mothers with the knowledge and confidence they need to successfully breastfeed their babies. It also provides an opportunity for families to ask questions and receive personalized advice from a trusted expert.
The webinar is part of Momcozy's commitment to supporting breastfeeding moms in a diversified way, and a prelude to the upcoming World Breastfeeding Week. To register for the webinar, please click the link: https://momcozy.com/pages/breastfeeding-support-live-chat?utm_source=WBW_live&utm_medium=PR&utm_campaign=WBW_live
The success of the FIME exhibition shows the brand value and broad development prospect of Momcozy. Momcozy has always been adhering to innovation and development, continuously researching and developing new products, and striving to provide more quality products and services to moms worldwide.
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(WHNT) — Monday is Columbus Day, and while some businesses and services are paused for the day, it’s business as usual for others.
Columbus Day in the United States is meant to honor the legacy of the man credited with discovering the New World, though many are switching to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day, a holiday meant to honor the culture and history of Native Americans.
Both holidays are celebrated on the second Monday in October, and while some schools and businesses will operate as normal, some won’t.
Mail Delivery
Post offices will be closed on Oct. 10, meaning mail and packages won’t be delivered by the United States Postal Service.
Packages shipped through most FedEx services will still be delivered, along with UPS pickup and delivery services continuing through the holiday.
Banks
Because the Federal Reserve observes Columbus Day, most banks will be closed on Monday. Some may still choose to open certain locations, so call to check before heading to your local branch.
The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will be open.
Government Offices
All federal offices will be closed, but some may be open on the state government level. While some schools will be in session, your best bet would be to check with your local district.
Retail
Almost all restaurants, theaters and malls will be open during normal business hours Monday unless a specific location has decided to observe Columbus Day. However, most libraries will be closed.
National Parks will be open, along with grocery and department stores.
Garbage and recycling collection might be running on a different schedule, so it’s best to double-check with your provider.
The next federal holiday will be Veteran’s Day on Nov. 11.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:
7-4-2
(seven, four, two)
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7-4-2
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When you're shopping for a new beer to try at the store, you may not be thinking about the cap -- for instance, whether it's a twist-off or pop-off top. If you grab the latter and realize you don't have a bottle opener nearby, don't worry. You've likely got something around to help pry off the cap. We've got several creative and slightly unusual methods you can try to open your drink, and you probably have at least one of the items you need handy.
So instead of smashing off the top with a rock and hoping for the best, use force and leverage to your advantage and try one of these safer methods to get that stubborn cap off when you don't have a dedicated bottle opener on hand. For more tips around the home, here's how to clean your oven without harsh chemicals and how to safely pit an avocado without stabbing yourself.
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Smartphone and tablet chargers can pop open a bottle
Smartphone and tablet chargers have been used to open bottles. Position one of the two prongs from the wall plug end under the cap and pry upward. This method will take more work than others, but who doesn't have a charger on them?
Since this could damage the charger, we don't recommend using your favorite one.
MacBook or iPad chargers can open up a bottle
A MacBook or iPad charger can also be used very much like an actual bottle opener. The circular crown that holds the two-prong adapter or extension cord in place is shaped in such a way that it can be used to remove a cap. Just be careful, as the plastic has been known to crack and it's got to be cheaper to just buy a bottle opener than to replace a charger. It's probably a better idea to explore other options before resorting to this one.
A countertop or table can be a large bottle opener
Use a countertop or table to pop the cap off, just not your gorgeous granite or marble countertop or lovely wood table or anything else you don't want marred. Pick one with a sharp edge rather than a rounded edge, so you can position the lid just right. Place the lip of the cap on a sharp corner of the counter and hit down on the top of the lid while gently pulling the bottle down. It's quick and easy and gets the job done without using any tools.
If you're worried about scratching your countertop or table, try placing a thin kitchen towel between it and the bottle cap. Or find a surface you'd not worried about.
Anything metal can pop the top
Use anything metal that you have on hand. If you're outside, pop the cap off with any metal railing or a metal bumper (if you have one) with an edge. If you're inside, use a metal handle on your dresser or cabinets. You can pop the top off the same way as with a countertop -- by placing the lip on the edge and smacking down on the lid while pulling the bottle down.
Sunglasses can pop open a bottle
You always have your sunglasses on you, right? Get a pair that also serves as a bottle opener. William Painter makes a great pair of bottle-opener sunglasses, or you can opt for a cheaper version to pop the lid with.
Sandals in a pinch
This one needs some forward thinking: There are some cool sandals out there that have a built-in bottle opener. Reef makes sandals that come equipped with a bottle opener on the underside of the shoe. All you have to do is whip off the flip-flop, pop the bottle's cap off and put your shoe back on. Just make sure to clean the bottle opener every once in a while, as it can get clogged with sand or dirt.
A house key can pry off a cap
A house key will certainly work. It's typically thin enough to place under the lip of a bottle's cap, but it works best if you leave it on your key chain, as the other items attached to your keys will give you more to grip. Grip the neck of the bottle and position the ridged side of the key sideways under the cap. Move the key back and forth until you pry the cap off. You will have to work at it for a minute. In case something goes wrong, don't use a key you can't replace.
Scissors can force off the cap
Scissors, made of steel with handles, can provide grip and leverage. But they're also sharpened, so be careful not to cut or slice your finger as you pry the cap off the bottle. There are two ways to do this -- with the scissors opened and with the scissors closed. The closed and safer option is to place the scissors under the cap and pry upward. The opened option (which is unsafe and we don't recommend) is to place the scissors around the bottom of the cap and wiggle up until the top comes off.
A lighter can do the trick
Have a lighter? By gripping the bottleneck with your nondominant hand and positioning the bottom of the lighter over your index finger knuckle and under the rim of the cap, you can use the leverage to remove the bottle cap. With some practice, you can send the cap flying using nothing but a lighter.
A fork can pry off a cap
A fork also works pretty well. It's usually easier to wedge the tines inside the grooves of the cap, and you can pry the cap loose with less force by using an individual tine of the fork. Don't use your best silverware.
A spoon can flip the lid
If you're at someone's house and they can't find a bottle opener, chances are there's at least one spoon around that you can use to your thirsty advantage. It may take some practice to get the grip just right. Try grabbing the neck of the bottle as close to the cap as you can get with your nondominant hand. Position the spoon under the lip of the cap and, using the base of your thumb as a base, pry the cap loose. Again, don't use your best silverware.
A butter knife can be a stand-in bottle opener
The very tip of a butter knife can be used to bend just a small section of the cap away from the bottle. Then position the tip of the knife under the lip, so that it's between the cap and the glass rim. In a careful and swift motion, tap the handle of the knife on the counter to pop off the cap. And again, don't use your best silverware.
A flathead, or slotted, screwdriver can open a bottle
A flathead screwdriver works just as well with the same general instructions: Position the screwdriver head underneath the lip of the cap and use the leverage to carefully pry it loose, working around the cap. You can also tap the handle of the screwdriver on a countertop to pop the lid off.
Claw hammer is another word for bottle opener
A claw hammer can also be used. Flip the hammer upside-down and position the claw end (now pointing upward) under the lip. Now carefully peel away the cap with the edge of the claw.
A ring can open a bottle
This one's a little iffy because a lot could go wrong to damage you or your ring, but if you're confident, it's an option that's been said to work. While wearing a ring with a wide band, place the edge under the bottle cap. Get a good grip on the cap with your hand and tilt the bottle in the opposite direction until the lid pops off. Again, please, please be careful and don't use a ring you care about.
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Department of Public Safety warning people to be aware of scammers posing as sheriffs
By Chloe Marklay
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (KITV) — In recent weeks, several people have come here to the sheriff division booking and receiving station to self-report — after they receive a call from a scammer telling them they owe money.
Scammers are claiming to be deputy sheriffs to trick people into believing they owe money for breaking the law.
These scammers will tell people they need to send money through a cash app to pay for outstanding warrants, traffic citations, or fines for missed jury duty.
the department of public safety chief deputy, Lanikoa Dobrowolsky says if someone asks for a payment, you know it’s a scam.
“We’re never going to do that. What’s hitting home for a lot of us is they’re using my name, saying this is and they’re calling me a lieutenant, lieutenant dobrowolsky dobs with the sheriff’s department, you have a warrant you need to make this payment, obviously it’s not me making those calls” shares Dobrowolsky.
After collecting money, scammers will then tell the person they need to turn themself in the sheriff division booking and receiving station.
So far, 6 people have turned themselves in to the station.
The department continues to receive calls reporting scammers and warns people to be cautious so they don’t fall victim.
You should never provide personal information over the phone, don’t communicate with unsolicited emails or texts, and never open suspicious emails or links.
If you receive a text, call, or email, you should immediately contact the sheriff division to report it.
Its number is 808-586-1352.
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A court in military ruled Myanmar has convicted Aung San Suu Kyi and an Australian economic adviser to three years in jail for violating the official secrets act.
Suu Kyi and Australian Sean Turnell were being tried together in this case, though Suu Kyi has already been convicted on several other counts and sentenced to more than 20 years.
Turnell had been serving as an economic advisor to Suu Kyi when the elected government she led was ousted by the military in February 2021. Australia's Foreign Minister, Penny Wong today rejected the court's ruling and called for Turnell's "immediate release." She also said that Australian consular officials were denied access to the court in Myanmar's capital, Naypyitaw.
Human rights groups and western governments call the cases against Suu Kyi, a former prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, politically motivated — aimed at keeping her out of politics for good.
The military leadership in Myanmar overthrew the elected civilian government in February 2021, jailing many Suu Kyi and many other senior members of the government. The junta carried out the country's first executions in decades in July, which included the hangings of two democracy activists.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Westlake Securities, Austin's leading middle market investment bank, is pleased to announce that it served as the exclusive financial advisor to Heath Consultants Incorporated ("Heath") on the divesture of its subsidiary Norton Corrosion Limited, LLC ("Norton") to Tanknology Inc., a portfolio company of Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners ("HRCP").
Founded in 1959 and acquired by Heath in 2014, Norton is a Woodinville, Washington-based provider of corrosion inspection services, engineering services and high-quality corrosion control products. Westlake Securities was engaged by Heath to help evaluate the potential divestiture of Norton and ran a targeted process focused on strategic parties active in the testing, inspection and certification (TIC) space. Drew Sitgreaves, CEO of Heath Consultants, said, "Westlake's experience in the utility services market, industry and private equity relationships, and familiarity working with family-owned businesses were instrumental in helping us execute on this strategic objective."
As a third-generation, family-owned business, Heath was seeking a partner for Norton that would be both a cultural and strategic fit to build upon Norton's rich 60-year legacy. Tanknology stood apart as an ideal partner given their shared commitment to a customer-centric culture and delivery of the highest quality of service.
The Westlake team was honored to represent Heath and Norton in this transaction, and we look forward to the post-transaction success of Heath, Norton, Tanknology, and HRCP.
Since 1933, Heath Consultants has been an industry leader in utility protection and damage prevention. Heath partners with well-recognized research and development organizations and industry trade associations to provide state-of-the-art products and services to various utility markets, including products specifically designed to detect natural gas (methane) leaks as a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and services for environmental and public safety. Heath is based in Houston, Texas with over 1,800 employees across the United States. heathus.com
Founded in 1959 based in Woodinville, Washington, Norton Corrosion designs, manufactures, and installs state-of-the-art cathodic protection systems and corrosion control products for nearly any application, including service to the Power Generation, Petrochemical, Marine, Defense, Wastewater, Manufacturing, Municipal, Transportation, Aviation, Structural and Agricultural industries. Norton also designs proprietary, state-of-the-art products for specialty applications. www.nortoncorrosion.com
Tanknology, the world's largest provider of environmental compliance testing, inspection services, corrosion prevention and fuel quality solutions, services more than 85,000 petroleum fueling and storage facilities per year. The company provides more than 30 compliance-related service offerings and holds 22 patents for leak detection and tank monitoring technology. Internationally, Tanknology licensees span more than 20 countries, providing services to the largest petroleum operators in the world. Tanknology was recapitalized by company management and Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners in 2019. www.tanknology.com
Westlake Securities is a middle-market investment bank founded in 2003 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Westlake delivers superior execution and results to its clients with deep transactional experience, comprehensive technical analysis and hands-on involvement of our senior professionals. www.westlakesecurities.com
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BARCELONA, Spain, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fractus and the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC) have agreed to create the Fractus-UPC Deep Tech Hub, a center of research activities where deep tech technologies will be designed and improved, with the aim of developing disruptive technological solutions based on scientific challenges with great potential and social impact. Fractus is one of the first spin-offs that emerged from the UPC.
The Fractus-UPC Deep Tech Hub will concentrate talent development, training, innovation, research and technology transfer activities, and will actively and strategically contribute to the creation of UPC start-ups and/or spin-offs in the field of deep tech, founded on a scientific discovery or a technological innovation, with the purpose of promoting its access to the market. The deep tech field encompasses the development of disruptive solutions based on deep technologies linked to science or advanced engineering, to respond to global challenges.
The agreement, signed on September 13th, by the dean of the UPC, Daniel Crespo, and the President and CEO of Fractus, Rubén Bonet, foresees that the activities of the hub are aimed at responding to current challenges through scientific and technological advances significant, while promoting research, innovation and knowledge transfer in areas such as mobility and logistics, materials, sustainability, urban planning, information and communication, biomedical engineering and environmental and energy technologies . The emerging areas of quantum computing, photonics, artificial intelligence, cyber security, robotics, electronics and advanced materials are some of the areas on which the activity of this hub will be focused.
The activities of the hub will also promote the UPC's R+D+I in the deep tech field through industrial doctorates, collaborations in research and innovation projects, the promotion of research lines or the development of workshops, as well as the incubation and acceleration of companies, among others. It is also planned to promote innovation challenges, prizes and forums aimed at students, as well as end-of-degree and master's theses in this field.
Deep Tech Cluster
The UPC is one of the main deep tech clusters in Europe, with a powerful core of research groups that research and develop technological innovation in this field and from which several spin-offs and start-ups have emerged, such as Fractus. Led by Dr. Carles Puente – who is also a professor at the Telecom Engineering School of Barcelona (ETSETB) at the UPC – and Ruben Bonet, the company is a pioneer in the development of internal antenna technology for mobile phones, tablets and other wireless devices in the Internet of Things, specializing in new applications of fractal technology and other emerging technologies.
About the UPC
The UPC is a public research and higher education institution specialized in the fields of engineering, architecture, science and technology, and is one of the main technical universities in Europe, which is characterized by its intense penetration in the industrial and productive fabric through the transfer of the knowledge it generates to companies. Currently, it maintains links with around 2,000 companies. Each year, it graduates more than 6,000 undergraduate and master's students and more than 500 PhDs and is one of the universities with a high job placement rate for its graduates: 93% work shortly after graduating. Likewise, the UPC is well positioned in the main international rankings. On the other hand, it is a leading university in Spain in raising funds for R+D+i projects financed by the Horizon 2020 program.
About Fractus
Fractus is an early pioneer in developing internal antenna technology for smartphones, tablets and other wireless Internet of Things devices and holds an intellectual property rights portfolio of more than 30 inventions protected through over 120 patents and patent applications in the United States, Europe and Asia. Among the numerous awards and honours the company has received for its innovative work, Fractus was named a 2005 Davos World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and one of Red Herring's top innovative companies for 2006. It also won the 2004 Frost & Sullivan Award for technological innovation and the 2010 National Communication Award of the Catalan Government in the telecommunications category. A team of Fractus inventors was finalist for the EPO European Inventor Award 2014. On November 2015, Fractus was awarded Academiae Dilecta by the Spanish Royal Engineering Academy and on April 2017 received the "European Inspiring Company Award" by the London Stock Exchange and the Elite Group.
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Texas officer convicted in killing of Atatiana Jefferson
By JAMIE STENGLE and JAKE BLEIBERG
Associated Press
A former Texas police officer was convicted of manslaughter Thursday for fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019, a rare conviction of an officer for killing someone who was also armed with a gun.
Jurors also considered a murder charge against Aaron Dean but instead convicted him of manslaughter. The conviction comes more than three years after the white Fort Worth officer shot the 28-year-old Black woman while responding to a call about an open front door.
Dean, 38, faces up to 20 years in prison, with the sentencing phase of his trial set to begin Friday. He had faced up to life in prison if convicted of murder. Dean, who had been free on bond, was booked into the Tarrant County jail following the verdict.
Jurors deliberated for more than 13 hours of jury deliberations over two days before finding him guilty of manslaughter. The primary dispute during the six days of testimony and arguments was whether Dean knew Jefferson was armed when he shot her. Dean testified that he saw her weapon; prosecutors alleged the evidence showed otherwise.
Lesa Pamplin, an attorney and friend of the Jefferson family, said she was glad that jurors took their time.
“These folks gave a good, hard look at the evidence and they didn’t rush it. And I’m happy, not pleased, but I’m happy that they got the manslaughter,” Pamplin said.
Another friend of the Jefferson family, Cliff Sparks, told The Dallas Morning News that he thinks the verdict will give other officers the message that they “can shoot and kill somebody in his own backyard and get the lesser charge.”
“It’s not right,” Sparks said. “None of this is right.”
Family members of both Jefferson and Dean left the courtroom without commenting.
Dean shot Jefferson on Oct. 12, 2019, after a neighbor called a nonemergency police line to report that the front door to Jefferson’s home was open. She had been playing video games that night with her nephew and it emerged at trial that they left the doors open to vent smoke from hamburgers the boy burned.
The case was unusual for the relative speed with which, amid public outrage, the Fort Worth Police Department released video of the shooting and arrested Dean. He’d completed the police academy the year before and quit theo force without speaking to investigators.
Since then, the case had been repeatedly postponed amid lawyerly wrangling, the terminal illness of Dean’s lead attorney and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Body camera footage showed that Dean and a second officer who responded to the call didn’t identify themselves as police at the house. Dean and Officer Carol Darch testified that they thought the house might have been burglarized and quietly moved into the fenced-off backyard looking for signs of forced entry.
There, Dean, whose gun was drawn, fired a single shot through the window a split-second after shouting at Jefferson, who was inside, to show her hands.
Dean testified that he had no choice but to shoot when he saw Jefferson pointing the barrel of a gun directly at him. But under questioning from prosecutors he acknowledged numerous errors, repeatedly conceding that actions he took before and after the shooting were “more bad police work.”
Darch’s back was to the window when Dean shot, but she testified that he never mentioned seeing a gun before he pulled the trigger and didn’t say anything about the weapon as they rushed in to search the house.
Dean acknowledged on the witness stand that he only said something about the gun after seeing it on the floor inside the house and that he never gave Jefferson first aid.
Jefferson’s 8-year-old nephew, Zion Carr, was in the room with his aunt when she was shot. Zion testified that Jefferson took out her gun believing there was an intruder in the backyard, but he offered contradictory accounts of whether she pointed the pistol out the window.
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Family seeks jailer punishments after beaten inmate’s death
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The parents of a Black man who was having a psychotic episode and died in custody last fall after Memphis jailers punched, kicked and kneeled on his back during a confrontation are seeking answers for their son and punishments against the jail staff.
At a news conference in Memphis on Friday, 33-year-old Gershun Freeman’s mother said her son had “a lot of dreams, a lot of admiration” and cared for people. Kimberly Freeman said she wants justice for her son and wants to know who the jailers are.
“They have blood on their hand,” Kimberly Freeman said. “They go home every night to their family. Whereas for me and my granddaughter, we have to see my son, her father, in a box.”
Gershun Freeman’s father, George Burks, added that he wants to see the officers “punished, brought to justice.”
The Nashville District Attorney’s Office released video earlier this month of Freeman at the Shelby County Jail in Memphis.
The video shows Freeman was beaten by at least 10 corrections officers Oct. 5 after he ran naked from his cell. His attorneys say he was also struck with handcuffs, rings of jail keys and pepper spray cannisters.
Freeman had “psychosis and cardiovascular disease and died of a heart attack while being restrained,” Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said in a statement earlier this month, citing the medical examiner’s report.
Prominent civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, who is representing Freeman’s family, deemed the case “another video of an unarmed Black man being killed by law enforcement here in Shelby County, Tennessee.”
The city has been roiled by Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating by Memphis police in January. The Black motorist was punched, hit with a baton, kicked, and pepper sprayed during an arrest that was recorded on video. His death led to seven police firings, including of the five officers who have since been charged with second-degree murder, plus three fire department firings. Crump is also representing Nichols’ family. Members of Nichols’ family were on hand for Thursday’s news conference, as well.
“I don’t know what is happening in America where law enforcement feels that they can treat mental health issues like criminal issues, especially if they are marginalized people of color, especially if they are Black men,” Crump said.
Freeman’s manner of death is listed as a homicide in the autopsy report from the West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center, although the report says this “is not meant to definitively indicate criminal intent.”
In his statement, the Shelby County sheriff said it was unfortunate the video does not show the whole episode. The video has been edited and includes multiple camera angles in different parts of the jail.
The district attorney’s office for Shelby County has brought in the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to look into the death. It has asked the Nashville District Attorney General’s Office to act as an independent prosecutor in the case.
The sheriff has said he will “wait for additional information from the TBI and the investigating D.A. before taking further administrative action.”
Freeman was booked in jail Oct. 1 on charges of attacking and kidnapping his girlfriend, according to court records.
The video begins with two corrections officers serving meals to inmates in a narrow hallway. When Freeman’s cell opens, he runs out unclothed and appears to charge at the officers.
The officers wrestle him to the ground and begin to punch, kick and pepper spray him. They are joined by additional officers. The deputies move with Freeman out of the hallway. From another camera’s view, we see Freeman wrapping himself around an officer’s legs in a different hallway.
The video shifts to a bank of escalators and Freeman, still naked, runs up one of them. In another hallway, a struggle continues with officers attempting to restrain him before getting him face-down on the ground. They can be seen stepping and kneeling on his back before he becomes still. One officer remained on Freeman’s back for several minutes before he was lifted.
He appears limp when officers do lift him up, with his head falling forward between his knees and his hands cuffed behind his back. He remains in that position until medical employees arrive, and the video ends.
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HONG KONG (AP) — Workers who assemble Apple Inc.’s new iPhone have walked out of their factory in northern China to avoid COVID-19 curbs after some coworkers were quarantined following a virus outbreak.
Videos circulating on Chinese social media platforms showed people said to be Foxconn workers climbing over fences and walking down a road laden with their belongings.
The scenes underscore growing public discontent with China’s “zero-COVID” strategy, where the government seeks to stamp out outbreaks by implementing strict testing, isolation and lockdown measures where infections are detected.
Outbreaks have led to entire cities going into lockdown. In the latest wave of infections, Shanghai Disney Resort said Monday that it would close as of Monday for an indefinite amount of time “to follow the requirement of pandemic prevention and control.”
In an online notice, the park apologized for the inconvenience and said it would provide refunds or exchanges for those affected by its closure.
The Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, Henan province, can accommodate up to 350,000 workers and is one of the largest factories in China assembling products for Apple Inc., including its latest iPhone 14 devices.
Not all the videos that showed workers purportedly leaving the facility could be verified. It was unclear if the workers leaving the facility had escaped or if they were allowed to leave.
Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Volunteers from nearby villages put out food and drinks for the Foxconn workers. One such volunteer, who asked to be identified only by his surname Zhang out of privacy concerns, was put in charge of distributing supplies that his village in Xingyang county had prepared. He said that the people shown in a video he uploaded to the short-video platform Douyin were Foxconn workers because they would have to take that road if they were leaving the facility.
It was unclear how many people are currently employed at the Zhengzhou factory, how many of them have left and how many were affected by factory’s COVID-19 curbs.
Earlier this week, media reports said the factory had implemented a “closed-loop” system largely restricting workers to movements between their residences and the plant.
Local media reports said that Foxconn workers complained of poor food quality and a lack of medical care for those who tested positive amid worries infections could be spreading. The company denied rumors that 20,000 people in the plant had been infected with COVID-19.
Cities near Zhengzhou have urged Foxconn workers to report to local authorities if they plan to return to their hometowns to allow preparation of appropriate isolation measures.
Posts on the Zhengzhou government’s public WeChat account said Foxconn issued notices Sunday to workers at the factory, pledging to ensure the safety, legitimate rights and incomes of those who stayed.
A day after the videos circulated of workers leaving the factory on foot, Foxconn and several local governments arranged transportation for employees choosing to return home. It wasn’t clear how much choice they were given in the matter.
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BOSTON — BOSTON — Safety Insurance Group Inc. (SAFT) on Wednesday reported profit of $24.6 million in its fourth quarter.
For the year, the company reported profit of $46.6 million, or $3.15 per share. Revenue was reported as $797.6 million.
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By COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL BALSAMO (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — No fingerprints or DNA turned up on the baggie of cocaine found in a lobby at the White House last week despite a sophisticated FBI crime lab analysis, and surveillance footage of the area didn’t identify a suspect, according to a summary of the Secret Service investigation obtained by The Associated Press. There are no leads on who brought the drugs into the building.
U.S. Secret Service agents found the white powder during a routine White House sweep on July 2, in a heavily trafficked West Wing lobby where staff go in and out, and tour groups gather to drop their phones and other belongings.
“Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered,” Secret Service officials said in the summary.
It’s most likely the bag was left behind by one of the hundreds of visitors who traveled in and out of the building over the weekend, according to a person familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to talk about an ongoing probe and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
The presence of cocaine at the White House prompted a flurry of criticism and questions from Republicans, who received a closed briefing Thursday on the results of the investigation.
“There is no equal justice,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday. “Anything revolving around ‘Biden, Inc.’ gets treated different than any other American and that’s got to stop.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden believed it was “incredibly important” for the Secret Service to get to the bottom of how the drugs ended up in the White House. The Secret Service is responsible for securing the White House and led the investigation.
Biden wasn’t there at the time of the discovery. He was at Camp David with members of his family for the holiday weekend.
The complex was briefly evacuated as a precaution when the white powder was found. The fire department was called in to test the substance on the spot to determine whether it was hazardous, and the initial test came back negative for a biohazard but positive for cocaine.
The bag was sent for a secondary, more sensitive lab analysis. Homeland Security’s National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center analyzed the item for any biothreats. Tests conducted at the facility came back negative.
The cocaine and packaging underwent further forensics testing, including advanced fingerprint and DNA work at the FBI’s crime laboratory, according to the summary. The FBI also did chemical testing.
Meanwhile, Secret Service investigators put together a list of several hundred individuals who may have accessed the area where the drugs were found. Anyone who comes through the White House must give identifying information and pass through security before entering.
But the lab results didn’t turn up latent fingerprints or DNA, so agents can’t compare anything to the possible suspect pool. White House staff are fingerprinted; participants in tour groups are not.
Video of the West Executive street lobby entrance did not identify the person or provide any solid investigative leads, the Secret Service said.
The lobby is open to staff-led tours of the West Wing, which are scheduled for nonworking hours on the weekends and evenings. Those tours are invitation-only and led by White House staff for friends, family and other guests. Most staffers who work in the complex can request an evening or weekend tour slot, but there is often a long wait list. There were tours on the day, a Sunday, the drugs were found, as well as on the two preceding days.
The Situation Room, located in the West Wing, where staffers would also drop their phones before entering, has been undergoing construction work and was not in use at the time the baggie was found, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said last week.
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POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Through the debris-strewn rooms of the bomb-blasted house, the incessant ringing of a phone punctuates the crunch of broken glass splintering underfoot as police lay out a body bag.
But the call will never be answered. The phone’s owner crouches lifeless on the floor of his home, in a front room where the explosion from a missile — one of several to hit this eastern Ukrainian town — found him.
The missiles that rained down on Pokrovsk Saturday night and into the early hours of Sunday were part of a barrage of attacks on towns in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region that left at least 10 people dead Saturday, according to Donetsk governor Pavlo Kyrylenko. They came as Ukraine pressed forward with a counteroffensive just to the north in the Kharkiv region, pushing Russian forces into a retreat from key areas.
Six of the dead were in Pokrovsk, mayor Ruslan Trebushkin said in a message posted on Telegram. The industrial town about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the front line had been hit twice before by missiles, in May and July, but never before by so many in one night. A flash illuminated the night sky as a detonation sounded out across the town in the second of six explosions. An ambulance raced through the darkened streets, and flames rose from a fire triggered by the missile strikes.
At least three of those who died were killed when one of the missiles struck between a row of small houses and nearby train tracks, collapsing part of a nearby abandoned building, leaving one home burnt to the ground and severely damaging several more.
Oleksandr Zaitsev, 67, stood quietly outside his friend’s house as the police arrived. His friend’s wife had been calling her husband nonstop since the strike, he said, but nobody was picking up.
The house’s windows were shattered, the walls were pockmarked from shrapnel, and the front door blown off its hinges. Inside, the police gently rolled Zaitsev’s friend into a black body bag.
Next door, Yevhenia Butkova, 47, stood stunned in the center of her living room, trying to calm her two agitated pet dogs. Blood stained the sofa where she and her husband had been watching television when the first missile struck. On Sunday morning, he was recovering in a hospital after doctors removed shards of glass from his wounds, she said.
Chunks of debris from the ceiling littered the floor throughout the house, whose entrance was reduced to a jumble of splintered wood, plaster, glass and brick. One of the plywood boards the couple had put over their windows for protection had been blown clean across the garden. But a combination of that and the plastic they had put over the glass probably saved their lives, Butkova said.
“It was all quiet in Pokrovsk, this was very unexpected,” she said. “It was horrible.”
Further down the row of single-story houses, an elderly couple swept rubble and glass from their small porch, dried blood still streaking their faces.
Mariia Trutko, 85, and her husband Oleksii Maksymenko, 75, had been sleeping when they were jolted awake by the blast.
“I can’t hear anything without my hearing aid, and then it hit so hard that I heard,” said Maksymenko, a retired coal miner. “Everything flew. … I started bleeding, so we got up to see what that was, and then there was another one: boom!”
Their bed was littered with jagged shards of glass and plaster from the roof that covered them both, Trutko said. A large, square piece of glass lay on the pillow, and spots of blood stained the floor.
“Oh my God, we could never imagine going through something like this at this old age,” Maksymenko said.
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WASHINGTON, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CAQH today announced that now more than two million healthcare practitioners use its provider data management solutions to enter, update and verify professional and practice information and securely share it with the organizations that they authorize. Because this information is entered by providers themselves, verified with authoritative and primary sources and validated using advanced data science, it is an unmatched resource for credentialing, directory and network management and other functions essential to our healthcare system.
"Engagement with providers themselves is essential to accurate and up-to-date provider data," said CAQH CEO Robin Thomashauer. "This, combined with a robust approach to validating and enriching the data, has enabled us to provide the industry with an essential source of truth."
CAQH provider data management solutions save providers from having to enter information multiple times to accommodate payers on different platforms and credentialing cycles. The process enhances data quality by reducing the risk of errors, and ultimately frees time that can be better spent on patient care.
Public and commercial payers across the country access the information to address a variety of provider network uses, including credentialing, network and referral management, member directories, health equity and more. Going forward, CAQH will leverage and enhance data to provide new use cases that improve the provider and member experience and streamline workflows.
CAQH can augment and analyze the data to provide plans powerful and flexible new tools to enhance services, improve the provider and member experience and streamline operations.
"This is an important milestone in our ongoing effort to improve the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of provider data, and we have ambitious plans for the future," said Thomashauer. "We will continue to innovate and find new ways to use data to lower costs and improve the business processes and decision making for industry."
About CAQH
For more than 20 years, CAQH has helped the nation's health plans, providers, government entities and other healthcare organizations connect, exchange information and operate more efficiently. CAQH Solutions, and the Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) bring the healthcare industry together to make sharing business information more automated, predictable and consistent. CAQH Insights researches opportunities to reduce the burden of manual processes in healthcare administration. Visit www.caqh.org.
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Benton mother sentenced to 15 years in son’s death
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BENTON, Louisiana (KTBS) — A Benton mother who plead guilty late last year in connection with the poisoning death of her young son was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday in Bossier District Court.
District Judge Michael Craig recommended Courtney Seilhammer serve that time in a facility where she can be treated for alcohol abuse and mental health.
Seilhammer, 38, was given credit for time served. She’s been in jail since her arrest in the 2020 death of 1-year-old Silas Ryan Seilhammer.
Seilhammer was initially charged with second-degree murder but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree cruelty to a juvenile in a plea agreement with the District Attorney’s Office. The agreement set a 20-year cap on sentencing.
Silas Ryan Seilhammer died of renal failure because of Acetone intoxication. Acetone is commonly used in nail polish remover, and a bottle was found in a makeup carrier in Seilhammer’s home.
District Attorney Schuyler Marvin said he accepted the reduced plea because of some “sketchy” evidence. Seilhammer claimed in pre-trial motions her son could have accessed a Kaboodle where the Acetone bottle was found.
Detectives investigating the case described Seilhammer, who was a registered nurse, as calm as she handed over her son. Medical personnel said the child was possibly in a stage of rigor already.
During a search of her home, investigators found crushed up Tramadol, as if someone was snorting the drug. Seilhammer said she crushed it to ease her stomach.
There was also a large amount of empty alcohol containers in the trash. Seilhammer denied anyone in the house drank besides her and she only did on the weekends.
She told investigators her child may have been in the bathtub and possibly got into a bottle of aspirin. She appeared incoherent and her statements were not making sense, detectives said.
Deputies said they smelled alcohol coming from her breathe and on her person. They also noticed towels on the back bathroom floor and there was water in the tub.
During an initial interview, Seilhammer said she found Silas with shallow breathing just before calling 911 after she laid him down in his crib.
She admitted to drinking two glasses of wine and had nothing to eat. Her blood alcohol level measured at .190%, which is twice over the legal limit to drive a car.
Seilhammer said Silas had gotten into some aspirin she left on the edge of the tub. She retrieved one from his mouth. She admitted to leaving him unattended while she did chores.
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CORCORAN, Calif. — The waters from a long-dry lake, resurrected by epic rains earlier this year, already lap at the levee of this Central Valley town of 22,000 people. A hundred square miles of crops are drowning around it. But the flood that Corcoran City Manager Greg Gatzka is really worried about has yet to come.
That flood — frozen in a historic snowpack — is still sleeping, piled around Sequoia trunks, some 80 miles away. Unseasonably warm temperatures are starting to wake it up.
For Gatzka, warmer temperatures mean "the snowpack, the ominous thing that we can see on the horizon ... is coming our way," he said.
Four major rivers empty into the landlocked southern end of the Central Valley and the clay-packed bed of the Tulare Lake Basin. All start in the snow-packed Sierra Nevada mountains and end, eventually, in the fast-growing expanse of Tulare Lake — what used to be the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River.
"You can look at a scene like this and think the worst is behind us, when in fact it's quite the contrary," said California Gov. Gavin Newsom during a recent tour of Corcoran, which sits on Tulare Lake's historic shores. "Every day we're seeing an incremental half-inch, inch of new water present itself in the basin."
He described the scene as "surreal."
To understand the scale of the flood threat Corcoran and other communities are facing, and to get a sense of how local, state and federal officials are preparing for it, we followed the path of one river: the Kaweah River, which empties into Tulare Lake and begins in Sequoia National Park.
"Feet of water" sit in the snowpack
The headwaters of the Kaweah River are found in the southern end of the Sierra Nevada, home to Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the lower 48 states, and the largest trees on Earth.
"Giant snow, giant trees," said Eric Meyer, an ecologist at Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks, during a recent trip to a still-closed section of Sequoia. At 7,000 feet of elevation in a wooded basin along the Marble Fork of the Kaweah, the snow is indeed giant.
The visitor's center is buried, and all of the cabins are cloaked in snow.
"We've got snow twice the size of our Chevy Colorado in an area that last year had very little," Meyer said, parking the truck in a canyon of plowed snow. "And all of this has to melt and go somewhere."
In normal years, that spring melt is something to be celebrated. The Sierra Nevada snowpack plays a critical role in California's water system. It's a giant frozen aquifer that provides a steady supply of water to rivers, trees and people downstream as temperatures warm and the rains stop.
This year, some basins have snowpack measured at 450% of normal for this time of year, Meyer said. The snowpack for the broader region is more than three times the average.
"Across the landscape, you have — sitting in the snowpack — feet of water in some locations," he said.
Already, it's starting to melt.
On an overcast, foggy day in late April, streams of water cascaded down rocks and ran next to roads in Sequoia. Hotter temperatures in more recent days have triggered flood watches farther north in the Sierra Nevada.
The Kaweah River hasn't seen a major increase in flows from snowmelt. Peak runoff isn't expected until late May or June. Like most watersheds in the southern part of the mountain range though, its geology makes it susceptible to flooding. The watershed's path is one of the steepest in the country. As snow melts, water rushes downslope in gullies and draws, merging into bigger and bigger streams and creeks.
Some is absorbed by the trees and ground. Most makes its way into the Kaweah River.
The dam that slows the water down
During a series of rain-heavy atmospheric rivers in January, water flows on the Kaweah River hit record highs.
Debris from recent wildfires turned its waters frothy black. Riverside beaches in the unincorporated town of Three Rivers, a 30-minute drive from Sequoia National Park, were stripped bare. Statewide, the storms caused billions of dollars in estimated damage.
The first major piece of human-built infrastructure on the Kaweah River, a 60-year-old earthen dam built across a canyon near the valley floor, withstood the deluge.
"Is there still flooding downstream? Yes," said Ryan Watson, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' deputy operations project manager at Terminus Dam. "Would it be significantly worse if this structure wasn't here? Absolutely."
Terminus Dam, like others funded after devastating floods in the 1930s, was built to regulate the flows of the nation's up-again, down-again rivers. California, more than any other state, is prone to climatic extremes — a trend that climate scientists expect to grow more intense as temperatures warm.
In years like this, when rainwater or snowmelt rushes down the Kaweah watershed, the dam serves as a speed bump. Water pours in and pools behind the dam before being released downstream in managed spurts.
"We can't control the river. We're not as naive as to think we have dominance over Mother Nature," Watson said. "She's going to do what she's going to do as we're seeing right now."
This year, dam operators have already exceeded flow limits for some of the channels below the structure. Some failed.
Watson and dam operators up and down the Sierra Nevada continue to dump water downstream in preparation for the big melt, essentially emptying the bathtub before the faucets turn back on. A tall strip of chalk-white rock showing where water levels used to be rings the rock shores of Lake Kaweah — the reservoir that's filled behind the dam. Watson hoped they'd get lower.
The emptier the reservoir, the bigger the speed bump, and the less likely people downstream are to have high flows of water coming their way.
Where the water gets put to use
Mark Larsen is one of the tens of thousands of people living downstream from Lake Kaweah. As the general manager of the Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District, his job is to help manage the water coming out of the Terminus Dam.
A map on the wall of his office's conference room shows the Kaweah watershed as it was in 1885, before people controlled the river's flow. There's no dam. And no Lake Kaweah. The river snakes down from the mountains unabated and spills out into the valley floor, branching into little braids of creeks and sloughs before coalescing to the southwest in Tulare Lake.
The map next to it shows the watershed a hundred years later. The dam exists — and so does the lake, created by construction of the dam. Below the dam, many creeks have been straightened, turned into canals. Many of the wetlands no longer exist, replaced by farms.
"And we wonder why we have flood issues," Larsen said, dryly.
In most years, nearly all of the water that comes down the Kaweah watershed is used up. "Fully utilized," as Larsen put it, by dairy farms and the almond, pistachio and alfalfa growers he helps serve.
That process, playing out across the region's other major watersheds, has led to the desiccation of Tulare Lake and one of the largest wetland complexes in the western United States. Snowmelt and rainwater that used to pool in the southern Central Valley's closed basin — providing habitat for waterfowl, fish and insects — rarely makes it that far.
This year, between the atmospheric rivers and snowpack, Larsen said, "We have more water coming into our system than we've managed since 1955." That's more than farms or towns can take.
As a result, he said, much of it is being released downstream toward Tulare Lake and Corcoran.
Residents anxiously watch the levees
At the Kaweah River's terminus in the Tulare Lake Basin, more than 100 square miles of land is already flooded. George and Judy Mendes have been anxiously watching the waters rise. They live in the northeast corner of Corcoran, near the lake's historic shore, just a couple of hundred yards from the city's main protective levee.
"If it wasn't for this levee, I'd probably be living at the YMCA shelter right now," Judy said, driving alongside a flooded field in their family truck.
This has become a daily routine for the Mendes family. Most mornings, George grabs a cup of coffee and drives to various points along the city's 14.5-mile levee and the flooded farmland beyond to see how much has changed. In recent weeks, he's seen private and county construction crews piling the levee higher in preparation for the coming snowmelt.
Beyond, fields of alfalfa are drowning in stagnant water. Tulare County Supervisor Eddie Valero recently estimated the losses in his county at $40 million. A supervisor for neighboring Kings County, which encompasses more of the lakebed, said crop damage has already exceeded $100 million.
"It's just devastating for the people here," Judy Mendes said. They know families who have had to flee flooded homes and farmers who are hoping insurance will keep them afloat. Mendes has bought flood insurance for herself and two family members in recent months.
State and local water officials expect water to remain in Tulare Lake for as long as two years. That's what happened in 1973, the last time the lake saw a big blast of water.
City officials are confident the levee around Corcoran will hold when the thaw accelerates because of the work being done to raise and reinforce it. The Mendes family, which owns a water tank business, has made plans in case it doesn't. They've lined up places to stay and to take their equipment.
"We're going to get a heck of a grand finale with all of that snow," George Mendes said.
The question nobody has a sure answer to is when.
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STOCKHOLM, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AlzeCure Pharma AB (publ) (FN STO: ALZCUR), a pharmaceutical company that develops a broad portfolio of small molecule candidate drugs for diseases affecting the central nervous system, with projects in both Alzheimer's disease and pain, today announced that the company has completed the clinical phase I study (multiple ascending dose, MAD) with repeated dosing of the drug candidate ACD856, with a focus on Alzheimer's disease.
Data show that ACD856, the primary drug candidate within the company's NeuroRestore platform, has good tolerability and safety. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that the substance has suitable pharmacokinetic properties with rapid uptake into the body as well as relevant and dose-dependent exposure in the CNS.
The MAD Phase I study is AlzeCure's third clinical study with ACD856, the company's leading drug candidate in the NeuroRestore platform. The substance is being developed as a symptom-relieving treatment for disease states where cognitive ability is impaired, for example in Alzheimer's disease. The primary objective of the study was to evaluate the tolerability, safety and pharmacokinetics of the drug candidate after repeated dosing.
"We are very pleased that ACD856 has a very good profile for further clinical development," said Johan Sandin, CSO at AlzeCure Pharma. "With its potential to improve memory function in a variety of diseases, ACD856 may play a significant role in the treatment of indications where these key functions are impaired, such as Alzheimer's disease, sleep apnea, traumatic brain injury and Parkinson's disease."
The company started the study in September 2021 and is now presenting according to plan results from this clinical study with ACD856. Preparations are now being made to initiate further clinical trials. These upcoming studies are focused on evaluating early effect-signals in humans.
"The results for the NeuroRestore candidate ACD856 follow the previous positive clinical results with the substance, and we are now looking forward to the continued clinical studies," said Martin Jönsson, CEO of AlzeCure. "I also see that these data will stimulate potential partnership and out-licensing discussions and increase interest in the NeuroRestore platform."
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This is information that AlzeCure Pharma AB is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted för publication, through the above contact person's agency, at 13:00 CEST on June 29, 2022.
About AlzeCure Pharma AB (publ)
AlzeCure® is a Swedish pharmaceutical company that develops new innovative small molecule drug therapies for the treatment of severe diseases and conditions that affect the central nervous system, such as Alzheimer's disease and pain – indications for which currently available treatment is very limited. The company is listed on Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market and is developing several parallel drug candidates based on three research platforms: NeuroRestore®, Alzstatin® and Painless.
NeuroRestore consists of two symptomatic drug candidates where the unique mechanism of action allows for multiple indications, including Alzheimer's disease, as well as cognitive disorders associated with traumatic brain injury, sleep apnea and Parkinson's disease. The Alzstatin platform focuses on developing disease-modifying and preventive drug candidates for early treatment of Alzheimer's disease and comprises two drug candidates.
Painless is the company's research platform in the field of pain and contains two projects: ACD440, which is a drug candidate in the clinical development phase for the treatment of neuropathic pain, and TrkA-NAM, which targets other types of severe pain in conditions such as osteoarthritis. AlzeCure aims to pursue its own projects through preclinical research and development through an early clinical phase and is continually working on business development to find suitable solutions for license agreements with other pharmaceutical companies.
FNCA Sweden AB, +46(0)8 528 00 399 info@fnca.se, is the company's Certified Adviser. For more information, please visit www.alzecurepharma.se.
About NeuroRestore
NeuroRestore is a platform of symptom-relieving drug candidates for disease states in which cognitive ability is impaired, e.g. Alzheimer's Disease, sleep apnea, traumatic brain injury and Parkinson's disease. NeuroRestore stimulates several important signaling pathways in the brain, which among other things leads to improved cognition. In preclinical studies with NeuroRestore we have been able to show that our drug candidates enhance communication between the nerve cells and improve cognitive ability. NeuroRestore stimulates specific signaling pathways in the central nervous system known as neurotrophins, the most well-known being NGF (Nerve Growth Factor) and BDNF (Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor). The levels of NGF and BDNF are disturbed in several disease states and the signaling is reduced. The impaired function impairs communication between the synapses, i.e. the contact surfaces of the nerve endings, as well as reducing the possibility of survival for the nerve cells, which gives rise to the cognitive impairments. Neurotrophins play a crucial role for the function of nerve cells, and a disturbed function of BDNF has a strong genetic link to impaired cognitive ability in several different diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury and sleep disorders. There is also a link between BDNF signaling and depression, something that has been further strengthened in recent years.
About Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, affecting approximately 50 million people worldwide. Alzheimer's disease is a lethal disorder that also has a large impact on both relatives and the society. Today, preventive and disease modifying treatments are missing. The main risk factors to develop Alzheimer's are age and genetic causes. Even though the disease can start as early as between 40 and 65 years of age, it is most common after 65 years. Significant investments in Alzheimer research are being made because of the significant unmet medical need and the large cost of this disease for healthcare and society. The total global costs for dementia related diseases is estimated to about 1,000 billion USD. Given the lack of both effective symptomatic treatments and disease modifying treatments, the need for new effective therapies is acute. The few approved drugs on the market today have only a limited symptomatic effect and can produce dose limiting side effects. A disease modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease is estimated to reach more than $15 billion in annual sales. In Sweden, approximately 100,000 people suffer from Alzheimer's disease with a healthcare cost of about SEK 63 billion yearly, which is more than for cancer and cardiovascular diseases combined.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Quarterback C.J. Stroud and No. 4 Ohio State came up just short, and this one has to hurt.
After dominating No. 1 Georgia for most of the first three quarters, the Buckeyes ended their season early Sunday with a second straight loss. The first one, to archrival Michigan on Nov. 26, was bad enough, but the sting of dropping a national semifinal 42-41 in the Peach Bowl after leading the Bulldogs by 14 in the fourth quarter must feel worse.
The Buckeyes led 41-35 in the closing minute when Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett engineered a 76-yard, five-play drive that ended with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Adonai Mitchell, who beat Denzel Burke in the left corner of the end zone for a one-point lead.
But it wasn’t until Noah Ruggles’ 50-yard field-goal try, a career-long attempt for the fifth-year graduate student, sailed well left that Ohio State (11-2) had its fate sealed.
Stroud completed 23 of 34 passes for 348 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions. He scrambled 27 yards to give Ohio State a first down at the Georgia 31 in the closing seconds, but the Buckeyes couldn’t get any closer as Ruggles came on to attempt the kick.
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‘Oh my God’: Video shows rain, hail falling through roof at Walmart in Wisconsin
RICE LAKE, Wis. (Gray News/TMX) - Video captured hail smashing through the roof of a Walmart store in Wisconsin on Wednesday night.
The extreme weather reportedly forced the Walmart to close after rain could also be seen coming into the store and making a mess around the registers.
Courtnay Amborn shared the video where a woman is heard saying “Oh my God” as large amounts of hail are coming through the roof of the store.
According to reports, the storms swept through the area and brought heavy wind and large amounts of hail to neighborhoods while knocking down several trees.
The National Weather Service said there were reports of tennis ball-sized hail in the region.
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BERLIN (AP) — Latvia’s Parliament has declared Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism” for attacks on civilians during the war in Ukraine and has urged other countries to follow suit.
Lawmakers on Thursday adopted a strongly worded statement that accuses Moscow of using “suffering and intimidation as tools in its attempts to demoralize the Ukrainian people and armed forces and paralyze the functioning of the state.”
The statement says Latvia’s Parliament “recognizes Russia’s violence against civilians in pursuit of political aims as terrorism, recognizes Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and calls on other like-minded countries to express the same view.”
It says Russian forces are deliberately targeting Ukrainian civilians in the war, including with attacks on a theater in Mariupol in March, a shopping mall in Kremenchuk in June and a residential area in Odesa in July.
Lawmakers also called on Western countries to reinforce sanctions on Russia and urged fellow members of the European Union to stop issuing tourist visas to citizens of Russia and Belarus.
Sixty-seven lawmakers in the 100-seat assembly voted in favor of adopting the statement and 16 abstained, the Parliament said.
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NPR White House correspondent Asma Khalid joins Here & Now‘s Scott Tong to discuss her interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Trump lawyers who fought election results saw Thomas as key
Washington – Lawyers who aided former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election regarded an appeal to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a “key” to their success, according to emails provided to congressional investigators and made public Wednesday.
The emails from December 2020 show the lawyers discussing ways to delay the certification of results in Georgia, a closely contested state won by Democrat Joe Biden. One lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, suggested that an appeal to Thomas, as the justice who handles emergency appeals from Georgia, could “end up being the key here.”
“We want to frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying Georgia is in legitimate doubt,” Chesebro wrote. “Realistically, our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion by Jan. 6, which might hold up the Georgia count in Congress, is from Thomas.”
Another lawyer, John Eastman, responded that he was in agreement, saying that if Thomas were to act, “that may be enough to kick the Georgia Legislature into gear.”
The emails were disclosed to congressional investigators as part of a long-running lawsuit involving Eastman, a conservative lawyer and an architect of Trump’s last-ditch efforts to stay in office, and the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Eastman has been trying to withhold documents from the committee on the basis of attorney-client privilege claims. The committee has argued that there is a legal exception allowing the disclosure of communications regarding ongoing or future crimes. U.S. District Court Judge David Carter, who is overseeing the case, has mostly agreed, ordering the release of hundreds of emails to the House committee since the spring.
In the end, the Supreme Court wound up rejecting multiple Republican requests to intervene in the election and undo the results.
The emails were published by Politico. Their authenticity was confirmed by a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to discuss the it by name and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Chesebro did not immediately return a message seeking comment. A lawyer for Eastman also did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Thomas’s wife, Virginia, was interviewed by the panel in September, when she stood by the false claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent.
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BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AGNC Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) ("AGNC" or the "Company") announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.12 per share of common stock for December 2022. The dividend is payable on January 11, 2023 to common stockholders of record as of December 30, 2022.
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DENVER, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bow River Capital, a Denver-based alternative asset manager, announced the successful close of its third private equity fund, Bow River Private Equity Fund III LP (Fund III), at $590 million. The fund was oversubscribed, exceeding its target of $500 million. Fund III benefitted from strong support from both existing and new investors.
"We are pleased by our limited partners' support of Fund III and are excited to work with such a highly respected group of investors. Access to alternative asset investing is more readily available than ever and we are fortunate to have the trust of our limited partners," said Greg Hiatrides, Managing Director and Head of Bow River Capital Private Equity.
Like its predecessor fund, Fund III will continue to invest in human capital-centric middle market businesses throughout the United States in industrial services, healthcare services, and business services, with a primary focus in the Rodeo Region. Bow River Capital targets majority partnerships with industry leading management teams operating critical outsourced services businesses in high-growth end markets.
Perkins Coie served as legal advisor to Bow River Capital in the formation of Fund III. The firm did not use a placement agent.
About Bow River Capital
Bow River Capital is a private alternative asset manager based in Denver, Colorado, focused on investing in the lower middle market in three asset classes: private equity, real estate, and software growth equity. In addition to its three private fund platforms, the firm manages the Bow River Capital Evergreen Fund (EVERX), which provides institutional-quality private market access to a broader set of investors. Collectively, the Bow River Capital team has deployed capital into diverse industries, asset classes and across the capital structure.
Bow River Capital Evergreen Fund is distributed by Foreside Financial Services, LLC, which is not affiliated with Bow River Capital or its affiliates.
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Franchisees of Kids Coding Concept to Gather for the First Time Post-Pandemic for Annual National Convention
HOUSTON, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Code Ninjas, the world's largest and fastest-growing coding education franchise, is hosting its National Convention 'NinjaCon,' November 3-5 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. With nearly 400 locations operating in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, Code Ninjas owners and center directors will come together in person for the first time since 2019 for training, networking opportunities, and to celebrate their successes side-by-side with the home office team and sponsors MyStudio and ChildcareCRM.
Keynote speaker at the event is franchise industry heavyweight David Barr, Chairman of PMTD Restaurants LLC and Managing Director and Partner of Franworth. Barr has been actively involved in thousands of franchise locations and is a valued board member, and former President, of the International Franchise Association. A panel discussing Coding and Diversity in Education will be led by Kiki Prottsman, Director of Education at Microsoft MakeCode, and coding trailblazers Lisa Anne Floyd and Nimmi Aranchalum.
Participation from other vendors in the coding education industry will include MakeyMakey by JoyLabz, CodeSpark, Microsoft MakeCode, LEGO Education. Vendor partners including F.C. Dadson, Signation, Clicktecs, SOCi, Hylant, Proforma, and Buxton have been key in making this event a success. Other vendors attending the event include FranConnect, Listen360, Morrow Hill and Versare.
"We are thrilled to bring our franchise community together again," said Justin Nihiser, CEO of Code Ninjas LLC. "NinjaCon has always been such a special event and we have missed having the opportunity to get together in one place and learn from each other."
For more information on Code Ninjas opportunities for kids, visit codeninjas.com to find a location near you. To learn more about joining Code Ninjas as a franchisee, visit codeninjasfranchise.com.
ABOUT CODE NINJAS:
Founded in 2016, Code Ninjas® is the world's largest and fastest-growing coding franchise, with hundreds of locations across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. At Code Ninjas, kids learn to code while building their own video games. They gain problem solving, critical thinking, and STEM skills in a fun, safe, and inspiring environment. Kids have fun, parents see results. ® For more information, visit codeninjas.com.
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PASADENA, Calif., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jerell Hill, Ed.D., dean of the School of Education and Human Development at Pacific Oaks College, was recently named an Impact Academy fellow through the national non-profit organization Deans for Impact. Dr. Hill joins a cohort of leaders chosen for their commitment to improving educator preparation rooted in equity.
Educator preparation programs today face complex challenges as they prepare teachers and K-12 leaders who are well-equipped to identify and address educational inequities exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. More than ever, the field needs leaders who can foster individual and organizational learning and ensure that all children have access to rigorous, content-rich instruction. Deans for Impact aims to fill this need through its yearlong Impact Academy fellowship, which empowers dean-level leaders with skills, knowledge, and strategies to pursue instructional excellence in the face of new challenges.
Dr. Hill is one of 20 leaders announced as part of this fellowship's seventh cohort. Since 2015, Deans for Impact has built the capacity of more than 100 leaders of educator preparation programs through the Impact Academy, positioning them to make pedagogy a priority within their programs and advocate for more equitable systems of teaching and learning.
"I am humbled by the opportunity to participate in this fellowship. I am honored to work with colleagues who believe schools are cultural spaces that play a significant role in creating experiences to develop equity and excellence. Preparing high-quality teachers to serve their communities is a necessary action toward educational justice," said Dr. Hill.
The 2022-23 Impact Academy fellowship combines monthly virtual sessions and two in-person gatherings with regular learning modules and ongoing leadership coaching from veteran leaders. Fellows strengthen their ability to engage faculty, staff, and K-12 school partners in a shared vision for change, grounded in a deep scientific understanding about how students learn.
"We're excited to welcome this new cohort of 20 fellows committed to grounding their educator-preparation programs in equity and improving the field of education more broadly," said Valerie Sakimura, vice president of program at Deans for Impact. "As we continue to support outstanding educator-preparation leaders to drive transformative change, Deans for Impact aims to realize our long-term vision of building a national collective of leaders who are creating and sustaining conditions for teachers to create rigorous, equitable, and inclusive classrooms where all students thrive."
Deans for Impact is committed to reflecting the broad diversity of programs preparing new educators in this country, and this year's fellowship cohort reflects that commitment. Thirty percent of fellows are leaders of color, and they represent institutions in more than 15 states from New Jersey to California and from Iowa to Louisiana. These include public and private universities, 35% Minority-Serving Institutions, and non-traditional programs. Collectively, these institutions serve more than 10,000 future teachers annually, with 46% of current candidates identifying as people of color.
About Pacific Oaks College & Children's School
Founded in 1945, Pacific Oaks College & Children's School is composed of two educational entities. Pacific Oaks College is a nonprofit, regionally accredited higher education institution offering bachelor's and master's programs in human development, marriage and family therapy, education, early childhood education, teacher preparation, social work, community psychology, business administration, and organizational leadership and management. Pacific Oaks Children's School provides nonprofit early childhood education programs for children ages 6 months through 5 years and has pioneered achievements in the areas of anti-bias education, emergent curriculum, and peaceful conflict resolution.
About Deans for Impact
Deans for Impact is a national non-profit organization committed to ensuring that every child is taught by a well-prepared teacher. Deans for Impact is building a movement to make pedagogy a priority in the way teachers are prepared. It does this by connecting leaders of educator-preparation programs, helping them to transform programs and influencing policy that affects their work. Guided by principles of learning science, Deans for Impact creates collaborative spaces that address real problems of practice and provide concrete examples while recognizing the importance of local context. Deans for Impact aims to help teachers create rigorous, equitable and inclusive classrooms so that all children thrive. For more information, visit deansforimpact.org.
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MELBOURNE, Australia, May 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, Telix, the Company) today announces that it has entered into an agreement with Bayer AG (Bayer) to supply Illuccix® (TLX591-CDx, kit for the preparation of gallium Ga 68 gozetotide injection)[1] for the Phase III ARASTEP study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05794906). This global study is investigating the efficacy of Bayer's androgen receptor inhibitor (ARi) darolutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) versus ADT alone in hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, in patients with high-risk biochemical recurrence who have no evidence of metastatic disease by conventional imaging and a positive PSMA-PET/CT[2] at baseline.
The study will enrol up to 750 patients across various sites such as in Europe, Japan and the United States. The more sensitive PSMA imaging may identify prostate cancer lesions not detectable by conventional imaging such as computed tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and bone scans.
Telix Chief Medical Officer, Dr Colin Hayward stated, "We are pleased to supply Bayer and a number of clinical sites in this important study, reflective of Telix's unique commitment to delivering advanced prostate cancer imaging globally. The use of PSMA-PET/CT in this setting is illustrative of the potential for this imaging modality to move beyond diagnosis to a disease management tool."
About Bayer AG
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition. Its products and services are designed to help people and the planet thrive by supporting efforts to master the major challenges presented by a growing and aging global population. Bayer is committed to driving sustainable development and generating a positive impact with its businesses. At the same time, the Group aims to increase its earning power and create value through innovation and growth. The Bayer brand stands for trust, reliability and quality throughout the world. In fiscal 2022, the Group employed around 101,000 people and had sales of 50.7 billion euros. R&D expenses before special items amounted to 6.2 billion euros. For more information, go to www.bayer.com.
BAYER, the Bayer Cross and NUBEQA are registered trademarks of Bayer.
About darolutamide
Darolutamide is an oral ARi with a distinct chemical structure that binds to the receptor with high affinity and exhibits strong antagonistic activity, thereby inhibiting the receptor function and the growth of prostate cancer cells.
The product is approved under the brand name Nubeqa™ in more than 80 countries around the world for the treatment of patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC). It is also approved for the treatment of patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) in a number of markets including the U.S., Japan, China and the EU. The compound is also being investigated in further studies across various stages of prostate cancer.
Darolutamide is developed jointly by Bayer and Orion Corporation, a globally operating Finnish pharmaceutical company.
About Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited
Telix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. Telix is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with international operations in the United States, Europe (Belgium and Switzerland), and Japan. Telix is developing a portfolio of clinical-stage products that aims to address significant unmet medical need in oncology and rare diseases. Telix is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: TLX).
Visit www.telixpharma.com for further information about Telix, including details of the latest share price, announcements made to the ASX, investor and analyst presentations, news releases, event details and other publications that may be of interest. You can also follow Telix on Twitter (@TelixPharma) and LinkedIn.
About Illuccix®
Telix's lead product, Illuccix® (gallium-68 (68Ga) gozetotide (also known as 68Ga PSMA-11) injection), has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),[3] and by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA),[4] and by Health Canada.[5] Telix is also progressing a marketing authorisation application for this investigational candidate in the United Kingdom and the European Union.[6]
Telix Investor Relations
Ms. Kyahn Williamson
Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited
SVP Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
Email: kyahn.williamson@telixpharma.com
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Except as required by applicable laws or regulations, Telix does not undertake to publicly update or review any forward-looking statements. Past performance cannot be relied on as a guide to future performance. Readers should read this announcement together with our material risks, as disclosed in our most recently filed reports with the ASX and on our website.
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CORINTH • Corinth held New Albany to two points over the final five minutes of play and came from behind to grab a 47-43 win in the second round of the Class 4A boys playoffs Saturday night.
Corinth outscored the Bulldogs 8-2 over the final 4:51 of the contest.
Corinth advances to the quarterfinals of 4A on Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. and will face Yazoo City.
"I just thought we played to the final horn, that's really all it was, I don't think it was anything that we did special," Corinth coach Adam Kirk said. "New Albany can really score, and our goal was to keep it under 50 because we knew if it got over 50 that we couldn't score with them."
Andrew Steward was the man of the fourth quarter as he scored the go-ahead basket to give the Warriors a 44-43 lead, then followed that up with a layup after New Albany missed a 3-pointer for the 47-43 final verdict. Steward had 10 points during the fourth quarter.
"When we got down four there late, we just kept playing and we got fortunate with some plays, and that's how it worked out," Kirk said. "That's basketball."
New Albany went into the final period holding a narrow 35-34 lead compliments of Chris Carter's three 3-pointers during the frame, while Kylan Lindsey chipped in one as well.
The game was close for the entire 32 minutes as the largest lead was a mere six points by Corinth at 30-24 during the third quarter, but New Albany came back to tie it at 32-all shortly thereafter.
New Albany led 12-8 after a quarter, but Corinth came back to take the lead at 23-21 as they went to half.
Steward of Corinth led all scorers with his 17 points, which included three 3-pointers. Teammate Jeremiah Baker came off the bench to score 12 points and Cayden Harris hit for six.
New Albany was led by senior Carter's 15 points, including four threes. Lindsey scored nine and Cayden Howell finished with five.
Three Pointers
Turning Point: Steward buried a 3-pointer from the corner and New Albany mishandled the subsequent inbounds play as the Warriors took the lead for good with 34 seconds remaining.
Point Maker: Steward scored 17 total, but none bigger than five of final six points in the game for Corinth to seal the win.
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Abby Lee Miller is ready for her next role: Real Housewife.
More specifically, the Dance Moms star is hoping to join The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills—so much so that she made her case in an 8-minute YouTube video shared on July 26.
Misleadingly titled to make it seem like she's already been cast, the video starts with Abby addressing "rumors" that she's joining the show. It goes without saying that said rumors are unsubstantiated—after all, many of them can be traced back to Bravo fan/meme accounts—but as Abby explains, she's ready to get the actual conversation rolling.
"Andy Cohen, call me. You have my number," she said, reflecting on a past Watch What Happens Live appearance. "I sat on the couch before."
And now she's eager to return to the Clubhouse with a diamond in hand. Added the reality TV alum, "I am ready to sign on the dotted line, especially if this comes with a husband."
To prove she's not afraid to stir the pot—an often important aspect of being a Real Housewife—Abby proceeded to rank (and roast) the current Beverly Hills ladies. Even better, she did so with her famous Dance Moms pyramid system.
Dorit Kemsley was ranked the lowest for being "boring," and right behind her was Diana Jenkins, who Abby went after for her infamous book, Room 23. Joining them on the bottom was Crystal Kung Minkoff, Kathy Hilton and Erika Jayne.
"Erika, I feel for you. I get it," Abby said of the singer's legal woes. "I know all about the federal indictments. Believe me...but you still have to be on the bottom until you get it all worked out."
Abby added that she could "sympathize" with Erika, seemingly referencing her own legal battle that played out in 2016. That year, Abby plead guilty to bankruptcy fraud and failing to report thousands of dollars in Australian currency that she brought into the U.S. She was meant to spend a year in prison, but was released after eight months due to ongoing health issues.
Back on the pyramid, Sutton Stracke, Sheree Zampino and Lisa Rinna ranked in the second lowest spot (though Abby did compliment Lisa's "killer body"). The three RHOBH stars were then beat out by Garcelle Beauvais and Kyle Richards, who made the second highest level.
On top? Abby herself, of course—even though she said she initially was going to place Kim Richards there. Ultimately, "the pyramid was all in fun," Abby said. "I love all of you ladies. You are doing just an incredible job. You go out there week after week and just kick butt, so more power to you."
In one final attempt to persuade the Real Housewives powers that be, Abby even included several potential taglines, from "Nobody is feared like a Dance Mom, until you meet me" to "I call it like I see it, and you're not getting a solo this week."
Watch Abby's video above.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on Bravo.
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Hailey Bieber is continuing to find her own success as a model and entrepreneur and recently landed a coveted spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list! One of her first interviews with Access Hollywood was back in 2016, right before she walked in Jeremy Scott's Moschino fashion show! At the time, Hailey told us about her pre-show rituals and shared how her parents, Stephen Baldwin and Kennya Baldwin, have always been "super supportive" of her. "The thing that they always tell me about being in this industry in general is to always remain yourself, and my dad always the one thing he says is 'Just be Hailey,'" she shared. | https://www.nbc.com/access/video/hailey-bieber-reveals-piece-of-advice-parents-gave-her-about-navigating-fame-2016/ACCN914309607 | 2023-07-23 04:03:18 | 1 | https://www.nbc.com/access/video/hailey-bieber-reveals-piece-of-advice-parents-gave-her-about-navigating-fame-2016/ACCN914309607 |
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Taylor Swift breaks another record by claiming all top 10 spots of the Billboard Hot 100
Updated: 11:20 AM EDT Nov 1, 2022
Taylor Swift is breaking yet another record thanks to the release of her most recent album "Midnights."The entertainer, who already became Spotify's most-streamed artist over a 24-hour period upon the release of the record, now claims all top ten slots of the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time, according to the music charting website on Monday.Swift is the first artist to ever accomplish the feat in Billboard's 64-year history.She beat Drake, who in September 2021 claimed nine of the Hot 100's top 10 spots for a week. According to Billboard, the Hot 100 list "blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data."At the top of the list this week is "Anti-Hero," the lead single off of "Midnights," which is Swift's 10th studio album.The other nine slots are also claimed by songs from the new album, including the tracks "Lavender Haze" and "Karma."The accomplishment gives Swifties yet another reason to rejoice, adding yet another bauble to their beloved artist's "bejeweled" crown.
Taylor Swift is breaking yet another record thanks to the release of her most recent album "Midnights."
The entertainer, who already became Spotify's most-streamed artist over a 24-hour period upon the release of the record, now claims all top ten slots of the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time, according to the music charting website on Monday.
Swift is the first artist to ever accomplish the feat in Billboard's 64-year history.
She beat Drake, who in September 2021 claimed nine of the Hot 100's top 10 spots for a week. According to Billboard, the Hot 100 list "blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data."
At the top of the list this week is "Anti-Hero," the lead single off of "Midnights," which is Swift's 10th studio album.
The other nine slots are also claimed by songs from the new album, including the tracks "Lavender Haze" and "Karma."
The accomplishment gives Swifties yet another reason to rejoice, adding yet another bauble to their beloved artist's "bejeweled" crown. | https://www.wmur.com/article/taylor-swift-claims-all-top-10-spots-billboard-hot-100/41825201 | 2022-11-01 16:29:09 | 1 | https://www.wmur.com/article/taylor-swift-claims-all-top-10-spots-billboard-hot-100/41825201 |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – In an effort to address the decreasing number of career and volunteer firefighters entering the field, the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s Office announced Wednesday that it’s investing $3 million to fund apprenticeships.
The Oregon State Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Program will last two years and the initial $3 million investment in the program will be evenly split between Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue and Klamath County Fire District No. 1.
The two agencies were selected because of the increased risk of wildfire near their communities and the demand for more firefighters.
“Through targeted training initiatives, mentorship programs, coaching, and career progression opportunities, we aim to create a dynamic and engaged workforce that is equipped and capable to tackle any challenge the fire service is faced with,” said Greg Davis, chief of Klamath County Fire District No. 1.
The program will provide 4,000 hours of training over two years. Apprentices will learn basic emergency medical technician (EMT) skills, college-level math and writing skills that apply to the job, and on-the-job training.
During the program, the apprentices will also increase staffing at local fire agencies.
The Oregon State Fire Marshal says the goals of the program are to create an accessible pathway into a fire career and increase diversity and inclusion to ensure the Oregon fire service represents the communities it serves.
By stationing apprentices at Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue and Klamath County Fire District No. 1, the Oregon State Fire Marshal hopes there will be additional people on staff to help stop fires before they have a chance to grow and impact communities.
Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue and Klamath County Fire District No. 1 join three other apprenticeship sites that already exist throughout the state: Jackson County Fire District No. 5, Clackamas Fire District, and Eugene Springfield Fire Department.
The amount apprentices are paid is negotiated with the participating employer and the union associated with the fire department. The apprenticeship program includes all benefits associated with being a full-time firefighter.
Apprentices work shifts at their fire district and the apprenticeship program lasts two years for each apprentice.
The funding for the Oregon State Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Program was made available through Senate Bill 762, a wildfire prevention bill former Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed into law in 2021. | https://www.koin.com/news/wildfires/additional-funding-creates-more-firefighter-apprenticeship-positions-in-oregon/ | 2023-05-18 17:43:45 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/wildfires/additional-funding-creates-more-firefighter-apprenticeship-positions-in-oregon/ |
Former Vice President Mike Pence will officially launch his widely expected campaign for the Republican nomination for president in Iowa next week, adding another candidate to the growing GOP field and putting him in direct competition with his former boss.
Pence will hold a kickoff event in Des Moines on June 7, the date of his 64th birthday, according to two people familiar with his plans who spoke on condition of anonymity to share details ahead of the official announcement. He is also expected to release a video message as part of the launch.
His team sees early-voting Iowa as critical to his potential path to victory and advisers say he plans to campaign aggressively for the conservative, Evangelical Christian voters who make up a substantial portion of the state's Republican electorate. Pence is an avowed social conservative and is staunchly opposed to abortion rights, favoring a national ban.
The campaign is expected to lean heavily on town halls and retail stops aimed at showcasing Pence's personality as he tries to emerge from former President Donald Trump's shadow.
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Pence, who served in Congress and as Indiana's governor before he was tapped as Trump's running mate in 2016, had been an exceedingly loyal vice president until he broke with Trump over the 2020 election.
Trump, desperate to overturn his loss and remain in power, had tried to convince Pence — and his supporters — that Pence could somehow reject voters' will as he presided over the ceremonial counting of the electoral college votes on Jan. 6, 2021, even though the vice president has no such power. As the count was underway, a violent mob of Trump's supporters stormed the building, smashing through windows, assailing police and sending Pence, his family and his staff, racing for cover as members of the mob chanted “Hang Mike Pence!”
Pence has said Trump's “reckless words" endangered his family and everyone else who was at the Capitol that day. He has said "history will hold Donald Trump accountable.”
“For four years, we had a close working relationship. It did not end well,” Pence wrote in his book, “So Help Me God.”
Pence has spent the two-and-a-half years since then strategically distancing himself from Trump as he has laid the groundwork for the campaign. While he consistently praises the record of the “Trump-Pence administration," he has also stressed differences between the two men, on both policy and style.
He has called on his party to move on from Trump’s election grievances and warned against the growing tide of populism in the Republican Party. He admonished “Putin apologists” unwilling to stand up to the Russian leader over his assault on Ukraine in response to comments from Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is running a distant second to Trump in the polls.
He has also argued in favor of reforms to programs like Social Security and Medicare — which both Trump and DeSantis have vowed not to touch — and criticized DeSantis for his escalating feud with Disney.
Pence also testified last month before a federal grand jury investigating efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Pence has spent months visiting early-voting states, delivering policy speeches, speaking at churches and courting donors ahead of his expected run.
The week will be a busy one for GOP announcements. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is planning to launch his campaign Tuesday evening at a town hall event in New Hampshire and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will announce on June 7 in Fargo. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/decision-2024/mike-pence-to-launch-2024-presidential-campaign-next-week-in-iowa/3576632/ | 2023-05-31 21:05:15 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/decision-2024/mike-pence-to-launch-2024-presidential-campaign-next-week-in-iowa/3576632/ |
The frequency and duration of droughts will continue to increase due to human-caused climate change, with water scarcity already affecting billions of people across the world, the United Nations warned in a report Wednesday.
The U.N. desertification agency, which is currently hosting a conference of parties in Abidjan in Ivory Coast, estimates that roughly one third of the world’s population — 2.3 billion people — is already facing water scarcity, with that number expected to double by 2050.
Although no region is spared from drought, the report noted that Africa is the hardest hit continent, with the Americas, India and Australia also highlighted as areas of particular current and future concern.
The ongoing debilitating drought in the east and Horn of Africa was highlighted as one of the “dramatic consequences” of climate change by the U.N. agency. The continent suffered 134 recorded droughts in the past century, with over half occurring in east Africa.
“We used to be able to grow enough tomatoes that we could stay fed for 8 months,” said Kenyan farmer Kheira Osman Yusuf, whose crops have been without rain for over a year. “We used to have luscious mango trees and papaya trees.” She added that food sources have become incredibly scarce and the drinking water supply has also greatly suffered. She explained they sometimes had to resort to drinking from the livestock reservoir, running the risk of getting sick from contamination.
The agency’s lead scientist Barron Orr told the Associated Press that the world needs to be more proactive rather than reactive when it comes to dealing with drought-related disasters. Orr said the next step for hardest-hit Africa is to “direct investments to build resilience, so as to bounce back from drought.”
India saw a drought-related shrink of 5% to its gross domestic product between 1998 and 2017 and Australia’s agricultural productivity slumped 18% between 2002 and 2010 due to drought. The country can also expect more wildfires like those in late 2019 and early 2020 which were spurred by a lack of rainfall, the report warned.
The same is true for the Amazon, the U.N. said, with three droughts occurring since the turn of the century and triggering forest fires, with climate change and deforestation also to blame. The agency estimates that 16% of the region’s remaining forests will burn by 2050 if deforestation continues at its current rate.
But with the right adaptation measures, water scarcity across the globe can be limited, the report said. It suggests smarter agricultural techniques which use less water while producing more food, drought action plans and greater investment in soil health, new technologies and early warning systems can all help curtail food and water shortages.
“We need to steer towards the solutions rather than continuing with destructive actions,” Ibrahim Thiaw, the executive secretary of the desertification agency, said. “We must build and rebuild our landscapes better, mimicking nature wherever possible and creating functional ecological systems.”
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TOKYO — Japan’s defense spending will jump 20% to a record 6.8 trillion yen ($55 billion) next year as the country prepares to deploy U.S.-made Tomahawks and other long-range cruise missiles that can hit targets in China or North Korea under a more offensive security strategy.
Additionally, Japan will pay the United States 110 billion yen ($830 million) for equipment and software needed to launch Tomahawks, as well as fees for the technology transfer and staff training in the coming year, defense officials said.
The hefty budget plan, pending parliamentary approval, is the first installment of a five-year, 43-trillion-yen ($325-billion) military spending plan under the new defense buildup plan also announced last week. The new spending target follows the NATO standard and will eventually push Japan’s annual budget to about 10 trillion yen ($73 billion), the world’s third biggest after the United States and China.
The budget plan comes a week after Kishida’s government announced Japan’s new National Security Strategy, stating its determination to possess controversial “counterstrike capability” to preempt enemy attacks and nearly double its spending within the next five years to protect itself from growing risks from China, North Korea and Russia and escalating fear of a Taiwan emergency.
The strategy is a historic change from Japan’s exclusively self-defense policy since the end of World War II. China, with its rapid arms buildup, increasingly assertive military activity and rivalry with the U.S., presents “an unprecedented and the greatest strategic challenge” to the peace and security of Japan and the international community, the strategy stated.
Tomahawks will be deployed over two years from 2026 to 2027 on advanced Aegis radar-equipped destroyers with vertical launch systems for ship-to-surface attacks, defense officials said.
Japan will also buy more foreign-developed standoff missiles for launch from warplanes — a 500-kilometer- (310-mile-) range Joint Strike Missile from Norway for F-35A fighters, and Lockheed Martin’s Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile with a range of about 900 kilometers (560 miles), for upgraded F-15s.
Japan will spend 94 billion yen ($710 million) next year to work on upgrading and mass production of Type-12 land-to-ship guided missiles develped by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for deployment within the next few years.
To reinforce strike capability and range, Japan is adding eight more F-35Bs at 143.5 billion yen ($1.08 billion) capable of short takeoffs and vertical landing on either of the two formerly helicopter carriers Izumo and Kaga that are being retrofitted so they could be operated jointly with the U.S. military.
Over the next five years, Japan will spend about 5 trillion yen ($37 billion) on standoff, or long-range missiles, with deployment beginning in four years. Annual spending for 2023 on long-range ammunition alone will be tripled from this year to 828 billion yen ($6.26 billion).
Japan will develop other types of arsenals, such as hypersonic weapons and unmanned and multi-role vehicles for possible collaboration with the F-X next-generation fighter jet Japan is developing with Britain and Italy for deployment in 2035. The Defense Ministry is also developing arsenals designed for defending remote southern islands, including a Japanese-controlled East China Sea island disputed with China.
Japan in using strike-back capability needs to fully rely on the United States to detect early signs of attacks and determine targets because of a lack of high levels of intelligence and cybersecurity, experts say.
To address the concern, Japan will spend about 100 billion yen ($7.6 million) next year also to beef up cybersecurity to protect Japanese defense technology and industry.
Japan will also spend 220 billion yen ($1.7 billion) to build two compact destroyers to be equipped with Aegis radars to strengthen the country’s missile interception capability as a deterrent to advanced missiles.
Another key purchase is unmanned aerial vehicles for assaults and reconnaissance. Defense officials said they plan to test a number of foreign-developed UAVs, including Turkish-made Bayraktar used in Ukraine, as well as those from Israel, the United States, as well as home-developed Fuji Imvac.
Japan says counterstrike capability is indispensable and constitutional if it’s in response to signs of an imminent enemy attack. But experts say it is extremely difficult to conduct such an attack without risking blame for striking first. Opponents say strike capability goes beyond self-defense under Japan’s pacifist post-WWII constitution, which limits use of force strictly to defending itself.
That principle, however, was eased in 2015 by then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s constitutional reinterpretation allowing Japan to defend its ally, the United States, in what is known as collective self-defense, providing a legal basis for Japan to build up its military and expand the roles it performs. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tomahawks-part-of-japans-record-defense-spending-next-year/2022/12/23/1b16a816-829e-11ed-8738-ed7217de2775_story.html | 2022-12-23 09:59:13 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tomahawks-part-of-japans-record-defense-spending-next-year/2022/12/23/1b16a816-829e-11ed-8738-ed7217de2775_story.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the Tony Awards (all times local):
11 p.m.
“A Strange Loop,” an utterly unforgettable, idiosyncratic trip into one man’s psyche, has won the best new musical Tony Award, beating more commercial fare.
Michael R. Jackson’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize drama winner is a theater meta-journey — a tuneful show about a Black gay man writing a show about a Black gay man. That show is also called “A Strange Loop.”
At its center is Usher, an unhappy playwright slumming as an usher at “The Lion King.” He is haunted by a Greek chorus of voices — his thoughts as well as homophobic family members — who pummel, undercut and berate him.
Jackson, who in real life was an usher at “The Lion King,” is also the songwriter, and he wrote the 18 songs within the Broadway tradition, a cocktail of rock and R&B, melded harmonies, ballads and belting.
“A Strange Loop” beat out “Girl From the North Country,” “MJ,” “Mr. Saturday Night,” “Paradise Square” and “Six: The Musical.”
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10:50 p.m.
Joaquina Kalukango has won the Tony Award for best leading actress in a musical.
Kalukango won for her work in “Paradise Square,” a musical about Irish immigrants and Black Americans jostling to survive in New York City around the time of the Civil War.
Kalukango’s credits include Lifetime’s “The Mahalia Jackson Story,” starring her former “The Color Purple” castmate Danielle Brooks, and Amazon’s “One Night… in Miami” as Betty Shabazz.
She said her name means “established by God” and she gave thanks to God and her parents during her acceptance speech.
She was also in the ensemble of “Holler If Ya Hear Me” on Broadway and appeared in Ava DuVernay’s Exonerated Five miniseries “When They See Us.” She was Tony-nominated for Jeremy O. Harris’ ground-breaking “Slave Play.”
For the Tony, she beat out Sharon D Clarke in “Caroline, or Change,” Carmen Cusack from “Flying Over Sunset,” Sutton Foster in “The Music Man” and Mare Winningham from “Girl From the North Country.”
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10:45 p.m.
Myles Frost has moonwalked away with the award for best lead actor in a musical for playing Michael Jackson and becomes the youngest solo winner in that category.
“MJ” represents the 22-year-old Frost’s Broadway debut as he plays Jackson with a high, whispery voice, a Lady Diana-like coquettishness and a fierce embrace of Jackson’s iconic dancing and singing style, right down to the rhythmic breathing and swiveling head.
Frost thanked his parents and sang during his acceptance speech.
Frost was raised by his mother in Fort Washington, Maryland. After high school, he put theater aside to pursue a career in music. He attended Belmont University in Nashville for two years to major in audio engineering. He transferred to Bowie State University in Maryland for his final two years.
The bio musical is stuffed with the King of Pop’s biggest hits, including “ABC,” “Black or White,” “Blame it on the Boogie,” “Bad,” “Billie Jean,” “Off the Wall,” “Thriller” and “I’ll Be There.”
Frost beat Billy Crystal in “Mr. Saturday Night,” Hugh Jackman from “The Music Man,” Rob McClure in “Mrs. Doubtfire” and Jaquel Spivey in “A Strange Loop.” Frost unseated Ben Platt as the youngest performer to win best leading man in a musical on his own for “Dear Evan Hansen.” (Three young men won for playing Billy Elliot in 2009).
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10:31 p.m.
Deirdre O’Connell has won the Tony Award for best actress in a play for her work in “Dana H.”
“Dana H.,” which has been described as “harrowing fugue state of a play,” is about a woman kidnapped by a former convict and member of a white supremacist brotherhood and held hostage for five months. It is written by Lucas Hnath and directed by Les Waters.
O’Connell never speaks in the play. Instead, she sits on a set that resembles a Florida motel room and lip-syncs to an edited recording of the survivor, Dana Higginbotham. In her acceptance speech, O’Connell said she wanted her award to be a “token” to those wondering if they should try to create something fort he theater.
O’Connell’s other Broadway credits include “Magic/Bird” and “The Front Page.” For the Tony, O’Connell beat Gabby Beans, LaChanze, Ruth Negga and Mary-Louise Parker.
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10:30 p.m.
Simon Russell Beale has won the Tony Award for best leading actor in a play for his work in “The Lehman Trilogy.”
Stefano Massini’s play about what led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers — adapted by Ben Power and directed by Sam Mendes — stars Adrian Lester and Adam Godley alongside Beale.
It’s Beale’s third time on Broadway, having made his debut in 2004 in “Jumpers” and returning to play King Arthur in “Spamalot.”
He has had roles in projects like the Christina Ricci horror flick “The Gathering,” the Michelle Williams dramatic adaptation “My Week With Marilyn” and the drama “The Deep Blue Sea” with Rachel Weisz.
For the Tony, Beale beat his “The Lehman Trilogy” co-stars — Godley and Lester — as well as David Morse in “How I Learned to Drive,” Sam Rockwell in “American Buffalo,” Ruben Santiago-Hudson in “Lackawanna Blues” and David Threlfall in “Hangmen.”
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10:15 p.m.
“The Lehman Trilogy,” which tells the story of an American financial giant’s downfall, has won best new play honors at the Tonys.
Stefano Massini’s play about what led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers — adapted by Ben Power and directed by Sam Mendes — stars Adrian Lester, Simon Russell Beale and Adam Godley.
Spanning 150 years and running three and a half hours, “The Lehman Trilogy” illustrates the trajectory of western capitalism by following the fortunes of a single family into the financial crash of 2008, when their Wall Street institution filed for bankruptcy.
The play first arrived at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre in 2018 and went on to have an off-Broadway run and then a West End bow. The English-language version is a marathon: Three actors doing 185 roles.
For the Tony, it beat “Clyde’s,” “Hangmen,” “The Minutes” and “Skeleton Crew.”
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9:45 p.m.
A revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” that gender-switches the lead character has won the Tony Award for best musical revival.
The show is an exploration of a single person’s conflicted feelings about commitment, traditionally focusing on a 35-year-old bachelor. This time, it had a bachelorette and the sexes of several couples swapped around.
The revival starred Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone with direction from Marianne Elliott. The songs include “You Could Drive a Person Crazy,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Side by Side by Side” and the “Being Alive.”
For the Tony, it beat “The Music Man” and “Caroline, or Change.”
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9:15 p.m.
“Take Me out” won the Tony Award for best play in 2003 and this year has won it for best play revival.
Richard Greenberg’s Pulitzer Prize-nominee explores what happens when a Major League Baseball superstar comes out as gay, tracing the way it unsettles the team and unleashes toxic prejudices.
“Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams plays the star baller and Jesse Tyler Ferguson plays his unathletic gay accountant, Mason Marzac, a sweetly zealous convert to the game.
It beat out “American Buffalo,” “How I Learned to Drive,” “Trouble in Mind” and “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.”
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8:40 p.m.
Marianne Elliott has made Tony history by becoming the only woman to have won three Tonys for directing. The latest prize comes for her work on the Stephen Sondheim revival of “Company.”
The show is an exploration of a single person’s conflicted feelings about commitment, traditionally focusing on a 35-year-old bachelor. This time, it had a bachelorette and the sexes of several couples swapped around.
“Thank you, first and foremost to Stephen Sondheim for trusting me to tell his story in a different way and putting a woman front and center,” Elliott said while accepting the award.
She was an associate director at the National Theatre in the UK for 10 years, where she directed “Angels in America” and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” — both of which transferred to Broadway — and she was a co-director of the international hit “War Horse.” She earned directing Tonys for “War Horse” and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”
For her third directing Tony, she beat Stephen Brackett of “A Strange Loop,” Conor McPherson from “Girl From the North Country,” Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage of “Six: The Musical” and Christopher Wheeldon from “MJ.”
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8:38 p.m.
Sam Mendes has won the Tony Award for best direction of a play for helming “The Lehman Trilogy.”
Mendes last won for directing “The Ferryman” and he has won for producing “Red,” “Take Me Out” and “The Real Thing.”
Stefano Massini’s “The Lehman Trilogy” — about what led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers — stars Adrian Lester and Adam Godley alongside Simon Russell Beale.
Among Mendes’s films are the James Bond installments “Skyfall” and “Spectre” and he won an Oscar for directing “American Beauty.” He also was nominated for “1917.”
For his latest Tony, Mendes beat Lileana Blain-Cruz of “The Skin of Our Teeth,” Camille A. Brown from “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf,” Neil Pepe of “American Buffalo” and Les Waters for “Dana H.”
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8:30 p.m.
Patti LuPone has won the third Tony of her illustrious career for her work in a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company.”
The show is an exploration of a single person’s conflicted feelings about commitment, traditionally focusing on a 35-year-old bachelor. This time, it had a bachelorette and the sexes of several couples swapped around.
LuPone plays Joanne, the acerbic character who sings the anthem “The Ladies Who Lunch.” She has had a long history with the character and this legendary song in particular, performing “Ladies Who Lunch” at Sondheim’s 80th birthday concert.
LuPone won her first Tony for “Evita,” earned two more nominations for revivals of “Anything Goes” and “Sweeney Todd” before winning her second prize in 2008 for her performance as Rose in “Gypsy.”
For the latest Tony, LuPone beat Jeannette Bayardelle in “Girl From the North Country,” Shoshana Bean in “Mr. Saturday Night,” Jayne Houdyshell from “The Music Man,” L Morgan Lee from “A Strange Loop” and Jennifer Simard in “Company.”
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8:10 p.m.
Host Ariana DeBose has kicked off the Tony Awards and Jesse Tyler Ferguson has won the first acting award of the night.
DeBose, wearing a sparkling white jumpsuit and wide-brimmed hat, danced and sang a song that mashed up shards of musical theater favorites, like “Chicago, “The Wiz,” “Evita,” “Rent,” “Hair,” “Cabaret,” “Hairspray” and “West Side Story,” the movie remake for which she won an Oscar.
Still panting while welcoming viewers, she told the crowd that this was the season “Broadway got it’s groove back.”
Moments later, Ferguson won the Tony Award for best featured actor in a play for his work in the revival of “Take Me Out.”
“I can’t believe I get to do this for a living,” Ferguson said, thanking his mother and father for letting him move to New York City to pursue his acting dream.
Richard Greenberg’s play is an exploration of what happens when a Major League Baseball superstar comes out as gay, tracing the way it unsettles the team and unleashes toxic prejudices. Ferguson plays the superstar’s unathletic gay accountant.
Ferguson, a five-time Emmy-nominated star of TV’s “Modern Family,” has had previous roles on Broadway, including “On the Town,” “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” and “Fully Committed.” This is his first Tony.
Ferguson beat out Alfie Allen from “Hangmen,” Chuck Cooper in “Trouble in Mind,” Ron Cephas Jones from “Clyde’s” and two of his “Take Me Out” co-stars — Jesse Williams and Michael Oberholtzer.
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8 p.m.
Eleven Tony Awards were handed out Sunday before the main telecast, spreading trophies across seven shows.
“Six: The Musical” picked up awards for best score and costumes for a musical. The revival of “Company” nabbed best scenic design for a musical. Best orchestrations went to “Girl From the North Country.” And “The Lehman Trilogy” won for best scenic design of a play and lighting design of a play.
“The Skin of Our Teeth” won best costumes for a play, “MJ” won for choreography, best lighting of a musical and sound design of a musical and “Dana H.” won for sound design of a play.
The main event with host Ariana DeBose will start live at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS.
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7:15 p.m.
Darren Criss and Julianne Hough have kicked off a one-hour Tony Award celebration at Radio City Music Hall, handing out mostly technical awards like best scenic and lighting design on Paramount+.
Hough and Criss opened their portion of the telecast with his original song, “Set the Stage,” celebrating the artists who keep theater alive.
The first award of the night — for best score — went to “Six: The Musical,” with music and lyrics by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. Marlow is the first out nonbinary composer-lyricist to win a Tony.
A total of eight design awards will be handed out along with best score, as well as the award for orchestrations and ending with choreography. The main event with host Ariana DeBose will start live at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS.
“A Strange Loop,” a theater meta-journey about a playwright writing a musical, goes into the telecast with a leading 11 Tony nominations. Right behind with 10 nominations each is “MJ,” a bio musical of the King of Pop, and “Paradise Square,” a musical about Irish immigrants and Black Americans jostling to survive in New York City around the time of the Civil War.
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6:30 p.m.
It has taken playwright Michael R. Jackson almost two decades to take his musical “A Strange Loop” to Broadway and he says the recognition is a sort of validation.
“It feels wonderful. It feels like a real validation of all the time, the blood, the sweat, the tears we put into this piece. I’ve worked on this musical for almost 20 years, and so to be here after having stuck to my guns feels like such a validation,” Jackson said on the Tony red carpet.
In the musical, we meet the character Usher, an unhappy playwright slumming as an usher at “The Lion King.” Usher is haunted by a Greek chorus of voices — his thoughts as well as homophobic family members — who pummel, undercut and berate him. Jackson said there’s a little Usher in him.
“Usher is a character that I’ve certainly created to sort of deal with some things that I was thinking about. But he’s grown so far beyond that and I’ve grown so far beyond that,” he said. “Watching every night feels really exciting because I’m watching a piece of art that I started from like a really formative time, sort of really become something bigger than any sort of personal experience that I was having.”
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9 a.m.
Darren Criss’ favorite night of the year has arrived. It’s the Tony Awards. “I’ll never shut up about the Tonys. I love the Tonys,” he says.
Criss will not only be watching the Tonys on Sunday, he’ll also be working. He’s co-host with Julianne Hough of a one-hour pre-Tony celebration at Radio City Music Hall, and he’s even written an original song about the show that he’ll perform, revealing “a bit of my nerdy proclivities.”
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Coast Guard suspends search for missing Vero Beach boater
Officials announced Wednesday that the search for a 68-year-old boater who has been missing since last week has been suspended.
It was reported that Dale Allan Hossfield from Vero Beach left the Fort Pierce Inlet on May 18 at about 2 p.m.
His 29-foot boat washed ashore on Melbourne Beach that evening with the engines still running but no one was aboard.
The Coast Guard said they searched approximately 4,264 square miles — roughly the size of Connecticut — and searched for a total of 132 hours.
"We have made the difficult decision to suspend the search for Dale Hossfield," Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Delgado, Coast Guard Sector Miami search and rescue coordinator, said. "We extend our deepest condolences to Dale's family and friends during this difficult time."
Personnel with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissioner and Brevard County Sheriff's Office also assisted in the search.
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MIAMI, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Spinnaker Group, a Division of SOCOTEC, is delighted to announce that Strata Wynwood has been awarded the prestigious Florida Green Building Council (FGBC) High-Rise certification for 2022, achieving the highest score in its category. This recognition further establishes Strata Wynwood as a leader in sustainable development and showcases the commitment of its project team, including Rockpoint, Rockhill Management, Bozzuto Management, CIM Group, Stantec, Feller Engineering, Kast Construction, and Spinnaker Group, in creating a green, environmentally responsible building.
The FGBC High-Rise certification is a testament to the sustainability practices implemented throughout the design, construction, and operation of Strata Wynwood. This recognition demonstrates Strata Wynwood's dedication to reducing its environmental impact, achieving operational efficiencies, providing a safer and healthier building environment and a state-of-the-art living experience for its residents, office tenants, retailers, and resident artists, all with the goal of maximizing investment performance.
As the owner of Strata Wynwood, Rockpoint has embraced sustainable building practices throughout the development of the property. Through its collaboration with CIM Group, a renowned developer known for its commitment to sustainable projects, Rockpoint has brought to life a landmark development that truly embodies environmental responsibility.
Spinnaker Group, a Division of SOCOTEC, served as the Sustainability Consultants and Commissioning Agents for Strata Wynwood. Spinnaker's expertise in green building strategies and commissioning ensured the project's compliance with the FGBC's rigorous requirements. Through meticulous analysis and guidance, Spinnaker Group enabled Strata Wynwood to achieve an exceptional level of sustainability, garnering this coveted FGBC Gold recognition.
"We are incredibly proud to have been part of the Strata Wynwood project and to receive this prestigious FGBC High-Rise certification," said Jonathan Burgess, Principal of Spinnaker Group, a Division of SOCOTEC. "This award highlights the exceptional dedication and collaborative effort of the entire project team in creating a sustainable and high-performing property. Strata Wynwood is a testament to what can be achieved when sustainability is integrated into every aspect of development."
Stantec, the architect behind Strata Wynwood, contributed expertise and creativity to the project to ensure a harmonious integration of sustainable design principles and functionality. The thoughtful approach not only prioritized the well-being of residents, and commercial tenants, but also aligned with the FGBC's stringent certification standards.
Feller Engineering, the MEP Engineer, played a pivotal role in developing efficient and energy-conscious systems within Strata Wynwood. By implementing cutting-edge technologies and optimizing resource usage, the firm contributed to the building's high-performance profile.
Strata Wynwood is not just an architectural marvel; it represents a sustainable lifestyle and a commitment to reducing the property's ecological footprint. The building incorporates a range of environmentally friendly features such as energy-efficient systems, water conservation measures, waste management initiatives, and a focus on indoor air quality to enhance the health and well-being of residents.
The FGBC High-Rise certification for Strata Wynwood serves as a leading example for the construction industry and the wider community, illustrating the feasibility and benefits of sustainable building practices. By prioritizing sustainability, Strata Wynwood has set a benchmark for future high-rise developments in Florida and beyond.
About Spinnaker Group, a Division of SOCOTEC
Spinnaker Group, a Division of SOCOTEC, employs over 400 professionals in more than 20 offices in the U.S. and is an industry leader in the building and infrastructure sectors. Spinnaker offers the combined highly technical expertise of an expansive and holistic network of experts across six service lines: (i) Building Envelope; (ii) Energy & Sustainability; (iii) Code & Planning; (iv) Project Advisory; (v) Dispute Resolution; and (vi) Specialty Engineering.
SOCOTEC Group, a leader in construction inspection and a major player in TIC for the construction and infrastructure sectors, has 200,000 clients with operations in 26 countries, 11,300 employees and over 250 external recognitions.
For more information, visit: www.socotec.us
About Rockpoint
Rockpoint is a real estate private equity firm that employs a fundamental value approach to investing, targeting select product types and markets throughout the United States. The firm applies a consistent and disciplined investment approach across its investment programs, which span distinct return profiles. Rockpoint targets assets with intrinsic long-term value, at attractive prices relative to stabilized cash flows, and with particular emphasis on value creation opportunities and complex situations. Since 1994, the firm's co-founders with others have sponsored 19 investment vehicles and related co-investment vehicles through Rockpoint and a predecessor firm and have raised approximately $30 billion in capital commitments. As of March 31, 2023, Rockpoint's investment team with others has invested or committed to invest in 498 transactions with a total peak capitalization of approximately $79 billion (inclusive of fund equity, co-investor equity and debt). To learn more, visit www.rockpoint.com.
About Rockhill Management
Rockhill Management, an affiliate of Rockpoint Group, is a dedicated property services management company that serves commercial and residential properties in gateway cities throughout the United States. With its focus on personalized service, premium amenities, and proactive relationship management, Rockhill employs the latest technologies and a concierge-like approach to property management in order to foster an elevated tenant experience across approximately 32.9 million square feet of real estate in the Greater Boston, New York, San Francisco Bay, South Florida, Southern California, and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas.
About Bozzuto Management
Bozzuto Management, named Top Property Management Company in the Nation in 2022. Bozzuto manages over $20.3B spanning across 91,000+ residences and 3.2M+ SF retail.
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NEW YORK -- Global stocks and government bonds plunged again on Monday, and the dollar hit two-decade highs, as red-hot U.S. inflation fueled worries about even more aggressive policy tightening in a big week for central banks.
Underscoring concerns that tighter monetary conditions may cool the U.S. economy to the point of bringing on a recession, the gap between U.S. two- and 10-year Treasury yields inverted on Monday for the first time since April, an occurrence that can herald an economic contraction.
Monday's sell-off pushed the U.S. S&P 500 index -- which has dropped over 20% since a recent record close -- into a bear market, and came on the heels of Friday's data that showed U.S. inflation accelerating more than expected in May.
The figures unnerved investors and quashed bets that the Federal Reserve was gaining the upper hand in taming soaring prices.
"The Fed said it has got inflation under control. The Fed doesn't have it under control, and they could have lost control," said Ken Polcari, chief market strategist at SlateStone Wealth LLC in Florida.
"I don't see panic selling yet, but it feels like it's coming," Polcari said, adding that a fall below 3,800 points in the S&P 500 index could spur more investors to flee equities.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 2.8%, the S&P 500 shed 3.9%, and the Nasdaq Composite plunged 4.7%.
An index of world stocks dropped 3.7%.
As speculation simmers that the Fed could hike interest rates by 75 basis points at its June 14-15 policy meeting this week, markets ratcheted up expectations that U.S. rates would peak at around 4% next year, up an eye-watering 100 basis points from less than two weeks ago.
Investors are trying to predict where benchmark policy rates could peak in the United States and other major economies, as that would help determine equity valuations and how much further share prices could fall.
European shares tumbled 2.4% to their lowest in more than three months, and the euro STOXX volatility index - an equivalent in Europe of the U.S. VIX index, also known as Wall Street's fear gauge - surged to a one-month high. The U.S. Vix index also leapt to its highest in over a month.
Benchmarks in many countries including the Netherlands have suffered declines of more than 20% from a recent closing peak.
"This is happening in spite of the actions that have so far been taken by central banks..., stoking fears that they will have to go harder and faster if inflation is to be tamed, the cost of which is being increasingly seen as lower growth and potentially recession," Equiti Capital chief macro strategist Stuart Cole said.
With inflationary trends showing no signs of abating and new mass COVID-19 testing in China sparking concerns about more crippling lockdowns and squeezed global supply chains, investors cut exposure to risky assets across the board.
Credit default swap spreads blew out to multi-year highs, while cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and ether posted double-digit losses, as news that U.S. crytocurrency lending company Celsius Network had frozen withdrawals spooked investors.
European bonds were also caught in the broadening debt market selloff following a hawkish European Central Bank meeting last week, with two-year German bond yields galloping above 1% for the first time in more than a decade.
Rising U.S. yields and the flight to safety pushed the dollar index, which measures the value of the greenback against six major currencies, to a high last seen in December 2002. By late afternoon, the index was up 0.7% at 105.18.
Against the yen, the dollar retreated from Monday's peak of 135.22 yen, a level not seen since October 1998, while the British pound sank 1.5% after data showed the UK economy unexpectedly shrank in April.
China lockdowns
This is a big week for central banks with the Fed, Bank of England and Swiss National Bank holding policy meetings.
Expectations of even more aggressive rate hikes from central banks around the world have led investors to sour on the global growth outlook.
Multiple indicators of growth in markets slumped on Monday from technology shares in Hong Kong to the Australian dollar, as investors fled to the perceived safe haven of the U.S. dollar.
Investors in Asia focused on the risk of new coronavirus lockdowns, with Beijing's most populous district of Chaoyang announcing three rounds of mass testing to quell a "ferocious" outbreak that emerged at a bar.
Chinese blue chips fell 1.17% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng suffered a 3.39% slide. Japan's Nikkei slumped 3.01% and South Korea's Kospi shed 3.52%.
"Anyone trying to pick the bottom in China's growth and equity markets on the basis that China was 'one and done' on lockdowns is naive," said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at OANDA.
China's growth shares sagged, with tech giants listed in Hong Kong slumping 4.45%. Index heavyweights Alibaba , Tencent and Meituan were each down between 4% and 6%.
Leading cryptocurrency bitcoin sank 11.7% to the lowest since December 2020 at $23,462.
Meanwhile, crude oil prices whipsawed between gains and losses, as investors weighed the impact of tight global supplies on softening demand as the world economy cools. For the day, Brent crude futures settled up 0.21% at $122.27 a barrel. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/business/inflation-angst-drags-s-p-500-into-bear-market-bonds-skid/article_d172c150-240d-5968-9add-72b44634c6f7.html | 2022-06-13 21:06:53 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/business/inflation-angst-drags-s-p-500-into-bear-market-bonds-skid/article_d172c150-240d-5968-9add-72b44634c6f7.html |
By ROB MAADDI
AP Pro Football Writer
PHOENIX (AP) — The Philadelphia Eagles left their dog masks at home.
Back in the Super Bowl five years after winning the first Lombardi Trophy in franchise history, the Eagles took a different path to reach this one. They’re 1 1/2-point favorites against the Kansas City Chiefs, per FanDuel Sportsbook, after outscoring the Giants and 49ers 69-14 in the playoffs.
In their previous appearance, the Eagles became the first No. 1 seed to enter the playoffs as a home underdog. After sneaking past Atlanta in the divisional round, they were underdogs against Minnesota in the NFC championship game. They routed the Vikings and went on to beat Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the favored New England Patriots in the Super Bowl.
During that run, players embraced their underdog status, brought dog masks to the games and wore them around Minnesota for Super Bowl week. No need for any extra motivation this time around.
The Eagles (16-3) are getting much of the hype, even against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs (16-3).
With Jalen Hurts leading a high-powered offense and Haason Reddick headlining a stingy defense, the Eagles have been dominant throughout much of the season.
Meanwhile, the Chiefs had a tougher path to this point. They beat the Jaguars 27-20 in the divisional round and edged the Bengals 23-20 on a field goal in the final seconds. Mahomes played with a badly sprained ankle against Cincinnati. An extra week off has helped but he’ll face a ferocious, relentless pass rush.
“They’re one of the top defenses in the league for a reason,” Mahomes said. “They get after the quarterback, so it’ll be a great challenge for us to go out there and try to have some success.”
The Eagles realize playing against Mahomes is a tougher challenge than Daniel Jones and the Giants, and Brock Purdy/Josh Johnson and the 49ers.
“Mahomes is a tremendous talent,” Reddick said. “I don’t know if you can contain him. He’s that good.”
Both teams have scored 546 points this season. It’s the first time two No. 1 seeds are playing in the Super Bowl since the Eagles-Patriots met after the 2017 season.
The Chiefs have a significant edge in experience as they make their third appearance in this game in four years. Coach Andy Reid is 1-2 in Super Bowls, including a loss with the Eagles 18 years ago. Philadelphia’s Nick Sirianni has never coached in a Super Bowl.
Pro Picks likes talent over experience. The Eagles are stacked, they’re healthy and they’ve been the more impressive team since Week 1.
EAGLES, 31-23
2022 RECORD
Last Week: Straight up: 2-0. Against spread: 1-1.
Playoffs: Straight up: 10-2. Against spread: 5-7
Overall season: Straight up: 181-101. Against spread: 141-136-5.
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MILWAUKEE, Wisc. (TMJ4) — A stop for food and a drink five years ago changed the course of U.S. Coast Guard veteran Jorel Wester's life.
He served in the military for nearly a dozen years until he had an accident.
“I was underwater for a few minutes. That's terrifying when you have to come to the realization that you aren't coming back from this boat ride,” said Wester.
He was medically discharged from the military, which caused him to suffer from depression.
"The hole got bigger, darker, and harder to get out of. I hit a point where there was no way out of it. I couldn't find the help I was needing. I couldn't find anyone to talk to who understood. I made a decision to take my life,” said Wester.
In 2017, Wester ended his shift at work and went to get a sandwich. He had a plan, but he was looking for a sign not to do it.
"I was going to have a meal. I was going to have something to eat and I told myself if anybody stops me or talks to me, or if, 'How are you doing? Are you doing OK?' Anything. I just wanted something, someone to say, 'Ya know, you look like you need help,'” said Wester.
He got his food and was given a cup that advertised K9s for Warriors. The organization connects service animals to veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
"I kind of took that as there are other options,” said Wester. “I convinced myself that I was going to at least try."
He called K9s for Warriors and did the hardest thing he had ever done in his life. He told someone he needed help.
"It is really scary to tell someone you have a plan. It was really scary for me. But that's what I needed. I needed to hear somebody say, ‘We can help you,’” said Wester.
He says they convinced him to call the VA to get help immediately. Wester started outpatient therapy and learned he had depression and PTSD.
Wester is not alone. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for post-9/11 veterans, according to stopveteranssuicide.org.
Wester went to therapy, but he still wasn't sure it would work. He wanted to quit but he says he kept going because he knew he would end back up in the same place, considering suicide.
After nearly a year of therapy, Wester got approved to get Betsy, his K9s for Warriors’ service dog.
“With Betsy here, she is the lid on the box. She helps me carry around my burden but makes it more manageable,” said Wester.
Wester wants people to know depression and PTSD do not go away, but he is living a happier life now with his wife and kids. He wants others to know it's possible.
"You aren't alone. It is not something you have to fight alone. It's not embarrassing to ask for help. Call someone,” said Wester.
Anyone contemplating suicide can call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. That number is now three digits: 988. There is a specific option for veterans seeking help.
This story was originally reported by Rebecca Klopf on tmj4.com. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/how-a-cup-with-a-message-saved-a-veterans-life | 2022-11-11 20:43:18 | 1 | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/how-a-cup-with-a-message-saved-a-veterans-life |
It’s Patrick Mahomes’ birthday: Here are some of the Chiefs QB’s impressive stats
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Kansas City Chiefs quarterback turns 27 years old Saturday. Here are a few impressive stats for the fifth-year starting quarterback.
Win, win and win some more: In 65 games, Mahomes has led the Chiefs to 52 victories. That .800 winning percentage is best in NFL history for a quarterback with a minimum of 50 starts.
Whooping the West: The Chiefs are 22-3 against AFC West opponents when Mahomes starts at quarterback. No quarterback has led their team to more wins in their first 25 divisional games since the NFL merger in 1970.
Comeback Chief: Mahomes has the best passer rating of any QB in NFL history through 65 starts. He is 11-9 in games that he’s trailed by 10+ points. His .550 win percentage in such games is the best in NFL history, with the next closest at .390.
Playoff Patrick: In the playoffs, no one has started their NFL career with more success. Mahomes has more yards and touchdowns in the playoffs than anyone in the NFL’s history through five years. And Mahomes did it in only four seasons as a starter.
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Gov. Roy Cooper proposed Wednesday that North Carolina government spend or earmark much of a projected $6.2 billion surplus to address further a host of needs like building construction, education inequities, affordable housing and worker retention.
The Democratic governor unveiled his proposed adjustments to the second year of a two-year budget lawmakers approved and he signed last fall. They also include higher pay for state employees and teachers beyond what the enacted budget already directs.
“Despite a difficult few years, North Carolina families and communities are marching ahead with the resilience that has always defined us,” Cooper told reporters. “The budget that I’m presenting today will build on our success and strengthen those areas that need reinforcement.”
The budget proposal came two days after the General Assembly and Cooper’s administration announced the state would exceed previous revenue projections for the current fiscal year by $4.2 billion, or 15%. That news also upped projections for the year starting July 1 by nearly $2 billion.
“Despite a difficult few years, North Carolina families and communities are marching ahead with the resilience that has always defined us. The budget that I’m presenting today will build on our success and strengthen those areas that need reinforcement.”
Cooper handles the overcollections by increasing second-year spending by $2.3 billion, or 8.5%, to $29.3 billion. But there's also another $2.4 billion going to a host of itemized “investments” he places in reserves for things like infrastructure, economic development and workforce training that does not count in the $29.3 billion.
The remaining $1.5 billion is unspent, but appropriating the rest is likely to breed skepticism among Republican legislators who will review his ideas before passing their own adjustments. House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger said this week that the increased risk for a national recession warranted the continuation of “responsible and disciplined spending.” The legislative session begins next Wednesday.
Cooper's proposal contains neither additional tax cuts nor more money for state's rainy day fund. He pointed out that the fund is already on track to reach $4.25 billion once the new fiscal year begins July 1 and that income tax cuts are already contained in the current budget.
While calling his proposal “a smart, fiscally sound budget.” Cooper also added: “I think that it’s clear that (Republicans) want to invest more than they do.” Any final legislative budget would be presented to the governor, who could let it become law or veto it.
Unlike last year, when lawmakers worked for months crafting a two-year plan because no comprehensive budget was in place, Republicans sound less willing to stay in Raleigh this summer since the current budget would continue if no agreement is reached with Cooper.
His proposal includes $687 million more for K-12 and University of North Carolina system construction projects and repairs; $102 million to improve potential sites to lure large companies to the state; and $165 million for affordable housing, including first-time homebuyer down-payment assistance to low- and middle-income people.
Teachers, law enforcement officers, and other first responders, for example, could get $15,000 toward their down payments.
The governor also wants to spend an additional $526 million to cover the next year of a public education spending remedial plan approved by a judge to meet standards cited in the long-standing “Leandro” litigation. The state Supreme Court could soon rule whether the courts can force lawmakers to fund the plan.
On pay raises, a 2.5% increase for most state employees set to begin in July would grow to 5%, while state law enforcement and health care workers would get a 7.5% increase. Teacher pay schedules would be adjusted to ensure instructors see a combined average 7.5% raise this year and next, instead of the current 5%. One-time bonuses of $1,500 to $3,000 also would be offered for workers and teachers.
State Budget Director Charlie Perusse said these and other compensation proposals are needed to address higher vacancy and turnover rates in the government workforce.
Cooper once again proposed expanding Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of additional low-income adults through the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act. While Republicans have opposed the idea for years, Berger said last year he’s now open to expansion. A special House-Senate study committee began meeting in the winter to consider expansion and other health care access improvements.
“I believe that we’re getting closer than ever to an agreement,” Cooper said. “I do appreciate that Republican leaders are taking this seriously.”
An impasse between Cooper and Republicans on Medicaid expansion was the chief reason why the state never had a comprehensive two-year budget approved in 2019.
Last year, the budget was enacted 4½ months late as Republicans finally won support from enough Democratic colleagues as spending provisions were adjusted. Cooper agreed to sign it, saying the good within the budget outweighed the bad. That budget ordered the creation of the Medicaid expansion committee.
The legislature will consider any adjustments to the budget when they reconvene next week.
WUNC's Jay Price contributed to this report. | https://www.wunc.org/news/2022-05-11/gov-cooper-unveils-second-year-budget-recommendations | 2022-05-11 22:06:29 | 1 | https://www.wunc.org/news/2022-05-11/gov-cooper-unveils-second-year-budget-recommendations |
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Ons Jabeur's steady progress from year to year — up the tennis rankings, through the draws of various tournaments and, now, at Wimbledon — has carried her to a Grand Slam singles final, the first woman from Africa to make it that far in the professional era.
The No. 3-seeded Jabeur, a 27-year-old from Tunisia, got past her good friend Tatjana Maria 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 in an up-and-down semifinal at a sun-splashed Centre Court on Thursday.
Jabeur is on quite a run right now: She has won 11 consecutive matches and 22 of her past 24. Since pro players were first admitted to major tennis tournaments in 1968, never had an African been to a final. She also is the first Arab woman to get that far.
“I’m a proud Tunisian woman standing here today. I know in Tunisia, they’re going crazy right now. I just try to inspire, really, as much as I can,” she said. “I want to see more and more — not just Tunisian — Arab, African players on tour. I just love the game and I want to share this experience with them.”
Jabeur will face 2019 champion Simona Halep or No. 17 seed Elena Rybakina for the championship on Saturday. Halep and Rybakina were scheduled to play their semifinal at the All England Club later Thursday.
The men’s semifinals are Friday, with three-time defending champion and No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic facing No. 9 Cameron Norrie of Britain, and 22-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal against unseeded Nick Kyrgios. Nadal shed doubt on whether he’d even be able to show up for his semifinal after struggling through a five-set victory over Taylor Fritz on Wednesday.
Nadal held a limited practice session Thursday, mostly sticking to forehands and backhands. When he did try serving, which was a real problem a day earlier, he did so without using full force or throwing his body behind his deliveries.
Jabeur has been rising in the tennis world in recent seasons. In 2020, at the Australian Open, she became the first Arab woman to reach the quarterfinals at a major. Last year produced all sorts of milestones: first Arab player to break into the top 10 of the men’s or women’s rankings, first Arab to win a WTA title and a quarterfinal appearance at Wimbledon.
Now she's done that two steps better.
“I really don’t know what to say. It’s a dream coming true from years and years of work and sacrifice. I’m really happy it’s paying off,” Jabeur said through a wide smile. “One more match now.”
When she closed out the biggest victory of her career, she and Maria — a 34-year-old mother of two from Germany who is ranked 103th — met at the net for an extended hug. Jabeur whispered something in her pal's ear. Then, after depositing her racket on the sideline, Jabeur returned to the middle of the court for the usual victor's wave to the crowd — except, instead of going alone, she playfully tugged Maria along with her, an uncommon gesture.
“I definitely wanted to share the moment with her at the end, because she’s such an inspiration for so many players, including me,” Jabeur said. “Coming back after having two babies — I still can’t believe how she did it.”
Before their semifinal, Jabeur and Maria stood beside each other, waiting to take the walk through the halls of the stadium that lead to the court. Close as they are, the pair avoided exchanged any glances or chatter.
Close friends, yes. On this day, opponents, too, with quite the setting, stage and stakes.
Neither had been to a Grand Slam semifinal previously. Maria never had been past the third round in any of her 34 prior appearances at major tournaments — and she only got that far once, at Wimbledon in 2015.
The two hang out together frequently. They are, to use Jabeur’s term, “barbecue buddies.” Jabeur knows Maria’s two daughters so well that the German referred to her as “Aunt Ons.”
Maybe that’s why neither played displayed much in the way of emotion during the match, even after terrific points. Sure, Jabeur put her hands on her hips and Maria smiled sheepishly after one lively exchange with both at the net. And Jabeur held her left fist overhead after one particularly difficult yet effective running, twisting forehand across her body for a passing winner. Maria raised her right arm after going up 5-2 in the second set.
They offer unusual brands of speed-mixing, variety-filled tennis. On the second point of the match, Jabeur won a point by using a drop shot on a return of serve. Maria loves to hit slice forehands; Jabeur, quite capable of powerful groundstrokes, joined in on that occasionally.
After such a strong first set, Jabeur was far less effective in the second. Perhaps it hit her just how close she was to getting to the final.
Suddenly, mistakes began accruing rapidly. Her serving was less self-assured. Maria took full advantage. And then, just as suddenly, Jabeur switched back to her best self, pulling out to a 5-0 edge in the third in 20 minutes.
After 17 unforced errors in the second set, Jabeur made a remarkably low total of three the rest of the way. Maria simply could not keep up.
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CHICAGO — In April 2007, while visiting Chicago from Kansas City for the second time in as many weeks, Keith Murrell thought he was in for a payday.
An assistant to R. Kelly, Milton “June” Brown, confirmed that much to him, Murrell testified Friday.
Murrell said he was in Chicago to complete a deal with Kelly’s business manager, Derrel McDavid, in which Murrell would receive $80,000 for the return of a video tape that showed Kelly engaging in a threesome with his then-girlfriend Lisa Van Allen and an underage girl.
Brown told Murrell that he had “a golden egg,” Murrell recalled from the witness stand. Asked what he took that comment to mean, Murrell said: “I knew I was about to get some money for it. That’s how I took it.”
Murrell then took a polygraph test to confirm that no other copies of the tape were floating around. He passed the test, and McDavid — Kelly’s former business manager and, like Brown, a co-defendant in the case — then gave him the $80,000 in a bag, Murrell said.
The second week of Kelly’s federal child pornography trial concluded with testimony from Murrell and Van Allen, Kelly’s former girlfriend who testified that she mailed the allegedly illicit tape to Murrell in 2001 because she didn’t want Kelly to have it. Murrell said he showed the tape to a few friends, but kept it stowed away for six years until Van Allen wanted to return it to Kelly.
In 2007, Murrell said, he copied “a snippet” of the tape onto another VHS “so I can always have a backup in case anything happens.” He then met with Van Allen in Chicago, where they were to return the original tape in exchange for $200,000, to be split between the two of them.
Before they were paid, though, they each needed to pass a lie detector test confirming no other copies were made. Murrell said he failed that first test, and McDavid then gave him and Van Allen each $20,000 before telling them to return to Chicago soon with the original tape.
“I didn’t think they’d know the difference [between the tapes] at the time,” Murrell said. “I didn’t think they would know how long the tape was.”
After traveling back to Kansas City, Murrell soon returned to Chicago with the original tape, and McDavid paid him another $80,000.
Van Allen testified Thursday that, after the tape was returned, McDavid told her that “they should have murked me from the beginning” because she took the tape from Kelly in 2001.
On Friday, under cross-examination from McDavid’s attorney Beau Brindley, Murrell said he’d never heard about any threat against Van Allen.
During cross-examinations, the three defense teams have sought to highlight discrepancies and inconsistencies in sworn statements given by various witnesses over the last two decades.
Another government witness with immunity, Charles Freeman, testified earlier this week that McDavid gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars to recover video tapes that allegedly showed the now-disgraced R&B superstar engaging in sex acts with a 14-year-old girl.
Murrell and Freeman are two witnesses for the prosecution who have testified under grants of immunity.
A federal grand jury in Chicago indicted Kelly, 55, on 13 counts in July 2019, accusing him of producing and receiving child pornography, while also enticing minors to engage in illegal sexual activity. Earlier this year, Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a federal judge in Brooklyn after he was found guilty of racketeering.
McDavid Milton Brown, Kelly’s two co-defendants and two of the singer’s former employees, are charged with one count of conspiracy to receive child pornography, while McDavid also faces two counts of receiving child pornography and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Prosecutors allege Kelly and those in his inner circle paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years in an effort to track down video tapes that Kelly made that allegedly show him engaging in sexual activity with underage victims. | https://wgntv.com/news/r-kelly-trial/a-golden-egg-man-testifies-r-kelly-business-manager-paid-him-100k-for-return-of-illicit-threesome-video/ | 2022-08-26 22:42:24 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/r-kelly-trial/a-golden-egg-man-testifies-r-kelly-business-manager-paid-him-100k-for-return-of-illicit-threesome-video/ |
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