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Meri Brown is sharing some words of wisdom following her split from Kody Brown.
One day after confirming on the Sister Wives: One on One special that she and Kody have ended their 32-year polygamous relationship, the TLC star posted a cryptic message on Instagram about finding self-worth.
"If you don't want to make waves, keep on being mediocre," the 51-year-old wrote on Dec. 19. "Do the thing that everyone else is doing. Seek everyone else's opinion and validation. Do what everyone else thinks you should do."
However, Meri went on to note another option. "Or....Do your thing. Do your thing in your own time and on your own terms. Let them judge you. Let them talk about you. Let them create their own 'stories' about you."
She added, "Find your courage. Find your strength. Know who YOU are and don't let them tell you any different. Worthy Up, Sister!"
News of Meri and Kody's split first broke on Dec. 15, just days before she got candid about it during the One on One special Dec. 18. Meri—who married Kody in 1990 and with whom she shares one child, 27-year-old Leon—revealed that the pair had separated months prior and noted that it was Kody who didn't want to disclose their breakup publicly.
As she explained, "He said, 'No I don't want to address it. I don't want that to be out there publicly because I don't want that judgment.'"
And in the months since their breakup, Meri is focusing her new journey.
"All that I am becoming is in front of me," she wrote on Nov. 9 alongside a photo of herself smiling while wearing sunglasses. "The future is bright and holds the promise of hope, the fulfillment of dreams, the excitement of creation! I am at peace with me, with my past, with the experiences that have shaped who I am," she continued. "I am exhilarated for what is coming in my future, for the things I'm creating, for the impact I can have on the world around me." | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1358866/sister-wives-meri-brown-shares-message-about-finding-courage-after-confirming-kody-brown-split | 2022-12-19 23:17:18 | 0 | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1358866/sister-wives-meri-brown-shares-message-about-finding-courage-after-confirming-kody-brown-split |
UNC football falls to Oregon in Holiday Bowl heartbreaker
UNC could have taken a crucial step toward a higher tier of relevance Wednesday, but instead gave up a game-winning drive and lost to No. 15 Oregon, 27-26, in the Holiday Bowl, played at San Diego’s Petco Park.
With an interception-of-the-year play from Power Echols, an ensuing one-play drive to score, and a brutally tantalizing moment of watching the winning PAT hitting the upright before flitting through the goalpost, UNC fell just shy of securing a win that would have put it in elite territory.
Since coach Mack Brown returned to the Tar Heels in 2018, he’s aimed at ascension for a team that hasn’t won a conference championship in more than four decades. A victory over perennial power Oregon (10-4), would have sent the Heels (9-5) further along that path.
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“What we look at this game is we’re trying to take another step in our program,” Brown said ahead of Wednesday’s game. “You got Notre Dame, top-10 team. You got Oregon, top-10 team. You got Clemson, top-10 team. For us to get where we want to go, we’ve got to play the best to be the best and that’s why we’re so excited about this challenge.”
It's not there yet, but Brown has said several times this season that his young squad will be even better next year.
A Holiday Bowl victory would have given them a nice launching point. Instead, the Tar Heels will start next season with the same goal.
What happened?
Oregon pounded out an eight-play, 79-yard drive over the span of 2:05 and scored on a 6-yard pass from Bo Nix to Chase Cota with 19 seconds remaining to seize the lead after UNC's offense stalled before reaching the red zone. The Heels settled for a 44-yard field goal and a six-point advantage with 2:29 left on the clock.
Nix responded with four straight completions and then a pass interference penalty gave the Ducks a first-and-10 on UNC's 14. Nix ran for six yards to the 8 and the Tar Heels kept the Ducks out of the end zone for two more plays, but with one chance remaining on fourth down, Nix found Cota for the winning score.
That play capped a 414-yard performance from a Ducks offense that averaged 6.5 yards per carry.
Game-changing play
With Oregon in the red zone and looking to break a 14-all tie with less than a minute remaining in the first half, the Tar Heels delivered a one-two punch that completely reversed the game's momentum.
Nix threw to tight end Terrance Ferguson on second-and-5 from the UNC 16, but the pass was a bit behind him and linebacker Cedric Gray clubbed at the ball as it hit Ferguson's hand and then deflected off the back of Gray's leg. Then, the ball hit Echols' toe and popped up into the air where he was able to snag it for the interception and return it 40 yards to Oregon's 49 with 35 seconds left on the clock.
Fox Sports broadcaster and former Washington coach Chris Petersen said of the pick, "I don't think you've seen an interception this good all season long."
On the ensuing play, Tar Heels quarterback Drake Maye completed a 49-yard pass to Kobe Paysour for a touchdown to give UNC a 21-14 lead heading into halftime.
A tale of 2 OLs
While Maye ducked and darted around the backfield looking for open receivers, Nix was often standing pat as his offensive line held off UNC’s defense.
That solid OL play worked out well for the Ducks with Nix not yet 100% healthy after suffering an ankle injury late in the season. His usual mobility was limited, but his backs bailed him out with a strong ground game.
Maye dazzled despite his happy feet and lack of sturdy blocking. As he has all season, the redshirt freshman found several opportunities to turn broken plays into first downs by running the ball.
The Ducks’ line helped their offense run efficiently, getting their first 14 points on just 17 snaps while it took UNC 37 plays to score 14 points.
Nix completed 23 of 30 passes for 205 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.
Maye completed 18 of 35 passes for 206 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions.
Oregon utilizes run game
Oregon’s Bucky Irving had 107 yards rushing on five carries with a pair of touchdowns in the first half alone.
Through three quarters, the Ducks had a 197-89 advantage in rushing yards.
UNC made a defensive adjustment by stacking the box to stop the run late in the second quarter and held Oregon scoreless in the third quarter.
Oregon adjusted by showing blitz and then spying Maye to contain his scrambles, which netted 45 yards, including a pair of runs for first downs.
The Ducks wound up with 209 yards rushing in the game while UNC gained 129 on the ground.
Field of play
The Holiday Bowl was played at Petco Park, home of Major League Baseball’s San Diego Padres.
It was the first time in the field’s 18-year history that it played host to a football game, and transitions included removal of the bullpen door and stairs along with the addition of field-level suites.
Petco Park is contracted to host at least the next four Holiday Bowl games.
Heavy rain Tuesday night made the field conditions wet and slippery in areas, with UNC receiver JJ Jones slipping at the goal line as a pass came his way on third down. He couldn't corral the pass from his backside, and UNC kicker Noah Burnette missed the subsequent 34-yard field goal attempt.
There had been a ban on football at Petco Park until an amendment to a joint agreement with the Padres was approved by the City Council in 2021.
The Holiday Bowl’s previous home had been SDCCU Stadium, where it was played since the inaugural game in 1978. That stadium was sold to San Diego Sate University and demolished, leaving the bowl game in search of a new home until the agreement with the Padres. | https://www.fayobserver.com/story/sports/college/acc/2022/12/29/unc-football-falls-to-oregon-in-holiday-bowl-heartbreaker-drake-maye-bo-nix/69763154007/ | 2022-12-29 16:50:14 | 1 | https://www.fayobserver.com/story/sports/college/acc/2022/12/29/unc-football-falls-to-oregon-in-holiday-bowl-heartbreaker-drake-maye-bo-nix/69763154007/ |
DeRozan scores 42 points, Bulls beat Bucks 119-113 in OT
By ANDREW SELIGMAN
AP Sports Writer
CHICAGO (AP) — DeMar DeRozan scored 42 points and the Chicago Bulls rallied to beat Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks 119-113 in overtime Wednesday night. The Bulls trailed by 15 early in the fourth quarter, only to pull even in the closing minute of regulation. DeRozan scored 10 in overtime, Nikola Vucevic hit a 3 in the extra period and the Bulls beat one of the NBA’s best teams after losing to one of the worst — Houston — two nights earlier. Antetokounmpo matched a season high with 45 points and set one with 20 rebounds. He also committed two turnovers in the closing seconds of regulation, and the Bucks extended their season-high losing streak to four. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/28/derozan-scores-42-points-bulls-beat-bucks-119-113-in-ot/ | 2022-12-29 05:44:57 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/28/derozan-scores-42-points-bulls-beat-bucks-119-113-in-ot/ |
- A Mubadala backed series relaunch "The Adventures of Mansour: Age of A.I." (52 x 11') becomes the first Arab cartoon originally produced in English and Arabic and repurposed for a global audience tackling issues, such as artificial intelligence, technology, climate change and space exploration
- Builds on the current success of the "Mansour" show, which has racked up three million subscribers and 280 million watch hours with over 25 million unique viewers in the last 90 days
- Funded by Mubadala Investment Company with the support of the Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority
- A global network of talent including from the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Philippines have contributed to the new animation to appeal to an international audience
ABU DHABI, UAE, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 'The Adventures of Mansour', a widely-popular cartoon in the Middle East with over two billion YouTube views, has announced it will re-launch an all-new series, "The Adventures of Mansour: Age of A.I." (52 x 11') at MIPCOM 2022 for a global audience, tackling issues of international significance such as artificial intelligence, the role of and reliance on technology, climate change and space exploration.
Originally created in Abu Dhabi to appeal to Arab children and encourage a healthy lifestyle, cultural appreciation and an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), the show has superseded the expectations of its original, award-winning creator, Rashed Alharmoodi, to capture the imagination of children across the entire Middle East region and beyond.
Now a popular show among children in the region with three million subscribers and 280 million watch hours, and 25.2 million unique viewers in just the last 90 days, the new series aims to build on this success. As the first Arab cartoon to be originally produced in both English and Arabic, the new creators, Bidaya Media, aim to take the story of Mansour to children all around the world.
Commenting on the launch of the new globally relevant show, Brian Lott, Chairman of Bidaya Media and Chief Communications Officer of Mubadala, said: "Mansour has captured the imaginations of young audiences and established a wide fan base across the Middle East. Our upcoming seasons of the cartoon take Mansour to a new level, with the aim of encouraging children to understand issues across borders through fun and storytelling. As the first Arab cartoon to be originally produced in both English and Arabic, we have created new episodes of Mansour that build on its heritage and increase audience awareness internationally."
Set in the near future, in the technologically advanced Salam City, 'The Adventures of Mansour: Age of AI' is a sci-fi action adventure series that revolves around Mansour, a 12-year-old tech whiz, who unintentionally creates a mischievous sentient artificial intelligence known as Blink. With the support of his closest friends, Mansour must deal with all manner of pranks, challenges and dangers posed by Blink, who for his own amusement, is determined to cause as much chaos as possible for Mansour and the people of Salam City.
The series targets children aged 6-12 and is funded by Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala), a sovereign investor that delivers a positive impact on the communities where it operates, and the Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority (ECA) as part of their efforts to support children content creation that support inclusion, culture, and Arabic language.
Commenting on the partnership between the ECA and Mubadala on the show relaunch, H.E. Sana Suhail, Director General of ECA, said: "We are proud of our deepening partnership with Mubadala in expanding the available development opportunities for children worldwide through the relaunch of such a popular show. Importantly, the relaunch exhibits a healthy balance that is needed in today's world between the role of technology in our lives and the need for children to disconnect from their devices and connect with the real world. This healthy balance between the online and real worlds is at the core of this show and is key to better prepare our children for the future."
Supported by increased budgets and enhanced production values, the rebooted show has used a global network of talent to bring the fan-favorite show to children all around the world, from English voiceover performed at Baboon Animation in New York to animation production by Top Draw Studio in the Philippines.
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Between the costs, packing, getting to the airport on time and clearing security, flying can be stressful. Any surprises, particularly surprises in costs, can add to that stress.
VERIFY reader Julie asked if airlines are allowed to charge fees for any assistance you need from an airport agent. She said she was reaching out after receiving a confirmation email for a Frontier Airlines flight that warned her of a $25 fee for assistance at the airport.
THE QUESTION
Can airlines charge a fee to help you at the airport?
THE SOURCES
- U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
- Frontier Airlines
- Other budget airlines, including Spirit, Allegiant and Breeze
THE ANSWER
Yes, airlines can charge a fee to help you at the airport.
WHAT WE FOUND
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) allows airlines to create plane tickets with different amenities, and does not forbid airlines from charging an agent assistance fee. Several low-cost airlines, including Frontier, charge these fees for optional assistance at the airport for things customers can otherwise do at home or on their own.
The DOT says airlines are allowed to create different ticket types that include varying types of services. Some tickets may offer certain amenities, while others might only cover a bare-bones non-refundable flight. Airlines must clearly display the total price of a ticket after fees, surcharges and taxes are added in, the DOT says.
“It is important that you understand the type of ticket you are purchasing and what types of restrictions apply,” the DOT says.
The exception to this is that airlines cannot charge a disabled person a fee for airport assistance.
Frontier Airlines lists many different add-on services customers can purchase on its website. One of these is an “Airport Agent Assistance Charge” that customers can either pre-pay for or pay for at the airport for up to $25.
This airport agent can assist customers in printing their boarding pass, purchasing products and services, checking in to their flight and tagging and checking their bags. Frontier says customers can avoid paying this fee by checking in on the website or mobile app, bringing a printed or digital boarding pass, pre-purchasing all products and self-tagging their bags.
Not all passengers who need assistance from an airport agent are charged Frontier’s fee. Frontier says customers with disabilities, active duty U.S. military and people checking special bag items can forgo paying the airport agent assistance fee. Certain customers, like those who have paid for a pet in the cabin or for an extra seat for cabin baggage, or customers with a lap infant, can also avoid the fee.
Similar fees also exist for other, low-cost airlines. Spirit charges a $25 fee to print customers’ boarding passes at the airport, Allegiant does the same for $5 and Breeze Airways charges customers $3 to print at the airport. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/verify/travel-verify/airline-charge-fee-help-assistance-bags-boarding-pass-at-airport-frontier-spirit/536-9b0e1578-d626-482c-b805-fac1902ebc24 | 2023-04-11 21:53:29 | 1 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/verify/travel-verify/airline-charge-fee-help-assistance-bags-boarding-pass-at-airport-frontier-spirit/536-9b0e1578-d626-482c-b805-fac1902ebc24 |
Erica Herman, the ex-girlfriend of Tiger Woods, has reportedly asked a court to reconsider its ruling that their legal battle must be resolved through private arbitration.
A Florida judge ruled last month Herman must abide by the nondisclosure agreement she purportedly signed and resolve her lawsuits privately.
An attorney for Herman filed the reconsideration request on Wednesday, according to USA Today.
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"The U.S. Supreme Court has consistently held that a party cannot be forced to arbitrate without a finding that she agreed to do so, which means that in this case — with no evidence in the record — arbitration should not be compelled, or, at a minimum, an evidentiary hearing should be held," the document filed by Herman’s attorney, Benjamin Hodas, states.
Circuit Judge Elizabeth Metzger rejected Herman’s attempt to quash the 2017 agreement by alleging Woods had committed sexual harassment against her, calling Herman’s allegations "vague and threadbare."
"Herman has had the opportunity (to) provide factual specificity for any claim relating to sexual assault or sexual harassment, however, she has not done so," Metzger wrote as part of her 11-page opinion.
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Herman alleged that Woods threatened to fire her from the restaurant she worked at if she did not sign the NDA. Hodas argued that is a type of harassment, treating an employee differently from others because of a sexual relationship. Metzger told Hodas she needed more information about what allegedly happened to consider it. Hodas said he could not provide more information for fear of violating the NDA.
Whether Herman actually signed the NDA had also come into question over the course of the litigation.
Metzger also noted that Herman, who says she doesn't remember signing the NDA, hasn't denied doing so.
Metzger said that if Herman unequivocally denied signing the NDA, she would have ordered a hearing on the issue. However, since Herman is not sure if she signed it or not, that should be up to a private arbitrator to decide.
Woods’ attorney, J.B. Murray, calls the allegations "utterly meritless."
Fox News' Ryan Gaydos and the Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/tiger-woods-ex-girlfriend-asks-court-to-reconsider-ruling-make-legal-battle-public-report/article_f8c6b704-8a7d-543c-ae29-19f3bd287128.html | 2023-06-01 23:18:04 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/tiger-woods-ex-girlfriend-asks-court-to-reconsider-ruling-make-legal-battle-public-report/article_f8c6b704-8a7d-543c-ae29-19f3bd287128.html |
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers on Wednesday passed a joint resolution that would codify reproductive rights — including already-existing abortion access up to 24 weeks — into the state constitution.
The state Assembly approved of the measure 28 to 14 along party lines, about three weeks after the state Senate passed it 13 to 8 along party lines. State lawmakers must pass the resolution again in 2025 before it would go before voters as a ballot question in 2026. If passed, the resolution would provide the highest level of state protection for not only abortion rights, but also other reproductive access, including postpartum and prenatal care, as well as birth control.
“Our state, among many other states, are being tested whether we stand up for reproductive and medical freedom for Nevadans,” said Democratic Assemblywoman Selena La Rue Hatch before voting for the resolution. “Decisions about our health care, especially our reproductive health care, should be between a doctor, a patient, and those they trust.”
Since last year’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized the right to an abortion, more than a dozen states have effectively outlawed abortion and others have moved to further tighten abortion laws, including neighboring Utah and Idaho.
Abortion rights up to 24 weeks are already codified into Nevada law through a 1990 referendum vote, where two-thirds of voters were in favor. That can be changed with another referendum vote.
The standards are higher for amending the constitution, which requires either approval from two legislative sessions and an election, or two consecutive elections with a simple majority of votes. A governor is unable to veto a constitutional amendment.
Republicans spoke out against the proposal, mentioning that the protections are already codified into law and that it includes reproductive protections that extend beyond the 1990 referendum vote.
Republican Assemblywoman Danielle Gallant said she would be in favor of splitting the resolution into two proposals — one with abortion protections outlined in the 1990 referendum vote and another with the other reproductive protections — but would ultimately vote against the measure.
In an emotional speech, Republican Assemblyman Ken Gray recounted how his mother considered having an abortion before deciding against it, saying “if I weren't here, my kids wouldn't be here.”
“I cannot and will not view (abortion) as anything other than evil,” he said.
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro led a group of 40 Democratic lawmakers in co-sponsoring the measure.
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Stern is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Stern on Twitter: @gabestern326. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/nevada-advances-proposal-to-enshrine-abortion-18091865.php | 2023-05-10 21:31:40 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/nevada-advances-proposal-to-enshrine-abortion-18091865.php |
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HOUSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have dropped an immigration charge against an Afghan soldier seeking asylum in the U.S. who was arrested months ago trying to cross the Mexico border after he fled Taliban rule.
Abdul Wasi Safi remains in custody at a federal detention center in Eden, Texas, but the end of his criminal case means he will likely be released while his asylum claim is reviewed, an immigration attorney said Wednesday.
Wasi Safi fled Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. forces in August 2021, fearing reprisals from the Taliban because he had provided U.S. forces with information on terrorists while working as an intelligence officer for the Afghan National Security Forces. In the summer of 2022, he began a treacherous journey from Brazil to the U.S.-Mexico border, where he was arrested in September near Eagle Pass, Texas. He had hoped to eventually be reunited with his brother, who lives in Houston.
On Monday, a federal judge in Del Rio, Texas, dismissed the federal immigration charge after prosecutors had filed a motion asking her to do so “in the interest of justice.”
Jennifer Cervantes, one of Wasi Safi’s immigration attorneys, said she expects him to be transferred from U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She said ICE would likely interview him but has no reason to keep him in custody, especially given that the FBI has already spoken to him and found no problems.
“He’s certainly not a danger to the United States. He’s done a lot of good service for the United States,” Cervantes said Wednesday.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat, belongs to a bipartisan group of lawmakers that has been working to free Wasi Safi. She said in a statement Tuesday night that she expects him to arrive in her hometown by Friday. A news conference was scheduled for Friday in Houston.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Customs and Border Protection and ICE, has not responded to an email seeking comment Wednesday.
Sami-ullah Safi, Wasi Safi’s brother, was employed by the U.S. military for several years as a translator. Sami Safi said he is pleased the criminal case has been dropped but that he remains frustrated about how his sibling has been treated in light of his family's support for the U.S in Afghanistan.
“If we categorize my brother’s service, how many lives he has saved because of his service and how many lives I have saved because of my service being a combat translator?” Sami Safi said.
Wasi Safi’s case was first reported by The Texas Tribune.
On his journey from Brazil to the U.S., Wasi Safi suffered serious injuries from beatings, including damaged front teeth and hearing loss in his right ear.
“We are now working on his health condition, which has turned serious after months of neglect,” Zachary Fertitta, one of his criminal defense attorneys, said in an email Wednesday.
The lawyers, lawmakers and military organizations that have been working to free Wasi Safi say his case highlights how America’s chaotic military withdrawal continues to harm Afghan citizens who helped the U.S. but were left behind.
Nearly 76,000 Afghans who worked with American soldiers since 2001 as translators, interpreters and partners arrived in the U.S. on military planes after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. But their immigration status remains unclear after Congress failed to pass a proposed law, the Afghan Adjustment Act, that would have solidified their legal residency status.
Cervantes said Wasi Safi’s case is not unique and that other Afghans seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border have also faced difficulty getting their cases properly reviewed. She said she hopes her work “sheds some light on that and (helps) these guys get what I think is the right thing to do, what I think is fair for them.”
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LOS ANGELES — Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten walked out of a California prison Tuesday after serving more than 50 years of a life sentence for her participation in two infamous murders.
She left the California Institution for Women in Corona, east of Los Angeles, in the early morning hours and was driven to transitional housing, her attorney Nancy Tetreault said.
“She’s still trying to get used to the idea that this real,” Tetreault told The Associated Press.
Days earlier Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he would not fight a state appeals court ruling that Van Houten should be granted parole. He said it was unlikely the state Supreme Court would consider an appeal.
She is expected to spend about a year at a halfway house, learning basic skills such as how to drive a car, go to the grocery store and get a debit card, according to her attorney.
“She has to learn to use to use the internet. She has to learn to buy things without cash,” Tetreault said. “It’s a very different world than when she went in.”
Van Houten, who will likely be on parole for about three years, hopes to get a job as soon as possible, Tetreault said. She earned a bachelors and a masters degree while in prison and worked as a tutor for other incarcerated people.
Van Houten, now in her 70s, received a life sentence for helping Manson’s followers carry out the August 1969 killings of Leno LaBianca, a grocer in Los Angeles, and his wife, Rosemary.
The LaBiancas were killed in their home, and their blood was smeared on the walls afterward. Van Houten later described holding Rosemary LaBianca down with a pillowcase over her head as others stabbed her, before she stabbed the woman more than a dozen times as well.
The slayings happened the day after Manson followers killed actress Sharon Tate and four others. Van Houten, who was 19 at the time, did not participate in the Tate killings.
Van Houten was found suitable for parole after a July 2020 hearing, but her release was blocked by Newsom, who maintained she was still a threat to society. She filed an appeal with a trial court, which rejected it. She then turned to the appellate courts.
The Second District Court of Appeal in May reversed an earlier decision by Newsom, who rejected parole for Van Houten in 2020. She had been recommended for parole five times since 2016. All of those recommendations were rejected by either Newsom or former Gov. Jerry Brown.
Newsom was disappointed by the appeals court decision, his office said.
“More than 50 years after the Manson cult committed these brutal killings, the victims’ families still feel the impact,” the governor’s office said in a July 7 statement.
Manson died in prison in 2017 of natural causes at age 83 after nearly half a century behind bars. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/07/11/manson-follower-leslie-van-houten-released-prison/d001d4ac-2024-11ee-8994-4b2d0b694a34_story.html | 2023-07-11 20:43:50 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/07/11/manson-follower-leslie-van-houten-released-prison/d001d4ac-2024-11ee-8994-4b2d0b694a34_story.html |
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BEIJING, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 36Kr Holdings Inc. ("36Kr" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: KRKR), a prominent brand and a pioneering platform dedicated to serving New Economy participants in China, announced that it hosted the "WISE 2023 AIGC Summit" today in Beijing to explore future development opportunities amidst the rise of next generation technologies.
The Summit gathered experts from various industry giants, including Microsoft, Baidu, iFLYTEK, SenseTime, and other leading enterprises, to share ideas, strategies, and insights that inspire companies, industry practitioners, and investors to better navigate AI-driven transformation and explore the road ahead through the evolving market environment. At the Summit, 36Kr also released the results of its survey titled "China's ChatGPT Dream Team & the Next 10 Billion Worth of AIGC Products," pinpointing the most pioneering companies and the most promising products in the field of next-generation artificial intelligence.
Over the years, 36Kr has always been paying close attention to the most advanced frontiers of technology development while maintaining a sensitive and forward-looking approach toward the iteration and application of large language models as well as AIGC technologies. With exponential technological growth on the horizon, generative AI technologies will permeate all aspects of the industry's development. The successful hosting of the "WISE 2023 AIGC Summit" amplifies 36Kr's brand influence as it continues to build out ongoing initiatives in the AI ecosystem, unlocking greater growth potential and further demonstrating the Company's enterprise value.
About 36Kr Holdings Inc.
36Kr Holdings Inc. is a prominent brand and a pioneering platform dedicated to serving New Economy participants in China with the mission of empowering New Economy participants to achieve more. The Company started its business with high-quality New Economy-focused content offerings, covering a variety of industries in China's New Economy with diverse distribution channels. Leveraging traffic brought by high-quality content, the Company has expanded its offerings to business services, including online advertising services, enterprise value-added services, and subscription services, to address the evolving needs of New Economy companies and upgrading needs of traditional companies. The Company is supported by a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities. Through diverse service offerings and significant brand influence, the Company is well-positioned to continuously capture the high growth potential of China's New Economy.
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Linda Black Horoscopes
Today’s Birthday (04/29/23). Envision and plan for perfection this year. Coordinated community efforts realize dreams. A productive, creative springtime delights. Your partnership takes a new direction this summer, leading to reinvigorated autumn health, fitness and work. Invent new personal possibilities next winter. Private routines nurture your spirit.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Recharge and grow stronger with regular physical practices. Stretch first. Avoid risk or injury. Follow your heartbeat. Incorporate advice from doctors and coaches.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Strengthen basic structures with creative projects. Prioritize time with your sweetheart and family. Take advantage of an unexpected opportunity. Relax and have fun.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Home improvement projects satisfy. Keep all systems functional. Adapt spaces for recent changes. Make your nest more cozy. Celebrate results with something delicious.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Put the pieces together. Take advantage of a revelation. Network, share the news and collaborate with talented friends. Disciplined communications can have an outsized impact.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Things may seem chaotic. Generate positive cash flow anyway. Reinforce basic structures. Watch for lucrative opportunities following changes. Quick action wins a prize.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Reconnect with a sense of purpose or a dream. A personal challenge can feel both draining and inspiring. Invent new possibilities. Follow your heart.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Keep a low profile. Nurture yourself, especially. Schedule carefully to implement your upcoming plans. Notice dreams and unspoken communications. Savor your favorite peaceful rituals.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Recent changes could offer hidden opportunities for your community or team. Investigate the possibilities. Connect with friends to take advantage of a lucky break.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Creativity abounds at work. Refine abstract or vague ideas into specificity. Amplify the heart part. Grab a lucky break. Collaborate for efficiency and ease.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — Enjoy an educational journey. Work with someone who sparks your creativity. Dreamy avenues beckon. Dig into delicious inquiries. When opportunity knocks, open the door.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Collaborate despite chaos. You may need to juggle a mess to grab an unexpected lucrative opportunity. Share support to maintain positive cash flow.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — Connect with your partner. You’re on the same wavelength. Despite chaos, distractions or noise, collaborate for quick action for a lucky catch. Share the prize.
Astrologer Nancy Black continues her mother Linda Black’s legacy horoscopes column. She welcomes comments and questions on Twitter, @LindaCBlack. For more astrological interpretations like today’s Gemini horoscope, visit Linda Black Astrology by clicking daily horoscopes, or go to www.nancyblack.com.
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Personal loan rates tick up: 3-year loans still lower than same time last year
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The latest trends in interest rates for personal loans from the Credible marketplace, updated weekly. (iStock)
Borrowers with good credit seeking personal loans during the past seven days prequalified for rates that were higher for both 3- and 5-year loans compared to the previous seven days.
For borrowers with credit scores of 720 or higher who used the Credible marketplace to select a lender between August 1 and August 7:
- Rates on 3-year fixed-rate loans averaged 11.13%, up from 10.82% the seven days before and down from 11.53% a year ago.
- Rates on 5-year fixed-rate loans averaged 15.53%, up from 14.18% the previous seven days and up from 13.71% a year ago.
Personal loans have become a popular way to consolidate and pay off credit card debt and other loans. They can also be used to cover unexpected expenses like medical bills, take care of a major purchase or fund home improvement projects.
Rates for both 3- and 5-year fixed-rate personal loans rose over the last seven days, with rates for 3-year terms increasing by 0.31%, and rates for 5-year terms rising by 1.35%. Despite the increases, rates for 3-year personal loans are lower than they were a year ago. Borrowers can take advantage of interest savings with a 3-year personal loan right now. However, both loan terms offer interest rates significantly lower than higher-cost borrowing options like credit cards.
Whether a personal loan is right for you often depends on multiple factors, including what rate you can qualify for. Comparing multiple lenders and their rates could help ensure you get the best possible personal loan for your needs.
It's always a good idea to comparison shop on sites like Credible to understand how much you qualify for and choose the best option for you.
Here are the latest trends in personal loan interest rates from the Credible marketplace, updated monthly.
Personal loan weekly rates trends
The chart above shows average prequalified rates for borrowers with credit scores of 720 or higher who used the Credible marketplace to select a lender.
For the month of July 2022:
- Rates on 3-year personal loans averaged 11.04%, down from 11.1% in June.
- Rates on 5-year personal loans averaged 13.72%, up from 13.13% in June.
Rates on personal loans vary considerably by credit score and loan term. If you're curious about what kind of personal loan rates you may qualify for, you can use an online tool like Credible to compare options from different private lenders. Checking your rates won't affect your credit score.
All Credible marketplace lenders offer fixed-rate loans at competitive rates. Because lenders use different methods to evaluate borrowers, it’s a good idea to request personal loan rates from multiple lenders so you can compare your options.
Current personal loan rates by credit score
In July, the average prequalified rate selected by borrowers was:
- 8.34% for borrowers with credit scores of 780 or above choosing a 3-year loan
- 29.09% for borrowers with credit scores below 600 choosing a 5-year loan
Depending on factors such as your credit score, which type of personal loan you’re seeking and the loan repayment term, the interest rate can differ.
As shown in the chart above, a good credit score can mean a lower interest rate, and rates tend to be higher on loans with fixed interest rates and longer repayment terms.
How to get a lower interest rate
Many factors influence the interest rate a lender might offer you on a personal loan. But you can take some steps to boost your chances of getting a lower interest rate. Here are some tactics to try.
Increase credit score
Generally, people with higher credit scores qualify for lower interest rates. Steps that can help you improve your credit score over time include:
- Pay bills on time. Payment history is the most important factor in your credit score. Pay all your bills on time for the amount due.
- Check your credit report. Look at your credit report to ensure there are no errors on it. If you find errors, dispute them with the credit bureau.
- Lower your credit utilization ratio. Paying down credit card debt can improve this important credit scoring factor.
- Avoid opening new credit accounts. Only apply for and open credit accounts you actually need. Too many hard inquiries on your credit report in a short amount of time could lower your credit score.
Choose a shorter loan term
Personal loan repayment terms can vary from one to several years. Generally, shorter terms come with lower interest rates, since the lender’s money is at risk for a shorter period of time.
If your financial situation allows, applying for a shorter term could help you score a lower interest rate. Keep in mind the shorter term doesn’t just benefit the lender – by choosing a shorter repayment term, you’ll pay less interest over the life of the loan.
Get a cosigner
You may be familiar with the concept of a cosigner if you have student loans. If your credit isn’t good enough to qualify for the best personal loan interest rates, finding a cosigner with good credit could help you secure a lower interest rate.
Just remember, if you default on the loan, your cosigner will be on the hook to repay it. And cosigning for a loan could also affect their credit score.
Compare rates from different lenders
Before applying for a personal loan, it’s a good idea to shop around and compare offers from several different lenders to get the lowest rates. Online lenders typically offer the most competitive rates – and can be quicker to disburse your loan than a brick-and-mortar establishment.
But don’t worry, comparing rates and terms doesn’t have to be a time-consuming process.
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FRANKLIN, N.C. (AP) — A patient and three crew members survived when a medical transport helicopter crashed in North Carolina, authorities said.
Macon County 911 Communications Supervisor Todd Seagle said the helicopter went down moments after it declared an emergency around 7 p.m. Thursday, WLOS-TV reported.
Macon County Sheriff Brent Holbrooks said the EC-135 helicopter was traveling to Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, when it crashed in Macon County. Holbrooks confirmed all four people on the flight were alive, WLOS reported.
The aircraft was transporting a patient from a medical facility in Murphy, North Carolina. Three people involved in the crash were transported by ambulance to Mission Hospital with minor to moderate injuries and one was transported to Angel Medical Center for evaluation, Macon County Emergency Services Director Warren Cabe said.
The aircraft was severely damaged. Investigators were examining the wreckage to determine the cause of the crash, Cabe said.
Erlanger Health System in Tennessee, which operates LIFE FORCE medical transport helicopters, confirmed the crash of LIFE FORCE 6. The company’s website said the helicopter operates out of Cherokee County, North Carolina, with a base radius of 150 miles (241 kilometers).
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Kidnapped child, another missing for months found on interstate highway, troopers say
ORANGE COUNTY, N.C. (Gray News) – Troopers in North Carolina located a child kidnapping victim and another child who had been missing since May inside a car driving on an interstate highway Monday afternoon.
According to the NC State Highway Patrol, a 5-year-old had been abducted in Rock Hill, S.C. and the abductor was believed to be heading to Virginia.
Troopers saw the suspected vehicle on I-85 in North Carolina, just north of Hillsborough and took the driver into custody.
The abducted 5-year-old and the other child who had been reported missing months ago were found safely inside the vehicle.
According to State Highway Patrol, the children are under care of Orange County Child Protective Services and the suspect was turned over to the sheriff’s office for processing.
Authorities did not release the suspect’s name.
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The Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, is a multi-state partnership that experts across the political spectrum say is the only reliable, secure way for states to share voter registration data with each other.
But on Monday, three Republican-led states announced they are pulling out of ERIC — leaving questions about the future of a system that up until recently was a bipartisan success story, as well as questions about how these three states will maintain accurate voter lists without such a resource.
"[ERIC] is a godsend," Paul Pate, the GOP secretary of state of Iowa, told NPR in an interview last month.
But state officials in Florida, Missouri and West Virginia have joined a growing number of Republicans who don't see it that way.
The states announced in tandem Monday that they were beginning the process to pull out, after weeks of tense negotiations over potential changes the organization could make to appease GOP members who have been facing constituent pressure about ERIC, in part due to a sustained misinformation campaign from the far-right.
Just last week, ERIC's executive director, Shane Hamlin, put out an open letter to, as he claimed, "set the record straight" amid misinformation about the compact.
In a press release Monday, Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, an appointee of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, said the voting organization didn't do enough to secure data privacy or "eliminate ERIC's partisan tendencies."
Just weeks ago, a January report from the Florida Department of State Office of Election Crimes and Security said it had "used data provided by ERIC to identify" hundreds of voters who appeared to have voted in Florida and in another ERIC member state in the same election.
Hamlin confirmed to NPR that ERIC had received the three states' requests for resignation. "We will continue our work on behalf of our remaining member states in improving the accuracy of America's voter rolls and increasing access to voter registration for all eligible citizens," he added in a statement.
How ERIC came to be
To be clear, for the first 10 or so years it was in existence, ERIC operated in obscurity.
Four of its founding seven state members were Republican-run, and its membership has slowly grown to include more than 30 states and governments across the political spectrum, from the more liberal-minded Rhode Island and Washington, D.C., to the conservative South Carolina and Texas.
The partnership allows states to use and share government data — from election offices as well as the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Social Security Administration — to eliminate dead voters from the rolls, find the few people in every federal election who illegally vote twice, and also register eligible voters when they move to a new place.
"ERIC started with a question to election officials, which is: If you could fix one thing in elections that would make your job better, that would enable you to provide better services to voters, what would it be?" said David Becker, who helped found ERIC while he was working at the Pew Charitable Trusts a decade ago. "Every single election official we asked ... said voter registration."
The Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank, even praises states for joining ERIC.
What changed for ERIC
But early last year, fringe conservative media began to target the organization — and Becker, who has remained involved with the organization as a non-voting board member.
The Gateway Pundit, a far-right publication, published in January 2022 the first of a series of articles painting ERIC as part of a liberal conspiracy to steal elections.
The two main villains at the heart of the conspiracy? The billionaire George Soros and Becker.
Becker now runs a separate nonprofit called the Center for Election Innovation and Research, which helped distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in grants that Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated to election officials during the 2020 election cycle amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Some on the right have pointed to that work as evidence that Becker is a liberal activist, though NPR spoke with numerous current and former Republican election officials who say they have worked with Becker over the years and found him to be even-handed in his elections work.
Shortly after the first Gateway Pundit article published in 2022, Louisiana became the first state to begin the process of withdrawing its membership in ERIC, citing "concerns raised by citizens, government watchdog organizations and media reports."
Other conservative media outlets published "investigations" that implied ERIC is a taxpayer-funded voter registration drive to help Democrats, and Cleta Mitchell, the lawyer who helped Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election, began focusing on the organization on her podcast, which is influential in election-denier circles.
In November, Alabama elected a new secretary of state, Wes Allen, who had made pulling out of ERIC one of his key campaign promises. On his first day in office, Allen sent a letter to ERIC's executive director, following through on that promise.
His Republican predecessor had praised ERIC.
In a recent interview with NPR, Allen said his office was "putting a plan together" to keep his state's voter registration list up to date without the data from across the country the state previously received from ERIC.
But election officials from across the political spectrum have told NPR that it is essentially impossible to replicate what ERIC does, and Alabama and Louisiana will now just have less up-to-date voter records.
In their separate announcements on Monday, Florida, West Virginia and Missouri did not explain how they will maintain the accuracy of their voter lists without data from ERIC.
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Los Angeles Dodgers (35-25, second in the NL West) vs. Cincinnati Reds (27-33, third in the NL Central)
Cincinnati; Tuesday, 7:10 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Dodgers: Tony Gonsolin (3-1, 1.77 ERA, .90 WHIP, 25 strikeouts); Reds: Luke Weaver (1-2, 5.36 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 42 strikeouts)
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Dodgers -191, Reds +162; over/under is 10 runs
BOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds host the Los Angeles Dodgers to start a three-game series.
Cincinnati is 27-33 overall and 15-17 in home games. The Reds have the seventh-ranked team batting average in the NL at .253.
Los Angeles has a 35-25 record overall and a 15-15 record on the road. The Dodgers lead the NL with 101 total home runs, averaging 1.7 per game.
The matchup Tuesday is the first meeting this season between the two clubs.
TOP PERFORMERS: Spencer Steer leads Cincinnati with eight home runs while slugging .493. Jonathan India is 9-for-41 with three home runs and 11 RBI over the last 10 games.
Freddie Freeman leads the Dodgers with a .335 batting average, and has 23 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs, 28 walks and 35 RBI. J.D. Martinez is 13-for-40 with five home runs and 11 RBI over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 6-4, .275 batting average, 4.75 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs
Dodgers: 4-6, .280 batting average, 5.47 ERA, outscored by two runs
INJURIES: Reds: Jonathan India: day-to-day (back), Nick Senzel: day-to-day (knee), Jake Fraley: day-to-day (allergies), Nick Lodolo: 60-Day IL (calf), TJ Friedl: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Wil Myers: 10-Day IL (kidney stones), Henry Ramos: 10-Day IL (hip), Derek Law: 15-Day IL (elbow), Joey Votto: 60-Day IL (bicep/shoulder), Reiver Sanmartin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Casey Legumina: 15-Day IL (ankle), Connor Overton: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tony Santillan: 60-Day IL (back), Justin Dunn: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tejay Antone: 60-Day IL (elbow), Vladimir Gutierrez: 60-Day IL (elbow)
Dodgers: Trayce Thompson: 10-Day IL (oblique), Phil Bickford: 15-Day IL (back), Tyler Cyr: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Dustin May: 60-Day IL (forearm), Julio Urias: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Jimmy Nelson: 60-Day IL (elbow), Alex Reyes: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Daniel Hudson: 60-Day IL (knee), Ryan Pepiot: 60-Day IL (oblique), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (knee), Walker Buehler: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Treinen: 60-Day IL (shoulder), J.P. Feyereisen: 60-Day IL (shoulder)
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Chick-fil-A employee recognized for heroic actions to thwart carjacking attempt
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (Gray News) – A Chick-fil-A employee in Florida is being recognized for his heroic efforts to help a mom with a baby avoid a potential carjacking.
Mykel Gordon ran to a woman who was screaming for help when authorities say William Branch, 43, approached her wielding a stick and demanding her keys.
When she didn’t comply, Branch grabbed the keys from the waistband of her pants, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Gordon was punched in the face as he fought Branch to the ground, authorities said.
The Chick-fil-A employee was not seriously injured in the incident, part of which was captured on video by a witness.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office honored Gordon with a Community Service award, a special coin and a personal thank you for his quick response to seeing someone in danger.
“We’re grateful for the courage of people like Mykel,” the sheriff’s office said in a post on Facebook.
Branch was charged with carjacking with a weapon and battery. According to Gordon, he had been involved in another incident shortly before the carjacking attempt.
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Company has over 20-years of successful performance history with the VA
NORTHFIELD, Ill., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has again awarded Medline the contract, valued at $150M annually, to be the sole distributor of non-pharmaceutical medical supplies for the VA's Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) program. In service of CMOP enrolled veterans, Medline will continue to deliver more than 4.5 million supplies directly to veterans' homes, including incontinence, diabetes, wound care and enteral feeding supplies.
"CMOP is very pleased to continue our partnership with Medline for the fulfillment and delivery of medical supplies to our nation's Veterans," said Rick Purko, RPh, associate chief consultant PBM/CMOP. "CMOP views this partnership as a critical service to ensure that the Veterans we serve receive supplies in a timely and accurate manner, without having to leave their home."
"For over 20 years, Medline has consistently and effectively delivered a broad range of medical supplies to VA facilities and patients," said Medline Vice President, Government Chris Powers, a U.S. Navy veteran. "We are honored to support veteran patient care, and take seriously our role in ensuring the timely delivery of vital supplies."
Through the CMOP program, supply prescriptions are sent to Medline, which in turn distributes the products directly to veteran homes from the company's Tracy, California facility or newly opened 1.2 million square foot facility in Southaven, Mississippi. The strategic location of these facilities helps to minimize shipping costs for the VA and shipping time for veteran patients.
"Medline has consistently invested in new technology, as well as innovative processing, packaging and shipping capabilities, to ensure efficiencies, cost-effective deliveries and secure patient data," said Powers. "And we'll continue to reevaluate our products and processes, as needed, to ensure optimal patient care."
In addition to the VA CMOP contract, Medline also has a separate, ongoing contract to provide medical and surgical supplies to VA hospitals and medical centers.
Barbara Schmidt, Medline CMOP market director, said Medline also is "focused on the standardization of contracted products, while helping to ensure that patients can access the same products in the hospital and at home. We understand the need for consistency in the continuum of care."
To request more information on Medline's government solutions, visit https://www.medline.com/about-us/who-we-serve/government/.
About Medline
Medline is a healthcare company; a manufacturer, distributor, and solutions provider focused on improving the overall operating performance of healthcare. Partnering with healthcare systems and facilities across the continuum of care, Medline provides the clinical and supply chain resources required for long-term financial viability in delivering high-quality care. With the scale of one of the country's largest companies and the agility of a family-led business, Medline is able to invest in its customers for the future and rapidly respond to a dynamically changing market with customized solutions. Headquartered in Northfield, Ill., Medline has 30,000+ employees worldwide and does business in more than 125 countries and territories. Learn more about Medline at www.medline.com
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College students say they are struggling with stress, study says
Published: Mar. 23, 2023 at 5:40 AM MST|Updated: 32 minutes ago
(CNN) - Some U.S. college students say they’re having trouble coping with their class loads.
According to a study from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation, two out of every five undergraduates say they often have emotional stress issues.
More than 40% of those who responded say they thought about dropping out of school because of their problems.
Researchers also say that the number of college students who say they suffer from anxiety and depression has been on the rise for years and that it’s been increasing more steadily since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The findings are based on 12,000 men and women who had yet to graduate with a bachelor’s degree.
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(KTLA) – Doctors for actor Tom Sizemore, who has remained in a coma after suffering a brain aneurysm earlier this month, have recommended his family consider end-of-life decisions, according to a statement from the actor’s representatives on Monday.
Sizemore, 61, collapsed on Feb. 18 and was found unconscious around 2 a.m., his manager Charles Lago told Nexstar’s KTLA.
The actor was transported to a hospital by paramedics where doctors determined he had suffered a brain aneurysm as a result of a stroke.
Sizemore has since remained in a coma in intensive care.
“Today, doctors informed his family that there is no further hope and have recommended end of life decisions,” Lago said in Monday’s statement. “The family is now deciding end of life matters and a further statement will be issued on Wednesday.”
Sizemore’s family was also asking for privacy during “this difficult time” and thanked people for the hundreds of messages of support and prayers the actor has received.
Sizemore has starred in blockbusters including “Saving Private Ryan,” “Natural Born Killers,” “Heat” and “Blackhawk Down.” | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/actor-tom-sizemores-family-deciding-end-of-life-matters-rep-says/ | 2023-02-28 05:41:36 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/actor-tom-sizemores-family-deciding-end-of-life-matters-rep-says/ |
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others during a raid in a flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian health officials said, in the deadliest day in years in the territory.
The violence occurred during what Palestinian health officials described as a fierce, daytime operation in the Jenin refugee camp, a militant stronghold of the West Bank that has been a focus of nearly a year of Israeli arrest raids. The conflict spiked this month, with 29 Palestinians killed since the start of the year. It was not immediately clear how many of those killed Thursday were affiliated with armed groups.
The fighting comes weeks into Israel's new government, its most right-wing ever, which has pledged to take a hard line against the Palestinians and ramp up settlement construction on lands the Palestinian seek for their hoped-for state. It also comes days before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to arrive in the region and push for steps that might improve daily life for the Palestinians.
The Israeli military said it was conducting the rare daytime operation because of intelligence it had received that a militant grouping linked to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which has a major foothold in the camp, was set to carry out imminent attacks against Israelis. A gun battle erupted, during which the military said it targeted the militants. At least one of the dead was identified by Palestinians as a militant.
Images published by Palestinian media showed the charred exterior walls of a two-story building and cinderblocks and other debris scattered on a street. The military said it entered the building where the suspects were located to detonate explosives it said were being used by the suspects.
Palestinian Health Minister May Al-Kaila said paramedics were struggling to reach the wounded amid the fighting. She also accused the military of firing tear gas at the pediatric ward of a hospital, causing children to choke. Video from the hospital showed women carrying children out of hospital rooms and into the corridor. The military said tear gas had likely wafted into the hospital from the clashes nearby.
Jenin hospital identified the woman killed as Magda Obaid and the Israeli military said it was looking into reports of her death. The Palestinian Health Ministry earlier identified another one of the dead as Saeb Azriqi, 24, who was brought to a hospital in critical condition after being shot, and died from his wounds. And the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade — an armed militia affiliated with Fatah, the secular political party that controls the Palestinian Authority, claimed one of the dead, Izz al-Din Salahat, as a fighter. The ministry said at least 20 people were wounded.
Internationally-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning and ordered flags at half-staff. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for the Palestinian Authority, condemned the violence, calling on the international community to speak out against it.
Akram Rajoub, the governor of Jenin, told The Associated Press the military prevented medical teams from evacuating the wounded and fired tear gas that seeped into the government hospital, affecting infants and interrupting surgeries. The military said forces closed roads to facilitate their operation, which may have complicated the efforts of rescue teams to reach the wounded.
“We ask that the international community help the Palestinians against this extremist right-wing government and protect our citizens,” he said.
The deaths drew condemnation from neighboring Jordan as well as from the militant Islamic Hamas group that rules the Gaza Strip.
The Islamic Jihad branch in the coastal enclave has repeatedly fought against Israel, most recently in a fierce three-day clash last summer that killed dozens of Palestinians and disrupted the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis. Tensions surrounding violence in the West Bank have in the past spilled over to Gaza.
“The response of the resistance to what happened today in Jenin camp will not be delayed,” warned top Hamas official Saleh Arouri.
Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have soared since Israel launched the raids last spring, following a spate of Palestinian attacks that killed 19 people, while another round of attacks later in the year brought the death toll to 30.
Nearly 150 Palestinians were killed last year, making 2022 the deadliest since 2004, according to the Israeli rights group B'Tselem.
Israel says most of the dead were militants. But youths protesting the incursions and others not involved in the confrontations have also been killed. So far this year, and not including Thursday, one-third of the Palestinians killed by Israeli troops or civilians had ties to armed groups.
Israel says the raids are meant to dismantle militant networks and thwart future attacks. The Palestinians say they further entrench Israel's 55-year, open-ended occupation.
Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war, territories the Palestinians claim for their hoped-for state.
Israel's new far-right government, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and propped up by ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox parties, has pledged to put West Bank settlement expansion at the top of its priority list and has already announced a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians for pushing the U.N.’s highest judicial body to give its opinion on the Israeli occupation.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July after tens of thousands of protesters stormed his home and office in a display of anger over the country’s economic crisis, returned to the country early Saturday after seven weeks.
Rajapaksa flew into Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport around midnight Friday from Bangkok via Singapore. On being welcomed by lawmakers in his party, Rajapaksa left the airport in a motorcade heavily guarded by armed soldiers and reached a government-owned house allocated to him as a former president at the center of the capital, Colombo.
On July 13, the ousted leader, his wife and two bodyguards left aboard an air force plane for the Maldives, before traveling to Singapore from where he officially resigned. He flew to Thailand two weeks later.
Rajapaksa has no court case or arrest warrant pending against him. The only court case he was facing for alleged corruption during his time as the secretary to the Ministry of Defense under his older brother’s presidency was withdrawn when he was elected president in 2019 because of constitutional immunity.
For months, Sri Lanka has been in the grips of its worst economic crisis, which triggered extraordinary protests and unprecedented public rage that ultimately forced Rajapaksa and his brother, the former prime minister, to step down. The situation in the bankrupt country was made worse by global factors like the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but many hold the once-powerful Rajapaksa family as responsible for severely mismanaging the economy and tipping it into crisis.
The economic meltdown has seen monthslong shortages of essentials such as fuel, medicine and cooking gas due to a severe shortage of foreign currency. Though cooking gas supplies were restored through World Bank support, shortages of fuel, critical medicines and some food items continue.
The island nation has suspended repayment of nearly $7 billion in foreign debt due this year. The country’s total foreign debt amounts to more than $51 billion, of which $28 billion has to be repaid by 2027.
On Tuesday, President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took over after Rajapaksa resigned, and his administration reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a $2.9 billion bailout package over four years to help the country recover.
Rajapaksa, a former military officer, was elected on promises to uplift the country’s economy and ensure national security after Islamic State-inspired bomb attacks killed some 270 people in churches and hotels on Easter Sunday 2019. He relinquished his American citizenship when he contested the election because laws at the time made dual citizens ineligible from holding political office.
As a top defense official, he is accused of overseeing human rights violations by the military during the country’s three-decade civil war with the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels who fought for an independent state for the country’s ethnic minority Tamils.
In April, protesters started camping outside the president’s office in the heart of Colombo and chanted “Gota, go home,” a demand for Rajapaksa to quit, which quickly became the rallying cry of the movement.
The demonstrations dismantled the Rajapaksa family’s grip on politics. Before Rajapaksa resigned, his older brother stepped down as prime minister and three more close family members quit their Cabinet positions.
But the country’s new president, Wickremesinghe, has since cracked down on protests. His first action as leader included dismantling the protest tents in the middle of the night as police forcibly removed demonstrators from the site and attacked them.
There is genuine fear among people who want to protest now, said Bhavani Fonseksa, with the independent think tank Center for Policy Alternatives.
“Whether people will take to the streets to demonstrate again is still to be seen, especially since there’s been so much repression since Ranil Wickremesinghe came to power. Several protesters have been arrested so there is genuine fear,” she said.
Dayan Jayatilleka, a former diplomat and political analyst, said the ruling SLPP party will welcome him back, but didn’t think his return would spark people to flood the streets again. “They will be sour — it is still far too early for him to return,” he said.
“There is no way Gotabaya will be forgiven for his transgressions but I think now there is more bitterness than public rage that awaits him,” Jayatilleka added.
For Nazly Hameem, an organizer who helped lead the protest movement, the former president’s return isn’t an issue “as long as he is held accountable.”
“He is a Sri Lankan citizen so no one can prevent him from coming back. But as someone who wants justice against the corrupt system, I would like to see action taken — there should be justice, they should file cases against him and hold him accountable for what he did to the country.”
“Our slogan was ‘Gota, go home’ — we didn’t expect him to flee, we wanted him to resign. As long as he doesn’t involve himself in active politics, it won’t be a problem.”
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Adrian became the first hurricane of the eastern Pacific hurricane season Wednesday off Mexico’s western coast.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Adrian had sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph). The storm was expected to weaken again to a tropical storm by the weekend and keep heading out to sea.
On Wednesday afternoon, the storm’s center was located about 370 miles (575 kilometers) southwest of the Pacific coast seaport of Manzanillo, Mexico.
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SUMMIT, N.J., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simplicity Group ("Simplicity") today announced the acquisition of Coastal Insurance Consulting ("Coastal"), a Pennsylvania-based brokerage agency that provides insurance products, marketing, and underwriting support for financial professionals. Michael Driscoll and Brendon Healy become Simplicity's newest partners and will continue to manage Coastal's day-to-day operations. Coastal is the 42nd business to join Simplicity.
"Coastal's team is a first-rate group whom we are thrilled to welcome to Simplicity," said Bruce Donaldson, President and CEO of Simplicity. "Our unrivalled partnership will help Coastal realize the benefits of scale across their business, which will immediately benefit their agents and their agents' clients."
"We have proudly built the Coastal brand over the last decade, and we are thrilled to join forces with Simplicity," said Michael Driscoll, Coastal. "Our partnership with Simplicity will allow us to continue to provide a comprehensive array of products and marketing supports to our agent and advisor partners and will also give us access to additional resources, including Simplicity Wealth."
"We are excited about joining forces with our new partners at Simplicity and we are confident that our shared business philosophies will help us efficiently integrate to best support our clients," said Brendon Healy, Coastal. "We are looking forward to integrating into Simplicity's service centers so that we can continue to provide access to top-rated products, best-in-class sales strategies, and unparalleled marketing resources. We are excited for what the future holds for the entire Coastal team."
About Coastal Insurance Consulting
Coastal Insurance Consulting serves financial professionals and agencies with products, marketing, and underwriting support. The Company partners with industry-leading insurance carriers and offers term and permanent life insurance, disability income, long-term care and annuity solutions. Coastal's specialized service includes tailored sales strategies, access to electronic contracting, marketing resources, underwriting, quotes, business submission and case management. For more information, please visit https://coastalic.net/
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Simplicity Group is one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing financial product distribution companies, which has had 42 distribution businesses join its partnership (including Coastal). Each of Simplicity's operating businesses is directed by its local management team and benefits from access to Simplicity's group resources. Through partnership with top distribution organizations and technology companies, Simplicity seeks to provide compelling business solutions that will attract the industry's best leadership, talent, advisors, agents, and future partners.
Simplicity supports independent financial advisors and agents across the country with investment, annuity and life insurance solutions with a focus on client education, consumer value, and partnership. For more information, please visit: www.simplicitygroup.com and follow the Company on LinkedIn.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues its investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PHAT) resulting from allegations that Phathom may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Phathom securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7943 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.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On August 2, 2022, before market hours, Phathom issued a press release entitled "Phathom Pharmaceuticals Reports Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results and Provides Business Updates" which announced that "we detected trace levels of a nitrosamine in vonoprazan drug product in our post-approval testing as we prepared for commercial launch." Further, the press release announced that "[t]he Company is working with the FDA and plans to obtain approval of and implement an additional test method, specification, including a proposed acceptable intake limit, and additional controls to address this impurity prior to releasing our first vonoprazan-based products to the market." Finally, Phathom announced that "[t]hese additional activities will result in a delay of the planned VOQUEZNA DUAL PAK and VOQUEZNA TRIPLE PAK product launches."
On this news, Phathom's stock price fell $2.61 per share, or 28%, to close at $6.46 per share on August 2, 2022.
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Takes home first place in most prominent award for ESG, Achieving 100% carbon neutrality for two straight years, a GRESB score of 86 and more
NEW YORK and WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. , April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dermot Company, a national real estate investment and management company with an extensive portfolio of multifamily properties spanning from New York to Florida, just received the prestigious 'PREA Emerging Manager ESG' award. The award was announced at the 2023 PREA Spring Conference. The annual executive-level thought leadership event focuses on institutional investments portfolio in real estate, and The ESG program and awards are produced by the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA).
"We are proud to be recognized for being at the forefront of ESG within real estate investing; thank you to the Pension Real Estate Association for this honor. We also want to thank all of our partners, including: PGGM, Affinius Capital, BentallGreenOak , Principal Real Estate, Nuveen Real Estate, State Street Global Advisors, Goldman Sachs, Rockwood Capital, Lasalle Investment Management, PNC Advisors, Patrinely Group, Hamilton Lane and The Accord Group, who have all supported us in our ESG efforts," said Stephen Benjamin, managing partner, and CEO of The Dermot Company.
Since the commencement of the company's ESG program in 2018, The Dermot Company has captured, benchmarked, and monitored building performance data, standardized best practices and strategies through portfolio-level plans and policies, adopted company-wide social and governance initiatives, maintained ongoing improvements in property energy consumption, established long-term goals, implemented energy-efficiency capital improvements, integrated its ESG policies into its value-add investment business, and identified a substantial list of opportunities for further improvement.
The Dermot Company considers ESG initiatives to be an integral part of its business model and a key tenet of its brand promise – working closely with their investors, tenants, customers, vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure goals are met through each phase of their program. Highlights from their ESG program includes achieving a GRESB score of 86 out of 100; achieving 100 % carbon neutrality for two straight years; further evolving a DE&I strategy and framework to benchmark and advance its diversity and inclusion priorities; and advancing Dermot's EOS Club, its in-house resident engagement & lifestyle team.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Daniel Kwan was accepting one of the many awards for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” at Sunday night’s Academy Awards, he took a moment to assure his young son that what was happening was, to be sure, odd.
“This is not normal,” said Kwan, who directed the film with his creative partner, Daniel Scheinert. “This is kind of crazy.”
“Not normal” and “kind of crazy” are, increasingly, reasonable ways to describe Oscar best picture winners. Three years ago, Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite,” a masterful Korean genre movie and class satire, became the first non-English language film to win Hollywood’s top prize. Last year, “CODA,” a modest and heartwarming indie drama released in August, took best picture, making history for the deaf community.
If those films set out with little expectation of Oscar glory, the googly-eye-paved road for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was even more unlikely. It’s not a hard and fast rule, but, historically speaking, movies with butt plug fights and hot dog fingers don’t win Oscars. They certainly don’t win seven of them.
As a story about family and immigrant life, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” may be just as sentimental and old-fashioned, at heart, as plenty of Oscar winners before it. But it might be — and proudly so — the weirdest best-picture winner in the 95-year history of the Academy Awards. It’s a long ways from “Patton,” at least.
There was much to reflect on what has and hasn’t changed in movies since that 1971 best picture winner during a ceremony that opened with Navy fighter jets flying overhead and saw best supporting actor winner Ke Huy Quan, whose family fled Vietnam as war refugees, emotionally speak about the surrealism of the American dream.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” for which Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian best actress winner, is unquestionably an Asian American milestone. But for many reasons it’s a distinctly un-Oscar-like movie that, like “CODA” and “Parasite,” never — in any multiverse — expected any of this.
“It feels like we’re in our movie sometimes,” Scheinert said in an interview ahead of the Oscars. “At some point we’re going to get pulled out of this joke and be back to our own lives and be like, ‘Oh, wouldn’t that be cool? Too bad.’”
Yet it was striking just how resoundingly the blissfully bonkers “Everything Everywhere All at Once” trounced the competition. With acting wins for Yeoh, Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis, it’s just the third film to win three acting Oscars, along with “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Network.” No film has ever won more “above the line” Academy Awards.
At the same time, much of the old guard was either absent or went home emptyhanded. Tom Cruise, whose “Top Gun: Maverick” was nominated for best picture, was a no show. So was James Cameron, whose “Avatar: The Way of Water” wasn’t considered a real challenger. Twenty-five years ago, it was Cameron who was “king of the world” at the Oscars, with “Titanic.”
“Maverick” won just for sound, “Avatar” for effects. The puny results for two films that have together collected nearly $4 billion in box office might have taken some viewers out of the broadcast. Academy voters signaled early in the ceremony that blockbusters weren’t on the menu, picking Curtis for supporting actress over Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”), who would have been the first Marvel performer to win an Oscar.
Steven Spielberg and “The Fabelmans” was also entirely shutout. Though nominated for seven awards, his most autobiographical film and the one he campaigned hardest for, didn’t win anything. Best director went to the Daniels, who at 35, are the second-youngest winners ever.
The Oscars, more than ever, belong to underdogs. And the biggest loser might be Oscar bait.
Certainly, many of the winners were conventional academy picks. Best actor winner Brendan Fraser’s prosthetic-aided comeback performance in “The Whale” ticked many of the standard boxes. And it would be unfair to label Spielberg thoughtful memory piece — which somehow lost the “mom” narrative to the Daniels’ film — as awards-driven.
But Sunday’s Oscars suggested Hollywood — at least for the time being — is looking for Oscar movies that don’t seem too much like Oscar movies. Some of that could be attributed to the changed makeup of the academy, which has diversified and now numbers more than 10,000. That includes far more international voters, a subtle sea change that likely helped push the German-language WWI saga “All Quiet on the Western Front” to four Oscars and “Naatu Naatu” of the Indian sensation “RRR” to best song.
But even the acting winners, while Hollywood veterans, were all first timers. The wins for Yeoh, Quan and Fraser may have all partly been to redress past wrongs to them by the industry. Fraser had been largely forgotten, and a victim of alleged abuse by a prominent Hollywood Foreign Press Association member. Yeoh, a massive star in Hong Kong, had found herself pigeonholed in Hollywood. Quan, an indelible face of the 1980s, had given up acting after years of struggle to find work.
The Oscar telecast, emceed by Jimmy Kimmel, was fairly traditional, as the academy looked to quell the drama of last year’s show. So it would be easy to miss that the ground underneath the Academy Awards is shifting — and not just the carpet formerly colored red.
But it’s more than a quirky blip when a couple of idiosyncratic, sensitive guys with an absurdist sense of humor win best picture for their only feature film beside the farting corpse one. “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the Daniels’ second film after 2016’s “Swiss Army Man,” may have struck a chord because of how it channels our dizzying digital overload into multiple dimensions.
“The world is changing rapidly and I fear our stories are not keeping that pace,” Kwan said on the Dolby Theatre stage, referring to the speed of the internet versus the slow-moving apparatus of cinema.
The Oscars tend to seesaw between trends. The much-debated 2018 winner “Green Book” followed the landmark win for “Moonlight” the year prior. Barry Jenkins’ film was the first A24 best-picture winner, and now “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — A24’s biggest box-office hit with $107.4 million in box office — is the specialty label’s second. A24 swept all of the top awards Sunday, a first for any studio in Oscar history.
Backstage at the Oscars, Kwan told reporters that their “shotgun blast of joy and absurdity and creativity” ultimately comes out of his own navigation through dark times and depression.
“And I really hope that the next generation can watch a movie like ours and be just, like, oh, there’s another way to look at the bleakness and another way to kind of face it head on,” said Kwan.
The victory for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” came as Hollywood and the Oscars continue to find their footing after several years of pandemic and the scandal of last year’s broadcast. While the industry has tried to revive moviegoing, originality has been in short supply in theaters. On Oscar weekend at the box office, a “VI” defeated a “III.”
But “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” a mad rush of originality with “Raccacoonie” strapped to its head, is surely beloved for daring to be different. And at the Oscars, its win might not be “not normal,” as Kwan said, after all. It might be the new normal.
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Twitter glitches as links, logins fail
(AP) - Twitter experienced a bevy of glitches Monday as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in and images were not loading for others.
The company, which has experienced an uptick instability and bugs in recent months after Elon Musk cut its staff sharply, said, “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed.”
Twitter engineers and experts have been warning that the platform is at an increased risk of fraying since Musk fired most of the people who worked on keeping it running. Just last month, a bug left users unable to send tweets.
Already in November, engineers who left Twitter described for The Associated Press why they expect considerable unpleasantness for Twitter’s more than 230 million users now that well over two-thirds of the San Francisco-based company’s pre-Musk core services engineers are apparently gone.
While they don’t anticipate near-term collapse, the engineers said Twitter could get very rough at the edges — especially if Musk makes major changes without much off-platform testing.
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IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW) today announced it will participate in the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023.
Michael A. Mussallem, chairman and chief executive officer, is scheduled to present at 11:15 a.m. PT. Bernard Zovighian, president and incoming chief executive officer, and Scott Ullem, chief financial officer, will also participate in the conference. A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the Edwards Lifesciences investor relations website at http://ir.edwards.com/, with an archived version accessible later the same day.
Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader of patient-focused innovations for structural heart disease and critical care monitoring. We are driven by a passion for patients, dedicated to improving and enhancing lives through partnerships with clinicians and stakeholders across the global healthcare landscape. For more information, visit Edwards.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.
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It’s never too early to begin preparing your end-of-life plan and related decisions.
While it can be a difficult subject to approach, ensuring your assets and financial wishes are organized will make things easier for your family. Unfortunately, creating your final plan is not a one-time situation. It requires diligence to ensure it stays updated and on track.
To get a good estate plan in place, you should hire a financial advisor who is an expert in the process. They will give you advice about updating your insurance policies, assist in keeping records and help you create a will. When choosing an expert, it’s imperative that you feel comfortable with them, because an optimal pre-planning strategy can be incredibly personal.
Check out these tips from the Institute on Aging to help avoid common mistakes when developing your plan.
Talk to loved ones
This journey is not one to make alone. While it may be an uncomfortable conversation to have with loved ones, their input toward what happens after your death can help you make easier decisions.
One topic you must address is who feels most comfortable in taking control of medical and financial matters that must be made on your behalf if you are unable to make them yourself. There are two roles that must be filled when pre-planning.
A health care power of attorney is someone with the responsibility of making medical decisions when you cannot. It’s crucial to be clear with your wishes about remaining on life support and related circumstances.
A financial power of attorney is tasked with performing legal and financial duties such as transferring money, paying bills and delegating funds for other expenses.
When having this discussion, it’s essential to calm loved ones with the assurance that nothing is wrong but you are adamant about having a concrete plan in place.
Don’t forgo funeral planning
Ensuring your funeral is planned and paid for will provide peace of mind to your family in its time of grieving.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for HTGM, ATNF, SIX, UAA, and ADPT.
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WASHINGTON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is a statement from Jen Judson, president of the National Press Club and Gil Klein, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, on this week's actions by the Philippine government against the news site Rappler.
"In a last gasp of power, the Duterte Administration did not go quietly this week, taking a final swipe at Rappler, the hard-hitting and celebrated news site founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa. The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday reaffirmed a prior order to revoke Rappler's charter as a business. Rappler is appealing this action and will continue to operate.
"Thursday is a new day in the Philippines with a new Administration coming to office and we call on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to quickly reverse the decisions to shutter Rappler and allow the newsroom and its journalists to operate unimpeded. We view this as an opportunity for the new Marcos government to make a good faith demonstration of its support for a free and secure democratic Philippines, of which a robust and independent press is a vital cornerstone. We look forward to a return to the rule of law in the Philippines as it relates to Rappler. We expect this will be the case. We stand by Maria Ressa."
In 2020, Ressa was named the John Aubuchon International Honoree by the National Press Club, the Club's highest honor for press freedom.
Founded in 1908, the National Press Club is the world's leading professional organization for journalists. With 3,000 members representing nearly every major news organization, the Club is a leading voice for press freedom in the U.S. and worldwide.
The National Press Club Journalism Institute promotes an engaged global citizenry through an independent and free press and equips journalists with skills and standards to inform the public in ways that inspire civic engagement.
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Community Consolidated School District 59 (CCSD59) students using Imagine Learning Illustrative Mathematics showed significant improvement in IAR proficiency rates
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Community Consolidated School District 59 (CCSD59), a Chicago area school district, began using Imagine Learning Illustrative Mathematics (IM) in the fall of 2021 and showed significant gains on Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) proficiency rates and teacher-observed engagement in math instruction by the end of the 2021–2022 school year.
The IAR is administered to Illinois students in grades 3–8 and CCSD59 students experienced a larger increase in IAR math proficiency rates between 2021–2022 than the state overall. Significant improvement was noted in grades 3, 4, 6, and 8, with CCSD59 students outperforming the state by over 10% in grade 3. Additionally, low-income students, English learners, students with disabilities, and students with Individualized Educational Plans (IEPs) experienced larger increases in IAR math proficiency rates between 2021 and 2022 in CCSD59 than in the state overall.
"We knew we wanted a strong focus on grade-level standards, and a problem-based curriculum. We also wanted to make sure there was equitable access for all students," said Dr. Nicole Robinson, Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction for CCSD59. "We found that with Illustrative Math from Imagine Learning."
"Our three-year goal is that 80% or more of our students are able to adequately be supported by our core instruction," shared Michelle Benages, K–12 Math Coordinator for CCSD59. "We started off the 2021–2022 school year, prior to implementing IM, at 60%. We've already grown 5% after our first year of implementation."
A recent study showed student perceptions of math instruction in CCSD59 grew substantially more positive after the introduction of IM compared to student perceptions of math instruction in the state as a whole. Students perception of math instruction was "Strong" or "Very Strong" in all elementary and middle schools in CCSD59 after the first year of using Imagine Learning Illustrative Mathematics.
"I am seeing so much growth in teachers and students working together," stated Jackie Townsend, Instructional Coach at CCSD59. "The students own their learning and are proud to share what they have taken away with their classmates, their peers, and their teacher."
CCSD59 is comprised of 15 schools and over 5,000 students. Over 50% of the students are classified as low income and 46% are English learners. Learn more about the CCSD59 Imagine Learning Illustrative Mathematics implementation story here.
Imagine Learning Illustrative Mathematics offers the highest quality IM-Certified® core math curricula for grades K–12, powered by a best-in-class integrated learning and implementation experience. It leverages the power of problem-based curricula to give all students equity and access to grade-level mathematics—ensuring each student is an active participant in their learning. Imagine Learning is one of Illustrative Mathematics' certified partners.
About Imagine Learning:
Imagine Learning provides digital-first PreK–12 learning solutions for core instruction, supplemental and intervention, courseware, and virtual school services. Our mission is to ignite learning breakthroughs with forward-thinking solutions at the intersection of people, curricula, and technology. We serve 15 million students—partnering with more than half of districts nationwide.
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Second arrest made in Salisbury bowling alley parking lot shooting
He was issued a $210,000 bond.
SALISBURY, N.C. (WBTV) - Salisbury police have charged a second person in connection with a bowling alley shooting.
William Isaac Darry Sanders was arrested Sunday for his role in the shooting at the Woodleaf Lanes parking lot.
[Previous coverage: One person shot at Salisbury bowling center parking lot]
Dannie Lee Owens Jr. was struck but his injuries were minor, officials said.
Sanders was charged with robbery with firearms or other dangerous weapons, assault with serious bodily injury, assault on a female, larceny from person, larceny of firearm, larceny motor vehicle and possession of firearm by felon.
He was issued a $210,000 bond.
His arrest comes almost a week after the arrest of Nhekiyi Chambers. She is accused of trying to burn Owens’ car, which had been reported stolen. She was charged with felony accessory after the fact.
Anyone with information should contact the Salisbury Police Department.
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Here's what you need to know about July's Tequila, Taco & Cerveza Fest
The Tequila, Taco & Ceraza Fest is back this month with eight food trucks competing for best taco and over 40 tequilas to sample.
Party Tenders Events will take over the Plaza de Las Cruces from 6 p.m. to midnight Saturday, July 15 for food, drinks, entertainment and competition.
According to a news release, entertainment will include 15 minutes of Luchador fights every hour on the half hour, live music, a classic car show, yard games, carnival games and craft vendors. Live bands include Satisfied, Mariachi Paso del Norte, DJ Rob E with emcee Jerry Karnes.
Tacos will be provided by Las Cruces and El Paso food trucks, which will also compete for best taco:
- El Merendero
- Green Chile Paddywagon
- Gorditas Dona Maria
- Kids Global
- Grubahbite
- La Ristra Express
- Los Corrales
- Sugar Drip
Attendees enter the plaza between RAD Retrocade and The Boneyard on La Placita. The Plaza de Las Cruces is located at 100 N. Main St.
Tickets are $20 for designated drivers and people under 21. Tickets for those 21 range between $30 and $65. Children 12 and under will be admitted for free when with a parent.
Tickets will be available at the gate until sold out. People can purchase tickets online ahead of the event at TTCFEST.Eventbrite.com.
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Smoke from Canadian wildfires is still producing elevated levels of fine particulates in the region, prompting the fourth consecutive day of air quality alerts.
“Exposure to smoke can cause health problems for anyone, but certain groups are more at risk than others,” said Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff in a statement. “These include people with chronic heart or lung disease, children, the elderly and pregnant women. It is important to take precautions until our air quality improves.”
The air quality index for Friday is 103 in Dayton, 123 in Cincinnati and 97 in Columbus, according to AirNow. Any reading above 101 is considered hazardous for sensitive groups.
Smoke from wildfires contains particulates, which can be inhaled into your lungs and cause irritation of the eyes, nose or throat, coughing, shortness of breath, and chest pain; and can also aggravate chronic heart and lung conditions, Vanderhoff said.
In a Canadian fire season that is just getting started but could become the worst on record, more than 400 blazes — more than one-third of them in Quebec — burned Thursday and displaced 20,000 people in Canada. The smoke billowing from the fires sent plumes of fine particulate matter as far away as North Carolina and northern Europe, the Associated Press reported.
U.S. National Weather Service meteorologist Bryan Ramsey said the smoke will probably be hanging around.
“Conditions are likely to remain unhealthy, at least until the wind direction changes or the fires get put out,” Ramsey said. “Since the fires are raging — they’re really large — they’re probably going to continue for weeks. But it’s really just going be all about the wind shift.”
The smoke has led Major League Baseball to postpone some games, caused thousands of flights to be delayed and closed parks, including the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
The most important precaution is to limit outdoor activity, especially outdoor exercise, and to spend more time indoors, Vanderhoff said.
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- Registrational Phase 2 data demonstrate olutasidenib's potential as a market-leading, oral, mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (mIDH1) inhibitor for the treatment of relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia
- FDA has accepted Forma's NDA for olutasidenib, with a PDUFA target action date of February 15, 2023
- Forma to receive an upfront payment of $2.0 million and is eligible to receive an additional $17.5 million upon the achievement of certain near-term regulatory, approval, and first commercial sale milestones, as well as potential future development and commercial milestone payments of $215.5 million and tiered royalties in the low-teens to mid-thirties
- If approved, olutasidenib would be Rigel's second commercial product in hematology-oncology and highly synergistic with Rigel's existing commercial and medical affairs infrastructure
- Rigel to host conference call today to discuss transaction details at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time and will be joined by Key Opinion Leader and olutasidenib Phase 2 trial investigator, Jorge E. Cortes, M.D.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and WATERTOWN, Mass., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RIGL) and Forma Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: FMTX) today announced that they have entered into an exclusive, worldwide license agreement to develop, manufacture and commercialize olutasidenib, an oral, small molecule inhibitor of mIDH1 being investigated for the treatment of relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (R/R AML) and other malignancies.
In a Phase 2 registrational study of olutasidenib in patients with mIDH1 R/R AML, olutasidenib demonstrated a robust composite complete remission rate and duration of response and was well-tolerated. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted Forma's New Drug Application (NDA) for olutasidenib. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) target action date is February 15, 2023.
"Olutasidenib is a potential market-leading treatment that we believe, based on the registrational Phase 2 data, can improve outcomes in patients with mIDH1+ relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia, and is a strategic fit for our business," said Raul Rodriguez, Rigel's president and CEO. "This transaction expands our hematology-oncology portfolio and enables us to leverage our strong commercial capabilities to provide a potential new therapy for these patients who remain underserved despite currently available therapies."
"The compelling efficacy and safety data generated to date highlight the potential for olutasidenib to transform the treatment of mIDH1+ R/R AML. The development and approval of olutasidenib, pending a favorable FDA decision, would represent an important milestone for Forma that highlights our R&D capabilities," said Frank Lee, Forma's president and CEO. "Given Rigel's focus on hematologic diseases and cancers and the strength of their commercial infrastructure, we believe they are well-positioned to execute on our shared objective of delivering olutasidenib to patients in need."
The registrational cohort of the open-label Phase 2 study evaluated olutasidenib as monotherapy in 153 mIDH1+ R/R AML patients. The primary efficacy-evaluable population of the cohort was comprised of 123 R/R AML patients, who received olutasidenib 150 mg twice daily at least six months prior to the interim analysis cutoff date of June 18, 2020 and had a centrally confirmed IDH1 mutation. The primary endpoint was a composite of a complete remission (CR) plus a complete remission with partial hematological recovery (CRh), defined as less than 5% blasts in the bone marrow, no evidence of disease, and partial recovery of peripheral blood counts (platelets >50,000/microliter and ANC >500/microliter).
Results from the interim analysis of the trial1 demonstrated a 33% CR+CRh in mIDH1+ R/R AML patients. Among those with CR+CRh, the estimated 18-month survival was 87% and the median duration of CR+CRh was not yet reached, with a more conservative sensitivity analysis indicating a median duration of 13.8 months. Importantly, these data provide compelling evidence of clinical efficacy with a durable response and a favorable tolerability profile, both of which we believe differentiates olutasidenib from other currently available treatment options for mIDH1+ R/R AML patients.
Olutasidenib was well-tolerated, with adverse events (AEs) being consistent with the late stage of disease and the heavily pre-treated population. A safety analysis for all 153 patients enrolled in the registrational Phase 2 study found the most common grade 3/4 (≥ 10%) treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) were febrile neutropenia (20%), anemia (19%), thrombocytopenia (16%), and neutropenia (13%).
Updated data from the registrational study will be presented at an upcoming medical congress.
"The data from the Phase 2 registrational trial of olutasidenib demonstrated encouraging results, particularly on durability and survival, with median duration of response that appears to be longer than currently available treatment options and an 18-month survival rate among those with CR+CRh of 87%," said Jorge E. Cortes, M.D., Director, Georgia Cancer Center, Cecil F. Whitaker Jr., GRA Eminent Scholar Chair in Cancer, and Phase 2 trial investigator. "Given the trial's compelling efficacy data in duration of response, the favorable tolerability profile, and the still limited treatment options of patients with mIDH1+ R/R AML, olutasidenib has the potential to be an important new treatment option for patients."
Under the terms of the agreement, Forma will receive an upfront payment of $2.0 million, and is eligible to receive an additional $17.5 million upon the achievement of certain near-term regulatory, approval, and first commercial sale milestones. In addition, Forma is eligible to receive a total of up to an additional $215.5 million in connection with the achievement of certain development and commercial milestones. Forma is also eligible to receive tiered royalties in the low-teens to mid-thirties. Moving forward, Rigel will be responsible for the potential launch and commercialization of olutasidenib in the U.S., and intends to work with potential partners to further develop and commercialize olutasidenib outside the U.S.
Conference Call and Webcast Today at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, with KOL and Olutasidenib Phase 2 trial investigator, Jorge E. Cortes, M.D.
Rigel will host a live conference call and webcast today at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (1:30 p.m. Pacific Time) to discuss financial results, provide an update on the business, including the licensing agreement for olutasidenib. The conference call will also feature a presentation of the olutasidenib Phase 2 interim results by Jorge E. Cortes, M.D., Director, Georgia Cancer Center, Cecil F. Whitaker Jr., GRA Eminent Scholar Chair in Cancer, and Phase 2 trial investigator.
Participants can access the live conference call by dialing (877) 407-3088 (domestic) or (201) 389-0927 (international). The conference call will also be webcast live and can be accessed from the Investor Relations section of the company's website at www.rigel.com. The webcast will be archived and available for replay after the call via the Rigel website.
About Olutasidenib and AML
Olutasidenib is an oral, small molecule investigational agent designed to selectively bind to and inhibit mutated IDH1 enzymes. This targeted treatment has the potential to provide therapeutic benefit by reducing 2-HG levels and restoring normal cellular differentiation. IDH1 is a natural enzyme that is part of the normal metabolism of all cells. When mutated, IDH1 activity can promote blood malignancies and solid tumors. IDH1 mutations are present in 6 to 9 percent of patients with AML2. AML is a rapidly progressing cancer of the bone marrow and blood3. AML occurs primarily in adults and accounts for about 1 percent of all adult cancers. The American Cancer Society estimates that about 20,940 new cases, most in adults, arose in 2021 in the United States alone.4 Quality of life declines for patients with each successive line of treatment for AML, and well-tolerated treatments in relapsed or refractory disease remain an unmet need.
About Rigel
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is a biotechnology company dedicated to discovering, developing, and providing novel small molecule drugs that significantly improve the lives of patients with hematologic disorders, cancer, and rare immune diseases. Rigel's pioneering research focuses on signaling pathways that are critical to disease mechanisms. The company's first FDA-approved product is TAVALISSE® (fostamatinib disodium hexahydrate) tablets, the only oral spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) inhibitor for the treatment of adult patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia who have had an insufficient response to a previous treatment. The product is also commercially available in Europe (TAVLESSE), the United Kingdom (TAVLESSE) and Canada (TAVALISSE) for the treatment of chronic immune thrombocytopenia in adult patients.
Fostamatinib is currently being studied in a Phase 3 clinical trial (NCT03764618) for the treatment of warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia (wAIHA)5; a Phase 3 clinical trial (NCT04629703) for the treatment of hospitalized high-risk patients with COVID-195 and an NIH/NHLBI-sponsored Phase 3 clinical trial (ACTIV-4 Host Tissue Trial, NCT04924660) for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients.
Rigel's other clinical programs include its interleukin receptor-associated kinase (IRAK) inhibitor program, and a receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase (RIPK) inhibitor program in clinical development with partner Eli Lilly and Company. In addition, Rigel has product candidates in development with partners BerGenBio ASA and Daiichi Sankyo.
For further information, visit www.rigel.com or follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
Please see www.TAVALISSE.com for full Prescribing Information.
About Forma Therapeutics
Forma Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, development, and commercialization of novel therapeutics to transform the lives of patients with rare hematologic diseases and cancers. Our pipeline is led by etavopivat, an investigational, once-daily, selective pyruvate kinase-R (PKR) activator designed to be a disease-modifying therapy with the potential to improve red blood cell (RBC) health and transform the lives of people living with sickle cell disease, thalassemia, and lower risk MDS. Our R&D engine combines deep biology insight, chemistry expertise and clinical development capabilities to create drug candidates with differentiated mechanisms of action focused on indications with high unmet need. Our work has generated a broad proprietary portfolio of programs with the potential to provide profound patient benefit.
For more information, please visit www.FormaTherapeutics.com or follow us on Twitter @FORMAInc and LinkedIn.
- De Botton, S., et al. Journal of Clinical Oncology 39, no. 15_suppl (May 20, 2021) 7006-7006.
- NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology, Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Version 2.2022 – June 14, 2022. https://www.nccn.org/guidelines/guidelines-detail?category=1&id=1411
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Accessed July 25, 2022. https://www.lls.org/leukemia/acute-myeloid-leukemia
- The American Cancer Society. Key statistics for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Revised January 12, 2021. Accessed Dec. 2, 2021 at https://www.cancer.org/cancer/acute-myeloid-leukemia/about/key-statistics.html.
- The product for this use or indication is investigational and has not been proven safe or effective by any regulatory authority.
Rigel Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, that olutasidenib may provide a meaningful benefit to people with relapsed or/ refractory acute myeloid leukemia, our ability to commercialize olutasidenib in the U.S. and identify potential partners outside of the U.S., and our expectations related to the potential and market opportunity of olutasidenib as therapeutics for R/R AML and other conditions. Any statements contained in this press release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as "plan", "potential", "may", "expects", "will" and similar expressions in reference to future periods. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based on Rigel's current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions regarding the future of our business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions, and hence they inherently involve significant risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, risks that the FDA, EMA or other regulatory authorities may make adverse decisions regarding olutasidenib; risks that clinical trials may not be predictive of real-world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; risks that olutasidenib may have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuses; the availability of resources to develop Rigel's product candidates; market competition; as well as other risks detailed from time to time in Rigel's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and subsequent filings. Any forward-looking statement made by us in this press release is based only on information currently available to us and speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Rigel does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, and expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein, except as required by law.
Forma Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including, without limitation, express or implied statements regarding the company's beliefs and expectations regarding: therapeutic potential, clinical benefits, mechanisms of action, efficacy, and safety of olutasidenib; the potential commercial and collaboration opportunities, including potential future collaborators, as well as the potential value and market for olutasidenib; potential milestone payments; and presentation of additional data at upcoming scientific conferences. The words "may," "will," "could," "would," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "intend," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "project," "potential," "continue," "target" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.
Any forward-looking statements in this press release are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and important factors that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by any forward-looking statements contained in this press release, including, without limitation, those risks and uncertainties associated with the following: positive results from a clinical study may not necessarily be predictive of the results of future or ongoing clinical studies; adverse regulatory decisions relating to olutasidenib; Rigel's ability to successfully develop and commercialize olutasidenib and achieve milestones, including identifying successful collaboration opportunities as well as those risks and uncertainties set forth more fully under the caption "Risk Factors" in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended May 6, 2022, filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and subsequent filings with the SEC. Forma disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any such statements to reflect any change in expectations or in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements may be based, or that may affect the likelihood that actual results will differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release represent Forma's views only as of the date hereof and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date. Forma explicitly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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Sexual assault spike spurs military to focus on prevention
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alarmed by a dramatic increase in reported sexual assaults in the military, defense leaders said Thursday they want to beef up prevention, but they are struggling to find people to hire and are still developing programs they think can work, after nearly two decades of trying.
The idea of preventing a sexual assault before it happens isn’t new. The military services have been casting about for ways to do it for years and appear to have made little progress. But this year, officials said they are bolstered by an infusion of $479 million to hire as many as 2,400 personnel for a new “prevention workforce.”
The latest assault numbers show how much prevention programs haven’t worked. Overall, the number of reported sexual assaults involving members of the military jumped by 13% last year, driven by significant increases in the Army and the Navy.
At the same time, nearly 36,000 service members said in a confidential survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact — a dramatic increase over the roughly 20,000 who said that in a similar 2018 survey. The conclusion, said officials, is that more service members than at any time before are experiencing some type of unwanted sexual contact, and far fewer are reporting it.
“The decline in the reporting rate,” said Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., “suggests trust and faith in the military is on the wrong trajectory.” Speier, who heads the House Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee, said she plans to hold a hearing in the coming weeks on the issue.
The survey found that military units that have poor command climates or have instances of gender discrimination or sexual harassment are more likely also to see more serious sexual assaults. So one prevention effort is focused on better assessing military commanders at all levels, and using command climate surveys to weed out poor leaders.
Army leaders — who saw an increase of nearly 26% in reported assaults last year — said they realized last summer that the numbers were trending badly. Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston said the service had been spending most of its energy on responding to assaults, rather than how to prevent them.
As a result, the Army is improving how it does command climate surveys, including randomly selecting soldiers to provide feedback and using those surveys in determining promotions.
“I expect our leaders to maintain positive command climates where our soldiers feel safe and can thrive,” said Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, adding that the Army is committed to focusing more on prevention and reforming the systems.
Another program the Army started involves more immediate training for younger recruits as they move to their first duty posts.
Grinston said the new training, done in the first 72 hours of a soldier’s arrival, involves vignettes and role-playing to instruct troops on proper behavior and what to do if something bad starts to happen. He said that at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, where the program is in use, the number of sexual assault cases to date this fiscal year is about half of what it was last year.
Other bases, including Fort Hood in Texas, are doing similar training, teaching soldiers how to identify problems and react better and more quickly. Moving the training to earlier in a soldier’s first job puts greater emphasis on it and is designed to set the tone for behavior going forward.
Building a new prevention workforce, however, is only slowly getting off the ground. A key challenge is the tight labor market, said Beth Foster, executive director of the Pentagon’s office of force resiliency.
“That’s been a challenge for us,” said Foster. “It is difficult in the labor environment in this country right now to hire specialized personnel.”
She said the department is developing a recruitment plan and hopes to tap into colleges and universities and also seek professionals who are military spouses or veterans. She said it’s difficult to say how many — if any — people have actually been hired because the various military services are doing that themselves.
Once in place, the money and the hiring will “go a long way toward funding and sustaining change over time,” said Nate Galbreath, acting director of the Pentagon’s sexual assault prevention and response office.
More than half of those in the survey said they were not satisfied with the response of their chain of command or law enforcement to their particular incident, and 30% to 40% were unhappy with the assault response staff. Those totals, said department officials, showed a sharp, and unusual, decline in trust since 2018, when the survey was last conducted.
The distrust was far greater among women.
For example, just 39% of women said they trusted the military to treat them with dignity and respect, and 40% didn’t trust that the military would ensure their safety after the assault incident.
Ashlea Klahr, director of health and resilience research for the Pentagon, said some of the decline may reflect a broader distrust in the military and other government organizations that has deepened in recent years.
“We also see declining retention intentions, and declining confidence in potential recruits and in their influencers in terms of whether or not the military is doing a good job of addressing sexual assault,” she said.
In addition, assault prevention and response staff — including victims’ advocates, lawyers and response coordinators — reported a sharp spike in stress, job burnout and fatigue. They complained about the impact of the pandemic on their ability to treat people and do their jobs.
Unwanted sexual conduct — which includes everything from rape to touching — increased across the board last year in the military. In addition to the Army’s nearly 26% jump, the increase in Navy reports was about 9%, the Air Force was a bit more than 2% and the Marine Corps was less than 2%.
The big increases come as all the services — particularly the Army —- are struggling to meet recruiting goals this year. Officials agree that increased sexual assaults can hurt recruiting, as parents and other influencers become more wary of allowing young people to serve.
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The royal family is not pleased with Meghan Markle’s recent comments. The Duchess of Sussex got candid this week when she shared certain aspects of her life as a senior working royal during both an interview with The Cut and episode two of her Archetypes podcast.
A source tells ET that the "royal family is disappointed by Meghan Markle’s latest comments in The Cut magazine and on her podcast. They are distressed that after stepping back from the royal family -- claiming a need for privacy -- she continues to publicize family matters in public," the source says.
The source added that there is a “loss of trust” with Meghan.
During her interview with The Cut, the 41-year-old detailed her life in Montecito, California, and addressed the “bittersweet” transition that she and Prince Harry made after stepping away from royal life in 2020.
Inside the magazine, the duchess shared how she had to give up her Instagram account, lifestyle blog and passport when joining the royal family. The former Suits actress also added that she "never had to sign anything that restricts me from talking" and that she is in control of what she says and does not say about her experience.
"I can talk about my whole experience and make a choice not to," she told the outlet. When she was asked by the reporter why she chooses not to talk, Meghan shared, "Still healing."
In the interview, Meghan also made comments about her strained relationship with her father. Following the interview, Meghan’s rep clarified to ET that remarks made by her husband were not regarding his relationship with his father, Prince Charles, but rather Meghan and Thomas Markle's relationship.
Another source close to Prince Charles shared with ET that he was “saddened” over comments made in The Cut if Harry felt his relationship with his father was broken.
The source close to Prince Charles noted, "The Prince of Wales loves both his sons.”
Meghan’s comments didn’t stop with The Cut. On Tuesday, the second episode of her podcast, Archetypes, dropped and featured a chat with Mariah Carey about growing up bi-racial and the word “diva.”
During the conversation, Meghan candidly shared that her race came into question more than any other point in her life when she began dating Harry in 2016. “If there’s any time in my life that it’s been more focused on my race, it’s only when I started dating my husband,” she told Carey.
“Then I started to understand what it was like to be treated like a Black woman. Because up until then, I had been treated like a mixed woman. And things really shifted," she shared.
Meghan, who is the mother of Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 1, has been candid about how the racism she faced from both members of the royal family and the British media affected her family’s decision to move back to the United States.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest Cold-Storage Cryptocurrency competitive assessment by global technology intelligence firm ABI Research provides an in-depth and unbiased examination and ranking of seven prominent solution providers of Cold-Storage Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets.
The rankings are based on various chosen criteria, split into two overarching categories, covering implementation and innovation, including supported currencies, ease of access/use, security, functionality, connectivity support, global reach, product/service range, partnerships/customers, and financial strength. These criteria were identified as the most vital for the continual growth of market development and the relevance of cold-storage wallets. The companies evaluated and ranked are:
- Market Leaders: Ledger, SatoshiLabs, CompoSecure, NGRAVE
- Mainstream: ShapeShift, CoinKite
- Followers: CoolBitX
"As it relates to cryptocurrencies, there is no way to recover access to lost coin portfolios, whether they were stolen or sent to incorrect addresses. Crypto users become their own bank, meaning they must take security seriously, especially when considering where they store their assets. The growing trends in the crypto space are increasingly necessitating the development of higher-security storage solutions to manage wider ranges of currencies and provide more and more functionality. The market for cold storage wallets is being driven by several factors, including the increase in the use of Central Bank Digital Currencies with pilots deploying in all major regions, crypto exchange expansion driven by neo and challenger bank offerings, and improvements in the level of accessibility for prospective users to crypto exchanges," says Sam Gazeley, Digital Payment Technologies Analyst at ABI Research.
ABI Research assessed Ledger as the highest scorer in the assessment, primarily due to its mature and advanced offerings and the partnerships it has forged in the cold wallet space.
SatoshiLabs ranked second on the overall scores, cementing its place as both an innovation and implementation leader due mainly to its strong financial strength and strong device popularity, driven by a strategy focused on user-friendliness.
Despite being a newer market entrant, CompoSecure secured third place, awarded the leading innovation score, owing largely to their shift away from the traditional dongle form-factor toward a more sleek and portable solution, coupled with their embedded security technology leveraging a CC EAL6+ Secure Element and supported by strong partnerships in the ecosystem, with a compelling and easy-to-use solution.
"With the NFT market taking off quickly, and neo and challenger banks pushing crypto-oriented value-added services, it is very likely that the cold-storage wallet market will become increasingly competitive with more innovative solutions being made available for the end-user. New entrants can ensure market relevance by offering portable and sleek solutions as it relates to the physical form and prioritize secure hardware solutions with high CC EAL specifications to avoid lost assets in a market which is seeing an increase in fraudulent activity," concludes Gazeley.
These findings are from ABI Research's Cold-Storage Wallets and the Security of Cryptocurrency Portfolios competitive ranking report. This report is part of the company's Digital Payment Technologies research service, which includes research, data, and ABI Insights. Competitive Ranking reports offer a comprehensive analysis of implementation strategies and innovation, coupled with market share analysis, to offer unparalleled insight into a company's performance and standing in comparison to its competitors.
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CAMBY, Ind. — Lydia Watson and her family were just at the Neighborhood Bible Church on Wednesday for Bible study.
“Last night, we were here for an hour and all we did was pray,” Watson said.
Watson, who leads the church alongside her husband, said all was fine when they left the church on Camby Road that night. However, a phone call Thursday morning would bring them right back.
“Around 9 o’clock, my husband received a call that police were on site and someone had vandalized the property,” she said.
When the Watsons arrived, they found the windows and doorways of their church shattered and smashed, along with rocks inside on the floor.
A few steps away, in the back parking lot, sat the church’s bus. The bus, which came as a donation, housed the church’s mobile food pantry, which was expected to launch in a few months.
“We are taking on a project called the Neighborhood Go Grocery,” said Watson. “We had been working on that bus to travel in food deserts and food swamps to increase food access in the city.”
However, plans for the project are temporarily on pause as the overnight vandalism also reached the bus, causing significant damage to the windshield and windows.
“They damaged the side windows, the doors damaged, it’s a lot of damage and it really sets us back, a whole lot,” she said. “We actually had just had a tour of our bus to grantors, who want us to submit a proposal. I’m going to be kind of terrified to let them know that it’s been vandalized, so there’s other cost that we did not foresee.”
Though her family has lived in the Camby area for six years, Watson said they recently opened the church in January. To experience such damage, she said, feels like an assault on the community and their overall mission, especially being among the few Black-led churches in the area.
“There’s been a spirit of hatred, and violence and crime against all that is good, and so I do believe that that’s where this act spurred from,” she said. “This was an act against community. It was violence against love, and it was violence against family.”
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police are investigating the incident, but did not have any further information to share with CBS4.
While police work to find out who is behind the vandalism, neighbors are hoping to help, including one who showed overnight surveillance video from his Ring camera to CBS4.
The video, which is a little more than one minute long, shows two people looking through his trailer, which sits across from the church’s back parking lot. By the video’s end, the same two people are seen holding an object directly in front of the church’s bus.
As police investigate, the Watsons are trying their best to focus on moving forward. While the windows to the church are boarded up, they want people to know their spirits are far from down.
“We have every bit of means to come back here Sunday and be doing what we’ve been doing since January,” she said. “We’re going to pray, we’re going to sing, we’re going to smile, we’re going to embrace each other.”
The church is accepting donations to help with repairs and recovery efforts. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/overnight-vandalism-damages-camby-church-and-mobile-pantry-bus/ | 2022-08-19 03:18:41 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/overnight-vandalism-damages-camby-church-and-mobile-pantry-bus/ |
The deal combines eBay's reach and reputation with KnownOrigin's leading technology to empower a new wave of NFT creators, sellers and buyers
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY), a global commerce leader that connects millions of sellers and buyers around the world, and KnownOrigin, one of the most innovative non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces, today announced that eBay has acquired KnownOrigin. KnownOrigin's technology and platform provides artists a place to create unique, authentic, digital collectibles, in the form of NFTs.
This acquisition is an important step in eBay's tech-led reimagination, ushering in a new era of digital collecting to the world's top destination for collectibles. KnownOrigin, which was founded in 2018 in Manchester, UK, enables artists and collectors to create, buy and resell NFTs via blockchain-support transactions. Since its founding, KnownOrigin has seen significant growth as it has revolutionized the way people create, buy, and sell NFTs.
"eBay is the first stop for people across the globe who are searching for that perfect, hard-to-find, or unique addition to their collection and, with this acquisition, we will remain a leading site as our community is increasingly adding digital collectibles," said Jamie Iannone, CEO of eBay. "KnownOrigin has built up an impressive, passionate and loyal group of artists and collectors making them a perfect addition to our community of sellers and buyers. We look forward to welcoming these innovators as they join the eBay community."
eBay's tech-led reimagination has resulted in significant upgrades to the company's technology, performance and customer experience, including tools that make it easier than ever to discover, sell or buy anything. As a part of this, eBay began allowing the buying and selling of NFTs in May 2021.
"We founded KnownOrigin to empower creators and collectors by giving them the ability to showcase, sell, and collect unique, authenticated digital items," said David Moore, co-founder, KnownOrigin. "As interest in NFTs continues to grow, we believe now is the perfect time for us to partner with a company that has the reach and experience of eBay. With more than twenty-five years building similar communities of passionate individuals, we are excited by the opportunity to bring a whole new audience on this journey. This is the start of a new chapter in the KnownOrigin story and we couldn't choose a better time to focus on building and innovating with the team at eBay. This partnership will help us attract a new wave of NFT creators and collectors."
Details on the Transaction
eBay is acquiring KnownOrigin and the companies have signed and closed the deal as of June 22, 2022. Further details were not disclosed.
About eBay
eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) is a global commerce leader that connects people and builds communities to create economic opportunity for all. Our technology empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world, providing everyone the opportunity to grow and thrive. Founded in 1995 in San Jose, California, eBay is one of the world's largest and most vibrant marketplaces for discovering great value and unique selection. In 2021, eBay enabled over $87 billion of gross merchandise volume. For more information about the company and its global portfolio of online brands, visit www.ebayinc.com.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Wounded Warriors Abilities Ranch is hosting the International Wheelchair Rugby Tournament in Tampa this weekend.
The competition kicked off on Friday with an opening ceremony and several matches between the eight teams.
More than 60 veterans from all over the world are scheduled to attend the three-day event.
U.S. Army Veteran Joel Rodriguez has been playing the sport for about seven years.
“After I broke my neck, a recreational therapist asked me if I wanted to go see a sport. I was huge into sports my whole life, so I was like sure let’s go,” Rodriguez said.
Wounded Warriors was founded in 2015 and offers other adaptive sports, including wheelchair softball, wheelchair basketball, and handcycling.
“Coming here, playing with other veterans, they motivate me to give my best. When I give my best, I motivate them to give their best. We just push each other and bring each other up,” Rodriguez said.
The International Wheelchair Rugby Tournament is being held at the All Peoples Life Center in Tampa.
The tournament is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. on Sunday and Saturday. It is free to attend. | https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/dozens-of-veterans-competing-in-international-wheelchair-rugby-tournament-in-tampa/ | 2023-01-21 00:46:22 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/dozens-of-veterans-competing-in-international-wheelchair-rugby-tournament-in-tampa/ |
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Repeats Group B.V. ("Repeats"), a pan-European plastics recycling platform focused on the production of high-quality recycled low-density polyethylene ("LDPE") from post-industrial and commercial films, announced today that it has made an investment in Polimero Srl ("Polimero" or the "Company"), a producer of recycled LDPE located in northern Italy, close to Venice. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Repeats is a portfolio company of Ara Partners ("Ara"), a global private equity firm focused on industrial decarbonization.
Repeats' investment in Polimero marks its expansion into Italy, an important step in building a pan-European plastics recycling platform. It follows Repeats' recent two investments in Spain and the Netherlands, with expansion into other European countries planned for later this year.
Polimero uses a mechanical process to convert plastic waste into resin suitable for commercial and industrial applications. As part of Repeats, Polimero plans to continue expanding its production to meet the growing demand for recycled LDPE in Europe.
Polimero is led by Simonetta Tiberto, who has been with the company since 2010 and will continue to lead the Italian operations and execution of its growth plan.
"Polimero has a great reputation in the industry as an important player in the LDPE recycling environment in northern Italy," said Greg Rung, CEO of Repeats. "We see significant opportunity for Polimero to further penetrate the Italian market by providing its clients with higher quality recycled resin. We are delighted that Simonetta and her team are joining Repeats and look forward to building on their success to date."
"We share Repeats' and Ara's ambition to build one of the largest LDPE recyclers in Europe," said Simonetta Tiberto, CEO of Polimero. "We are excited to have Repeats' support as we continue to expand our business and geographic reach. All our efforts are aimed at creating a circular ecosystem and best serving customers who increasingly require high-quality recycled plastics."
"We are excited for Repeats to enter the Italian market and partner with Simonetta," said Tuan Tran, Partner at Ara Partners. "The Repeats platform is well positioned for rapid growth and plans to become the largest independent producer of recycled LDPE resins in Europe. We are pleased to support Repeats in its ongoing efforts to decarbonize the European plastics market."
Based in the Netherlands, Repeats - Recycled PE AT Scale - is a pan-European plastics recycling platform converting polyethylene ("PE") plastic waste into resin suitable for a variety of commercial and industrial flexible plastic applications. Repeats also has operations in Spain and the Netherlands. For more information on Repeats, please visit www.repeats-group.com.
Founded in 2010 and based in Rovigo, Polimero produces recycled LDPE pellets from both post-commercial and post-industrial plastic waste, which can be used in packaging applications. For more information about Polimero, please visit Home - Polimero Srl.
Ara Partners is a private equity firm focused on industrial decarbonization investments. Ara Partners invests in the industrial and manufacturing, chemicals and materials, energy efficiency and green fuels, and food and agriculture sectors, seeking to create companies with significant decarbonization impact. It operates from offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Houston, Texas and Dublin, Ireland. Ara Partners closed its second fund with approximately $1.1 billion in capital commitments in September 2021. For more information about Ara Partners, please visit www.arapartners.com.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
1-7-2-0
(one, seven, two, zero)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
1-7-2-0
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said that Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a bus in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, wounding six soldiers, one of them seriously, and a civilian.
The Magen David Adom paramedic service said two people who suffered gunshot wounds were airlifted by helicopter to a hospital in Haifa.
The Israeli military said it apprehended two Palestinians suspected of carrying out the midday attack on a main West Bank highway.
The suspects fled the scene in their vehicle, which burst into flames shortly after the shooting, security camera footage aired by Israeli media appeared to show. The men exited the burning vehicle and were subsequently apprehended. It was unclear what caused the vehicle to catch fire.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that Israeli security forces “laid their hands on the suspects in a speedy and professional operation.”
The attack took place on Route 90, the main north-south highway running through the West Bank’s Jordan Valley. The road is dotted with Israeli settlements and Palestinian villages and towns.
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(WSYR-TV) — Pedaling for Paige is an indoor spinning event that works to raise funds to fight pediatric cancer in Central New York. Here to preview what’s in store for this year’s event is Paige’s dad, Chris Arnold, and Jennifer Huntley, the PBR Director of Development.
This year’s event is happening later this month, Saturday, March 25th, from 9am to 1pm at Elevate Fitness Dewitt, 5791 Widewaters Pkwy. All proceeds go towards the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital.
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NEW YORK (AP) — An Iranian opposition activist who U.S. authorities said was the target of two thwarted kidnapping or murder plots urged a federal judge in New York on Friday to hand a tough prison sentence to a woman who unwittingly funded one of the planned attacks.
Masih Alinejad, a onetime Iranian journalist, said her sense of safety has been shattered since authorities notified her in 2020 that she was being watched and that photographs were taken of her Brooklyn residence of 10 years. Since then, she has received U.S. government protection and has moved frequently between safe houses.
“This crime left its mark. Every day when I go out in the street, I have to look over my shoulders. … I miss my tree-lined street and my neighbors who treated me as one of their own,” Alinejad told Judge Ronnie Abrams as she asked her to set an example by sending 48-year-old Niloufar Bahadorifar, of Irvine, California, to prison for as long as possible.
Abrams did just that, announcing a four-year prison term after agreeing with prosecutors who urged her to impose a sentence between 46 and 57 months behind bars. She said she wanted to deter others who might aid the Iranian government in the targeting of individuals in the United States.
Abrams rejected a request by Bahadorifar’s lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, that his client be spared a prison term on the grounds that she, too, was a victim of a “dark, repressive, evil terror regime” that had left her so programmed to do as she was told that she fled Iran only to live for a time in Canada with a “fundamentalist, lunatic, abusive husband.”
Afterward, Bahadorifar addressed the court, telling Alinejad she was “humiliated to have been involved in any attempt to harm you, even if I was unaware of it.”
She added: “You are a hero to all Iranians. I am so sorry.”
Outside court, Alinejad was unimpressed.
“Even trying to use this to save herself? I’m not a hero,” she said. “My heroes are those people who got killed by the Iranian regime, and they never played victims like she did,”
Alinejad long has been targeted by Iran’s theocracy after fleeing the country following its disputed 2009 presidential election and crackdown.
She is a prominent figure on Farsi-language satellite channels abroad that critically view Iran and has worked as a contractor for U.S.-funded Voice of America’s Farsi-language network since 2015. She became a U.S. citizen in October 2019.
In December, Bahadorifar, a U.S. citizen originally from Iran, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. economic sanctions on Iran by enabling access to the U.S. financial system for four Iranians who wanted to kidnap and silence Alinejad by taking her back to Tehran. Authorities said the Iranians used Bahadorifar as a go-between to pay an American private investigator.
The investigator was part of a plan by the would-be kidnappers, working for the government of Iran, to use private investigators in 2020 and 2021 to surveil, photograph, and video record Alinejad and others in her home on multiple occasions, prosecutors said.
Last summer, police arrested a man armed with a loaded assault-style rifle and dozens of rounds of ammunition near her Brooklyn home. Alinejad said a home security video had recorded the man outside her front door.
Since 2015, Bahadorifar had provided financial and other services, including access to the U.S. financial system and institutions, to various individuals from Iran, prosecutors said. Beginning in 2019, she structured cash deposits totaling at least $476,000 in more than 120 individual deposits, topping $10,000 only twice, authorities said.
At her December plea, Bahadorifar said she had sent funds to the private investigator on behalf of a government official in Iran who was a longtime family friend.
An Iranian intelligence officer and others were charged in New York in 2021 with trying to kidnap Alinejad. The Iranian officials have denied the charge.
The private investigator, who also was unaware his employers were Iranian agents, later cooperated with the FBI and was not charged.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob Gutwillig said the case demonstrated “why sanction violations are gravely serious.”
After the sentence was announced, Lichtman said as he left the courthouse that he was disappointed, calling it “comical” to think Iranian terrorists were going to be deterred from other sinister plots because of his client’s fate.
Outside court, Alinejad said the word “safe” is a luxury for her.
“I’m not safe in America,” she said. “I cannot believe that this all happened to me. Three men were trying to kill me on U.S. soil.”
She added: “It’s not about me. It’s about the national security of the United States of America.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/protected-iran-critic-speaks-at-sentence-in-plot-against-her/ | 2023-04-08 18:00:39 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/protected-iran-critic-speaks-at-sentence-in-plot-against-her/ |
MONROEVILLE, Pa., Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Giorgio Coraluppi, 88, President and Founder of Chorus Call, Compunetix, and Compunetics, passed away peacefully on September 28th, surrounded by family and loved ones.
Dr. Coraluppi founded Compunetics and its affiliates in 1968 and had held the position of President and CEO ever since. Dr. Coraluppi was a brilliant engineer, a mathematician, and an inventor, who was recently recognized for inventing the modern conference call.
Born in L'Aquila, Italy, in 1934, he pursued his studies in Milano where he received the Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1958. Prior to Compunetics, Dr. Coraluppi joined the Electronic Research Laboratory at Olivetti in 1961, where he worked in circuit development and in numerical control of machine tools. In 1964 Dr. Coraluppi joined the Space-Defense Division of the American Optical Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he headed up projects for a special purpose digital computer controlling the NASA-Lewis Flight Simulator, and design and project engineering responsibility for a satellite attitude simulator now installed at NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.
Compunetics
was founded in 1968 and, six months after inception, they had their first customer, the U.S. Navy followed shortly afterwards by NASA. What set Compunetics apart was Dr. Coraluppi's seminal "Compunetics Switching Network" invention. It made it possible for thousands of people, in this case engineers, technicians and astronauts, to join one call. It was all done digitally and automatically by a computer chip. This invention led to Compunetics' technology being sought after across multiple industries.
At this point, Dr. Coraluppi's success as a business owner had earned him regional, state, and national recognition. After much success, Compunetics spun off two affiliate corporations, Compunetix as a product subsidiary and Chorus Call
as a local conferencing service provider.
Dr. Coraluppi received many patents and professional awards over the years, including the Pittsburgh Technology Council CEO of the Year Award in 2013 and induction into the Space Technology Hall of Fame in 2020. The Giorgio Coraluppi Headship in Electrical and Computer Engineering was established at Carnegie Mellon University in 2022.
"On behalf of Chorus Call, I would like to express our appreciation for the immeasurable contributions Giorgio Coraluppi has made to our company, the communities in which we serve, and countless industry organizations he helped found," commented Michael Hockenberry, Vice President of Chorus Call. "In his 54 years at the helm of Compunetix, Chorus Call, and Compunetics, Dr. Coraluppi built a diversified organization that provides jobs to over 600 employees in Pennsylvania and numerous other countries around the globe. He was a man of honor and integrity, and his Chorus Call/Compunetix/Compunetics family will miss him greatly. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, family and his many friends."
Dr. Coraluppi's life had a profound impact on the world and on the Pittsburgh technology community, through his many inventions and advancements in technological communications.
For more information visit the Chorus Call website at www.choruscall.com, and the Compunetix website at www.compunetix.com.
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Which portable air conditioner is best: LG or De’Longhi?
While the summer offers numerous ways to beat the heat outdoors, cooling down the temperature indoors usually means turning on the air conditioner.
In a house, apartment or office without central air conditioning, an electric fan can provide some relief. However, a portable air conditioner is much more effective in creating a comfortable space. They are easy to move from room to room, you can set them up wherever the cooling is needed most, and they don’t block light from windows like the window-mounted units do. They can even supplement cooling in areas a central air conditioner can’t reach.
LG and De’Longhi offer some of the best portable air conditioners on the market, but which brand is better?
LG portable air conditioners
LG Electronics Inc. is a South Korean multinational electronics company that manufactures home appliances, including washing machines, tumble dryers, refrigerators, microwave ovens, vacuum cleaners and air conditioners.
The company offers portable air conditioners with Btu ratings suitable for cooling spaces from 200 to 700 square feet at prices from $340 to $700. Many of its units support the company’s ThinQ technology. The app lets you monitor and control your device from virtually anywhere. And for hands-free operation, you can activate the air conditioner with the sound of your voice using Google Assistant on devices such as Google Home, Nest and Amazon Echo.
LG portable air conditioner pros
- Oscillating air vents: Circulating cool air in multiple directions throughout the room cools efficiently and eliminates hot spots.
- LoDecibel technology: LG portable air conditioners with dual inverter compressors operate at nearly inaudible sound levels as low as 44 decibels.
- LG ThinQ: This feature is available on smart Wi-Fi portable air conditioners.
- User-friendly control panel and remote controls: Temperature adjustments can be made with a touch of a button either on the machine’s control panel or the remote-control device.
- Programmable timers: You can set the air conditioner to operate according to your schedule and begin cooling before you arrive home.
- Heating and cooling: Some models offer both capabilities.
- Warranty: The typical warranty covers one year, parts and labor.
LG portable air conditioner cons
- Hot exhaust hose: Non-insulated exhaust hoses produce heat that goes back into the cooled room.
- Installation: Some units may require the help of a professional.
Best LG portable air conditioners
Top LG portable air conditioner
LG LP1419IVSM Smart Dual Inverter Portable Air Conditioner
What you need to know: This 10,000 Btu smart portable air conditioner cools large rooms up to 500 square feet, operates at a quiet 44 decibels and saves up to 40% in energy costs.
What you’ll love: LG ThinQ technology lets you set your air conditioner from anywhere using your smartphone, and voice control works with Amazon Alexa and Hey Google. You can create your own cooling schedule with the 24-hour timer and three cooling and fan speeds.
What you should consider: Some buyers report the unit was noisier than advertised, and it generates a faint mildew odor if the drain tank is not emptied properly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top LG portable air conditioner for the money
LG LP0821GSSM 18-Inch Smart Portable Air Conditioner
What you need to know: For the budget-minded buyer, this 8,000 Btu portable air conditioner cools medium-size rooms up to 350 square feet and includes a 24-hour timer for creating a cooling schedule.
What you’ll love: The three-in-one operation cools, dehumidifies and circulates air with a two-speed fan and offers power-failure auto restart. The air conditioner can be controlled by an LCD remote or LG ThinQ, and it works with Amazon Alexa and Hey Google.
What you should consider: Buyers report the remote control needs a longer range for effective use. The stiff hose lacks insulation, letting heat radiate back into the room.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
LG LP0621WSR Portable Air Conditioner
What you need to know: This 6,000 Btu portable air conditioner is ideal for cooling, dehumidifying or operating in the fan-only mode for smaller rooms, up to 250 square feet.
What you’ll love: The oscillating air vent circulates air evenly throughout the room using two cooling and two fan speeds. The unit comes with a window-vent installation kit, an LCD Remote control and a check filter alert that warns when it’s time to clean the filter.
What you should consider: Some buyers say this air conditioner is noisy, and the exhaust tube remains hot.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
De’Longhi portable air conditioners
De’Longhi is a manufacturer of small appliances based in Treviso, Italy, perhaps best known for its high-quality espresso machines. The company also produces gelato makers and Pinguino portable air conditioners.
De’Longhi offers basic portable air conditioners equipped with features including LCD control panels, timer setting functions and a single hose configuration. At the top end, the company produces the Pinguino Care4Me, which is fitted with Wi-Fi connectivity and an artificial-intelligence-supported thermostat to sense the room temperature and adjust accordingly.
De’Longhi offers portable air conditioners designed for cooling rooms from 400 to 700 square feet at prices from $375$ to 750.
De’Longhi portable air conditioner pros
- Comprehensive array of products: The variety of air conditioners offered makes it easy to find the unit with the exact features you require.
- Three-in-one operation: Most De’Longhi air conditioners offer cooling, dehumidification and fan-only operation.
- Artificial-intelligence-supported thermostat: This feature is offered on high-end models with Wi-Fi for temperature detection and regulation.
- Quiet: While the average noise level of portable air conditioners is 56 decibels, De’Longhi offers the quietest units on the market, some at 46 decibels.
- No greenhouse gas emissions: The portable air conditioners use R290 refrigerant-grade propane that reduces the environmental impact compared to traditional alternatives.
- Easy installation: Most De’Longhi portable air conditioners only require simple assembly.
- Warranty: Most are warrantied for two years.
De’Longhi portable air conditioner cons
- Window kit does not fit all windows: Vertical sliding windows may require a custom fit.
- Expensive: These are often more expensive than most other brands.
Best De’Longhi portable air conditioners
Top De’Longhi portable air conditioner
De’Longhi PACEX390UVcare Portable Air Conditioner
What you need to know: This 14,000 Btu portable air conditioner offers powerful cooling for larger rooms up to 700 square feet with a whisper-quiet sound that lets you sleep while staying refreshed.
What you’ll love: The three-in-one cooling, dehumidifying and fan settings includes UV-C technology, which protects against viruses by eliminating 99.5% of dust particles from the air. The auto-evaporating system recycles residual moisture by expelling it through the exhaust hose, reducing the need to drain excess moisture manually.
What you should consider: The simple remote control does not illuminate, making it difficult to see the buttons in low light.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top De’Longhi portable air conditioner for the money
De’Longhi PACEM360 WH Penguino Portable Air Conditioner
What you need to know: This multifunctional portable system efficiently cools rooms up to 17% more than previous portable systems and dehumidifies or operates in the fan-only mode for rooms up to 400 square feet.
What you’ll love: A low setting offers near-silent operation while cooling, and the unit can be operated with user-friendly controls and a handy remote. The portable unit takes only minutes to set up, and the front-facing lighted display that dims automatically makes changing settings easy.
What you should consider: The window kit does not fit vertical sliding windows very well.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
De’Longhi 14,000 Btu Portable Air Conditioner
What you need to know: This three-in-one portable air conditioner efficiently cools and dehumidifies a room up to 500 square feet, while the Arctic Whisper Extreme reduces typical fan noise by up 50%.
What you’ll love: The Cool Surround Technology uses Bluetooth and a smart remote to monitor the surrounding temperature and auto-adjusts the unit to maintain comfortable conditions. The Eco Real Feel technology controls the humidity while saving up to 30% on energy consumption.
What you should consider: The included exhaust hose may be too short for some areas and need to be insulated to reduce the heat going back into the room.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Should you get an LG or De’Longhi portable air conditioner?
Both LG and De’Longhi produce excellent portable air conditioners. LG is backed by a massive electronics company and offers units with similar basic features to the De’Longhi models at a slightly lower price. But De’Longhi units are at the forefront of portable air conditioner innovation with quiet operation, an artificial intelligence feature and reduced environmental impact.
For the buyer willing to spend a few bucks more, De’Longhi is the better choice.
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By RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — For the final act in a spectacular performance, J.T. Tuimoloau kept a blocker from cutting his legs, reached up and grabbed a pass intended for a receiver a few yards behind him and casually cruised into the end zone to seal an Ohio State victory.
The interception was the second of the day for the Buckeyes’ defensive end — yes, defensive end — to go along with two sacks, a fumble caused and recovered, and a tipped pass that a teammate came down with for another takeaway.
“This is kind of his coming out party today,” said Ohio State coach Ryan Day, underselling the sophomore’s breakout game.
Tuimoloau’s strip sack and pick-6 in the fourth quarter helped the No. 2 Buckeyes erase a deficit and pull away from No. 13 Penn State 44-31 on Saturday.
The former five-star recruit from Seattle said the last time he intercepted a pass was as a sophomore in high school and he never remembered getting two in one game.
“I mean, it hasn’t hit yet,” Tuimoloau said about having an all-time great game on such a big stage. “I just take it as a great team win right now.”
The 6-foot-4, 270 pounder’s first interception of his career came in the first quarter on a play in which he dropped into coverage and broke quickly on a sideline throw to a running back.
“Brother’s an athlete, you can’t teach that,” said fellow defensive end, Zach Harrison, who had the interception on Tuimoloau’s tipped pass.
Tuimoloau said the tipped pass to Harrison was his favorite of the game-changing plays he made.
Day said Tuimoloau has been playing well this season, getting pressure despite not putting up big stats. He had only one sack coming into the game.
“He been right there,” Day said. “He’s almost been like the unsung hero of the defense.”
On this day, Tuimoloau outshined all the Buckeyes stars.
C.J. Stroud passed for 354 yards and the Buckeyes (8-0, 5-0 Big Ten) ran their winning streak in the rivalry to six in a row — none by more than 13 points.
As has often been the case when these teams get together lately, the Buckeyes were a double-digit favorite and the Nittany Lions (6-2, 3-2) played them tough.
In this case, though, Penn State didn’t just hang around. The Nittany Lions went up 21-16 with 9:26 remaining in the fourth quarter on a tough 1-yard touchdown run by Kaytron Allen on fourth down.
Ohio State then went on a 28-3 run, with Tuimoloau providing the key plays after the Buckeyes went up 23-21.
Tuimoloau recovered the fumble after swiping the ball from Sean Clifford with 8:26 left in the fourth quarter. One play later, Stroud connected with Cade Stover, who rumbled through the Penn State defense for a 24-yard touchdown to make it 30-21.
“Turn of events, a momentum swing and they converted on it,” said Clifford, who threw for 371 yards.
Clifford, the sixth-year quarterback whose up and down play has had some Nittany Lions fans clamoring to see more of five-star freshman Drew Allar, threw three touchdown passes to become Penn State’s career leader with 78, passing Trace McSorley. He also committed four turnovers.
The final one went for Tuimoloau’s 14-yard interception return touchdown to make it 44-24 with 2:42 left.
“We knew we were going to have to play four quarters today,” Day said.
TreVeyon Henderson scored twice in Ohio State’s fourth-quarter outburst, including a 41-yard run 35 seconds after Penn State took the lead. He added a 7-yard touchdown run with 2:52 left to make it 37-24.
“The game starts and ends with the turnovers,” Penn State coach James Franklin said. “They’re explosive on the offensive side of the ball, they’re explosive on the defensive side of the ball. We played our tails off, just made too many mistakes.”
THE TAKEAWAY
Ohio State: A few days before the first College Football Playoff rankings are released, the Buckeyes faced their toughest test of the season so far — by far — and passed. Only a major upset over the next three weeks will keep the Buckeyes from rolling into the Michigan finale unbeaten.
Penn State: The Nittany Lions limped out of the Big House after allowing more than 400 yards rushing, but their athletic defense seemed to be a better match-up for the Buckeyes. At least for a while. Penn State heads into the final month of the season still hoping for a 10-win season, but with a Big Ten title out of reach.
UP NEXT
Ohio State: The Buckeyes are on the road again at Northwestern.
Penn State: The Nittany Lions start the closing stretch at Indiana.
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Once Labor Day had passed, I got to my yearly ritual of putting away my white shoes. My granddaughter asked me why I was putting away my shoes. I remembered when my daughter had asked the same question many years ago when I had instructed her to pack away her summer whites. Overhearing our conversation, Dale asked why she could not wear her white shoes any longer. I simply replied, “Because it is past Labor Day, silly boy.” It seems that his mother did not practice such a custom. She wore whatever struck her fancy whenever it did. How horrid! How could anyone, in good conscience, break the rule? Another time, we bought new white sandals for Robin a few weeks before Easter. When she wanted to wear them to church that Sunday, I told her she had to wait. Dale explained that I wanted to keep them clean for Easter when she would wear her new dress. But that was not the reason I had denied her request. The rule specifically stated that we are not to wear white shoes after Labor Day and before Easter. Mother always put her white shoes away and once my feet stopped growing, she instructed me to do the same. I guess that's why my summer dress shoes were brown for as long as my feet changed sizes during the year. I could continue to wear brown on into fall.
I thought about it a minute before answering my granddaughter. Then I explained to her that I had been taught to do that, but I really did not know why. My mother had taught me to put them away and so I did. I put my white shoes away, but after considering her question I told the child that I guessed it really didn’t matter if she wore her white sandals until cold weather set in. I was still thinking about our conversation when this little verse popped into my brain.
It is September and another Labor Day
Has come and gone and passed our way,
So now it is time, without delay
To put my white shoes safely away
And in the closet, they must stay
And not come out until Easter Day.
It occurred to me that my friends, mostly people my age, had been taught to do the same. Why would our mothers have taught us that if there was no rule? Of course, we were also instructed to never go out in public without a little lipstick. No self-respecting young woman would do so. Blot the reds and lick the pinks is permanently filed away in my brain. A young lady’s handbag should contain certain essentials which include but are not limited to a small mirror, tissue, and a tube of lipstick.
Though I do not consider myself a trend setter nor a rule breaker, I did decide to be a bit naughty and question these unwritten rules. I googled it! A 2021 post from Better Homes and Gardens explained that Labor Day is considered by many people to be the unwritten end of summer. A lot of women not only say goodbye to summer at that time, but they also say goodbye to their summer wardrobe. This tradition is said to have originated in the 1930’s. As for the white shoes at Easter, I found some interesting information on another site. It stated that some people follow a no white shoe rule between Labor Day and Memorial Day where others consider Easter as the appropriate time to sport these shoes. Several reasons for the white shoes at Easter were given, such as that some people consider that as the time to change back to their summer wardrobe where the Memorial Day folks consider that as the time to change wardrobes. As far as children wearing white shoes, many mothers want to keep the new shoes in pristine condition until they are worn with the child’s new Easter frock. However, the most common answer to the white shoes at Easter question is one of spiritual symbolism. “Lent is the period on the liturgical calendar leading up to Easter. It is a solemn time of reflection, confession and even mourning as Good Friday rolls around. Easter is the joyous celebration of Christ’s resurrection! This calls for light, color, and cheer!” This rings true, because I remember many women who did not consider themselves properly dressed for Easter Sunday without a bright colored outfit accented with white gloves, purse, hat, and shoes.
I have heard that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, and I think that is often true when it comes to this old dog. But I am open-minded to change and will do my best to not shudder in disbelief if I see white shoes on someone's feet between Labor Day and Easter. After all, what is going to happen if somebody decides to break the rules? Will they be arrested by the fashion police? Perhaps that old saying, “Rules are made to be broken” is not actually written in black and white.
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Featuring Brand-new OLED Models, Expanded Portfolio of Ultra-lightweight LG gram Laptops Is Designed to Meet the Diverse Needs of Today's Consumers
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics (LG) is introducing an expanded LG gram lineup, which offers more diversity than ever thanks to the arrival of the exciting, new gram Ultraslim and gram Style, at CES 2023. LG gram continues to provide both power and portability, packing premium specs into sleek, ultra-lightweight form factors delivering take-anywhere convenience and exceptional user experiences.
Headlining the LG gram showcase at CES 2023 is the brand-new LG gram Ultraslim (model 15Z90RT), the thinnest gram model yet. A laptop designed for users seeking supreme portability, the Ultraslim has an ultra-light weight of just 998 grams and a depth (when closed) of only 10.99 millimeters; around the same thickness of a smartphone or notepad. Even though it is the most svelte gram in the 2023 lineup, the 15Z90RT still supplies impressive image quality and processing power, packing a 15.6-inch OLED display with Anti-glare Low Reflection (AGLR) coating and Intel®'s 13th Gen Raptor Lake chip with Performance Cores (P-Cores). Further enhancing the excellent portability of the new model is the inclusion of an ultra-compact adapter. 1
LG gram Style laptops, offered in 16- and 14-inch versions (models 16Z90RS and 14Z90RS) have been created for people who love to express their unique style wherever they go. Both gram Style models sport an elegant glass design that makes each of the available color options shine and shift dynamically; moving and changing depending on the light and angle. The focus on design continues inside the new grams where a 'hidden' haptic touchpad with soft LED backlighting illuminates at the user's touch.
Despite the attention to aesthetics, LG gram Style laptops deliver far more than just good looks. Each has a 16:10, OLED Anti-Glare Low Reflection display with a high refresh rate, and features an Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake P-Core CPU and a Gen4 NVMe™ solid-state drive (SSD). Like all other models in the diverse 2023 gram lineup, the 16Z90RS and 14Z90RS support Thunderbolt 4 and HDMI connectivity, and offer atmospheric audio with Dolby Atmos, which is new to LG gram this year.
Along with the new-for-2023 Ultraslim and Style, this year's lineup features new gram 17, 16, 15 and 14 laptops (models 17Z90R, 16Z90R, 15Z90R and 14Z90R); each providing the brand's signature combination of strong performance and light, compact design. Great for productivity and entertainment, the latest 17- and 16-inch grams are equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce™ RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU, Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake P - Core CPU, and a Gen4 NVMe™ SSD. Each of the new models weighs in at less than 1.45 kilograms – despite having a large battery2 that can handle more than 20 hours of video playback on a single charge3 – and comes with the same conveniently compact adapter included with the gram Ultraslim.
LG's newest grams also boast superb picture quality, with all models employing an IPS panel with anti-glare coating. New for this year, variable refresh rate (VRR)4 support will enable LG gram users to enjoy seamless, tear- and stutter-free graphics when gaming, while the arrival of Dolby Atmos will deliver immersive audio that helps bring movies, music and games to life.
LG gram 2-in-1 and +view for LG gram also welcome upgraded models for 2023. The new 2-in-1, which comes in 16- and 14-inch sizes (models 16T90R and 14T90R), gives users the freedom to switch from laptop to tablet, or vice versa, whenever they choose. Along with its 4-way super-slim bezel design and sturdy yet slim aluminum frame, the latest 'convertible' gram boasts a suite of pre-installed notetaking and drawing applications optimized for use with the LG Stylus Pen (Wacom AES 2.0). Meanwhile, LG's portable monitor, +view for LG gram (model 16MR70) lets users double their screen real estate and enjoy easier multitasking wherever they go. Enhanced for the new year, the latest version of LG's portable screen solution features dual USB Type-C™ ports, enabling users to connect to two devices simultaneously and enjoy the convenience of two-way power delivery.
"Welcoming the arrival of the brand-new gram Ultraslim and gram Style, the 2023 LG gram lineup gets even more diverse," said Seo Young-jae, senior vice president and head of the IT business unit of LG Electronics Business Solutions Company. "A leading brand in the ultra-lightweight laptop market for the last decade, LG gram will continue to introduce new form factors to meet the changing needs and tastes of consumers worldwide."
Visitors to CES 2023 in Las Vegas from January 5-8 can experience the latest LG gram products at LG's booth (#15501, Las Vegas Convention Center). The new LG gram lineup will be launching globally starting from next month, with U.S. pricing and availability being announced at a later date.5
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Actor Alec Baldwin is facing criminal charges of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021. The incident is reminiscent of another on-set tragedy: the accidental shooting of actor Brandon Lee during filming of The Crow nearly three decades earlier.
Lee, who was the son of martial artist Bruce Lee, died after his co-star, actor Michael Massee, fired at him with a prop gun during filming on March 30, 1993, in Wilmington, North Carolina. Although the revolver was loaded with blanks, the gunpowder in the blank cartridge ignited, leading Massee to unknowingly fire a bullet fragment at Lee, who later died in surgery.
While Massee did not face any criminal charges, Lee's mother did successfully sue filmmakers for an undisclosed amount.
Decades later, a similar incident occurred when Baldwin fired a live round from a Colt .45-caliber pistol at Hutchins during filming for Rust. Baldwin, who maintains that he did not intend to fire at Hutchins, sued those involved in the handling and supplying of the prop gun and reached a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Hutchins' husband, Matthew Hutchins.
On Thursday, prosecutors in Santa Fe, N.M., said Baldwin and another member of the Rust crew would face criminal charges for their involvement in the cinematographer's death.
Nancy Gertner, a trial lawyer, retired judge and senior lecturer at Harvard Law School, told NPR that filing criminal charges, in the deaths of both Lee and Hutchinson, is often up to the acting prosecutor's discretion. She called the decision to charge Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter both "unusual" and "difficult to prove."
"No one intended for this to happen," Gertner said. "So these kinds of charges are reserved for only the most extreme kinds of negligence, the most gross negligence, the largest deviation from what ordinary standards would be."
Gertner points to other members of the crew — including the film's armorer, who is also facing charges of involuntary manslaughter — and their handling and management of the gun before it came into Baldwin's possession.
"There are people along the continuum here who had direct responsibility for that gun and failed in that responsibility," she said. "One way of thinking of that is, in one sense, Baldwin is the least culpable on that line."
To prove Baldwin's culpability, Gertner said the prosecutors are theorizing that Baldwin held a greater responsibility in the death than originally thought. She also pointed to the roles that social media and "the unbelievable crush of publicity" might be playing in the prosecutors' decision.
"In other words, was the Lee case going to be on every single night on television, and on Twitter and on every major outlet?" Gertner said. "Does that put pressure on prosecutors in ways that it never has before? And that could be a difference."
Robert Weisberg, a criminal law professor at Stanford University, echoed the same sentiment that an involuntary manslaughter charge is often up to the prosecutor's discretion, calling the incident involving Baldwin "very factually messy."
"I don't think we know enough yet about the forensics of the shooting, at least compared to what was settled in the Brandon Lee case," he said. "And some possible outcomes from further investigation or actual trial testimony, in the Baldwin case, might more clearly differentiate the cases."
Weisberg pointed to labor issues surrounding the production company behind Rust. The Los Angeles Times reported that a half-dozen crew members reportedly walked off the set hours before the shooting incident, and others told the news outlet that gun safety protocols weren't being followed while filming.
"A jury could infer, 'Well, on that basis, he should have thought twice, or three times, about the gun,'" Weisberg said. "Even if there hadn't been incidents on that set about that particular gun, but rather, you should have done an inference: 'We're not running the set very well. And I better really be careful here.'"
The incident that led to Lee's death spurred the need for better protocols when using prop guns on set. Following her brother's death, martial artist Shannon Lee told Agence France-Presse in 2021 that mandatory gun safety training should be required for actors.
"It shouldn't happen again," Lee told the news agency.
Gertner also said that previous reports of equipment being irresponsibly handled on set could add to Baldwin's culpability.
"So that too could have distinguished this case from the Lee case," she said. "If someone tells you that you speed all the time and you continue to speed, that makes you much more culpable."
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The first public hearings in Texas looking into the Uvalde school massacre have focused on a cascade of law enforcement blunders, school building safety and mental health care with only scant mentions of the shooter’s AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and gun reform.
A day after the head of the Texas state police called the law enforcement response to the May 24 slaughter an “abject failure,” Texas senators on Wednesday turned their attention to mental health funding for schools and a shortage of counselors and mental health providers.
Only near the end of Wednesday’s hearing in the Texas Capitol was there much talk about gun laws. And even then it received little acknowledgement.
No public officials or families from Uvalde testified during the two days of hearings.
The bungled response to the attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead before police killed the shooter at Robb Elementary has infuriated the nation, and a recent wave of deadly mass shootings has renewed a push for more gun laws. By week’s end, the U.S. Senate could pass new legislation that would toughen background checks for the youngest firearms buyers and require more sellers to conduct background checks.
But the Republican-dominated committee examining the tragedy in Uvalde appeared to have little appetite for new guns laws, even after a series of mass shootings in Texas that killed more than 85 people in the past five years — at an El Paso Walmart, a church in Sutherland Springs, Santa Fe High School outside Houston and in West Texas oil country.
The state’s Republican-controlled legislature has spent the last decade chipping away at restrictions. Texas doesn’t require a permit to carry a long rifle like the one used in Uvalde. Last year, lawmakers made it legal for anyone 21 and older to carry a handgun in public without a license, background check or training.
Nicole Golden, executive director of Texas Gun Sense, told the committee that tighter gun controls may have prevented past mass shootings in Texas and urged state lawmakers to consider a so-called “red flag” law and require background checks on private firearms sales.
“I’ve never seen anything like this past month in terms of the outrage, despair and heartbreak,” Golden said. “Texas is facing a crisis, one we know we’ve faced a long time.”
She got no questions from the Republican lawmakers on the panel.
Outside the Senate chamber, nearly two dozen members of the gun control group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America held signs criticizing Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and urging lawmakers to take up new restrictions on gun sales and ownership.
“We are tired of these do-nothing committees and roundtables that have been happening after every mass shooting in Texas,” said Melanie Greene of Austin. “They talk about what went wrong and it’s usually everything but guns. We’re tired of all the talk and we want some action.”
Among the changes the group wants is raising the age of gun ownership from 18 to 21 years old. The gunman at Robb Elementary was a former student, Salvador Ramos, who bought the weapon used in the attack right after his 18th birthday.
Greene was not optimistic. “This committee is a dog-and-pony show. It’s performative political theater. But we’re not going to give up,” Greene said.
Republican Sen. Bob Hall tried to steer away from any talk about guns.
“It doesn’t take a gun. This man had enough time to do it with his hands, or a baseball bat. And so it’s not the gun, it’s the person,” Hall said Tuesday, as the hearings began in Austin, 160 miles (260 kilometers) from Uvalde.
Sen. Royce West, one of the Senate panel’s Democrats, said that “without having a discussion about those rights and limits associated therewith, this will be an incomplete discussion.”
Still, it’s the delays and mistakes in the law enforcement response at Robb Elementary School that are the focus of federal, state and local investigations.
Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said Tuesday that police had enough officers and firepower at the school to stop Ramos three minutes after he entered the building but they instead waited more than an hour before storming the classroom and killing him.
McCraw outlined a series of missed opportunities, communication breakdowns and errors based on an investigation that has included roughly 700 interviews. He also directed much of the blame at Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief who McCraw said was the commander in charge.
Arredondo, who testified Tuesday at a closed-door hearing of a Texas House committee, has said he didn’t consider himself in charge and assumed someone else had taken control. He has declined repeated requests for comment from The Associated Press.
Uvalde’s mayor pushed back on McCraw’s casting blame on Arredondo, saying the Department of Public Safety has repeatedly put out false information about the shooting and glossed over the role of its own officers.
On Wednesday, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Hal Harrell said that he put Arredondo on administrative leave because the facts of what happened remain unclear. In a statement, Harrell did not address Arredondo’s actions as on-site commander during the attack but said he didn’t know when details of multiple investigations into the law enforcement response to the slayings would be revealed.
Public pressure has grown for state and local officials to release more information.
Also on Wednesday, state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who represents Uvalde, filed a lawsuit seeking to force the Texas Department of Public Safety to turn over records related to its investigation into the shooting. The victims’ families “deserve to know the complete, unalterable truth about what happened that day,” a lawyer for the Democrat wrote in the suit.
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Bleiberg reported from Dallas. Associated Press writer John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, contributed to this report.
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A traffic stop in Maryland has led to the rescue of a kidnapping victim.
Maryland State Police said they arrested 62-year-old Dennis Bell of Lanham for kidnapping and other related charges.
Bell was driving a U-Haul truck when he reportedly made contact with a victim, who is not being identified, in a convenience store in Washington, D.C., Friday morning. The victim told police she was pushed into the U-Haul by Bell, who threatened her life if she did not comply.
Bell allegedly drove around all day with the victim sitting naked on the floorboard of the front passenger side of the vehicle. She told police Bell had stripped her of her clothing and used a knife to stab her fingers. She did not know their whereabouts as he drove around.
At about 9:45 p.m., troopers from the College Park Barrack received calls about a motorist in a U-Haul truck driving erratically and hitting multiple parked cars. Maryland State Police located the truck on Route 450 in Lanham.
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When police attempted a felony traffic stop on the U-Haul truck, the driver — later identified as Bell — refused to pull over, initiating a pursuit. Police said the chase ended when the U-Haul became disabled in a ditch.
After multiple verbal requests, Bell refused to exit the vehicle. That’s when two troopers used the passenger side to gain entry, and discovered the unclothed victim with wounds on her fingers. Police rescued the victim and covered her with a jacket.
Emergency medical personnel on scene transported the victim to the hospital.
Bell, who refused to cooperate or identify himself, is facing 14 criminal charges including first degree assault, kidnapping, false imprisonment, fourth degree sex offense, possession of suspected crack cocaine and driving while impaired, according to police. This is in addition to 19 traffic charges related to the incident.
Bell is being held at the Upper Marlboro Department of Corrections.
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Company's award-winning IGT ADVANTAGE™ casino management system, games, and cabinets to generate unrivaled player experiences at Gila River Resorts & Casinos' new property
LONDON, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC ("IGT") (NYSE: IGT) announced today that Santan Mountain Casino in Chandler, Ariz., has opened its doors with a diverse offering of IGT's leading gaming solutions. IGT ADVANTAGE, the Company's comprehensive casino management system (CMS), will connect over 800 slot games on the gaming floor, including a compelling selection of IGT's performance-proven games on the Company's state-of-the-art cabinets.
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"IGT congratulates Santan Mountain Casino on its opening, and we look forward to supporting its growth as the standout gaming technology supplier," said Nick Khin, IGT Chief Operating Officer, Gaming. "Through the deployment of our IGT ADVANTAGE CMS and the placement of our dynamic games and hardware, IGT will enable Santan Mountain Casino to be yet another Gila River Resorts & Casinos venue that offers an exceptional gaming portfolio that meets evolving player preferences and expectations."
One of the industry's most comprehensive casino management systems, IGT ADVANTAGE will support Gila River Resorts & Casinos' business objectives and THE Card® loyalty program by providing the tools needed to personalize the player experience while streamlining operations and delivering customized automation at all four of the Company's properties.
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MENLO PARK, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trade Capital Corporation (TCC), an inventory funding disruptor, has selected Oracle NetSuite as the backbone of its ERP system. With NetSuite, TCC will build its comprehensive global trade funding platform to empower manufacturers and suppliers and compete with big banks and fintechs on receivables monetization.
TCC is a frontrunner and the only organized player in the inventory funding and holding segment with its own tech stack, supply chain business transformation service and an ability to onboard banks and investment vehicles to support large-scale VMI programs. To help its clients manage globally dispersed inventories and complex supply chains that prioritizes visibility and efficiency, TCC selected NetSuite.
"With NetSuite as the core foundation of our tech stack, our clients can be assured of a tightly integrated business process that delivers financial outcomes and accomplishes strategic goals for our large public sector clientele. This is key to putting our clients on a trajectory for meaningful change," said Sanjay Bonde, founder and CEO of TCC.
"TCC is ultimately focused on providing capital so that their clients can improve their inventory and spend more time on strategic growth priorities," said Ranga Bodla, VP, Field Marketing and Engagement, Oracle NetSuite. "With NetSuite, TCC will be able to gain the visibility and control over their business so they can deliver on their vision to change the way inventory funding is distributed for the benefit of their clients."
As the world's first company dedicated to delivering business applications over the internet,
NetSuite provides an integrated system that includes financials, inventory management, HR, professional services automation and omnichannel commerce.
TCC and its wholly-owned trading arm TradeCo deliver Capital as a Service (CaaS) in an integrated supply chain technology platform that funds and holds components and materials for its clients in its inventory hubs. TCC's CaaS™ solution offers access to funding, TradeCo buy/hold/sell capabilities, track and trace, supply chain execution, financial reporting as well as bolt-on logistics and warehousing services via global top tier partnerships, all under one roof.
TCC's patent pending CaaS Wallet™ business suite of finance solutions includes our Inventory Card™, Factoring Card™, and SupplierPay Card™ to monetize and secure inventory, accelerate supplier payments, and create more resilient supply chain ecosystems.
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WASHINGTON — Former FBI employees accused the bureau of politicization in congressional testimony Thursday, a day after the agency disclosed that two of the men had seen their security clearances revoked over concerns about how their views of the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, affected their work.
The three men alleged overreach and retaliation by the FBI in testimony to a special House committee investigating what Republicans assert is the “weaponization” of the federal government against conservatives.
“If you’re not politically correct ... you’re not in line with what they think to be the political position or the proper position, you’re the target,” Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the Republican chairman of the committee, said in his opening statement.
Former FBI employees Marcus Allen and Steve Friend testified to the panel just hours after the FBI informed Jordan in a letter Wednesday — obtained by The Associated Press — that both men had been stripped of security clearances after either attending the Capitol riot in 2021 or espousing alternate theories about the attack.
A mob of pro-Trump rioters, some armed with pipes, bats and bear spray, charged into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, quickly overrunning overwhelmed police officers trying to keep them back. More than 100 police officers were injured, many beaten, bloodied and bruised. Over 1,000 people have been prosecuted in the Jan. 6 attack on a range of charges from low-level misdemeanors for those who only entered the Capitol to felony seditious conspiracy charges against far-right extremists.
“My colleagues have brought in these former agents, men who lost their security clearances because they were a threat to our national security,” said Rep. Stacey Plaskett, the top Democrat on the committee. “People who out of malice or ignorance or both have put partisan agenda above the oath they swore to serve this country and protect its national security.”
Jordan and other Republicans on the committee hailed the former FBI employees as rank-and-file patriots who were facing retribution for speaking out against government abuse. Allen, Friend and Garrett O’Boyle, a former field agent, shared stories with the committee about how they said their decision to come forward has resulted in suspensions and dismissals for their posts.
"My oath did not include sacrificing the hopes, dreams and livelihood of my family,” said O’Boyle.
Many of them testified about their personal struggles, including not being able to find employment elsewhere and struggling to support their loved ones and young children while their cases were being investigated.
“I sacrificed my dream job to share this information with the American people,” Friend testified. “I humbly ask all the members to do your jobs and consider the merit of what I have presented.”
But Democrats dismissed the testimony, calling the hearing another attempt by Republicans on the committee to help former president Donald Trump.
“This select committee is a clearinghouse for testing conspiracy theories for Donald Trump to use in his 2024 presidential campaign,” Plaskett added.
The letter from the FBI detailed how Friend refused to participate in a SWAT team arrest of a suspect in the Jan. 6 insurrection while serving in Florida, and “espoused an alternative narrative” about the attack. Friend maintained the show of force wasn’t needed.
Allen, a former operations specialist at the FBI field office in Charlotte, North Carolina, also backed “alternative theories” about Jan. 6 to co-workers multiple times, even after his supervisor told him to stop, according to the FBI letter. Allen disputed those findings, and a lawyer for both men cast suspension of their security clearances as retaliation against whistleblowers.
“I’m hopeful that scrutiny from Congress and from the inspector general will deter the FBI from abusing the security clearance process to retaliate against others the way it’s retaliated against me,” Allen told the committee.
The FBI, though, has said that of the nearly 80,000 staff at the agency, only 32 currently have their clearances suspended, a clear departure from the GOP claims that retaliation of rank-and-file staff is widespread. That’s according to recently transcribed testimony from Jennifer Leigh Moore, an executive assistant director of human resources at the agency.
A third employee who did not testify had a security clearance revoked after he entered the restricted area around the Capitol himself on Jan. 6, and later provided false or misleading information to investigators about what he did that day, the FBI's letter said. All three employees can appeal the security clearance decisions.
Two of the former FBI employees who testified, Friend and O'Boyle, acknowledged that they had received money from Kash Patel, a close Trump ally who held multiple roles in his administration and now oversees a charity.
They said they needed that money to support their families after FBI suspensions left them unable to work, but Democrats said those ties show the partisan nature of the “weaponization” investigation.
In a series of contentious exchanges, Democrats complained that one of Thursday’s witnesses, Allen, was only interviewed by Republican lawmakers on the committee. Many pointed to House rules that state minority and majority staff are required to have equal access to witness testimony, regardless of whether it is a whistleblower account or not.
Since January, House Democrats on both the select and Judiciary committees have accused Jordan and GOP lawmakers of stonewalling them from several transcribed interviews, refusing to allow them into the room or provide official transcripts or videos of the interviews after the fact.
“We’re in the dark. That’s not how Congress works. That’s not how committees work,” said Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York.
The investigation by the select committee has also encompassed social media companies and other large businesses. Republicans on the committee released a report before the hearing with new allegations against the FBI, including that Bank of America had given data to the FBI on all of their customers who made transactions in Washington, D.C., in the days around Jan. 6.
Lawmakers played video testimony from George Hill, a retired FBI National Security Intelligence supervisor, who told the committee about the list after seeing it in the system, although he said he never opened it. Bank of America provided the information to the FBI voluntarily, according to Hill's testimony, though it remained unclear whether and how the agency may have used the data.
Bank of America issued a brief statement to The Associated Press, saying it follows the law to “narrowly respond” to law enforcement requests, but it did not directly answer whether it shared the customer data with the FBI.
“We don’t comment on our communications with law enforcement," bank spokesperson Naomi Patton said. “The report’s suggestion that Bank of America proactively searched our data for broad types of customer behavior, such as making any purchase in a specific city on a specific day, did not occur.”
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The company continues to advance its technology via R&D breakthroughs and investments in global marketing infrastructure toward commercialization of cultivated meat
REHOVOT, Israel, Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Steakholder Foods (Nasdaq: STKH), an international deep-tech food company at the forefront of the cultured meat industry, today released its financial results for the third quarter of 2022, ended September 30, 2022, and provided a recent business update.
Steakholder Foods is developing high quality beef, chicken, pork, and seafood products that are safer and more sustainable than conventional meat. Our products under development include whole cuts, ground meat and raw materials made from cultivated animal cells rather than farm-raised animals.
Arik Kaufman, Steakholder Foods Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder: "We are very pleased with the progress we have made over the past few months and are on track with our go-to-market plan. We have significantly advanced our technology, as demonstrated by our recently granted patents in key regions, and we continue to cement our position as a technological leader in the cultivated meat space. This has also helped us add some key collaborations to our business development efforts. And finally, our recent rebranding efforts reflect our vision, direction and differentiators. We are working hard to bring the revolution to the mass market so that everyone can continue to enjoy healthy, delicious, real meat but in a more sustainable way for the planet."
Q3 2022 Financial Results Summary
- Research and development expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2022 totaled $2.8 million, compared to $2.0 million in the same period in 2021. The 38% increase reflects the company's growing investment in R&D as it continues to expand its cultivated meat technology capabilities mainly through increased headcount, consumable materials and raw materials.
- General and administrative expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2022 totaled $1.3 million, compared to $1.8 million in the same period in 2021. The 28% decrease was primarily due to lower insurance and share-based payment expenses in the current quarter.
- Marketing expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2022 totaled $0.5 million, compared to $0.3 million in the same period in 2021, reflecting increased salary expenses and growing investment in the company's US and global marketing activities.
- Operating loss for the three months ended September 30, 2022 totaled $4.6 million, compared to $4.1 million in the same period in 2021. The increase reflects continued investment in research and development as well as marketing activities, as indicated above.
- Total comprehensive loss was $3.4 million, or 2 cents per ordinary share ($0.17 per ADS), compared to $4.3 million, or 3 cents per ordinary share ($0.32 per ADS), in the same period in 2021.
- Cash flow used in operating activities totaled $9.8 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to $9.6 million in the same period in 2021, reflecting a 2% increase. The changes were due mainly to increased expenditures as indicated above, including expenditures of the company's subsidiary Peace of Meat, which was first consolidated as of March 2021, and were offset by lower general and administrative expenses.
- Cash flow used in investment activities totaled $2.7 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2022 compared to $7.4 million in the same period in 2021, reflecting a 63% decrease due mainly to the acquisition of Peace of Meat during 2021.
- Cash flow from financing activities was $5.3 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2022 (primarily resulting from a registered direct offering in Q3 2022) compared to $29.0 million in the same period in 2021 (during which the company completed its Nasdaq IPO).
- Cash and cash equivalents were $11.2 million as of September 30, 2022 compared to $19.2 million as of year-end 2021. The decrease was due mainly to funding of the company's ongoing operations.
- Total capital was $24.4 million as of September 30, 2022 compared with $37.6 million at year-end 2021.
Q3 and Beyond: Business Highlights
Collaborations
In July 2022, Steakholder Foods signed a memorandum of understanding with Umami Meats, a Singaporean cultured seafood company. This collaboration opens a door for both companies into the Asian market, and Singapore specifically, which is currently the only country that has authorized the production and distribution of cultivated meat. Steakholder Foods also sees this collaboration as an opportunity to make a valuable contribution to the preservation of marine ecosystems and wildlife.
R&D
- In July 2022, Peace of Meat, the company's wholly owned Belgian subsidiary, announced the establishment of a stable and unique avian cell line with a clear upscaling path. Peace of Meat's cultivated avian capabilities provide a clear path to commercialization in the hybrid foods market.
- In August 2022, the company announced its initiation of cultivated pork development using a porcine cell line with significantly greater lifespan and scalability. The company announced in November 2022 that it successfully differentiated porcine fat cells from its induced pluripotent stem cell line. This is a significant step forward in the company's ability to develop high-quality 3D-printed whole-cut pork products at scale.
- In September 2022, the company introduced Omakase Beef Morsels, a revolutionary, richly marbled structured cultivated meat product developed using Steakholder Foods' unique 3D-printing process. Inspired by the marbling standard of Wagyu beef, this product was an innovative culinary achievement, elegantly designed as a meat-lover's delicacy for premium dining experiences. The product is made up of multiple layers of muscle and fat tissue that have been differentiated from bovine stem cells and showcases the technology's unprecedented control and flexibility.
Patents
- In October 2022, the company filed a provisional patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) regarding methods and systems for adipocytes differentiation. The patent application details a new and improved process for differentiating stem cells into fat and is more easily reproducible and cost-effective than current methods.
- In October 2022, the company was granted a patent by the USPTO for systems and methods to apply external forces to muscle tissue that result in the development of high-quality complex structured meat. In November 2022, the company was granted the equivalent patent in Canada. This patent is another boost to the company's growing global patent portfolio. The process behind the patent represents a breakthrough in the methodology and technology used to "exercise" muscle tissue to achieve a desired texture. It is a mimicking of natural muscle development that occurs when animals roam or graze.
- In November 2022, the company filed a provisional patent application for the mimicking of the texture of cooked fish. The company achieved the unique flaky texture of fish using its new approach along with its proprietary 3D printing technology and custom-made bio-inks. The new methodology is expected to enable the production of a wide variety of fish, seafood and cuts. The provisional patent application puts the company on a path toward leadership in the field of structured cultivated fish production.
Marketing and Branding
- In August 2022, the company rebranded itself as Steakholder Foods Ltd. and changed its ticker on the Nasdaq stock market to STKH. The new name and brand reflect the company's commitment to cultivating a new community of meat lovers who wish to support and participate in the company's mission to make high-quality real meat sustainably. Steakholder Foods has recently received a registered trademark in Japan, reflecting plans to penetrate the Japanese market and other markets in the Asian region.
- In September and October 2022, the company participated at the Future Food-Tech Summit in London and the World Congress of Food Science & Technology in Singapore. The company showcased its 3D bioprinting capabilities, allowing visitors to 3D print their own personalized steaks. This helped generate interest, traction and leads.
- In November 2022, the company hosted its first US tasting event. Guests were treated to a variety of hybrid canapes with cultivated meat that was grown from cells sourced from Texas cattle. The event also included a live 3D printing demonstration with attendees given the opportunity to print personalized steaks. The event brought together top leaders from the industry and included a panel discussion entitled, "The Future of Food and Our Planet." The event was covered by top media outlets.
About Steakholder Foods
Steakholder Foods Ltd., formerly MeaTech 3D Ltd., is an international deep-tech food company at the forefront of the cultured meat revolution. The company initiated activities in 2019 and is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker "STKH" (formerly MITC). Steakholder Foods maintains facilities in Rehovot, Israel and Antwerp, Belgium and has recently expanded activities to the US.
The company is developing a slaughter-free solution for producing a variety of beef, chicken, pork, and seafood products -- both as raw materials and whole cuts -- as an alternative to industrialized farming and fishing. With its membership in the UN Global Compact, Steakholder Foods is committed to act in support of issues embodied in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which include strengthening food security, decreasing carbon footprint, and conserving water and land resources.
For more information, please visit: https://steakholderfoods.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning Steakholder Foods' business, operations and financial performance and condition as well as plans, objectives, and expectations for Steakholder Foods' business operations and financial performance and condition. Any statements that are not historical facts may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements reflect Steakholder Foods' current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which change over time, and other factors that may cause Steakholder Foods' actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements, and are typically identified with words such as "may," "could," "should," "will," "would," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "aim," "intend," "plan" or words or phases of similar meaning and include, without limitation, Steakholder Foods' expectations regarding the success of its cultured meat manufacturing technologies it is developing, which will require significant additional work before Steakholder Foods can potentially launch commercial sales; Steakholder Foods' research and development activities associated with technologies for cultured meat manufacturing, including three-dimensional meat production, which involves a lengthy and complex process; Steakholder Foods' ability to obtain and enforce its intellectual property rights and to operate its business without infringing, misappropriating, or otherwise violating the intellectual property rights and proprietary technology of third parties; and other risks and uncertainties, including those identified in Steakholder Foods' Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 24, 2022. New risks and uncertainties may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for Steakholder Foods to predict their occurrence or how they will affect Steakholder Foods. If one or more of the factors affecting Steakholder Foods' forward-looking information and statements proves incorrect, then Steakholder Foods' actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, forward-looking information and statements contained in this press release. Therefore, Steakholder Foods cautions you not to place undue reliance on its forward-looking information and statements. Steakholder Foods disclaims any duty to revise or update the forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, to reflect actual results or changes in the factors affecting the forward-looking statements, except as specifically required by law.
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A 66-year-old man piloting a small plane was taken to a hospital for evaluation Tuesday after crashing 50 feet off Alki Point in West Seattle, authorities said.
The man did not report any injuries before he was taken to a hospital in a private vehicle, said David Cuerpo, with the Seattle Fire Department.
The Coast Guard received a report of the incident at around 4:30 p.m., said Travis Magee, petty officer first-class.
The Coast Guard was ready to launch an air crew and response boat, but the man was able to swim to shore and the Seattle Fire Department found him in stable condition, Magee said. The man had been aboard the Cessna 150 alone.i.
No information was released about where the flight originated.
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Steven LaRosa poured in a career high 27 points to lead Somerset Tech to a come from behind, overtime 59-52 victory over Noor-ul-iman, in Monmouth.
LaRosa added six rebounds and two steals to his career-high scoring outburst. It’s just the second time this season that the junior has crossed the 20-point threshold in a game.
Somerset Tech (12-11) by nine at halftime and for most of the game before scoring 12 points in the fourth quarter to force overtime.
The Jaguars continued its momentum into overtime with a 9-2 run to close the game out pick up its fourth straight win.
Noor-ul-iman dropped to 0-6.
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Man throws $200k in cash out of a car window onto the interstate, police say
EUGENE, Ore. (KEZI) – A man reportedly threw roughly $200,000 in cash out of a speeding car and onto the interstate in Eugene, Oregon on Wednesday night.
People are still searching the sides of the highway, hoping to find more of the money.
However, police said it’s all been accounted for.
Oregon State Police Lt. Jim Andrews said anyone who stopped on the scene did a “pretty good job of cleaning it all up.”
Andrews said the money belonged to 38-year-old Colin Davis McCarthy and his family. Andrews said McCarthy drained the family’s shared bank account in cash and then let it fly along the freeway.
Andrews said there is “little” that police can do for the family, because it was a shared account with McCarthy’s name on it.
“Because it’s shared, they both have equal interests in the money,” he said.
McCarthy is not facing any charges. Troopers considered charging him with disorderly conduct or reckless endangering, but ultimately chose not to do so.
Troopers said McCarthy told them he did it because he was “doing well” and wanted to share the money with others.
The family said although the chances are slim, they’re asking anyone who found any of the cash to return it to Oregon State Police because that money is “very much needed” by the family.
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“The T stands for transgender,” a teacher explains in a video on a Maine Department of Education website launched during the coronavirus pandemic.
“A transgender person is someone who the doctors made a mistake about when they were born,” the teacher says in the lesson plan targeted at kindergartners. “But some people, when they get a little bit older, realize what the doctors said was not right.”
Republicans later produced an ad accusing Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who is running for reelection against GOP former Gov. Paul LePage, of using state money to create “radical school lessons.” Within hours, the lesson disappeared from the website, and Mills’ spokesperson said the governor was on board with its removal.
While most Democrats support the rights, safety and visibility of LGBTQ adults and children, they’re struggling to counter a barrage of GOP attacks on LGBTQ people, particularly transgender people. With measured responses and occasional capitulation, Democrats like Mills are aiming to avoid getting sucked further into culture wars that serve mostly to galvanize the Republican base.
But as Democrats largely avoid direct confrontations, some LGBTQ people say they feel abandoned.
“Our lives and our existence are being used as political fodder to ramp up the GOP base, and they’re not coming to our defense,” said Deja Alvarez, a transgender woman who finished third in the Democratic primary in a heavily LGBTQ state legislative district in Philadelphia. “They’re not rallying the troops and saying, ‘Hey, we can’t stand for this.’”
Democrats are hardly silent on LGBTQ issues.
As Pride month began this week, President Joe Biden tweeted his support for LGBTQ rights. He recently named Karine Jean-Pierre as the first openly gay White House press secretary and was critical of Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis this year after he signed legislation to ban the discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
Even after she distanced herself from the Department of Education video, Mills released a statement this week ticking through LGBTQ-friendly legislation she has signed. She insisted that if she is reelected, Maine “will remain a safe and welcoming place to live for LGBTQ people.”
And in Wisconsin, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers warned that if he loses in November, Republicans will take steps to ban books, especially those with LGBTQ themes.
Evers’ approach is one activists say more Democrats should embrace this election year. They want to see candidates go beyond prepared statements celebrating Pride month and instead place LGBTQ issues more at the center of the campaign while warning of the specific consequences of Republican victories.
“These are the kinds of actions we need people to take,” Alvarez said, “but not just because it’s Pride month.”
The problem may be that even allies are not prepared to speak on the issues, which allowed the framing of LGBTQ people as a threat to catch on, said Fran Hutchins, executive director of the advocacy group Equality Federation.
In this election cycle, Republicans have zeroed in on the discussions banned by the Florida bill dubbed by opponents as “Don’t Say Gay”; the participation of transgender students in competitive sports, even though such conflicts are rare; and gender-affirming care for children.
“The root of why this is happening is a real lack of familiarity with and lack of understanding for trans folks and what it’s like to be transgender,” Hutchins said.
One notable exception has been Mallory McMorrow, a Democratic state senator from Michigan who gave an impassioned speech in response to an invocation from a Republican lawmaker who claimed McMorrow, who is running for reelection, wanted to “groom” and “sexualize” kindergarteners.
The video of McMorrow’s reaction speech and a related Twitter thread were widely celebrated, but there remains a sense — even by McMorrow — that she fell on a sword other Democrats are dodging.
“There is a difference between politics and outright hate,” she said in April, pondering the reaction to her speech. “I think people are frustrated that elected officials haven’t done enough to call that out, that maybe Democrats are afraid of talking about religion and faith openly and honestly and calling hate what it is.”
Labeling education about sexual orientation and gender identity as “grooming” connotes the methods sex offenders use to molest children, and is part of a push by conservatives to speak to parents’ fears by equating such education with pornography and pedophilia.
The teacher in the Maine video, Kailina Mills — no relation to the governor — said in a Facebook post that she has taught transgender and nonbinary preschoolers and that they deserve to be represented in the curriculum, the Portland Press Herald reported.
“Public schools are for everyone and should, therefore, include everyone,” the teacher said.
When the narrative that such issues are inappropriate or dangerous becomes embedded in the minds of voters, pushing back can indeed be politically problematic. But activists said there are larger issues to consider.
“It goes well for candidates when they stand up and say what their real values are and say what they believe about what’s really going on with legislation,” said Liz Seaton, policy director for the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund. “When they speak the truth from values, they will be speaking from their heart, and their constituents will respond.”
Annise Parker, a former Houston mayor who is now CEO of LGBTQ Victory Fund and Institute, a nonpartisan organization that works on behalf of LGBTQ candidates, agreed that LGBTQ allies running for office have a responsibility to “stand up and speak out when any of those marginalized communities are attacked.”
Political observers and activists noted parallels in today’s rhetoric with that around same-sex marriage in the 1990s and 2000s.
It was only 10 years ago that former President Barack Obama — on the heels of Biden, his vice president — endorsed same-sex marriage. That was 16 years after another Democratic president, Bill Clinton, signed the law that blocked it.
Both presidents were running for reelection and may have been hostages to public opinion, which by Obama’s time had swung the other way. Same-sex marriage soon became legal throughout the United States, and the public now sees the sky didn’t fall as predicted, advocates said.
But now “conservative forces are using the tactics of ‘othering’ us very effectively again … and they are making trans activists look radical when all they’re looking for is the right to exist,” said Jonathan Lovitz, a gay man who ran against Alvarez and other candidates in last month’s Democratic primary in Philadelphia and placed second.
A poll released in April by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that overall, Americans lean slightly toward expanding discussions of sexuality in K-12 classrooms. And some observers say it’s only a matter of time before today’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric stops working in Republicans’ favor.
Lovitz encouraged Democrats to set aside political concerns as LGBTQ people feel increasingly targeted.
“Be a vocal and visible ally even if it costs you endorsements and donations. Stand up for what you believe in; otherwise you’re not an elected official, you’re just a weather vane,” he said. “We don’t need fair-weather friends right now.”
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis was formally sworn in as prime minister Monday after easily winning a second term with a record-high margin over the left-wing opposition, in an election that also ushered new far-right parties into Parliament.
With 99.70% of the vote counted, Mitsotakis’ New Democracy party had 40.55% — more than twice the main opposition Syriza’s 17.84%. It was the largest margin of victory seen in half a century and slightly expanded ND’s 20-percentage-point lead in a previous election five weeks before.
Mitsotakis, 55, was sworn in after being formally handed the mandate to govern by Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, and was due later Monday to name his new cabinet that’s to assume its duties on Tuesday.
“My aim was to secure a stable government with a parliamentary majority. Unfortunately, two elections were needed for that,” he said in a televised meeting with Sakellaropoulou, who as head of state holds a mainly ceremonial role.
“I have committed to implement major, deeply-needed reforms over the next four years, (and) have a strong mandate to do that,” he said.
Mitsotakis spoke with Sakellaropoulou about the “surprise” entry of marginal parties, which raises the number represented in Parliament from five to eight, but added: “I think our democracy is mature enough to handle whatever temporary turbulence (ensues).”
Held under a new electoral law that boosts the first party, Sunday’s vote gave ND a comfortable majority of 158 seats in the 300-member Parliament, with Syriza getting 48. The May election had failed to provide Mitsotakis with a majority due to the one-off electoral system then in force, which prompted the new vote.
Center-left PASOK elected 32 lawmakers and the Stalinist-rooted Communist Party 20.
The remaining 42 seats will be shared between three far-right parties — including one endorsed by a jailed former top official in a defunct, Nazi-inspired party — and another representing the far-left.
Athenian Chrysanthi Tzetzenekou said the extreme right’s parliamentary entry worried her.
“Of course, everyone’s opinion is respected,” she added. “Let’s hope for a balance.
Voter turnout was nearly 53%, compared to 61% in May.
Mitsotakis campaigned on a platform of securing economic growth and political stability, cutting taxes and boosting incomes as Greece gradually recovers from a nearly decade-long financial crisis.
Greek government bonds are still rated below investment grade, although that’s widely expected to change this year amid the booming economy and the prospect of stable government.
A substantial upgrade by international rating agencies would provide a formal seal of financial respectability, allow greater foreign investment and lower government and business borrowing costs.
Mitsotakis faces several challenges. He must maintain the economic rebound amid a cost of living crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine, and improve relations with neighboring Turkey which nosedived in 2020 over offshore gas drilling rights but stabilized in recent months.
Speaking late Sunday, Mitsotakis pledged to use his second term to “transform Greece, with a dynamic economic growth rate that will increase salaries and reduce inequality, with better and free public health care, a more effective and digital state and a strong country.”
ND won in 58 of the country’s 59 electoral regions, capturing traditional Socialist and left-wing strongholds, some for the first time.
Harvard-educated Mitsotakis comes from one of Greece’s most prominent political families. His late father, Constantine Mitsotakis, served as prime minister in the 1990s, his sister was a foreign minister and his nephew is the current mayor of Athens.
Despite scandals late in his first term, including revelations of wiretapping targeting senior politicians and journalists and a deadly Feb. 28 train crash that exposed poor safety measures in public transport, voters returned to power a prime minister who delivered economic growth and lowered unemployment.
His main rival, 48-year-old Alexis Tsipras, was prime minister from 2015 to 2019 during the height of Greece’s financial crisis. Tsipras first came to power pledging an end to painful spending cuts imposed by international bailout creditors but abruptly switched course to sign up for a new round of rescue loans accompanied by further austerity.
Despite the election result, Tsipras has shown no inclination to resign and there have been no open calls from within his party for him to do so.
Four marginal parties crossed the 3% Parliamentary entry threshold on Sunday, up from one in May, as certainty over the outcome at the top of the race may have freed many voters to back smaller groupings.
Although all three on the far right oppose immigration, the issue was not noticeable in pre-election campaigning — despite the June 14 migrant ship disaster that left more than 500 people missing, feared dead. Mitsotakis’ government had pursued a tough border policy, greatly reducing the flow of smuggling boats, but has been accused of illegally deporting migrants back to Turkey, which it has strongly denied.
The top performer, the previously unknown nationalist Spartans, was endorsed ahead of the second vote by Ilias Kasidiaris. He is serving 13 years in prison as a former leading member of the Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn, linked to multiple violent street attacks.
Spartans leader Vassilis Stigas publicly thanked Kasidiaris on Sunday for helping his party win 4.64% of the vote and 12 seats in Parliament.
Elliniki Lysi, or Greek Solution, won 4.44% by dredging the populist conservative depths ND eschewed years ago.
Newcomer Niki, or Victory, got 3.69% and 10 seats. Led by a state primary school teacher and theologian, it offered a traditionalist Christian Orthodox message. Its critics say its initial core was formed by pandemic-era anti-vaccination activists and has links with pro-Russian groups and zealots at odds with the official Church of Greece.
On the far-left, Plefsi Eleftherias, or Passage to Freedom, won 3.17% and 8 seats. It’s a Syriza splinter group led by Zoe Konstantopoulou.
She bragged late Sunday that, although her party had elected few lawmakers, “I’m as good as 100, and each of our other lawmakers is good for 20.”
President Sakellaropoulou noted Monday that “the eight-party new Parliament will engender many challenges for its Speaker.”
“We’ll all go through it together,” she said. “I hope for the best outcome for the country.”
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Associated Press writer Theodora Tongas in Athens contributed to this report. | https://pix11.com/ap-international/pro-reform-mitsotakis-wins-second-term-in-greek-election-that-sees-surge-by-small-far-right-parties/ | 2023-06-26 12:33:55 | 1 | https://pix11.com/ap-international/pro-reform-mitsotakis-wins-second-term-in-greek-election-that-sees-surge-by-small-far-right-parties/ |
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Texas Tech linebacker Bryce Ramirez was carted off in the first quarter Saturday night at No. 16 North Carolina State with an apparent serious leg injury.
Ramirez was injured when teammates tackled Wolfpack running back Jordan Houston, with the pile rolling over Ramirez’s left leg that was planted in the turf. The leg bent below the knee and was twisted abnormally as he laid on the grass, with team training staffers using a towel to cover the lower left leg as they began treating him.
The game was stopped for roughly 10 minutes before he was lifted onto the cart. Ramirez was alert and multiple N.C. State players came by to offer a fist tap or well-wishes before he left with 4:02 on the clock.
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You’re in a public space. You hear what you think are gunshots. People are running, crying, screaming.
What do you do?
Pennsylvania State Police have taken a close look at terrifying situations like these. They’ve compiled a PowerPoint presentation called “Run, Hide, Fight,” which will be presented to the public Tuesday by Trooper Nathan Branosky.
“We want to educate the public, if they’re ever in a situation that’s dangerous, on the best way to protect themselves and protect the people around them,” Branosky said.
The Boys and Girls Club of Easton will host the forum at 11 a.m. The club is at 210 Jones Houston Way in Easton.
The program targets human service agency employees but anyone can attend, according to Boys and Girls Club Executive Director Dean Young.
“Our goal is to share the learning opportunity with Easton Area School District personnel, other youth service organizations, and residents who can benefit from the safety presentation,” Young said.
The public can ask questions following the 45-minute presentation, Young said. The program covers the possibility of active shooter events in churches, schools, businesses and corporate settings.
“Our presenter will discuss past active shooter events, the response by police, and measures occupants can take to save lives and reduce casualties,” Young said.
Branosky has been in the state police since 2005. He’s a 20-year retiree from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and served deployments in both Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Young recommends that attendees register by calling him at 484-239-2075 or by calling the club’s program director, Monica Bowles, at 610-703-8575.
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(NEXSTAR) – The U.S. has a new dominant COVID variant, the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
Health officials worldwide have been warning of XBB, a subvariant of omicron, since the fall. As of Friday, XBB’s spinoff, XBB.1.5, makes up roughly 40% of U.S. COVID cases, the CDC reports.
Currently, it is most prevalent in the Northeast, making up about 75% of COVID cases from Maine south to New York and New Jersey. The initial strain, XBB, makes up only about 4% of the nation’s COVID cases.
XBB was first detected in India in August and spread quickly through Southeast Asia, according to the World Health Organization. At the time, the WHO described XBB as “the most antibody-evasive SARS-CoV-2 variant identified to date.”
Dr. Armando Paez, the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Baystate Health in Massachusetts, told Nexstar’s WWLP that XBB can likely evade immunity from prior infections as well.
“So most likely, if you’re going to be exposed to it, you may get infected,” he said.
Since first being discovered, XBB has evolved and now has two subvariants, XBB.1 and XBB.1.5.
XBB.1.5 differs from its family members because it has a mutation that allows it to better bind to cells, Andrew Pekosz, a virologist for Johns Hopkins University, told CNBC. That ability to bind gives it a better chance of infecting people.
The XBB.1.5 subvariant so far hasn’t proven to be more severe than others, Dr. Barbara Mahon, director of the CDC’s proposed Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division said during an interview with CBS News. Dr. Jay Varma of the Cornell Center for Pandemic Prevention and Response echoed those statements to PBS News Hour, adding that if you have received the vaccines and have been previously infected, “you have a similar level of protection” against this subvariant.
Studies have suggested, though, that it may not respond as well to antibody treatment as other variants and subvariants have. According to Varma, the monoclonal antibodies treatment “is no longer effective,” leaving healthcare providers with Paxlovid, “the one drug that’s widely available, as our effective treatment option.”
Mahon said the bivalent booster is expected to be as effective at protecting against XBB.1.5 as it has with other omicron subvariants.
Testing, however, may not be as effective at detecting XBB.1.5. On Thursday, the FDA warned an at-home saliva testing kit, DxTerity, has been found to “have significantly reduced sensitivity” to some omicron mutations, including the XBB, BA.2.75, and BN.1.
Medical professionals and the CDC continue to recommend wearing a mask, getting vaccinated, and staying home if you aren’t feeling well — even if you’re testing negative for COVID.
XBB.1.5 comes as Americans are already facing other respiratory illnesses like the flu, RSV, and even a potential outbreak of strep.
Nexstar’s Alix Martichoux contributed to this report. | https://www.wane.com/community/health/coronavirus/what-we-know-about-xbb-1-5-the-dominant-covid-variant-in-the-us/ | 2023-01-03 22:12:56 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/community/health/coronavirus/what-we-know-about-xbb-1-5-the-dominant-covid-variant-in-the-us/ |
Jill Biden to meet Ukrainian refugees during border visit
WASHINGTON (AP) — For weeks, first lady Jill Biden has been transfixed by the news coming out of Ukraine, by the bombings and scenes of “parents weeping over their children’s broken bodies in the streets,” as she said in a recent speech.
Now Biden is using her second solo overseas trip to get an up-close look at the Ukrainian refugee crisis by visiting Romania and Slovakia, where she will spend Mother’s Day meeting with displaced families in a small Slovakian village on the border with Ukraine.
Biden, who opens the visit Friday in Romania, told reporters traveling with her Thursday night, “It’s so important to the president and to me that the Ukrainian people know that we stand with them.” She said earlier in the week she wants the refugees to know “their resilience inspires me.”
NATO allies Romania and Slovakia border Ukraine and have taken in some of the millions of mostly women and children who fled after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, triggering Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II.
Biden also will use her four days in Europe to highlight issues she promotes at home, such as support for U.S. service members, education and the welfare of children.
After flying overnight from Washington, Biden was to arrive at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, near the Black Sea, in time to help serve Friday dinner to U.S. service members stationed there. Some of the several thousand U.S. troops that President Joe Biden deployed to eastern Europe in the leadup to the war were sent to the base, which is about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from Romania’s border with Ukraine.
The centerpiece of the first lady’s trip comes Sunday — Mother’s Day — when Biden, a mother of three, meets with displaced Ukrainians who sought refuge across the border in Slovakia.
Biden’s daughter, Ashley Biden, had planned to accompany her mother to Europe, but backed out after learning Thursday that she was a close contact of someone who tested positive for COVID-19, said Michael LaRosa, the first lady’s spokesperson. Ashley Biden tested negative, LaRosa said.
“I can only imagine the grief families are feeling,” Jill Biden said this week. “I know that we might not share a language, but I hope that I can convey, in ways so much greater than words, that their resilience inspires me, that they are not forgotten, and that all Americans stand with them still.”
The first lady also will meet during the trip with humanitarian aid workers, educators, government officials and U.S. embassy personnel, the White House said.
Nearly 6 million Ukrainians, mostly women and children, have fled their country since Russia’s invasion, according to the U.N. refugee agency. Many have resettled in next-door countries, like Romania and Slovakia, or have gone elsewhere in Europe to try to rebuild their lives.
More than 850,000 Ukrainians have entered Romania since the invasion, while nearly 400,000 have crossed into Slovakia, according to government figures from those countries.
Biden has long displayed an interest in the plight of refugees around the world.
In 2011, when her husband was vice president, she traveled to drought-stricken east Africa to visit with Somali famine refugees at the Dadaab camp in Kenya. In 2017, she visited refugees in Chios, Greece, as part of work by the aid organization Save The Children, on whose board she served.
Some refugee advocates said Biden’s trip will send the message that the United States takes seriously its humanitarian commitment to the Ukrainian people.
“Every first lady has a far-reaching platform to raise awareness and this trip will be an important tool for mobilizing additional support for those forced to flee their homeland,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and formerly a policy director to first lady Michelle Obama.
Jill Biden’s trip will be the latest to the region by a U.S. government representative following recent visits to Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
President Biden visited Ukrainian refugees during a stop in Poland in March. That’s the closest he’s been to Ukraine. The White House has said there are no current plans for him to visit Kyiv.
After her time with the U.S. service members, the first lady was set to spend Saturday in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, being briefed on humanitarian efforts, meeting with Romanian first lady Carmen Iohannis and touring a school where Ukrainian refugee students are enrolled before she departs for Slovakia. Biden is a community college English professor.
On Sunday, she heads to Kosice, Slovakia, to visit a city-operated refugee center and a public school that also hosts Ukrainian refugee students, where she will spend time with Ukrainian and Slovakian mothers and children as they participate in Mother’s Day activities. Afterward, she will travel to the Slovakia-Ukraine border crossing in Vysne Nemecke, Slovakia.
The White House declined to comment on whether she will cross the border and enter Ukraine.
She’ll also visit a small Greek Catholic chapel in Vysne Nemecke that serves refugees.
Monday brings a meeting with Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova, the country’s first female president, before Biden heads back to Washington.
The first lady has shown her support the Ukrainian people in several ways. She wore a sunflower — Ukraine’s national flower — on her mask and a dress sleeve, and traveled to a Tennessee hospital to visit with Ukrainian children flown there for cancer treatment.
She had Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, sit with her during President Biden’s State of the Union address in March, and went to the Army’s Fort Campbell in Kentucky to visit with the families of U.S soldiers who were deployed to Europe to assist with the Ukraine crisis.
The trip is the first lady’s second overseas by herself. She flew to Tokyo last year to represent the United States at the opening of the Olympic Games.
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‘Multiple fatalities’ under investigation in Moultrie, Georgia, officials say
MOULTRIE, Ga. (WALB/Gray News) - Multiple fatalities from different incidents are under investigation in Moultrie, according to officials.
Currently, there is a large police presence at a McDonald’s on 1st Avenue Southeast. There is another active scene at 6th Street Southwest that law enforcement is investigating.
Law enforcement officials told WALB there are two separate incidents that have fatalities, and currently, there is no confirmation of a connection between the two scenes.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said it was requested by the Moultrie Police Department to investigate the incidents and the fatalities. At this time, GBI officials said investigations are still ongoing.
Moultrie is located in southwest Georgia, north of Tallahassee, Florida.
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MADRID (AP) — Spain’s former King Juan Carlos will return to the country on Thursday for his first visit since leaving nearly two years ago amid a cloud of financial scandals.
The royal household said Juan Carlos would visit the northwestern town of Sanxenxo where a yachting event is scheduled to take place. On Monday the 84-year-old will travel to Madrid, where he is due to meet his son, King Felipe VI, and other members of the royal family.
The statement from the royal palace, sent late Wednesday, said Juan Carlos would return to Abu Dhabi on Monday, describing the city as the place where Juan Carlos had taken up “permanent and stable residence.”
The visit, it added, reflects the former king’s desire to “travel frequently to Spain to visit family and friends.”
Juan Carlos left Spain in August 2020 for Abu Dhabi as Spanish and Swiss prosecutors mounted probes into alleged financial wrongdoings concerning him. The scandals and his departure once again stirred debate over whether Spain should have a monarchy.
The Spanish prosecutors didn’t find evidence to take the former monarch to court because much of the financial misbehavior, involving millions of euros (dollars) in undeclared accounts, happened when Juan Carlos was protected by immunity as Spain’s king, and other possible fraud fell outside the statute of limitations.
The probes allowed the recovery of 5.1 million euros ($5.4 million) in fines and taxes for income that Juan Carlos had failed to declare to Spain’s tax authorities, the prosecutors said in their conclusions.
Swiss prosecutors have also dropped the investigation.
Although the former king was not among those directly investigated in the Swiss probe, prosecutors there said they found that Juan Carlos received in 2008 — before he stepped down as king — the sum of $100 million from the Saudi finance ministry. The case also turned up millions more received by the king or his former lover Corinna Larsen, a Danish-German businesswoman.
In March, he wrote a letter to Felipe expressing his desire to visit family and friends in Spain after Supreme Court prosecutors closed investigations into his financial dealings.
King Juan Carlos, who was not charged at any time, helped steer Spain back to democracy following the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco in 1975, making him once Spain’s most respected public figure. But scandals of one type or another involving the family began to mount in the later years of his reign. He abdicated in 2014, ending a 39-year-long term as monarch.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A deputy with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office was recently asked to investigate a potential case of domestic abuse.
The deputy arrived at a home in the 1200 block of Knollhaven Dr. and initiated an investigation.
The four people who were interviewed during this investigation were Lauren Fisher, 41, of Baton Rouge, her 7-year-old daughter, Michelle Fisher, 62, and the husband of Michelle Fisher.
The deputy first spoke with Michelle Fisher “who advised that her daughter confronted her in the kitchen,” according to the affidavit.
The 62-year-old questioned her daughter when she returned home.
That is when Lauren Fisher allegedly attacked her mother.
Lauren’s mom claims that she was left with amongst other things, broken glasses and torn pajamas. The deputy confirmed injuries to the arms and legs of the mother.
The deputy then interviewed Lauren Fisher.
Lauren says that she was berated by her mother while trying to get dinner for her daughter.
What followed was an altercation in the kitchen that also involved the husband of Michelle Fisher.
Lauren says that her mother allegedly fell on the ground.
At some point Michelle’s husband held the 41-year-old down on the ground.
Lauren claims that her mother hit her in the body and head “repeatedly” and her daughter witnessed the altercation.
The deputy did see injuries on Lauren Fisher’s head.
The husband of Michelle Fisher confirmed that the two women slapped each other and his wife could have stepped away instead of hitting her daughter while she was on the ground.
The 7-year-old said that her mother struck first and was eventually hit by her grandmother while being held down.
The mother and daughter were both arrested at the conclusion of this investigation.
Both had to make a trip to Our Lady of the Lake Hospital after this altercation.
The affidavit states that Michelle Fisher suffered a sprained ankle and head injury.
Lauren Fisher sustained a foot and ankle sprain.
Both Lauren Fisher and Michelle Fisher remain behind bars in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
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FAYETTEVILLE -- The dramatics were minimal for Friday's series opener against Wright State for the Arkansas Razorbacks after Wednesday's wild extra-inning win against Illinois State.
Brady Slavens hit his first home run of the season, a three-run, opposite-field shot, and the trio of Caleb Cali, Peyton Stovall and Jared Wegner homered for the second consecutive game to lead the No. 8 University of Arkansas to a 12-2 win before a crowd of 8,851 at Baum-Walker Stadium.
Wegner ended the game in the eighth inning with a solo home run to right-center field, his fourth of the year, which triggered the run-rule outcome on a misty, cold day with the wind chill 36 degrees at first pitch.
Slavens and Stovall drove in four runs each for the Hogs (7-2), while Cali had a pair of RBI.
"Slavens had a couple of really big at-bats," Arkansas Coach Dave Van Horn said. "Yeah, the home run was big, but that was also a big at-bat with two outs when he singled to right field after fouling off a lot of pitches. I guess he had four RBI. So the four and five holes drove in 8 runs. That's a great deal there."
Arkansas sophomore Hagen Smith worked 4 2/3 innings for the second consecutive start, this time throwing a career-high 105 pitches, largely due to matching his career high with five walks.
"I don't think the weather had an effect on anything," Smith said. "I think it was on me. I had my mechanics off a little bit. Kind of got in bad counts at times. Had to battle back. Threw a lot of pitches."
Stovall, who went 3 for 4, is 6 for 10 in the last two games as he recovers from a jammed thumb.
"I think my thumb's finally starting to not bother me anymore, per se," Stovall said. "I think that helps out a lot. Just kind of getting out of rhythm and just missing that one game. ... Me and Brady both, we were fortunate enough to have some big hits, to get some RBIs in."
The Raiders (2-6) worked him for 31 pitches in the second inning, when Smith had to wriggle out of his toughest jam. Smith walked the bases loaded, issuing free passes to Sammy Sass, Parker Harrison and nine-hole hitter Avery Fisher with a strikeout in between each. Justin Riemer reached a full count before grounding out to shortstop Harold Coll to end the inning.
Arkansas took the lead on Cali's 433-foot home run to left center against right-hander Jake Shirk (1-2) in the second inning.
The Hogs' four-run third provided some cushion for Smith.
Coll led off with a single and Wegner drew a two-out walk. Slavens drove a low fastball to left and the shot carried over the wall into the Raiders' bullpen for his 32nd career home run, his 31st with the Hogs.
Smith entered the fifth inning with 83 pitches before Riemer worked a full count then drove a ball over the left field wall for his second home run. Smith almost got out of fifth when Jay Luikart was ruled to have hit into a double play, which would have ended the half inning. However, a video review showed Stovall did not tag Gehrig Anglin going to second on the play, negating the twin killing.
Dylan Carter, one of the stars on Wednesday, came on to strike out Sass to escape the inning, and he went on to allow 1 run on 4 hits and a 1 walk on 43 pitches in 2 1/3 innings.
Arkansas poured it on with four runs in the seventh inning. Stovall provided a two-run single to plate Wegner and Slavens, who had both walked, and Cali drove in a run with a hot-shot double that eluded third baseman Luke Arnold. Parker Rowland's RBI groundout ended the scoring.
Cali, who is hitting seventh, started the year 0 for 12 before his home run against Illinois State on Wednesday.
"Cali, he's back, his confidence is back," Van Horn said. "You know he's doing what we've seen him do with the bat. It sure is nice having the lineup the way it's going. I can leave him down there.
"If I need to bring him up and break up a couple of left-handed hitters, I can do that as well. It's just nice to have a bat that can drive the ball."
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BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday said the U.S., Britain and other foreign powers are seeking to sabotage its foreign relations by orchestrating criticism surrounding a trip by the top United Nations official for human rights.
China has long held back the fact-finding mission led by Michelle Bachelet, focused on allegations of mass confinement, forced labor and compulsory birth control measures imposed on members of the Uyghur, Kazakh and other Muslim minorities.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin went on the offensive over such criticisms Tuesday, saying “the U.S., Britain and other Western countries have been repeatedly staging political farces around the U.N. high commissioner for human rights’ visit to China.”
“They have first openly pressured and strongly demanded that the high commissioner visit China and Xinjiang, and conducted the so-called investigation with presumption of guilt,” Wang said at a daily briefing.
The U.S., Britain and other countries “jumped out and spared no effort to disrupt and sabotage the visit, creating conditions and obstacles for the visit,” Wang said.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Bachelet in the southern city of Guangzhou on Monday, telling her that China opposes “politicizing” human rights and imposing double standards.
Bachelet’s trip is the first to China by a U.N. high commissioner for human rights since 2005.
Her six-day visit is focused on allegations of abuses against Muslim minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, but rights groups fear it will help whitewash the crackdown labeled by the U.S. as genocide.
China locked up an estimated million or more members of Uyghur, Kazakh and other Muslim minorities in what critics describe as a campaign to obliterate their distinct cultural identities. China says it has nothing to hide and welcomes all those without political bias to visit Xinjiang and view what it describes as a successful campaign to fight terrorism and restore order and ethnic cohesion.
From Guangzhou, Bachelet is to travel to Kashgar, once a stop on the Silk Road, and Urumqi, the Xinjiang capital. The U.N. and China barred foreign media from accompanying Bachelet, and it’s unclear whom she will meet and how much access she will be granted throughout her visit.
The U.N. quoted Bachelet as telling Wang that she was looking forward to exchanges with “many different people during my visit, particularly with government officials, business leaders, academics, students and members of the civil society working on human rights and other social and economic issues.”
“While we will be discussing sensitive and important issues, I hope this will help us to build confidence and enable us to work together in advancing human rights in China and globally,” it quoted Bachelet as saying.
“Wang noted that to advance the international cause of human rights, we must first respect each other and refrain from politicizing human rights.” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website.
“Multilateral human rights institutions should serve as a major venue for cooperation and dialogue rather than a new battlefield for division and confrontation,” it said.
China’s ruling Communist Party allows no political opposition and strictly limits free speech and rights to assembly and religious expression. China is also one of the five veto-wielding permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and has signed but not ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights administered by Bachelet’s office.
Beijing has also come under criticism over its refusal to criticize Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as its hard-line “zero-COVID” approach to the pandemic that has disrupted the lives of tens of millions of citizens and upended global supply chains.
In an online meeting Tuesday with Wang, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on “members of the international community to condemn Russia’s illegal war of aggression and to assume their responsibility to uphold international law and to protect the U.N. Charter.”
Baerbock cited the “shocking reports and new evidence of very serious human rights violations in Xinjiang and called for a transparent investigation,” her ministry said.
“Human rights are a fundamental part of the international order and Germany is committed to protecting them worldwide,” Baerbock said.
“I think it’s important that these accusations, which have been known for a long time, are addressed by the Chinese side, and I made that very, very clear in this morning’s discussion,” she added.
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Associated Press writer Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report.
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Oklahoma's laws restricting abortions have created a confusing, contradictory environment that may have a chilling effect on health care, new research says.
After the US Supreme Court overturned the right to an abortion last year with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, several states quickly passed laws that restricted such procedures. A report released Tuesday and described in the medical journal the Lancet finds that the laws in at least one state left workers at many hospitals confused about how to proceed.
When the court made its decision, the Oklahoma law that criminalized abortion in 1910 went back into effect, according to the state's attorney general. Lawmakers then created multiple overlapping laws that further criminalized abortion and increased penalties for those who performed or assisted in an abortion procedure, according to the new report from Physicians for Human Rights, Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Justice and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
The Oklahoma laws allow abortion in the case of a medical emergency, but one doesn't define a medical emergency. Another says it allows for the "preservation of life in a medical emergency," defined as causing "substantial and irreversible body of bodily impairment" -- which is not a medical term, experts say.
To understand exactly how well Oklahoma hospitals understood the laws, the researchers used a "secret shopper method," study co-author Dr. Michele Heisler said.
Researchers posed as prospective patients and called 34 hospitals to ask about the emergency pregnancy care they offered.
Heisler said that when the researchers designed the study, she expected the hospitals to tell the patients that they could get help in an emergency but that a second provider might have to sign off on an abortion or that a doctor would have to get the decision past an "onerous" hospital oversight committee.
"What we weren't expecting is that there would be so much confusion and contradictory information and really not clear information," said Heisler, who is medical director at Physicians for Human Rights and a professor of internal medicine and public health at the University of Michigan.
The researchers said that none of the hospitals they contacted in Oklahoma was totally able to articulate clear, consistent policies for emergency obstetric care to potential patients.
Specifically, 65% -- 22 of the 34 hospitals -- were unable to provide information about policies, procedures or the support provided to doctors when it is clinically necessary to terminate a pregnancy to save the life of a pregnant patient.
In 14 of the 22 cases, hospital representatives provided unclear and/or incomplete answers about whether doctors require approval to perform a medically necessary abortion.
Three of the hospitals said they do not provide abortions at all, even though it remains legal in the case of a medical emergency or to "preserve the life" of the pregnant person. Four others provided information that was factually wrong, the report says.
Four hospitals said they had formal approval processes that clinicians must go through if they have a situation in which it is medically necessary to terminate a pregnancy; they cannot make that decision on their own.
Three hospitals indicated that they have policies for these situations but refused to share any information about them.
"Unfortunately, it is being just left up to individual health systems and clinicians to try to make sense of these laws and provide guidance and support," Heisler said.
The Oklahoma Hospital Association said it has been in conversations with Oklahoma's medical licensure boards to seek clarity about the state's conflicting abortion laws.
The association sent guidance to its members in September to explain what it interpreted as "saving the life of a pregnant woman" and what the laws would mean for a person made pregnant through rape or incest, among other issues. The guidance explains that the state's criminal laws do not make an exception for these circumstances unless it is to save the life of someone who is pregnant in a medical emergency.
The guidance also warns that a person convicted of "administering, prescribing, advising, or procuring a woman to take any medicine drug or substance, or a person convicted of using or employing any instruction or 'other means whatever,' with the intent to procure an abortion, shall be guilty of a felony punishable by two (2) to (5) years imprisonment. From August 27, 2022, forward, a person convicted of performing or attempting to perform an abortion shall be guilty of a felony punishable by a fine not to exceed One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) and/or imprisonment not to exceed ten (10) years."
The guidance says the "persons potentially liable" are the provider, not the pregnant person.
Conflicting obligations
Study co-author Rabia Muqaddam, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights who is working on multiple cases challenging the abortion bans in Oklahoma, called the overlapping laws a "bizarre" situation.
"Aside from the fact that there are so many of them is that they all conflict," she said. "All of the laws have inconsistent definitions, which is where a lot of the confusion comes from for health care providers. What's most dangerous for patients is the fact that the definitions of medical emergency and life-preserving abortions is unclear and inconsistent."
"If I was the hospital general counsel and I was looking at these laws, I have absolutely no idea what my physician could or could not do in any particular circumstance," she said.
When there is a lack of clarity and when penalties are involved, "what you get is massive chill."
"Physicians are terrified. They're terrified that if they make the wrong decision, they're going to go to jail. They're going to lose their license. And at the other end of that is that patients are being seriously harmed," Muqaddam said.
Sonia M. Suter, a professor of law at George Washington University who was not involved in the new research, said recent abortion laws have created "such a mess."
"You are telling physicians that they have two conflicting obligations," said Suter, whose scholarship focuses on issues at the intersection of law, medicine and bioethics, with a particular focus on reproductive rights.
There is an obligation to stabilize patients in emergencies that may not always qualify as "life-threatening," but doctors and hospitals could also risk being sued because the doctors are not following the standard of care, "which you can't do with how some of these exceptions are worded."
She said hospitals also don't know how the laws will be applied. Lawyers typically will instruct institutions to interpret the law as conservatively as possible, and physicians may be equally conservative because they don't want to risk their licenses or face stiff penalties.
"It's just devastating for everybody," Suter said. "It's just cruel."
Molly Meegan, general counsel for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said state laws to restrict abortion with emergency exceptions are not comprehensive.
"They can't be applied in a medical situation. They just aren't practical," she said. "They have an ethical and personal duty to their patients to do what is best for their patients. It can at times be in direct conflict with whatever the laws are, especially if they're vague, and most of the ob/gyns throughout the country, including in Oklahoma, are in an impossible situation."
Meegan and Suter both believe the confusion will lead to the deaths of more women. Those who survive may be left with dire health problems, including losing the ability to have children in the future.
"They already have horrific maternal mortality and infant mortality rates," Suter said. "It feels like the end of evidence-based medicine."
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oklahoma persistently ranks among the states with the worst rates of maternal deaths, even before the new abortion laws went into effect. The state had a maternal mortality rate of 25.2 deaths per 100,000 live births for 2018-20, well above the national average.
For communities of color, the rate is significantly worse, according to the Oklahoma Health Department.
White women had 23.2 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births for 2018-20, the lowest rate overall in Oklahoma. The rates for Black women and Native American women were about twice as high: 49.4 and 44.4, respectively.
Oklahoma is not alone. The 13 states where most abortions are banned generally have some of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the country, Heisler said. Even more states could be restricting abortion access soon, the experts believe, with potentially more problems to come.
"The hostile climate many states are creating for the health care field by enacting criminal and other penalties for abortion care is an outcome whose reverberations we are only just beginning to see," said Kelly Baden, vice president for public policy at the reproductive health nonprofit Guttmacher Institute.
Heisler noted that the researchers don't blame the hospitals or the doctors for this confusion. Overall, she said, the staffers who talked to the researchers "were wonderful," despite the circumstances.
"They were empathetic. They said, 'I completely understand.' They tried to give answers. They acted in good faith. But really, none of the hospitals were really able to say what we were hoping for, which is to unequivocally state that they would stand behind their clinicians and that clinicians at their facilities would be able to use their best clinical judgment for the individual case and that it would be made as medical decisions should be in collaboration with the patient, taking into account to their needs, their preferences and their values," she said.
"We are recognizing that hospitals and clinicians are in an untenable situation," Heisler added.
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Slow and steady wins the race.
During the red carpet for the 2022 E! People's Choice Awards, Ryan Reynolds shared insight into his A-list career, revealing that his Hollywood success didn't happen overnight. As Ryan detailed, he never "experienced that meteoric rise," and he's very "grateful" for that.
"I look at these young actors who come up and they have this overnight success, that's hard," he told "Live From E!: People's Choice Awards'" Laverne Cox. "I've seen that brutalize people and I've seen people rise above it. So, I was very lucky that it all happened very, very slowly for me—and I feel like it's still happening very slowly."
While Ryan may not feel like an A-lister, he's certainly become a staple in pop culture, starring in blockbuster films like "Deadpool," "Free Guy," "Red Notice" and "The Proposal," among others. Oh, and there is his swoon-worthy marriage to "Gossip Girl's" Blake Lively to envy. The duo, who share daughters James, 7, Inez, 6, and Betty, 3, are expecting their fourth child together.
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In fact, Reynolds made sure to Cox how lucky he is for his "stable life."
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So, it's no wonder Reynolds was named The People's Icon at the Dec. 6 ceremony, which took place at The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.
Through this award, Reynolds joins the likes of Melissa McCarthy, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez and Halle Berry, who took home the top honor at the 2021 E! People's Choice Awards. He was also nominated in two other categories, The Comedy Movie Star of 2022 and The Male Movie Star of 2022, for his work in Netflix's "The Adam Project."
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Supreme Court to decide how states can bring home the bacon
A California food fight reaches the high court.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday about a California law regulating how pork, veal and eggs are sold in the state. Pork producing and farming advocates say California’s law is too much of a burden for other states to comply with. California officials say if you don’t want to follow our rules, go do business somewhere else.
In 2018, California voters approved Proposition 12, an initiative banning the sale of pork within the state if breeding pigs do not have 24 square feet to move around in their stalls. That goes for all pork producers and farmers even if their pigs are raised in other states. The main parts of the law went into effect at the beginning of the year.
“If you’re looking for an example of an unconstitutional law, Proposition 12 is it,” said Chief Legal Strategist Michael Formica with the National Pork Producers Council.
The NPPC and the American Farm Bureau Federation say Proposition 12 is not fair because nearly all pork sold in California comes from out of state while Californians make up 13 percent of the nation’s pork consuming market.
“California can regulate what happens in California but they can’t regulate how a business or a farm is run in, you know in, Indiana or in Iowa or in Minnesota, in Tennessee, in Georgia. That’s left to the people of those states,” said Formica.
California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross, the named defendant in the case, refused to comment. However, a spokesperson for California’s Attorney General pointed to their legal argument that says, “The only Proposition 12-compliant pork that out-of-state businesses must produce is the pork they choose to supply to California’s market; they are free to produce as many other pork products as they want, and to sell them to markets outside of California.”
The question before the court is whether California’s law violates part of the interstate commerce clause by making business with other states excessively burdensome.
Jennifer Zwagerman, Director of the Drake Agricultural Law Center, said the case has major implications, not just for how one state’s pork production laws affects another but also other health, safety and welfare issues.
“There’s just a host of things that people are really concerned to see if California is successful, what’s next,” questioned Zwagerman.
As for the case, lower courts have previously sided with California by saying increased compliance costs are not a significant burden on interstate commerce.
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SAN BRUNO, Calif. (KRON) — A person is left with major injuries after allegedly driving under the influence and colliding with another car Friday night, according to the San Bruno Police Department.
A collision occurred in the area of San Bruno Avenue and Interstate 280. Police suspected the driver of being under the influence of alcohol and the driver was transported to the hospital with major injuries.
Photos released by SBPD show two vehicles involved in the crash, with one of vehicles containing alcohol in the front passenger seat.
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The House passed a Senate bill to extend security to family members of Supreme Court justices.
The bill was passed about a week after authorities said a man threatened to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his suburban Washington home.
The bill passed with bipartisan support, 396-27. It now goes to President Joe Biden for a signature.
Only Democrats were among those objecting, according to The Hill.
The Supreme Court is in the midst of rendering opinions this session. One of the most highly anticipated opinions could determine whether abortions are illegal.
A draft opinion was leaked last month that showed the court could be intent on overturning Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide.
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A former finance director of two Seattle nonprofits embezzled more than $3 million over nine years and spent that money on gambling, traveling and shopping, King County prosecutors allege.
Susana Tantico, 62, of Renton, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Tuesday to two counts of wire fraud.
Between December 2016 and June 2020, Tantico stole about $2.3 million from Country Doctor Community Health Centers, and between June 2020 and May 2022, she stole about $890,000 from Community Passageways, according to court documents.
Country Doctor Community Health Centers provides health care to underserved people. Tantico worked there from 1999 to 2020, and as early as 2011 she began altering financial documents and lying to her employers, according to charging documents.
Tantico used more than $1.6 million of the nonprofit’s funds for gambling, prosecutors allege.
In 2017 and 2018, she spent over $50,000 of the nonprofit’s money on trips to Disney World, San Diego and Las Vegas, according to prosecutors. In the nonprofit’s ledger, she entered false payments for medical supplies, according to the documents.
She also spent more than $83,000 at Nordstrom and about $41,000 at Apple, according to the documents.
In June 2020, Tantico resigned from Country Doctor Community Health Centers and began working as director of finance for Community Passageways, a nonprofit focused on preventing young people from being incarcerated.
Tantico made withdrawals from the nonprofit’s bank account to pay for her mortgage, a vacation and gambling, according to prosecutors.
She claimed the nonprofit held youth programs at casinos when one of the organization’s banks asked about all the withdrawals at casinos, prosecutors allege.
Tantico stole nearly $893,000 from the nonprofit, according to the documents. The nonprofit has also spent $132,000 to audit its books, fix its accounting procedures and records, and reply to vendors, according to prosecutors.
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DETROIT -- A person of interest is being questioned in connection to the fatal shooting of a Michigan neurosurgeon, authorities said Friday.
The body of 53-year-old Devon Hoover was discovered Sunday evening when officers responded to a house for a well-being check that was requested by the doctor's family, Detroit police said.
The person of interest was taken into custody Friday morning on an unrelated charge, Detroit police Chief James White told reporters.
"We're confident that this person has information about what transpired," White said.
Police believe Hoover and the suspect "knew each other," White said, stressing that the crime "was not a random act."
"We have no reason to believe that the community is at any risk," he added.
Hoover -- who had "a special interest in the treatment of neck and back disorders" -- "was a dedicated and well respected member of the Ascension Michigan family," according to his employer, Ascension Michigan. "Our sincerest condolences and heartfelt prayers are with his family, friends and fellow associates during this incredibly difficult time."
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — WISH-TV is Indiana’s education station and News 8 honors outstanding teachers every month with the Golden Apple Award. It comes with a trophy, a $500 school supply shopping spree at Teachers’ Treasures, and a surprise from Hanna Mordoh.
October’s Golden Apple Award winner is Amy Mitchell from the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township, and she always puts her students first, including caring for her class while battling cancer.
At the McKenzie Career Center of Innovation and Technology, students from Lawrence North and Lawrence Central High Schools get schooled in life.
“We are getting them ready for real life,” Mari Swayne, career center director.
Swayne says no one does that better than Amy Mitchell.
“Amy Mitchell is a rock star. She is just one of the best people I have ever met. Forget education, she just is a beautiful person. She is here early, she stays late. She is so passionate about what she does for our students in the biomedical science program. She loves everything that she does,” Swayne says.
With more than 30 years of teaching biomedical science to freshmen and sophomores, Mitchell has this job “down to a science.” However, it’s her heart that has everyone hooked.
“She is just so generous and giving,” Amy Hinshaw, a fellow teacher, said. “She is the most bubbly, positive individual you will have the chance to meet. She is such a hard worker. She is always here by the time I arrive in the morning and she is still here at the end of the day when I leave.”
Hinshaw teaches in the same department and says she can hear the love Mitchell has for students — past and present.
“You can just hear her from my room. She is like ‘Oh my gosh – how are you? I haven’t seen you!’ and gives a big hug. And these are the seniors and juniors she had a couple of years ago and they still come and visit her,” Hinshaw said.
That includes Tara Neal. She is a senior at Lawrence North and in the biomedical science program.
“She is that teacher that, if you could give all the awards to, you would. I just love who she is and I know that bond is special,” Neal said.
Even as a senior, she still considers Mitchell a mentor, friend, and medical inspiration.
“She takes what she does so seriously, but with so much love,” Neal said. “Her students are her priority. It doesn’t surprise me at all that she puts her students above herself.”
And Mitchell does that — almost to a fault.
Last year, Mitchell was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, which the Mayor Clinic describes as a “cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell.” There is no cure, only the possibility of remission.
Mitchell’s twin sister, Lauri Malinka, says Mitchell was focused most on her students after the diagnosis.
“Her students. They have always been first, and it is just a true show of character to who she is — that they came first. Because she said, ‘I don’t want to let them down.’ She had cancer and she didn’t want to let them down,” Malinka said. “She wanted to wait as long as she could to let them know she did have cancer.”
Mitchell’s doctors said she needed a stem cell transplant in January of this year. However, she said it needed to wait.
“She was like, ‘I can’t really do that to my kids,’” Malinka said. “I said, ‘Amy please have this surgery — please have this stem cell surgery.’ And she goes, ‘Lauri, I can’t – I can’t do it to those kids.’ And that really just sat into my heart and into my mind just how dedicated she is to this.”
Mitchell compromised and used spring break to take a break for the surgery. But, even then, she was still committed to her classroom.
“We obviously had to tell her, ‘We have got this. We need you to take care of yourself, but even through that, she managed to still be engaged throughout the entire process,” Swayne said. “That was a part of her healing process, to make sure her kids were still okay.”
Nothing could stop this educator from educating.
“She was bound and determined she was going to start this fall, and she did!” Malinka said.
Determination and devotion — beyond deserving of the WISH-TV Golden Apple Award.
“I don’t know of anybody more deserving of this award than my sister,” Malinka said of her sister. “To truly put students first above her own health or safety, and she is just amazing.”
Therefore, News 8’s Hanna Mordoh and Mitchell’s family went to surprise her with the award in her classroom.
“I don’t know what to say…It is wonderful and it is thanks to my students. I love what I do and these are the best students ever, it makes my job easy,” Mitchell said.
Reflecting on her cancer journey, she said: “It made me realize how much I loved working with kids. I missed teaching and missed being here at McKenzie and that is what drove me to want to come back in the fall.”
Mitchell watched a video from her sister, fellow staff, and students. Through tears, hugs, and laughter, she said she was honored to be recognized and extremely surprised.
“I am just overwhelmed. I am full of happiness. Thank you so much. It has been a journey for many, many years,” said Mitchell. “I have seen this award on TV and it always warms my heart to see teachers that win this award and I never expected it to be me.”
Mitchell encourages people to never give up, based on her own experience with cancer, but also her career.
She quit being a teacher after her first year because it was extremely hard. She worked at a law firm and eventually went back to her calling, saying it was “the best move of her life.”
Mitchell has now been teaching in Lawrence Township for more than 25 years. She emphasized that young teachers should keep pushing past difficult years because the payoff of teaching is worth it.
“Just never give up. Don’t give up, whether it is a job or something in life that is difficult; as I look around here, I see that I have won,” Mitchell said.
She has won. However, the truth is no award is worthy of Mitchell. Some acts are so selfless, the light they shine on others is the true sign of someone special.
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If you're thinking of fixing up your home this spring or summer, you are not alone.
With high home prices and mortgage rates this year, many homeowners are choosing to remodel instead of move.
So you may want to know what supplies and prices are like this spring, after two years of long delays and high prices.
We found crews putting the finishing touches on a kitchen remodel, and for the first time in a long time, all the appliances arrived promptly.
Kerri Muddiman and Brian Bramble of Innovative Interiors say that's a big change from 12 months ago.
"We're not having any trouble really with anything arriving late right now," Muddiman said.
That's great news for homeowner Jeannette Rucker, who was negotiating a project.
"I want a complete kitchen," she said, "I want the full remodel."
More homeowners opting to remodel
The 2022 Home Improvement Report by NerdWallet found more people are staying put due to the tight housing market, opting to repair or renovate their existing home instead of buying a new one.
And the survey found that while many people are doing small projects like updating light fixtures, 51 percent of homeowners say they're considering a room renovation or home addition.
NerdWallet's Holden Lewis says more projects nowadays are about comfort rather than resale value.
"As people just hunker down in their homes," he said, "they want to stay there a long time and just make that home theirs."
The problem, though, is that fewer homeowners can take on projects without tapping into their savings due to the end of stimulus checks and high inflation.
Holden suggests you:
- Set money aside for your project or have a specific plan to pay it off.
- Take care of small repairs now, like a leaky gutter, or risk bigger problems down the road.
- Try DIY on smaller projects if you have the skills.
"A do-it-yourself job gives you a satisfying feeling and it could be a whole lot cheaper," Holden said.
One last caution: despite greater availability of appliances, Kerri Muddiman and Brian Bramble say prices on cabinets, appliances and even plumbing are all up this year.
"Time frames have gone down, but pricing has definitely gone up," he said.
So budget carefully, so you don't waste your money.
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It's Tom Brady's turn to strike a pose.
While the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback is known for his talents on the football field, he showed off some model behavior in a new candid video shared by Gisele Bündchen ahead of the launch of his Brady underwear line. In a 12-second clip posted to Instagram Story on June 6, Tom channeled his inner supermodel as he posed in a pair of boxer briefs from the label—much to his wife's delight.
"Hmm, somebody's brand new underwear," Gisele teased off-camera, as Tom stood by a bathroom mirror wearing nothing but his boxers. "What is this? Let me see."
The NFL star then covered the camera lens with a white towel before Gisele pulled the sheet away to show a close-up of the underwear's elastic band, which is stitched with the label's name.
"Let me see the underwear," Gisele giggled. "Is that Brady brand underwear?"
Tom's underwear line is expected to drop on Thursday, June 6. The collection includes boxer and brief-style underwear in multiple colors ranging from $15 to $20.
The brand's Twitter account shared Gisele's video on Monday, noting in a tweet that the boxer briefs are the "most comfortable underwear ever that never loses its shape," but they've been "approved" by the supermodel as well.
Needless to say, fans couldn't get enough of seeing, um, this more stripped-down side of Tom.
"Straight up blushing at this," one Twitter user wrote. "thank you, Gisele. we love ya, Mrs. Brady."
Meanwhile, another fan tweeted, "now show us the briefs Tom."
The seven-time Super Bowl champ's new venture into fashion comes two months after he confirmed that he'll be returning to play in the NFL—despite previously announcing his retirement from football.
"These past two months I have realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands," he wrote on Instagram in March. "That time will come. But it's not now. I love my teammates, and I love my supportive family. Without them, none of this is possible. I'm coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa. We have unfinished business." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1333619/gisele-bundchen-gets-up-close-and-personal-with-tom-brady-s-underwear-in-intimate-video | 2022-06-06 22:39:50 | 1 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1333619/gisele-bundchen-gets-up-close-and-personal-with-tom-brady-s-underwear-in-intimate-video |
Santa Fe native Carmella Montoya has always loved animals. Eight years ago, she decided to take her love one step further. Montoya created her own nonprofit organization, Pathways of Healing Animal Rescue.
Since it was formed, Pathways has transformed into a sanctuary (Montoya’s home in Eldorado), providing medically fragile and elderly dogs a place to live out their golden years.
Last month, Montoya rescued Amelie, a 10-year-old blind French miniature poodle, who had been picked up by animal control in Roswell.
Because many municipal shelters across the state do not have the funding to staff a medical facility, animals like Amelie are likely scheduled to be euthanized. Rescuers have very little time to transport it from a shelter.
Today, Amelie is thriving in a home with foster Nadine Hamby, who Montoya is thankful to have as a volunteer.
“She has two York terriers that provide comfort and guidelines. You see, Amelie is blind but that does not stop her from enjoying life,” Montoya said.
With help from fosters, donations and volunteers for transport, Pathways is able to provide aging animals with a comfortable, loving home. Pathways covers all expenses related to their care.
“These innocent lives need so much unconditional love to provide to us even though many times it is others that cause them so much pain,” said Tricia Williams, who also fosters pets.
Montoya agrees. “Many times we receive animals whose story is written all over them as you look at their bodies and their faces. It is when that ‘look’ begins to shift and change to a loving and thankful expression, you know you’re helping out another creature on this Earth,” she said.
Montoya has one more wish: “For folks to make plans for their pets in the event that they pass.”
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Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society: Daisy is a super-sweet and lovely 2-year-old mixed breed dog who weighs
90 pounds. Daisy’s former family said she is very social and thinks she is a small dog, and they could not care for her anymore. At the shelter, Daisy has been an exuberant and bouncy gal who is all about people and fun.
Bunny is one of the most loving and personable kitties around. This year-old brown tabby loves getting her head scratched and will sit on laps.
These and other animals are available for adoption from the animal shelter, 100 Caja del Rio Road.
The shelter’s adoption hours are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Call 505-983-4309, ext. 1610, or visit SFHumaneSociety.org.
Española Humane: Guiseppe, a cattle dog mix, is sweet and soulful, and he’s available for adoption from the Puppy Patch at Ojo Santa Fe. Submit an application on the website to schedule an appointment.
Helena, a calico kitten, is spayed, vaccinated and microchipped. Her adoption fee is $25.
Española Humane is offering fee-waived adoptions of all pets over 6 months old, and all kittens and puppies are $25.
Felines & Friends: Beautiful Luna T is loyal, affectionate and a lover of people. She likes tummy rubs and hanging with her main person. She’s a big eater and will let you know it’s dinnertime by rubbing against your legs and meowing. Five-year-old Luna is seeking a new home with a family who will love her and feed her a special diet that’s easy on her sensitive tummy.
Three-month-old tabby kittens, Foxy and Demetria, are available. Foxy is a rambunctious girl who loves to climb and jump and roll around in tunnels and boxes. Demetria is a sweet, playful girl who especially enjoys chasing after balls and small toys. These girls are social and should go home together or to homes with another young cat to play with.
Apply at FandFnm.org or visit Petco to meet these and many other cats.
Dew Paws Rescue: Percy is a 4- to 5-month-old mixed-breed dog. He has begun vaccinations. He is sweet and shy and gets along well with other dogs and cats. Percy won’t get more than 30 pounds once grown. Call 505-412-9096 or visit infodewpaws@gmail.com for more information.
The Horse Shelter: Charley is a 25-year-old bay gelding who stands 13.2 hands high. He is friendly, enjoys attention and has done really well in the volunteer groundwork training program. He is halter trained, leads well, picks up his feet and is getting much better at loading.
Charley does tend to be protective of mares and would be a better companion for geldings. He tends to be the dominant horse in his herd.
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Anthony Davis NBA Playoffs Player Prop Bets: Lakers vs. Grizzlies - April 16
The Los Angeles Lakers, Anthony Davis included, match up versus the Memphis Grizzlies at 3:00 PM ET on Sunday in the 2023 NBA Playoffs.
Below, we dig into Davis' stats and trends to help you pick out the most appealing prop bets.
Anthony Davis Prop Bets vs. the Grizzlies
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Anthony Davis Insights vs. the Grizzlies
- Davis has taken 17.2 shots per game this season and made 9.7 per game, which account for 13.2% and 15.4%, respectively, of his team's total.
- Davis' opponents, the Grizzlies, have one of the fastest offensive tempos, ranking sixth, averaging 104.1 possessions per game, while his Lakers average 104.8 per game, second-highest among NBA teams.
- Giving up 113 points per game, the Grizzlies are the 11th-ranked squad in the league defensively.
- On the boards, the Grizzlies have conceded 44.4 rebounds per game, which puts them 21st in the NBA.
- In terms of assists, the Grizzlies are 26th in the NBA, giving up 26.4 per game.
- The Grizzlies allow 13 made 3-pointers per game, 25th-ranked in the NBA.
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WAPAKONETA, OH (WLIO) - It's one thing to read about the day Neil Armstrong returned to Earth, but another to hear from members of the crew that retrieved the Apollo 11 astronauts.
Two of the four Navy frogmen divers involved in the recovery mission came to the Armstrong Air and Space Museum to give a presentation and show photographs of the historic event. The team had to train for months, running countless practice trials in the ocean. On the day of the astronaut's return, Mallory was strapped with five different cameras to document the rescue and the condition of the Apollo command module.
"We installed a floatation collar so all those moon rocks wouldn't sink to the bottom of the ocean. Our second job was to make sure the astronauts were saved also, they didn't hit by sharks or drowned or fall out of the helicopter and drowned," explained Michael Mallory, U.S. Navy Frogman, Apollo 11.
Another story the divers like to tell is how their team received the nickname "Shark Bait" during a practice run.
"We were there, the helicopter was shining a bright light on us so we could work and put on the collar. And as we were going through that process, I think we had gotten the rafts attached and the collar attached and then somebody said "Sharks! Sharks!" Well, we got out of the water pretty quick, as you can imagine," said Wesley Chesser, U.S. Navy Frogman, Swim Team Leader, Apollo 11 Recovery.
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During a visit to Fort Liberty in North Carolina on Friday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to improve economic support for military families.
He announced the initiative alongside first lady Jill Biden as "the most comprehensive set of administrative actions in our nation's history to support the economic security of military families, veterans, spouses, caregivers and survivors."
"The most sacred obligation America has is to prepare those we send into harm's way and care for them and their families when they come home or deploy," he said in front of hundreds of service members and their families. "Today, we’re taking an important step towards fulfilling that obligation."
The order includes nearly 20 actions with three main goals outlined by the president: More flexibility, more support and more resources.
Within the flexibility component, President Biden said, are policies aimed at keeping families together. That includes encouraging federal agencies to improve remote work opportunities for military spouses and in granting leave when a partner has to make a permanent change of station.
The second goal includes improved support for military spouses seeking advice on overseas employment issues as well as legal assistance. It also requires new training for federal human resource employees who work in hiring military spouses and veterans.
As for resources, the order directs agencies to ensure military families have access to affordable, dependable child care by implementing Dependent Care Flexible Savings Accounts. This gives military families the option to get pre-tax benefits for daycare, preschool and summer camps, the president said. It also provides resources for military family members in need of a grant or loan to help start, sustain or relocate a business.
Beyond what the president explicitly mentioned Friday, the order also directs federal offices to improve hiring and retention of military families, including more federal job postings and more clearly outlined standards and practices from each office.
More than 16,000 military spouses are employed by the federal government, but overall, military spouses face a 21% unemployment rate, according to the White House. Plus, nearly 1 in 5 military families say challenges with spousal employment make them consider leaving active-duty service.
"[The president] understands that we can’t ask our service members to choose between their love of country and their love of family," first lady Jill Biden said Friday. "He knows that supporting military spouses is a national security imperative."
The Bidens, a military family themselves, have both bolstered programs involving military families before.
Jill Biden works closely with Joining Forces — a White House initiative launched by then-first lady Michelle Obama aimed at supporting the health, education and employment of military families.
And in April, 2023, the president signed an executive order to increase access to quality child care and long-term care for military families.
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Virtual Accelerator Provides Workshops and Mentoring to Alum Startups Looking to Scale Up
BOSTON, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs and Pegasus Tech Ventures are proud to announce our second cohort of early-stage startups participating in the Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Accelerator Powered by Pegasus Tech Ventures. The virtual accelerator program is a partnership between Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs and Pegasus Tech Ventures with a mission to provide world-class instruction and support to Harvard entrepreneurs globally.
The 2023 cohort reflects the diversity and brilliance of Harvard alumni entrepreneurs around the world. The second cohort of 11 startups are from six different Harvard schools and six different countries, selected from a pool of over 101 applicants from 18 countries.
The 2023 Cohort also represents a wide range of sectors, including FinTech, HealthTech, FoodTech, LegalTech, FashionTech, EdTech, MediaTech, Big Data, enterprise software, and AI. The cohort will work together during a ten-week program to develop skills, strategies, and tools that will enable them to scale up their companies, develop their teams, and raise growth capital.
The Accelerator is committed to seeking diverse founders: 73% of our founders are women or identify as being from underserved communities.
We're thrilled to welcome these 11 promising teams:
- Beyond Education: an early-stage, French-based edtech startup that is preparing students for the future by assessing and developing 21st Century Competencies online and globally.
- CiteRight: an essential litigation collaboration tool for lawyers, adjudicators, and the people who support them.
- Dollarize: a seed-stage startup hoping to change the world by allowing foreign nationals to have access to US dollars to protect themselves from the devaluation of their currency.
- Goals101 Data Solutions: a Transaction Behavioral Intelligence (TBI) company that accelerates business growth for banks with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
- Iambic: a next-gen shoe brand delivering precision-fit shoes at scale through merging AI, smartphone scanning, and streamlined manufacturing—making footwear finally inclusive.
- worn before, designed to go further, so you can live freely.
- Noktos: a next-gen travel management company helping companies manage their travel from planning to expense reporting and invoice recovery.
- PairUp: a platform that connects employees to the right colleagues to help them succeed–and guides their relationships every step of the way.
- SOAP Health: a digital care company that is mission-driven to transform medical practice by appropriately applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to physician workflows to improve physician productivity, reduce liability exposure, augment clinical knowledge, and improve early disease detection and diagnostic accuracy.
- Sun & Swell: offering delicious, healthy, sustainable snack foods and pioneering the movement away from single-use plastics in the packaged food industry.
- YeneHealth: the first femtech startup in Ethiopia that is unlocking the digital door of healthcare services for African women.
- Zette: a venture-backed media tech startup that gives readers pay-per-article access to paywalled publications, all while sharing revenue with newsrooms.
We are excited to witness this group of incredible founders take their ventures to the next level.
About Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs
Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs, Inc. (HAE) is a volunteer-managed non-profit organization with 18 Chapters worldwide, connecting over 18,000 Harvard alumni, faculty, students, and friends from across the University and throughout the world.
HAE is dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship, promotion of innovation, and furthering the ideals of leadership and learning. www.harvardae.org
About Pegasus Tech Ventures
Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley with over $2 Billion in assets under management. the world. In addition to offering institutional investors a top-tier venture capital investment approach, Pegasus also offers a unique Venture Capital-as-a-Service (VCaaS) model for large global corporations. Some of the 35+ corporate partners include ASUS, Aisin, SEGA, Sojitz, and NGK Spark Plugs. The over 250+ Pegasus portfolio companies include SpaceX, Airbnb, SoFi, Doordash, 23andMe, Bird, Color, Carbon. www.pegasustechventures.com
Pegasus also founded and sponsors Startup World Cup, one of the biggest and richest startup competitions in the world. Startup World Cup reaches 50 countries across six continents, with a Grand Finale in Silicon Valley featuring a $1 million investment prize. www.startupworldcup.io
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LOS ANGELES, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Team 33's Fortnite Team just won First Place in two different regions (North America and South America) at the most recent FNCS Grand Finals tournament which took place on May 28th and May 29th, 2022 for a staggering $3,008,500 prize pool in which Team 33 took home a large majority of.
Team 33, who entered the Fortnite competitive scene in 2021, has become the first esports organization to win two championship titles in two different regions within the same FNCS Grand Finals. The team was able to beat the likes of NRG, 100 Thieves, and many other large and well known Esports organizations in the process.
"As an avid gamer of over 20 years it is beyond exciting to be able to build a team that is able to dominate in the Fortnite scene like we have. We've been working very hard over the last year to make a name for ourselves in the Fortnite scene and this is only the beginning of what we plan to do in Esports." said Tyler Gallagher, co-founder and CEO of Team 33.
Team 33's Fortnite team secured the following positions during this weekend's FNCS Grand Finals Tournament:
- #1 in North America
- #1 in South America
"We're a small team that punches above its weight class. We only started building our competitive Fortnite team a year ago with very limited resources, and today we are able to compete and outclass organizations much larger than ours. We couldn't be more grateful," said Amine Rahal, co-founder and CMO of Team 33.
To learn more about Team 33, please visit www.Team33.gg
To learn more about Sponsorship Opportunities with the team, visit: https://team33.gg/for-sponsors/
To request Team 33's Investors Deck, visit: https://team33.gg/for-investors/
Team 33 is a competitive invite-only international Esports organization and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The team has a diverse roster of pro gamers hailing from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and other countries.
Team 33 is backed by many high-profile celebrities and notable investors. The team is currently a 4-Time FNCS Championship holder and the first team in Fortnite history to win two Championship titles in FNCS Grand Finals within the same season. The team is also currently ranked #1 in North America for the Fortnite competitive scene according to Fortnitepedia, an independent gaming authority. Team 33 is planning to participate in various tournaments across multiple popular games and chose Fortnite as their first game to build their story with. You can learn about Team 33 by visiting their website www.team33.gg
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A school shooter serving a life sentence without parole for killing a first grader on a South Carolina playground when he was 14 is asking a judge to lessen his sentence so he can eventually get out of prison.
Jesse Osborne’s lawyer asked Judge Lawton McIntosh on Monday to reconsider his sentence so Osborne, now 21, could have some hope of freedom in his 50s or 60s.
Attorney Frank Eppes said the judge didn’t fully consider a psychologist’s report that Osborne’s lashed out because of abuse and can be rehabilitated.
“Give Jesse some hope to live with,” Eppes said at a televised court hearing.
Osborne himself asked for a chance at life outside a prison cell, apologizing to the family of 6-year-old Jacob Hall who he killed and everyone at the school that day.
“I would just like to say sorry to every single one of them. Because my evil actions hurt their lives,” Osborne said. “I’m just going to try to better myself in the Department of Corrections the rest of my life.
But the teacher whose class was having recess, the parent of a wounded child, the father of the student celebrating his birthday, the superintendent who saw the bloodstained class rug and the school principal all said at Monday’s hearing at the Anderson County Courthouse that they don’t want to ever see Osborne out of prison.
Principal Denise Fredericks recognized Osborne as he paced outside Townville Elementary School with a backpack full of ammunition for 12 minutes after his gun jammed before police arrived to arrest him. Osborne had been a student there for seven years.
“I do wish Jesse a life where he can wake up, breathe, eat, work, be productive — but not outside the walls of a prison,” Fredericks said. “In my opinion, his current sentence is still so, so much more merciful than the sentence he gave to Jacob and our school family.”
Prosecutors said Hall’s family didn’t wish to speak in court but want Osborne to never be released from prison.
Osborne is serving two life sentences after pleading guilty. Before opening fire at the school on Sept. 28, 2016, he shot and killed his father while he slept in a recliner, kissed his rabbit and other pets goodbye, then stole his dad’s truck and drove to his former elementary school, according to Osborne’s confession.
Osborne crashed his truck into the school fence and fired at the first grade class celebrating a classmate’s birthday at recess. Hall bled to death from a gunshot to his leg. Two other student and a teacher suffered minor injuries.
Uneaten cupcakes with the Batman logo could still be seen on the ground inside police tape hours after the shooting.
“My son hates his birthday now,” father Jeff Bernard told the judge.
Prosecutors said Osborne wanted to kill dozens but he was carrying the wrong ammunition and his gun jammed after every shot.
“He didn’t stop because he wanted to. The gun jammed. Thank God the gun jammed,” Fredericks said.
Osborne’s lawyer said a video call he had open to a group chat with people who knew his plan showed him sobbing, upset and ready to give up after the first shots.
Osborne is asking the judge to consider a supplemental report from a psychologist that disagrees with prosecution experts who testified at Osborne’s original sentencing that he is a dangerous and pathological liar with no remorse.
Osborne’s brain was sill developing in his teens. The psychiatrists cited by the defense said he has shown guilt and grief and responded to treatment during the nearly seven years since his arrest on school grounds.
Osborne’s lawyer suggested a 30-year minimum sentence for the two counts of murder, followed by 15 years for shooting at the other children and then lifetime monitoring by GPS after he is released from prison with one review after 10 years.
McIntosh asked for a detailed report from the defense expert in the next month and told prosecutors they would have at least 10 days to respond.
A number of students never returned to the school after the shooting. Some haven’t returned to any school. A popped balloon ended a school dance in tears. Recess is still filled with anxiety, said teacher Meghan Hollingsworth, whose class was celebrating the birthday that day. Her child was in kindergarten just down the hall.
“The screams of children having fun sends a panic through me as I look to see who is screaming and see if they are OK,” she said.
She asked the judge to think about a sign in her first grade classroom and uphold his life sentence handed down more than three years ago,
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BEIJING, April 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "To understand today's China, one must begin by understanding China's history. Guangzhou is the cradle of China's democratic revolution and the vanguard of China's reform and opening-up," in a recent meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping told French President Emmanuel Macron in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong Province.
The remarks were made before China's top leader concluded a four-day inspection tour of the province from April 10 to 13.
In the past decades, Guangdong has set a model of Chinese modernization for the rest of the country, and the model also has global repercussions, observers pointed out.
From Zhanjiang to Maoming to Guangzhou, Xi traveled thousands of kilometers across the western part of the province and visited mangrove forests, ports, enterprises, and factories, while having in-depth exchanges with ordinary factory workers, farmers, and technicians. The trip not only provided a direction for the province which is long considered a pacesetter of China's reform and opening-up in taking the lead in Chinese modernization, but also opened a crucial window for the world to learn how Chinese modernization is essentially different from the capital-centered Western development path, experts said.
"China offers an alternative path featuring collective prosperity and harmony between humanity and nature," Wang Chenxing, a research fellow with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences told the Global Times.
China's chosen development model meets humanity's challenges and offers other countries, especially developing ones, a choice for achieving social and economic progress, Wang said.
Harmonizing ecology and economy
Different from his previous inspection tours which often include visits to local farmlands, Xi started off his latest inspection trip at a mariculture base in Donghai Island in Zhanjiang to learn how it utilizes both land and sea resources to guarantee food security.
In 2030, Guangdong is expected to increase output of seafood annually to 2.01 million tons, the equivalent of raising 30.45 million pigs or 1.54 billion ducks, based on the same amount of protein, according to official reports.
Xi required elaborate efforts in developing the breeding industry as it serves as the foundation of the development of modern agriculture and aquaculture. More should be done to develop deep-sea aquaculture equipment and the smart fishing industry, Xi said, calling for the further upgrading of the marine fishery, according to a report by the Xinhua News Agency.
Xi's concern in ecological conservation extends to the second stop of his Zhanjiang tour - the Zhanjiang Mangrove National Nature Reserve, the largest and densest natural reserve of its kind in China.
Xi referred to the mangrove forests as a national treasure and urged for its careful protection "like how people protect their own eyes." He emphasized the need for persistent efforts toward green development, with aims to build a beautiful China while also contributing to the preservation of the global environment.
Guangdong's experience in advancing its economic boom and ecological progress demonstrates how China seeks the kind of modernization that promotes harmonious coexistence of man and nature, said Chinese experts.
Guangdong's model in pursuing modernization reflects China's new development philosophy of innovation, coordination, green development, opening-up, and sharing, Liu Ying, a research fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, told the Global Times.
Xi has long envisioned a homeland where man and nature can live in harmony, with economy and ecology thriving side by side. He has also made environmental protection one of the five main policy areas in his quest to build an "ecological civilization," as China advances in its aim to reach peak carbon emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.
Modernization of common prosperity
Xi chose the western part of Guangdong as the focus of his latest inspection tour as that part of the province is less developed than the Pearl River Delta, known for the high concentration of manufacturers and high-tech companies, according to media reports.
Xi stressed during the trip that Guangdong's development depends not only on the Pearl River Delta, but also on the joint development of the northern, eastern, and western parts of Guangdong.
"Chinese modernization is aimed at promoting common prosperity and addressing imbalanced development among regions," Xi said, according to Xinhua.
Such an aim is reflected in Guangdong's endeavors to improve regional connectivity through better transportation infrastructure, such as Xuwen Port which Xi also inspected. The port is a key project that facilitates the collaborative development of Guangdong with the neighboring island province of Hainan.
In China, imbalanced development typically manifests itself in the disparity between urban and rural areas, and between western and eastern areas.
To Xi, the root cause of imbalanced development between western Guangdong and the Pearl River Delta largely resides in industries.
After visiting a village known for growing lychees and learning about local rural revitalization, Xi said that to advance Chinese modernization, it is imperative to comprehensively advance rural revitalization and effectively address the imbalance between the urban and the rural areas and between regions. He called for more resources allocated to assist less developed areas, promote social etiquette and civility, and to improve the quality of life for the people.
"Guangdong's practice manifests a core feature of Chinese modernization - achieving common prosperity for all Chinese people. That is how people of Guangdong Province, under the guidance of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, can inspire a concerted effort to turn the province into a region whose overall GDP far exceeds that of many other countries worldwide," Liu said.
Guangdong has set a model for the rest of the country to promote Chinese modernization which emphasizes all-round development and a people-centered philosophy, Wang remarked.
Modernization of independence with openness
Another characteristic of Chinese modernization is that China pursues strategic independence and continued openness by beefing up its self-reliance in science and technology, modernizing its industrial system while maintaining an opening-up policy to the outside world, especially in the post-pandemic era, experts said.
During an inspection tour of the GAC Aion New Energy Automobile Co Ltd, Xi listened to reports about the company's progress in making technological breakthroughs, valuing its efforts in developing higher-end, smarter, and greener manufacturing when he visited the carmaker's R&D center.
"China must improve its independent innovation ability on the path of modernization, and seek to overtake the curve," Wang told the Global Times.
However, pursing Chinese modernization is not "closing the doors" to the outside world as the country's development is closely connected to global modernization, and instead of encouraging rivalry, China has proposed an alternative path that exceeds different ideologies, experts said.
On April 12, when Xi went to Guangzhou and visited the South Korean multinational electronics company LG Display's manufacturing base, he said that China's market strengths will become more apparent as the country quickens the formation of a new development pattern and further improves the business environment amid the backdrop of sluggish global economic growth, as Xinhua reported.
Xi encouraged foreign investors to seize opportunities and achieve greater business success by coming to China, particularly Guangdong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
"Xi's visit to a South Korean company shows that Chinese modernization is closely linking the rest of the world and features the common prosperity of all people, rather than development behind closed doors." said Liu of Chongyang.
As China has embarked on a new journey of building a modern socialist country through a Chinese path to modernization, developing countries in Africa and beyond ought to take advantages presented by China's localized, people-centered type of modernization, Liu said.
"Emphasis on the real economy is an intrinsic requirement of Chinese modernization," Wang noted.
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SOURCE Global Times | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2023/04/23/global-times-xis-footprint-guangdong-offers-insights-into-practical-chinese-path-modernization-which-is-different-western-capitalistic-model/ | 2023-04-23 22:42:43 | 0 | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2023/04/23/global-times-xis-footprint-guangdong-offers-insights-into-practical-chinese-path-modernization-which-is-different-western-capitalistic-model/ |
Experts Help Guide Parents with Comprehensive Advice, Recommend Affordable Vehicles at Various Price Points
ATLANTA, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parents of teens are faced with a significant milestone decision when they consider which car to buy for their young driver. At some point most teens need their own vehicle, whether it is for driving to school, work, extracurricular activities, or even heading off to college. When the time comes, many parents feel overwhelmed with the choices available and the many factors they need to consider, not to mention the current vehicle inventory and market challenges. To help guide parents as they make these important decisions, the experts at Kelley Blue Book, a Cox Automotive brand, created the Best Cars for Teens: The List Every Parent Needs.
Beyond affordability, safety is a primary parental concern – and with good reason. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), teens drive less than all but the oldest people, yet their instances of crashes and crash deaths are unreasonably high. In the United States, the fatal crash rate per mile driven for 16- to 19-year-olds is nearly three times the rate for drivers ages 20 and over. The most significant risk is at ages 16 and 17. In 2020, 60% of deaths among passenger vehicle occupants ages 16 to 19 were drivers of the vehicle.
"As we compiled Kelley Blue Book's Best Cars for Teens list this year, it really all boiled down to safety – the factor at the top of parents' minds when thinking about their newly minted young driver – but the current market also dictates parents need to pay attention to other factors and considerations, as well," said Brian Moody, executive editor for Kelley Blue Book. "Today's car shoppers likely are aware of tight inventory challenges among both new and used cars due to the semiconductor chip shortage, supply-chain disruptions, and other factors that have caused auto manufacturers to reduce production resulting in crippling inventories. While it is beginning to ease up some, both used and new car prices skyrocketed higher than usual, so dealers are less likely to bargain on price. This means shoppers must work harder, research more, remain patient and be willing to compromise. The odds of finding exactly what you want at the price you want to pay are not in your favor, so any feature that isn't a basic need – color, for instance – is something buyers should be prepared to trade off. When you find a good vehicle for your teen that you can live with and afford, we recommend you buy it, because chances are good that it won't linger on the lot for long."
Factors to Keep in Mind
It is important to balance the potential vehicle's cost with the safety features it includes. If your family budget allows, 2013-and-newer vehicles come with what the Kelley Blue Book experts consider the "big three" of safety features: anti-lock brakes, traction control and stability control, as required by the federal government. Beginning in 2018, carmakers had to comply with a federal mandate to include rearview cameras in new cars. While newer models likely will have more advanced safety features and driver assists than older models, a new car's price may not be realistic for many families. In addition to regular maintenance costs, it is wise to factor into the budget the potential cost of repair and bodywork.
Types of Vehicles to Avoid
While teens may have strong feelings about what type of car they want, the Kelley Blue Book experts recommend staying away from some types of vehicles for new drivers.
- City Cars – they may be more affordable and get better gas mileage than compact or midsize cars, but in a contest with a full-size truck or SUV on the road, they will always come out in second.
- Sports Cars – they may look cool, but they could tempt your teenager to drive beyond his or her skill.
- Big SUVs or Pickup Trucks – they may surround your teen with more metal, but they could be too big for your teen to handle, they are challenging to park and there is the fuel-economy issue.
- High-Horsepower Cars – while they may be at the top of the must-have list for some teen drivers, increased horsepower translates into higher insurance premiums and more potential for trouble.
Insurance Considerations
Adding a teenager to your car insurance is costly. It can inflate your premium by 150% or more, and it usually is more for a male teen than a female. While there are many factors considered when calculating a premium, the bulk of the new driver's added insurance cost is liability coverage. It's important to involve your insurance agent early in the process, as they are the only person who can accurately ballpark what your new premium might be. They also can help you understand any discounts your provider may offer to reduce the insurance burden. For example, some companies will discount if your teen driver takes a driving safety course, while others may offer a discount for students with good grades. Beyond the potential insurance benefit, it's always a good idea to enroll your teen in a driver safety program if possible.
Important Key Safety Features
Safety technology gets expensive, and it's one of the factors relentlessly pushing up the sticker cost of new cars. If your family can afford to buy a new car for your teen, look for a vehicle that has all of the following features. If you're buying a used car, then your chances of finding more of these safety features improves with the newer the car. Keep in mind that these features may not come standard on the base model, so you may need to shop for a mid- or upper-level trim. Generally speaking, the higher trim level you can find, the more safety features the car is likely to have.
- Advanced Safety and Driver-Assist Features: anti-lock brakes, traction control, stability control, forward-collision warning, blind-spot monitoring.
- Other Features to Consider for Safety: outboard mirrors with turn-signal indicators; power-adjustable driver's seat; tilt-and-telescopic steering wheel; automatic climate control; LED headlights and taillights; automatic high beams; adaptive cruise control; hill-start assist; head-up display; infotainment system with voice recognition; airbags (at least six); auto on-off headlights; 360-degree cameras.
In addition, several carmakers offer some type of programmable driving monitor to help keep track of and set limits for your teen driver, including Chevrolet, Ford, Kia, Hyundai, Lexus, Toyota and Volkswagen.
Crash Test Ratings
When compiling these lists, the Kelley Blue Book experts factored in important crash-test scores based on data from third-party crash-test organizations. The non-profit IIHS and the government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have different approaches and testing parameters.
- IIHS performs and scores crash tests and uses other data and qualifiers to issue its annual Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+ awards. Currently, it scores "Good," "Acceptable," "Marginal," or "Poor" in six testing areas: driver's side small-overlap front; passenger-side small-overlap front; moderate-overlap front; side; roof strength; head restraints and seats.
- NHTSA performs three tests scoring each using a system of stars, with five stars being the best and one star being the worst. NHTSA scores each test individually – frontal crash, side crash, rollover crash – and then also issues an overall score.
Kelley Blue Book's Best Cars for Teens Lists
When creating the Best Cars for Teens lists, the Kelley Blue Book experts set specific parameters. Pricing was based on Kelley Blue Book Fair Purchase Price range. Where a model offers both a sedan and hatchback, pricing was used for the sedan. All picks in the "Under $20,000" list come with the advanced safety and driver-assist features listed above. The "Under $20,000" vehicles listed all have at least a "Good" rating in at least five of the IIHS crash tests, but almost all the vehicles listed are a Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick+. While older vehicles often are not available with all the latest safety features, the vehicles selected in the more affordable Best Cars for Teens lists have many of them and performed very well in NHTSA and IIHS testing. All vehicles listed are lauded for their reliability and fuel economy.
For more information about the Best Cars for Teens from Kelley Blue Book, including detailed expert reviews, safety information for each model and more, visit https://www.kbb.com/best-cars/teens/.
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About Kelley Blue Book
Founded in 1926, Kelley Blue Book, The Trusted Resource®, is the vehicle valuation and information source trusted and relied upon by both consumers and the automotive industry for nearly a century. As the industry standard for generations, Kelley Blue Book provides transparent, objective information and data-driven, innovative tools for consumers, automotive dealers and manufacturers. The company publishes millions of market-reflective values weekly on its top-rated website KBB.com, from its famous Blue Book® Trade-In Values to the Kelley Blue Book® Price Advisor tool, which offers a range for what consumers reasonably can expect to pay for a vehicle in their area. KBB.com editors rate and review hundreds of new vehicles each year to help consumers understand the Best Cars and Best SUVs to meet their needs. Kelley Blue BookSM Instant Cash Offer provides a redeemable trade-in offer to transaction-ready consumers and conveniently connects them to local participating dealers. Kelley Blue Book's Service Advisor provides guidance on how much to pay for service and repairs, allowing consumers to schedule service with local dealers on KBB.com. The company also provides vehicle values to finance and insurance companies as well as governmental agencies. Kelley Blue Book is a Cox Automotive brand.
About Cox Automotive
Cox Automotive Inc. makes buying, selling, owning and using vehicles easier for everyone. The global company's more than 27,000 team members and family of brands, including Autotrader®, Dealer.com®, Dealertrack®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®, NextGear Capital®, VinSolutions®, vAuto® and Xtime®, are passionate about helping millions of car shoppers, 40,000 auto dealer clients across five continents and many others throughout the automotive industry thrive for generations to come. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a privately-owned, Atlanta-based company with annual revenues of nearly $20 billion. www.coxautoinc.com
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