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How can you combat abuse and neglect of older adults and adults with disabilities with virtually no money? You really can’t. But if we end up with the funding levels proposed by U.S. Senate Democrats for the upcoming fiscal year, that is exactly what will happen across the country including in Maryland.
Congressional Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, voted in 2020 and 2021 to provide Elder Justice Act programs with $376 million in funding. Now, they want to essentially take this money away. Most notably, this year’s $188 million in funding for states for adult protective services (APS) programs would be slashed to $6 million for the entire nation in the Senate Democratic proposal for next year.
In this proposal, Maryland would get a grand total of $100,467 in funding for its APS program, the front line in addressing and investigating reports of elder abuse and abuse of adults with disabilities. That means important staff and services could be cut — just as we are witnessing increased reports of abuse as the pandemic winds down.
We urge Senator Van Hollen and his colleagues to do the right thing and retain full funding for APS in Fiscal 2023.
— Bob Blancato, Washington, D.C.
The writer is national coordinator for the Elder Justice Coalition.
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Tesla plunges 250 feet off a California cliff, all 4 occupants survive
Two adults and two children somehow escaped serious injuries after their Tesla plunged off a cliff along California's Pacific Coast Highway and crashed on a rocky beach some 250 feet below.
The incident occurred Monday morning at an area called Devil's Slide, some 20 miles south of San Francisco.
"We were very shocked" to discover that people in the car had survived the crash, said Brian Pottenger, battalion chief with Cal Fire's Coastside Fire Protection District.
Watch video of the rescue in the video player above.
"Accidents on that cliff are not rare. We do respond to a lot of vehicles on that cliff," he told CNN. "What's rare is that we do not get a lot of survivors -- surviving this type of accident is very rare."
Pottenger said the car contained an adult male, an adult female, a 9-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl. The children were both secured in car seats, which remained intact and in place, he said.
Officials said the four-door, white Tesla sedan was traveling southbound on Highway 1, just south of the Tom Lantos Tunnel between Pacifica and Montara, when it veered off the roadway. They did not cite a reason for the crash.
A spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol told CNN they do not believe any of the Tesla's self-driving features were active at the time.
"The damage to the vehicle would indicate that it hit, and then flipped several times," Pottenger said. The car came to rest on its wheels, he added.
Firefighters rappelled down the cliff to the car while other first responders watched through binoculars.
"As we were doing that, we were able to notice movement in the front seat through the windshield," Pottenger said. "So we knew that we had at least one person that was alive."
The car's occupants were trapped inside the mangled vehicle, officials said. All four were conscious when the fire department reached them, Pottenger told CNN.
Crews freed the two children and used a rope to lift them up the cliff in baskets. Later a California Highway Patrol helicopter hoisted the two adults to safety.
The California Highway Patrol posted dramatic video of the helicopter lowering a rescuer on a cable to the crash site while surf crashed against the rocks below.
The San Mateo Sheriff's Office said Monday that the two adults suffered "non-life threatening injuries" and the two children were "unharmed."
The car's occupants were transported to Stanford Medical Center for treatment, Pottenger said. An update on their conditions was not available Tuesday.
Officials have not released the identities of the four survivors or said whether all four were from the same family.
The CHP is investigating and will determine the cause of the crash, Pottenger said.
"This was a traumatic accident, and they survived," he said. "And it was a good outcome to a very bad situation."
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2022 was a year full of medical storylines, from monkeypox and new COVID strains, to developments in the fight against Alzheimer’s and a major flu season.
Our final health briefing of the year on Wisconsin’s Afternoon News features Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin Dr. Ben Weston!
We discuss what the biggest health story of 2022 was, the most exciting things the field is looking forward to in 2023, and more!
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McDonald’s Introduces Adult Happy Meals for a Limited Time
Let’s pretend you stopped ordering Happy Meals when you reached adulthood. McDonald’s is offering a limited-time adult Happy Meal — including exclusive toys!
The fast food chain launches its Cactus Plant Flea Market Box, a collaboration with the fashion brand of the same name, on Oct. 3.
So, what's in the box? Customers can choose from a Big Mac with Big Mac sauce or a 10-piece Chicken McNugget meal. All meals will come with a fountain drink and french fries. Plus, each meal will include one of four collectible figurines, including Grimace, the Hamburglar, Birdie and Cactus Buddy!
How to Get McDonald's Adult Happy Meal:
The adult Happy Meal will only be available while supplies last. Beginning Monday, customers can get the box in-restaurant, at the drive-thru, by delivery or on the McDonald’s app.
“We're taking one of the most nostalgic McDonald's experiences and literally repackaging it in a new way that's hyper-relevant for our adult fans," Tariq Hassan, McDonald’s USA Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer, said in a press release.
“I can’t wait to give fans a unique piece of art and culture as we dive headfirst into the dynamic world of Cactus Plant Flea Market together next week. With menu favorites like the Big Mac and McNuggets at the center of this collab, this is another way we're reigniting a new generation’s love for our food and the brand," the statement continued.
Those who purchase the meal via the McDonald’s app will automatically be entered into a drawing to win exclusive merchandise. Merchandise celebrating the collab will also be available exclusively on cpfmmcdonalds.com.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Rory McIlroy overcame a final-round charge from Patrick Reed to win the Dubai Desert Classic in a tense Monday duel between players who were involved in a pre-tournament spat.
The top-ranked McIlroy rolled in a birdie putt from around 15 feet at No. 18 for a 4-under 68 that left him a stroke clear of Reed, who shot 65.
McIlroy captured the title for the third time and has started a year with a win for the first time in his career.
The Northern Irishman started the round with a three-shot lead — and four ahead of Reed — but was overtaken on the back nine by the American, who picked up seven shots in his first 13 holes.
Reed bogeyed No. 16 but made birdie at No. 18 to put pressure on McIlroy, who finished on 19 under overall.
The pair traded verbal blows Wednesday after an interaction — of sorts — at the practice range Tuesday that saw McIlroy snub Reed, who had gone over to wish the Northern Irishman a happy new year.
Reed walked away before lightly tossing a tee — featuring a logo of his 4 Aces team in the LIV Golf league — in the direction of McIlroy, one of the most vocal critics of the Saudi-run breakaway series.
Reed said it was “unfortunate” that McIlroy didn’t shake his hand and was quoted as describing McIlroy as “an immature little child.”
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BEIJING (AP) — Pressure from the West is strengthening Russia’s ties with China, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing Wednesday.
Mishustin’s visit comes as Russia is increasingly turning to China for diplomatic and economic support amid growing isolation over its invasion of Ukraine.
In opening remarks at his meeting Wednesday with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Mishustin did not mention the 15-month-old war that China, in deference to Moscow, has refused to criticize, focusing instead on economic cooperation between the neighbors that have partnered in challenging the U.S. lead in global affairs.
Relations between the two countries are “at an unprecedented high level,” influenced by the “pressure of illegitimate sanctions from the collective West,” Mishustin said.
China says it is a neutral party between Russia and Ukraine and wants to help broker an end to the conflict. But it has blamed the West for provoking Moscow and has maintained strong diplomatic and trade ties with Russia in opposition to sanctions against it.
China’s special envoy met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other government officials during talks in Kyiv this month. The visit followed a phone call last month between the Ukrainian leader and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that Zelenskyy described as “long and meaningful” and which marked the first known contact between the two since the Russian invasion began.
Beijing released a peace plan in February but Ukraine’s allies largely dismissed it, insisting that Putin must withdraw his forces. Zelenskyy’s own 10-point peace plan includes a tribunal to prosecute war crimes committed by Russia.
While sidestepping the conflict, Mishustin emphasized Russia’s role as a provider of oil and gas to China and their bonds formed as initial allies among communist nations.
“The peoples of Russia and China cherish their history, rich culture and traditions. We support the further development of our culture, exchanges and communication,” Mishustin said.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s government on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to “counter the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail” after Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus.
One Ukrainian official said Russia “took Belarus as a nuclear hostage.”
Further heightening tensions, an explosion deep inside Russia wounded three people Sunday. Russian authorities blamed a Ukrainian drone for the blast, which damaged residential buildings in a town just 175 kilometers (110 miles) south of Moscow.
Russia has said the plan to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus comes in response to the West’s increasing military support for Ukraine. Putin announced the plan in a TV interview that aired Saturday, saying it was triggered by a U.K. decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium.
Putin argued that by deploying its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Russia was following the lead of the United States. He noted that Washington has nuclear weapons based in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.
“We are doing what they have been doing for decades, stationing them in certain allied countries, preparing the launch platforms and training their crews,” he said.
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry condemned the move in a statement Sunday and demanded an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council.
“Ukraine expects effective action to counter the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail by the U.K., China, the U.S. and France,” the statement read, saying these countries “have a special responsibility” regarding nuclear aggression.
“The world must be united against someone who endangers the future of human civilization,” the statement said.
Ukraine has not commented on Sunday’s explosion inside Russia. It left a crater about 15 meters (50 feet) in diameter and five meters deep (16 feet), according to media reports.
Russian state-run news agency Tass reported authorities identified the drone as a Ukrainian Tu-141. The Soviet-era drone was reintroduced in Ukraine in 2014, and has a range of about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles).
The explosion took place in the town of Kireyevsk in the Tula region, about 300 kilometers (180 miles) from the border with Ukraine. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the drone crashed after an electronic jamming system disabled its navigation.
Similar drone attacks have been common during the war, although Ukraine hardly ever acknowledges responsibility. On Monday, Russia said Ukrainian drones attacked civilian facilities in the town of Dzhankoi in Russia-annexed Crimea. Ukraine’s military said several Russian cruise missiles were destroyed, but did not specifically claim responsibility.
In December, the Russian military reported several Ukrainian drone attacks on long-range bomber bases deep inside Russia. The Russian Defense Ministry said the drones were shot down, but acknowledged that their debris damaged some aircraft and killed several servicemen.
Also, Russian authorities have reported attacks by small drones in the Bryansk and Belgorod regions on the border with Ukraine.
On Saturday, Putin argued that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has long asked to have nuclear weapons in his country again to counter NATO. Belarus shares borders with three NATO members — Latvia, Lithuania and Poland — and Russia used Belarusian territory as a staging ground to send troops into neighboring Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.
Both Lukashenko’s support of the war and Putin’s plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus has been denounced by the Belarusian opposition.
Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, tweeted Sunday that Putin’s announcement was “a step towards internal destabilization” of Belarus that maximized “the level of negative perception and public rejection” of Russia and Putin in Belarusian society. The Kremlin, Danilov added, “took Belarus as a nuclear hostage.”
Tactical nuclear weapons are intended for use on the battlefield and have a short range and a low yield compared with much more powerful nuclear warheads fitted to long-range missiles. Russia plans to maintain control over the ones it sends to Belarus, and construction of storage facilities for them will be completed by July 1, Putin said.
Russia has stored its tactical nuclear weapons at dedicated depots on its territory, and moving part of the arsenal to a storage facility in Belarus would up the ante in the Ukrainian conflict by placing them closer to Russian aircraft and missiles already stationed there.
The U.S. said it would “monitor the implications” of Putin’s announcement. So far, Washington hasn’t seen “any indications Russia is preparing to use a nuclear weapon,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said.
In Germany, the foreign ministry called it a “further attempt at nuclear intimidation,” German news agency dpa reported late Saturday. The ministry went on to say that “the comparison drawn by President Putin to NATO’s nuclear participation is misleading and cannot be used to justify the step announced by Russia.”
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EMERYVILLE, Calif., July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynavax Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: DVAX), a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing innovative vaccines, will report second quarter 2023 financial results on Thursday, August 3, 2023, after the U.S. financial markets close.
Dynavax will host a conference call and live audio webcast on Thursday, August 3, 2023, at 4:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. PT.
The live audio webcast may be accessed through the "Events & Presentations" page on the "Investors" section of the Company's website at https://investors.dynavax.com/events-presentations. A replay of the webcast will be available for 30 days following the live event.
To dial into the call, participants will need to register for the call using the caller registration link. It is recommended that participants dial into the conference call or log into the webcast approximately 10 minutes prior to the call.
About Dynavax
Dynavax is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing innovative vaccines to help protect the world against infectious diseases. The Company has two commercial products, HEPLISAV-B® vaccine [Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant), Adjuvanted], which is approved in the U.S., the European Union and Great Britain for the prevention of infection caused by all known subtypes of hepatitis B virus in adults 18 years of age and older, and CpG 1018® adjuvant, currently used in multiple adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccines. Dynavax is advancing CpG 1018 adjuvant as a premier vaccine adjuvant with adjuvanted vaccine clinical programs for shingles and Tdap, and through global collaborations, currently focused on adjuvanted vaccines for COVID-19, plague, seasonal influenza and universal influenza. For more information about our marketed products and development pipeline, visit www.dynavax.com and follow Dynavax on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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It was three years bringing journalist Judy Woodruff to Purdue University Fort Wayne, and she spoke on three topics at Rhinehart Music Center on Wednesday.
One was the pandemic that delayed the “PBS NewsHour” anchor’s coming as part of the 45th anniversary of PBS Fort Wayne. The others were the news media itself and the importance of staying engaged with the world.
She drew from five decades, from local news stations to NBC and CNN, then being half of the first national news anchored by two women – she and Gwen Ifill on “PBS NewsHour” in 2013.
In response to an audience question about women’s roles in the media, she recalled her first job in the Atlanta ABC affiliate as newsroom secretary. She was told, “We already have a girl reporter.”
Now women are war correspondents, statehouse correspondents and in all areas, she said.
Woodruff talked about COVID-19 teaching us we were more resilient and flexible than we thought. She talked in heroic terms of essential workers and how the media grew comfortable interviewing people in their homes while the media people were also in their homes.
We’ll need the resilience for the future, from the political divide to the cost of education to the quality of education to inflation, she said.
When she started in 1970, three networks used actual film, and there were a few magazines. She portrayed a constant change using video, cable news, then people expecting free news online, killing newspapers.
“It means our deadlines are constant,” from wake to sleep, Woodruff said. “It’s frankly given us less time to think.”
Despite more media outlets, “we are much less informed as a people, and our democracy is weakened,” she said. She told the audience to support local media and media as a remedy.
“Stay engaged; don’t give up on our country, our democracy,” Woodruff said.
“If we can’t have presidential candidates accept that they lost and move forward to the future,” even after courts throw out all the challenges, “this is a moment when Americans should pay attention, need to pay attention to our voting system,” she said.
People need to make sure it remains out of the hands of any party, regardless of which it is, she said. It’s vital for every American to stay involved, stay focused and check sources themselves.
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NEW YORK, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Teladoc Health, Inc. (NYSE: TDOC).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Teladoc between October 28, 2021 and April 27, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until August 5, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Teladoc Health, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) increased competition, among other factors, was negatively impacting Teladoc's BetterHelp and chronic care businesses; (ii) accordingly, the growth of those businesses was less sustainable than Defendants had led investors to believe; (iii) as a result, Teladoc's revenue and adjusted EBITDA projections for FY 2022 were unrealistic; (iv) as a result of all the foregoing, Teladoc would be forced to recognize a significant non-cash goodwill impairment charge; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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NEWARK, Calif., July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID), setting new standards for luxury electric experience with the Lucid Air, winner of the 2023 World Luxury Car Award, today announced production and delivery totals for the quarter ended June 30, 2023. Lucid produced 2,173 vehicles during Q2 at its manufacturing facility in Arizona and delivered 1,404 vehicles during the same period.* In addition, the company began material shipments to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Lucid will host a conference call to discuss its second quarter 2023 financial results on Monday, August 7, 2023, at 2:30 pm PT / 5:30 pm ET. Prior to the conference call, the company will issue an earnings press release with a link to the live webcast on its investor relations website, https://ir.lucidmotors.com.
To enhance engagement with the company's shareholder base and facilitate connections with its investors, Lucid is partnering with Say Technologies to allow retail and institutional shareholders to submit and upvote questions, a selection of which will be answered by Lucid management during the earnings call.
Starting on July 24, 2023, at 2:30 pm PT / 5:30 pm ET, shareholders can submit questions by visiting: https://app.saytechnologies.com/lucid-group-2023-q2/. This Q&A platform will remain open until 2:30 pm PT / 5:30 pm ET on August 4th. Shareholders can email support@saytechnologies.com for any support inquiries.
Earnings Call Details:
Date: Monday, August 7, 2023
Time: 2:30 pm PT / 5:30 pm ET
Webcast: https://ir.lucidmotors.com (live and replay)
About Lucid Group
Lucid's mission is to inspire the adoption of sustainable energy by creating advanced technologies and the most captivating luxury electric vehicles centered around the human experience. The company's first car, the Air, is a state-of-the-art luxury sedan with a California-inspired design. Lucid Air Grand Touring features an official EPA estimated 516 miles of range or 1,050 horsepower. Assembled at Lucid's factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, deliveries of Lucid Air are currently underway to customers in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. the Middle East.
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*Lucid's net income and cash flow results will be announced along with the rest of its financial performance when Lucid announces second quarter earnings. Lucid vehicle production and delivery numbers represent only one measure of the company's operating performance and should not be relied on as sole indicators of quarterly financial results, which depend on a variety of factors.
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This communication includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "estimate," "plan," "project," "forecast," "intend," "will," "shall," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "seek," "target," "continue," "could," "may," "might," "possible," "potential," "predict" or other similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding Lucid's expectations related to production and delivery volume outlook and Lucid's finalized production and delivery totals for the quarter ended June 30, 2023. These statements are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified in this communication, and on the current expectations of Lucid's management. These forward-looking statements are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and may differ from these forward-looking statements. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of Lucid. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in Part II, Item 1A of Lucid's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, as well as other documents Lucid has filed or will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. If any of these risks materialize or Lucid's assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. There may be additional risks that Lucid currently does not know or that Lucid currently believes are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements reflect Lucid's expectations, plans or forecasts of future events and views as of the date of this communication. Lucid anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause Lucid's assessments to change. However, while Lucid may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, Lucid specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Lucid's assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this communication. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bricia Lopez has welcomed people of all walks to dine at her family's popular restaurant on the Indigenous-influenced food of her native Mexican state of Oaxaca — among them Nury Martinez, the first Latina elected president of the Los Angeles City Council.
The restaurant, Guelaguetza, has become an institution known for introducing Oaxaca's unique cuisine and culture to Angelenos, attracting everyone from immigrant families to Mexican stars to powerful city officials like Martinez.
But now after a scandal exploded over a recording of Martinez, a Mexican immigrant, making racist remarks about Indigenous people like Lopez, the 37-year-old restaurateur and cookbook author said she feels a tremendous sense of betrayal.
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Martinez resigned from her council seat Wednesday and offered her apologies. But the disparaging remarks still deeply hurt the city’s Indigenous immigrants from Mexico. Sadly, many said, they are not surprised. Both growing up in their homeland and after reaching the U.S., they say they've become accustomed to hearing such stinging comments — not only from non-Latinos but from lighter skinned Mexican immigrants and their descendants.
“Every time these people looked at me in my face, they were all lying to me,” Lopez said. “We should not let these people continue to lie to us and tell us we are less than, or we are ugly, or allow them to laugh at us."
Following Martinez' departure, two other Latino city council members also are facing widespread calls to resign since the year-old recording surfaced of them mocking colleagues while scheming to protect Latino political strength in council districts. Martinez used a disparaging term for the Black son of a white council member and called immigrants from Oaxaca ugly.
“I see a lot of little short dark people,” Martinez said on the recording, referring to an area of the largely Hispanic Koreatown neighborhood. “I was like, I don’t know where these people are from, I don’t know what village they came (from), how they got here.”
Lopez said she heard such racist comments growing up in California but had hoped they would be a thing of the past, that young Oaxacan immigrants would not have to hear them.
“I want people to look at themselves in the mirror every day and see the beauty," she said.
With one of Mexico’s largest Indigenous populations, Oaxaca has more than a dozen ethnicities including Mixtecos and Zapotecs. The southern Mexican state is known for famously hand-dyed woven rugs, pristine Pacific tourist beaches, a smokey alcohol called Mezcal and sophisticated cuisine including moles — thick sauces crafted from more than two dozen ingredients.
Los Angeles is home to the country's largest Mexican population and nearly half the city of 4 million people is Latino, census figures show. Informal studies indicate several hundred thousand Oaxacan immigrants live in California, with the largest concentration in Los Angeles, said Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, director of the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Mexican Studies.
Demeaning language is often used against Mexico's Indigenous people. It is“the legacy of the colonial period," Rivera-Salgado said of Spanish rule long ago.
Racism, and colorism — discrimination against darker-skinned people within the same ethnic group — run centuries deep in Mexico and other neighboring Latin American countries. A few years ago, Yalitza Aparicio, the Oscar-nominated actress in “Roma” who is from Oaxaca, faced racist comments in her country — and derogatory tirades online over her Indigenous features after she appeared on the cover of Vogue México.
Odilia Romero said the scandal doesn't surprise her. The Oaxacan community leader is among many who had been pressing for the resignation of Martinez and the two other councilmembers on the recorded conversation.
Romero said she's also fielded calls since the scandal broke, including from someone urging her not to let the hurtful remarks distract from critical working aiding the immigrant community.
“That is a very paternalist comment,” said Romero, executive director of the group Comunidades Indigenas en Liderazgo or CIELO and a Zapotec interpreter. “How dare you tell us Indigenous people that we are not understanding. Of course we understand — we see this every day.”
Lynn Stephen, an anthropology professor at University of Oregon who researches Mexican migration and Indigenous peoples, said the concept of mestizaje — or being a mixed-race and non-racial unified nation — intended to erase Indigenous communities, not uplift them, and the discrimination persists to this day. It is carried to the United States with those who migrate, she said, while similar divisions also exist in other Latin American countries.
“These kinds of comments directed toward Indigenous people from non-Indigenous people from Mexico, Guatemala, etc., it’s a different kind of layer of racism,” Stephen said. “Folks from Oaxaca they have to contend with anti-immigrant and anti-Mexican backlash and racism often from non-Latino Americans, white Americans, sometimes other folks, and then within that, often where they’re living or in school.”
Ofelia Platon, a tenant organizer, went to the Los Angeles city council chambers recently to demand the officials step down. She said she hasn't experienced discrimination from within the Latino community as much as from outside it, but there's no place for such — especially coming from elected leaders the poor count on to help improve their lives.
“They think they have the power to step on people,” she said. “They’re two-faced.”
It's not just the hurtful remarks that sting Xóchitl M. Flores-Marcial, a Zapotec scholar and professor of Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Northridge. She called it very telling about the officials who make decisions affecting her community. She said she grew up in the United States hearing hurtful words and still faces similar rejection whenever she travels to Oaxaca and people there are surprised she's the research team leader.
“It's so painful because those are consequential people,” she said. “This is hurting us — not just our emotions, but our actual life in terms of our jobs and our opportunities.”
Still she said she has hope for future generations in “Oaxacalifornia” — the tight-knit community that has maintained traditions while embracing life in Los Angeles.
Taxin reported from Orange County, California.
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TikTok star Mikayla Nogueira is entering the fashion space in full force.
E! News can exclusively reveal the beauty influencer partnered with dime Optics on a new sunglasses collection. The Mikayla Jane collaboration, which features nine bold sunnies, marks a meaningful accomplishment for the social media star.
"I haven't really talked about this, when I began this career two years ago, I didn't have a lot of money," she tells E! News. "I didn't even own a pair of sunglasses because I couldn't afford it."
Mikayla recalls, "One of the first things I bought when I got my first influencer paycheck was a pair of sunglasses from Target."
This full circle moment, Mikayla said, is unbelievable.
"The fact that I went from having no sunglasses because I couldn't afford them," she added, "to having my own collection that is absolutely insane to me."
According to Mikayla, her collaboration with the brand has been a year in the making.
It's an opportunity, she noted, where she had "100 percent creative control and got to really be creative."
In addition, the meaning behind the 24-year-old's shade names were descriptions that she felt encompassed her personality.
"I said to the brand, 'Words to describe me were: I'm a go getter. I'm a powerhouse and I feel I captivate people.' And I designed them based off those three names," she explained. "They're big, bold sunglasses and I wanted them to be pairs that you could put on and feel confident in."
As Mikayla perfectly summed it up, "I wanted them to reflect me."
The collection will be available to shop on Aug. 23rd the dime Optics website for $35 a pair.
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Gas prices dropped for 70 straight days
(CNN) - It’s a new kind of record at the pump.
Gas prices have decreased for 70 days in a row, the second-longest streak in nearly 20 years.
Prices hit a record high of $5.02 on June 14, but according to AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular gas has dropped every single day since then.
U.S. recession fears and worries about China’s economy are reasons contributing to the drop, as well as President Joe Biden’s unprecedented release of emergency oil from the national stockpile.
Tuesday, the national average for regular gas is $3.89 a gallon. Who knows if that will last.
The price of U.S. crude rose Tuesday for the first time in months.
The streak of falling gas prices could be short-lived if oil prices continue to go up.
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More than a year after Miami prosecutors told three people and one organization involved in Florida’s 2020 “ghost” candidate scheme that they were targets of an investigation, it’s unclear if the probe has progressed, with the prosecuting office unwilling say whether it’s still active.
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office sent “prior to” letters in December 2021 to political consultant Alex Alvarado, former Democratic fundraiser Dan Newman, nonprofit chair Richard Alexander and Let’s Preserve the American Dream, a nonprofit with close ties to Florida’s big business lobby, Associated Industries of Florida.
The probe emerged from the investigation that resulted in the arrest of former state lawmaker Frank Artiles and a man he was accused of paying to run for a competitive state Senate seat in 2020.
This week, a spokesperson for State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle’s office declined to say whether the investigation was still ongoing.
“There is no record of filed charges for these individuals/entities in our computer data base,” spokesperson Ed Griffith wrote in an email.
The letters, dated Dec. 23, 2021, said Let’s Preserve the American Dream and the three individuals were under investigation for “possible violations of Florida elections laws and campaign finance laws.” They did not provide any details about what those violations could entail.
Alvarado is a consultant who ran two committees that spent a combined $550,000 on ads championing three independent state Senate candidates, including one in a Central Florida race, as part of an apparent vote-siphoning scheme in 2020. According to records and interviews in the case against Artiles, Alvarado paid two young women to list their names in the committees’ registration records while he controlled the groups behind the scenes.
An attorney representing Alvarado did not respond to questions from the Sentinel about the status of the investigation. Records in the Artiles case show investigators surveilled Alvarado’s Tallahassee home and his wife’s workplace in October 2021 in preparation for a possible search warrant, though it’s unclear if a search was ever conducted.
Those committees received all of their money from Grow United, a nonprofit organization controlled by consultants working closely with Florida Power & Light. Executives for the utility said they had no knowledge of the “ghost” candidate scheme that has resulted in the arrests of five people, including Artiles. Alexander was listed as the chairperson for Grow United on incorporation filings but documents released as part of the case against Artiles suggest he had no role in running the organization. He did not respond to a phone call seeking comment this week.
Newman is a former Democratic fundraiser who worked with Grow United and Let’s Preserve the American Dream. He declined to comment on the status of the state attorney’s investigation.
Mohammad O. Jazil, an attorney for Let’s Preserve the American Dream, wrote in an email that the organization complies with state and federal laws.
“Its executive director met voluntarily with state prosecutors--without the promise of immunity and without invoking any Fifth Amendment privileges--to assist the prosecutors with their work,” Jazil wrote. “Any attempt to suggest otherwise because of a selective reading of a letter sent over a year ago is irresponsible and does a disservice to the Sentinel’s readers.”
Let’s Preserve the American Dream’s executive director, Ryan Tyson, sat for a nearly two-hour-long interview with investigators in September 2021, in which he acknowledged ordering a $600,000 contribution to Grow United the previous year, according to a transcript of an interview.
He said he also told the political consultant who controlled Grow United to expect a request for a donation from Alvarado, another operative who was working as a subcontractor to Let’s Preserve the American Dream. But Tyson said he had no control over whether Grow United ultimately passed the money on to Alvarado’s political committees.
Tyson and Let’s Preserve the American Dream are closely linked to Associated Industries of Florida, the big-business lobbying group whose members include FPL, sugar grower Florida Crystals and phosphate miner Mosaic Co. The nonprofit, which was originally named “Associated Industries for America’s Future,” is run out of AIF’s headquarters in Tallahassee. Tyson is a former AIF vice president and a longtime political advisor to the organization.
Artiles, who was accused of paying Alex Rodriguez nearly $45,000 to run in a South Florida Senate race, is awaiting trial. Rodriguez pleaded no contest in August 2021 to taking the bribes. As part of his plea deal, Rodriguez agreed to testify against Artiles during his trial.
In Central Florida, political consultant Eric Foglesong, former candidate Jestine Iannotti and former Seminole County GOP Chairman Ben Paris also were charged in connection with the scheme. Foglesong and Iannotti, who are accused of submitting falsified campaign contribution reports, pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial.
A jury found Paris guilty in September of causing his cousin’s name to be falsely listed on Iannotti’s contribution reports.
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INDIANAPOLIS — I spent my first 10 years living in Michigan City, which is 35 nautical miles from Chicago. I was a Cold War kid. Our bogeyman was Soviet General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, who made a lasting impression when he took off his shoe at the United Nations, hammering the podium while threatening to "bury" the U.S.
At Edgewood Elementary School, we practiced nuclear drills (along with fire drills). Downtown Michigan City had "fallout shelters" marked with yellow and black signs. After the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, my father, Jack Howey, who was city editor of the News-Dispatch, didn't betray his emotions to the family, but later described several sleepless nights during that 13-day crisis. I remember my first grade teacher telling us that President Kennedy was going to address the nation. She had a worried look on her face.
I conjure these events and images because here in 2023, we find ourselves once again on the nuclear straight-razor. Last week, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, a top ally of President Putin who now serves as deputy chairman of the Security Council, posted on Telegram: "It never occurs to any of the lowlifes to draw an elementary conclusion from this: The defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war can trigger a nuclear war. Nuclear powers have not lost major conflicts on which their fate depended."
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That is just one in a continuum of reckless nuclear saber-rattling from the Putin regime as it flounders in its war with Ukraine, a conflict it picked and is now losing. The Guardian reported that the Kremlin is now deploying Pantsir defensive missile intercept systems around Moscow and near Putin's dacha.
The Daily Beast reported that Ukrainian authorities are now saying that Russia’s biggest cities are bound to suffer attacks. “Internal escalation of the war in Russia is inevitable,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, told The Daily Beast.
This past week, President Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and NATO have agreed to send Abrams and Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The German Leopards will be delivered in a couple of months, in time for an expected Spring offensive that could determine the fate of this brutal war. These tanks have the ability to do what the first key advocate of the tank during World War I — First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill — envisioned, which is to break across trenched "no man's land."
This past week, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that its 2023 Doomsday Clock has been set forward to the closest to catastrophe it has ever been, just 90 seconds before midnight.
The horrific war in Ukraine “has increased the risk of nuclear weapons use, raised the specter of biological and chemical weapons use, hamstrung the world’s response to climate change, and hampered international efforts to deal with other global concerns,” the Bulletin stated. “Russia’s thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict — by accident, intention, or miscalculation — is a terrible risk. The possibility that the conflict could spin out of anyone’s control remains high.”
“No one can do this alone, but everyone can do something,” said the Bulletin’s President and CEO Rachel Bronson. “We hope that the moving of the clock is a motivator that we all need to pay attention to these key issues.”
Eric Schlosser, author of "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety and Fast Food Nation" writes in The Atlantic: "Several scenarios for how Russia might soon use a nuclear weapon seem possible: (1) a detonation over the Black Sea, causing no casualties but demonstrating a resolve to cross the nuclear threshold and signaling that worse may come, (2) a decapitation strike against the Ukrainian leadership, attempting to kill President Volodymyr Zelensky and his advisers in their underground bunkers, (3) a nuclear assault on a Ukrainian military target, perhaps an air base or a supply depot, that is not intended to harm civilians, and (4) the destruction of a Ukrainian city, causing mass civilian casualties and creating terror to precipitate a swift surrender — the same aims that motivated the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
"Any response by the Biden administration would be based not only on how Russia uses a nuclear weapon against Ukraine but also, more important, on how Russia’s future behavior might be affected by the American response," Schlosser adds. "Vladimir Putin can determine if, when, and where a nuclear attack occurs in Ukraine. But he cannot control what happens after that. The consequences of that choice, the series of events that would soon unfold, are unknowable. One thing is clear, after all my discussions with experts in the field: We must be ready for hard decisions, with uncertain outcomes, that nobody should ever have to make."
Should we be losing sleep over this reckless rhetoric of the despot Putin and Dmitry Medvedev as this war worsens?
Well, perhaps.
This is not a situation for overt panic, but reasonable concern. It means having discussions with your family, friends and co-workers about what to do, where to go, and how to communicate should such a crisis develop.
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Maria S. Salinas
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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
Maria S. Salinas is president & CEO of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, the largest business association in Los Angeles County, representing member companies and serving the interests of more than 235,000 businesses across the Los Angeles region. She took the helm of the organization in August of 2018, becoming the first woman and Latina to lead the Chamber in its 132-year history. An accomplished businesswoman, entrepreneur and a determined community leader, Salinas’ business acumen and financial expertise provides her with the right experience to lead the organization.Salinas, a steward of the Chamber’s new vision, “A Thriving Region for All,” has re-imagined the role of the Chamber. Under her stewardship, the Chamber looks to the future with a vision to build an inclusive economy and lead in three pillar areas of focus: advocacy work, global engagement and through community collaboration for economic growth and mobility. The Los Angeles region, which is the 14th largest economy in the world, and the Chamber membership represent a broad spectrum of industries, small businesses, corporations, academic institutions and nonprofits, which are all examples that the Los Angeles economy is diverse, dynamic and that business is a force for good.
Salinas is also an appointee to Governor Gavin Newsom’s Commission on the Future of Work and named to his Business and Jobs Recovery Task Force. She was appointed to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Committee of 100, a distinction reserved for the top 100 Chambers across the country. She represents the Los Angeles business community in statewide policy initiatives with the Coalition of Regional Economic Association Leaders (R.E.A.L.). She is a member of the Board of Directors of Mobility 21, a regional transportation effort, and an appointee of Mayor Eric Garcetti to the MEXLA Commission, a foreign policy initiative between Mexico and Los Angeles. Salinas serves on the board of directors of The Music Center, Pacific Council, Unidos US and Southern California Leadership Network, among others.
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Live: Sheriff provides update on woman who vanished 5 years ago
Published: May. 9, 2023 at 1:25 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
WATCH LIVE BELOW:
The Indian River County Sheriff's Office is holding a news conference Tuesday afternoon to provide new details on the investigation of a woman who vanished more than five years ago.
Assunta "Susy" Tomassi, 73, who had dementia, disappeared in Vero Beach on March 16, 2018.
The sheriff's office announced in early March that a fisherman discovered skeletal remains near the Oslo Road boat ramp.
Through personal items located near the remains, detectives said they believed the remains were Tomassi.
Tomassi was last seen getting into a white pickup truck behind a Publix located at Oslo Road and U.S. Highway 1.
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Keeping your mouth healthy with Simpson Dental
Published: Jun. 20, 2023 at 9:05 AM EDT|Updated: 29 minutes ago
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - How you take care of your teeth and mouth can play a big role in your overall health.
Dr. Christen Simpson with Simpson Dental stopped by First Look at Four with some tips for identifying different oral health problems.
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Biden says economic growth in Northern Ireland is 'just beginning'
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Updated: 11:03 AM EDT Apr 12, 2023
We're going to jump right in here to go live now to Belfast where us President Joe Biden is speaking. Let's listen. Uh Chancellor Davidson, Vice Chancellor Bartholomew, thank you for hosting us today on this beautiful campus of Ulster University. I came here in 91 in this neighborhood and you couldn't have *** glass building like this here in this neighborhood. I don't think I don't think you would have stood up very well, but things are changing. Lord Mayor Black and Secretary of State of Northern Ireland, Harris. Thank you for the welcome to Belfast and Mr Speaker and leaders of Northern Ireland's leading five political parties. I was honored to welcome you to the White House *** few weeks ago and it's wonderful to see all of you again today. And ambassador Harley, thank you for your outstanding work leading our mission to the UK. Ambassador Hartley is, is an old friend and the former ambassador from Great Britain to the United States, the home of that ambassador and the embassy is along the fence line of the Vice President's residence which I lived in for eight years. And the vice president and I, I became friends with the ambassador and his last trip back home before he came back to Washington to serve out the final few months of his term. He, uh he told me he was going to bring something back for me. And so, uh I didn't know what he had in mind, but when he came back, we had him over the house, we spent some time together. He and his wife and I and my wife. And uh he brought back *** book with AAA photograph on the front of the book had been just reprinted. The book of *** somewhat stout British captain in his quarters with *** big bulldog sitting next to him. And his name was Captain George Biden because he used to always kid me and saying, you know, Biden's English, you talk about the Irish Biden's English and he told me that he went back and he had the Lord ADM to God's true story check and my great, great, 18 40 I think it was 18 42 could have been 18, 28. I can't remember which one of those two dates had written the rules, the rules of mutiny for the British Navy. And I said, well, at least that part is consistent. Reverend mutiny. But um anyway, he used to always kid me when I say, you know, talk about, he say you talk about the Irish. He said you're English. I should remember that. Then I found out my sister and I found out the name Rob *** Robinette, my middle name Robinette. I, I thought that all those years it was French. It must have been Yugos because they came to Great Britain in the 17 hundreds, somewhere along the way and they're all from Nottingham. So I don't know what the hell is going on here. You come back. It's confusing. Anyway, counsel General Iran, Iran and envoy, special envoy Joe Kennedy. Thank you for your efforts to continue deepening and strengthen the ties between Northern Ireland and the United States. It's good to see Belfast, *** city that's alive with commerce, art. And I would argue inspiration, the dividends of peace are all around us. And this very campus is situated intersection where conflict and bloodshed once held *** terrible sway. The idea as I said to have *** glass building here when I was here in 91 was highly unlikely where barbed wire once sliced up the city. Today, we find cathedral, cathedral of learning, build of glass and let the shine light out, in and out. It just has *** profound impact for someone who's come back to see it. You know, it's an incredible testament to the power and the possibilities of peace. 25 years ago, this week, the landmark Belfast Good Friday agreement was signed and it wasn't easy. I was *** United States Senator at the time and I worked very closely with my good friend George Mitchell who will be here, I believe in *** couple days. And there were no guarantees that the deal on paper would hold, no guarantees that it would be able to deliver the progress we celebrate today. It took long hard years of work to get to this place. It took the people willing to come together in good faith and to risk boldly for the future leaders and people like John Hume and David Trimble and David Irvine and uh and Monica mcwilliams and Mary Robinson, et cetera. They were all people that I got to meet back then. And it took people across, all across northern Ireland who made the choice to work for *** brighter and *** shared future at the time. It seemed so distant, some of it, it seemed so distant first at the ballot box and everyday sense, the acts of seeing each other through the lens of *** common humanity, which again, when I first came here as *** young senator, didn't seem like it was realistic. It took pioneering women across all communities and parties that said enough enough and demanded change as well as *** seat at the negotiating table, including through the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition. And it took *** determined effort of my good friend who, someone who embodies the country's commitment to all the people, all the people in this region. Senator George Mitchell, and you know, his time serving as special envoy for Northern Ireland is one of the great examples in history of the right person for the right job at the right time. In my view, I think sometimes, especially when the distance of history, we forget how hard earned how astounding that piece was. At the moment, it shifted the political gravity in our world. Literally, it shifted the political gravity. In 1998 it was the longest running conflict in Europe. Since the end of World War, two, thousands of families have been affected by the troubles. Losses are real. The pain was personal. I need not tell many people in this audience. Every person killed in the troubles left an empty chair at the dining room table and the whole and the heart was never filled for the ones they lost. Peace was not inevitable. We can't ever forget that there is nothing inevitable about it. As George Mitchell often said the negotiations had 700 days of failure and one day of success, 700 days of failure and one day of success, but they kept going because George and all the many others never stopped believing that success was possible. And I want all of you to know, especially the young people in the audience today and don't jump. Ok. Oh, why did you see that all the way up there? My father would say please excuse my back. I apologize. But all the American people are with you every step of the way. It's real. Those of you who have been to America know that there is ***, there is *** large population that is invested in what happens here. That cares *** great deal about what happens here, supporting the people of Northern Ireland, protecting the peace, preserving the Belfast. Good Friday agreement is *** priority for Democrats and Republicans alike in the United States. And that is unusual today because we've been very divided on our parties. This is something that brings Washington together, it brings America together. I spoke about this with Northern Ireland's political leaders as well as the shook and our ST Patrick's Day celebration at the White House been *** key focus for me throughout my career. I remember working as *** senator to see how the United States could support and encourage bit by bit any moves toward peace. I got elected in 1972 as *** 29 year old kid to the United States Senate and it was just the start of it. I mean, it seemed like it was *** goal that was so far away. I remember coming here, as I said, in 91 seeing this city divided and barricaded then in 94 when the cease fire was declared, it was like *** sea change. Tide of violence began to recede. Hope. Rolling in, in 1998 overwhelming joy, hard to communicate just how deeply invested your success in your success. The people across the United States are and those of you who have been there know it. You know what, I'm not making this up. This is real. This is, it's almost people can taste it. The family ties the pride and those Scots immigrants, those, those Scots immigrants who helped found and build my country. They run very deep, very deep men born in Ulster were among those who signed the Declaration of Independence in the United States pledging their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for freedom's cause. The man who printed the revolutionary document was John Dunlop. He hailed from County Tyrone and countless countless others establish new lives of opportunity across the Atlantic, planting farms, founding communities starting businesses, never forgetting *** connection to this island. As *** matter of fact, as you walk into my office in the oval office in the United States capital, guess what? You know who founded and designed and built the White House? An Irishman an Irish. No, not, not *** joke, not *** joke. Passing it down generation after generation. Your history is our history but even more important. Your future is America's future. Today's Belfast is the beating heart of Northern Ireland and it is poised to drive unprecedented economic opportunity investment from communities across the UK, across Ireland and across the United States. The simple truth is that peace and economic opportunity go together, peace and economic opportunity go together in 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland's gross domestic product has literally doubled double and I predict you, if things continue to move in the right direction, it will more than triple. There are scores of major American corporations wanting to come here wanting to invest, many have already made homes in Northern Ireland, employing over 30,000 people. And in just the past decade, American business has generated almost $2 billion in investment in the region. $2 billion today, Northern Ireland is *** churn of creativity, art, poetry theater. Some of our favorite television shows, the movies are filmed here as you know, and I understand the star of the recent Oscar winning film and someone of Belfast Barista James Martin James, I got to meet James and I got my picture taken and going home and brag to my daughter, cruise ships packed with tourists, go Belfast port and young people instead of fleeing for opportunities elsewhere, can see their futures and careers for themselves that speak to unlimited possibilities here. How many of you have heard over the years? As you all my closer to my age, mom, dad, there's nothing here for me. I'm gonna move, I'm gonna leave. I gotta go, what's not happening now? So it's up to us to keep this going to keep building on the work that has been done every day for the last 25 years to sustain the peace, unleash this incredible economic opportunity, which is just beginning, I promise you, you think I'm joking? It's just beginning. We get this, keep it going. We all know there's more we can do together. You know, there's so much energy and dynamism, especially among young people who are starting their own businesses, blazing their own trails, connecting to the global community of entrepreneurs and young people in Northern Ireland are on the cutting edge of sectors that are going to define so much of the future. Cyber technology, clean energy life sciences. Here in Northern Ireland, programs like young young, young entrepreneur, young enterprise, Northern Ireland, helping thousands of young people each year gain skills and pursue the goals, their goals as entrepreneurs. That's why I asked Joe Kennedy, my new special envoy in Northern Ireland of Economic Affairs to help supercharge that work to bring more businesses, more investment, more opportunity here to Northern Ireland and help realize the enormous economic potential of this region. Because I know parenthetically when that happens here, it gives faith to people around the world. It can be done here. It can be done in my community. Not *** joke, the world is changing is changing drastically and it presents enormous opportunity but also significant dangers to that end. Later this year, Joe is going to be leading *** trade delegation of American companies in Northern Ireland. Now I know the UK S departure from the European Union created complex challenges here in Northern Ireland and I encourage the leaders of the UK and the EU to address the issues in *** way that serve Northern Ireland's best interests. I deeply appreciate the personal leadership of Prime Minister Soak and European, Commissioner Von Der Leyen to reach an agreement. The Windsor framework addresses the practical realities of Brexit and the essential. It's essential step to ensuring hard earned peace and progress to the Good Friday agreements is that they are preserved and strengthened. You know, the negotiators listened to business leaders across the UK and Ireland who shared what they needed to succeed. And I believe the stability and predictability offered by this framework will encourage greater investment in northern Ireland. Significant investment in northern Ireland. I come from *** little state where the state of Delaware and back home has more corporations that are registered in that state than every other state in the Union combined. So I know *** little bit about corporate attitudes. All the immense progress we see around us was built through conversation and compromise, discussion and debate, voting and inclusion. It's an incredible attestation to the power of democracy to deliver needs for all the people. And now I know better than most. How hard democracy can be at times. We in the United States have first hand experience how fragile even long standing democratic institutions can be. You saw what happened on January the sixth in my country, we learn *** new with every generation that democracy needs champions. When I went to college, I was *** political science major and history major. And every generation has to fight to preserve democracies. I didn't believe it at the time. I just thought it was automatic. We had this great democracy. What would we need to do as *** friend? I hope it's not too presumptuous of me to say that I believe democratic institutions established with the Good Friday Agreement remain critical to the future of Northern Ireland. It's *** decision for you to make, not for me to make. But it seems to me they're related an effective devolved government that reflects the people of Northern Ireland and is accountable to them. *** government that works to find ways through hard problems together is going to draw even greater opportunity in this region. So I hope the assembly and the executive will soon be restored. That's *** judgment for you to make not me. But I hope it happens along with the institutions that facilitate North, South and East West relations, all of which are vital pieces of the Good Friday Agreement in politics. No matter what divides us. If we look hard enough, there are always areas that are going to bring us together. If we look hard enough standing for peace, rejecting political violence must be one of those things. So I want so I want to once more recognize the way the leaders of Northern Ireland's major political parties come together in the wake of attempted murder of detective Chief Inspector Caldwell to show that the enemies of peace will not prevail Northern Ireland will not go back, pray God. The attack was *** hard reminder that there will always be those who seek to destroy rather than rebuild. But the lesson of the Good Friday Agreement is this in times when things seem fragile or easily broken, that is when hope and hard work are needed the most. That's why we must make our theme repair, repair and the whole Easter season this season when all Christians celebrate renewal and life, the Good Friday Agreement showed us that there is hope for repair even in the most awful breakages. You know, it helped people all around the world to hope for renewal and progress in their own lives. And most of all allowed an entire generation of young people in Northern Ireland and across the UK and the Republic of Ireland to grow up in *** society mended by connection, made stronger by independence, interdependence and respect. Young people like Gabriel, we just heard from earlier, her success and her opportunities have been underwritten by the Good Friday Agreement. Young people like Jordan Graham born less than three weeks after the agreement was signed in 1998. His whole life, his whole life has unfolded under the wing of peace, which means not quite 25 years of age, he's been able to build an expertise in branding and marketing that he's used to help grow. Local businesses, support startups, consult for charities, young people like Amy Clint, born in 2000, whose parents like to tell *** story about how she came home from her first day of secondary school and ask what's the difference between *** Protestant and *** Catholic? What's the difference between *** Protestant or *** Catholic? She didn't grow up thinking in sectarian divides. She grew up thinking about how she used to support her beloved brother and other Children with autism. Today. Amy's social enterprise has donated more than 5000 copies of her book to schools across northern Ireland to help Children better understand autism and to learn to treat others with kindness and respect. That's the real power of the Good Friday Agreement, compassion, compassion. It changed how this entire region sees itself in the words of Morrissey Belfast's first poet, laureate. What's left is dark and quiet but book ended by light as mccarthy opens the Dull cabin door and happens out what happens outside is technicolor. What happens outside is technicolor. This place is transformed by peace made technicolor by piece made whole by piece. So today I come to Belfast to pledge to all the people of Northern Ireland, the United States of America will continue to be your partner in building the future. The young people of our world deserve. It matters to us, to Americans and to me personally, it generally matters if you travel my country. So let's celebrate 25 extraordinary years by recommitting to renewal repair by making this exceptional piece, the birthright of every child in Northern Ireland for all the days to come. That's what we should be doing. God willing to be able to do it. Thank you all for listening and may God bring you the peace we need. Thank you, President Joe Biden speaking live in Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement that helped end three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland.
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Biden says economic growth in Northern Ireland is 'just beginning'
President Joe Biden expressed hope Wednesday that Northern Ireland will “not go back” to an era of deadly violence that was capped 25 years ago by a U.S.-brokered peace deal, nudging the politicians here to resolve a political crisis that has left this United Kingdom member without a functioning government.“It’s up to us to keep this going,” Biden said of the economic growth and prosperity Northern Ireland has experienced since the Good Friday Agreement was signed. He spoke at Ulster University’s new campus in Belfast, and noted that the vast amount of glass used in its construction was a sign of that progress and likely wouldn’t have been possible during the sectarian violence known as “the Troubles,” in which some 3,600 people were killed in bombings and other attacks.On his first presidential visit to Northern Ireland, Biden stressed that American investment will continue to help fuel its economic growth, especially if Belfast’s fractious politicians resolve a stalemate that has put their government on pause.“The simple truth is that peace and economic opportunity go together,” Biden said, noting that Northern Ireland’s total economic output had doubled in the quarter-century since the Good Friday peace deal was signed in April 1998. He predicted that gross domestic product would more than triple “if things continue to move in the right direction," and he said that a bright future is “just beginning.”“Your history is our history,” the president said. “And even more important, your future is America’s future.”Biden’s speech navigated Northern Ireland’s complex political currents, referring to both his British and Irish ancestry, and noting the contribution to the U.S. of largely Protestant Ulster Scots as well as Irish Catholics like his own forebears.U.S. involvement was key to negotiating the Good Friday accord, which largely ended decades of sectarian violence that killed 3,600 people. Biden credited people who were willing to “risk boldly for the future” by reaching the agreement, reminding the audience that “peace was not inevitable."While that peace has endured, Northern Ireland is currently without a functioning government. Stormont, the seat of its assembly, has been suspended since the Democratic Unionist Party, which formed half of a power-sharing government, walked out a year ago over a post-Brexit trade dispute. Biden urged all sides to get back to work, saying “democracy needs champions" and that Northern Ireland's future is in their hands.“That’s a judgement for you to make, not me, but I hope it happens," he said.In addition, a top police official was shot and injured in February, an attack that authorities have blamed on Irish Republican Army dissidents opposed to the peace process.“The enemies of peace will not prevail,” Biden said. “Northern Ireland will not go back, pray God.”Biden opened Wednesday by having tea with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. He met with the leaders of Northern Ireland’s five main political parties at the university before giving his speech. Biden had said earlier Wednesday that he would listen to what they had to say.Amanda Sloat, the president’s top adviser on European affairs, said Biden wouldn’t try to strongarm Northern Ireland’s politicians back to the table even though he wants to see the Stormont government back up and running.“The purpose of the president’s visit today is to mark the Good Friday Agreement, to continue to reaffirm the support of the United States for peace and prosperity,” she said. “The president’s message ... is the United States’ strong support for that, the belief that the people of Northern Ireland deserve to have a democratically elected power sharing representative governance.”Sunak said afterward that he and Biden had a “very good discussion” about investment in Northern Ireland, along with foreign policy issues. He noted that he and Biden had met last month in California, and that they’d be seeing each other again in May at a world leader summit in Japan, followed by Sunak’s White House visit in June.“We’re very close partner and allies. We cooperate on a range of things,” Sunak said. Northern Ireland's political crisis stems, in part, from Brexit. Britain’s departure from the European Union left Northern Ireland poised uneasily between the rest of the U.K. and EU member Ireland and put the peace agreement under increased strain.After much wrangling, Britain and the EU struck a deal in February to address the tensions over trade, an agreement welcomed by the U.S., which had urged London and Brussels to end their post-Brexit feud. The Democratic Unionist Party, though, says the Windsor Framework doesn’t go far enough and has refused to return to government.As he set off for Belfast on Tuesday, Biden said a priority of his trip to Northern Ireland was to “keep the peace.”While U.K. officials hope the president's presence can help nudge the unionists back into government, Biden faces mistrust from some unionists because of his Irish American heritage. Sammy Wilson, a DUP lawmaker in the U.K. Parliament, told Talk TV that Biden “has got a record of being pro-republican, anti-unionist, anti-British.”“The track record of the president shows he’s not anti-British," Sloat said, adding that “the U.K. remains one of out strongest and closest allies.”Biden is spending less than 24 hours in Northern Ireland before moving on to the Republic of Ireland for a three-day visit, including an address to the Dublin parliament, attendance at a gala dinner and trips to two ancestral hometowns.Plans for Biden to visit a cemetery Wednesday in County Louth, on Ireland’s east coast, were scrapped because of uncooperative weather. He was also scheduled to tour a castle and walk around downtown Dundalk, possibly with some distant relatives.Neil Given, a civil servant who lives in Belfast, welcomed Biden's visit but said his “expectations are not great” that it would unblock the political logjam.“We have prevaricated for well over a year now, and ever since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement there have been numerous stoppages of the institutions of Stormont,” he said. "Whether or not Mr. Biden’s visit can in 24, 48 hours pull people together and perhaps get a message we really do need to get back to government, I don’t know.“But hopefully he can do that. I know there is no more powerful person certainly to be over that can give out that message.”A massive security operation was in place for Biden's stay in Belfast, with a heavy police presence on blocked-off streets around the president's hotel and the Ulster campus.Last month, U.K. intelligence services raised Northern Ireland's terrorism threat level from “substantial” to “severe.” But Biden said then that not even the heightened risk of an attack would keep him from making the trip.Biden last visited Ireland in 2016, when he was U.S. vice president.Samuel Olufemia, who is studying for a degree in public health at Ulster University, said he was looking forward to meeting Biden on campus.“Having him in Belfast here is a privilege,” said Olufemia, who is from Nigeria. “It’s going to be an historic visit, and that’s one of the reasons I’m excited.”___Lawless reported from London. Chris Megerian contributed from Washington.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland —
President Joe Biden expressed hope Wednesday that Northern Ireland will “not go back” to an era of deadly violence that was capped 25 years ago by a U.S.-brokered peace deal, nudging the politicians here to resolve a political crisis that has left this United Kingdom member without a functioning government.
“It’s up to us to keep this going,” Biden said of the economic growth and prosperity Northern Ireland has experienced since the Good Friday Agreement was signed. He spoke at Ulster University’s new campus in Belfast, and noted that the vast amount of glass used in its construction was a sign of that progress and likely wouldn’t have been possible during the sectarian violence known as “the Troubles,” in which some 3,600 people were killed in bombings and other attacks.
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On his first presidential visit to Northern Ireland, Biden stressed that American investment will continue to help fuel its economic growth, especially if Belfast’s fractious politicians resolve a stalemate that has put their government on pause.
“The simple truth is that peace and economic opportunity go together,” Biden said, noting that Northern Ireland’s total economic output had doubled in the quarter-century since the Good Friday peace deal was signed in April 1998. He predicted that gross domestic product would more than triple “if things continue to move in the right direction," and he said that a bright future is “just beginning.”
“Your history is our history,” the president said. “And even more important, your future is America’s future.”
Biden’s speech navigated Northern Ireland’s complex political currents, referring to both his British and Irish ancestry, and noting the contribution to the U.S. of largely Protestant Ulster Scots as well as Irish Catholics like his own forebears.
U.S. involvement was key to negotiating the Good Friday accord, which largely ended decades of sectarian violence that killed 3,600 people. Biden credited people who were willing to “risk boldly for the future” by reaching the agreement, reminding the audience that “peace was not inevitable."
While that peace has endured, Northern Ireland is currently without a functioning government. Stormont, the seat of its assembly, has been suspended since the Democratic Unionist Party, which formed half of a power-sharing government, walked out a year ago over a post-Brexit trade dispute. Biden urged all sides to get back to work, saying “democracy needs champions" and that Northern Ireland's future is in their hands.
“That’s a judgement for you to make, not me, but I hope it happens," he said.
In addition, a top police official was shot and injured in February, an attack that authorities have blamed on Irish Republican Army dissidents opposed to the peace process.
“The enemies of peace will not prevail,” Biden said. “Northern Ireland will not go back, pray God.”
Biden opened Wednesday by having tea with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. He met with the leaders of Northern Ireland’s five main political parties at the university before giving his speech. Biden had said earlier Wednesday that he would listen to what they had to say.
Amanda Sloat, the president’s top adviser on European affairs, said Biden wouldn’t try to strongarm Northern Ireland’s politicians back to the table even though he wants to see the Stormont government back up and running.
“The purpose of the president’s visit today is to mark the Good Friday Agreement, to continue to reaffirm the support of the United States for peace and prosperity,” she said. “The president’s message ... is the United States’ strong support for that, the belief that the people of Northern Ireland deserve to have a democratically elected power sharing representative governance.”
Sunak said afterward that he and Biden had a “very good discussion” about investment in Northern Ireland, along with foreign policy issues. He noted that he and Biden had met last month in California, and that they’d be seeing each other again in May at a world leader summit in Japan, followed by Sunak’s White House visit in June.
“We’re very close partner and allies. We cooperate on a range of things,” Sunak said.
Northern Ireland's political crisis stems, in part, from Brexit. Britain’s departure from the European Union left Northern Ireland poised uneasily between the rest of the U.K. and EU member Ireland and put the peace agreement under increased strain.
After much wrangling, Britain and the EU struck a deal in February to address the tensions over trade, an agreement welcomed by the U.S., which had urged London and Brussels to end their post-Brexit feud. The Democratic Unionist Party, though, says the Windsor Framework doesn’t go far enough and has refused to return to government.
As he set off for Belfast on Tuesday, Biden said a priority of his trip to Northern Ireland was to “keep the peace.”
While U.K. officials hope the president's presence can help nudge the unionists back into government, Biden faces mistrust from some unionists because of his Irish American heritage. Sammy Wilson, a DUP lawmaker in the U.K. Parliament, told Talk TV that Biden “has got a record of being pro-republican, anti-unionist, anti-British.”
“The track record of the president shows he’s not anti-British," Sloat said, adding that “the U.K. remains one of out strongest and closest allies.”
Biden is spending less than 24 hours in Northern Ireland before moving on to the Republic of Ireland for a three-day visit, including an address to the Dublin parliament, attendance at a gala dinner and trips to two ancestral hometowns.
Plans for Biden to visit a cemetery Wednesday in County Louth, on Ireland’s east coast, were scrapped because of uncooperative weather. He was also scheduled to tour a castle and walk around downtown Dundalk, possibly with some distant relatives.
Neil Given, a civil servant who lives in Belfast, welcomed Biden's visit but said his “expectations are not great” that it would unblock the political logjam.
“We have prevaricated for well over a year now, and ever since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement there have been numerous stoppages of the institutions of Stormont,” he said. "Whether or not Mr. Biden’s visit can in 24, 48 hours pull people together and perhaps get a message we really do need to get back to government, I don’t know.
“But hopefully he can do that. I know there is no more powerful person certainly to be over that can give out that message.”
A massive security operation was in place for Biden's stay in Belfast, with a heavy police presence on blocked-off streets around the president's hotel and the Ulster campus.
Last month, U.K. intelligence services raised Northern Ireland's terrorism threat level from “substantial” to “severe.” But Biden said then that not even the heightened risk of an attack would keep him from making the trip.
Biden last visited Ireland in 2016, when he was U.S. vice president.
Samuel Olufemia, who is studying for a degree in public health at Ulster University, said he was looking forward to meeting Biden on campus.
“Having him in Belfast here is a privilege,” said Olufemia, who is from Nigeria. “It’s going to be an historic visit, and that’s one of the reasons I’m excited.”
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Lawless reported from London. Chris Megerian contributed from Washington.
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Watch: Pinellas deputies rescue 6-foot shark caught in crab trap
LARGO, Fla. - Pinellas deputies earlier this week came to the rescue of a shark seen struggling after getting its mouth caught on a crab trap.
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office posted video of the rescue on their Facebook page, saying a concerned citizen flagged down some of their Marine Unit deputies after spotting the 6-foot shark in the water.
The deputies pulled up on a buoy line attached to the crab trap, which showed the shark stuck on a hook.
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The sheriff's office said after evaluating the situation, the deputies realized they could not safely remove the hook, so they cut as far down on the line as they could in order to set the shark free.
The shark could then be seen swimming off as one deputy shouted, "Bye, bud!"
"It's been a week of sea life rescues at PCSO!" the sheriff's office Facebook post said.
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Indeed, it's the second animal rescue this week for the agency.
Earlier in the week, several Pinellas deputies came to the rescue of sea turtle hatchlings that had gotten lost while trying to find their way to the Gulf – and instead wandered onto the property of a St. Pete Beach hotel.
Read more about the baby sea turtle rescue and watch bodycam video by clicking here.
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Trump’s tax returns to be discussed by congressional panel
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to publicly release years of Donald Trump ‘s tax returns, which the former president has long tried to shield.
Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., has kept a close hold on the panel’s actions, including whether the panel will meet in a public or private session. And if lawmakers move forward with plans to release the returns, it’s unclear how quickly that would happen.
But after a yearslong battle that ultimately resulted in the Supreme Court clearing the way last month for the Treasury Department to send the returns to Congress, Democrats are under pressure to act aggressively. The committee received six years of tax returns for Trump and some of his businesses. And with just two weeks left until Republicans formally take control of the House, Tuesday’s meeting could be the last opportunity for Democrats to disclose whatever information they have gleaned.
Trump has long had a complicated relationship with his personal income taxes.
As a presidential candidate in 2016, he broke decades of precedent by refusing to release his tax forms to the public. He bragged during a presidential debate that year that he was “smart” because he paid no federal taxes and later claimed he wouldn’t personally benefit from the 2017 tax cuts he signed into law that favored people with extreme wealth, asking Americans to simply take him at his word.
Tax records would have been a useful metric for judging his success in business. The image of a savvy businessman was key to a political brand honed during his years as a tabloid magnet and star of “The Apprentice” television show. They also could reveal any financial obligations — including foreign debts — that could influence how he governed.
But Americans were largely in the dark about Trump’s relationship with the IRS until October 2018 and September 2020, when The New York Times published two separate series based on leaked tax records.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 articles showed how Trump received a modern equivalent of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate holdings, with much of that money coming from what the Times called “tax dodges” in the 1990s. Trump sued the Times and his niece, Mary Trump, in 2021 for providing the records to the newspaper. In November, Mary Trump asked an appeals court to overturn a judge’s decision to reject her claims that her uncle and two of his siblings defrauded her of millions of dollars in a 2001 family settlement.
The 2020 articles showed that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018. Trump paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the past 15 years because he generally lost more money than he made.
The articles exposed deep inequities in the U.S. tax code as Trump, a reputed multi-billionaire, paid little in federal income taxes. IRS figures indicate that the average tax filer paid roughly $12,200 in 2017, about 16 times more than the former president paid.
Details about Trump’s income from foreign operations and debt levels were also contained in the tax filings, which the former president derided as “fake news.”
At the time of the 2020 articles, Neal said he saw an ethical problem in Trump overseeing a federal agency that he has also battled with legal filings.
“Now, Donald Trump is the boss of the agency he considers an adversary,” Neal said in 2020. “It is essential that the IRS’s presidential audit program remain free of interference.”
The Manhattan district attorney’s office also obtained copies of Trump’s tax records in February 2021 after after a protracted legal fight that included two trips to the Supreme Court.
The office, then led by District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., had subpoenaed Trump’s accounting firm in 2019, seeking access to eight years of Trump’s tax returns and related documents.
The DA’s office issued the subpoena after Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress that Trump had misled tax officials, insurers and business associates about the value of his assets. Those allegations are the subject of a fraud lawsuit that New York Attorney General Letitia James filed against Trump and his company in September.
Trump’s longtime accountant, Donald Bender, testified at the Trump Organization’s recent criminal trial that Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly $700 million in 2009 and $200 million in 2010.
Bender, a partner at Mazars USA LLP who spent years preparing Trump’s personal tax returns, said Trump’s reported losses from 2009 to 2018 included net operating losses from some of the many businesses he owns through his Trump Organization.
The Trump Organization was convicted earlier this month on tax fraud charges for helping some executives dodge taxes on company-paid perks such as apartments and luxury cars.
The current Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, told The Associated Press in an interview last week that his office’s investigation into Trump and his businesses continues.
“We’re going to follow the facts and continue to do our job,” Bragg said.
Trump, who refused to release his returns during his 2016 presidential campaign and his four years in the White House while claiming that he was under IRS audit, has argued there is little to be gleaned from the tax returns even as he has fought to keep them private.
“You can’t learn much from tax returns, but it is illegal to release them if they are not yours!” he complained on his social media network last weekend.
Republicans, meanwhile, have railed against the potential release, arguing that it would set a dangerous precedent.
Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, the Ways and Means Committee’s Republican leader, accused Democrats on the committee of “unleashing a dangerous new political weapon that reaches far beyond President Trump, and jeopardizes the privacy of every American.”
“Going forward, partisans in Congress have nearly unlimited power to target political enemies by obtaining and making public their private tax returns to embarrass and destroy them,” Brady said in a statement. “We urge Democrats, in their rush to target former President Trump, not to unleash this dangerous new political weapon on the American people.”
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Kinnard reported from Columbia, South Carolina. Associated Press writers Michael R. Sisak and Jill Colvin in New York contributed this report.
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PITTSBURGH — More than two million infant swings and 220,000 infant rockers are being recalled after reports that one baby died and another was hurt after getting tangled in hanging straps.
Pittsburgh-based 4moms is recalling about two million MamaRoo swings and 220,000 RockaRoo rockers in the U.S, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Monday. Another 70,000 of the products are being recalled in Canada.
The recall notice said restraint straps on the swing and rocker can hang down when not in use. Infants crawling under the seat can then get tangled in the straps and potentially be strangled.
4moms received two reports of infants getting caught in the hanging strap under the MamaRoo infant swing. One, a 10-month-old, died from asphyxiation. Another 10-month-old "suffered bruising to his neck before being rescued by a caregiver," the recall stated. No injuries or deaths were reported from the rocker.
According to the recall notice, the swings and rockers were sold at BuyBuy Baby and Target stores nationwide from January 2010 through August 2022 for between $160 and $250. They were also sold online on 4moms.com and Amazon.
Which products are being recalled?
The MamaRoo is a baby swing with different motions, speeds and sounds controlled by buttons on the base.
"This recall includes only MamaRoo models that use a 3-point harness: versions 1.0 and 2.0 (model number 4M-005), version 3.0 (model number 1026), and version 4.0 (model number 1037)," the notice said.
The MamaRoo model with a 5-point harness (Model 1046) isn't being recalled.
Model numbers are located on the bottom of the swings.
The RockaRoo is a baby rocker with "front to back gliding motion" controlled by a knob and power button on the base. The model number, 4M-012, is located on the bottom of the rocker.
What should I do if I have this product?
According to the recall notice, customers with crawling babies should stop using the recalled swings and rockers right away and put them somewhere out of reach.
Customers can contact 4moms "immediately" to get a free strap fastener that the company said will keep straps from hanging.
The recall notice said customers can call 4moms toll-free at 877-870-7390 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Monday through Friday, by email at safetyandrecall@4moms.com or online at https://www.4momsrecall.expertinquiry.com.
The company said it is contacting all known purchasers.
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Hearing underway for first of 2 Iowa teens who pleaded guilty in 2021 beating death of teacher
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A sentencing hearing for the first of two Iowa teenagers who pleaded guilty to beating their high school Spanish teacher to death with a baseball bat was underway Thursday with details about the investigation into the killing.
Willard Miller and Jeremy Goodale pleaded guilty in April to the 2021 attack on Nohema Graber in a park in Fairfield, Iowa, where the 66-year-old teacher regularly walked after school. Prosecutors said the teens, who were 16 at the time, were angry at Graber because of a bad grade she had given Miller.
Miller will be the first sentenced after he pleaded guilty as part of an agreement in which prosecutors recommended a term of between 30 years and life in prison, with the possibility of parole.
Under Goodale’s agreement to plead guilty, prosecutors recommended a sentence of between 25 years and life with the possibility of parole. Goodale’s sentencing is scheduled for August, but his lawyers have sought a delay in the hearing.
Thursday’s sentencing hearing at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Fairfield initially focused on investigators who described how officers found Graber’s body and social media postings that led them to question and then arrest Miller and Goodale. Prosecutors also played recordings of police interviews with the two suspects and displayed photographs of the crime scene, including graphic images of Graber’s body.
Later Thursday, the court is expected to hear statements from Graber’s relatives.
The teens acknowledged killing Graber on Nov. 2, 2021, in Chautauqua Park in Fairfield, a city of 9,400 people about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Des Moines.
Goodale earlier testified that he and Miller had planned the killing for about two weeks and that both of them struck the victim and then hid her body. Goodale said Miller had initiated the plan. Miller admitted helping but denied hitting Graber.
The two were charged as adults, but because of their age they were not subject to a mandatory sentence of life without parole for first-degree murder. Miller is now 17 and Goodale is 18.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ SmileDirectClub Inc. (SDC) on Monday reported a loss of $20.3 million in its second quarter.
The Nashville, Tennessee-based company said it had a loss of 17 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 14 cents per share.
The direct-to-consumer teeth-straightening company posted revenue of $125.8 million in the period, which also did not meet Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $145.4 million.
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JINDERIS, Syria — A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family's earthquake-shattered home has left the hospital and gone to her new home, where she was with her paternal aunt's family Monday.
The girl had been at the hospital since hours after the Feb. 6 earthquake. She was discharged Saturday and her aunt and uncle adopted her and gave her a new name, Afraa, after her late mother.
Afraa's mother died in the quake along with her father and four siblings. A day after the infant arrived at the hospital, officials there named her Aya — Arabic for "a sign from God."
Afraa's story has been widely shared in news reports and people from around the world have offered to help her, with some saying they would like to adopt her. However, the relatives who took her in said that, however hard their circumstances, the best place for the infant is with family.
On Monday, Afraa was being cared for by her uncle, Khalil al-Sawadi, who is now living with relatives in the town of Jinderis in northern Syria after his home was also destroyed in the earthquake. Al-Sawadi and his wife have four daughters and two sons and now Afraa will be living with her cousins.
"She is one of my children now. I will not differentiate between her and my children," al-Sawadi, who is also a cousin of the newborn's parents, told The Associated Press on Monday while sitting cross-legged holding Afraa and surrounded by his six children. "She will be dearer than my children because she will keep the memory alive of her father, mother and siblings."
He added that days after Afraa was born, his wife gave birth to a daughter, Attaa.
While in the hospital in the nearby town of Afrin, the director's wife has been breast-feeding Afraa.
Judicial officials in Afrin had taken over the case of Afraa after the girl drew international attention and some people came to the hospital claiming they are related to her although they had different family names than Afraa and her mother.
For days, al-Sawadi was worried that someone might kidnap her and he visited her frequently at the hospital.
A hospital official said Afraa was handed over to her aunt's family days after a DNA test was conducted to make sure the girl and her aunt are biologically related.
"It was sad and some nurses wept" when she was taken from the hospital, said Dr. Hani Maarouf who had taken care of Afraa since she was brought to the facility. He added that the baby girl was in very good health when she was released.
Rescue workers in Jinderis discovered the dark-haired baby girl more than 10 hours after the quake as they were digging through the wreckage of the five-story apartment building where her parents lived.
Al-Sawadi recounted how he rushed out of his home when the earthquake happened and found that the nearby building where Afraa's family lived had been reduced to a pile of rubble. Along with others from the area, al-Sawadi said they dug through the rubble in heavy rain for hours until he grew tired and sat to rest nearby.
Shortly afterward, someone called him to identify a dead woman whom they found under the rubble. He told people around that she was his cousin, Afraa. Then, they started hearing a child crying and frantically removed the sand that covered the baby, whose umbilical cord was still still connected to her mother.
Al-Sawadi said he took a razor from his pocked and cut the umbilical cord and handed the girl to another cousin and they rushed her to a nearby hospital where he was told that the girl was in good health. They drove to another hospital in the nearby town of Afrin where they were told it was full and unable to take more patients. They continued to a second hospital, which was also full, before reaching the children's hospital where she was kept until Saturday.
He said during the chaos after they pulled Afraa from under the rubble, al-Sawadi thought that the newborn was a boy and told the doctor to name "him" after her late father Abdullah Turki Mleihan. They later found out it was a girl.
He said that the girl was kept in hospital for nearly two weeks until the paperwork for her adoption was done.
The devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake with its epicenter in Turkey's southeastern Kharamanmaras province struck in the early hours of Feb. 6, followed by multiple aftershocks. Many communities in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria were reduced to piles of broken concrete and twisted metal. More than 44,000 people have been reported dead, a toll expected to rise as search teams find more bodies.
The earthquake destroyed dozens of housing units in the town of Jinderis, where Afraa's family had been living since 2018.
Afraa's father, Abdullah Turki Mleihan, was originally from the village of Khsham in eastern Deir el-Zour province, but left in 2014 after the Islamic State group captured the village, Saleh al-Badran, an uncle of Afraa's father, said earlier this month.
"I will raise her in a way that she will not feel in need for anything," said al-Sawadi, who buys and sells cars. Surrounded by his children, al-Sawadi asked them if he should give away Afraa to the well-wishers offering to adopt her and they said in one voice, "No."
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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
June 16, 2022 Updated: June 16, 2022 9:14 p.m.
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1of 15 A man in a devil costume crawls on his knees toward a church as he pays a penance as part of celebrations of the Catholic holiday of Corpus Christi in La Guaira, Venezuela, Thursday, June 16, 2022. Carrying masks of animals and sea monsters, residents of all ages went out to dance in the ritual known as Dancing Devils that symbolizes the triumph of good over evil. Matias Delacroix/AP Show More Show Less
2of 15 Fishermen carry garbage collected from the mangroves of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 13, 2022. Fishermen in the area are part of an environmental project supported by BVRio Institute and earn a salary collecting the garbage from the bay. Silvia Izquierdo/AP Show More Show Less 3of 15
4of 15 Federal police officers arrive with recovered human remains believed to be of the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira of Brazil and freelance reporter Dom Phillips of Britain, at the Federal Police hangar in Brasília, Brazil, Thursday, June 16, 2022. A federal police investigator said a suspect confessed to fatally shooting Pereira and Phillips in a remote part of the Amazon and took officers to where the bodies were buried. Eraldo Peres/AP Show More Show Less
5of 15 A man stops to look at the carcass of a Bryde's whale that washed ashore in Panama Bay, near the Casco Viejo neighborhood of Panama City, Thursday, June 16, 2022. Arnulfo Franco/AP Show More Show Less 6of 15
7of 15 Paramedics run from no-man's-land and tear gas as demonstrators retreat during protests against the economic policies of the government of Guillermo Lasso near the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Dolores Ochoa/AP Show More Show Less
8of 15 A motorcyclist carries three young woman as he performs a wheelie on his motorbike during an exhibition in the Chapellin neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, June 12, 2022. Matias Delacroix/AP Show More Show Less 9of 15
10of 15 A group of golden lion tamarins is seen in a tree during an observation tour at a private partner property of the golden lion tamarin ecological park, in the Atlantic Forest region of Silva Jardim, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Thursday, June 16, 2022. The park is part of the golden lion tamarin association's effort for the conservation of the endangered species. Bruna Prado/AP Show More Show Less
11of 15 US singer and songwriter Laura Pergolizzi, known as LP, poses for a portrait in Mexico City, May 30, 2022. LP will take her tour to South America at the end of 2022. Berenice Bautista/AP Show More Show Less 12of 15
13of 15 A shaman performs a good luck ritual in front of a photo of Peru's national soccer team, on San Cristobal hill in Lima, Peru, Friday, June 10, 2022. The shamans called on Mother Earth to support the Andean nation in its play-off game against Australia on Monday, to seal one of the final spots in this year's World Cup in Qatar. Martin Mejia/AP Show More Show Less
14of 15 Skydivers practice in an indoor air tunnel in La Guaira, Venezuela, Thursday, June 16, 2022. According to site director Gian Carlo Trimarchi "This is the largest wind tunnel in Latin America and the most economical in the world." Matias Delacroix/AP Show More Show Less 15of 15
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This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was curated by AP Photo Editor Tomas Stargardter in Mexico City.
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City of Kyle trying to break world record at upcoming fair
KYLE, Texas (Gray News) – The City of Kyle is trying to break the record for the largest same-name gathering during the Kyle Fair A Tex-Travaganza next month.
This will be the city’s fourth attempt at breaking the Guinness World Record, currently held by Kupreski Kosci and Bosnia and Herzegovina with a total of 2,325 participants named Ivan set in July 2017.
“In order to break this record, we’re calling for any and all Kyles. We need tall Kyles, short Kyles, young Kyles and old Kyles to get close to the record set five years ago,” Special Events Manager Claudia Rocha said in a news release.
“We’re very excited about the upcoming, inaugural Kyle Fair and have high hopes that this event will bring out the Kyles needed to grab a spot in the record books.”
The gathering of the Kyles will take place at 4 p.m. May 21 at Lake Kyle Park. All eligible Kyles should sign in at the VIP tent, and a group photo will follow.
All Kyles who take part in the event will be given a free Kyle Fair T-shirt of their choice, according to the city.
There is no cost to participate. Entry into the Kyle Fair is free and includes live music performances.
The City of Kyle is located south of Austin and is home of the annual Pie in the Sky Hot Air Balloon festival.
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The 2023 Barracuda Championship Odds & Preview: Carson Young
Carson Young is in fifth place, at -6, after the first round of the Barracuda Championship at Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood).
Looking to bet on Carson Young at the Barracuda Championship this week? Read on for the betting odds and stats you need before you make your picks.
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Carson Young Insights
- Young has finished below par eight times and carded seven rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 13 rounds.
- He has recorded one of the 10 best scores of the day in three of his last 13 rounds.
- Young has carded a score within three shots of the day's best in two of his last 13 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day six times.
- Young has finished in the top five once in his past five tournaments.
- He has qualified for the weekend in three of his past five tournaments.
- In his past five events, Young has finished within three shots of the leader once and posted a score better than average twice.
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Barracuda Championship Insights and Stats
- Young finished fifth on the leaderboard in his previous appearance at this event, in 2023.
- Courses on the Tour in the past year have averaged 7,030 yards, a good bit shorter than the 7,480-yard length for this event.
- The average course Young has played in the past year has been 187 yards shorter than the 7,480 yards Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood) will be at for this event.
Young's Last Time Out
- Young finished in the seventh percentile on the eight par-3 holes at the John Deere Classic, with an average of 3.25 strokes.
- His 4.14-stroke average on the 22 par-4 holes at the John Deere Classic was poor, putting him in the 12th percentile of the field.
- Young was better than only 14% of the field at the John Deere Classic on the tournament's six par-5 holes, averaging 4.83 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.60.
- Young did not card a birdie on any of the eight par-3s at the John Deere Classic (the tournament average was 1.9).
- On the eight par-3s at the John Deere Classic, Young had two bogeys or worse (more than the tournament average of 1.6).
- Young had fewer birdies or better (five) than the tournament average of 6.4 on the 22 par-4s at the John Deere Classic.
- At that last competition, Young had a bogey or worse on five of 22 par-4s (the field averaged 4.8).
- Young finished the John Deere Classic with a birdie or better on three of six par-5s, fewer than the field average, 3.8.
- On the six par-5s at the John Deere Classic, Young recorded more bogeys or worse (one) than the tournament average (0.6).
Barracuda Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 20-23, 2023
- Course: Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood)
- Location: Truckee, California
- Par: 71 / 7,480 yards
- Young Odds to Win: +2000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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ATLANTA, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pye-Barker Fire & Safety – the largest full-service and fully integrated fire protection, life safety and security services provider in the United States – is pleased to announce its acquisition of Acadiana Security Plus, a leading security and fire alarm systems provider in Louisiana. Pye-Barker, which was named No. 9 on this year's SDM 100 Top Security Companies list, continues an impressive streak of acquisitive activity on its mission to becoming the nation's largest full-service partner for complete fire code compliance and life safety protection. With this addition, Pye-Barker enters its 37th state and extends its foothold in the commercial security and alarms space.
Acadiana Security Plus (ASP) – currently No. 43 on the SDM 100 list – offers security systems, access control, video verification, fire and burglar alarms, 24/7 monitoring and rapid emergency dispatch for commercial and government customers. The company was founded in 1997, growing from a 10-person team to over 85 employees today. From its headquarters in Lafayette, ASP's team of NICET-certified technicians and consultants monitor, service and install security and alarm systems throughout Southwest Louisiana.
"Over the past 25 years of service, Acadiana Security Plus has never wavered from our mission to put life safety first and help our neighbors feel secure and protected," said Paul Courts, President of ASP. "We look forward to continuing our service to our communities with the support of Pye-Barker."
"As a consistent player on the top half of the SDM 100 list, Acadiana Security Plus has a great reputation as a growing security and alarms provider with a culture that values both employees and customers," said Bart Proctor, CEO of Pye-Barker. "We're proud to welcome Acadiana to the Pye-Barker family and expand our services to the people of Louisiana."
ASP's team of highly skilled technicians will continue to serve customers in Louisiana.
Mark Sandler, Managing Director at SPP Advisors, LLC, represented Acadiana Security Plus in the transaction.
About Pye-Barker Fire & Safety
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety is the U.S. leader in fire protection, life safety and security systems. Founded in 1946, Pye-Barker is the largest private single-source provider of testing, maintenance and installation of fire detection systems, fire alarms, extinguishers, fire suppression and sprinkler systems, security and monitoring services for businesses nationwide. The company operates over 160 locations and puts significant focus on customer experience and training, competitive benefits and a caring work environment for its 5,000 team members.
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(801) 395-8738
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden rarely gives network interviews, and when he sat down in the MSNBC studio on Thursday, it came at an especially busy time, with the Supreme Court having just overturned the use of affirmative action in college admissions and in the aftermath of a revolt in Russia.
The nearly 20-minute conversation addressed those matters. But it also veered heavily into topics like criticism of the media and light-hearted discussion of the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who was a friend of Biden’s.
When Donald Trump was president, he was criticized for giving interviews to sympathetic media outlets where the questions were often soft and even fawning. Biden, meanwhile, has done far fewer formal interviews than his immediate predecessors. His last network interview was in early May and also on MSNBC.
This time, interviewer Nicolle Wallace, who was White House communications director under President George W. Bush and worked on McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, kicked things off by noting how unusual it was for a sitting president to appear in a network studio.
“The president of the United States is here. Really. At the table,” Wallace began, before telling Biden, “This is very exciting for us.” Biden responded, “It’s exciting for me.”
The president said the Supreme Court had “done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history,” pointing to its decision Thursday on affirmative action and its overturning of the constitutional right to abortion last summer.
“I just find it so out of sorts with the basic value system of the American people,” Biden said.
He said he did not support the idea of expanding the number of Supreme Court justices, as a number of progressives have urged him to do.
He also spoke about his reelection campaign, acknowledging, “I know the polling numbers are not good.” He noted that many polls once suggested he wouldn’t win the 2020 Democratic presidential primary or defeat Trump in that year’s general election, and they didn’t indicate that Democrats would have a stronger-than-expected showing in last year’s midterms.
The president then spoke at length about the media, saying, “This is not a criticism of the press. It’s an observation. There’s a lot to be worried about around the world, and talking to a lot of reporters, they tell me — I’m going to be careful what I say here — a number of reporters have indicated that there’s no editors anymore, on what they do.”
“Huh,” responded Wallace, as Biden continued that he’d been told by some reporters that they are under pressure to build their personal brands, finally concluding, “I just think there’s a lot changing.”
Wallace asked about the Russian revolt and what the U.S. knew. Biden responded, “We knew things ahead of time,” but said he couldn’t say what. Wallace followed up, “Did you worry that Trump might have tipped him off, had he still been president?” She was apparently asking whether Trump would have warned Russian President Vladimir Putin of the mercenary leader’s plans for the rebellion against Russia’s military leaders.
“Oh, God,” Biden said. “I don’t know. I don’t think about that very often.”
The president spoke a bit more about Russia’s war in Ukraine. Wallace eventually referenced McCain and asked, “What do you think he would think of his Republican Party?”
“I don’t think he’d think much of it,” Biden said, but quickly added, “I don’t know that.”
Wallace concluded by again noting the rarity of Biden’s in-studio appearance, adding, “Consider it your chair. Consider it an open invitation. There are going to be a lot of things on people’s minds, and I hope you’ll look at this as a place where you can come and talk about anything that’s on your mind.”
“Well, I will,” Biden said.
MSNBC declined to comment on the interview afterward.
Later Thursday, Biden attended New York fundraisers to collect donations for his reelection campaign. But the visit to New York, where MSNBC’s studio is located, was an official one — meaning taxpayers funded at least parts of it.
“It’s a mixed — mixed travel trip with official and political — political portions,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One on the way to New York.
Asked what the official part of the trip was, Jean-Pierre responded, “You all are always criticizing the president for not doing enough interviews — right?”
“He’s going to New York, and we took the opportunity to go in studio,” Jean-Pierre said. “It’s his first in-studio interview.”
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SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC
Sounders lose 2-1 as Sporting KC gets 1st win of season
May 7, 2023, 4:22 PM
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SEATTLE (AP) — Erik Thommy had a goal and an assist, Alan Pulido scored his first goal in nearly two years and Sporting Kansas City stunned the Western Conference-leading Seattle Sounders with a 2-1 victory on Sunday.
Sporting KC 2, Seattle Sounders 1: Summary
Sporting KC (1-7-3) picked up its first win of the season after entering play with just three points through its first 10 matches, equaling the worst start in league history. Sporting KC is also the first team with as many red cards (3) as goals through the first 10 matches.
Thommy provided an early spark for Sporting KC when he took passes from Gadi Kinda and Dániel Sallói in the 4th minute and scored for the first time this season. It was the first goal allowed by Stefan Frei and the Sounders in six home matches this season. Seattle tied a league record with five straight clean sheets at home to begin a season.
Thommy picked up an assist on a goal by Pulido in the 31st minute and Sporting KC took a 2-0 lead into halftime. It was Pulido’s first goal in league play since scoring in a 2-0 victory over FC Dallas on August 14, 2021. Pulido missed all of last season with a knee injury.
The lone goal for Seattle (6-3-2) came on a penalty kick by Nicolás Lodeiro in the 66th minute.
Got one back 😤@NicolasLodeiro drills home the penalty!#SEAvSKC | #Sounders pic.twitter.com/OKr8ioDXNM
— Seattle Sounders FC (@SoundersFC) May 7, 2023
Jordan Morris was held without a goal after scoring four times in the Sounders’ 4-1 road win over Sporting KC in March. Morris is tied for the league lead with eight goals this season, although he hasn’t found the net in six straight matches.
Both teams took 11 shots with Sporting KC holding a 5-3 edge in shots on goal.
Tim Melia finished with two saves for Sporting KC. Frei saved three shots for the Sounders.
The Sounders have only beaten Sporting KC in back-to-back matches once — a pair of 1-0 wins in the 2013-14 seasons.
Seattle travels to play the Houston Dynamo on Saturday. Sporting KC returns home to host Minnesota United on Saturday.
Last time: Seattle Sounders’ Frei has sixth shutout in draw with Real Salt Lake
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) _ Pan American Silver Corp. (PAAS) on Wednesday reported a loss of $71.5 million in its third quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based company said it had a loss of 34 cents. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 1 cent per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 6 cents per share.
The silver mining company posted revenue of $338.9 million in the period, missing Street forecasts. Eight analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $351.6 million.
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A Montgomery church is collecting gently used or new sneakers for area students.
Hutchinson Missionary Baptist Church is hosting its Sneaker Drive throughout the month of July. Donation times are Tuesday-Thursday from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. and on Sundays 9:45 a.m.
You can drop off your donation at 860 Grove Street Montgomery.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- South Carolina leveraged $990.3 million in federal highway and bridge formula funds in FY 2022 to help jumpstart 372 new improvement projects in communities across the state during the first year of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a review of U.S. Treasury Department data through September 30 shows.
"A key takeaway from the Treasury data is that the bipartisan infrastructure law is working in year-one as intended, with state transportation departments disbursing funds and projects breaking ground," said American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Chief Economist Dr. Alison Premo Black, who prepared the report.
"The economic and quality of life benefits of the infrastructure law will become even more apparent as funding continues in coming years," adds ARTBA Chair Paula Hammond, a WSP USA senior vice president. "The beneficiaries of these long-term investments will be the American traveling public in their communities."
President Joe Biden signed the IIJA into law Nov. 15, 2021. Nearly 90 percent of IIJA's highway funds are dispersed by existing formula to states, with the remainder distributed through discretionary grant awards and other allocated programs.
Nationally, over 29,000 IIJA projects were launched through the end of September. The five largest projects supported by formula funds in South Carolina are:
1. Phase 1 of the Carolina Crossroads I-20/26/126 Corridor Improvement Project - $145.5 million
2. I-20/I-26 Interchange and the Corridor Along I-26 from US 378 to US 176 and I-20 from Saluda River to Broad River - $90.0 million
3. Phase 2 of the Carolina Crossroads I-20/26/126 Corridor Improvement Project - $83.8 million
4. Widening of I-26 and Enhanced Pedestrian Facilities from Mile Marker 85 to 101 in Newberry, Richland & Lexington Counties - $68.1 million
5. Reconstruct the Pavement Structure of I-26 Eastbound and Westbound from MM 149-172 - $50.0 million
To access national and state project data, visit: artbahighwaydashboard.org.
Established in 1902, the Washington, D.C.-based ARTBA advocates for infrastructure investment and policy that meet the nation's need for safe and efficient travel.
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State Department plans to admit 125,000 refugees into U.S.
(CNN) - The United States Department of State wants to allow up to 125,000 refugees into the U.S. during the next fiscal year.
That’s the same goal as the last fiscal year, which wraps up at the end of this month.
The Biden administration has fallen short of that goal.
Fewer than 20,000 refugees have been admitted into the U.S. so far.
That’s largely blamed on limits placed on the program under the Trump administration.
The State Department says it has prioritized rebuilding the refugee admissions program.
Its recommendation for refugee numbers was sent to congressional committees for review.
The Biden administration also admitted thousands of Afghans and Ukrainians this year that are not counted as refugees.
That’s because other legal avenues were used to admit them into the U.S.
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You Voted: Best OL/DL in high school football is...?
We came up with our list of the top OL/DLs among the city/area high school football teams in search of the B.O.B. - the Best Of Battle Creek
We came up with our list of the top offensive/defensive linemen among the city/area high school football teams in search of the B.O.B. - the Best Of Battle Creek.
Then we asked you for your opinion in our Battle Creek Enquirer poll.
After all the votes were in, you have given us your answer.
According to the readers of the Enquirer, the B.O.B. — the Best Of Battle Creek among offensive/defensive linemen — is Drew Priddy of Olivet. Claude Wart of Tekonsha was second and Kai Williams of Athens was third in the voting.
Here is the winning bio:
Drew Priddy
School: Olivet
Class: Senior
Why he is on the list: A four-year starter for defending league champ Olivet, Drew Priddy is a two-time All-State selection. With Priddy leading the way, showcasing the kind of frame college scouts are looking for along with great athleticism for his size, the Eagles had more than 2,200 yards rushing and 35 touchdowns on the ground in 2021.
Return daily and vote early and often for who you think is the top player at each position in high school football.
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HAMILTON, Bermuda, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Höegh LNG Partners LP (NYSE: HMLP) (the "Partnership") announces the completion of its previously announced acquisition by Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. ("Höegh LNG"), pursuant to which Höegh LNG acquired all of the outstanding common units of the Partnership (the "Common Units") not already owned by Höegh LNG.
Each Common Unit, other than those owned by Höegh LNG, was automatically converted into the right to receive $9.25 per Common Unit in cash.
The Partnership's 8.75% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Units (the "Series A Preferred Units") will remain outstanding.
The Partnership also announces that it requested that trading of the Common Units on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") be suspended before the beginning of trading on September 26, 2022. The Partnership requested that the NYSE file a Form 25 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") notifying the SEC of the delisting of the Common Units on the NYSE and the deregistration of the Common Units. The deregistration will become effective 90 days after the filing of the Form 25 or such shorter period as may be determined by the SEC. The Partnership intends to suspend its reporting obligations with respect to the Common Units under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act"), by filing a Form 15 with the SEC within approximately 10 days. The Partnership's reporting obligations under the Exchange Act with respect to the outstanding Series A Preferred Units remain unchanged.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements." All statements, other than statements of historical facts, that address activities, events or developments that the Partnership expects, projects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. You are cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as the date of this press release. The Partnership undertakes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after this press release. These statements are based on current expectations of future events, are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond the Partnership's control and are difficult to predict. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from our expectations and projections. When considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements found in our filings with the SEC, which include, but are not limited to, those found in (i) the Partnership's Proxy Statement filed as Exhibit (a)(1) to Amendment No. 1 to the Rule 13e-3 Transaction Statement on Schedule 13E-3, filed with the SEC on August 25, 2022, (ii) the Partnership's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on April 25, 2022 and (iii) the Partnership's Report on Form 6-K for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, filed with the SEC on August 24, 2022.
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What are Alabama schools doing to improve school security?
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - We’re On Your Side asking questions about school security following several recent instances of guns at schools.
Just this week, a high school student at Brookwood in Tuscaloosa was arrested after being found with a gun, and a staff member discovered a gun carried by a student at Central Park Elementary School in Birmingham.
So, what are schools in Alabama doing to keep your students safe?
Schools across the state will tell you that they have safety procedures and protocols in place to keep students, faculty, and staff safe.
But school districts to our north are taking this a step further by installing sensors in schools to detect weapons.
Huntsville City Schools has installed Evolv Technology at several of its schools.
The technology is different from metal detectors. It uses cameras and artificial intelligence to scan bags and pockets to identify possible weapons like guns and knives.
So far, the district has spent nearly $2.9 million to install the technology.
According to the Alabama Department of Education’s Annual School Incident Report, the state saw a combined total of 649 firearm, handgun, or other weapon possessions in schools last year.
We reached out to several schools in our area including Birmingham City, Bessemer City, Hoover City, Shelby County, and Jefferson County Schools.
Right now, it doesn’t appear that any of these schools are opting to install the Evolv Technology.
But State Superintendent Dr. Eric Mackey said he supports the idea.
“Unfortunately, we’ve had two or three situations around the state this year where students have brought guns to school. We’re fortunate we’ve not had one discharged because we did have that a couple of years ago in a school. You know, it’s just it’s unfortunate when guns get into schools. Certainly, if a school says, ‘Hey, we have to change our procedures, our operations from day-to-day to make sure all our students are safe, we support the schools and those efforts,” Dr. Mackey said.
Dr. Mackey acknowledges that every school has different needs, which is why there is not a statewide protocol on safety that all schools must follow.
But he stressed the importance of parents and caregivers partnering with schools to keep weapons out of the hands of children.
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CASPER — Kelly Young Beckstead, 33, of Casper, WY, passed away on December 28, 2022, at his home. Gone too soon, he will be greatly missed.
Kelly was born in Salt Lake City, UT, to Sarah and Todd Beckstead on November 27, 1989. He went to high school at Kelly Walsh High School and graduated in 2008. He attended college at the University of Wyoming in Laramie and later completed an A.S. in general studies from Casper College in 2016. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, snowboarding, and spending time with his two children.
Kelly is survived by his children: Mayvee and Leo (Amelia McAfee); his parents; his brother, Riley Beckstead (Hendrix, Arlyn and Addison); his sister and brother-in-law, Ashley and Alex Bergeron (Robert, Nancy); his maternal grandparents, Nancy and Fred Gutierrez and his paternal grandmother, Gayle Beckstead. He is preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Jerry Beckstead.
Services will be held at Highland Park Community Church on January 13, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. followed by a celebration of life at Occasions by Cory at 5:00 p.m.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for RVNC, UBER, RBLX, ADTX, and ROKU.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
- RVNC: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=RVNC&prnumber=091620222
- UBER: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=UBER&prnumber=091620222
- RBLX: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=RBLX&prnumber=091620222
- ADTX: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=ADTX&prnumber=091620222
- ROKU: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=ROKU&prnumber=091620222
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InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
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Schickel has been recognized for his commitment to driving sustainability and eliminating waste in the
supply chain industry, and committing to becoming carbon neutral by 2040
DALLAS , Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omni Logistics, a technology-driven provider of global multimodal logistics solutions and specialized services, today announced that its Chief Executive Officer JJ Schickel has been awarded the Responsible CEO of the Year: Worldwide Impact award. JJ joins a list of former winners from companies including Southwest Airlines, Proctor & Gamble, Fifth Third Bank, and Owens Corning. The award recognizes CEOs who have taken an active role in aligning their organization's interests and purpose with their stakeholders and exemplify bold innovative leadership on ESG commitments.
"I am honored to accept this award on behalf of the entire Omni Logistics team," said JJ Schickel, CEO of Omni Logistics. "It is through their tireless efforts that Omni Logistics has emerged as a leading global logistics solutions provider. I am inspired by my team's commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact. It is our hope that we will inspire other organizations in our industry to build a more sustainable supply chain that reduces waste and inefficiency and protects the environment for future generations."
Under Mr. Schickel's leadership, Omni Logistics has made significant commitments to driving sustainability and eliminating waste in the supply chain. Omni Logistics was the first U.S.-based freight forwarder to sign The Climate Pledge, committing the company to becoming carbon neutral by 2040. To meet this commitment, Omni Logistics is taking bold steps including opening a new, 100% wind powered corporate headquarters in Dallas, TX. In addition, Omni Logistics provides its customers with visibility into the carbon footprint of their supply chain, empowering them to root out waste and inefficiency and achieve their own sustainability goals.
Mr. Schickel is committed to creating an inclusive environment that welcomes and values the differences among all of Omni Logistics' employees, customers, vendors, and the communities in which they live and work. Through this inclusive approach, 37% of Omni Logistics' U.S. workforce is female, compared to the industry average of 25%, with an emphasis on increasing the numbers annually as the company continues to grow.
2022 marks the 14th edition of the Responsible CEO of the Year Awards.
About Omni Logistics
Omni Logistics is a privately-owned, multibillion-dollar global logistics solutions provider with 4,500 employees in more than 100 locations serving the complex supply chain needs of nearly 7,000 customers. In addition to providing traditional freight services, Omni Logistics goes beyond global freight transport to provide customized, end-to-end supply chain solutions based on specific customer challenges and the unique characteristics of a customer's freight. Leveraging technology, proprietary data, analytics and automation, Omni Logistics removes supply chain inefficiencies and provides cost-effective solutions for customers. As a signatory of The Climate Pledge, Omni Logistics is committed to creating supply chain visibility and eliminating waste in order to provide more sustainable transportation solutions.
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LONDON (AP) — The leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party was under investigation Monday by a parliamentary official over potential violations of rules on earnings and gifts.
According to Parliament's website, Keir Starmer is being investigated by Kathryn Stone, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, over whether he broke two sections of lawmakers' code of conduct on registering interests.
A spokesman for Starmer said the politician “takes his declaration responsibilities very seriously” and that “administrative errors in his office have led to a small number of late declarations.”
Asked about the claims on Monday, Starmer told reporters that he was “absolutely confident” he has done nothing wrong.
“My office is dealing with it and will be replying in due course," he said.
The rules state that lawmakers must register payments of more than 100 pounds ($122) they receive for work outside Parliament. They must also register benefits like gifts worth more than 300 pounds.
Starmer has also faced pressure after a local police force said it would investigate allegations that he broke COVID-19 restrictions when he had a beer and food with colleagues in April 2021.
Starmer said last month that the meal was part of a workday and broke no rules, but said he will resign if he is fined by police.
Britain's ruling Conservatives have accused Starmer of hypocrisy because he has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign over lockdown-breaching parties in government offices.
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14-year-old dies after getting stuck in sand hole
Published: Apr. 4, 2023 at 6:31 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
KELLOGG, Minn. (KTTC/Gray News) – A teenager was killed after getting stuck in a sand hole in Minnesota last week.
According to the Wabasha County Sheriff’s Office, someone called 911 around 5:30 p.m. on March 28 to report that a 14-year-old was stuck in a sand hole and covered in sand.
Deputies responded and immediately started life-saving measures on the teen. He was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
The 14-year-old died from his injuries on April 3, according to the sheriff’s office.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Back when 2022 started, Kristina Kadashevych surely could not have envisioned ending the year in Richmond, performing as the Sugar Plum Fairy (and two other roles) in Richmond Ballet’s annual holiday extravaganza, “The Nutcracker.”
But then, the Ukrainian ballerina never could have imagined the year would turn out the way it has.
Kadashevych arrived for our interview in a second-floor studio at Richmond Ballet dressed in a leotard, leggings and soft, puffy booties to keep her feet toasty. She started off, apologizing in advance for her English. “My English is not perfect,” she said — but it was really good — and then she told her story.
Last February, on the day before she was supposed to fly to Paris to join the Kyiv City Ballet for a tour as a guest principal dancer, Russian troops invaded Ukraine. Instead of boarding a plane for Paris, Kadashevych, her 2-year-old son and her parents had to flee their home in Kharkiv, in the eastern part of Ukraine; crowd onto a train; and evacuate to the presumed safer western reaches of the country.
“It was dangerous,” she said, “and we were scared.”
What did they take with them?
“Just kid stuff,” she said with a smile, “and kid. That’s all.”
More soberingly, she recalled, how difficult it was to leave home, not knowing when they would be able to return.
“You don’t know where you’re going. You have nothing. It’s a strange feeling.”
They eventually took refuge at the home of another ballet dancer, and Kadashevych, 33, made the difficult decision to leave her family and go ahead and join the ballet company in Paris.
“I needed to work because I have no practice,” she said. “I was just sitting and losing my profession.”
I recalled what artistic director Stoner Winslett told me recently, explaining why Richmond Ballet dancers went to great lengths to keep dancing through the pandemic.
“Dancers are like Olympic athletes; if you lie around your apartment and don’t train, you lose your skill,” she said.
Kadashevych has been dancing since she was 9 and professionally for the past 15 years. She never considered another line of work, saying dance brought her interesting experiences, extensive travel and unmatched joy. “Ballet gives you everything.”
She left her family, thinking she would return soon. A month or two. It didn’t work out that way as the war raged on.
“Everything is so — how to explain — you cannot plan anything.”
Kadashevych and the Kyiv City Ballet went on a tour — France, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom and later the United States — and were warmly greeted everywhere they went.
“In Europe, our performances were like a charity to help Ukraine,” she said. “Often, a lot of refugees from Ukraine came to those performances, so we felt we were doing important things and helping our country the way we can.
“Here in the U.S., we also have found huge support all over. Here, I also feel that everybody cares about me a lot, and I appreciate that.”
In between the tours, she went home to Ukraine for a month over the summer to visit her son, who will turn 4 in March. Lev is his name. “It means lion,” she said.
“It was a very happy time,” she said. “I remember the moment when I come. It was early morning, and my son was sleeping, and I just lay next to him and waited until he woke up, and he could not believe it. ‘Really, Mommy, really?!’ He was so happy.”
So, how did Richmond happen?
She shares a common acquaintance with Igor Antonov, another native Ukrainian who was a longtime dancer with Richmond Ballet and now is an artistic associate with the company and director of Richmond Ballet II. He texted Kadashevych and asked if she’d like to join Richmond Ballet on a temporary basis. Her answer: yes.
“It was unexpected and very interesting for me,” said Kadashevych, who came to Richmond while the rest of the Kyiv company returned to Europe.
Kadashevych is temporarily replacing a Richmond Ballet dancer on maternity leave. Winslett said “bringing a ballerina here who is unable to currently dance in her home country would be another way that our organization could further” the ballet’s mission “to awaken, uplift and unite human spirits through the power of dance.”
Kadashevych will remain with the company through February and also will perform in “Firebird with Serenade,” Feb. 17-19.
For “The Nutcracker” at the Carpenter Theatre at Dominion Energy Center, Kadashevych danced the roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Snow Queen and Mrs. Silberhaus, though not all in the same performances. Kadashevych said she has danced in several versions of “Nutcracker,” but never one quite like Richmond’s — “It’s absolutely different, so it’s a new ‘Nutcracker’ for me,” she said — and never three roles in one production.
“For me, it’s unusual … but it’s interesting to try everything because all roles are interesting and beautiful, and I really want to dance them all,” she said. “It’s a challenge, but it’s a good challenge.”
And as for being in Richmond, she said, “I love it. I really love it. The city and the company, as well, because they have really nice dancers, as professionals and as humans. So, I enjoy being here.”
The future? She does not know. She hopes to return to Ukraine soon, perhaps after Christmas, for a short visit. Beyond that, she’s not certain of much of anything, including if the situation will be better at home sooner rather than later.
“We all hope that it will,” she said, “but I’m not sure.”
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BIRCH RUN, MI—If you’re a Ford fanatic or a fan of muscle cars, you’ll want to mark your calendars and prep for a trip to the Birch Run Premium Outlets.
The Mustang Club of Mid-Michigan has announced this year’s Great Lakes Stampede- the all-Ford & Mustang car show.
The Frankenmuth-based club shared that the event will be held Saturday, May 20, at the Birch Run Premium Outlets southeastern parking lot, 12240 S. Beyer Rd.
According to a release by the club, the show is open to all Ford brand products and Ford-powered vehicles.
That includes Ford-bodied hot rods with Ford power, as well as Ford brand muscle cars and antique Ford cars and trucks.
In its 28th rendition, this year’s car show also coincides with the club’s 30th anniversary and Armed Forces Day- so Navel cadets will be on hand for start-up events and to choose their Cadet Award from the entries.
The car show runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with registration from 9-11 a.m. Registration fees are $15 per display vehicle or $20 per judged vehicle with awards granted at 3 p.m. Spectators can enter the event free of charge.
Judged classes are offered for all Mustang, Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, Cobra and Shelby (by Ford) products from model years 1903 to 2023.
Unique trophies will be awarded for “class” and “best of” winners, as well as something new to the show this year: a club-exclusive “Award of Excellence Grille Medallion” program, according to the release.
Attendees that have won three “class” or “best of” awards with the same owner and vehicle over a period of up to eight years are eligible to apply for the new award.
The release shared that proceeds raised at the event will support The Fallen and Wounded Soldiers Fund, a Michigan-based charity aimed at helping Michigan veterans and their families with financial support. Past events have seen the club donate roughly $50,000 to charities, with $3,200.00 donated in 2022.
According to the release, the Mustang Club of Mid-Michigan was established as a non-profit in 1993 to foster and promote interest in the Ford Brand- specifically, the Ford Mustang. The club covers the mid-Michigan and Thumb areas and is a Mustang Club of America regional affiliate, the release states.
To register for the event online, click here.
For more information on the Mustang Club of Mid Michigan, visit their website at mustangclubmidmichigan.com or email mustangclubmmi@charter.net
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Four people were killed, including a local law enforcement official, in a shooting Thursday at an apartment complex in southern Arizona, officials said.
Police in Tucson identified one of the victims as Pima County Constable Deborah Martinez-Garibay and another as a employee of the apartment complex, KVOA-TV reported.
Martinez-Garibay was serving an eviction notice at the complex at the time of the shooting, but additional details were still unknown, KGUN-TV reported.
Pima County Board of Supervisors Chair Sharon Bronson extended sympathies on behalf of of the county to Martinez-Garibay's family, friends and colleagues.
“I am heartbroken at this terrible tragedy and I will keep Constable Martinez and all who knew and loved her in my thoughts,” she said in a statement.
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Diana K. Johnson, 67
Published 1:04 pm Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Diana K. Johnson, age 67, of Brownsdale, Minnesota, passed away on Sunday, May 29, 2022, at her home. Diana Kay Johnson was born in Austin, Minnesota, to Harold and Eleanor (Sheely) Johnson on August 27, 1954. She graduated from Hayfield High School in 1972. Diana then went on to attend Rochester Vocational Technical College, where she received her clerical certificate and later became a CNA. In 1976, she married Randy Odegaard in Forest City, Iowa. The couple shared 13 years and were blessed with 2 children. Diana shared the companionship of Everett Rush for over 33 years. Diana worked various jobs over the years including as a childcare provider, CNA at St. Mark’s Living, then for Hormel/Xerox in the mailroom for 19 years, retiring in May of 2019. Diana was voted leader of TOPS after losing 60 pounds and belonged to the RED HATS where she was even “Queen Bee” for a while. Diana cherished family time and her granddaughter, Alexis brought her great joy. She loved all the holidays and decorating for them, especially Christmas. She also loved 4th of July parades, Halloween and taking her kids trick or treating and making their costumes. Her hobbies included shopping, baking, playing Bingo, casino/road trips, eating out, and garage sales. Diana also enjoyed hosting many family gatherings and organizing games for them. Diana was loved dearly by all her family and friends and will be greatly missed.
Survivors include her mother, Eleanor Johnson of Austin, Minnesota; daughter, Amber (Oumar) Fofana of Rochester, Minnesota; son, Michael Odegaard of Austin, Minnesota; granddaughter, Alexis; two brothers, Jim (Lynn) Johnson and Curtis Johnson; two sisters, Cheryl (Jim) Wolfgram and Julie (Loren) Theel; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her father, Harold Johnson.
A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 4, 2022, at Worlein Funeral Home Chapel in Austin. Visitation will take place from 9:00-11:00 a.m. prior to the service. Memorials are preferred to Cure HHT – P.O. Box 329, Monkton, MD 21111. Services are prearranged and performed by Worlein Funeral Home of Austin. Condolences may be expressed to the family online at www.worlein.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley repeated her call Thursday to rewrite the rules of global development banks to relieve the debts of middle and lower income countries and increase funding for climate adaptation.
“It cannot be easier for a young person to get a 30 year mortgage than for our country to get development funds to save the people and to save the planet,” said Mottley, who has championed an agenda to reform the global banks that have provided funding to less wealthy countries since the end of World War II.
The actor Hugh Jackman joined her and the cofounder and CEO of the nonprofit Global Citizen, Hugh Evans, at the opening of the Global Citizen NOW summit in New York, which brings together politicians, business and philanthropic leaders and celebrities to try to channel the support of individuals from around the world toward change.
“There is a $16 billion funding gap that the world’s wealthiest nations promised to the world’s poorest nations but haven’t delivered,” said Evans. “That creates a trust deficit. If you don’t have trust you don’t make progress.”
He was referring to a 2009 pledge to provide $100 billion in financing by 2020 to help developing countries adapt to global warming and mitigate further rises in temperature. In 2023, those wealthiest nations have still not delivered the full amount.
Global Citizen’s new campaign, Power Our Planet, essentially backs Mottley’s proposal in a move seeking to bring the reform of global banks and climate financing to the broadest audience, asking individuals to sign onto their call.
“We call on world leaders and financial institutions to prioritize the urgent need for global financial reform to power our planet and create a more just, equitable, and sustainable world,” the petition reads.
Mottley’s plan, which has been endorsed by French President Emmanuel Macron, seeks to lower the interest rates for loans provided to countries and increase the amount of funds available to invest in climate adaption initiatives and the transition to cleaner energy sources.
“There’s no one else who created a technical consensus about how to reform the Bretton Woods institutions to generate hundreds of millions of dollars of public finance for these countries at a time when it’s desperately needed,” Dr. Rajiv Shah, president of The Rockefeller Foundation, who is championing Mottley’s efforts, told The Associated Press.
Global Citizen is the organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty best known for its star-studded concerts in Central Park and last year in Accra, Ghana. It urges individuals from around the world to engage with its concerts, events and mobile application and seeks to channel that participation to pressure politician leaders to end poverty, respond to climate change and other issues around inequality.
On Global Citizen’s mobile app, people can take quizzes, sign petitions or send out social media posts.
Dr. Dan Stein, founder of Giving Green, which publishes research and recommendations about climate change projects, said he supports the goals of Global Citizen’s campaign but had reservations about its potential effectiveness.
“I would challenge people to go further than tweeting, emailing and petitioning,” he said, adding that his organization’s research, “supports the idea that one of the most powerful levers that individuals can pull is to contribute to advocacy organizations.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada also appeared at the summit to champion an announcement from his government Thursday of renewed funding for grassroots organizations that advocate and promote gender equality around the world.
Erin Kiley, Oxfam Canada’s Director of International Programming and Development, welcomed the Canadian government’s pledge of $195 million over five years in multiyear, unrestricted funding for grassroots organizations.
“This is particularly important at a time when we are seeing women’s rights and activists being targeted,” she said.
Speaking of challenges to abortion access in the United States, Trudeau said that advocates cannot take access to reproductive health care for granted and said men must participate more, urging fathers to speak with their sons.
“Having those difficult conversations now about women’s rights, about equality…” Trudeau said. “This is something that men have to be better about.”
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sunday, June 5, 2022, Jason T. Smith was called to become Pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, in Newport Beach, CA. After an 11-month nation-wide search process, the nine-member St. Andrew's Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC) evaluated well over 100 candidates, and unanimously presented Jason T. Smith to the congregation as their selected candidate. After Jason delivered his candidate sermon Sunday morning, a congregational meeting took place and members of the church overwhelmingly voted in favor to call Jason as their new Pastor. Jason T. Smith succeeds Gary J. Watkins, who has served as Transitional Pastor since Chap Clark's retirement from St. Andrew's last fall.
Jason T. Smith comes to St. Andrew's after spending 15 years pastoring the congregation of Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. There, he served as a Life Groups Director, Campus Pastor, and Lead Pastor of Direction, and helped develop two church plants and facilitated the leadership teams for six Forest Hill campuses.
Regarding the experience Sunday and the call to St. Andrew's, Jason felt "overwhelmed and overjoyed." He continued, "Today was amazing. This congregation has been one of the most welcoming, gracious, warm places I've ever seen." With a rich, 75-year history, St. Andrew's is known for its hospitality as the Smith family experienced. The church campus is located between two neighborhoods, Ensign Intermediate School and Newport Harbor High School, and many students, families, and individuals of all ages step foot onto the campus to enjoy community and life with one another on a daily basis.
Jason, Jessica, and their three daughters—Savannah, Eden, and Charlotte—look forward to building a new life in Southern California. Jason is excited about two things in particular, "I think what I'm most excited about," he says, "is finding where God has been working through St. Andrew's in the community. You can see evidence of it, and you can see how poised this church is. Getting to discern that together is beyond exciting to Jessica and me." Anticipating a significant change in weather and culture, the second exciting factor for Jason is, "learning how to be a Californian!"
Gary J. Watkins, Transitional Pastor at St. Andrew's, states, "I'm excited for St. Andrew's. God has called Jason, a man with a pastor's heart who loves Jesus, with great experience, to lead the church into the future." In a video message sent to the St. Andrew's congregation and community, Jason says in regards to his start date, "We should be joining you in a couple months, and we're so looking forward to it. We will be praying for you, and ask you to pray for us. We can't wait to start out this very next chapter with you."
For more information on Jason T. Smith and St. Andrew's, visit www.sapres.org, or contact Jon Batarse, 949.574.2291.
St. Andrew's has been in the Newport Beach community for 75 years. St. Andrew's is located at 600 St. Andrews Road, Newport Beach, CA 92663. www.sapres.org 949.574.2291.
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CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — A widening manhunt for a Texas gunman who fatally shot five neighbors continued coming up empty Sunday as officers knocked on doors, the governor put up $50,000 in reward money and the FBI appeared no closer to catching the killer after nearly two days of searching with a team that has grown to hundreds of people.
“I can tell you right now, we have zero leads,” James Smith, the FBI special agent in charge, told reporters while again asking the public for tips in the rural town of Cleveland, where the shooting took place just before midnight Friday.
The search for the gunman near Houston has grown in scale: Authorities said that by Sunday evening more than 200 police from multiple jurisdictions were searching for Francisco Oropeza, many of them going door to door in hopes of any clues that would lead to the 38-year-old suspect. Local officials and the FBI also chipped in reward money, bringing the total to $80,000 for any information about Oropeza’s whereabouts.
Oropeza is considered armed and dangerous after fleeing the area Friday night, likely on foot. San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said authorities had widened the search area beyond the scene of the shooting, which occurred after the suspect’s neighbors asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard late at night because a baby was trying to sleep.
At a Sunday vigil in Cleveland, Wilson Garcia, the father of the 1-month-old, described the terrifying efforts inside his home by friends and family that night to escape, hide and shield themselves and children after Oropeza walked up to the home and began firing, killing his wife first at the front door.
Another of Garcia’s children, 9-year-old Daniel Enrique Laso, was also killed. Garcia said he and two other people had gone to “respectfully” ask Oropeza to shoot his gun farther away from the house, which is on a street where residents say it is not uncommon for neighbors to unwind by firing off guns.
Garcia said he walked away and called the police when Oropeza refused. It was 10 to 20 minutes later when he said he saw Oropeza loading his AR-style rifle while running toward the house.
“I told my wife, ‘Get inside. This man has loaded his weapon,’” Garcia said. “My wife told me to go inside because, ‘He won’t fire at me. I’m a woman.’”
Authorities have said at least five other people who were in the house at the time were uninjured.
During the early hours of the search, investigators found clothes and a phone while combing an area that includes dense layers of forest, but tracking dogs lost the scent, Capers said.
Authorities were able to identify Oropeza by an identity card issued by Mexican authorities to citizens who reside outside the country, as well as the doorbell camera footage. He said police have also interviewed the suspect’s wife multiple times.
Police recovered the AR-15-style rifle that they said Oropeza used in the shootings. Authorities were not sure if Oropeza was carrying another weapon after others were found in his home.
Capers said he hoped the reward money would motivate people to provide information and that there were plans to put up billboards in Spanish to spread the word.
“We’re looking for closure for this family,” Capers said.
By Sunday, police crime scene tape was removed from around the victims’ home, where some people stopped by to leave flowers.
In the neighborhood, an FBI agent, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and other officers were seen going door to door.One trooper stopped a red truck and asked to look inside before letting the driver continue on his way.
Veronica Pineda, 34, who lives across the street from the suspect’s home, said authorities asked if they could search her property to see if he might be hiding there. She said she was fearful that the gunman had not yet been captured.
“It is kind of scary,” she said. “You never know where he can be.”
Pineda said she didn’t know Oropeza well but occasionally saw him, his wife and son ride their horses on the street. She said the family had lived there about five or six years and that neighbors have called authorities in the past to complain about people firing guns.
The victims were between the ages of 9 and 31 years old and all were believed to have been shot from the neck up, according to authorities. All were believed to be from Hondurus.
Enrique Reina, Honduras’ secretary of foreign affairs and international cooperation, said on Twitter that the Honduran Consulate in Houston was contacting the families in connection with the repatriation of remains as well as U.S. authorities to keep apprised of the investigation.
The FBI in Houston said in a tweet on Sunday that it was referring to the suspect as Oropesa, not Oropeza, to “better reflect his identity in law enforcement systems.” His family lists their name as Oropeza on a sign outside their yard, as well as in public records. Authorities had also previously stated that Garcia’s son was 8 years old, but the father and school officials said Sunday that the third grader was 9.
A total of three children found covered in blood in the home were taken to a hospital but found to be uninjured, Capers said. He said they were staying with family members.
FBI spokesperson Christina Garza said investigators do not believe those at the home were members of a single family. In addition to the young boy, the other victims were identified as Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; and Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18.
Garcia said they had called police five times between the time they asked Oropeza to shoot farther away and when the gunman entered their home. Capers said police got there as fast as they could and that he had three officers covering 700 square miles (1,800 square kilometers).
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A previous version of this story, based on information from the FBI, incorrectly stated the age of Daniel Enrique Laso as 8 years old. His father said the boy was 9 years old.
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Associated Press Writer Susan Haigh in Norwich, Connecticut, contributed to this report.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
3-9-5
(three, nine, five)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
3-9-5
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WALTHAM, Mass., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNDX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies, today announced that on March 1, 2023 the Company granted an inducement award to purchase up to 15,200 shares of common stock to one new employee under the Company's 2023 Inducement Plan. The stock option has an exercise price per share of $24.86, the closing price of the Company's common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on March 1, 2023 and will vest over four years, with 25% of the underlying shares vesting on the one-year anniversary of the vesting commencement date and 1/48th of the underlying shares vesting monthly thereafter over 36 months, subject to the employee's continued service relationship with Syndax through the applicable vesting dates.
About Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies. Highlights of the Company's pipeline include revumenib, a highly selective inhibitor of the Menin–KMT2A binding interaction, and axatilimab, a monoclonal antibody that blocks the colony stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1) receptor, both currently in pivotal trials. For more information, please visit www.syndax.com or follow the Company on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Syndax Contact
Sharon Klahre
Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
sklahre@syndax.com
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advancing into leadership or even the executive ranks of an organization can be challenging. To help more people achieve and succeed in these vital roles, the KU School of Professional Studies has launched an online Graduate Certificate in Professional Management. The program focuses on in-demand leadership and management skills. The curriculum covers subjects including interpersonal communication, project management, financial management, and team leadership.
Stuart Day, dean of the KU Edwards Campus and School of Professional Studies, said the professional management graduate certificate program provides useful workplace skills that complement students' and working professionals' industry knowledge.
"Right now, there's an increased demand for leaders who can combine their technical and functional skillsets with executive-level leadership abilities, strong written and spoken communication, and project and financial management abilities," Day said. "This certificate's curriculum helps students develop into stronger leaders with a competitive professional advantage."
The 12 credit-hour graduate certificate is conducted completely online, allowing students to easily pursue their studies from wherever is most convenient for them and quickly earn a recognized credential. The program is offered through KU's School of Professional Studies, which is headquartered at the Edwards Campus in Overland Park, Kansas.
"It's important to reach our students where they are," Day said. "This program's online curriculum lets students complete coursework from anywhere, on a schedule that fits their needs."
Day said the professional management graduate certificate program continues the campus's commitment to serving the workforce needs of the Kansas City region.
"This certificate helps students and working professionals develop the multidisciplinary skills they need to succeed in today's workforce, across a variety of industries," Day said. "We're proud we can offer this opportunity to help prepare the next generation of leaders."
The University of Kansas is a major comprehensive research and teaching university. Its mission is to lift students and society by educating leaders, building healthy communities, and making discoveries that change the world. The KU Edwards Campus at 127th Street and Quivira Road in Overland Park brings high-quality academic, professional, and continuing education programs, as well as the research and public-service benefits of KU, to the greater Kansas City community in order to serve the workforce, economic, and community development needs of the region.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System officials said Tuesday that they will restrict the use of TikTok on system devices.
System spokesman Mark Pitsch told The Associated Press about the move in an email. He didn’t explain whether the system was banning the app or limiting its use to only certain situations. He didn’t immediately respond to follow-up inquiries seeking more details.
Nearly half of the states nationwide have blocked the popular social media app owned by a Chinese company. Earlier this month, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers banned the use of TikTok on Wisconsin state phones and other devices, citing potential risks to privacy, safety and security.
The order didn’t apply to the UW System, which employs 40,000 faculty and staff, because it isn’t an executive branch agency. UW-Madison, the system’s flagship school, has multiple TikTok accounts, including one for the women’s volleyball team. Universities often use TikTok accounts as a recruiting tool to connect with high school students.
TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company that moved its headquarters to Singapore in 2020. It has been targeted by critics who say the Chinese government could access user data, such as browsing history and location. U.S. armed forces also have prohibited the app on military devices.
TikTok is consumed by two-thirds of American teens and has become the second-most popular domain in the world. But there has long been bipartisan concern in Washington that Beijing would use legal and regulatory power to seize American user data or try to push pro-China narratives or misinformation.
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Investigators: Firm that cleans meat plants employed minors
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Wisconsin company that cleans hundreds of meatpacking plants nationwide is defending itself against allegations that it employed more than two dozen minors working overnight shifts cleaning massive saws, grinding machines and other dangerous processing equipment at three slaughterhouses.
Labor Department officials said in court documents that they believe Packers Sanitation Services Inc. might be employing underage workers at other plants but investigators have only just starting reviewing thousands of pages of employee records at plants besides the ones in Nebraska and Minnesota where they confirmed teenagers were working through the middle of the night sanitizing slaughterhouses before heading back to high school in the morning.
A federal judge in Lincoln, Nebraska, already issued a temporary order prohibiting the company from employing minors and interfering in the Labor Department’s investigation. The company will argue at a court hearing next month that there’s no reason for a judge to make that order permanent because PSSI officials say they are cooperating with the investigation and they already prohibit hiring anyone younger than 18.
On Monday, a judge ordered the government to give the company a few more details about its investigation ahead of next month’s hearing. The company says it employs some 17,000 people working at more than 700 locations nationwide, making it one of the largest firms out there that cleans food processing plants.
PSSI Vice President of Marketing Gina Swenson said the company “has an absolute company-wide prohibition against the employment of anyone under the age of 18 and zero tolerance for any violation of that policy — period.”
Swenson also said corporate officials have been cooperating with the investigation. But according to court documents, the Labor Department says local managers “attempted to obstruct employee interviews” at JBS plants in Grand Island, Nebraska, and Worthington, Minnesota, as well as at a Turkey Valley Farms plant in Marshall, Minnesota. Investigators said they also saw managers deleting WhatsApp messages and computer files.
In one instance, investigators said they found text messages a manager at the Worthington plant sent to prospective employees who were discussing using false identification documents to secure a job with PSSI.
Investigators say they have been able to confirm that at least 31 children as young as 13 have been working for PSSI by talking to them and comparing timeclock photos and employment data with pictures and information in local school records.
Officials at JBS and Turkey Valley Farms say they are monitoring the situation with PSSI and will consider taking action against the company based on the outcome of the investigation.
“We take seriously the allegations against PSSI, which, if true, represent a clear violation of our ethical policies,” Michael Koenig, JBS’s chief ethics and compliance officer, said in a statement. He said JBS is taking steps to verify the status of all the sanitation workers at its plants and the company won’t tolerate child labor.
In addition to the Nebraska and Minnesota plants, investigators also seized records from a Tyson Foods plant in Sedalia, Missouri, but they didn’t identify any workers from there as minors in the court documents.
Tyson spokesman Derek Burleson said the company is aware of the allegations against PSSI and is cooperating with investigators. Burleson said Tyson expects its suppliers to follow the same labor laws it does to make sure minors aren’t being hired, and it is working with them to ensure that is the case.
The underage workers that investigators confirmed included one 13-year-old who suffered a serious chemical burn from the caustic chemicals used to clean the JBS plant in Grand Island every night.
Investigators said in court documents that some of the teens they found working for PSSI told them that “everyone there knew” that they were minors, and in one case, a search of a government database showed that one employee’s age came up as 129-years-old when their Social Security number was checked.
PSSI asked the court to order investigators to share more details about that case and identify the children it found to help it ensure that “rogue individuals” aren’t finding ways to circumvent the company’s efforts to avoid hiring people under age 18.
But the judge only ordered limited information to be released after the Labor Department argued that PSSI already has all the information it needs to identify any minors in its own company documents.
“It is not the Secretary’s responsibility to teach defendants how to search their own documents to find the minor children they employ. Further, PSSI need only consult their own managers working on the ground at these establishments to conduct their own due diligence,” the Labor Department said in court documents.
The company and investigators are due in court on Dec. 7 to argue about whether a federal judge should issue a preliminary injunction in the case.
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BOSTON (AP) — Red Sox right-handed reliever John Schreiber walked off the mound with a 2-2 count against Julio Rodríguez in the seventh inning of Monday night's game against the Seattle Mariners.
Boston said Schreiber had right lat tightness.
After Schreiber threw a strike to even the count at 2-2, manager Alex Cora and a trainer came out of Boston's dugout.
Cora and the trainer both were talking with Schreiber, who had his glove covering his mouth. The righty then walked off with the trainer and Richard Bleier was brought into the game.
Bleier struck Rodríguez out with the first pitch.
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Brazil’s Congress has stripped powers away from the country's new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, both led by women environmentalists. It's a rejection of the priorities of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took office in January,
The move shows the increasing power of Brazil’s so-called "beef caucus," shorthand for cattle businesses and other large-scale agriculture that together control the majority of both legislative chambers in the country.
SOUTH AMERICAN LEADERS GATHER IN BRAZIL'S CAPITAL TO DISCUSS ENERGY, CRIME-FIGHTING, ECONOMY
Objecting to what he called "constraints on agribusiness that could harm exports," Senator Carlos Viana said during the voting session on Thursday that "The main points (of the caucus) have been addressed."
The changes prevent the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, led by Sonia Guajajara, from legalizing the boundaries of any new Indigenous territories and keep the Ministry of Environment, run by Marina Silva, from managing a national property registry that's a key tool for monitoring illegal deforestation. These and other authorities will be transferred to other federal government branches.
BRAZIL BUILDS CARBON DIOXIDE EMITTING TOWERS IN AMAZON TO SIMULATE CLIMATE CHANGE
The beef caucus opposes the legalization of more Indigenous lands. It also opposes measures to control deforestation, which rose sharply under the last administration of Jair Bolsonaro.
Critics argue that the leftist leader Lula did not try hard enough to avert the action in Congress. Last week, the president dismissed that criticism saying that "we shouldn't be scared of politics." Allies of the president also argue that he retains ultimate authority over the environment and Indigenous affairs.
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- 68% of patients receiving Kymriah in the ELARA trial experienced complete response, with an 86% overall response rate, along with a remarkable safety profile1
- Sustained clinical benefit from Kymriah treatment demonstrated – of patients who achieved a complete response, 85% were still in response at 12 months1
- Kymriah can be administered in the outpatient setting, offering increased flexibility and potentially reducing the burden of therapy for patients and their care teams1,2
- Kymriah is now FDA approved in three indications and remains the only CAR-T cell therapy approved in both adult and pediatric settings1
EAST HANOVER, N.J., May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novartis today announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval for Kymriah® (tisagenlecleucel) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (r/r) follicular lymphoma (FL) after two or more lines of systemic therapy. In accordance with the Accelerated Approval Program, continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in confirmatory trial(s). Kymriah is now FDA approved in three indications and remains the only CAR-T cell therapy approved in both adult and pediatric settings1.
"We are proud of today's FDA approval of a third indication for Kymriah. We hope this treatment option that has the potential for long-lasting results may help break the unrelenting cycle of treatment for patients with follicular lymphoma," said Victor Bulto, President, Novartis Innovative Medicines US. "We are on a mission to build on our pioneering work in cell therapy and continue to innovate for patient impact."
The approval is based on data from the Phase II ELARA trial, a single-arm, open-label trial, in which 90 patients were evaluated for efficacy with a median follow-up of approximately 17 months. Eighty-six percent of patients treated with Kymriah achieved a response including 68% who experienced a complete response1.
Prolonged durable response to treatment was demonstrated with an estimated 85% of patients who achieved a complete response still in response 12 months after initial response1. Kymriah was shown to be effective in high-risk patients including those who were heavily pretreated or had refractory disease, POD24, bulky disease or those with high Follicular Lymphoma International Prognostic Index (FLIPI) scores1.
For the 97 patients evaluable for safety at 21 months of median follow-up, the safety profile of Kymriah was remarkable1. Fifty-three percent of patients experienced any-grade cytokine release syndrome (CRS), as defined by the Lee scale, and there were no reported cases of high-grade (grade 3 or higher) CRS1. Forty-three percent of patients experienced any-grade neurologic events; grade 3 or higher neurologic events were seen in only 6% of patients1. Eighteen percent of patients (17 of 97 patients) were infused in an outpatient setting3.
"Patients with follicular lymphoma who relapse or don't respond to treatment have a poor prognosis and may face a series of treatment options without a meaningful, lasting response," said Stephen J. Schuster, MD, the Robert and Margarita Louis-Dreyfus Professor in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Lymphoma in the Division of Hematology Oncology and Director, Lymphoma Program and Translational Research at the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center, institutional Principal Investigator on the trial. "This new, effective option for patients with follicular lymphoma may offer long-term benefit."
While follicular lymphoma is typically an indolent type of cancer, patients with FL may be exposed to a median of four lines of treatment, with an upper range of 13 lines4,5. Although there are multiple systemic therapies available, the efficacy of these regimens drops off rapidly in later lines6.
"The approval of Kymriah offers patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma a new treatment option and new hope for improving patient outcomes," said Meghan Gutierrez, Chief Executive Officer at the Lymphoma Research Foundation. "Having this single infusion treatment option helps to transform the way healthcare providers approach this type of blood cancer and we commend those who have contributed to the acceleration of scientific research for the benefit of patients."
In early May 2022, the European Commission approved Kymriah for the treatment of adult patients with r/r FL after two or more lines of systemic therapy, the third indication for which Kymriah is available to patients in the European Union.
Additional efficacy and safety details for Kymriah and full Prescribing Information can be found at https://www.novartis.us/sites/www.novartis.us/files/kymriah.pdf.
About Novartis commitment to Oncology Cell Therapy
As part of the unique Novartis Oncology strategy to pursue four cancer treatment platforms – radioligand therapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and cell and gene therapy – we strive for cures through cell therapies in order to enable more patients to live cancer-free. We will continue to pioneer the science and invest in our manufacturing and supply chain process to further advance transformative innovation.
Novartis was the first pharmaceutical company to significantly invest in pioneering CAR-T research and initiate global CAR-T trials. Kymriah, the first approved CAR-T cell therapy, developed in collaboration with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, is the foundation of the Novartis commitment to CAR-T cell therapy.
We have made strong progress in broadening our delivery of Kymriah, which is currently available for use in at least one indication in 30 countries and at more than 370 certified treatment centers, with clinical and real-world experience from administration to more than 6,900 patients. We continue to pioneer in cell therapy, leveraging our vast experience to develop next-generation CAR-T cell therapies. These therapies will utilize our new T-Charge™ platform being evaluated to expand across hematological malignancies and bring the hope for a cure to patients with other cancer types.
Novartis has a comprehensive, integrated global CAR-T manufacturing footprint that strengthens the flexibility, resilience and sustainability of the Novartis manufacturing and supply chain.
Important Safety Information
KYMRIAH may cause side effects that are severe or life-threatening, such as cytokine release syndrome (CRS) or neurological toxicities. Patients with CRS may experience symptoms including difficulty breathing, fever (100.4◦F/38◦C or higher), chills/shaking chills, severe nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, severe muscle or joint pain, very low blood pressure, or dizziness/lightheadedness. Patients may be admitted to the hospital for CRS and treated with other medications.
Patients with neurological toxicities may experience symptoms such as altered or decreased consciousness, headaches, delirium, confusion, agitation, anxiety, seizures, difficulty speaking and understanding, or loss of balance. Patients should be advised to call their health care provider or get emergency help right away if they experience any of these signs and symptoms of CRS or neurological toxicities.
Because of the risk of CRS and neurological toxicities, KYMRIAH is only available through a restricted program under a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) called the KYMRIAH REMS.
Patients may experience hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis/macrophagocytic activation syndrome. Patients should discuss the possibility of developing this life-threatening condition with their health care provider.
Serious allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, may occur after KYMRIAH infusion. KYMRIAH can increase the risk of life-threatening infections that may lead to death. Patients should be advised to tell their health care provider right away if they develop fever, chills, or any signs or symptoms of an infection.
Patients may experience prolonged low blood cell counts (cytopenias), where 1 or more types of blood cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, or platelets) are decreased. The patient's health care provider will do blood tests to check all their blood cell counts after treatment with KYMRIAH. Patients should be advised to tell their health care provider right away if they get a fever, are feeling tired, weak, or short of breath, or have bruising or bleeding.
Patients may experience hypogammaglobulinemia, a condition in which the level of immunoglobulins (antibodies) in the blood is low and the risk of infection is increased. It is expected that patients may develop hypogammaglobulinemia with KYMRIAH and may need to receive immunoglobulin replacement for an indefinite amount of time following treatment with KYMRIAH. Patients should tell their health care provider about their treatment with KYMRIAH before receiving a live vaccine.
After treatment with KYMRIAH, patients will be monitored lifelong by their health care provider, as they may develop secondary cancers or recurrence of their cancer.
Patients should not drive, operate heavy machinery, or do other dangerous activities for 8 weeks after receiving KYMRIAH because the treatment can cause temporary memory and coordination problems, including sleepiness, confusion, weakness, dizziness, and seizures.
Some of the most common side effects of KYMRIAH are difficulty breathing, fever (100.4°F/38°C or higher), chills/shaking chills, confusion, severe nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, severe muscle or joint pain, very low blood pressure, dizziness/lightheadedness, and headache. However, these are not all the possible side effects of KYMRIAH. Patients should talk to their health care provider for medical advice about side effects.
Prior to a female patient starting treatment with KYMRIAH, their health care provider may do a pregnancy test. No information is available for KYMRIAH use in pregnant or breastfeeding women. Therefore, KYMRIAH is not recommended for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Patients should talk to their health care provider about birth control and pregnancy.
Patients should tell their health care provider about all the medicines they take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
After receiving KYMRIAH, patients should be advised that some commercial HIV tests may cause a false-positive test result. Patients should also be advised not to donate blood, organs, tissues, sperm, oocytes, and other cells after receiving KYMRIAH.
Please see the full Prescribing Information for KYMRIAH, including Boxed WARNING, and Medication Guide at www.KYMRIAH.com
Disclaimer
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by words such as "potential," "can," "will," "plan," "may," "could," "would," "expect," "anticipate," "look forward," "believe," "committed," "investigational," "pipeline," "launch," or similar terms, or by express or implied discussions regarding potential marketing approvals, new indications or labeling for the investigational or approved products described in this press release, or regarding potential future revenues from such products. You should not place undue reliance on these statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on our current beliefs and expectations regarding future events, and are subject to significant known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. There can be no guarantee that the investigational or approved products described in this press release will be submitted or approved for sale or for any additional indications or labeling in any market, or at any particular time. Nor can there be any guarantee that such products will be commercially successful in the future. In particular, our expectations regarding such products could be affected by, among other things, the uncertainties inherent in research and development, including clinical trial results and additional analysis of existing clinical data; regulatory actions or delays or government regulation generally; global trends toward health care cost containment, including government, payor and general public pricing and reimbursement pressures and requirements for increased pricing transparency; our ability to obtain or maintain proprietary intellectual property protection; the particular prescribing preferences of physicians and patients; general political, economic and business conditions, including the effects of and efforts to mitigate pandemic diseases such as COVID-19; safety, quality, data integrity or manufacturing issues; potential or actual data security and data privacy breaches, or disruptions of our information technology systems, and other risks and factors referred to in Novartis AG's current Form 20-F on file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Novartis is providing the information in this press release as of this date and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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References
- Kymriah [prescribing information]. East Hanover, NJ: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp; 2022.
- Fowler, N.H., et.al. Assessment of Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Follicular Lymphoma Undergoing CAR-T Cell Therapy with Tisagenlecleucel: Results from the Elara Study. Abstract #3533. 2021 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dec 11-14, Atlanta, GA and Virtual.
- Fowler, N.H., et al.Tisagenlecleucel in adult relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma: the phase 2 ELARA trial. Nature Medicine. 2021;10.1038/s41591-021-01622-0.
- Data on File, Novartis, 2020.
- Schuster, S., et al. Chimeric antigen receptor T cells in refractory B-cell lymphomas. NEJM. 2017;377(26):2545–2554.
- Sutamtewagul, G. & Link, B.K. Novel treatment approaches and future perspectives in follicular lymphoma. Ther Adv Hematol. 2019; 10:1–20.
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GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - More than a dozen families remain displaced after a fire swept through a condominium building at the Fairways of Woodfield.
No one was hurt, but the building suffered severe damage. The Grand Blanc Township fire chief said investigators had not determined the cause of the fire or where in the building it started 24 hours later.
The first call came in just after 2:30 p.m. Tuesday about a fire at the complex in southern Grand Blanc Township. Fire Chief Robert Burdette said crews arrived within minutes.
"It was shortly after the arrival of that truck we got the call that the third floor, the roof of the building started to collapse," he said.
Lasonji Southall lives nearby she saw the flames and sprung into action.
"My adrenaline just kicked in," she said. "I went to where the fire was coming from on the third floor and got to banging on the door. No one answered, so I went across the hall and I let the guy know over there that he needed get out."
Southall said she went from door to door and apartment to apartment to make people aware of the fire.
A day after the fire, the building remained locked and secured while officials were investigating.
"We have our investigators out there digging through the remains of the fire to see if we can determine anything," said Burdette.
The third floor of the complex suffered the most damage, but Burdette said every unit of the building has been affected.
"The entire building had water and smoke damage throughout," he said. "Every apartment in that building was touched by this incident in one way or another."
Red Cross volunteers are helping 24 displaced families. People affected by the fire can contact the American Red Cross at 1-800-RED-CROSS.
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Vaccine maker Moderna announced Friday that it's suing rival drugmakers Pfizer and BioNtech for patent infringement. The lawsuit alleges the two companies used certain key features of technology Moderna developed to make their COVID-19 vaccine. It argues that Pfizer and BioNtech's vaccine infringes patents Moderna filed between 2010 and 2016 for its messenger RNA or mRNA technology.
All three companies' COVID-19 vaccines used mRNA technology which is a new way to make vaccines. In the past, vaccines were generally made using parts of a virus, or inactivated virus, to stimulate an immune response. With mRNA technology, the vaccine uses messenger RNA created in a lab to send genetic instructions that teach our cells to make a protein or part of a protein that triggers an immune response.
In October 2020, Moderna pledged not to enforce its COVID-19 related patents while the pandemic was ongoing, according to a statement from the company. In March this year, it said it will stick to its commitment not to enforce its COVID-19 related patents in low and middle-income countries, but expects rival companies like Pfizer to respect its intellectual property.
Moderna is not seeking to remove the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine from the market, but is seeking monetary damages.
Moderna is filing the lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts and the Regional Court of Düsseldorf in Germany.
A Pfizer spokesperson said in a statement the company has not yet fully reviewed the complaint but it is "confident in our intellectual property supporting the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and will vigorously defend against the allegations of the lawsuit."
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The 16th Street Baptist Church is an iconic landmark with its blue neon sign, dramatic stained-glass windows, and imposing twin bell towers. It was here on Sept. 15, 1963 that a Ku Klux Klan bomb killed four Black girls.
Near the back corner of the building is a grave-like stone etched with the names of the victims — Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair.
"She was the youngest of the four," says Denise's sister, Lisa McNair, standing outside the church just a few weeks before the 59th anniversary of the bombing. "She was 11. And the other four girls were 14, just beginning their freshman year in high school."
In a new memoir, entitled, Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew, McNair recounts growing up in a newly-integrated Birmingham after the notorious bombing that killed her sister.
"The sermon that was going to be that day was 'A Love That Forgives,' " McNair says. "The sermon that the minister never got to give."
Birmingham church bombing seen as turning point
McNair points to where Klansmen planted dynamite under a stairwell before Youth Sunday. She says the girls were freshening up between Sunday School and the worship service when the bomb detonated.
"They had just come out of the ladies' lounge and were standing near this window," McNair says. "That's where they got the full impact."
The crime drew worldwide attention to the violent resistance to equal rights in the American South, and galvanized support for the Civil Rights Act.
"The innocent blood of these little girls may well serve as a redemptive force," the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said in a 1963 memorial service, calling the bombing a turning point.
McNair didn't hear that historic eulogy. And she never met her sister Denise. Lisa was born a year after the bombing, her family still grieving.
"It's shaped my whole life," she says.
In Dear Denise, McNair, now 57-years old, imagines what it would have been like to have a relationship with her big sister.
"I cannot recall a time when I didn't know about you and how you died. ...it is my first and oldest memory. It is a strange feeling to have a sister who died before you were born, especially in such a tragic and public way, and this feeling has been and always will be a part of who I am. Your death thrust all of us, Mamma, Daddy, Kim, and me, into the surreal limelight of history."
She always wanted to write a book about growing up in the shadow of the bombing but didn't know where to start
McNair says she's always wanted to write a book about her experience growing up in the shadow of the bombing but never knew where to start. A friend recommended letters to Denise, and the stories began to flow, along with a deeper connection with her sister.
"It just worked really well," she says. "At times I would think, 'Boy, I would really like to be having this conversation with you alive.' "
It shaped my whole life.
The book is both a personal look at how the McNair family endured, and a broader reckoning with the ongoing fight against racism in Birmingham. The city was famously known in the civil rights era as "Bombingham" because of the KKK's vicious reign of terror against Black activists.
McNair fills Denise in on the birth of their baby sister Kimberly, and how their father, Chris McNair, became one of the first Black lawmakers elected to the Alabama legislature since Reconstruction. There are sad and vivid memories of her mother weeping at Denise's graveside as the family would visit the cemetery year after year. And Lisa's experience being among the first generation of Black students to attend integrated schools as a beneficiary of the change wrought by her family's tragedy.
Finding sisterhood through shared pain
She also writes about a woman she bonded with over the years who would help fill the void of losing her big sister. It's Reena Evers-Everette, daughter of Medgar and Myrlie Evers-Williams. Her father, Medgar, was the Mississippi civil rights leader assassinated by a Ku Klux Klansman in his Jackson driveway just three months before the Birmingham church bombing.
Evers-Everette says her relationship with McNair is a special one.
"We call each other sister," says Evers-Everette, executive director of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute.
She recalls that when they first met at a civil rights memorial event in 1989, she told McNair how her middle name was Denise, just like Lisa's late sister.
"And we connected by talking about the pain of losing a loved one so tragically, so brutally at the hand of hate," Evers-Everette says. "And talking about what it's like to live in the fishbowl of that."
And living for years with no justice. It would take decades before convictions came in both crimes.
"There was kind of a culture of silence," McNair says. "People didn't talk for years about it."
Her book describes the lingering trauma in Birmingham because of that.
"Collective, untreated, undiagnosed trauma," she says. "Everybody went back to work or school on Monday like nothing ever happened ... because you knew as an African American at that point, you really didn't have the right to vote. Nobody was going to prosecute a white person for killing a Black person. So you just went on, turned it over to Jesus and kept on living."
A search for identity in a newly-integrated America
In the meantime, McNair was struggling to find her own identity in a changing country – a major theme in her book. McNair says after the bombing her parents enrolled her in a mostly white private school and she found herself navigating two separate worlds with no playbook.
"I'm just paving the way, not of my own volition, for what the next phase of America is supposed to look like," McNair says.
But she says she caught hell for it.
"Because I don't look like, I don't sound like, I don't act like what has been traditionally what Black people do," she says. "I was made to feel that I didn't fit in and I wasn't Black enough."
Evers-Everette says writing honestly about that took courage.
"I applaud her for being raw and real," she says.
She hopes McNair's memoir will open a dialogue about what acceptance of all humanity really looks like.
"Are you accepting me because of my color on my skin? Are you not accepting me because of that at first glance?" she asks. "That's a tragedy of hate that is short sighted."
Outside the 16th Street Baptist Church, McNair notes how tour buses now bring people on pilgrimages here as part of the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument.
She says she wants people to feel the "weight of the hate and the hurt that people experienced" here.
"This is an American story, and all Americans should come and see where some people took hate so far," McNair says. "We've got a lot of hate in our country now and they think it's a thing and it's okay. But this is what hate looks like when it just gets out of control."
McNair says it should be a cautionary tale in today's polarized climate, which she fears could lead to renewed racial violence.
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LEBANON, Ohio (AP) _ LCNB Corp. (LCNB) on Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $5.6 million.
The Lebanon, Ohio-based bank said it had earnings of 49 cents per share.
The holding company for LCNB National Bank posted revenue of $19.7 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $18.7 million, surpassing Street forecasts.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Appellate court judges in New Orleans closely questioned a government attorney on Thursday over a Biden administration rule aimed at curbing the use of stabilizing braces, which are handgun attachments that have been used in multiple mass shootings in recent years.
The braces attach to the back of a gun, lengthening it, and strap to the arm. They were originally developed for disabled people. However, gun-safety groups say they essentially can be used to lengthen a concealable handgun so that it can be braced against the shoulder and fired like a rifle or shotgun.
Advocates for the rule point to deadly mass shootings while arguing that the braces make concealable handguns more deadly. Opponents of the rule say the devices make handguns safer to use by making them more stable, comfortable to fire and accurate — an argument noted in questions from appellate panel judges Don Willett and Stephen Higginson at Thursday’s hearing.
“All that to me seems synonymous with safer. Do you disagree with that?” Willett asked administration attorney Sean Janda.
Janda argued that regulating the braces is consistent with longstanding federal law outlawing sawed-off shotguns or other short-barreled non-handgun-type firearms.
“That particular combination, Congress has determined, is dangerous,” Janda said.
In May, the 5th Circuit issued an order preventing enforcement of the rules against plaintiffs in the case, who include two Texas gun owners and a firearms accessory manufacturer. It’s uncertain when the three-member panel that heard arguments Thursday will rule on whether to permanently block the rule. It’s also not clear whether the judges will apply their ruling nationwide or just within the circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
The rule is also being challenged in other parts of the country, attorneys said. The issue may ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court.
Arguments during the nearly 90-minute hearing dealt with whether the rule is simply a reasonable interpretation of existing congressionally passed firearms law or an overreach by the administration; and whether it’s fair and legal to make an estimated 3 million-plus owners of the devices register them and pay fees if they want to use them.
A stabilizing brace was used in March by the shooter who killed three students and three staff members at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2021, the man who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, also used one. And in 2019, a stabilizing brace was used in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio, that left nine people dead.
That the devices can be used by criminals is not sufficient reason for the regulations, argued plaintiffs’ attorney Erik Jaffe. “They don’t think they’re bad because they’re dangerous. They think they’re bad because criminals liked them. But criminals like handguns too. Just because criminals like something is not a reason why it’s dangerous.”
On Thursday’s panel with Higginson, who was nominated to the court by former President Barack Obama, and Willett, who was nominated by former President Donald Trump, was Jerry Smith, who was nominated by former President Ronald Reagan.
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NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands company and a leader in health information services for physicians, other healthcare professionals and consumers, today announced that it has acquired MNG Health, a leading provider of technology-enabled marketing solutions for life sciences brands.
The acquisition combines the core competencies of MNG Health with that of Medscape, WebMD's clinical information, education and point-of-care tools platform for healthcare professionals (HCPs), and expands Medscape's capabilities in virtual events, pharmaceutical sales representative-enablement solutions, and omnichannel digital marketing.
"Medscape's unrivaled global reach has been driven by our commitment to delivering innovative solutions to both the global medical community and our customers," said Vincent Muehter, Group General Manager/Senior Vice President, Medscape. "MNG Health shares our depth of knowledge of target audience information needs and preferences, and our focus on evolving to meet the dynamic changes and demands of the industry. Together, we can leverage our intelligence and insights to deepen strategic omnichannel engagement, serve our audiences and support our customers."
"We are excited to be joining Medscape," said James Briggs, MNG Health CEO. "We share Medscape's commitment to driving strategic, meaningful engagement with physicians and other HCPs. Medscape's resources and digital intelligence will enable us to further evolve our products and expand our reach and engagement with broadcast and other virtual events."
MNG Health will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary of Medscape as the companies evaluate areas of synergy and build on and integrate products, platforms, and services.
Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed.
About WebMD Health Corp.
WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands company, is at the heart of the digital health revolution that is transforming the healthcare experience for consumers, patients, healthcare professionals, employers, health plans and health systems. Through public and private online portals, mobile platforms, and health-focused publications, WebMD delivers leading-edge content and digital services that enable and improve decision-making, support and motivate health actions, streamline and simplify the healthcare journey, and improve patient care.
The WebMD Health Network includes WebMD Health, Medscape, Jobson Healthcare Information, MediQuality, Frontline, Vitals Consumer Services, Aptus Health, Krames, PulsePoint, The Wellness Network, SanovaWorks, MedicineNet, eMedicineHealth, RxList, OnHealth, Medscape Education, and other owned WebMD sites. WebMD®, Medscape®, CME Circle®, Medpulse®, eMedicine®, MedicineNet®, theheart.org® and RxList® are among the trademarks of WebMD Health Corp. or its subsidiaries.
About MNG Health
MNG Health leverages its connected ecosystem and proprietary data insights to rapidly deliver technology-enabled marketing solutions for life sciences brands and enterprises. MNG's proprietary technology enables dynamic deployment of omnichannel offerings resulting in personalized HCP and patient experiences. From national virtual broadcasts to virtual advisory boards to sales rep-triggered communications and non-personal promotion, MNG Health delivers connected journeys for HCPs and patients. You can learn more at www.mnghealth.com.
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It was a historic day in Keansburg as head coach Jim Reid not only earned his first win, but senior defensive lineman Morgan Hutchins became the first female to start a football game for the Titans in their 47-8 win over KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy.
Senior Na’Sun Lee had a rushing touchdown with two minutes left in the third quarter to give Keansburg (1-6) a 40-8 advantage. Prior to that, Dujuan Weems recorded his second rushing touchdown of the game to put his team ahead 27-8.
With the top 16 teams in their respective groups making the postseason, neither Keansburg nor KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy will make it as the Titans sit in 32nd place while KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy (0-4) is 31st.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota town has backed away from a proposal to let people sue abortion providers, including organizations that provide abortion drugs by mail, after the state’s attorney general warned that the plan was unconstitutional.
The retiring state lawmaker behind the proposal said Monday that he’s not giving up despite the unanimous vote by the Prinsburg City Council on Friday to drop the idea. It's similar to a Texas law that deputizes private citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps someone get an abortion.
Republican Rep. Tim Miller told The Associated Press that he still thinks the proposal is constitutional despite what Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison says. Miller said he and other supporters of the idea will try to enact it in other rural Minnesota communities, though he declined to name them.
“We are definitely moving forward,” Miller said, adding that he thinks it could even come up again in Prinsburg, Miller's western Minnesota hometown of about 500 people where he first proposed the idea last month. Miller, who was first elected in 2014, has said he did not seek reelection so he could focus on the anti-abortion movement.
Ellison has made it clear that he would sue to block any community that tries to enforce such an ordinance.
“Any municipal ordinance which limits the fundamental rights of pregnant Minnesotans to receive an abortion is unconstitutional,” Ellison said last month in a letter to Prinsburg Mayor Roger Ahrenholz, noting that the Minnesota Supreme Court recognized abortion rights under the state constitution in 1995. "No city in Minnesota has the power to restrict the right to abortion or enact conflicting regulations on health care providers."
With little discussion, the City Council voted Friday against further consideration of Miller's proposal after Ahrenholz told members that the city had been provided with no case law or other legal authority to rebut the attorney general's warning, according to video of the meeting from KARE-TV.
“In reaching its decision, the council took into account the position of the Minnesota Attorney General and its City Attorney stating that provisions described in the ordinance are unconstitutional and not within the legal authority of the city to enact,” officials later said on the city's website. “The council plans no further discussion or comment regarding the proposed ordinance.”
The closest abortion clinics to Prinsburg are about 100 miles (160 kilometers) east in the Minneapolis area. But the ordinance would have been a barrier to distant clinics providing abortion pills to residents by mail. It would have allowed courts to award “not less than $100,000" for each violation. But it would not have allowed lawsuits against women who have abortions.
Ellison, who ran for reelection on a pledge to defend abortion rights after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, welcomed the vote, which likely spared the community from contentious litigation.
“I’m glad city officials respected their oaths of office & voted it down,” Ellison tweeted Sunday. “All Minnesotans have a right to safe, legal abortion. I hope all MN communities take notice."
Any attempts by other Minnesota communities are likely to hit similar legal obstacles. In addition, Democrats who won full control of state government in November have vowed to reinforce the 1995 state high court decision with statutory language codifying abortion rights.
The Thomas More Society, a conservative legal group that helped develop the proposal along with Pro-Life Action Ministries, will pay the costs for communities that enact the proposal to defend themselves any legal challenges, Miller said. He contends the proposal would be legally defendable even if the 2023 Legislature codifies abortion rights.
“This is our way that we can fight back against the abortion industry in Minnesota,” Miller said.
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Firing off nicknames for the Roadrunners and joking that his wife is “hotter than fish grease,” UTSA coach Jeff Traylor is far removed from the old-school disciplinarian that was once a coaching paradigm.
In the same city where San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has long seemed outwardly cold and guarded, Traylor reads like an open book, unafraid to be self-deprecating or dip into his East Texas slang.
The approach has proven endearing to Roadrunners fans, in part, Traylor admits, because the program is winning. Last year’s record-setting 12-2 season included UTSA’s first Conference USA championship.
The success has helped validate Traylor’s culture, keeping the mentality around the team consistent as the group prepares for the start of fall camp Wednesday.
Q: How has the day-to-day atmosphere around the building changed given the success the program enjoyed last year, compared to when you were first arriving here and UTSA hadn’t produced at that level? Is the attitude any different?
A: I hope not, because we hope we’ve always been true to the brand. If you notice, the first of our culture pillars is integrity. The second one is passion. It’s a fine line with my teams. We try to be a team of integrity, but we have fun out there, now. We have a good time. I would hope we’re not like the U (Univeristy of Miami) of the ’80s. I don’t want to be that. I don’t want to be a bunch of throat-slashing vulgarity out there, but at the same time, I want my guys to be loose. We have a good time. We laugh. We have fun. I hope since you’ve covered us and my players, we don’t back off that 210 Triangle of Toughness. We put it out there, now. I don’t want to say cocky and arrogant, but we’ve always had swag. I hope our teams always have swag. I hope there’s a certain look, a certain way we carry ourselves, that you just feel like these guys for some reason think they’re really freaking good. So, I hope we’ve always had that. The difference, I would say, is from being hopeful to validated. We all know, every coach comes in with this grandiose plan, and has all of these great words, and then you’re two years in and the media is like ho-hum, and Year 3 you better do something or they’re fixing to ride your butt out of here.
Q: Do the players find it easier to keep that approach and stay true to your brand when they’re winning and finding that validation, even as you try to steer the conversation away from wins and losses?
A: Let’s be honest. I would hope I’m a likeable person. I would hope I’m really kind to a lot of people. But the narrative would be totally different if we were losing. It would be, ‘He’s too nice. How can anybody be that nice? How can anybody be that respectful to all of us all the time, and his teams are 2-22?’ That would not be the narrative. The narrative would be, ‘He’s soft. He’s Mr. Love coach. He’s Mr. Love, Peace and Hair Grease.’ We do all of our scolding behind the scenes. We don’t bring our dirty laundry in public, I hope, ever. I have guys who are idiots on Twitter, now. I’m on Twitter patrol nonstop. Nobody wants to hear a bunch of players whining and crying. Woe is me. Come on, men.
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Q: You allow many of your personality quirks or funny sayings to shine through in the public, so it’s interesting to hear you talk about how the perception of yourself and the program would be different if the wins didn’t follow. Did you ever consider whether the image of a head coach should be more stoic and guarded?
A: You have to be true to yourself. I’d be so phony. And because I started in the ’90s, and I was a basketball guy, I’ve always had that. I’ve always had, ‘He smiles too much. He’s too much in the gym. His players love to hoop more than they love to play football.’ I’ve literally dealt with that my entire life, and I was just going to be true to who the Lord made me, and I’m true to that person. I try to be. I try to be true to the brand. I have my own way. I’m not trying to get all crazy spiritual on you, but it’s not complicated. When the Pharisees are trying to trick Jesus, what’s the most important? He didn’t say gambling. He didn’t say dress length. He didn’t say cussing. He said, ‘Love God with all of your heart, soul and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you.’ So, I’m going to be true. What’s the negative to that? Well, perception. If you win, they’re going to love you if you act like Genghis Khan, and if you lose they’re going to hate you, no matter if you’re Mother Teresa. So, why not be true to yourself? When you win, they’re going to put up with (New England Patriots coach Bill) Belichick and Pop. And when you lose, they are not going to put up with Belichick or Pop. Who is they? Media, fan base, boosters, administration, and I’ve been doing this a long time. This will be my 18th year to be a head coach. I was a head basketball coach for years. So, I’ve had these conversations and dealt with all of this on different levels, obviously, my entire career.
Q: I imagine being genuine rather than focusing on trying to act or present yourself a certain way in the media gives you one less thing to worry about.
A: That’s probably the thing I get the most in my private life from my own people, is how are you such a stone-cold killer on the sideline, almost emotionless, but you’re so jovial and fun-loving the rest of the week? It’s the only time I truly have peace, is when I put that headset on. Those four hours are pure peace, which, that is such a contradiction to what people would think is going on in my mind during those times. We work so hard for that four hours, and I have a lot of faith in the guys I hired to do it, and my players. I’m at peace, and I’m concentrating like hell. I really am, trying to be three plays in front of this damn thing, because there’s a lot going on during that time. That’s something I really had to work hard on through my career, is to not turn off who I am, but be in better control of my emotions and thoughts during the game. That’s been a work in progress for me for 18 years.
Q: Why has building that control during games been a point of emphasis? Is it about the message that sends to the players, or is it more of a public consideration?
A: Because I love my players so much, and I love my coaches so much. Earlier in my career, I got that emotion confused, and I made decisions based on emotion and not based on facts, and what’s best in the moment. I had to guard myself. Because my greatest strength is my greatest weakness. My greatest strength is my love for people, and my greatest weakness is my love for people. I sometimes can get in my own way with my love and deep respect for my coaches and my players.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. New Mexico United is playoff bound for the third time in four years.
Last night’s 2-0 win set two records for most points in a season and most wins in franchise history.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania State Troopers Association (PSTA) announced Wednesday who they will be endorsing for U.S. Senate and governor.
The association endorsed Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz for Senate and Democrat Attorney General Josh Shapiro for governor.
“Attorney General Josh Shapiro has shown his support time and time again for the men and women of the Pennsylvania State Police during his tenure as the state’s attorney general,” said PSTA President David Kennedy.
“His leadership, experience and knowledge of Pennsylvania’s laws will best serve our Troopers as they continue to provide the citizens of Pennsylvania a safe and secure environment to live and work," he continued.
PSTA President Kennedy also explained the reasoning behind the association's backing of Oz, "The PSTA is proud to endorse Dr. Mehmet Oz for U.S. Senate. Dr. Oz has shown that he is, and will continue to be, a strong champion for law enforcement officers and their families in Pennsylvania."
“At a time when the law enforcement community is facing its greatest challenges, we need people who will advocate for the tools and resources that will keep the men and women of the Pennsylvania State Police safe as they serve our commonwealth," he said in a statement to the public.
The PSTA consists of 4,300 active and retired State Police Troopers.
Dr. Oz also scored a victory with the business community on Wednesday, earning an endorsement from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Town of Cambria man was arrested and slapped with DWI charges after a crash in Newstead that sent one person to the hospital with severe injuries.
Mark Printup, 50, blew more than twice the legal limit during a field sobriety test after Erie County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a two-vehicle crash at Utley and Hunts Corners roads on August 13, around 10:42 p.m., according to the ECSO.
Members of the fire company had to extract the other driver out of their vehicle. They were rushed to Erie County Medical Center by Mercy Flight with severe internal injuries. They were last reported to be in critical condition.
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ATLANTA – Former President Donald Trump will make his first public appearances since his federal indictment, speaking on Saturday to friendly Republican audiences in Georgia and North Carolina as he seeks to rally supporters to his defense.
Trump, who remains the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination despite his mounting legal woes, is expected to use his scheduled speeches at state party conventions in the two states to deliver a full-throated rebuke of the charges and amplify his assertions that he is the victim of a politically motivated “witch hunt” by Democratic President Joe Biden’s Justice Department.
His appearances will come a day after the unsealing of an indictment charging him with 37 felony counts in connection with his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. The indictment accuses the former president of willfully defying Justice Department demands to return classified documents, enlisting aides in his efforts to hide the records and even telling his lawyers that he wanted to defy a subpoena for the materials stored at his estate. The indictment includes allegations that he stored documents in a ballroom and bathroom at his resort, among other places.
The most serious charges against him carry potential prison sentences of up to 20 years each, but first-time offenders rarely get anywhere near the maximum sentence and the decision would ultimately be up to the judge.
For all that, Trump can expect a hero’s welcome this weekend as he rallies his fiercest partisans and seeks to cement his status as Republicans’ leading 2024 presidential candidate.
“Trump is a fighter, and the kinds of people that attend these conventions love a fighter,” said Jack Kingston, a former Georgia congressman who supported Trump in 2016 and 2020.
With former Vice President Mike Pence also slated to address North Carolina Republicans, Saturday will be the first time the former running mates have appeared at the same venue since Pence announced his campaign against his old boss.
For his part, Trump has insisted he committed no wrongdoing, saying, "There was no crime, except for what the DOJ and FBI have been doing against me for years.”
The indictment arrives at a time when Trump is continuing to dominate the Republican presidential primary. Other GOP candidates have largely attacked the Justice Department — rather than Trump — for the investigation, although the indictment’s breadth of allegations and scope could make it harder for Republicans to rail against than an earlier New York criminal case that many legal analysts had derided as weak.
A Trump campaign official described the former president’s mood as “defiant" Friday ahead of his trip. But aides were notably more reserved after the indictment’s unsealing as they reckoned with the gravity of the legal charges and the threat they pose to Trump beyond the potential short-term political gain.
The federal charging document alleges that Trump not only intentionally possessed classified documents but also boastfully showed them off to visitors and aides. The indictment is built on Trump’s own words and actions as recounted to prosecutors by lawyers, close aides and other witnesses, including his professing to respect and know procedures related to the handling of classified information.
The indictment includes 37 counts — 31 of which pertain to the willful retention of national defense information, with the balance relating to alleged conspiracy, obstruction and false statements — that, taken together, could result in a yearslong prison sentence.
Trump is due to make his first federal court appearance Tuesday in Miami. He was charged alongside Walt Nauta, a personal aide whom prosecutors say moved boxes from a storage room to Trump’s residence for him to review and later lied to investigators about the movement. A photograph included in the indictment shows several dozen file boxes stacked in a storage area.
The case adds to deepening legal jeopardy for Trump, who has already been indicted in New York in a hush money scheme and faces additional investigations in Washington and Atlanta that also could lead to criminal charges. But among the various investigations he has faced, the Mar-a-Lago probe has long been considered the most perilous threat and the one most ripe for prosecution. Campaign aides had been bracing for the fallout since Trump’s attorneys were notified that he was the target of the investigation, assuming it was not a matter of if charges would be brought, but when.
Trump’s continued popularity among Republican voters is evident in how gingerly his primary rivals have treated the federal indictment, which comes less than three months after he was charged in New York in a hush-money scheme stemming from payouts made to a porn actor during his 2016 campaign.
Pence, campaigning in New Hampshire on Friday, said he was “deeply troubled” that Trump had been federally indicted because he believes it will further divide the nation.
Pence urged his audience to pray for Trump, his family and all Americans, and promised to uphold the rule of law and “clean house at the highest level” of the Department of Justice, if elected.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump's leading GOP rival, unabashedly echoed the former president, decrying the “weaponization of federal law enforcement” and “an uneven application of the law.” Without offering any specific allegation, DeSantis took aim at two favorite Republican targets — Hillary Clinton and Biden’s son, Hunter — and suggested they have escaped federal accountability because of such “political bias.”
During his own remarks at the North Carolina GOP convention on Friday night, DeSantis didn't mention Trump by name but again made the comparison to Clinton.
“Is there a different standard for a Democratic secretary of state versus a former Republican president?” DeSantis asked. “I think there needs to be one standard of justice in this country. ... At the end of the day, we will once and for all end the weaponization of government under my administration.”
Among the declared Republican contenders, only Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson had explicitly called for Trump to end his comeback bid.
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Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Meg Kinnard and Hannah Schoenbaum in Greensboro, N.C.; Eric Tucker in Washington; Thomas Beaumont in Marshalltown, Iowa; and Holly Ramer in Derry, N.H., contributed to this report.
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‘It’s war.’ Tensions remain high at first Amazon warehouse in US to unionize
By Catherine Thorbecke and Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business
In the two months since workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, voted to form the company’s first US labor union, the organizers have been on a victory lap.
Leaders for the newly formed Amazon Labor Union have visited the White House, testified before a Senate committee, been featured on Time’s list of the 100 most influential people and rallied alongside prominent progressive political figures such as Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The fired-Amazon-worker-turned-union-president, Chris Smalls, has also been recognized publicly, both as a labor leader and for his fashion sense, with his style written up by the New York Times.
But inside the Staten Island facility, known as JFK8, tensions remain high between the union and Amazon. Several worker-organizers at the facility have been fired, sparking heated responses from the union. Amazon has yet to sit down at the bargaining table with the union, prompting Sen. Sanders and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Friday to urge Amazon’s CEO to recognize the union rather than fight it. And Amazon is currently attempting to have the election results thrown out after filing more than two dozen objections, not only concerning alleged behavior of union leaders but also that of the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board, which oversaw the election. The agency has denied Amazon’s charges against it.
A hearing on the objections kicked off Monday at an NLRB regional office in Phoenix, Arizona, given the accusations alleged in Amazon’s objections against the local regional office in New York. Amazon pushed to keep the hearing closed to the public, but the federal labor agency ruled against it in a recent filing. “The Board’s hearings are not secret. Accordingly, preventing the public from viewing its important processes is not an option,” the filing stated. The ALU, meanwhile, has indicated plans to travel to Phoenix to rally for recognition.
The ongoing saga at the facility shows how the surprise victory for the underdog Amazon Labor Union is far from the end of a long battle for collective bargaining between some warehouse workers and one of the country’s largest employers. It also points to a playbook Amazon could use with other warehouses, at a time when the pandemic has heightened concerns among some employees about working conditions at the e-commerce giant. At Amazon, only a few other US locations have held a union election and, so far, they’ve failed to successfully unionize.
“Amazon is not willing to recognize having a union,” said Kate Bronfenbrenner, the director of Labor Education Research Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She added that the developments at JFK8 reveal major weaknesses in US labor laws. “One of the problems under our labor law is that if a company refuses to bargain, the worst penalty is a piece of paper saying, ‘Go bargain.'”
Amazon has repeatedly emphasized in statements that while employees have a choice to join a union, it prefers to communicate with workers directly — a common refrain among employers facing a wave of workplace activism during the pandemic. In a recent interview at the Bloomberg Technology Summit, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reiterated this point, stating the company believes its workers are “better off without a union.”
Among its complaints, Amazon alleged in a filing that the NLRB’s regional office, which oversaw the election at the facility, “unfairly and inappropriately facilitated the [Amazon Labor Union’s] victory.” Amazon also accused the grassroots union, spearheaded by Smalls, of intimidating employees, among other allegations.
Seth Goldstein, an attorney for the union, called the objections “racist, baseless, and absurd” in a statement online. Smalls added, “These objections are insulting to the workers of JFK8 who survived the pandemic and defeated a trillion-dollar company just to see Amazon use their highly-paid lawyers to silence the voices of thousands of their workers.”
The new union, meanwhile, has strongly taken issue with staff firings at JFK8. After news last week that the company had fired another worker-organizer at the facility, marking at least the third to have been dismissed since the initial election results, the newly formed union did not mince words.
“It’s war,” the Amazon Labor Union tweeted on Thursday. Days earlier, the union had issued a similar warning to “Amazon’s lawyers” in a tweet: “If you fire the person you’re thinking about firing right now we’ll take it as an act of war.”
In a statement to CNN, Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said the employee was let go due to violent workplace behavior. The union did not respond to requests for comment.
In early May, there was also a reported dismissal of a group of managers at JFK8. Asked about this by CNN Business at the time, Amazon did not provide a comment but, in an explanation to the New York Times, said the management changes came after evaluating “operations and leadership” at the facility.
Bronfenbrenner said Amazon’s actions since the union election are not surprising for an employer that has opposed and avoided unionization efforts for so long.
“They’re going to fight to stay non-union for a very long time,” she said, “until the cost of being non-union becomes greater than the cost of being union, and that’s going to take having their customers and their investors put a great deal of pressure on them.”
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Value-Add Fund VIII exceeds its target of $1.0 billion, reflecting solid demand for multifamily investment
GREENSBORO, N.C., June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bell Partners Inc. (the "Company" or "Bell"), one of the nation's leading multifamily investment and property management firms, today announced the final close of its Value-Add Fund VIII (the "Fund" or "Fund VIII") at a hard cap of $1.3 billion in equity commitments from a range of domestic and international investors, many of whom were existing partners in previous funds.
Fund VIII will deploy a value-add investment strategy, acquiring well-located, quality market-rate apartments in 14 target markets across the United States including Boston, Washington D.C., Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. With leverage, the Fund has investment capacity of approximately $3.2 billion. The Fund's value creation strategies include renovations, enhanced operations, and investment in transitioning neighborhoods.
"We are grateful for the support of our investors and are committed to consistently delivering strong performance throughout a full market cycle by leveraging our national platform and deeply experienced team," said Lili Dunn, Chief Executive Officer and President of Bell Partners Inc. "We are focused on carefully identifying attractive investment opportunities that create value for our investors."
"Apartment fundamentals remain solid, and we are confident that multifamily housing is well-positioned to withstand changing market conditions," said Joe Cannon, EVP, Portfolio Management, Bell Partners Inc. "As we evaluate opportunities to invest Fund VIII, we will continue to leverage the insights and capabilities from Bell's vertically integrated operating platform to identify attractive investment opportunities and maintain our record of creating value for our investors."
Hodes Weill Securities, LLC acted as the exclusive global placement agent to Bell Partners.
The close of Fund VIII follows the close of Bell Partners' $930 million Bell Core Venture in 2022, which complements the Company's value-add investment strategy. Since creating its fund platform in 2006, Bell Partners, Inc. has closed nine funds and numerous other separate accounts with total equity commitments of over $6.0 billion that have been launched and substantially invested on behalf of institutional and high net worth investors.
About Bell Partners Inc.
Established in 1976, Bell Partners Inc. is a privately held, vertically integrated apartment investment and management company focused on quality multifamily rental communities throughout the United States. The Company currently manages approximately 85,000 apartment homes nationwide with over 2,000 associates and nine offices. Bell Partners offers an extensive full-service platform of expertise in acquisitions and dispositions, construction, financing, property operations, accounting, risk management, and related support functions. The Company is led by a senior management team with an average industry experience of over 26 years and over 11 years of experience working together in various capacities. Bell Partners has invested throughout all phases of the real estate cycle and has completed over $18.4 billion of apartment transactions since 2002. For more information, visit www.bellpartnersinc.com.
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SHANGHAI, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FinVolution Group ("FinVolution," or the "Company") (NYSE: FINV), a leading fintech platform, today announced that its Indonesian financial application, AdaKami, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Bank OCBC NISP. Bank OCBC NISP is an Indonesian publicly listed banking and financial services company, serving customers through 197 office networks in 54 cities in Indonesia as per September 2022. It shows Bank OCBC NISP is one of the banks with the highest credit ratings in Indonesia, namely idAAA (stable) from PEFINDO and AAA(idn)/stable from PT Fitch Ratings Indonesia.[1]
This strategic cooperation between AdaKami and Bank OCBC NISP aims to drive innovation in the digital financial ecosystem and facilitate credit access, supporting the Indonesian economy while further expanding the Company's financing facility by 100 billion Rupiah. By capitalizing on FinVolution's extensive experience and resources in the region, AdaKami has grown into a regional market frontrunner accelerating the process of financial inclusion in the Indonesian market.
Mr. Tiezheng Li, President and Chief Executive Officer of FinVolution Group, commented, "The strategic partnership with Bank OCBC NISP further expands our funding base in the international markets and reinforces our successful transition to better-quality borrowers. In line with our objectives, we will proactively optimize our product mix and diversify business models, offering attractive interest rates while enhancing our technologies for credit risk assessment and customer acquisition. Moving forward, we are well positioned through extensive global partnerships to strengthen our international foothold and capture the enormous opportunities in the fintech space in Southeast Asia."
About FinVolution Group
FinVolution Group is a leading fintech platform in China and internationally connecting underserved borrowers with financial institutions. Established in 2007, the Company is a pioneer in China's online consumer finance industry and has developed innovative technologies and has accumulated in-depth experience in the core areas of credit risk assessment, fraud detection, big data and artificial intelligence. The Company's platform, empowered by proprietary cutting-edge technologies, features a highly automated loan transaction process, which enables a superior user experience. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had over 164.5 million cumulative registered users.
For more information, please visit: http://ir.finvgroup.com.
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For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
FinVolution Group
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Tel: +86 (21) 8030 3200 Ext. 8601
Email: ir@xinye.com
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Jenny Cai
Tel: +86 (10) 6508-0677
Email: finv@tpg-ir.com
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Brandi Piacente
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Today is Wednesday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2023. There are 312 days left in the year.
Today’s birthdays: Actor Paul Dooley is 95. Actor James Hong is 94. Actor John Ashton is 75. Actor Miou-Miou is 73. Actor Julie Walters is 73. Basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving is 73. Actor Ellen Greene is 72. Former Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is 71. Former White House adviser David Axelrod is 68. Actor Kyle MacLachlan is 64. World Golf Hall of Famer Vijay Singh is 60. Actor-comedian Rachel Dratch is 57. Actor Paul Lieberstein is 56. Actor Jeri Ryan is 55. Actor Thomas Jane is 54. TV host Clinton Kelly is 54. Actor Tamara Mello is 53. Actor-singer Lea Salonga is 52. Actor Jose Solano is 52. International Tennis Hall of Famer Michael Chang is 51. Rock musician Scott Phillips is 50. Actor Drew Barrymore is 48. Rock singer Tom Higgenson (Plain White T’s) is 44.
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In 1630, English colonists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony first sampled popcorn brought to them by a Native American named Quadequina for their Thanksgiving celebration.
In 1732, the first president of the United States, George Washington, was born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony.
In 1784, a US merchant ship, the Empress of China, left New York for the Far East to trade goods with China.
In 1935, it became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.
In 1959, the inaugural Daytona 500 race was held; although Johnny Beauchamp was initially declared the winner, the victory was later awarded to Lee Petty.
In 1967, more than 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, aimed at smashing a Vietcong stronghold near the Cambodian border. (Although the communists were driven out, they later returned.)
In 1980, the “Miracle on Ice” took place in Lake Placid, N.Y., as the United States Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets, 4-3. (The US team went on to win the gold medal.)
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In 1987, pop artist Andy Warhol died at a New York City hospital at age 58.
In 1997, scientists in Scotland announced they had succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named “Dolly.” (Dolly, however, was later put down after a short life marred by premature aging and disease.)
In 2010, Najibullah Zazi, accused of buying beauty supplies to make bombs for an attack on New York City subways, pleaded guilty to charges including conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction. (Zazi faced up to life in prison but spent nearly a decade after his arrest helping the US identify and prosecute terrorists; he was given a 10-year sentence followed by supervised release.)
In 2013, the Justice Department joined a lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong alleging the former seven-time Tour de France champion had concealed his use of performance-enhancing drugs and defrauded his longtime sponsor, the US Postal Service.
In 2016, the City Council of Charlotte, N.C., voted 7-4 to pass a new law allowing transgender people to choose public bathrooms that corresponded to their gender identity.
In 2018, defying his supporters in the National Rifle Association, President Trump said the nation should keep assault rifles out of the hands of anyone under 21. Authorities announced that the armed officer who was on duty at the Parkland, Fla., school where a shooter killed 17 people never went into the building to engage the gunman. The US women’s hockey team won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in South Korea, beating Canada 3-2 after a shootout tiebreaker.
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In 2020, Bernie Sanders scored a resounding win in Nevada’s presidential caucuses, cementing his status as the Democrats’ front-runner.
In 2021, the number of US deaths from COVID-19 topped 500,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Last year, the East-West faceoff over Ukraine escalated dramatically, with Russian lawmakers authorizing President Vladimir Putin to use military force outside his country and US President Biden and European leaders responding by slapping sanctions on Russian oligarchs and banks. (Russia would invade Ukraine two days later.) In Georgia, the three white men convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting are found guilty of federal hate crimes for violating Arbery’s civil rights and targeting him because he was Black. US women soccer players reached a landmark agreement with the sport’s American governing body to end a six-year legal battle over equal pay.
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Companies announce new multi-year strategic collaboration
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced a new multi-year strategic collaboration agreement. With AWS as its preferred cloud provider, S&P Global will enhance its cloud infrastructure, accelerate business growth, engineer new innovations for key industry segments, and help their customers navigate rapidly changing market conditions.
Building on AWS and S&P Global's longtime relationship, the new strategic collaboration will extend the delivery of advanced, secure, cloud-based services to more than 100,000 of S&P Global's government and enterprise customers in 43 countries around the world—further growing the 65% of application workloads it already runs on AWS. As part of the collaboration, S&P Global will also move its Capital IQ and remaining core data platforms to AWS by 2025 and develop new capabilities that enable its customers to evaluate risk and growth opportunities for their organizations.
The new agreement will expand S&P Global's use of world-class cloud infrastructure across its divisions, using AWS to improve data and product availability and increase efficiency and productivity for its employees and customers around the globe. S&P Global gives companies the data and insights to help them face increasingly complex challenges, more rapidly respond to market opportunities, and streamline business operations. S&P Global will bring together disparate data sets and products to deliver new advanced analytics and insights across a range of sectors, including climate, sustainability, energy transition, and private markets data, helping their customers find new, more sustainable ways to do business.
"This transformative collaboration with AWS exemplifies our focus on expanding the potential of data and technology, a key pillar in our strategy to power global markets," said Douglas L. Peterson, President and Chief Executive Officer of S&P Global. "Our unique data, analytics, and insights in combination with AWS' unmatched reliability, security, and technology will drive innovation across our businesses and create value for all of our mutual customers."
"Together with S&P Global, we will deliver new technologies that will help customers across all industries take advantage of advanced market data and innovate more rapidly," said Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Our mutual customers are looking for ways to continue to invent, diversify, and grow as they face today's challenging economic conditions. "With the new technologies developed by our organizations, government and enterprise customers from every market segment now have the tools to both innovate and navigate uncertainty."
The collaboration will see S&P Global work with AWS to develop cloud-based services, using decades of comprehensive market data and insights. This will provide customers with modern and scalable technology services for data discovery and customer integration, utilizing the latest in data science, analytics, and artificial intelligence. Jointly, S&P Global and AWS will deliver new insights, risk assessments, and predictive modeling to our customers faster and with greater granularity.
In addition, the companies are building on their previous strategic initiatives, such as the collaboration with S&P Global's Enterprise Data Management solution (EDM), and exploring new areas for collaboration on integrated go-to-market approaches, product development, channel distribution, and other potential commercial opportunities.
The collaboration reinforces S&P Global's efforts to optimize its data and technology assets and infrastructure, a cornerstone of the new strategic framework introduced during its 2022 Investor Day. S&P Global has increased its investment in technological innovation in recent years, establishing a leading role in artificial intelligence research and product delivery. Through the application of its proprietary capabilities, including those developed by Kensho, S&P Global is providing next-generation analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data visualization systems to the corporate, financial services, and intelligence markets.
As a part of their migration to the cloud, focus on cloud-native development, and emerging technologies, S&P Global has trained over 8,000 employees in 2022 and remains committed to investing in its people and providing technical training to help individuals to have a prosperous career in information technology.
About S&P Global
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) provides essential intelligence. We enable governments, businesses and individuals with the right data, expertise and connected technology so that they can make decisions with conviction. From helping our customers assess new investments to guiding them through ESG and energy transition across supply chains, we unlock new opportunities, solve challenges and accelerate progress for the world. We are widely sought after by many of the world's leading organizations to provide credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help the world's leading organizations plan for tomorrow, today.
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S&P Global
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Diana Kennedy, a tart-tongued British food writer devoted to Mexican cuisine, died Sunday. She was 99.
Kennedy spent much of her life learning and preserving the traditional cooking and ingredients of her adopted home, a mission that even in her 80s had her driving hundreds of miles across her adopted country in a rattling truck as she searched remote villages for elusive recipes.
Her nearly dozen cookbooks, including “Oaxaca al Gusto,” which won the 2011 James Beard Award for cookbook of the year, reflect a lifetime of groundbreaking culinary contributions and her effort to collect vanishing culinary traditions, a mission that began long before the rest of the culinary world was giving Mexican cooking the respect she felt it was due.
Her long-time friend Concepción Guadalupe Garza Rodríguez said that Kennedy died peacefully shortly before dawn Sunday at her home in Zitacuaro, about 100 miles west of Mexico City.
“Mexico is very grateful for her,” Garza Rodríguez said. Kennedy had had lunch at a local hotel on March 3 for her birthday, but during the past five weeks had mostly stayed in her room. Garza Rodríguez visited Kennedy last week and said she cried when they parted.
Mexico's Culture Ministry said via Twitter Sunday that Kennedy's “life was dedicated to discovering, compiling and preserving the richness of Mexican cuisine.”
“Diana understood as few do, that the conservation of nature is key to continue obtaining the ingredients that make it possible to keep creating the delicious dishes that characterize our cuisine,” the ministry said.
Her first cookbook, “The Cuisines of Mexico,” was written during long hours with home cooks across Mexico. It established Kennedy as the foremost authority on traditional Mexican cooking and remains the seminal work on the subject even four decades later. She described it as a gastronomy that humbled her and she credited those -- usually women -- who shared their recipes with her.
“Cooking teaches you that you’re not always in control,” she had said. “Cooking is life’s biggest comeuppance. Ingredients can fool you.”
She received the equivalent of knighthood in Mexico with the Congressional Order of the Aztec Eagle award for documenting and preserving regional Mexican cuisines. The United Kingdom also has honored her, awarding her a Member of the British Empire award for furthering cultural relations with Mexico.
Kennedy was born with an instinctive curiosity and love of food. She grew up in the United Kingdom eating what she called “good food, whole food,” if not a lot of food. During World War II, she was assigned to the Women Timber Corps, where food was simple and sometimes sparse — homemade bread, fresh cream, scones and berries on good days, nettle soup or buttered green beans when rations were lean.
Millions across Western Europe shared this simple sustenance, but for Kennedy these meals awakened an appreciation of flavor and texture that would last a lifetime.
She talked about her first mango — “I ate it in Jamaica’s Kingston harbor, standing in clear, blue warm sea, all that sweet, sweet juice” — the way some talk about their first crush.
Indeed, that first mango and her husband, Paul Kennedy, a New York Times correspondent, arrived in her life around the same time. He was on assignment in Haiti, she was traveling there. They fell in love and in 1957 she joined him in Mexico, where he was assigned.
Here a series of Mexican maids, as well as aunts, mothers and grandmothers of her new friends, gave Diana Kennedy her first Mexican cooking lessons — grinding corn for tamales, cooking rabbit in adobo. It was another culinary awakening. While her husband wrote about insurrections and revolutions, Kennedy traipsed a land that was, for her, “new, exciting and exotic,” sampling unique fruits, vegetables and herbs of various regions.
The couple moved to New York in 1966 when Paul Kennedy was dying of cancer.
Two years later, at the urging of New York Times food editor Craig Claiborne, she taught her first Mexican cooking class, hunting out ingredients in the Northeast to reproduce the bursting flavors of Mexico. Soon she was spending more of her time back in Mexico, establishing a retreat there that still serves as her home in the country.
In classes, cookbooks and lectures, her fundamental principal is simple: “There is never, ever, any excuse for bad food.”
She was known for her sharp-tongue commentary, even as her pioneering work helped turn Mexico into a culinary mecca for foodies and the world’s top chefs, and transformed a cuisine long dismissed as tortillas suffocated in heavy sauces, cheeses and sour cream.
She once told Jose Andres, James Beard Award winning chef and proprietor of an acclaimed Mexican restaurant, that his tamales were “bloody awful.”
She worried that famous chefs, who flocked to Mexico in recent years to study and experiment with the purity of the flora, fauna and flavors, were mixing the wrong ingredients.
“Many of them are using it as a novelty and do not know the things that go together,” she said. “If you are going to play around with ingredients, exotic ingredients, you’ve got to know how to treat them.”
Kennedy was fiercely private and guarded about who she let into her sustainable Mexican retreat near the city of Zitacuaro in the conflicted western state of Michoacan. No one was welcome unannounced. Cell phones were turned off and computers were kept in a writing studio. Her companions were her paid help, a staff who treated her like a dear friend, and several beloved — if somewhat fierce — dogs.
Growing in Kennedy’s vast and enchanting garden, remnants — and resurrections — of ancient culture climbed the stone walls. She worked hard to prevent the loss of local ingredients, creating a rolling farm of indigenous herbs and other produce. The growing continued in a vine-filled atrium in the center of her home, a steamy culinary paradise of vanilla, oregano, mint, bananas, and countless local herbs.
“Rebellious activist, an absolute defender of the environment, Diana Kennedy was and continues to be the best example of care for the environment and its biodiversity,” her editor Ana Luisa Anza wrote in a remembrance Sunday. She wrote that years ago Kennedy had set reaching the age of 100 as a goal to conclude her life’s work.
In 2019, the documentary “Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy,” showed a still feisty Kennedy relishing in the production of her garden and driving the bumpy roads of Zitacuaro.
In her later years, Kennedy had said she wanted to slow down, but couldn’t.
“There are so many more recipes out there, handed down mother to daughter that are going to be lost. There are seeds and herbs and roots that could disappear. There is absolutely so much more that needs to be done!” she said.
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DALLAS, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Winston & Strawn LLP today announced the addition of Scott Delaney as a partner in the firm's Dallas office. He joins the Transactions Department's Private Equity Transactions Practice and will have focused involvement with the firm's Energy & Infrastructure industry group.
Scott focuses his practice on corporate transactions for public and private companies, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, with a particular emphasis on the energy sector. His transactional experience includes acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, securitizations, and other investments and transactions across the energy spectrum, including in the traditional upstream and midstream oil and gas sectors and in the transitional energy sectors. Scott also assists in advising clients on general corporate matters, including operating and commercial contract matters.
"I am excited to join Winston and look forward to collaborating with my new colleagues to continue to grow the firm's energy and private equity platforms in Texas," said Scott. "Winston has a strong reputation for providing practical counsel to clients, and joining the firm's dedicated, experienced team will enable me to provide unmatched support to clients in all aspects of the energy sector."
Scott's arrival is part of Winston's strategic and ongoing commitment to building a team of private equity lawyers focused on serving the energy industry. That growing team includes other recently arrived Dallas lawyers, such as Partners Rodney Moore and Sam Peca, Of Counsel Scott Bailey, and Associate Luke Smith. Winston welcomed additional corporate lawyers with an energy focus over the past year, including Larry Murphy, Max Stubbs, and Ryan Hunsaker.
"Adding Scott further strengthens Winston's place as one of the go-to firms for adeptly managing complex energy transactions," said Bryan Goolsby, Dallas office managing partner. "His proven experience will only help us to expand our client base and the portfolio of services we provide to the energy industry."
Winston Chairman Tom Fitzgerald said, "Scott will be a welcome addition as we continue to meet our energy clients' legal and business needs."
Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with 16 offices located throughout North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. More information about the firm is available at www.winston.com.
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Rep. Nick LaLota is calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to freeze fellow New York Republican Rep. George Santos’s campaign accounts amid escalating scrutiny of the new lawmaker’s false claims before and during his successful House bid last year.
“To the extent there is actually any real money in the campaign account of Congressman George Santos, the funds should be immediately frozen by the United States Department of Justice or Federal Election Commission,” reads LaLota’s statement, which he posted on Twitter on Sunday. “If those federal agencies need more authority to do so, I’ll take the lead.”
LaLota, along with six other House Republicans, has called on Santos to resign over his falsehoods. LaLota also called for the House Ethics Committee to launch an investigation into Santos last month.
“Congressman Santos fraudulently solicited these funds and Santos shouldn’t be allowed to drain his campaign account while multiple authorities investigate the very fraud that induced these contributions,” LaLota said in the statement.
“After Congressman Santos receives the proper Due Process — such as a House Ethics investigation or criminal proceedings or both — the funds should be returned to the contributors he duped,” he added. “The DOJ or FEC must act now to ensure there is something to actually return to the victims of Santos’ financial scam.”
Santos has faced scrutiny over the past month since revelations that he fabricated large parts of his resume and biography were made public by news reporting. He admitted to lying about his experiences, including his education and previous employment, in an interview with The New York Post last month.
Since then, Santos has faced public scrutiny into his finances. In 2022, he donated $700,000 to his own campaign that apparently came from his $750,000 that came from his company, the Devolder Organization, according to his most recent disclosure report. But just two years earlier in his first unsuccessful run for Congress, he reported no assets and a $55,000 salary.
Reports from CNN and CBS News last month found that the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York was investigating Santos’s finances and financial disclosure filings. Last week, the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan ethics-watchdog, filed a complaint with the FEC to urge the agency to investigate Santos for allegedly violating campaign finance laws.
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TORONTO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Skyservice Business Aviation™, a leader in business aviation in North America, is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Ms. Tang as Chief Financial Officer.
Ms. Tang brings more than 25 years of experience in finance and business leadership to Skyservice. She is a CPA, CA and CFA and holds a Master of Science in Accounting degree from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to joining Skyservice, Ms. Tang was most recently Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, one of the largest publicly traded real estate companies in Canada.
"Skyservice is committed to investing in people, service, and innovation while providing the best in aviation safety," said Benjamin Murray, Skyservice's President and CEO. "The Board of Directors and I are delighted to welcome Qi to the organization. She is a seasoned finance executive with extensive experience in the real estate and infrastructure sectors as well as deep capital markets experience. Skyservice's leadership team has the winning blend of talents and expertise to take our firm to the next stage of growth."
Over her career, Ms. Tang has also held progressively senior finance executive positions with Dream Global REIT, Symphony Senior Living Inc., Chartwell Retirement Residences, Waterfront Toronto and KPMG. Ms. Tang is a Trustee of Dream Office REIT and a Corporate Director of Hardwoods Distribution Inc., as well as a member of the Board of Governors for a school in Toronto and a community member of the Capital Development Advisory Committee for the North York General Hospital Board of Governors in Toronto.
Skyservice is a North American leader in business aviation dedicated to innovation, responsible operations, safety, and service excellence. Skyservice is at the forefront of the business aviation industry with best-in-class facilities across North America. Our skilled maintenance teams, outstanding fixed base operation facilities, first-class aircraft management, charter services, aircraft sales and acquisition teams have provided world-class solutions and service for over 35 years. At Skyservice, we aim higher and reach further to best serve our clients. To learn more, visit http://www.skyservice.com/.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Joel Soriano scored 19 points and grabbed 15 rebounds to lead St. John's over Butler 76-63 on Wednesday in the first round of the Big East Conference Tournament.
Eight-seeded St. John's takes on top-seeded Marquette in Thursday's quarterfinals.
AJ Storr was 4 of 7 shooting and 6 of 8 from the free throw line to add 15 points for the Red Storm (18-14). Posh Alexander recorded 13 points and was 5-of-10 shooting, 3 for 7 from distance.
The ninth-seeded Bulldogs (14-17) were led by Simas Lukosius, who had 23 points and three steals. Jalen Thomas added 20 points, six rebounds and two steals for Butler. Myles Tate had 10 points.
St. John's led 44-29 at the break.
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ORN-101, an optimized development-stage in situ CAR program, shows tumor eradication in a mouse model at doses far lower than previously reported results
Orna's FoRCE screening platform has enabled the identification of oRNAs that drive high protein expression, creating broad value across all of Orna's programs
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Orna Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering a new investigational class of engineered circular RNA (oRNA) therapies, presented data on the progress of lead program ORN-101, a development-stage in situ CAR program, at the Protein Engineering Summit (PEGS) and at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.
The presentations include a session and talk at PEGS, as well as a poster presentation at ASGCT, which may be viewed on the Orna website here.
"Using the Orna FoRCE platform, we've been able to develop ORN-101, a potent anti-cancer circular RNA therapy delivered via LNP," said Robert Mabry, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Orna. "We have achieved 20-fold lower dosing in animal models compared to earlier versions of the product, allowing us the flexibility to administer multiple doses of our off-the-shelf immunotherapy – something that could allow us to treat more patients quickly and easily."
Synthetic Circular RNA as a New Therapeutic Modality
Elevated and durable protein expression – two features where mRNA falls short – are maximized with circular RNA in part due to Orna's discovery of novel internal ribosome entry site (IRES) elements necessary for translation. Compared to previously known IRES elements, Orna's library of IRES elements can be used to drive higher protein expression in desired cell type targets. oRNA, because of its shape, is more resistant to quick degradation in the body, is easier to manufacture and formulate in the lab, and is immunoquiescent. These desirable features further allow oRNA therapeutics to be developed for applications beyond infectious disease, including oncology and genetic disorders.
In situ CAR Therapy Using oRNA
Over the past four years, Orna has worked to develop a therapeutic class capable of delivering a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) to immune cells within a patient, eliminating the need for lymphodepletion typically required for engineered cell therapies, while providing off-the-shelf redosability in an autologous setting. ORN-101 combines oRNA and a proprietary LNP, and these latest data show ORN-101's tumor eradication ability after 2-3 doses in a mouse model, effective at 10-20-fold lower doses than Orna has previously reported. ORN-101 features high expression of the CAR driven by an optimized IRES element, selected by Orna's FoRCE platform to yield durable protein expression.
About ORN-101:
ORN-101, Orna's lead program, is a development-stage in situ CAR therapy designed to modify a patient's immune cells inside their body. Comprising an oRNA molecule packaged inside a proprietary lipid nanoparticle (LNP) formulation, this easily redosable format could avoid patient lymphodepletion and allow for reliable dose control, overcoming barriers of existing autologous ex vivo CAR-T therapies without sacrificing efficacy. Preclinical data demonstrates tumor suppression and eradication in animal models, suggesting the possibility that oRNA-LNP based cancer therapies could disrupt traditional CAR-T cellular therapies.
About Orna Therapeutics:
Orna Therapeutics is reshaping RNA therapeutics to open a new world of treatment possibilities. Orna's circular RNA (oRNA) is created in one step by self-circularization of an engineered linear RNA. In this form, oRNA enjoys unmatched advantages over traditional linear mRNA therapies including simplified production, increased protein expression, easier encapsulation into lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), and immunoquiescence. Orna's proprietary LNPs deliver the oRNA to specific areas of the body, such as immune cells. Founded in 2019 based on groundbreaking research from MIT, Orna was built by MPM Capital and its affiliate BioImpact Capital. To learn more visit: www.ornatx.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit Democratic National Committee headquarters on Monday as he looks to pep up staff and volunteers with just over two weeks to go before Election Day.
Biden is expected to deliver remarks that look to contrast his plan to lower drug costs for Americans while taking aim at a Republicans who he says will look to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits and look to make permanent the GOP’s 2017 changes to tax rates, according to a Democratic official.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview Biden's remarks, said Biden will also discuss job growth, an unemployment rate that hovers near 50-year lows, and declining gasoline prices during his remarks to the DNC's Washington offices.
Biden has stepped up his push in recent weeks to highlight his legislative wins for voters while trying to make the case that a Republican takeover of the House and Senate would lead to setbacks for American families.
Last week, he delivered a mix of policy and political speeches on gasoline prices, his bipartisan infrastructure bill, his push for student debt forgiveness, and the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's June abortion ruling and efforts by Republican state legislatures to restrict abortion access.
But his legislative wins come as stubborn inflation — consumer prices are up 8.2% from a year ago — continue to weigh heavily on Americans. A federal appeals court on Friday also issued an administrative stay temporarily blocking Biden's plan to cancel billions of dollars in federal student loans, throwing the program into limbo.
Republicans looking to wrest Democrats control of the House and Senate have sought to make the the election a referendum on Biden.
As a result, Biden has spent more time at fundraisers and touting his administration’s policy wins this election cycle as his approval ratings remain underwater, and many Democrats aren’t eager to stand by him on the campaign trail.
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Annual awards honor an elite group of women making a lasting impact in the media and ad tech industry
ATLANTA, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OneTrust, the market-defining leader for trust intelligence, is pleased to announce that Arshdeep Sood, Senior Solutions Engineer at OneTrust, has been named one of the 2023 Top Women in Media & Ad Tech by AdExchanger and AdMonsters. The annual awards recognize, celebrate, inspire, and bring together the women who are making an impact in the greater digital media and advertising technology community. Arshdeep, a passionate engineer and privacy expert, was named in the Tech Trailblazers category, which honors tech-focused women who are creating and improving ad tech and media products.
"It's an incredible privilege to be recognized among such talented and inspiring women," said Arshdeep Sood, Senior Solutions Engineer at OneTrust. "Women are still widely underrepresented in STEM roles like engineering, which makes the honor of Tech Trailblazer even more meaningful. Since the beginning of my career, I've devoted my passions to the dynamic realm of media and ad tech, focusing on trust and privacy-first experiences. Today, I'm proud to see my contributions propel innovation within the industry."
Arshdeep Sood, who holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Management of Technology Certificate from the Georgia Institute of Technology, is committed to delivering privacy-centric consumer experiences. With a wealth of industry experience and IAPP credentials, including CIPP/E, CIPM, and Fellow in Privacy (FIP), she has become a recognized leader in the field. Arshdeep specializes in the AdTech market and has trained with IAB in the programmatic landscape. In her role, she works closely with customers to guide their privacy journeys and innovate solutions to best meet their needs. Arshdeep is also a strong advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) and serves as the Chair of Employee Trust Groups (ETGs) at OneTrust.
"The Top Women in Media and Ad Tech Awards provide a platform to highlight the immense impact of women in the media and ad tech space. Their success has a lasting impact on their brands and markets; they are leaders, mentors, and change agents in the industry," said Bill Amstutz, Group Publisher of AdExchanger and AdMonsters. "We take great pride in celebrating their achievements."
About OneTrust
OneTrust is the trust intelligence cloud platform organizations use to transform trust from an abstract concept into a measurable competitive advantage. Organizations globally use OneTrust to enable the responsible use of data while protecting the privacy rights of individuals, implement and report on their cyber security program, make their social impact goals a reality, and create a speak up culture of trust. Over 14,000 customers use OneTrust's technology, including half of the Global 2,000. OneTrust currently ranks #24 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list of top private cloud companies in the world and employs over 2,000 people in regions across North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia.
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TORONTO (AP) _ Hut 8 Mining Corp. (HUT) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $44 million.
On a per-share basis, the Toronto-based company said it had net income of 24 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 5 cents per share.
The crypto currency mining company posted revenue of $42.1 million in the period.
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Central Maine Power Co. on Wednesday agreed to stretch its next rate increase in multiple steps across the next three years and is asking regulators to approve it.
The agreement among CMP, the Office of the Public Advocate, AARP Maine and other parties aims to mitigate the impact of CMP’s distribution rate increase of $67 million with four equal rises of $16.75 million. They are set to happen on July 1, 2023, Jan. 1 and July 1 of 2024 and Jan. 1, 2025.
The first hike on July 1 will increase the overall bill by about $1.67 per month for an average residential customer using 550 kilowatt hours of electricity per month. The distribution rate is one part of the electric bill covering the delivery of electricity.
The payment scheme is similar to one agreed to by Versant last week that delayed half of its distribution rate increase until January 2024. That increase was approved by the Maine Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday. CMP’s agreement is pending approval by the PUC.
Andrew Landry, deputy public advocate, said the settlement is not perfect but is a significant decrease from the $98.8 million in four payment steps that CMP initially asked for. The agreement Wednesday also eliminated requests by CMP to defer the costs of certain investments until later, which would have resulted in larger rate increases over the next two years, he said.
A major reason behind the rate increase request is the significant capital investments CMP is planning to improve customer service. CMP has been harshly criticized by ratepayers since a major windstorm in October 2017 led to the worst outage event in Maine history and a botched cutover of a new billing system at the same time. Both CMP and Versant have ranked at the bottom of J.D. Power customer satisfaction surveys for the past several years.
“To help ensure that such benefits are actually realized, the settlement agreement includes a provision that could impose financial penalties on the company if certain service quality levels are not achieved,” Public Advocate William Harwood said.
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Israel's fifth election in under four years may give right-wing former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu his return to power - though Tuesday's vote is still being counted.
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SUMMERVILLE, S.C., Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A total of $475K has been awarded to winning innovators across the country as part of 6 national technology challenges put on by Advanced Technology International (ATI). The challenges focused on issues of priority for the U.S. Government and national security, including: Energy, Infrastructure, Readiness, Medical, Biosecurity, Autonomy, Mobility, and Data Transformation. Out of nearly 800 submissions, 119 innovators from among startups, universities, and national labs were selected to make "Shark Tank"-style pitches from which 32 awards were made.
The Challenges included the:
- Security Innovation Challenge, made in conjunction with the Homeland Security Technology Consortium with $25K in funding.
- Readiness Innovation Challenge, in alignment with the government's simulation, training and readiness needs, with $50K in prize funding supported by ATI.
- Medical Innovation Challenge with $50K in first-round funding and $200K in second-round funding, in conjunction with the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Consortium, the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium, the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium and the Senior Healthcare Innovation Consortium.
- Urban Air Mobility Challenge, made in conjunction with the Vertical Lift Consortium with $50K in funding.
- America's DataHub Innovation Challenge, made in conjunction with America's DataHub Consortium with $50K in funding.
- National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge, made in conjunction with the Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy Consortium, the National Spectrum Consortium, and the Consortium for Rare Earths Technologies, with $50K in funding.
The challenges took place during the Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit & Expo, held in Washington DC from September 27-29 and organized by ATI's TechConnect Division. The TechConnect Division is responsible for expanding ATI's innovation ecosystem by scouting and vetting emerging technologies. To date, TechConnect has conducted over 200 innovation challenges, connecting over 20,000 innovations for industry and government clients, delivering over $25 billion in sourced government funds and over $250 billion in sourced industry funds.
"ATI's mission is to lessen the burden on government by finding, connecting, and managing the work of innovators to deliver solutions that meet the country's greatest needs. These challenges help us find innovators and emerging technologies so they can become part of the known innovation ecosystem, participate in our consortia, and expand the defense base," states ATI President and CEO Chris Van Metre. "We were thrilled with the quality of the submissions and congratulate all of our challenge winners and participants."
ATI, a public-service nonprofit based in Summerville, South Carolina, builds and manages collaborations that conduct research and development of new technologies to solve our nation's national security challenges. Fueled by a community of experts from industry, academia, and government, ATI accelerates impact by using the power of collaboration to help the federal government quickly acquire novel technologies. ATI is a subsidiary of Analytic Services, Inc. (ANSER), a public-service research institute organized as a nonprofit corporation, which is dedicated to informing decisions that shape the nation's future.
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Lows this morning ran 40-46, but we warmed to 55-55 for highs this afternoon.
Dry ridge will dominate through next week with flash drought conditions developing over the viewing area (like we saw in May-June 1994 prior to that Moderate traditional El Nino). This is a classic Omega Block with trough in the West & trough in the Southeast.
We will pick up some high & mid clouds Saturday to Monday from potential subtropical or tropical storm that will make a landfall in the Carolinas.
As a result of this massive ridge extending way to the north, the thick wildfire smoke will be way north of our area.
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It hasn’t rained in Seattle in 22 days.
And even 22 days ago, it was only a measly 0.12 inches, according to the National Weather Service.
Most areas across Western Washington have received less than 25% of their average precipitation for the past month. Quillayute even had its driest May since 1966, when the weather service first began record-keeping.
As we head into the end of the spring season, Seattle is “about 6 inches below normal for precipitation,” said Trent Davis, a meteorologist with the weather service in Seattle.
In those last 22 days since it rained in Seattle, the weather has been warm, then warmer, dry and more recently windy — all conditions that create a perfect storm for fire weather.
On Tuesday, continued breezy north to northeasterly winds will dust up gusts up to 20 mph, especially in the south Puget Sound area into Thurston and Lewis counties. It’s “a pretty dry wind pattern for us not coming off the ocean,” Davis said.
With little moisture on the ground, humidity levels are plummeting. They’ll be mostly below 30% on Tuesday across Western Washington, and some areas may even get below 20%, Davis said, noting that would be “very unusual” for the Seattle area. These numbers bring heightened risk for fires to start and spread, Davis said.
While winds continue to blow across the region and humidity plummets, high pressure will cause temperatures to bounce up through Wednesday, topping out in the mid to upper 80s for much of the Puget Sound area by Wednesday evening.
Unseasonably warm temperatures, low humidity, lack of precipitation and gusty winds mean fire conditions will persist across much of Western Washington into Thursday.
The weather service issued an early-season red flag warning for hot, dry and unstable conditions from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday for the west slopes of the Cascades.
A red flag warning means critical fire conditions are either imminent or occurring now, according to the weather service. Any fires that develop will likely spread quickly, and outdoor burning is not recommended.
King County’s fire marshal on Thursday issued a Stage 1 burn ban, barring yard debris and residential fires.
There is also a special weather statement for elevated fire weather conditions Tuesday for the Puget Sound lowland area, including Tacoma and Seattle.
As these conditions persist, the weather service urges people to properly discard cigarettes, keep vehicles off dry grass, avoid activities with open flames, avoid power equipment that creates sparks, obey burn bans and evacuate if fire or smoke is headed your way or officials tell you to do so.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two of the dominant players of their generation, Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic have each won MVP awards.
Neither player has won the ultimate prize, an NBA championship.
Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers and Jokic and the Denver Nuggets are on the brink of getting one round closer if their teams can win a pair of Game 6s on Thursday night.
The 76ers look to close out the Boston Celtics at home and advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2001, when their last league MVP — Allen Iverson — carried them on his 6-foot frame. Denver tries to win its series against the Suns in Phoenix.
The odds don't favor either team. The Celtics are 2-point favorites and the Suns are 3.5-point favorites to each win Game 6, per FanDuel Sportsbook.
Jokic has made the conference finals before, in 2020 when Denver lost to the eventual champion Lakers in five games at the NBA’s restart at Walt Disney World amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Embiid has been bounced from the second round of the playoffs four times his career. Both big men understand what a championship means to their legacy and how the time is now to at least get to the NBA Finals.
Jokic, who had 29 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists for his 10th career playoff triple-double in Game 5, said the Nuggets must be ready to match Kevin Durant and Phoenix's desperation in Game 6.
“It’s a must-win for them. We need to have the mentality it’s a must-win for us," he said. "We don’t want to come here and get to Game 7 and everything that happens. We don’t need to think about it as desperation — we need to think about it as playing aggressive, playing exactly how we played (in Game 5). Because I think we didn’t play desperate today. I think we played really aggressive and really smart.”
Embiid has scored 30 points in three straight games after sitting out Game 1 with a sprained right knee. Embiid flashed his MVP form in Game 5 when he ran down Jaylen Brown and blocked his shot from behind. The block snuffed a late Boston rally and coach Doc Rivers called it the “biggest play of the game.”
Embiid, however, said he wasn't “very good tonight.” If he starts playing as well as he thinks he can, the Celtics could be in for a long Game 6.
“I think I can be way better,” Embiid said. “As the series goes on, as everything goes on, I'll hopefully start to feel better and better and better.”
CELTICS AT 76ERS
76ers lead 3-2. Game 6, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, ESPN.
— NEED TO KNOW: The 76ers are trying to win it all on the 40th anniversary season of their last championship in 1983. The Sixers are 3-1 at home in the playoffs. They are 3-0 this postseason — and 2-0 this series — when reaching the 115-point mark. Philadelphia has won nine straight playoff games when scoring 115 points.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: James Harden. As Harden goes, so go the 76ers. Harden has orchestrated playoff masterpieces, and the 76ers have been at their worst when he has off nights. Against Boston in Games 1 and 4, Harden became only the third player in the last 25 postseasons with multiple go-ahead 3-pointers in the final 20 seconds of a game in a single playoff series.
“We have the MVP on our team, and everybody else is just kind of figuring it out,” Harden said.
— INJURY WATCH: Joe Embiid continues to play with a sprained right knee that might have kept him out of these games during the regular season.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Boston. The defending Eastern Conference champions are facing an elimination game but have confidence in knowing they already won in Philly. Jayson Tatum scored 27 points and Jaylen Brown had 23 in a 114-102 win in Game 3 that spoiled Embiid's MVP ceremony. The Celtics know if they can force a Game 7, they should have the edge at home even after losing two there already.
NUGGETS AT SUNS
Denver leads 3-2. Game 6, 10 p.m. EDT, Thursday, ESPN.
— NEED TO KNOW: The home team has won every game in this series. If the Suns can keep that going, the series would shift Sunday for a decisive Game 7 in Denver, where the top-seeded Nuggets boast a 40-7 record, including 6-0 in the playoffs. Of the environment in Denver, Suns hot-shooting guard Devin Booker simply said: “They play well at home. They’ve done this all year.” Jokic is having a big series against the Suns, averaging 35 points, 13.8 rebounds and 10 assists.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: Bruce Brown, who came off the bench in Game 5 to score 25 points for the Nuggets. For his elevated play, Brown credited Lakers shooting guard Lonnie Walker IV, who came off the bench to score 15 points — all in the fourth quarter — in a Game 4 win Monday over the Golden State Warriors in the other Western Conference semifinal series. Walker and Brown were college teammates at Miami. “That’s a true professional right there,” Brown said of Walker.
— INJURY WATCH: Suns point guard Chris Paul remains day to day with a strained left groin. “I haven’t really checked on him, if he’s ready to go full tilt yet, but I see him out there shooting and getting ready,” said Booker, who insisted his ankle felt fine after a fall in Game 5.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Booker and Kevin Durant. This is what constitutes an “off” night for Booker these days — 8 of 19 shooting from the floor for 28 points in Game 5. He shot 79% (34 of 43) over both games in Phoenix. Durant had 26 points on 10 of 24 shooting on Tuesday. He also picked up a technical foul for pushing Jokic near the Suns' bench during a mini-kerfuffle. The talented tandem of Durant and Booker lead the league in minutes played in this postseason, with Durant averaging 42.9 and Booker 42.3. “Every great player in this league is playing around the same amount of minutes as we are. But it’s always a topic with me and him for some reason,” Durant said. “But everybody’s playing 40-plus minutes in the playoffs. You’ve just got to dig deep.”
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- CHMP positive opinion is based on results from three Phase 3 studies: two for induction and one for maintenance1,2
- Crohn's disease is a chronic, systemic disease that manifests as inflammation within the gastrointestinal tract, causing persistent diarrhea, abdominal pain and can require urgent medical care3,4
- If approved, risankizumab will be the first specific IL-23 inhibitor for the treatment of Crohn's disease in the European Union (EU)
- The European Commission decision is expected in the fourth quarter of 2022. This anticipated approval would mark the third indication for risankizumab in the EU
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today announced the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CMHP) adopted a positive opinion recommending the approval of risankizumab (SKYRIZI®, 600 mg intravenous [IV] induction and 360 mg subcutaneous [SC] maintenance therapy) for the treatment of adults with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease who have had inadequate response, lost response or were intolerant to conventional or biologic therapy.
"We continue to raise the bar in researching treatments for immune-mediated gastroenterological conditions through more stringent and innovative clinical trial design, such as the first time a Phase 3 trial has reported co-primary endpoints, endoscopic response and clinical remission," said Neil Gallagher, M.D., Ph.D., vice president, development, chief medical officer, AbbVie. "With the recent CHMP recommendation for risankizumab in Crohn's disease, we're getting closer toward helping patients find sufficient disease control for this disruptive condition."
AbbVie's application for the approval of risankizumab in Crohn's disease is supported by data from three Phase 3 clinical trials — ADVANCE, MOTIVATE (induction studies) and FORTIFY (maintenance study).1,2 Across all three studies, significantly more patients treated with risankizumab achieved the co-primary endpoints of endoscopic response and clinical remission.1,2,5-10 This includes statistically significant improvements in these endpoints at week 12 compared to placebo with 600 mg intravenous infusions for the ADVANCE and MOTIVATE induction studies.1,8,9 Additionally, a significantly greater proportion of patients treated with risankizumab 360 mg subcutaneous injections achieved endoscopic response and clinical remission at 52 weeks compared to placebo (patients treated with placebo after risankizumab induction) in the FORTIFY maintenance study.2,10 Safety results of risankizumab in Crohn's disease were consistent with the known safety profile of risankizumab, with no new safety risks observed.1,2,8-13
"Living with Crohn's disease can pose many challenges and significantly impact a patient's health-related quality of life," said Marc Ferrante, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium. "Risankizumab could be an encouraging option for adult patients that continue to have moderately to severely active Crohn's disease and I look forward to the European Commission's final decision."
Use of risankizumab in Crohn's disease is not approved in the European Union, and its safety and efficacy remain under evaluation.
Risankizumab (SKYRIZI) is part of a collaboration between Boehringer Ingelheim and AbbVie, with AbbVie leading development and commercialization globally.
About Crohn's Disease
Crohn's disease is a chronic, systemic disease that manifests as inflammation within the gastrointestinal tract, causing persistent diarrhea and abdominal pain.3,4 It is a progressive disease, meaning it gets worse over time in a substantial proportion of patients or may develop complications that require urgent medical care, including surgery.3,4 Because the signs and symptoms of Crohn's disease are unpredictable, it causes a significant burden on people living with the disease—not only physically, but also emotionally and economically.14,15
About the ADVANCE and MOTIVATE Inductions Studies, and the FORTIFY Maintenance Study1,2,8-10
The three Phase 3 studies are multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies to evaluate the efficacy and safety of risankizumab 600 mg and 1200 mg as induction therapy, and risankizumab 180 mg and 360 mg as maintenance therapy in subjects with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease. Topline results of the ADVANCE and MOTIVATE induction studies were announced in January 2021 and topline results of the FORTIFY maintenance study were announced in June 2021. More information can be found on www.clinicaltrials.gov (ADVANCE: NCT03105128; MOTIVATE: NCT03104413, FORTIFY: NCT03105102).
About SKYRIZI® (risankizumab)
SKYRIZI is an interleukin-23 (IL-23) inhibitor that selectively blocks IL-23 by binding to its p19 subunit.11,16 IL-23, a cytokine involved in inflammatory processes, is thought to be linked to a number of chronic immune-mediated diseases, including Crohn's disease.11,16 The approved dose for SKYRIZI for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis and active psoriatic arthritis in the European Union is 150 mg (either as two 75 mg prefilled syringe injections or one 150 mg prefilled pen or prefilled syringe) administered by subcutaneous injections at week 0 and 4 and every 12 weeks thereafter.11 The use of risankizumab in Crohn's disease is not approved in the European Union and its safety remains under review with the global regulatory authorities. Phase 3 trials of SKYRIZI in psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are ongoing.12,13,17
EU Indications and Important Safety Information about SKYRIZI® (risankizumab)11
SKYRIZI is indicated for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in adults who are candidates for systemic therapy. SKYRIZI, alone or in combination with methotrexate (MTX), is indicated for the treatment of active psoriatic arthritis in adults who have had an inadequate response or who have been intolerant to one or more disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs).
SKYRIZI is contraindicated in patients with hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients. SKYRIZI may increase the risk of infection. In patients with a chronic infection, a history of recurrent infection, or known risk factors for infection, SKYRIZI should be used with caution. Treatment with SKYRIZI should not be initiated in patients with any clinically important active infection until the infection resolves or is adequately treated.
Prior to initiating treatment with SKYRIZI, patients should be evaluated for tuberculosis (TB) infection. Patients receiving SKYRIZI should be monitored for signs and symptoms of active TB. Anti-TB therapy should be considered prior to initiating SKYRIZI in patients with a history of latent or active TB in whom an adequate course of treatment cannot be confirmed.
Prior to initiating therapy with SKYRIZI, completion of all appropriate immunizations should be considered according to current immunization guidelines. If a patient has received live vaccination (viral or bacterial), it is recommended to wait at least 4 weeks prior to starting treatment with SKYRIZI. Patients treated with SKYRIZI should not receive live vaccines during treatment and for at least 21 weeks after treatment.
The most frequently reported adverse reactions were upper respiratory infections. Commonly (greater than or equal to 1/100 to less than 1/10) reported adverse reactions included tinea infections, headache, pruritus, fatigue and injection site reactions.
This is not a complete summary of all safety information.
See SKYRIZI full summary of product characteristics (SmPC) at www.ema.europa.eu.
Globally, prescribing information varies; refer to the individual country product label for complete information.
About AbbVie in Gastroenterology
With a robust clinical trial program, AbbVie is committed to cutting-edge research to drive exciting developments in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), like ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. By innovating, learning and adapting, AbbVie aspires to eliminate the burden of IBD and make a positive long-term impact on the lives of people with IBD. For more information on AbbVie in gastroenterology, visit https://www.abbvie.com/our-science/therapeutic-focus-areas/immunology/immunology-focus-areas/gastroenterology.html.
About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Instagram.
Forward-Looking Statements
Some statements in this news release are, or may be considered, forward-looking statements for purposes of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project" and similar expressions, among others, generally identify forward-looking statements. AbbVie cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, failure to realize the expected benefits from AbbVie's acquisition of Allergan plc ("Allergan"), failure to promptly and effectively integrate Allergan's businesses, competition from other products, challenges to intellectual property, difficulties inherent in the research and development process, adverse litigation or government action, changes to laws and regulations applicable to our industry and the impact of public health outbreaks, epidemics or pandemics, such as COVID-19. Additional information about the economic, competitive, governmental, technological and other factors that may affect AbbVie's operations is set forth in Item 1A, "Risk Factors," of AbbVie's 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as updated by its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. AbbVie undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking statements as a result of subsequent events or developments, except as required by law.
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- D'Haens G., et al. Risankizumab as Induction Therapy for Crohn's Disease. Lancet.
- Ferrante M., et al. Risankizumab as Maintenance Therapy for Crohn's Disease. Lancet.
- The Facts about Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America. 2014. Available at: https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/sites/default/files/2019-02/Updated%20IBD%20Factbook.pdf. Accessed on January 11, 2022.
- Crohn's disease. Symptoms and Causes. Mayo Clinic. 2022. Available at: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/crohns-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20353304. Accessed on January 11, 2022.
- AbbVie. Data on File: ABVRRTI71474.
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- A Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Risankizumab in Participants With Moderately to Severely Active Crohn's Disease. ClinicalTrials.gov. 2020. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT03105128. Accessed on December 18, 2020.
- A Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Risankizumab in Participants With Moderately to Severely Active Crohn's Disease Who Failed Prior Biologic Treatment. ClinicalTrials.gov. 2020. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT03104413. Accessed on December 18, 2020.
- A Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Risankizumab in Participants With Crohn's Disease. ClinicalTrials.gov. 2021. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03105102. Accessed May 21, 2021.
- SKYRIZI [Summary of Product Characteristics]. AbbVie Ltd. Available at: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/product-information/skyrizi-epar-product-information_en.pdf.
- A Study Comparing Risankizumab to Placebo in Participants With Active Psoriatic Arthritis Including Those Who Have a History of Inadequate Response or Intolerance to Biologic Therapy(ies) (KEEPsAKE2). ClinicalTrials.gov. 2022. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03671148. Accessed on January 13, 2022.
- A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Induction Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Risankizumab in Participants With Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis. ClinicalTrials.gov. 2022. Available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT03398148. Accessed on January 13, 2022.
- Kaplan, G. The global burden of IBD: from 2015 to 2025. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2015 Dec; 12(12):720-7. Doi: 10.1038/nrgastro.2015.150.
- The Economic Costs of Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. Access Economics Pty Limited. 2007. Available at: https://crohnsandcolitis.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Deloitte-Access-Economics-Report.pdf. Accessed on January 11, 2022.
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LANCASTER, Pa., Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Burnham Holdings, Inc., (Pink Sheets: BURCA) announced today that Douglas S. Brossman has announced his retirement as CEO of the Company, effective April 24, 2023, after a fifteen-year career with the company. Mr. Brossman will continue to serve as a Director of Burnham Holdings, Inc.
Christopher R. Drew, currently President and Chief Operating Officer, will become Chief Executive Officer of Burnham Holdings, Inc., effective April 24th, 2023. Mr. Drew will continue in his current role and report to Mr. Brossman until that time.
Mr. Drew graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in 1989, and the New York University Stern School of Business with an MBA in 1994. He first joined Burnham Holdings, Inc. in 1989 and has served in a variety of positions during his tenure with the organization. Notably, Drew led the startup of the Thermal Solutions Products business in 1996 and has served as President of multiple Burnham Holdings' subsidiaries including Thermal Solutions Products, Burnham Commercial and US Boiler Company.
Drew brings extensive knowledge of the HVAC industry to the position. He has been a long-standing participant in the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) and continues to serve as an Ex-Officio member of the AHRI Board of Directors after previously serving as Treasurer and Chairman.
Burnham Holdings Inc. is also pleased to announce several other additions to its executive management team. Melissa Devitz has been promoted to Vice President of Human Resources. Paul D. Spradling has been promoted to Vice President of Operations, and Bryan O'Toole has been promoted to Vice President of Business Development.
Burnham Holdings, Inc. is the parent company of numerous subsidiaries that are leading domestic manufacturers of boilers and related HVAC products and accessories (including furnaces, radiators and combined heat and power systems), for residential, commercial and industrial applications. Subsidiaries of Burnham Holdings, Inc. provide high-value, high-quality products, backed by superior service. Products are manufactured at plants in the East, South, and Midwest. Burnham Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries employ approximately 850 employees, over 350 of which are located in Lancaster County, PA.
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