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Several of Wall Street's Largest Firms Sign Up to Learn New Skills Amid New Era of Hybrid Communication
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kelley Group, Intl., a leading provider of training and coaching to the financial services industry, announces the launch of its fall 2022 North American speaking tour, an industry-wide event hosted by co-founders Sarano and Brooke Kelley. Several of Wall Street's largest firms have already reserved dates for the multi-city tour, which currently includes engagements in Washington DC, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Diego and Los Angeles. Financial firms interested in attending The Kelley Group's North American tour can visit: www.TheKelleyGroup.net/speaking-tour/.
"After weathering two years of the pandemic, many advisors were forced to use a shoot-from-the-hip or a make-things-up-as-you-go sales approach due to a lack of advanced training," said Sarano Kelley, co-founder of The Kelley Group. "Clients have experienced tremendous volatility and, in some cases, personal losses and are craving authentic communication from their advisors. However, many advisors lack the high-level training needed to effectively do this, and often fail to fully leverage the abundance of communication mediums now available to them in this hybrid world. Utilizing our two-decades of research and practical application, we've identified the missing marketing link that can successfully be applied to every communication methodology."
Throughout the tour, The Kelleys will arm financial advisors with skills to effectively communicate with clients and prospects using the plethora of mediums available to them, including face-to-face meetings, email, texts, social media, webinars and seminars. The goal is to empower advisors with the tools to:
- Turn personal and professional networks into new clients without potentially damaging those relationships.
- Return to the office with confidence and motivation to recognize, build, and expand business opportunities.
- Understand the need for "authentic communication" and howto effectively manage a wide range of difficult or sensitive conversations in today's turbulent financial environment.
- Build a network of advocates who are eager to refer to prospects and welcome them into additional networking opportunities.
"Advisors who are trained in authentic communication are better able to recognize a client or prospect's verbal and non-verbal cues, putting them in a better position to dig deeper and to truly understand their concerns, fears, frustrations and dreams for the future," said Brooke Kelley, co-founder of The Kelley Group. "This unique and powerful approach helps advisors overcome objections and changes the way clients or prospects relate to their own concerns or issues. As masters of communication, advisors will develop an almost instant rapport with prospects and strengthen relationships with clients."
Supporting Statistics
- Attesting to the increased use of today's "hybrid" communication, a recent study reported that while 67 percent of advisors had seldom or never held virtual meetings prior to the pandemic, today most have since interfaced with clients virtually out of necessity. Now, an impressive eight out of ten advisors plan to continue the trend.1
- Clients also have climbed aboard the new "norm," with 57 percent saying they prefer the convenience of connecting with their advisor virtually, but still want that occasional face-to-face connection. However, while enjoying those cozy stay-at-home meetings, 22% have found the communication and outcome of those events to be less than desirable.2
Sarano Kelley has been rated the number one speaker by the Securities Industry Association at the Wharton School of Business and was previously a media skills coach to the White House Fellows. Brooke Kelley coaches executives listed to Forbes' and Barron's Top 50 as well as senior leaders at the major wire house firms. She is pursuing her master's at USC and her work has been featured on PBS, MSN, CNN, and Fox.
To learn more about how The Kelley Group's North American tour can benefit your financial organization, visit: www.TheKelleyGroup.net/speaking-tour/.
The Kelley Group is the financial services industry's leading provider of speaking, top-ranked coaching, and world-class training to elite advisers and senior managers throughout the premier North American financial institutions and independent channels. Co-founders Sarano and Brooke Kelley regularly speak about their breakthrough processes for producing tangible business-growth results. Founded in 1996, the Kelleys have trained more than 250,000 financial professionals from all aspects of the industry. They have authored three books together, including Reversing the Deal Flow: The Secret to Prospects Calling You to Become Clients; The Game: Winning Your Life in 90 Days; and the recently revised "how-to" book on recruiting, A Guide to the Recruiting Conundrum. The Kelley Group was also named to ThinkAdvisor's 2022 LUMINARIES class for the "Thought Leadership and Education" category. For more information, visit http://www.thekelleygroup.net.
1 Developing and Maintaining Client Trust and Commitment in a Rapidly Changing Environment https://www.financialplanningassociation.org/learning/research/client-communication
2 Ibid
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The 2024 Cadillac Celestiq EV flagship is a step toward the future for the General Motors luxury brand, but it also resurrects a bit of the past in the form of the Cadillac Goddess mascot.
A relic of the days when hood ornaments were fashionable, the Cadillac Goddess appeared on the hoods of various models from 1930 to 1956, and made a brief comeback on the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham. It isn’t being used as a hood ornament anymore (that probably wouldn’t be great for aerodynamics, though the issue hasn’t stopped Rolls-Royce from using one) but the same female figure does appear on the Celestiq.
You can find the Goddess in a trim piece on the Celeste’s front quarter panel, within the infotainment controller on the center console, on a plaque on the driver’s side door sill, and in the charge port, where a lit image of the mascot indicates the car is charging.
The front quarter panel piece is milled from billet aluminum, surrounding a Goddess molded in glass. The infotainment controller also features a glass centerpiece with an image of the Goddess, surrounded by an aluminum dial that turns independent of the Goddess, ensuring the image always remains upright.
Automotive mascots came into vogue in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when the invention of instrument-cluster temperature gauges left room for hood ornaments atop radiators, where temperature gauges were previously located.
The original Cadillac Goddess was designed by William N. Schnell of Ternstedt Manufacturing Company, a GM subsidiary responsible for the automaker’s brightwork, between 1928 and 1929. It was used at first alongside another mascot, the Heron, but the latter only lasted a few years.
The Goddess first appeared on the Cadillac V-16 flagship. Its use was expanded across the lineup following a 1933 redesign by Chris J. Klein and John R. Morgan, also of Ternstedt Manufacturing.
Cadillac redesigned the Goddess again in 1941, but use of this version was cut short by World War II. Further updates occurred in the 1950s under the supervision of legendary GM design boss Harley Earl, but the Goddess was retired at the end of the decade. Cadillac began planning to bring it back in 2016 as part of a new design direction heralded by the Escala concept, which debuted at Pebble Beach that year.
A revised version of the Goddess inspired by the 1933 design will be used solely on the Celestiq to denote the big electric hatchback’s exclusivity. Scheduled to go on sale in 2024, the Celestiq will start well north of $300,000 and will be hand-built to a degree, allowing for a high level of personalization. It will still pack plenty of technology, though, including a 55-inch dash-wide digital display and GM’s Ultra Cruise driver-assist system.
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US mass killings linked to extremism spiked over last decade
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of U.S. mass killings linked to extremism over the past decade was at least three times higher than the total from any other 10-year period since the 1970s, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League.
The report, provided to The Associated Press ahead of its public release Thursday, also found that all extremist killings identified in 2022 were linked to right-wing extremism, with an especially high number linked to white supremacy. They include a racist mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 Black shoppers dead and a mass shooting that killed five people at an LGBT nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
“It is not an exaggeration to say that we live in an age of extremist mass killings,” the report from the group’s Center on Extremism says.
Between two and seven extremism-related mass killings occurred every decade from the 1970s to the 2000s, but in the 2010s that number skyrocketed to 21, the report found.
The trend has since continued with five extremist mass killings in 2021 and 2022, as many as there were during the first decade of the new millennium.
The number of victims has risen as well. Between 2010 and 2020, 164 people died in ideological extremist-related mass killings, according to the report. That’s much more than in any other decade except the 1990s, when the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people.
Extremist killings are those carried out by people with ties to extreme movements and ideologies.
Several factors combined to drive the numbers up between 2010 and 2020. There were shootings inspired by the rise of the Islamic State group as well as a handful targeting police officers after civilian shootings and others linked to the increasing promotion of violence by white supremacists, said Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the ADL’s Center on Extremism.
The center tracks slayings linked to various forms of extremism in the United States and compiles them in an annual report. It tracked 25 extremism-related killings last year, a decrease from 33 the year before.
Ninety-three percent of the killings in 2022 were committed with firearms. The report also noted that no police officers were killed by extremists last year, for the first time since 2011.
With the waning of the Islamic State group, the main threat in the near future will likely be white supremacist shooters, the report found. The increase in the number of mass killing attempts, meanwhile, is one of the most alarming trends in recent years, said Center on Extremism Vice President Oren Segal.
“We cannot stand idly by and accept this as the new norm,” Segal said.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones testified Wednesday that he now understands it was irresponsible of him to declare the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax and that he now believes it was “100% real."
Speaking a day after the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the 2012 attack testified about the suffering, death threats and harassment they've endured because of what Jones has trumpeted on his media platforms, the Infowars host told a Texas courtroom that he definitely thinks the attack happened.
“Especially since I’ve met the parents. It’s 100% real,” Jones said at his trial to determine how much he and his media company, Free Speech Systems, owe for defaming Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis. Their son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 students and six educators who were killed in the attack in Newtown, Connecticut, which was the deadliest school shooting in American history.
But Heslin and Lewis said Tuesday that an apology wouldn’t suffice and that Jones needed to be held accountable for repeatedly spreading falsehoods about the attack. They are seeking at least $150 million in the trial, which was held to determine how much Jones and his media company, Free Speech Systems, must pay for defaming Heslin and Lewis.
Jones — who has portrayed the lawsuit against him as an attack on his First Amendment rights — told the jury that any compensation above $2 million “will sink us,” but added: “Ï think it’s appropriate for whatever you decide what you want to do.”
Testimony in the trial, which is in its second week, concluded at around midday Wednesday.
During closing arguments Wednesday afternoon, Jones' attorney Andino Reynal said the plaintiffs didn't prove that his client's actions and words caused actual harm to Heslin and Lewis. He said it’s fair to infer that someone else “weaponized” what Jones has said about Sandy Hook and “convinced them that Alex Jones was responsible for their grief.”
Jones was the only person who testified in his own defense. His attorney asked him if he now understands it was “absolutely irresponsible” to push the false claims that the massacre didn’t happen and no one died.
Jones said he does, but added, “They (the media) won’t let me take it back.”
He also complained that he’s been “typecast as someone that runs around talking about Sandy Hook, makes money off Sandy Hook, is obsessed by Sandy Hook.”
Under a withering cross-examination from attorney Mark Bankston, Jones acknowledged his history of raising conspiracy claims regarding other mass tragedies, from the Oklahoma City and Boston Marathon bombings to the mass shootings in Las Vegas and Parkland, Florida.
Bankston then went after Jones’ credibility, showing an Infowars video clip from last week when a host — not Jones — claimed the trial was rigged and featured a photo of the judge in flames. Then came another clip of Jones asking if the jury was selected from a group of people “who don’t know what planet” they live on. Jones said he didn’t mean that part literally.
Bankston said Jones hadn’t complied with court orders to provide text messages and emails for pretrial evidence gathering. Jones said, “I don’t use email,” then was showed one gathered from another source that came from his email address. He replied: “I must have dictated that.”
At one point, Bankston informed Jones that his attorneys had mistakenly sent Bankston the last two years' worth of texts from Jones’ cellphone.
The attorney also showed the court an email from an Infowars business officer informing Jones that the company had earned $800,000 gross in selling its products in a single day, which would amount to nearly $300 million in a year. Jones said that was the company’s best day in sales.
Jones' testimony came a day after Heslin and Lewis told the courtroom in Austin, where Jones and his companies are based, that Jones and the false hoax claims he and Infowars pushed made their lives a “living hell” of death threats, online abuse and harassment.
They led a day of charged testimony Tuesday that included the judge scolding the bombastic Jones for not being truthful with some of what he said under oath.
In a gripping exchange, Lewis spoke directly to Jones, who was sitting about 10 feet away. Earlier that day, Jones was on his broadcast program telling his audience that Heslin is “slow” and being manipulated by bad people.
At one point, Lewis asked Jones: “Do you think I’m an actor?”
“No, I don’t think you’re an actor,” Jones responded before the judge admonished him to be quiet until called to testify.
Heslin told the jury about holding his son with a bullet hole through his head, even describing the extent of the damage to his son’s body. A key segment of the case is a 2017 Infowars broadcast that said Heslin didn’t hold his son.
The jury was shown a school picture of a smiling Jesse taken two weeks before he was killed. The parents didn’t receive the photo until after the shooting. They described how Jesse was known for telling classmates to “run!” which likely saved lives.
Jones initially took the stand later Tuesday. At one point the judge sent the jury out of the courtroom and strongly scolded Jones for telling the jury he had complied with pretrial evidence gathering even though he didn’t and that he is bankrupt, which has not been determined. The plaintiffs' attorneys were furious about Jones mentioning he is bankrupt, which they worry will taint the jury's decisions about damages.
“This is not your show,” Judge Maya Guerra Gamble told Jones. “Your beliefs do not make something true. You are under oath.”
Last September, the judge admonished Jones in her default judgment over his failure to turn over documents requested by the Sandy Hook families. A court in Connecticut issued a similar default judgment against Jones for the same reasons in a separate lawsuit brought by other Sandy Hook parents.
At stake in the trial is how much Jones will pay. The jurors will consider damages in two phases. Once they determine whether Jones should pay the parents compensation for defamation and emotional distress, they must then decide if he must also pay punitive damages. That portion will involve a separate mini-trial involving Jones and financial experts testifying about his and his company’s net worth.
Jones has already tried to protect Free Speech Systems financially. The company, which is Infowars' parent company, filed for federal bankruptcy protection last week. Sandy Hook families have separately sued Jones over his financial claims, arguing that the company is trying to protect millions owned by Jones and his family through shell entities.
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Betting on weather takes off
NEW YORK - When it comes to the weather, all bets are off. Or are they?
"It's one of those things where the house always wins," says John Holden of Oklahoma State University.
Weather betting is becoming a thing and betters are doubling down.
"Weather betting is effectively like sports betting," says John Holden.
Holden is an associate professor at Oklahoma State University. He is an expert in sports policy and explains why many people are getting into the betting game.
"People will place a bet on ‘Will we have rainfall?’, or ‘How much snow will a certain place get?’, or ‘What will be the first day of snowfall?’," Holden says.
Weather betting emerged and gained popularity during the pandemic.
"When the pandemic hit and sports shut down in March, most people will remember the NCAA tournament was canceled and within a day virtually everything shut down. There was nothing to bet on. The sports world naturally shut down and sports books were looking for something to attract customers. One of the popular things that emerged was betting on Russian table tennis and another was betting on the weather," says Holden.
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How does weather betting work?
"There will be a proposition like, ‘Will there be rain on this day?’ and then individuals can select yes or no. Much like in over under betting for sports, the bookmaker sets a line where the total points can either go over or under and the better selects which will occur."
Betting laws are strict in the U.S. and at the moment, weather betting is not regulated. However, it is allowed in places like Canada where sportsbooks are taking bets on the weather.
Weather influences the gambling industry in another way.
"If there is a sport, and it's outside, I forecast for it," says Kevin Roth of Rotogrinders.com.
Kevin Roth is a Sports Meteorologist with RotoGrinders.com, a daily fantasy sports community that gives betters information on what sports bets to play and how to play them.
"While not every game is going to have a big impact from the weather, before you place every bet you should know what kind of weather you're getting for that game," says Roth.
Roth provides forecasts for a variety of sports events that betters can use to determine their wagers.
"There's of course rainouts, which you don't get in most other sports," Roth says. "In baseball, you can get games completely wiped away...you can have rain approaching in the 5th inning and it can delay the game or end the game early."
According to Roth, winds can also blow a bet.
"Are those winds blowing out to center to help carry a home run ball? Are the winds blowing in to suppress home runs?" Roth says.
And then there's temperature.
"If it's 90 degrees, the atmosphere column is stretched...that's very thin air when it's hot like that and the ball carries a lot farther," Roth says. "If it's 40 degrees, and you hit it just as far, that cold dense air keeps the ball from leaving the ballpark and really decreases the home runs."
This was noticeable last summer when New York Yankees' Aaron Judge racked up many home runs to eventually break the American League's home run record.
Golf is an all-day event whereby players tee off at different times. It is important to know what the winds are doing, and when your preferred golfer is teeing off.
Even good weather can have an impact. While a sunny day may seem ideal, it can actually make a course harder for golfers to play.
"If you get a beautiful sunny day, well that actually dries out the course and makes it play faster, it makes it harder," Roth says. "Whereas, if you get some rain in the morning or it's cloudy and overcast, that softens up the course. It makes for easier putting and approach shots."
So whether you're betting on the forecast or using a forecast to place your bet, one thing is for sure, the weather is always a gamble!
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Thursday for a robust international force to help combat Haiti’s armed gangs and restore security in the impoverished nation, saying that a U.N. expert’s estimate that Haiti needs up to 2,000 additional anti-gang police officers is no exaggeration.
Stressing that the U.N. is not calling for a military force or a political mission, Guterres appealed to U.N. Security Council members and potential contributing countries “to act now” to deploy a multinational force to help the Haitian National Police “defeat and dismantle the gangs.”
The Caribbean nation has been asking for such a force since last October, and Guterres has been looking for a country to lead the deployment.
The United States and Canada, two likely candidates, have opted out. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters in Georgetown, Guyana, on Thursday that the United States is involved in discussions trying to find a lead nation.
The U.N. chief, who visited Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Saturday, told reporters that criminal gangs have a “stranglehold” on the population. “The Haitian people are trapped in a living nightmare. Humanitarian conditions are beyond appalling,” he said.
Guterres spoke ahead of a Security Council meeting later Thursday on his report on Haiti and following Wednesday’s news conference by the U.N. independent expert for Haiti, William O’Neill, who concluded a 10-day trip to the country last week.
O’Neill estimated that Haiti needs 1,000 to 2,000 international police with expertise in organized criminal gangs and their financing, as well as in kidnappings and urban operations. He stressed that the quality of the officers is more important than the quantity.
Guterres, asked about O’Neill’s estimate, said the right number for an international force needs to be assessed but that it should be “a meaningful number,” and that he believes the U.N. expert’s numbers “do not reflect any exaggeration.” He added that the police also need financing, training and equipment.
At the council meeting, many members supported the secretary-general’s call for an international force but there were no new offers. Jamaica and The Bahamas have already signaled their willingness to contribute to a multinational force and Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali said Rwanda and Kenya have also indicated a willingness.
O’Neill, an American lawyer who has been working on Haiti for over 30 years and helped establish the Haitian National Police in 1995, told reporters: “I have never seen the situation as bad as it is now.”
But he stressed that Haiti “is not without hope,” and cited efforts by prosecutors in Port-au-Prince to speed work on criminal cases and to launch corruption cases against top officials. He also singled out the customs agency’s efforts to collect taxes and duties that weren’t previously being paid.
Guterres called for simultaneous action on three fronts: restoring security, working toward a political solution that restores democratic institutions and addressing urgent humanitarian needs. He called on donors to respond quickly to the U.N. appeal for $720 million to help more than 3 million people, which is only 23% funded.
The U.N. chief said these three steps are vital to break Haiti’s cycle of suffering and create a path out of the crisis.
The gangs have grown in power since the July 7, 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and are now estimated to control up to 80% of the capital. The surge in killings, rapes and kidnappings has led to a violent uprising by civilian vigilante groups.
U.N. special envoy for Haiti Maria Isabel Salvador noted the second anniversary of Moïse ‘s assassination on Friday and told the council the call for the perpetrators to be brought to justice continues. She cited widespread backing for a robust international force, stressing that it must help strengthen, not replace, the Haitian National Police.
Since her briefing to the council in late April, she said, the dire security situation has gotten worse and the violence has moved beyond Port-au-Prince, with vigilante groups adding “another layer of complexity.” She said the U.N. political mission she heads has documented “”the killing of at least 264 alleged gang members by vigilante groups” since April.
O’Neill said he met with senior Haitian National Police leaders, including the inspector general, and they told him they are committed to seriously looking at the integrity and competence of all officers and for evidence of misconduct, abuse of power, criminal activity or collusion with the gangs.
He said the inspector general told him 80 officers have been suspended and are under investigation for misconduct or criminal activity, and that police participation in a vigilante justice movement called “bwa kale” is also being investigated.
O’Neill said he plans to meet council members and other countries active on Haiti over the coming week to discuss his visit and recommendations, including an immediate arms embargo as well as deployment of international police experts.
China’s U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun said regrettably he didn’t hear any country announce concrete actions in response to calls for an international force and told the council that it should therefore prioritize cutting off arms and ammunition shipments to Haiti, which experts have said mainly come from the United States.
“If large numbers of weapons were to continue to float unabated into the hands of Haitian gangs, it will be futile for the international community to try to give more support to the Haitian police,” he said.
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AP journalist Bert Wilkinson in Georgetown, Guyana, contributed to this report.
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From posture adjustment to investing in proper spine support, these tips can help individuals prevent tech neck.
RESTON, Va., Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The average American adult spends nearly eight hours a day looking at their phone or computer screen. This puts millions of Americans at risk of developing "tech neck," or strain to the cervical spine and its supporting muscles as a result of looking down at an electronic device for long periods of time. To help, the National Spine Health Foundation (NSHF) launched its new 'Look Up' campaign alerting individuals to the dangers of tech neck and offering easy-to-remember prevention tips.
"Tech neck diagnoses are on the rise as Americans spend an increasing amount of time each day using phones and computers," said Dr. Rita Roy, CEO of NSHF. "However, individuals don't need to give up their electronic devices to protect themselves from tech neck. Instead, following the simple yet effective tips featured in our 'Look Up' campaign can help prevent pain and injury."
"Tech neck often results in symptoms such as headaches, neck pain and stiffness, and shoulder pain," said Dr. Michael Daubs, President of the Cervical Spine Research Society. "Backed by research, the 'Look Up' campaign is an important step to alert individuals to these symptoms and increase the emphasis on prevention methods."
The 'Look Up' campaign includes crucial tips that can improve Americans' spinal health no matter their age or the frequency of their screen use.
- Track the time. Look up from devices frequently and set reminders to move and stretch.
- Align the device. Hold devices at eye-level to ensure that your head is stacked over your spine.
- Build good posture habits. Combine effective lumbar support with a good seating position to relieve disc and neck position.
- Exercise. Adopt a regular exercise regimen to strengthen the neck, back and core muscles.
To learn more, read the attached National Spine Health Foundation's 'Look Up' campaign guide.
About the National Spine Health Foundation
The National Spine Health Foundation (NSHF), a 501-C(3) nonprofit organization, is the only patient-centered non-profit organization dedicated to spine health education and advocacy. Learn more at spinehealth.org
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- Spinoff of Knife River expected to unlock significant shareholder value.
- Creates financial and strategic flexibility for each company to focus on core business opportunities.
- Establishes Knife River as a stand-alone, aggregates-based, vertically integrated construction materials and contracting provider.
- Enhances MDU Resources' strategic focus on regulated utilities, natural gas pipelines and related infrastructure services.
- MDU Resources to discuss separation and second quarter 2022 financial results at 8:30 a.m. EDT today.
BISMARCK, N.D., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MDU Resources Group, Inc. (NYSE: MDU) today announced that its board of directors has unanimously approved a plan to separate its wholly owned construction materials business, Knife River Corporation, from the company. The separation will result in two independent, publicly traded and well-capitalized companies, which the MDU Resources board believes will leave each positioned well for durable growth and shareholder value creation. The separation is expected to be effected as a tax-free spinoff to MDU Resources shareholders and to be completed in 2023.
"We are taking an important step to significantly enhance the value inherent in our businesses by creating two focused, independent publicly traded companies," said David L. Goodin, president and CEO of MDU Resources. "We are proud of the strong businesses we have built and are confident now is the right time to take this step to best serve our customers, employees, communities and shareholders."
MDU Resources' and Knife River's proven management teams will be able to more directly focus resources and capital to achieve their respective strategic goals, Goodin said.
"We expect this transaction to create significant value for our shareholders and believe it will enable us to achieve attractive shareholder returns at both companies," Goodin said.
Dennis W. Johnson, chair of MDU Resources board, said, "The board regularly assesses MDU Resources' business, operations and value creation opportunities. Our most recent assessment determined that a separation of Knife River could unlock significant value. Since its first aggregate company acquisition in 1992, MDU Resources has built Knife River into a leading aggregates-based construction materials business. The MDU Resources board believes Knife River is ready to continue its success as a stand-alone public company and take full advantage of anticipated work resulting from federal infrastructure funding. We will diligently work through the separation process to ensure each company is optimized to deliver value for shareholders."
Compelling Benefits of the Separation
The MDU Resources board believes the proposed separation will unlock the inherent value within the two companies, which have unique growth prospects and investment opportunities. The separation is expected to have a number of benefits for MDU Resources and Knife River stakeholders, including:
- Enhanced strategic focus: Each company will be able to pursue individualized strategies specific to the industries in which they operate, and use equity tailored to its own business to enhance acquisition programs and retention and hiring.
- Optimized capital structures: Each company will benefit from a distinct capital structure and financial policies tailored to its separate business profile and needs.
- Tailored capital allocation strategies: Each company will have enhanced flexibility to deploy capital toward its specific growth opportunities.
- Distinct investment opportunities: Investors will have two compelling investment opportunities and will be able to better assess the value of the two companies based on their respective operational and financial characteristics.
MDU Resources: Regulated Utility and Infrastructure Business Focused on Building a Strong America®
Following the planned separation, MDU Resources will remain headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota, and continue to be the parent company for MDU Resources' existing regulated electric and natural gas utilities (Cascade Natural Gas Corp., Intermountain Gas Co., Montana-Dakota Utilities Co.), natural gas pipeline business (WBI Energy, Inc.) and construction services company (MDU Construction Services Group, Inc.). MDU Resources expects approximately 70% of its pro forma EBITDA to be generated from its regulated businesses, providing low-risk, stable returns to shareholders.
The company's utilities provide affordable and reliable electric and natural gas service to 1.2 million customers across eight states. The combined utility business has a rate base of $2.8 billion and is expected to make $1.6 billion in capital investments over the next five years. It generated $321 million of EBITDA in 2021.
WBI Energy provides natural gas transportation and underground storage services through regulated pipeline systems primarily in the Rocky Mountain and northern Great Plains regions of the U.S. and provides non-regulated cathodic protection and other energy-related services. It generated $78 million of EBITDA in 2021. With approximately 98% of WBI Energy's EBITDA coming from regulated business, it is focused on growing this business through pipeline expansion projects.
MDU Construction Services Group provides market-leading specialty contracting services across the U.S., primarily electrical and mechanical, and transmission and distribution services. MDU Construction Services Group is comprised of 16 local operating companies employing more than 8,500 skilled workers during peak season and has been ranked the fourth largest U.S. electrical contractor. It generated $169 million of EBITDA in 2021.
Knife River: Leading Vertically Integrated Aggregates Producer and Provider of Construction Materials and Contracting Services Focused on Organic and M&A Growth
Knife River, which provides construction materials and contracting services throughout the western, central and southern United States, also will remain headquartered in Bismarck. Knife River produces and delivers aggregates and markets crushed stone, sand, gravel and related construction materials, including ready-mix concrete, asphalt and other value-added products. It also distributes cement and asphalt oil. Knife River has more than 1 billion tons of aggregate reserves, 110 ready-mix plants, 50 asphalt plants and a combined 410,000 tons of liquid asphalt and cement storage. It also performs integrated contracting services for most types of aggregate-related construction, including roads, freeways, bridges, residential properties, schools, shopping centers, office buildings and industrial parks.
Knife River has a successful track record of growth. In just the past four years, it has completed 12 acquisitions and increased revenues 23%. Knife River generated $293 million of EBITDA in 2021. MDU Resources' board believes Knife River is poised to benefit from significant investments at the federal and local levels in infrastructure development and upgrades.
Details of Separation Transaction
With the spinoff, it is expected that MDU Resources shareholders will retain their current shares of MDU Resources stock and receive a pro rata distribution of shares of Knife River stock in a transaction that is expected to be tax free to MDU Resources and its shareholders for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The actual number of shares to be distributed to MDU Resources shareholders will be determined prior to closing, as will the specific transaction structure.
The separation is expected to be completed in 2023. The proposed separation is subject to customary conditions, including final approval by the MDU Resources board of directors, receipt of a tax opinion and, if determined advisable, a private letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, and the filing and effectiveness of a Form 10 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. No assurance can be given regarding the form that a spinoff transaction may take or the specific terms or timing thereof, or that a spinoff will in fact occur.
MDU Resources is committed to establishing strong capital allocation strategies for each business that align with each business's long-term goals. Post-separation, MDU Resources intends to maintain a dividend policy consistent with its historic practice. Knife River's dividend policy will be determined in the future in a manner consistent with its stated capital allocation strategies. Further details related to capital structure, governance and other elements of the transaction will be announced at a later date.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
MDU Resources also announced today its second quarter financial results, which can be found on the company's website at www.mdu.com.
Conference Call
MDU Resources will discuss today's separation announcement as well as its second quarter results during a webcast at 8:30 a.m. EDT Aug. 4, 2022. The event can be accessed at www.mdu.com. Audio and webcast replays will be available through Aug. 18, 2022, at 888-203-1112, or 719-457-0820 for international callers, passcode ID 3010359.
Advisors
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and PJT Partners are serving as financial advisors for the transaction; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is serving as legal advisor.
About MDU Resources
MDU Resources Group, Inc., a member of the S&P MidCap 400 and the S&P High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats indices, is Building a Strong America® by providing essential products and services through its regulated energy delivery and construction materials and services businesses. For more information about MDU Resources, visit www.mdu.com or contact the Investor Relations Department at investor@mduresources.com.
About Knife River
Knife River Corporation mines aggregates and markets crushed stone, sand, gravel and related construction materials, including ready-mix concrete, asphalt and other value-added products. It also distributes cement and asphalt oil. It performs integrated contracting services. For more information, visit www.kniferiver.com.
Media Contact: Laura Lueder, MDU Resources manager of communications and public relations, 701-530-1095
Mahmoud Siddig, Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher, 212-355-4449
Financial Contact: Jason Vollmer, MDU Resources vice president and chief financial officer, 701-530-1755
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding MDU Resources and the proposed spinoff of Knife River that are subject to risks and uncertainties and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1993, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The words "believe," "continue," "could," "expect," "anticipate," "intends," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "should," "may," "will," "would" or the negative thereof and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements, including key growth strategies, projections, certain assumptions and strategies of MDU Resources and the independent companies following the proposed spinoff, the anticipated benefits of the spinoff, and the expected timing of completion of the spinoff, are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond MDU Resources' control, and could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements. Although MDU Resources believes that its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, current expectations involve a number of risks and uncertainties.
With respect to forward-looking statements contained herein, a number of factors could cause actual outcomes to vary materially. These factors include, but are not limited to, risks relating to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the business (including impacts on employees and contractors and disruptions to operations and the supply chain); new or changing laws and regulations impacting the business (including changes in pipeline safety regulations and environmental law); supply chain disruptions (including price fluctuations and supply of materials necessary for operations); the adverse impact of cyberattacks on operations; competitive factors including technological advances and customer demands; pricing and market pressures; ability to successfully integrate any businesses acquired; issuance of new or revised accounting standards; risks associated with the impact, timing or terms of the spinoff; risks associated with the expected benefits and costs of the spinoff, including the risk that the expected benefits of the spinoff will not be realized within the expected timeframe, in full or at all, and the risk that conditions to the spinoff will not be satisfied and/or that the spinoff will not be completed within the expected timeframe, on the expected terms or at all; the expected qualification of the spinoff as a tax-free transaction for U.S. federal income tax purposes, including whether or not an IRS ruling will be sought or obtained; the risk that any consents or approvals required in connection with the spinoff will not be received or obtained within the expected timeframe, on the expected terms or at all; risks associated with expected financing transactions undertaken in connection with the spinoff and risks associated with indebtedness incurred in connection with the spinoff; the risk that dis-synergy costs, costs of restructuring transactions and other costs incurred in connection with the spinoff will exceed estimates; and the impact of the spinoff on the businesses and the risk that the spinoff may be more difficult, time consuming or costly than expected, including the impact on resources, systems, procedures and controls, diversion of management's attention and the impact on relationships with customers, suppliers, employees and other business counterparties, as well as the various important factors listed in Part I, Item 1A - Risk Factors in MDU Resources' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 2021, which was filed with the SEC on Feb. 23, 2022, and subsequent filings with the SEC.
Changes in such assumptions and factors could cause actual future results to differ materially. All forward-looking statements in this news release are expressly qualified by such cautionary statements and by reference to the underlying assumptions. Undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required by law, the company does not undertake to update forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Throughout this news release, MDU Resources presents financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP, as well as "Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization" (EBITDA), which is considered a non-GAAP financial measure. The company believes these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors by providing meaningful information about operational efficiency compared to the company's peers by excluding the impacts of differences in tax jurisdictions and structures, debt levels and capital investment. The company's management uses the non-GAAP financial measures in conjunction with GAAP results when evaluating the company's operating results internally and calculating compensation packages.
Non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized; therefore, it may not be possible to compare such financial measures with other companies' non-GAAP financial measures having the same or similar names. The presentation of this additional information is not meant to be considered a substitution for financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. The company strongly encourages investors to review the consolidated financial statements in their entirety and to not rely on any single financial measure.
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Three unions at Rutgers University are expected to go on strike Monday morning, they announced.
Participating unions include the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, which represents part-time lecturers; the AAUP-AFT, which represents full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and counselors; and the AAUP-BHSNJ, which represents faculty in the health and sciences departments.
The unions have been trying to renegotiate a contract for at least a year, and said the university has been blocking their attempts.
"The administration doesn't understand that we are determined to fight together for equal pay for equal work, a living wage for all, real job security, race and gender equity, and a fair salary increase," they said. "We have no other choice than to go on strike to build a university that truly values its workers and its students."
Rutgers University was not immediately available to comment.
Members of the unions, which represent at least 8,000 Rutgers employees, are expected to strike at 9 a.m. Monday. It is the first strike since 1987, the unions said.
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Zach Bolesta caught the winning touchdown and made a critical interception late to propel South Plainfield to it’s first undefeated season since 1965 in a road win over Monroe.
South Plainfield (8-0) is likely to earn a playoff spot in the Super Section South 3.
Bolesta caught a 59-yard TD pass from Joe Tiffert-Moroney in the fourth quarter to make the final score.
He also snagged an interception to shut down an advancing Monroe (2-6) later in the final period to seal the victory.
Patrick Smith scored on a 16-yard run for South Plainfield in the first quarter, which ended in a 7-7 tie.
Michael Green ran 55 yards to score before the half, which ended with South Plainfield trailing, 14-13.
The final playoff pairings will be released Sunday by the NJSIAA and the top 16 teams in each super section are eligible.
Prior to tonight’s game, South Plainfield was ranked 10th in South 3 and had 44.66 power points.
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Neighbor reacts after Palmhurst police arrest man accused of shooting, killing two dogs
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A 61-year-old man is facing animal cruelty charges after police say he shot and killed two dogs in a Palmhurst subdivision.
Donald Guthrie was charged with two counts of cruelty to non-livestock animals in connection with the Wednesday shooting.
A woman who asked to not be identified described what happened to the dogs as a moment of horror.
"I heard three shots," the woman said. "In between the shots, I could hear the dogs, they were in pain."
The neighbor told Channel 5 News she believes these two dogs belonged to one of her neighbors - but had gotten loose.
It was the last time she would see them before they were shot and killed.
“Maybe they would make their way out into the street where I could pick them up and maybe take them to the vet or something to save them,” the resident said. “But they couldn't... I couldn't find them. I couldn't find them anywhere."
Police responded to the subdivision on Ponds Edge Street near Glasscock Road and Buddy Owens Boulevard.
“Officers did discover two deceased Belgian Malinois, unfortunately they succumbed to their injuries; they had been shot," Palmhurst police spokesman Valerio Cantu said. “There's a certain way of doing things, and this was not one of them.”
The neighbor who heard the gunshot said she wishes things had happened differently and hopes justice is served.
“There's other means. I know they're a nuisance at times, but I would bring them in, give them some water, feed them,” the neighbor said. “Do whatever you need to do and then get the proper organizations to come in and help, but don't kill them.”
Bond for Guthrie was set at $20,000.
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BEREA, Ohio (AP) — The Cleveland Browns’ training camp hasn’t lacked for drama because of quarterback Deshaun Watson’s NFL disciplinary case over sexual misconduct allegations.
Now, there’s a new storyline involving running back Kareem Hunt — even if the head coach insists the 27-year-old’s fight for an extension is “normal.”
The NFL’s rushing leader in 2017 demanded a trade after the team denied his request for a long-term contract extension, holding himself out of team drills Friday and Saturday in protest, but rejoining on Sunday. Hunt was not made available to speak with the media.
“We are working, there is no distraction,” Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said on the practice field. “I understand there are things that happen that certainly get attention, and that’s OK. … This is normal. This is NFL football, as far as I know.”
Hunt did his best to prove Stefanski’s point, taking part in all offensive sets on the sunny afternoon before voluntarily running post-practice sprints in the sweltering 90-degree heat. He was joined by backup quarterbacks Jacoby Brissett and Josh Rosen.
Stefanski declined to answer questions specifically about Hunt, just as he has about the status of Watson, the controversial quarterback who is waiting to see how long he will be suspended for violating the league’s personal conduct policy.
Hunt is in the final season of a two-year, $12 million extension signed in 2020. If the Cleveland-area native is on the active roster for all 17 games, he will earn $6.25 million this season.
Stefanski said he wouldn’t address whether Hunt was penalized for sitting out part of camp.
“I am not going to get into anything that has to do with our players, conversations that I have with our players, and those types of things,” he added. “If our players are healthy, they practice.”
Hunt has been productive during his three seasons with the Browns, but he missed nine games last year with calf and ankle injuries. He gained a league-best 1,327 yards rushing as a rookie for the Chiefs in 2017.
But like Watson, Hunt arrived in Cleveland with his own baggage. He was suspended by the NFL for the first eight games in 2019 because of off-field behavior, including shoving and kicking a woman while with Kansas City.
In 2020, Hunt rushed for 841 yards in 2020 and added 304 yards receiving. He led the team with 11 touchdowns and was a complementary piece for Pro Bowl selection Nick Chubb.
The Browns are now as deep as any team at the position, reducing the leverage that Hunt perceives he has.
Chubb rushed for 1,259 yards last season and D’Ernest Johnson is an emerging talent who gained 534 as a third-stringer. Cleveland also drafted Cincinnati’s Jerome Ford in the fifth round.
“All of our guys have to earn a role and carve it out,” Stefanski said.
NOTES: Rookie K Cade York made a 45-yard field goal to wind up the two-hour practice, earning the players an early exit from the training facility before they have Monday off. … WR David Bell (foot) revealed that a stress fracture was the reason he was unavailable at the start of camp. … CB Denzel Ward (foot), WR Michael Woods II (hamstring), LB Silas Kelly (hamstring), DT Sheldon Day (back) and CB Shaun Jolly (groin) did not practice. … Browns assistant Callie Brownson coached the U.S. National Team to a 42-14 win over Great Britain in the gold medal game at the IFAF Women’s Tackle World Championship in Finland.
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UConn wins March Madness with 76-59 smothering of SDSU
HOUSTON (AP) - UConn topped off one of the most impressive March Madness runs in history Monday night, clamping down early and breaking it open late to bring home its fifth national title with a 76-59 victory over San Diego State.
Adama Sanogo had 17 points and 10 rebounds and Tristen Newton also had a double-double with 19 points and 10 boards for the Huskies (31-8), who became the fifth team since the bracket expanded in 1985 to win all six NCAA Tournament games by double-digits on the way to a championship.
They won the six games by an average of an even 20 points, only a fraction less than what North Carolina did in sweeping to the title in 2009.
UConn built a 16-point lead late in the first half, only to see the Aztecs (32-7) trim the lead to five with 5:19 left. But Jordan Hawkins (16 points) answered with a 3 to trigger a 9-0 run and the only drama left was whether UConn would cover the 7 1/2-point spread and go six for six with double-digit wins.
Keshad Johnson had 14 points for San Diego State, which came up one win shy in this, its first trip to the Final Four.
UConn set the stage for this one over an 11:07 stretch in the first half during which the Aztecs didn’t make a single basket. Unable to shoot over or go around this tall, long UConn team, they missed 14 straight shots from the floor.
They went from leading by four to trailing by 11, and when they weren’t getting shots blocked (Alex Karaban had three and Sanogo had one) or altered on the inside, they were coming up short — a telltale sign of a team that was out of hops after that draining 72-71 buzzer-beater win over Florida Atlantic two nights earlier.
UConn fan Bill Murray was one of the few celebrities on hand to watch the Huskies make it five for five in title games in one of the most unexpected Final Fours in history. This one marked the last that Jim Nantz would call after 37 years behind the mic.
He’s had a lot of UConn stories to tell, though this certainly wasn’t the most dramatic.
Even with that brief bout of uncertainty midway through the second half, UConn never truly let the Aztecs, who overcame a 14-point deficit in the semifinal, start thinking about any more last-second dramatics.
This was a team built strictly for 2023 — replenished by coach Dan Hurley, who went to the transfer portal to find more outside shooting after back-to-back first-round exits in the tournament.
And yet, there was something decidedly old-school about the way the Huskies took care of business in the early going.
They didn’t even think much about 3-point shooting at the start, instead skip passing into Sanogo on the post and wearing down SDSU while building the early lead.
The Aztecs were too good a team to cave and an over-pursuing defense is what triggered the late run to within five. A team built on defense only shot 32% from the floor.
And after its late run, they started getting burned and Hurley and Co. were hugging it out on the bench before the buzzer.
UConn’s latest coronation makes Hurley the third coach to bring a trophy home to Storrs, Connecticut. He joins Jim Calhoun (1999, 2004, 2001) and Kevin Ollie (2014).
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The planet is on track for catastrophic warming, but world leaders already have many options to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and protect people, according to a major new climate change report from the United Nations.
The report was drafted by top climate scientists and reviewed by delegates from nearly 200 countries. The authors hope it will provide crucial guidance to politicians around the world ahead of negotiations later this year aimed at reining in climate change.
The planet faces an increasingly dire situation, according to the report. Climate change is already disrupting daily life around the world. Extreme weather, including heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires and hurricanes, is killing and displacing people worldwide, and causing massive economic damage. And the amount of carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere is still rising.
"Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health," the report states. "There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all."
But there are many choices readily available to policymakers who want to address climate change, the report makes clear.
Those choices include straightforward, immediate solutions such as quickly adopting renewable sources of electricity and clamping down on new oil and gas extraction. They are also more aspirational ones, such as investing in research that could one day allow technology to suck carbon dioxide out of the air.
The authors of the report are not prescriptive. No solution is held up as the "right" one. Instead, scientists warn that there is no time, and no reason, to delay action on climate change. And every potential path forward includes reducing reliance on fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
The Earth is really hot and getting hotter
The report lays out sobering facts about the state of the Earth's climate.
The planet is nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it was in the late 1800s, and is on track to exceed 5 degrees Fahrenheit of warming by the end of the century, it warns.
That kind of extreme warming would spell disaster for billions of people, as well as critical ecosystems, and would lead to irreversible sea level rise and mass extinction of plants and animals.
But it is still possible to change course, the report states. If humans can limit warming to no more than 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius), some of the more catastrophic effects of climate change can be avoided. Sea levels would rise a lot less. Heat waves and storms would be less deadly. And many ecosystems on land and in the oceans would be more able to adapt or recover.
To achieve that goal, global emissions would need to be slashed in half by the end of the decade, something the report authors say is still possible if countries around the world quickly pivot away from fossil fuels. Right now, total global emissions are not falling.
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A cheat-sheet for world leaders to tackle climate change
Over the last two years, hundreds of scientists working for the U.N's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have published 3 sprawling reports that highlighted the disproportionate effects of climate change on poor people, the need to cut emissions rapidly and the policy options available for doing so. Each of those documents ran hundreds of pages long.
This latest report is the slim summary of all that work: a cheat-sheet for policymakers who face increasing pressure to address global warming.
The timing of its publication coincides with an important deadline under the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to keep warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), and ideally to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Paris Agreement requires countries to review their progress toward that goal at climate negotiations later this year in the United Arab Emirates.
The hope is that the new report will serve as a shared scientific foundation for those negotiations, as well as a menu of solutions available to world leaders.
"When we talk about climate change it's often really easy to focus on the bad outcomes, the things that are really scary," says Solomon Hsiang, a climate scientist at the University of California, Berkeley who has worked with the IPCC.
He says it's important that policymakers, and the wider public, not lose hope in the face of relentless news about extreme weather and other dangerous effects of global warming. Hsiang's own research has found that millions of lives, and billions of dollars, can be saved by reducing global reliance on fossil fuels, in part because extracting and burning fossil fuels releases enormous amounts of air and water pollution, on top of their damage to the climate.
"Investments in reducing emissions are investments in improving people's health and education and economic opportunities, and protecting the people we care about," he explains.
Poor people are most threatened by climate change
The other big takeaway from the report is that people in developing countries, and poor people around the world, are disproportionately affected by climate change.
"Vulnerable communities who have historically contributed the least to current climate change are disproportionately affected," the report states.
For example, "between 2010 and 2020, human mortality from floods, droughts and storms was 15 times higher in highly vulnerable regions, compared to regions with very low vulnerability," the authors write.
The most vulnerable communities include people who live in low-income countries, low-lying areas and island nations, and Indigenous groups around the world, according to the report.
"We are not all in this together," says Patricia Romero-Lankao, a climate researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the University of Chicago who works with the IPCC. "The poorest and most marginalized communities are the most vulnerable, in all cities and in all regions."
Reducing emissions will help protect such communities, now and in the future, says Romero-Lankao.
For example, investing in low-carbon public transit, designing communities to support walking or biking, building homes and other buildings to be resilient and building cleaner power plants can reduce air pollution and save lives in low-lying and low-income neighborhoods that are currently suffering disproportionate damage, the report notes.
One of the biggest topics at international climate negotiations later this year will be how much richer, industrialized countries will pay to help poorer countries transition to clean energy and recover from damage caused by climate change. The industrialized world has historically been the biggest contributor of the pollution now driving climate change.
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Which Samsung monitor is best?
Choosing a monitor for your computer is much the same as choosing a television for your living room — after all, a TV is just a special kind of monitor. As such, they have many of the same considerations, such as size and resolution. Narrowing your choices by brand can make shopping easier, and Samsung is among the best manufacturers.
Its best monitor is the Samsung 32-Inch QHD Computer Monitor, excellent for any high-level activity outside of the most extreme gaming needs.
What to know before you buy a Samsung monitor
How will it be used?
To avoid overspending, this is the most important question to ask before you start shopping for a Samsung monitor.
- Average use is essentially surfing the web, watching the occasional YouTube video and doing some bookkeeping. This user should buy the cheapest monitor they can find that they’re happy with.
- Non-creative professional use isn’t much different than average use, but your job might need to take advantage of better-than-usual specs.
- Creative professional use requires a monitor with a high resolution and plenty of ports but doesn’t need the extremes of hardcore gaming monitors.
- Gaming monitors offer the best of everything, but for staggeringly high costs. That doesn’t mean you should leap to the most expensive — compare your computer’s specs to your potential monitor to find the perfect fit.
Size
Monitor sizes are measured on a diagonal from one top corner to the opposite bottom corner. Even the cheapest Samsung monitors are relatively roomy at roughly 20-24 inches. Better monitors are usually 27-32 inches, while gaming monitors can be as wide as 50 inches.
What to look for in a quality Samsung monitor
Resolution
Resolution in monitors works just like in TVs and uses much of the same terminology.
- HD is 720p and is used in the cheapest Samsung monitors. This is more than enough for the average YouTube video and office work.
- Full HD is 1080p and is the average resolution of streaming content. Consider this the baseline if you plan on watching movies and TV shows or playing the average game.
- QHD is Samsung’s branding for the half step between full HD and true 4K resolution, at 1440p. Samsung’s best monitors typically offer this resolution.
- 4K, 2160p, is the highest resolution commonly available. Only the best Samsung monitors offer it, but prices are becoming more affordable as time goes on.
Refresh rate and response time
Refresh rate and response time are most important to gamers and creative professionals who work with video.
- Refresh rate is measured in hertz and is the fastest rate at which the image can be refreshed. The higher the refresh rate, the more frames per second can be displayed while gaming.
- Response time is measured in milliseconds and is the time it takes a monitor to change the image. The lower the better, with some gaming monitors having 1-millisecond response times.
How much you can expect to spend on a Samsung monitor
Samsung monitors typically cost $200-$2,000. Basic monitors for the average user shouldn’t cost more than $250. For up to $500 you can find mid-sized and high-quality monitors that are great for creative jobs and streaming. The best-of-the-best easily eclipse $2,000.
Samsung monitor FAQ
What is VESA and what does it mean to be VESA compatible?
A. VESA stands for Video Electronics Standards Association and it works to standardize much of the electronics industry. One of VESA’s most prominent standards is in mounting hardware. Thanks to VESA, it’s almost a guarantee that you can use the same mount with almost any monitor — including TVs.
Should I use an ultrawide monitor or two smaller monitors side-by-side?
A. Both styles are effective, leaving it mostly up to preference or budget constraints. Gamers should grab an ultra-wide monitor, as having a physical space between monitors will affect how their game looks. Professionals and the average user should be fine with separate monitors unless you plan on watching plenty of videos. That said, an ultra-wide monitor usually costs more than two smaller monitors of similar quality.
What’s the best Samsung monitor to buy?
Top Samsung monitor
Samsung 32-Inch QHD Computer Monitor
What you need to know: This is the perfect monitor for watching high-quality videos or working on creative projects.
What you’ll love: It offers QHD resolution and can display one billion colors. The stand is adjustable and can move the monitor into landscape or portrait orientation. It has an HDMI port and several USB-C ports. It also comes in 24- and 27-inch sizes.
What you should consider: There are no built-in speakers. Changing monitor settings can be complicated. It isn’t great for high-end gaming.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Samsung monitor for the money
Samsung 27-Inch Frameless Curved Gaming Monitor
What you need to know: This basic monitor is a great choice for everyday needs.
What you’ll love: It has full HD resolution and a 60-hertz refresh rate, making it a solid choice for watching videos and playing the occasional game. To preserve your eyes’ health, it uses special modes to reduce blue light emissions without limiting brightness.
What you should consider: Curved monitors can take some getting used to. There are no built-in speakers. The power button is on the back and hard to reach.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Samsung 49-Inch Odyssey Neo G9 Gaming Monitor
What you need to know: This gargantuan beast of a monitor is built for one thing — hardcore gaming.
What you’ll love: The 49-inch monitor can be digitally divided to act as two side-by-side 27-inch monitors. It packs in 4K resolution with a 240-hertz refresh rate to take advantage of high-end gaming PC specs. The included stand is fully adjustable and the monitor is compliant with VESA.
What you should consider: It’s expensive, and the curve is extreme, even for those who like curved monitors. A few purchasers reported an odd clicking sound on occasion.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday accused oil companies of “war profiteering” as he raised the possibility of imposing a windfall tax on energy companies if they don’t boost domestic production.
Biden in brief remarks criticized major oil companies for making record-setting profits while refusing to help lower prices at the pump for the American people. The president suggested he will look to Congress to levy tax penalties on oil tax companies if they don’t begin to invest some of their profits in lowering costs for American consumers. The president issued the warning just days before the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
“My team will work with Congress to look at these these options that are available to us and others,” Biden said. “It’s time for these companies to stop war profiteering, meet their responsibilities in this country and give the American people a break and still do very well.”
Biden took aim at one company, ExxonMobil, that reported $19.7 billion earnings in the third quarter alone. He lashed at the Irving, Texas-headquarter company for using record profits to provide shareholders with hefty dividends and stock buybacks but failing to invest in production improvements that would benefit consumers at the pump. Another oil company, Chevron, had $11.23 billion in profits in the third quarter, almost reaching the record profits it attained in the prior quarter.
Over the last two quarters, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and TotalEnergy earned over $100 billion in profits—more than they earned all of last year, and more than two-and-a-half times what they earned in the same quarters of 2021.
“Oil companies. record profits today are not because of doing something new or innovative,” Biden said. “Their profits are a windfall of war, a windfall for the brutal conflict that’s ravaging Ukraine and hurting tens of millions of people around the globe.”
High prices at the pump have exacerbated inflation and have taken a toll on Biden and Democrats’ standing among voters.
Congress would have to approve any additional taxes on the energy producers — which would be a tall order in the current Congress where Democrats have narrow control of the House and Senate, and even less likely should Republicans retake one or both chambers on Nov. 8.
Americans have struggled with painfully high gasoline prices in recent months, paying more than $4.80 on average for a gallon of regular at the beginning of July, according to AAA. They’ve since fallen to $3.76 on average nationally, but the White House says they should be lower, given declines in global oil prices over the same period.
“Can’t believe I have to say this but giving profits to shareholders is not the same as bringing prices down for American families,” Biden tweeted on Friday.
Biden has been critical of energy companies profits since at least June, when he complained publicly that “Exxon made more money than God this year.”
Biden’s threat of windfall taxes on energy companies follows calls by progressive Democrats, including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, for such a proposal.
And last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called on Congress to tax the profits of oil companies. “Crude oil prices are down but oil and gas companies have jacked up prices at the pump in California. This doesn’t add up,” Newsom said on Friday. “We’re not going to stand by while greedy oil companies fleece Californians. Instead, I’m calling for a windfall tax to ensure excess oil profits go back to help millions of Californians who are getting ripped off.”
The Democratic-controlled House passed a bill in May authorizing the Federal Trade Commission to punish companies that engage in price gouging and adding a new unit at the FTC to monitor fuel markets. The bill has stalled in the Senate. A related measure by Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., has not come to the Senate floor for a vote.
“This is exactly the type of leadership we’ve been waiting for from President Biden,” said Jamie Henn, spokesperson for the group ‘Stop the Oil Profiteering.’ “Big Oil has made nearly $300 billion in excess profits this year by gouging us at the pump. A windfall profits tax can provide immediate relief by redirecting that money into the pockets of hardworking Americans.”
Industry groups have condemned the prospect of a windfall tax, with American Exploration & Production Council CEO Anne Bradbury saying it “would likely backfire by further driving up energy costs for American families and businesses.”
“Rather than taking credit for price declines and shifting blame for price increases, the Biden administration should get serious about addressing the supply and demand imbalance that has caused higher gas prices and created long-term energy challenges,” said Mike Sommers, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute. “Today, the President is proposing to raise taxes on the U.S. natural gas and oil industry that is competing globally to produce the fuels Americans need every single day. Oil companies do not set prices—global commodities markets do.”
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Evan Longoria Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Blue Jays - July 14
Published: Jul. 14, 2023 at 1:23 PM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
Evan Longoria is available when the Arizona Diamondbacks take on Jose Berrios and the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre Friday at 7:07 PM ET.
He returns to action for the first time since July 7, when he went 0-for-4 against the Pirates.
Evan Longoria Game Info & Props vs. the Blue Jays
- Game Day: Friday, July 14, 2023
- Game Time: 7:07 PM ET
- Stadium: Rogers Centre
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Blue Jays Starter: José Berríos
- TV Channel: SNET
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +450)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +150)
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Evan Longoria At The Plate
- Longoria is hitting .237 with seven doubles, 11 home runs and 14 walks.
- In 50.0% of his games this season (23 of 46), Longoria has picked up at least one hit, and in eight of those games (17.4%) he recorded at least two.
- In 11 games this season, he has homered (23.9%, and 7.1% of his trips to the dish).
- In 16 games this year (34.8%), Longoria has picked up an RBI, and in four of those games (8.7%) he had more than one. He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored in 20 games this season (43.5%), including three multi-run games (6.5%).
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Blue Jays Pitching Rankings
- The Blue Jays pitching staff ranks second in the league with a collective 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Blue Jays have a 3.85 team ERA that ranks ninth across all league pitching staffs.
- Blue Jays pitchers combine to rank 23rd in baseball in home runs allowed (117 total, 1.3 per game).
- Berrios gets the start for the Blue Jays, his 19th of the season. He is 8-6 with a 3.50 ERA and 101 strikeouts through 108 2/3 innings pitched.
- His last appearance was on Thursday, July 6 against the Chicago White Sox, when the right-hander went seven scoreless innings while giving up only one hit.
- Among pitchers who qualify in MLB play this season, the 29-year-old ranks 28th in ERA (3.50), 29th in WHIP (1.139), and 34th in K/9 (8.4).
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NPR's Steve Inskeep asks U.S. Senator Rick Scott of Florida, chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, for the GOP's closing argument to voters ahead of the midterm elections.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep asks U.S. Senator Rick Scott of Florida, chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, for the GOP's closing argument to voters ahead of the midterm elections.
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(The Hill) – A research paper published on Thursday linked 9,799 additional live births in Texas to an abortion ban that the state passed in 2021, confirming what researchers had expected to happen after the bill was passed.
The Texas Legislature passed a bill in September of 2021 that effectively banned abortions about 5 to 6 weeks after a woman’s last menstrual cycle.
While researchers generally expect abortions to drop and live births to rise after an anti-abortion measure is passed, the extent to which this will occur is not always known.
Now researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have estimated that roughly 9,800 live births in Texas occurred between April and December 2022 that wouldn’t have if the abortion ban hadn’t been in place at that time.
Through statistical modeling and looking back at previous live birth data from all 50 states and D.C., researchers found that there would have been 287,289 live births in Texas in that time period if the 2021 ban had not been enacted. In reality, 297,088 were observed in that time period.
“The study’s findings highlight how abortion bans have real implications for birthing people, thousands of whom may have had no choice but to continue an unwanted or unsafe pregnancy to term,” Susan Bell, assistant professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, said in a statement.
This data comes one year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, 13 states have passed total abortion bans, with many making no exception for rape or incest.
Texas is among these states, having passed a trigger law also in 2021 in the event that Roe was overturned. The ban’s only exception is if the life of the mother is threatened.
A group of more than a dozen women are suing the Texas state government, alleging the abortion ban put their lives at risk because it prevented them from receiving an abortion until their health became dire enough for providers to step in.
Researchers noted that the results of the study cannot be generalized as only Texas was subject to the analysis.
“Although our study doesn’t detail why these extra births occurred, our findings strongly suggest that a considerable number of pregnant individuals in Texas were unable to overcome barriers to abortion access,” said Alison Gemmill, assistant professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health.
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A Michigan judge on Friday blocked county prosecutors from enforcing the state’s 1931 ban on abortion for the foreseeable future after two days of witness testimony from abortion experts, providers and the state’s chief medical officer.
The ruling comes after the state Court of Appeals said earlier this month that county prosecutors were not covered by a May order and could enforce the prohibition following the fall of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court.
“The harm to the body of women and people capable of pregnancy in not issuing the injunction could not be more real, clear, present and dangerous to the court,” Oakland County Judge Jacob Cunningham said during his ruling Friday.
David Kallman, an attorney representing two Republican county prosecutors, said an appeal is planned.
“The judge ignored all of the clear legal errors and problems in this case, it appears to me, simply because the issue is abortion,” Kallman told The Associated Press following the hearing.
Cunningham had filed a restraining order against county prosecutors hours after the Aug. 1 appeals court decision and following a request from attorneys representing Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
While a majority of prosecutors in counties where there are abortion clinics have said they will not enforce the ban, Republican prosecutors in Kent, Jackson and Macomb counties have said they should be able to enforce the 1931 law.
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Cunningham listened to arguments Wednesday and Thursday in Pontiac before granting the preliminary injunction, which is expected to keep abortion legal throughout the state until the Michigan Supreme Court or voters could decide in the fall.
In his ruling, Cunningham found all three of the state's witnesses “extremely credible” while dismissing testimony from the defense witnesses as “unhelpful and biased.”
The 1931 law in Michigan, which was triggered after the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, bans abortion in all instances except the life of the mother. The dormant ban was retroactively blocked from going into effect in May when Judge Elizabeth Gleicher issued a preliminary injunction.
The state Court of Appeals later said that the preliminary injunction only applied to the attorney general’s office, meaning that providers could get charged with a felony by some county prosecutors.
While Kallman said during closing arguments Thursday that granting a preliminary injunction isn’t how laws should be changed, attorneys representing Whitmer argued that allowing county prosecutors to decide whether to enforce the 1931 ban would cause confusion.
“I'm relieved that everyone in this state knows that it doesn’t matter what county you live in now, you are not as a provider going to be prosecuted," Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said following the ruling
A ballot initiative seeking to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution turned in 753,759 signatures in July and is expected to ultimately decide the status abortion access in Michigan. The amendment awaits final approval for the November ballot by the state’s Board of Canvassers.
“This court finds it is overwhelmingly in the public's best interest to let the people of the great state of Michigan decide this matter at the ballot box,” Cunningham said Friday.
The status of abortion in Michigan is expected to drastically impact the battleground state’s November general election, where Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel, also a Democrat, have made abortion rights a centerpiece of their reelection campaigns.
“Absent this preliminary injunction, physicians face a very real threat of prosecution depending on where they practice," Nessel said in a statement issued following Friday's ruling.
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Joey Cappelletti is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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Democrats press Supreme Court chief justice to investigate Clarence Thomas' trips with GOP megadonor
Democrats say Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas engaged in 'unethical, and potentially unlawful, conduct' by taking trips with billionaire Republican donor
House and Senate Democrats are demanding that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts launch an inquiry into Associate Justice Clarence Thomas and the luxury vacations he received as gifts from a GOP mega donor over more than 20 years.
Sixteen lawmakers led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., sent a letter to Roberts on Friday requesting an investigation into "allegations of unethical, and potentially unlawful, conduct." A ProPublica report published this week found that Thomas’ close friendship with real estate developer Harlan Crow allowed him to accompany the Texas billionaire on luxury vacations on his private jet and yacht, as well as free stays on Crow’s vast vacation property, among other benefits.
Democrats have alleged that Thomas breached ethics rules by failing to disclose these trips as gifts, some of which were valued at more than $500,000, according to ProPublica. The letter chastises the court for having "barely acknowledged" the allegations before.
"We believe that it is your duty as Chief Justice ‘to safeguard public faith in the judiciary,’ and that fulfilling that duty requires swift, thorough, independent and transparent investigation into these allegations," the letter states.
CLARENCE THOMAS REPORT SPURS NEW CALLS FROM DEMOCRATS FOR SUPREME COURT CODE OF ETHICS
Thomas issued a rare written statement responding to ProPublica's report Friday, insisting that he has always followed Supreme Court guidance on gift disclosures.
"Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years," Thomas said. "As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them. Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable."
"I have endeavored to follow that counsel throughout my tenure, and have always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines," he said. "These guidelines are now being changed, as the committee of the Judicial Conference responsible for financial disclosure for the entire federal judiciary just this past month announced new guidance. And, it is, of course, my intent to follow this guidance in the future."
JUSTICE THOMAS DEFENDS TRIPS TAKEN WITH ‘DEAREST FRIENDS’ AFTER REPORT SAYS HE ACCEPTED GIFTS
In a statement to ProPublica, Crow denied ever trying to influence Thomas or put him in positions where other influential people could do the same.
"The hospitality we have extended to the Thomas’s (sic) over the years is no different from the hospitality we have extended to our many other dear friends," part of the statement reads. "We have never asked about a pending or lower court case, and Justice Thomas has never discussed one, and we have never sought to influence Justice Thomas on any legal or political issue. More generally, I am unaware of any of our friends ever lobbying or seeking to influence Justice Thomas on any case, and I would never invite anyone who I believe had any intention of doing that."
Last month, the Judicial Conference of the United States, which creates and oversees policies for federal courts, revised its ethics and financial disclosure guidelines to require the justices to disclose things like traveling by private jet and staying in resorts.
The Democrats' letter notes that financial disclosure laws require top government officials to report gifts annually. It states there are "limited exceptions" for personal friendships, but argues, "these exceptions are not meant to allow government officials to hide from the public extravagant gifts by wealthy political interests.
The undersigned lawmakers said the Supreme Court should investigate who accompanied Thomas on the undisclosed trips and whether they have any connections to cases pending before the court. "We have reason to believe that Mr. Crow himself is connected to multiple groups that have filed amicus briefs with the Court," the Democrats wrote. "Yet the public has no way of knowing who else with interests related to Justice Thomas' official duties joined these trips."
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The Democrats said that if the court fails to act, they will push Congress to impose "a proper code of ethics" on the Supreme Court to "restore accountability" to the body.
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LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A man who was among those injured in a weekend shooting in Lafayette has been arrested in connection with the incident.
Lafayette police said 21-year-old Kevon McCaster was taken into custody on two counts of murder and a count of aggravated battery upon his release from the hospital. He’s being held without bond at the Tippecanoe County Jail.
McCaster was among four people wounded during an exchange of gunfire inside an apartment. It happened as dozens of people gathered outside for a large block party. McCaster was involved in a fight that led to gunfire, police said.
Two people died inside the apartment. Police identified them as 33-year-old Tommy Marshall and 29-year-old Edward Roberson. Four other people, including McCaster, were injured in the exchange.
Officers were dispatched to the 3000 block of Phipps Court around 4:20 a.m. Sunday after reports of gunfire.
Police located numerous shell castings inside and outside the apartment. They said multiple apartments and vehicles were struck by the resulting gunfire.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Country music artist Jo Dee Messina will be performing in Wichita on April 28.
Messina will be performing at TempleLive at the Wichita Scottish Rite Center at 8 p.m.
The tour is an ode to Messina’s debut 1996 platinum smash, “Heads Carolina, Tails California.”
A new album “Heads Carolina, Tails California: The Best of Jo Dee Messina” will be released in March. The album features 11 of her timeless hits, including “Bye, Bye,” “I’m Alright,” “Lesson In Leavin,’” ”Heads Carolina, Tails California” and more
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NEW YORK (AP) — Young people are following the news, but aren't too happy with what they're seeing.
Broadly speaking, that's the conclusion of a study released Wednesday showing 79% of young Americans say they get news daily. The survey of young people ages 16 to 40 — the older of which are known as millennials and the younger Generation Z — was conducted by Media Insight Project, a collaboration between The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute.
The report pokes holes in the idea that young people aren't interested in news, a perception largely driven by statistics showing older audiences for television news and newspapers.
“They are more engaged in more ways than people give them credit for,” said Michael Bolden, CEO and executive director of the American Press Institute.
An estimated 71% of this age group gets news daily from social media. The social media diet is becoming more varied; Facebook doesn't dominate the way it used to. About a third or more get news each day from YouTube and Instagram, and about a quarter or more from TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter. Now, 40% say they get news from Facebook daily, compared with 57% of millennials who said that in a 2015 Media Insight Project survey.
Yet 45% also said they get news each day from traditional sources, like television or radio stations, newspapers and news websites.
The poll found that about a quarter of young people say they regularly pay for at least one news product, like print or digital magazines or newspapers, and a similar percentage have donated to at least one nonprofit news organization.
Only 32% say they enjoy following the news. That's a marked decrease from seven years ago, when 53% of millennials said that. Fewer young people now say they enjoy talking with family and friends about the news.
Other findings, such as people who say they feel worse the longer they spend online or who set time limits on their consumption, point to a weariness with the news, said Tom Rosenstiel, a University of Maryland journalism professor.
“I wasn't surprised by that,” Bolden said. “It has been a challenging news cycle, especially the last three years.”
About 9 in 10 young people say misinformation about issues and events is a problem, including about 6 in 10 who say it's a major problem. Most say they've been exposed to misinformation themselves.
Asked who they consider most responsible for its spread, young people pointed to social media companies and users, politicians and the media in equal measure.
That may surprise people in the media who believe they are fighting misinformation, and are not part of the problem, Bolden said. A significant number of people disagree.
“Whether that's accurate or not, the people in this business have to deal with that perception,” he said.
He suggested that it's important for news organizations to better explain what it is that they do and how coverage decisions are made, along with taking a step back to make clear how government functions, as well as holding leaders to account.
The percentage of people who say “news stories that seem to mostly create conflict rather than help address it” and “media outlets that pass on conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated rumors” are a major problem exceeded the number of people concerned about journalists putting too much opinion in their stories, the survey found.
That would seem to point a finger at cable news outlets that fill air time with debates on particular issues, often pitting people with extreme points of view. New CNN chief executive Chris Licht has recently called on his network to cool the overheated segments.
“There are people who have grown up in this world of political food-fight media, and this is the only world they know,” said Rosenstiel, who worked on the survey as Bolden's predecessor at the press institute. “They might have heard their parents talk about Walter Cronkite, but they haven't seen that.”
The topics people ages 16 to 40 say they most follow in the news? Celebrities, music and entertainment, at 49%, and food and cooking, at 48%, top the list. At least a third follow a wide range of other issues, including health and fitness, race and social justice, the environment, health care, education, politics and sports.
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The AP-NORC poll of 5,975 Americans ages 16-40 was conducted May 18-June 8, using a combined sample of interviews from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population, and interviews from opt-in online panels. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 1.7 percentage points. The AmeriSpeak panel is recruited randomly using address-based sampling methods, and respondents later were interviewed online or by phone.
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PN-943 achieved 27.5% clinical remission with a delta of 13% versus placebo, with strong concordance across all key proxies including histological and endoscopic endpoints for efficacy, in the twice daily 150 mg dose arm
Achieved clinical proof-of-concept and validation for oral, gut-restricted approach for ulcerative colitis via blockade of the alpha-4-beta-7-integrin pathway
Plans underway for a registrational Phase 3 study anchored around twice daily 150 mg dose of PN-943, pending regulatory guidance
Protagonist to host a conference call today at 6:00 p.m. ET
NEWARK, Calif., April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Protagonist Therapeutics (Nasdaq: PTGX) today announced topline results from the Phase 2 IDEAL study evaluating PN-943 in patients with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis (UC).
"We are delighted with the strength of the results from the IDEAL study and look forward to working with the regulatory agencies as we prepare for a Phase 3 registrational program for PN-943 in moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis," said Dinesh V. Patel, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Protagonist. "Our oral, gut-restricted alpha-4-beta-7-integrin antagonist agent PN-943 has demonstrated clinical efficacy on par with the approved injectable antibody drug working through the same biological target. We believe the results of the IDEAL study may be paradigm shifting and of broad scientific relevance in understanding IBD pathogenesis and gut-restricted drug development via intervention of the integrin-MAdCAM pathway. Based on its convenience of oral administration and the favorable efficacy and safety results observed to date, we believe that PN-943 has the potential to become a first-in-class, foundational oral medicine for individuals living with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis."
"With the IDEAL study, we have demonstrated clinical proof-of-concept and validation for potential treatment of ulcerative colitis via oral, gut-restricted blockade of the alpha-4-beta-7-integrin pathway," said Scott Plevy, M.D., Executive Vice President and Therapeutic Head of Gastroenterology at Protagonist. "The study assessed two doses of PN-943, 150 mg BID and 450 mg BID, and demonstrated a very clear and consistent treatment effect at the lower 150 mg BID dose across key endpoints. The dose response demonstrated by this study is consistent with several other modalities in the integrin pathway. The findings in the lower-dose arm provide consistent evidence of clinical efficacy and safety, and clear direction on the dosing regimen for the Phase 3 registrational program."
"The oral, gut-restricted agent PN-943 appears to exert similar effects at the twice daily 150 mg dose in comparison to the approved injectable alpha-4-beta-7-integrin antibody drug and its mechanism of action," said Bruce Sands, M.D., M.S., the Dr. Burrill B. Crohn Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, principal investigator for the IDEAL study and consultant to Protagonist. "There is a clear unmet need and strong clinical benefit for patients with an oral agent working through such a proven IBD specific mechanism, and the IDEAL study results provide good rationale for moving PN-943 forward in a Phase 3 registrational study."
Summary of Key Results
IDEAL is a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, multicenter Phase 2 study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of PN-943, an oral, gut-restricted, alpha-4-beta-7-integrin antagonist. 159 patients with moderate-to-severe active UC were randomized to either twice daily (BID) with 450 mg or 150 mg PN-943, or placebo, for 12 weeks and analyzed for outcome measures.
While the 450 mg BID dose did not meet the prespecified primary endpoint, the 150 mg dose achieved a placebo versus treatment delta of 13% (p=0.08) in the modified Intent to Treat (mITT) group, and a delta of 16% (p=0.04) in the bio-naïve group. In addition, the 150 mg BID data showed strong concordance across multiple parameters including statistically significant histological remission and endoscopic improvement.
PN-943 150 mg BID dose forms the basis for a Phase 3 registrational program
- 27.5% clinical remission vs 14.5% in placebo (delta 13%, p=0.08) for mITT analysis
- Strong concordance with efficacy across multiple key secondary endpoints with statistically significant differences in histologic remission/improvement and endoscopic improvement
- Safety analysis similar for the 150 mg BID dose versus the placebo group
Conference Call and Webcast Information
A conference call will take place today, April 25, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. ET.
Protagonist's management team will be joined by Bruce Sands, M.D., M.S., the Dr. Burrill B. Crohn Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and principal investigator for the IDEAL study and consultant to Protagonist.
Live audio of the conference call will be simultaneously broadcast over the internet. The call will be available to investors, members of the news media, and the general public.
To access the live call, dial 1-877-870-4263 (U.S./Canada) or 1-412-317-0790 (international) five minutes prior to the call and ask to be joined to the Protagonist Therapeutics call (conference ID 10166546). A live and archived webcast will be accessible in the Investors section of the Company's website at www.protagonist-inc.com.
About Protagonist
Protagonist Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company with multiple peptide-based new chemical entities in different stages of clinical development, all derived from the Company's proprietary technology platform.
Protagonist's pipeline includes rusfertide, an investigational, injectable hepcidin mimetic currently in the REVIVE Phase 2 proof-of-concept clinical trial for polycythemia vera (PV), the PACIFIC Phase 2 study in PV subjects with high hematocrit levels, and a recently completed Phase 2a study for hereditary hemochromatosis. The Company has opened sites and initiated patient screening for VERIFY, a single, global Phase 3 randomized, placebo-controlled trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of a once weekly, subcutaneously self-administered dose of rusfertide.
The IDEAL Phase 2 study of PN-943 in moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis concluded in April 2022. The results of this Phase 2 study supported advancement of the 150-milligram dose of PN-943 into a Phase 3 registrational study. Plans for the Phase 3 registrational study are underway. The Company is targeting ulcerative colitis as the initial indication.
Protagonist has granted Janssen an exclusive worldwide license to research, develop and commercialize oral IL-23 receptor antagonists based on the Company's intellectual property. Current development efforts are centered on PN-235, discovered by Protagonist and further developed in collaboration with Janssen. FRONTIER 1, a Phase 2b multicenter, randomized, placebo controlled, dose-ranging study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of PN-235 for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis, commenced in early 2022.
Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding our intentions or current expectations concerning, among other things, our plans for further clinical development of PN-943 and the potential benefits of PN-943. In some cases, you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "may," "will," "expect," or the negative or plural of these words or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those anticipated, including, but not limited to, our ability to develop and commercialize our product candidates, our ability to earn milestone payments under our collaboration agreements, the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on our discovery and development efforts, the impact of the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine and Russia on any future studies, our ability to use and expand our programs to build a pipeline of product candidates, our ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of our product candidates, our ability to operate in a competitive industry and compete successfully against competitors that have greater resources than we do, and our ability to obtain and adequately protect intellectual property rights for our product candidates. Additional information concerning these and other risk factors affecting our business can be found in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including under the heading "Risk Factors" contained in our most recently filed periodic reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and our actual results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, and the development of the industry in which we operate, may differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Any forward-looking statements that we make in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. We assume no obligation to update our forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date of this press release.
Contacts
Company: Jami Taylor – j.taylor@ptgx-inc.com
Investors: Kevin Murphy – protagonist@argotpartners.com
Media: Virginia Amann – VirginiaAmann@EntenteInc.com
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WASHINGTON, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Firework mishaps on or near the Fourth of July send thousands of people to the emergency department every summer, especially when alcohol is involved. Safety tips from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) can help make sure your celebration doesn't include a trip to the emergency department.
"July Fourth should be a fun chance to gather with family and friends," said Gillian Schmitz, MD, FACEP, president of ACEP. "This is also a busy time for emergency physicians who will treat many avoidable injuries and burns."
About 15,600 people were treated in hospital emergency departments for firework-related injuries in 2020, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Emergency physicians recommend leaving fireworks to the professionals. But there are some important safety considerations for anyone who decides on their own celebrations:
- Buy fireworks from a reputable seller and read all the warnings and safety instructions.
- Keep a hose, bucket of water, and fire extinguisher nearby in case of a fire.
- Young children should never handle fireworks, containers burning gel fuels, or sparklers.
- Only light one at a time, then move away. Do not stand over an ignited firework.
- Never light fireworks in a container because they can explode and send shrapnel flying.
- Do not launch fireworks at anyone and avoid horseplay near flammable items.
- Avoid re-lighting or handling fireworks that malfunction. Soak fireworks in water after they are done burning and throw them away. Placing dry fireworks in a trash can is a fire hazard.
- Do not use fireworks under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Nearly half (44%) of the firework-related deaths in 2020 involved impaired individuals, according to the CPSC.
"We hope everyone has a safe and happy Independence Day," said Dr. Schmitz. "But if the celebration goes awry, the nation's emergency physicians are ready for anything and working 24/7, even on holidays. Do not hesitate to visit the closest emergency department in a medical emergency."
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is the national medical society representing emergency medicine. Through continuing education, research, public education, and advocacy, ACEP advances emergency care on behalf of its 40,000 emergency physician members, and the more than 150 million people they treat on an annual basis. For more information, visit www.acep.org and www.emergencyphysicians.org.
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FTX lawyer: ‘Substantial amount’ of assets has been stolen
NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for FTX disclosed Tuesday that a “substantial amount” of assets has been stolen from the accounts of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, diminishing the odds that its millions of investors will get their money back.
The admission came during FTX’s first court appearance since the company filed for bankruptcy protection on November 11. Such hearings typically happen days after a filing, but this one was delayed because FTX’s collapse came suddenly and management kept few if any records.
“This company was run by inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially personally compromised individuals,” said James Bromley, a partner with Sullivan & Cromwell, the law firm hired by FTX’s debt holders to navigate the company through bankruptcy. “It is one of the most abrupt and difficult company collapses in the history of corporate America.”
FTX, short billions of dollars, sought bankruptcy protection after the exchange experienced the crypto equivalent of a bank run. The company estimates that there are more than 100,000 claims against it so far, and that number is likely to rise to above 1 million once the bankruptcy case is settled.
However getting all those funds back has become increasingly difficult. In the days after FTX’s collapse, hundreds of millions of dollars of cryptocurrencies were moved out of FTX’s accounts and into other cryptocurrency wallets. While there had been some reports that a portion of those funds may have been seized by the government of the Bahamas— where FTX is headquartered — as part of its own investigation, the bulk of those cryptocurrencies have been moving through various different wallets, in what appears to be the crypto equivalent of money laundering.
In court, FTX’s lawyers admitted that a “substantial amount” of assets had been stolen from FTX accounts.
“We understand the concern and outrage, and we are working day and night to bring order to disorder,” Bromley said.
FTX’s bankruptcy has generated substantial interest beyond just cryptocurrency investors. The company had major sports sponsorships as well, including deals with Formula One racing and Major League Baseball. FTX had the naming rights to a sports arena in Miami, and several celebrities were either invested in FTX or did sponsorship deals with the company.
Nearly 700 individuals were in the Zoom meeting room for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey on Tuesday, and the hearing was also streamed on YouTube.
Judge Dorsey did temporarily grant FTX one order that had generated some controversy: redacting the names and addresses of FTX’s client list. Typically in bankruptcy law, all claims against a bankrupt company are public. But FTX’s lawyers argued that protecting the identities of FTX’s clients — at least on an interim basis — was necessary to avoid potential future thefts of FTX’s accounts.
Dorsey granted temporary redaction of FTX customers’ names and information, with the expectation of releasing those names once the case finalizes.
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A majority of people in the U.S. have experienced extreme weather in the last five years, according to a new survey conducted by NPR, Harvard University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Heavy rains and flooding that swamped Nigeria, Niger, Chad and the surrounding region between June and October this year was made 80 times more likely because of climate change, a rapid analysis by international climate attribution experts found.
Analysis released late Wednesday by the World Weather Attribution group used peer-reviewed methods and found that climate change was overwhelmingly behind the heavy rains that left over 800 people dead, with worse to come as global average temperatures continue to rise.
“We will see very intense rains in the region in the coming years,” warned climatologist Friederike Otto of Imperial College London, who led the study.
The devastating floods, some of the worst seen in recent decades, also displaced 1.5 million people across the region, left thousands injured and damaged huge areas of both urban and rural land, prompting calls for better preparation ahead of future events.
“The lessons we learn from the floods calls for more concrete policies to consider future developments,” said Cheikh Kane of Red Cross Climate Center, calling on authorities in the region “to enhance their level of preparedness.”
The scientists ran comparisons of climate data from past and present weather information focusing on Lake Chad and the lower Niger River basins to determine the impact warming temperatures had on the flooding. They found that the region’s rainy season was 20% wetter than normal because of climate change and that an event of this intensity now has a one in ten chance of happening each year.
Researchers also analyzed the impact of climate change on droughts in 2021 that reduced crop production in the central Sahel and contributed to an ongoing food crisis, but were unable to reach any conclusions due a lack of reliable weather station data.
The scientists called for greater investment in weather stations in the region to inform their work in future and help communities prepare for extreme weather events.
“Resources are needed for Africa to create early warning systems and to build climate-resilient infrastructure and cities,” philanthropist Mo Ibrahim told The Associated Press.
In Sharm el-Sheikh, where the U.N.’s two-week climate conference known as COP27 is underway, activists from the Niger Delta called for an end to fossil fuels that are responsible for climate change.
“Oil exploration contributes immensely to the climate crises, among them being the heavy flooding in Nigeria in October,” said Nigerian activist Lucky Abeng. “That’s why we have come to the COP, to amplify our voices, for the entire global south on fossil fuels emitters.”
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CINCINNATI (AP) _ LSI Industries Inc. (LYTS) on Thursday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $5.2 million.
The Cincinnati-based company said it had profit of 18 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and costs related to mergers and acquisitions, were 21 cents per share.
The lighting and LED display company posted revenue of $127.5 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $15 million, or 54 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $455.1 million.
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NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — Noblesville parents are continuing to advocate for legislative change after a gunman opened fire at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday.
The nation’s latest mass shooting comes just one day before the four-year anniversary of an active shooter at Noblesville West Middle School.
On May 25 2018, police said a seventh grade boy shot and critically injured a 13-year-old girl at Noblesville West Middle School. A heroic science teacher was also shot and hospitalized after tackling the shooter.
“We want to make the best of a difficult situation and move forward and try and stop other people from having to suffer through these things also,” said Steve Rogers, a parent whose child attended Noblesville West Middle School at the time of the shooting.
Rogers said, in the weeks following the shooting, he and other parents banded together to form “Noblesville Stands Together.” Together the parents advocate for better gun safety and school resources.
“We’re very fortunate that it wasn’t worse than it was – given what we learned later in court about the child’s intentions,” said Rogers. “More than anything else we’re just heartbroken that all of these families, and yet another community, has to suffer with the after effects of this violent epidemic of gun violence that we have in this country.”
Rogers said the parents are focused on three issues:
- More mental health resources – finding ways to identify and intervene when students are at risk.
- Increased safety measures – implementing physical measures for school security and hiring more school resource officers.
- Responsible gun ownership – ensuring proper gun safety training is taught to all gun owners and enforcing accountability if someone’s firearm ends up in the wrong hands.
“Those children’s lives mattered, that teacher’s life mattered, and unfortunately their lives are being met with real callous disregard from people who are in power,” said Rogers. “[Legislators] have the ability to do something about this but have not been able to summon the moral and political courage that is necessary to do something.”
Officials with Noblesville Schools said the community helped pass a referendum in November 2018 to provide the district with additional funding for increase safety measures and more mental health resources.
Rogers said he is very proud of the progress the district has made, but he wants the same acknowledgement on the state or even federal level.
“There are lots of rights in the country, and right now we have politicians who are seemingly only focused on the rights of gun owners instead of the rights of everyone else who just wants to live without fear,” said Rogers.
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Jonna Cooley is the Executive Director of the Phoenix Center, the LGBTQ Center located in Springfield, Ill. Jonna spoke to Community Voices about the history of the center and the services they provide. Jonna also discusses misconceptions of the LGBTQ community and how to become a better ally.
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HONG KONG, June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Spade Acquisition Co (the "Company") today announced it is transferring the listing of its units, Class A ordinary shares and warrants to the NYSE American LLC ("NYSE American") from the New York Stock Exchange LLC ("NYSE"). The decision to transfer to the NYSE American was motivated by several factors, including more favorable thresholds for continued listing on the NYSE American following potential redemptions of the Company's Class A ordinary shares in connection with the vote to extend the deadline by which the Company must complete its initial business combination.
The Company expects to begin trading under its current symbols "BSAQU," "BSAQ" and "BSAQWS" for its units, Class A ordinary shares and warrants, respectively, at the open of trading on NYSE American on June 21, 2023. The Company will continue to trade on the NYSE until the close of trading on June 20, 2023, and will be delisted from the NYSE in connection with the listing on NYSE American.
About Black Spade Acquisition Co
Black Spade Acquisition Co ("BSAQ") is a blank check company incorporated for the purpose of effecting a business combination (Special Purpose Acquisition Company). BSAQ was founded by Black Spade Capital, which runs a global portfolio consisting of a wide spectrum of cross-border investments, and consistently seeks to add new investment projects and opportunities to its portfolio. Learn more at: https://www.blackspadeacquisition.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Harry-Meghan doc offers sweeping indictment of tabloid press
London — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, offered a sweeping indictment of Britain’s media and the racism they believe has fueled coverage of their relationship in a Netflix documentary series that promises to tell the “full story” of the couple’s estrangement from the royal family.
Relying on interviews with the couple, as well as their friends and experts on race and the media, the first three episodes of “Harry and Meghan" dissect the close relationship between tabloid newspapers and the royal family while discussing the history of racism in the British Empire and how it continues to pervade society.
“In this family sometimes, you know, you’re part of the problem rather than part of the solution,’’ Harry says in the program, which aired Thursday. “There is a huge level of unconscious bias. The thing with unconscious bias is that it is actually no one’s fault. But once it has been pointed out, or identified within yourself, you then need to make it right.”
The media’s treatment of Meghan — and what they felt was a lack of sympathy from royal institutions about the coverage — were at the heart of the couple’s complaints when they walked away from royal life and moved to Southern California almost three years ago. Promoted with two dramatically edited trailers that hinted at a “war against Meghan,” the series “Harry & Meghan” is the couple’s latest effort to tell their story.
The series comes at a crucial moment for the monarchy as King Charles III tries to show that the institution still has a role to play after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, whose personal popularity dampened criticism of the crown during her 70-year reign. Charles is making the case that the House of Windsor can help unite an increasingly diverse nation by using the early days of his reign to meet with many of the ethnic groups and faiths that make up modern Britain.
Harry’s 2018 marriage to the former Meghan Markle, a biracial American actress, was once seen as boosting the royal family’s effort to move into the 21st century, making it more representative of a multicultural nation. But the fairy tale, which began with a star-studded ceremony at Windsor Castle, soon soured amid stories that Meghan was self-centered and bullied her staff.
Netflix released the first three hour-long episodes on Thursday, with three more due Dec. 15. The documentary includes video diaries recorded by Meghan and Harry — apparently on their phones — in March 2020, amid the couple’s acrimonious split from the royal family. It’s “my duty to uncover the exploitation and bribery” that happens in British media, Harry says in one entry.
“No one knows the full truth,” he adds. “We know the full truth.”
The series begins by telling the story of Harry and Meghan’s courtship and the initial enthusiasm that greeted their relationship. But the tone shifts as Harry recounts the intense media scrutiny faced by Meghan, reminding him of the way his mother, Princess Diana, was treated before she died in a car crash while being trailed by photographers.
“To see another woman in my life who I loved go through this feeding frenzy – that’s hard,” Harry says.
“It is basically the hunter versus the prey.”
Harry and Meghan said they initially tried to follow palace advice to remain silent about the press coverage as other members of the royal family said it was a rite of passage they all had to go through. But the couple said they felt compelled to tell their story because there was something different about the way Meghan was treated.
“I said, ‘The difference here is the race element,’” Harry said.
That bias has deep roots in the history of the British empire, which was enriched by the enslavement of Black people and the extraction of wealth from colonies in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, said historian and author David Olusoga in the program. It is only since World War II that large numbers of Black and Asian people moved to Britain, changing the face of the nation.
Those changes are reflected in the British media. While Black people make up about 3.5% of Britain’s population, they account for just 0.2% of the journalists, Olusoga said.
“We have to recognize that this is a white industry…,” he said. “So people who come up with these headlines, they are doing so in a newsroom that’s almost entirely white, and they get to decide whether something has crossed the line of being racist.”
King Charles III was asked if he had watched the documentary as he carried out an engagement on Thursday in London. He did not reply.
Race became a central issue for the monarchy following Harry and Meghan’s interview with American talk show host Oprah Winfrey in March 2021. Meghan alleged that before their first child was born, a member of the royal family commented on how dark the baby’s skin might be.
Prince William, the heir to the throne and Harry’s older brother, defended the royal family after the interview, telling reporters, “We’re very much not a racist family.”
But Buckingham Palace faced renewed allegations of racism only last week when a Black advocate for survivors of domestic abuse said a senior member of the royal household interrogated her about her origins during a reception at the palace. Coverage of the issue filled British media, overshadowing William and his wife Kate’s much-anticipated visit to Boston, which the palace had hoped would highlight their environmental credentials.
Media attention was also diverted by Netflix’s decision to release the first trailer for “Harry & Meghan” in the middle of the trip.
Whatever the series ultimately reveals palace officials hope to deflect the storm by portraying William and Kate as forward-looking young royals who are tackling difficult issues such as climate change and early childhood education, in contrast to Harry and Meghan, who are described by critics as merely celebrities selling their story to the media.
The BBC and the Daily Telegraph, one of Britain’s most influential newspapers, picked up on this theme in their coverage of William and Kate’s three-day trip to Boston, where they handed out environmental prizes, met with anti-violence campaigners and went to a basketball game.
“While Prince Harry and Meghan continued to paint themselves as victims, heads in hands, tearing their hair out at the unfairness of it all, the Prince and Princess were simply getting on with the job,” the Telegraph wrote.
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Funding Will Accelerate Commercialization of the ECGenius™ System and Expand Development of Analytic Modules
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CathVision, a medical technology company developing innovative electrophysiology solutions designed to enhance clinical decision making in the EP lab, today announced the company has secured $7.2 million in funding from existing investors. The financing will help advance commercial operations driving adoption of the ECGenius™ System, the company's innovative EP recording technology, and support the continued development of artificial intelligence-powered analytic modules to provide electrophysiologists with unprecedented levels of automated analysis during cardiac ablation procedures.
"Our investors have witnessed the evolution of our company and technology in recent years," said Mads Matthiesen, CEO, CathVision. "Reinvesting in the company demonstrates confidence in our innovation, ongoing development, and ability to advance adoption of the ECGenius System throughout the United States as we focus on empowering physicians to diagnose, characterize, and treat cardiac arrhythmias more effectively. We are expanding our sales team, building our U.S. presence, and furthering the development of analytic modules."
The ECGenius System includes a proprietary hardware amplifier capable of acquiring high-fidelity, low-noise cardiac electrograms. The technology represents a crucial progression in the quality of cardiac signal acquisition, the accuracy of electrogram interpretation and the advancement of therapy support to help electrophysiologists improve the overall diagnosis and treatment of complex atrial arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation (AF), which increases the risk of stroke and heart failure. The ECGenius System received FDA 510(k) clearance in May and is currently available in limited market release.
"Cardiac ablation is one of the fastest growing markets in healthcare; treatment efficiency and efficacy must improve for physicians to deliver the best possible care for patients with atrial fibrillation and other cardiac arrhythmias," said Matthieu Bocquet, Founding Partner, Lumine Capital. "CathVision's modern and precise EP recording technology brings more clarity to physicians by delivering clear signals that can be accurately interpreted. This is a necessary step to improve treatment outcomes."
The ECGenius System1 is commercially available in the United States in limited market release. For more information about the ECGenius System, please visit www.cathvision.com/ep-recording-enhanced or email contact@cathvision.com.
1Not approved for sale in the EU.
About CathVision
CathVision is a medical technology company that develops electrophysiology solutions centered around an innovative EP recording system and AI algorithm platform – the ECGenius System. Committed to empowering physicians to make more informed clinical decisions in the EP lab, CathVision is redefining the necessity of exceptional cardiac electrical signals to diagnose, characterize, and treat the most common heart rhythm disorders. CathVision was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Denmark with a U.S. office in Minnesota.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quark.ai, the Autonomous Support Platform for Technical/Field Support and B2B e-Commerce, today introduced the Quark.ai Workflow Automator, a powerful module designed to power Field Support engineers with a self-service tool for rapidly resolving complex support-related workflow issues of industrial enterprises.
The Quark.ai Workflow Automator module enables unparalleled productivity improvement. A robust combination of Deep Learning, NLP and Computer Vision, it allows Field Support engineers to quickly and accurately troubleshoot issues in real time – whether at the customer's site or remotely -- with step-by-step instructions to help them identify and resolve complex issues. While troubleshooting, they can also ask Quark.ai detailed questions in natural English to see relevant sections of reference documents that have the answers. If Field Support engineers need help, they can also receive guidance from a back-office support staff who is also powered with Quark.ai's tool.
"AI based workflows are critical for field support in telecommunication, heavy machinery, instrumentation and other industrial companies," said Prosenjit Sen, Co-Founder and CEO of Quark.ai. "The Quark.ai Autonomous Support platform can optimize the resolution of customer issues by utilizing the Workflow Automator in combination with its companion Similar Tickets module. While companies often need to help Field Support engineers on-site, they frequently waste money by dispatching them when the issue doesn't require it. Companies can solve this problem by additionally utilizing the Quark.ai Similar Tickets module, which can quickly identify other similar tickets from its historical tickets database. The Similar Tickets module illustrates previous actions taken in response to similar issues, enabling the company to maximize accuracy, speed and efficiency in resolving the new issue."
The Quark.ai platform is designed to ensure that field support, back-office staff and the customers they serve have quick and easy access to the exact information, instantly with high accuracy – via self-service chatbot or a conversational search interface.
Quark.ai is the technology leader in Autonomous Customer Support and Autonomous B2B eCommerce Support. Quark.ai's multi-channel platform combines Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision to interpret complex customer cases and automatically provide resolutions at scale with unsurpassed accuracy and speed. The result is unrivaled efficiency and scalability in Customer Support, with lower escalations, higher Customer Satisfaction and significant cost savings. More information may be found at https://quark.ai.
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Pavin Smith Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Rockies - May 29
Published: May. 29, 2023 at 2:25 AM MST|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Arizona Diamondbacks, including Pavin Smith (.081 batting average in his past 10 games), take on starting pitcher Karl Kauffmann and the Colorado Rockies at Chase Field, Monday at 4:10 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his last game (0-for-4) against the Red Sox.
Pavin Smith Game Info & Props vs. the Rockies
- Game Day: Monday, May 29, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Chase Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Rockies Starter: Karl Kauffmann
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -250)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +500)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +165)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -118)
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Pavin Smith At The Plate
- Smith is batting .209 with four doubles, four home runs and 16 walks.
- Smith has gotten at least one hit in 48.6% of his games this year (18 of 37), with at least two hits five times (13.5%).
- In four games this season, he has hit a long ball (10.8%, and 3.2% of his trips to the plate).
- Smith has picked up an RBI in 12 games this season (32.4%), with more than one RBI in three of those games (8.1%).
- In 13 games this season (35.1%), he has scored, including multiple runs twice.
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Pavin Smith Home/Away Batting Splits
Rockies Pitching Rankings
- The Rockies pitching staff ranks 27th in the league with a collective 7.7 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Rockies' 5.15 team ERA ranks 28th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Rockies pitchers combine to allow 69 total home runs at a rate of 1.3 per game (to rank 24th in baseball).
- Kauffmann (0-2) starts for the Rockies, his third this season.
- His last appearance came on Thursday against the Miami Marlins, when the righty threw 4 1/3 innings, surrendering five earned runs while giving up six hits.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.
Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that call for masking and other infection precautions.
Right now, about a third of the U.S. population lives in areas that are considered at higher risk — mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. Those are areas where people should already be considering wearing masks indoors — but Americans elsewhere should also take notice, officials said.
“Prior increases of infections, in different waves of infection, have demonstrated that this travels across the country,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said at a White House briefing with reporters.
For an increasing number of areas, “we urge local leaders to encourage use of prevention strategies like masks in public indoor settings and increasing access to testing and treatment,” she said.
However, officials were cautious about making concrete predictions, saying how much worse the pandemic gets will depend on several factors, including to what degree previous infections will protect against new variants.
Last week, White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha warned in an interview with The Associated Press the U.S. will be increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus this fall and winter if Congress doesn’t swiftly approve new funding for more vaccines and treatments.
Jha warned that without additional funding from Congress for the virus would cause “unnecessary loss of life” in the fall and winter, when the U.S. runs out of treatments.
He added the U.S. was already falling behind other nations in securing supplies of the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines and said that the domestic manufacturing base of at-home tests is already drying up as demand drops off.
Jha said domestic test manufactures have started shuttering lines and laying off workers, and in the coming weeks will begin to sell off equipment and prepare to exit the business of producing tests entirely unless the U.S. government has money to purchase more tests, like the hundreds of millions it has sent out for free to requesting households this year.
That would leave the U.S. reliant on other countries for testing supplies, risking shortages during a surge, Jha warned. About 8.5 million households placed orders for the latest tranche of 8 free tests since ordering opened on Monday, Jha added.
The pandemic is now 2 1/2 years old. And the U.S. has seen — depending how you count them — five waves of COVID-19 during that time, with the later surges driven by mutated versions of the coronavirus. A fifth wave occurred mainly in December and January, caused by the omicron variant.
The omicron variant spread much more easily than earlier versions.
Some experts are worried the country now is seeing signs of a sixth wave, driven by an omicron subvariant. On Wednesday, Walensky noted a steady increase in COVID-19 cases in the past five weeks, including a 26% increase nationally in the last week.
Hospitalizations also are rising, up 19% in the past week, though they remain much lower than during the omicron wave, she said.
In late February, as that wave was ebbing, the CDC released a new set of measures for communities where COVID-19 was easing its grip, with less of a focus on positive test results and more on what’s happening at hospitals.
Walensky said more than 32% of the country currently live in an area with medium or high COVID-19 community levels, including more than 9% in the highest level, where CDC recommends that masks and other mitigation efforts be used.
In the last week, an additional 8% of Americans were living in a county in medium or high COVID-19 community levels.
Officials said they are concerned that waning immunity and relaxed mitigation measures across the country may contribute to a continued rise in infections and illnesses across the country. They encouraged people — particularly older adults — to get boosters.
Some health experts say the government should be taking clearer and bolder steps.
The CDC community level guidelines are confusing to the public, and don’t give a clear picture of how much virus transmission is occurring in a community, said Dr. Lakshmi Ganapathi, an infectious diseases specialist at Harvard University.
When the government officials make recommendations but do not set rules, “it ultimately rests on every single individual picking and choosing the public health that works for them. But that’s not what is effective. If you’re talking about stemming hospitalizations and even deaths, all of these interventions work better when people do it collectively,” she said.
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Sharon Osbourne hits back at cancel culture in new Fox Nation series 'To Hell and Back'
'Sharon Osbourne: To Hell and Back' is streaming now on Fox Nation
TV personality Sharon Osbourne is sharing her side of her infamous dustup with CBS and cancel culture while giving an inside scoop into her personal life in her new Fox Nation series "Sharon Osbourne: To Hell and Back."
The shocking four-part series takes subscribers through Osbourne's ousting from "The Talk" while offering an intimate look into her past, family life, mental health struggles and career that shaped who she is today.
"What she went through on ‘The Talk’ was an absolute disgrace. Completely shameful behavior by everyone involved," Fox Nation host Piers Morgan said.
Osbourne, who took heat for defending Morgan's freedom of speech after he criticized Meghan Markle's controversial interview with Oprah Winfrey, recounts the infamous broadcast herself, discussing the feelings of sheer betrayal as her co-anchors ambushed her on-air.
"I honestly wanted to say, ‘CBS, go f--- yourselves,’" she said.
Osbourne's son Jack, daughter Kelly and others make appearances to pull back the curtain on pivotal moments that shaped the Osbourne family's life and public image.
WHY WAS SHARON OSBOURNE CANCELLED AND HOW HAS SHE RESPONDED?
Osbourne also shared how she helped found the metal music festival Ozzfest after her husband, metal legend Ozzy Osbourne, was rejected from appearing at Lollapalooza. Osbourne delves deeper into her relationship with her husband, including the struggles they faced after his 1984 arrest, her battle with colon cancer, and more.
"We went through a lot," she said.
"We patched things up, life goes on, you get over that hurdle until the next hurdle."
Fox Nation subscribers can learn more about the trials and triumphs that shaped Sharon Osbourne by streaming "To Hell and Back" starting Monday.
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SEATTLE (AP) — More than five hours before Friday’s first pitch, Ichiro Suzuki was in the outfield, in uniform still going through his throwing routine.
Three years removed from his last game as a player with the Seattle Mariners in his home country of Japan, Suzuki hasn’t lost that competitive drive.
It’s just channeled in different ways now.
“If the guys on the team come up and ask me a question about baseball I want to be able to tell them, but also be able to show them and if I don’t continue to do what I’m doing, physically being ready, training, I won’t be able to really help them,” Suzuki said through his interpreter on Friday. “I know there are former players that can teach and tell them what to do. But I think it’s more valuable to be able to show them how.”
Suzuki may finally take a day off from his pregame routine of throwing, running, fielding during batting practice on Saturday when he becomes the latest inductee into the Mariners’ Hall of Fame. Being the center of attention and tasked with giving a speech has been weighing heavier on the 48-year-old as the induction day has drawn closer.
He joked that the stress of the speech was giving him a second ulcer after suffering one as a player in 2009.
“The preparing for a game is, I can’t say easy, but doesn’t compare to what this preparation for tomorrow is,” Suzuki said. “I mean, I really have a stomachache thinking about the speech tomorrow.”
Suzuki spent the first 11 seasons of his major league career with the Mariners before getting traded to the New York Yankees midway through the 2012 season. Suzuki played parts of three seasons with the Yankees, three more in Miami before returning to Seattle to close out his career.
His final appearance came at the beginning of the 2019 season which Seattle opened with two games in Japan. Suzuki announced his retirement after the second game.
“When I still run and do things, I feel like I could still play. Physically I feel like I could play,” Suzuki said. “But emotionally, because I was able to finish the way I was able to finish that kind of beats out all the other things. It just makes it so that I’m at peace.”
Suzuki retired with 3,089 hits in the majors and another 1,278 during his nine seasons in Japan before he made the move to Seattle at age 27. He batted .311 for his career, was the 2001 AL MVP and rookie of the year, and holds the single-season hit record of 262 that may never be approached.
Saturday’s induction with the Mariners is likely just a precursor for 2025 when Suzuki is first eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame. But this one is special because of his connection with the franchise and city that started when he arrived in 2001 and continues today.
“When I first came here, I was not a free agent. The ownership here took a chance on me and gave me this opportunity,” Suzuki said. “And then as I played here, I knew there was expectations and I tried to meet those expectations. As I played that relationship began and it’s something that’s very special. So I guess you could say it just became this way. It took time. It was like a relationship and we got to this point.”
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SIMSBURY, Conn. (AP) — Investigators are looking into why a small plane crashed in a farm near a small Connecticut airport, where authorities found the wreckage empty. It turned out that the uninjured pilot had gotten a ride home in another aircraft.
The single-engine Piper PA-28 apparently overshot a runway sometime Tuesday evening at the Simsbury Airport, near Hartford.
The crash wasn't reported until the farm owner came upon the wreckage in a greenhouse near the end of the runway around 8:30 p.m., Simsbury Fire Chief James Baldis told reporters.
He said authorities eventually determined that the pilot had been dropping his plane off for service and had someone else following him in a different plane, which picked him up after the wreck.
"He’s perfectly OK. Unfortunately, he just didn’t report the fact that this had happened,” Baldis said.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Nabila works 10 hours or more a day, doing the heavy, dirty labor of packing mud into molds and hauling wheelbarrows full of bricks. At 12 years old, she’s been working in brick factories half her life now, and she’s probably the oldest of all her co-workers.
Already high, the number of children put to work in Afghanistan is growing, fueled by the collapse of the economy after the Taliban took over the country and the world cut off financial aid just over a year ago.
A recent survey by Save the Children estimated that half the country’s families have put children to work to keep food on the table as livelihoods crumbled.
Nowhere is it clearer than in the many brick factories on the highway north out of the capital, Kabul. Conditions in the furnaces are tough even for adults. But in almost all of them, children as young as four or five are found laboring alongside their families from early in the morning until dark in the heat of summer.
Children are doing every step of the brickmaking process. They haul cannisters of water, carry the wooden brick molds full of mud to set them out in the sun to dry. They load and push wheelbarrows full of dried bricks to the kiln for firing, then push back wheelbarrows full of fired bricks. They pick through the smoldering charcoal that’s been burned in the kiln for pieces that can still be used, inhaling the soot and singeing their fingers.
The kids work with a determination born out of knowing little else but their families’ need. When asked about toys or play, they smile and shrug. Only a few have been to school.
Nabila, the 12-year-old, has been working in brick factories since she was five or six. Like many other brick workers, her family works part of the year at a kiln near Kabul, the other part at a one outside Jalalabad, near the Pakistani border.
A few years ago, she got to go to school a little in Jalalabad. She’d like to go back to school but can’t — her family needs her work to survive, she said with a soft smile.
“We can’t think about anything else but work,” she said.
Mohabbat, a 9-year-old boy, stopped for a moment with a pained expression as he carried a load of charcoal. “My back hurts,” he said.
Asked what he wished for, he first asked, “What is a wish?” Then once it was explained, he was quiet a moment, thinking. “I wish to go to school and eat good food,” he said, then added: “I wish to work well so that we can have a house.”
The landscape around the factories is bleak and barren, with the kilns’ smokestacks pumping out black, sooty smoke. Families live in dilapidated mud houses next to furnaces, each with a corner where they make their bricks. For most, a day’s meal is bread soaked in tea.
Rahim has three children working with him at a brick kiln, ranging in age from 5 to 12. The kids had been in school, and Rahim, who goes by one name, said he had long resisted putting them to work. But even before the Taliban came to power, as the war went on and the economy worsened, he said he had no choice.
“There’s no other way,” he said. “How can they study when we don’t have bread to eat? Survival is more important.”
Workers get the equivalent of $4 for every 1,000 bricks they make. One adult working alone can’t do that amount in a day, but if the children help, they can make 1,500 bricks a day, workers said.
According to surveys done by Save the Children, the percentage of families saying they had a child working outside the home grew from 18% to 22% from December to June. That would suggest more than 1 million children nationwide were working. The surveys covered more than 1,400 children and more than 1,400 caregivers in seven provinces. Another 22% of the children said they were asked to work on the family business or farm.
The survey also pointed to the collapse in livelihoods that Afghans have endured the past year. In June, 77% of the surveyed families reported they had lost half their income or more, compared to a year ago, up from 61% in December.
On one recent day at one of the kilns, a light rain started, and at first the kids were cheerful, thinking it would be a refreshing drizzle in the heat. Then the wind kicked up. A blast of dust hit them, coating their faces. The air turned yellow with dust. Some of the children couldn’t open their eyes, but they kept working. The rain opened up into a downpour.
The kids were soaked. One boy had water and mud pouring off of him, but like the others he said he couldn’t take shelter without finishing his work. Streams from the driving rain carved out trenches in the dirt around them.
“We’re used to it,” he said. Then he told another boy, “Hurry up, let’s finish it.”
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The PhRMA Foundation today announced the appointment to its Board of Directors of Aida Habtezion, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Pfizer, Maha Radhakrishnan, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Biogen, George Addona, PhD, Senior Vice President and Head of Discovery, Preclinical and Translational Medicine at Merck Research Laboratories, and Lori Reilly, Esq, Chief Operating Officer at PhRMA.
The PhRMA Foundation is a 57-year-old nonprofit that fosters biopharmaceutical innovation and value-driven health care by investing in the frontiers of research. The Foundation catalyzes the careers of promising researchers through competitive, peer-reviewed grants and fellowships.
"These new Board members bring to the PhRMA Foundation a diversity of experience and perspective that is critical as we enter the next era of change for the biopharmaceutical industry," said Amy M. Miller, PhD, President of the PhRMA Foundation. "I look forward to working with our Board of Directors to chart a path forward for the organization and support the rapidly evolving field."
As chief medical officer, Dr. Habtezion leads Pfizer's Worldwide Medical & Safety organization responsible for ensuring that patients, physicians, and regulatory agencies are provided with information on the safe and appropriate use of Pfizer medications. Prior to joining Pfizer, she was a practicing physician and scientist at Stanford University's School of Medicine, where she led a large translation research lab focused on understanding disease mechanisms and identifying potential immune-based therapeutic targets for pancreatic and intestinal inflammatory diseases and their long-term complications such as cancer.
"As a longtime academic researcher who transitioned to industry, I greatly value the PhRMA Foundation's unique role in funding promising young scientists conducting research that helps seed the biopharmaceutical industry's future efforts to deliver new medicines to patients," Dr. Habtezion said. "I am eager to partner with the Foundation's Board and staff to ensure the continued success of this respected organization."
Biogen's Dr. Radhakrishnan is one of the foremost experts on medical affairs strategy and health outcomes research currently serving as chief medical officer. She brings extensive experience in overseeing external engagement approaches with academic institutions, key opinion leaders, patient advocacy groups, payers, and regulators. Prior to joining Biogen, Dr. Radhakrishnan held leadership roles at Sanofi, Bioverativ, Bristol Myers Squibb, United Health Group, and Cephalon.
"By investing in promising scientists and researchers, the PhRMA Foundation is playing a foundational role in helping the biopharmaceutical industry adapt to changing realities," Dr. Radhakrishnan said. "With this evolution, there are many challenges the PhRMA Foundation's programs can help the industry address. One thing remains clear — we all must come together across the industry to advance science and improve meaningful and measurable patient outcomes."
Dr. Addona has worked at Merck since 2008 and currently oversees early-stage pipeline, early human studies, and biomarker development. Previously, he was Vice President of Quantitative Biosciences, playing a critical role in Merck's drug discovery organization by leading a multidisciplinary team focused on preclinical programs across all the company's therapeutic areas. Prior to joining Merck, he held roles with Novartis and Praecis Pharmaceuticals.
"Our industry stands at an inflection point where emerging technologies and new therapeutic modalities are creating exciting opportunities in medicine and vaccine discovery and development," Dr. Addona said. "I look forward to working with my fellow Board members at the PhRMA Foundation to foster innovative research and inspire a new and diverse generation of biopharmaceutical scientists."
Due to a change in the Foundation bylaws, Ms. Reilly joins the Foundation's Board as PhMRA's ex officio representative. A longtime leader in developing and advocating for practical policy solutions that bring medicines to patients, Ms. Reilly oversees PhRMA's advocacy activities and alliance development work and provides strategic leadership to the organization and its members. Prior to her 20 years of service at PhRMA, she served as counsel to the U.S. House Committee on Commerce and to a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
"Research is critical to advancing new medicines and informing the policy environment that paves the way for patients to access those medicines," Ms. Reilly said. "The PhRMA Foundation fills a critical niche for the biopharmaceutical industry, helping to fuel innovation and build thoughtful approaches to promote a value-driven health system."
The PhRMA Foundation fosters biopharmaceutical innovation and value-driven health care by investing in the frontiers of research. The Foundation catalyzes the careers of promising researchers through competitive, peer-reviewed grants and fellowships in the fields of drug delivery, drug discovery, translational medicine, value assessment and health outcomes research. Since its founding in 1965, the Foundation has awarded more than $110 million to over 2,700 researchers from diverse backgrounds at more than 300 institutions. To learn more, please visit www.phrmafoundation.org.
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CHICAGO, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Morton Salt, one of America's favorite and most enduring brands, is proud to announce its brand-new collection of refillable, adjustable grinders. Morton's sleek new glass grinder is designed to offer consumers a more sustainable option compared to the single use disposable options in the market today. Much to the delight of home chefs everywhere, the newly redesigned grinder will also feature an easily adjustable grinder top, recyclable glass bottle, and be available in three key products: All-Natural Sea Salt, All-Natural Himalayan Pink Salt, and Black Peppercorn.
"Consumers have been asking for more sustainable products, and now thanks to our new refillable design, Morton is able to offer a high quality, convenient to purchase and refillable alternative to single-use grinders." said Doug Kafer Marketing Director, Morton Salt, Inc. "Given Morton's commitment to quality and sustainability, we're proud to add these products to our portfolio."
In addition to this great trio of new products, Morton is also launching recyclable glass refill bottles of both All-Natural Extra Coarse Sea Salt and Himalayan Pink Salt. These new and improved Morton grinders and refill bottles are now available at most major grocery stores nationwide.
To learn more about Morton's wide range of salts or for recipe ideas, follow @MortonSalt on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.
Morton Salt, Inc. is a trusted authority in salt in North America. Our iconic Morton® brand, coupled with the broadest footprint in the industry, has made us a leader since 1848. We produce salt for culinary, water softening, household, road deicing, food processing, chemical, pharmaceutical, and numerous other uses. Headquartered in Chicago, Morton Salt has nearly 2,500 employees committed to safety, quality, and service in the communities in which we operate.
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Beautiful today as high pressure is in control. A low pressure system moving in to end the week will bring rain and warmth into tomorrow before we cool down Saturday.
Today's highs will be in the low to mid 40s with a SW wind at 5-10mph. We'll see plenty of sun throughout the day before clouds increase into the evening.
By 10/11pm wintry mix moves in with temperatures dipping to the mid and upper 30s. As the warm front moves in, temps rise into the lower 40s into tomorrow morning, changing precipitation over to all rain.
Rain will be heavy at times, with thunderstorms possible, tomorrow morning. We'll get a break for midday and the afternoon before another round of rain and possible storms arrives in the evening. Rain then ends very early Saturday morning with totals over 1" possible.
Temperatures will reach the mid and upper 50s Friday, staying warm overnight into Saturday morning. On the backside of this system, temps then fall. We'll be near 40 for the afternoon Saturday with overnight lows into Sunday in the 20s.
Winds pick up tonight, out of the S at 10-15mph, gusting to the mid 20s. Friday winds will be out of the SW at 15-20mph, gusting to around 30mph. Gusts Friday night into the first half of Saturday could top 45mph as winds shift to the NW. Winds gradually lighten Saturday afternoon.
Sunday features more sunshine with highs in the mid 40s.
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BERLIN – More than 1,000 Lufthansa flights were canceled Wednesday because of a one-day strike by the airline's German ground staff, affecting tens of thousands of passengers in the latest travel turmoil to hit Europe.
About 134,000 passengers had to change their travel plans or cancel them altogether. At least 47 connections had already been canceled on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reported.
Lufthansa's main hubs in Frankfurt and Munich were most affected, but flights were also canceled in Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen, Hannover, Stuttgart and Cologne.
The airline advised affected passengers not to come to the airports because most of the counters there would not be staffed anyway.
The ver.di service workers’ union announced the strike on Monday as it seeks to raise pressure on Lufthansa in negotiations on pay for about 20,000 employees of logistical, technical and cargo subsidiaries of the airline.
The walkout comes at a time when airports in Germany and across Europe already are seeing disruption and long lines for security checks because of staff shortages and soaring travel demand.
As inflation soars, strikes for higher pay by airport crews in France and Scandinavian Airlines pilots in Sweden, Norway and Denmark have deepened the chaos for travelers who have faced last-minute cancellations, lengthy delays, lost luggage or long waits for bags in airports across Europe.
Travel is booming this summer after two years of COVID-19 restrictions, swamping airlines and airports that don’t have enough workers after pandemic-era layoffs. Airports like London’s Heathrow and Amsterdam’s Schiphol have limited daily flights or passenger numbers.
The Lufthansa strike started early Wednesday at 3:45 a.m. local time and is set to end early Thursday. Such “warning strikes” are a common tactic in German labor negotiations and typically last from several hours to a day or two.
Ver.di is calling for a 9.5% pay increase this year and says an offer by Lufthansa earlier this month, which would involve a deal for an 18-month period, falls far short of its demands.
Lufthansa’s chief personnel officer, Michael Niggemann, argued that “this so-called warning strike in the middle of the peak summer travel season is simply no longer proportionate.”
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WASHINGTON — The Mega Millions jackpot up for grabs Friday night will now be the third largest prize in the game's history.
The lottery announced Thursday the sum had grown to an estimated $660 million, with a cash option of $376.9 million. Only two billion-dollar jackpots have ever been higher for Mega Millions. If won at that level, the jackpot would be the ninth largest prize for any lottery game in the country.
No one won last Tuesday's Mega Millions jackpot, which was an estimated $555 million. The winning numbers for Tuesday's drawing were 2-31-32-37-70 and Gold Mega Ball 25.
The Mega Millions jackpot has steadily grown since someone last won on April 15. There has been a consecutive 27 drawings without a match for all six numbers.
The prize money has quickly climbed in the last few weeks, but the odds of winning remain the same — a staggering one in 302.5 million.
If no one wins the life-changing prize, there's a chance it could eventually set a new record. In the game's 20-year history there have only ever been two billion-dollar jackpots.
In the chance that someone does match all six numbers, the lucky winner would have the option for an annuity option, which is paid out in 30 annual payments. However, most players chose the cash option.
Last year, a Mega Millions jackpot cracked the $1 billion mark for just the second time. A four-member suburban Detroit lottery club won that $1.05 billion jackpot and chose the lump sump, receiving $557 million after taxes.
The Mega Millions drawing is on Friday, July 22 at 11 p.m. ET.
What are the top 10 biggest Mega Millions jackpots?
- $1.537 billion - 10/23/2018
- $1.050 billion - 1/22/2021
- $660 million (est) - 7/22/2022
- $656 million - 3/30/2012
- $648 million - 12/17/2013
- $543 million - 7/24/2018
- $536 million - 7/8/2016
- $533 million - 3/30/2018
- $522 million - 6/7/2019
- $516 million - 5/21//2021
Mega Millions is played on Tuesdays and Fridays in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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RADNOR, Pa., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors that a securities class action lawsuit has been against Freshworks Inc. ("Freshworks") (NASDAQ: FRSH). The action charges Freshworks with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. As a result of Freshworks' materially misleading statements and omissions to the public, Freshworks' investors have suffered significant losses.
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Freshworks, headquartered in San Mateo, California, provides customer engagement software for businesses. On or about September 22, 2021, Freshworks conducted its IPO, offering 28.5 million shares of its common stock to the investing public at a price of $36 per share (the "Offering Price"). Freshworks anticipated generating gross proceeds of over $1 billion from the IPO.
According to the Registration Statement and Prospectus filed by Freshworks (collectively, the Offering Documents"), Freshworks' business had "grown rapidly" in the lead up to the IPO. As a result, the company's growth rates and purportedly "healthy" net dollar retention rates, reflecting the usage of its products from existing customers and the sale of additional products to these customers, reached levels not previously achieved, and there was no indication that either was decelerating. In fact, the Offering Documents repeatedly and prominently touted Freshworks' 118% net dollar retention rate for the period ended June 30, 2021, which represented a noteworthy increase from the 107%, 111%, and 112% net dollar retention rates achieved as of June 30, 2020, December 31, 2020 and March 31, 2021, respectively, as well as Freshworks' year-over-year revenue growth rate of 53% (as of June 30, 2021), which likewise represented a significant increase over the Company's 45% year-over-year growth rate for the period ended December 31, 2020. Unbeknownst to investors, at the time of the IPO, Freshworks' revenue growth and billings had encountered obstacles.
Freshworks' stock declined after the Company announced its fourth fiscal quarter of 2021 earnings on February 10, 2022, during which it reported flat calculated billings growth and revenue growth deceleration of only 44% year over year.
Then, on May 3, 2022, after the market closed, Freshworks reported its first quarter 2022 financial results, reporting a third quarter of decelerating revenue growth and billings that missed consensus estimates and declined 13% quarter over quarter. Many analysts immediately responded by reducing their price targets.
By the filing of the complaint, Freshworks' shares traded as low as $10.51 per share, a decline of nearly 70% from the Offering Price.
Freshworks investors may, no later than January 3, 2023, seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class through Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP or other counsel, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP encourages Freshworks investors who have suffered significant losses to contact the firm directly to acquire more information.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The developers of a proposed copper-nickel mine upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota sued the Biden administration Monday to seek the reinstatement of federal mineral rights leases that are crucial to the $1.7 billion project.
Twin Metals Minnesota alleged in its lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, that the Department of the Interior acted illegally earlier this year when it canceled the leases. The company asked the court to declare that those leases remain valid and in force, so that it can proceed with the environmental review and permitting process.
The proposed underground mine, southeast of Ely near Birch Lake, is struggling to survive amid shifting political winds. The Obama administration, in its final weeks, chose not to renew the two leases, which had dated back more than 50 years. The Trump administration reversed that decision and reinstated the leases. But the Biden administration canceled the leases in January after reviving a potential 20-year mining moratorium in that area that the Obama administration tried to launch.
After the change in administrations in 2021, the lawsuit alleges, Interior officials “exacted a tightly coordinated set of unlawful actions” that culminated in the loss of Twin Metals' leases. “This coordinated campaign constituted nothing less than an unlawful attempt to rewrite the policy choices that Congress has made about the proper balance between environmental concerns and the availability of mining on public lands,” the lawsuit says.
Officials with the Interior Department declined to comment on the lawsuit.
“We are standing up for our right to a fair and consistent environmental review of our proposed mining project,” Dean DeBeltz, Twin Metals’ director of operations, said in a statement. “Our plan is backed by decades of exploration and analysis and is rooted in the most environmentally sophisticated design, which is tailored for our project location and mineral deposit. It deserves a fair evaluation by federal regulators based on its merits.”
The moratorium proposal would “withdraw” 352 square miles (912 square kilometers) within the Rainy River watershed in the Superior National Forest from new mineral leasing for 20 years. That threatens to doom Twin Metals. But it would not affect a separate project, the proposed PolyMet mine near Babbitt and Hoyt Lakes, which lies in a different watershed.
The U.S. Forest Service issued a draft environmental assessment in June to lay the foundation for the moratorium, saying it aimed "to prevent further negative environmental impacts from future mining operations.” The public comment period closed Aug. 12. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland will make the final decision.
Environmental groups have been fighting Twin Metals for years, saying the risk of acid mine drainage poses an unacceptable threat to the country’s most-visited federally designated wilderness area.
“The Biden administration’s actions to protect the Boundary Waters were well-considered, consistent with legal precedent and established public policy, and reflect the will of Minnesotans and the American people," Becky Rom, national chair of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, said in a statement. "This lawsuit is destined to fail.”
Twin Metals, owned by the Chilean mining company Antofagasta, contends that its underground design and other features would prevent acid formation by limiting the exposure of the sulfide-bearing ore to the effects of air and water. It was in the early stages of of seeking state permits when the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources shut down its own environmental review process in February, citing the company’s loss of its federal leases.
The company and its supporters argue that the project is critical for securing domestic sources of copper, nickel and other minerals needed for the expansion of wind and solar power and electric vehicles. The company says it has already invested more than $550 million in the project over the last 12 years, and that the mine would create more than 750 high-wage mining jobs plus 1,500 spinoff jobs in the region.
A U.S. House committee passed a bill by Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum last month to permanently ban copper-nickel mining in the same area covered by the proposed moratorium.
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PANAMA CITY (AP) — The United States, Panama and Colombia announced Tuesday that they will launch a 60-day campaign aimed at halting illegal migration through the treacherous Darien Gap, where the flow of migrants has multiplied this year.
Details on how the governments will try to curb the flow of migrants that reached nearly 90,000 in just the first three months of this year through the dense, lawless jungle were not provided in the joint statement.
The ambitious announcement came as the Biden administration nervously awaits the expected end of a pandemic-related rule May 11 that has suspended rights to seek asylum for many. Without that instrument of dissuasion at the U.S. border, there is concern migrant arrivals could again become unmanageable.
The joint statement said the countries will also use “new lawful and flexible pathways for tens of thousands of migrants and refugees as an alternative to irregular migration,” but again gave no details.
The plan’s third element is investment to reduce poverty and create jobs in the Colombian and Panamanian border communities, presumably so fewer people work at smuggling migrants.
“Recognizing our shared interest and responsibility to prevent the risk to human life, disrupt transnational criminal organizations, and preserve the vital rainforest, the governments of Panamá, Colombia, and the United States intend to carry out a two-month coordinated campaign to address the serious humanitarian situation in the Darién,” the statement said.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met with the foreign ministers of Panama and Colombia in Panama on Tuesday.
According to Panama’s government, more than 87,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap in the first three months of the year, mostly from Venezuela, Haiti and Ecuador. That was up from nearly 14,000 migrants during the same period a year earlier.
Last year, set a record for migrants using the Darien route, with nearly 250,000. That increase was driven largely by Venezuelans, who accounted for some 60% of the migrants crossing there last year.
The Biden administration responded in October by using the pandemic-related rule known as Title 42 to deny Venezuelans the chance to request asylum at the border. Instead, the U.S. government said it would accept as many as 24,000 Venezuelans at U.S. airports who had already applied and been pre-approved through a government online application. That program was expanded to Nicaragua, Haiti and Cuba earlier this year.
Now with Title 42 set to expire next month, the U.S. is looking at the Darien Gap as the natural choke point to stop extracontinental migration.
Michael Lee Weintraub, a profesor at the University of the Andes School of Government in Colombia, said that with Biden under pressure from conservatives to address immigration ahead of next year's presidential election, his administration is looking for ways to diiscourage irregular migration and make legal migration easier.
But he expressed doubt that Colombia's security forces have the capacity to dramatically affect migrant smuggling because the country's armed groups profit from it and are "very sophisticated."
The Darien Gap is among the most dangerous portions of the long route to the U.S. borders. Migrants and international human rights groups have denounced sexual assaults, robberies and killings in the remote jungle. That's in addition to the natural dangers posed by venomous snakes and rushing rivers.
For the migrants who survive the crossing, the Panamanian government and nongovernmental groups bus migrants across Panama to near its border with Costa Rica to continue their journey.
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PITTSBURGH, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) announced today that they will attend the Jefferies Industrials Conference.
Details of the conference are as follows:
About Kennametal
With over 80 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Every day approximately 8,600 employees are helping customers in more than 60 countries stay competitive. Kennametal generated $1.8 billion in revenues in fiscal 2021. Learn more at www.kennametal.com. Follow @Kennametal: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube##
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Experienced Executive Team Joins Innovative Agriculture Biotech Company
DUBLIN, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talam Biotech (formerly MicroGen Biotech), which uses microbes found in the soil to develop solutions that help agriculture protect the integrity of our food and create a more sustainable planet, today announced it has closed a successful bridge round of funding. Existing investors Fulcrum Global Capital and The Yield Lab Europe co-lead the investment for the company, which also announced its robust leadership team of industry veterans.
The new team is led by Chief Executive Officer John Chrosniak, formerly the CEO of Invaio Sciences and chief strategy officer of Corteva. He brings to the role his extensive leadership and experience with agriculture inputs and sustainability.
"Agriculture desperately needs more innovation, especially when it comes to the promise of natural technologies. Talam delivers on that promise," says Chrosniak. "Our proprietary technology is a powerful platform that harnesses the soil and its natural microbiome to solve major challenges facing our agriculture and food systems. We chose to focus our efforts initially on the problem of soil contaminants, especially heavy metals, negatively impacting the quality of major food crops."
Joining Chrosniak on the leadership team is:
- Chief Financial Officer Eoin Grindley brings deep commercial finance and fundraising experience in large-scale and fast-growing entrepreneurial organizations.
- Head of Research & Development Dr. Thomas Malvar has extensive experience developing agricultural biotech products with Monsanto company. Most recently he was R&D lead for Invaio Sciences.
- Co-founder and Scientific Advisor Dr. David Ryan has worked in environmental biotechnology for more than 20 years with a focus on soil bioremediation and microbial metal resistance systems.
- Co-founder and Scientific Advisor Dr. David Dowling is a world leading scientist in environmental and agricultural biotech research with more than 30 years of experience in phytoremediation, plant growth promotion and soil microbiology.
"We're excited to see this highly experienced executive team leading Talam into the next phase of the company's growth," says Duane Cantrell, Co-founder of Fulcrum Global Capital and Talam Biotech chairman of the board. "They are developing critical innovations that will help make our food safer, mitigate soil contaminants and increase yields."
Cantrell is joined on the board by:
- John Carrigan, Investment Director, Yield Lab Europe
- William Buckner, Former CEO of Noble Research Institute and CEO of Bayer Crop Science North America
- Dr. Roger Beachy, Former Director of NIFA and National Academy of Science Member
- John Chrosniak, Chief Executive Officer of Talam Biotech
- Dr. David Ryan, Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor
With this exceptional leadership team and advisors, Talam is looking forward to advancing its innovative solutions for the benefit of farmers and consumers to address these critical needs. Talam sees significant opportunities to collaborate and develop new partnerships in its mission to help protect the integrity of our food and create a more sustainable planet.
Talam Biotech is leading the development of microbial-based solutions that enable farmers to grower healthier, more sustainable food. The company and its team members have extensive experience in understanding the power of microbes and their capacity to sequester contaminants and remediate soil pollutants.
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First responders foster abandoned kittens after animal shelter forced to close
EDMOND, Okla. (Gray News) – When an animal shelter in Oklahoma was forced to temporarily close, first responders took matters into their own hands.
According to the Edmond Police Department, the local animal shelter is temporarily closed to the public due to an illness outbreak among the shelter dogs – which means no visitors, no adoptions and no intakes.
Sadly, three abandoned kittens were left with nowhere to go last Saturday – but Officer Oak stepped in and offered to foster them until they found homes.
Dispatchers with Edmond 911 also “very willingly” offered to babysit the abandoned kittens for the remainder of Officer Oak’s shift until he could take them home.
In an update on Monday, dispatchers said all three kittens have since been adopted.
The Edmond Animal Shelter closed on June 5 and remains closed until further notice, but officials said the dogs who tested positive for illness have continued to improve daily.
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LAS VEGAS — It’s been five years since carnage and death sent his family running into the night, leaving them separated and terrified as a gunman rained bullets into an outdoor country music festival crowd on the Las Vegas Strip.
The memories don’t fade, they sharpen, William “Bill” Henning said as he prepared for ceremonies in Las Vegas marking the date of the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre.
“Chaotic and unreal,” he recalled. “A human stampede. People were bleeding and screaming and running. We all got separated. We didn’t know who was alive. That was the most difficult.”
He’s now part of a survivor community thousands strong, one that’s helped him sort through the horror of what happened during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Fifty-eight people were killed and more than 850 were injured among a crowd of 22,000.
In the years since, the grim drumbeat of mass shootings has continued: schools in Uvalde, Texas, and Parkland, Florida; grocery stores in Buffalo, New York, and Boulder, Colorado; bars in Dayton, Ohio, and Thousand Oaks, California; a city building in Virginia Beach, Virginia; a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. Meanwhile, the debate over gun laws in the U.S. rages on, including a renewed challenge to the federal regulation sparked by the Las Vegas shooting.
The massacre is part of a horrifying uptick of shootings with especially high numbers of people killed, said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston. Five of the nine mass shootings in modern U.S. history with more than 20 people killed have taken place since 2016, starting with the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and continuing through the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
“The severity of public mass shootings has increased in the past few years. That’s clear,” Fox said. “And worrisome.”
Fox oversees a database maintained by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University that tracks mass killings involving four or more people slain, not including the perpetrator. The information is drawn from media reports, FBI data, arrest records, medical examiners’ reports, prison records and other court documents.
Watching the steady stream of shootings in the U.S. is tough for survivors, said Tennille Pereira, director of a Clark County recovery and support program called the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center.
“I know when it keeps happening, people often express feelings of hopelessness,” Pereira said. “I think the big thing for Las Vegas is to be able to share with those other communities that healing does occur, and that there is hope.”
For people like Henning, part of that hope has been the bond formed with other survivors. The retired computer technician was celebrating his 71st birthday at the Route 91 Harvest Festival with friends, his wife, daughter and three teenage grandchildren when the gunfire began. He suffered a knee injury while escaping that required surgery, but his group made it out without being struck by gunfire.
“At first, the first few years, it’s not really sinking in,” he said. “The more we organize ourselves, the more that we see each other, it actually brings us back to how serious this situation was.”
Many in Las Vegas who won’t name the man who police said fired 1,057 bullets from 32nd floor windows of the Mandalay Bay resort during a span of time now memorialized in a Paramount+ streaming service documentary called “11 Minutes.”
“We don’t want to give him any more power, credibility, infamy,” Pereira said. “In this survivor population, words matter. We don’t use the word ‘anniversary.’ We use ‘remembrance.’ We try not to use the word ‘victims.’ We try to use the word ‘survivor.’”
Police and the FBI spent months investigating and concluded that gunman Stephen Paddock acted alone, meticulously planned the attack and intentionally concealed his actions. He amassed an arsenal of 23 assault-style rifles in his hotel room, including 14 fitted with bump stock devices that help the weapons fire rapidly.
Caches of weapons also were found at Paddock’s homes in Reno and Mesquite, Nevada. But he killed himself before police reached him, and local and federal officials said they never identified a clear motive for the attack.
Shortly after the shooting, the administration of then-President Donald Trump banned bump stocks under the same federal laws that prohibit machine guns. Gun-rights advocates sued, saying the weapons didn’t qualify as machine guns and it would take an act of Congress to ban them.
The ban has survived several court challenges. But a federal appeals court in New Orleans revived a case there in June, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling expanding gun rights. That case marked the high court’s first major gun decision in more than a decade and has sparked a wave of court challenges to gun laws around the country.
Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, survivors are working toward a permanent memorial on a corner of the former Las Vegas Strip festival ground.
A sunrise remembrance ceremony is scheduled Saturday at the Clark County Government Center, and the names of those killed will be read 10:05 p.m. — the time the shooting started — at a downtown Las Vegas Community Healing Garden.
Survivor Sue Nelson, 67, said she fled from her front-row seat and hid for hours on the Las Vegas Strip, forming deep bonds with others who escaped. She declared she has “survivor sorrow, not survivor guilt” because she didn’t do anything wrong.
Nelson drives two hours to Las Vegas from her home in Lake Havasu, Arizona, for memorial events and gives out lapel pins shaped like little guitars and rubber wrist bands stamped with: “We Remember 10.1.17 #Honors58.”
“I’m not afraid anymore,” she said. “It makes a big difference in healing when you’re not afraid anymore.”
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"So Tell Me More" is a series of Q&As meant to highlight Black creators, artists and business owners in the Sacramento area.Airric Qualls is an actor, producer, and filmmaker who got his start performing in local theater productions and who volunteers with the Sacramento Film Festival. Qualls spoke with KCRA 3 about his passion for film, how he uses social media to express his creativity and what he wants to bring back to Sacramento as he progresses in his career. Q: Airric, can you walk us through the beginning of your journey in film? A: I actually started on stage with a play about four or five years ago and I loved acting so much that I decided I wanted to do film. I do see myself going back to theater every now and then but film is where I want to be. Q: What was the first play that you were in? A: It was titled "We Need to Talk," written and directed by a man named Michael Levester who I met at Sac State's campus. At the time I was six months into thinking "How am I going to start an acting career?" I happened to run into him on campus at a Black Student Union event. He handed me his card and I showed up to the audition. Q: So how did your time at Sacramento State shape your acting and film career? A: Well honestly, you couldn't catch my attention with acting before I actually started. I had no involvement with the theater or film programs at Sac State. I was getting a degree in criminal justice, but after I graduated I decided to try it out, loved it and now I'm here. Q: What are you working on now? A: Right now we're in the development of a feature film titled "38". And then me and my film group that we're in, we do a whole bunch of skits and short films. That's pretty much what we're able to work on with our resources and our money right now. Q: Balling on a budget! Speaking of those skits and short films, I see that you use social media a lot to put yourself out there and show your creative side; what's your process? A: Whenever we do create a skit or short film, we try to post it on all platforms, social media is free marketing so why not use it, right? It's just a matter of being consistent and working to make better content than what you have in the past and someone might just give you a shot. Q: How do you feel like you're able to connect with other Black creatives in Sacramento and how do they support you? A: I would say by just reaching out and seeing how I can be of value to people. Whether it's film, theater or an artist like a singer or a rapper whose music you can put in your videos. Others can support us by sharing and subscribing to our YouTube channel or donating money that we can put into making more films. Q: I feel like sometimes when we talk about Black creativity and/or businesses people immediately think about music, clothes or food. I was so eager to talk to you because I wanted a Black filmmaker's perspective. What's it like to be in that field and on the come-up. A: You get support from the Black community and people are willing to listen to you. At the same time too, you have to prove yourself just like anybody else while you're coming up and show that you're willing to work for what you want and have good content. Recently a big independent filmmaker who lives out here in Sacramento, Deon Taylor, gave us a helping hand and I can't give out too many details about it but we're just grateful for him. Q: Let's shift back to you as an actor. If you produce or write something it's your creation, but what's it like to use your talents to fulfill someone else's vision? A: Well, I would also say that as an actor it is your creation as well. You might bring something to the character that the director never envisioned for it and they may really love your performance. Q: Do you look for specific types of characters that you know you can bring something to? Characters that you can say Airric Qualls was born to play? A: Actually my friend Pharoah and I have a whole list of characters that I want to do. We have a character who is a crime lord, a character who is a professor just like Indiana Jones but also like a cross between Tomb Raider, and we have a character that's like James Bond but also inspired by Tenet. Q: Oh ok so you see yourself in that John David Washington in Tenet role? A: I love Tenet, I watched that so many times. Cristopher Nolan man. I had to watch it at least four times to pick up on it. Q: Speaking of those top-level directors and big-budget works of art, who are your famous inspirations when it comes to film? A: I'd say Christopher Nolan for sure, Denis Villeneuve and Deon Taylor. As far as actors, Denzel is always a hero for any Black male actor. Others whose work I appreciate are Damson Idris and John Boyega. Q: Have you been able to catch up with 'Snowfall' (which Damson Idris stars in) yet? A: Haha, I haven't. I've actually got some binge-watching to do. Q: Does it get difficult to watch things as just a regular consumer or are you always watching shows you like to take away something from someone like a Damson Idris? A: I wouldn't say I watch anything to take from another actor. It's more so "I like that a lot and I'm inspired by that, how can I make it my own." I don't want to copy anybody verbatim. Q: As you continue to progress both locally and beyond, how do you as a Black producer, actor and screenwriter want to inspire other Black people in Sacramento with what you do?A: Every actor's dream is to make it big, but what I really want to do is bring some of that opportunity back to Sacramento. Whether or not it's big-budget independent or studio films, I want to bring it back here because we want it and we need it. Q: And when you say 'we need it,' why do we need it? A: It will just be great for the city, I mean, why not? A lot of people like to call this north Hollywood between Sac and the Bay but let's bring some of those bigger opportunities out here as well because a lot of people go to the Bay Area with bigger budget studio films. We need some of those in Sacramento as well.
"So Tell Me More" is a series of Q&As meant to highlight Black creators, artists and business owners in the Sacramento area.
Airric Qualls is an actor, producer, and filmmaker who got his start performing in local theater productions and who volunteers with the Sacramento Film Festival.
Qualls spoke with KCRA 3 about his passion for film, how he uses social media to express his creativity and what he wants to bring back to Sacramento as he progresses in his career.
Q: Airric, can you walk us through the beginning of your journey in film?
A: I actually started on stage with a play about four or five years ago and I loved acting so much that I decided I wanted to do film. I do see myself going back to theater every now and then but film is where I want to be.
Q: What was the first play that you were in?
A: It was titled "We Need to Talk," written and directed by a man named Michael Levester who I met at Sac State's campus. At the time I was six months into thinking "How am I going to start an acting career?" I happened to run into him on campus at a Black Student Union event. He handed me his card and I showed up to the audition.
Q: So how did your time at Sacramento State shape your acting and film career?
A: Well honestly, you couldn't catch my attention with acting before I actually started. I had no involvement with the theater or film programs at Sac State. I was getting a degree in criminal justice, but after I graduated I decided to try it out, loved it and now I'm here.
Q: What are you working on now?
A: Right now we're in the development of a feature film titled "38". And then me and my film group that we're in, we do a whole bunch of skits and short films. That's pretty much what we're able to work on with our resources and our money right now.
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Q: Balling on a budget! Speaking of those skits and short films, I see that you use social media a lot to put yourself out there and show your creative side; what's your process?
A: Whenever we do create a skit or short film, we try to post it on all platforms, social media is free marketing so why not use it, right? It's just a matter of being consistent and working to make better content than what you have in the past and someone might just give you a shot.
Q: How do you feel like you're able to connect with other Black creatives in Sacramento and how do they support you?
A: I would say by just reaching out and seeing how I can be of value to people. Whether it's film, theater or an artist like a singer or a rapper whose music you can put in your videos. Others can support us by sharing and subscribing to our YouTube channel or donating money that we can put into making more films.
Q: I feel like sometimes when we talk about Black creativity and/or businesses people immediately think about music, clothes or food. I was so eager to talk to you because I wanted a Black filmmaker's perspective. What's it like to be in that field and on the come-up.
A: You get support from the Black community and people are willing to listen to you. At the same time too, you have to prove yourself just like anybody else while you're coming up and show that you're willing to work for what you want and have good content.
Recently a big independent filmmaker who lives out here in Sacramento, Deon Taylor, gave us a helping hand and I can't give out too many details about it but we're just grateful for him.
Q: Let's shift back to you as an actor. If you produce or write something it's your creation, but what's it like to use your talents to fulfill someone else's vision?
A: Well, I would also say that as an actor it is your creation as well. You might bring something to the character that the director never envisioned for it and they may really love your performance.
Q: Do you look for specific types of characters that you know you can bring something to? Characters that you can say Airric Qualls was born to play?
A: Actually my friend Pharoah and I have a whole list of characters that I want to do. We have a character who is a crime lord, a character who is a professor just like Indiana Jones but also like a cross between Tomb Raider, and we have a character that's like James Bond but also inspired by Tenet.
Q: Oh ok so you see yourself in that John David Washington in Tenet role?
A: I love Tenet, I watched that so many times. Cristopher Nolan man. I had to watch it at least four times to pick up on it.
Q: Speaking of those top-level directors and big-budget works of art, who are your famous inspirations when it comes to film?
A: I'd say Christopher Nolan for sure, Denis Villeneuve and Deon Taylor. As far as actors, Denzel [Washington] is always a hero for any Black male actor. Others whose work I appreciate are Damson Idris and John Boyega.
Q: Have you been able to catch up with 'Snowfall' (which Damson Idris stars in) yet?
A: Haha, I haven't. I've actually got some binge-watching to do.
Q: Does it get difficult to watch things as just a regular consumer or are you always watching shows you like to take away something from someone like a Damson Idris?
A: I wouldn't say I watch anything to take from another actor. It's more so "I like that a lot and I'm inspired by that, how can I make it my own." I don't want to copy anybody verbatim.
Q: As you continue to progress both locally and beyond, how do you as a Black producer, actor and screenwriter want to inspire other Black people in Sacramento with what you do?
A: Every actor's dream is to make it big, but what I really want to do is bring some of that opportunity back to Sacramento. Whether or not it's big-budget independent or studio films, I want to bring it back here because we want it and we need it.
Q: And when you say 'we need it,' why do we need it?
A: It will just be great for the city, I mean, why not? A lot of people like to call this north Hollywood between Sac and the Bay but let's bring some of those bigger opportunities out here as well because a lot of people go to the Bay Area with bigger budget studio films. We need some of those in Sacramento as well.
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Updated: April 05, 2022 10:31 PM
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A Friday night took a dark turn as one family pulled into a popular Albuquerque gas station.
According to a family friend, Kayla Montaño was about to go to Top Golf with her 7-year-old daughter.
"I was in disbelief. I still can't wrap my head around it. It's just - it was a random act of violence," said Angela De Avila, family friend. "Initially Saturday morning, I saw it on the news. But, not knowing who was involved or anything of that matter."
Kayla Montaño's mom texted De Avila that her daughter had been shot and killed during a night that was supposed to be filled with family fun.
"Kayla and her family were basically going to Top Golf when they pulled into the gas station to gas up - heading out. When they weren't at the gas station for 10 seconds when they were ambushed."
She says the vehicle was full.
"The driver that was hit was Kayla's finance. He was grazed in the forehead. And Kayla was hit in the face."
Her fiancé drove away with Montaño's 7-year-old daughter in the back seat. Montaño's 20-year-old brother and his girlfriend were also in the car, according to De Avila.
"This was completely random," said De Avila.
She says the family was too distraught to speak with KOB 4, but they are hoping anyone who might have seen what happened will call 242-COPS.
"She loved being a mom, raising her little girl was a priority for her. Everything she did was for her," De Avila said.
They are still waiting for answers - and hoping for justice.
KOB 4 reached out to police, asking for an update on this case and if, in fact, it was a random shooting. But a police spokesperson says there is nothing new to release on this shooting.
If you want to help the family, a GoFundMe page has been set up.
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GRAPHIC: Video of Tyre Nichols beating leaves unanswered questions
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The nation and the city of Memphis struggled to come to grips Saturday with video showing police pummeling Tyre Nichols — footage that left many unanswered questions about the traffic stop involving the Black motorist and about other law enforcement officers who stood by as he lay motionless on the pavement.
The five disgraced Memphis Police Department officers, who are also Black, have been fired and charged with second-degree murder and other crimes in Nichols’ death three days after the arrest. The video released Friday renewed questions about how fatal encounters with law enforcement continue even after repeated calls for change.
A Memphis police spokeswoman declined to comment on the role played by other officers who showed up at the scene.
Memphis Police Director Cerelyn “CJ” Davis has said that other officers are under investigation, and Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said two deputies have been relieved of duty without pay while their conduct is investigated.
Rodney Wells, Nichols’ stepfather, said the family would “continue to seek justice and get some more officers arrested.” He said several others failed to render aid, making them “just as culpable as the officers who threw the blows.”
Cities nationwide had braced for demonstrations, but the protests were scattered and nonviolent. In Memphis, several dozen demonstrators blocked the Interstate 55 bridge that carries traffic over the Mississippi River toward Arkansas. Semitrucks were backed up for a distance.
Demonstrators at times blocked traffic while chanting slogans and marching through the streets of New York City, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. In Washington, protesters gathered across the street from the White House and near Black Lives Matter Plaza.
Memphis remained on edge. Ahead of the protests, some downtown Memphis businesses boarded up windows, and the school system canceled after-school activities. Memphis-Shelby County Schools, which has about 100,000 students, postponed athletics and extracurricular activities on Saturday.
“I cried,” said protestor Christopher Taylor, a Memphis native who said the officers appeared to be laughing as they stood around after the beating.
Blake Ballin, the lawyer for fired officer Desmond Mills, told The Associated Press in a statement Saturday that while the videos “have produced as many questions as they have answers,” the question of whether the city would stay peaceful “has been answered.”
Some of the other questions will focus on what Mills “knew and what he was able to see when he arrived late to the scene” and whether his actions “crossed the lines that were crossed by other officers during this incident,” Ballin said.
The arrest was made by the so-called Scorpion unit, which has three teams of about 30 street officers who target violent offenders in areas beset by high crime, Davis said.
In an AP interview Friday, she said she would not shut down a unit if a few officers commit “some egregious act” and because she needs that unit to continue to work.
“The whole idea that the Scorpion unit is a bad unit, I just have a problem with that,” she said.
A few hours later, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said the unit has been inactive since the Jan. 7 arrest.
The city was “initiating an outside, independent review of the training, policies and operations of our specialized units,” Strickland said in a statement.
Davis acknowledged that the police department has a supervisor shortage and said city officials have pledged to provide more of them.
“The lack of supervision in this incident was a major problem,” Davis said.
The recording shows police savagely beating Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx worker, for three minutes while screaming profanities at him throughout the attack. The Nichols family legal team has likened the assault to the infamous 1991 police beating of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King.
WARNING: Video contains extremely graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised.
Questions swirled around what led to the traffic stop in the first place. One officer can be heard saying that Nichols wouldn’t stop and then swerved as though he intended to hit the officer’s car. The officer said that when Nichols pulled up to a red light, the officers jumped out of the car.
“We tried to get him to stop,” the officer sad. “He didn’t stop.”
But Davis said the department cannot substantiate the reason for the stop.
“We don’t know what happened,” she said, adding, “All we know is the amount of force that was applied in this situation was over the top.”
On the video, officers can be seen holding Nichols down and repeatedly striking him with their fists, boots and batons as the Black motorist screamed for his mother.
The video is filled with violent moments showing the officers chasing Nichols and leaving him on the pavement propped against a squad car as they fist-bump and celebrate their actions.
After the first officer roughly pulls Nichols out of a car, Nichols can be heard saying, “I didn’t do anything,” as a group of officers begins to wrestle him to the ground.
One officer is heard yelling, “Tase him! Tase him!”
Nichols calmly says, “OK, I’m on the ground.”
“You guys are really doing a lot right now,” Nichols says. “I’m just trying to go home.”
“Stop, I’m not doing anything!” he yells moments later.
Nichols can then be seen running as an officer fires a Taser at him. His mother’s home, where he lived, was only a few houses away from the scene of the beating, and his family said he was trying to get there. The officers then start chasing Nichols.
Other officers are called, and a search ensues before Nichols is caught at another intersection. The officers beat him with a baton, and kick and punch him.
Security camera footage shows three officers surrounding Nichols as he lies in the street cornered between police cars, with a fourth officer nearby.
Two officers hold Nichols to the ground as he moves about, and then the third appears to kick him in the head. Nichols slumps more fully onto the pavement with all three officers surrounding him. The same officer kicks him again.
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The fourth officer then walks over, draws a baton and holds it up at shoulder level as two officers hold Nichols upright, as if he were sitting.
“I’m going to baton the f--- out you,” one officer can be heard saying. His body camera shows him raise his baton while at least one other officer holds Nichols. The officer strikes Nichols on the back with the baton three times in a row.
The other officers then appear to hoist Nichols to his feet, with him flopping like a doll, barely able to stay upright.
An officer then punches him in the face, as the officer with the baton continues to menace him. Nichols stumbles and turns, still held up by two officers. The officer who punched him then walks around to Nichols’ front and punches him four more times. Then Nichols collapses.
Two officers can then be seen atop Nichols on the ground, with a third nearby, for about 40 seconds. Three more officers then run up, and one can be seen kicking Nichols on the ground.
As Nichols is slumped up against a car, not one of the officers renders aid. The body camera footage shows a first-person view of one of them reaching down and tying his shoe.
It takes more than 20 minutes after Nichols is beaten and on the pavement before any sort of medical attention is provided, even though two fire department officers arrived on the scene with medical equipment within 10 minutes.
Throughout the videos, officers make claims about Nichols’ behavior that are not supported by the footage or that the district attorney and other officials have said did not happen. In one of the videos, an officer claims that during the initial traffic stop Nichols reached for the officer’s gun before fleeing and almost had his hand on the handle, which is not shown in the video.
After Nichols is in handcuffs and leaning against a police car, several officers say that he must have been high. Later an officer says no drugs were found in his car, and another officer immediately counters that Nichols must have ditched something while he was running away.
Authorities have not released an autopsy report, but they have said nothing of note was found in the car.
Court records showed that all five former officers — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith — were taken into custody.
Second-degree murder is punishable by 15 to 60 years in prison under Tennessee law.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Former U.S. women’s national team star goalkeeper Hope Solo pleaded guilty Monday to driving while impaired, almost four months after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside.
Solo also was charged with misdemeanor child abuse and resisting a public officer in connection with the March 31 incident. Her attorney, Chris Clifton, said those two charges were voluntarily dismissed, the Winston-Salem Journal reported.
A news release from the Forsyth County District Attorney’s Office said a judge gave Solo, 40, of Roaring Gap in Alleghany County, a suspended sentence of 24 months and an active sentence of 30 days. She was given 30 days’ credit for time she spent at an in-patient rehabilitation facility. The judge also ordered Solo to pay $2,500 in fines and a $600 fee for the cost of the lab tests. She also has to get a substance abuse assessment and complete all recommended treatment.
Roaring Gap is approximately 60 miles (96 kilometers) northwest of Winston-Salem.
In a statement released after her guilty plea, Solo said that although she took pride in motherhood and how she and her husband handled her children during the pandemic, “it was incredibly hard and I made a huge mistake.”
“Easily the worst mistake of my life. I underestimated what a destructive part of my life alcohol had become,” she said. “The upside of making a mistake this big is that hard lessons are learned quickly. Learning these lessons has been difficult, and at times, very painful.”
A police report said Solo was arrested in a shopping center parking lot in Winston-Salem. According to an arrest warrant, a passerby noticed Solo passed out behind the steering wheel for more than an hour with the vehicle’s engine running and the two children in the backseat.
A responding officer could smell alcohol, and the warrant said Solo refused a field sobriety test.
Solo was taken to the magistrate’s office, where she refused to take an alcohol breath test, so police got a search warrant for a blood sample. Solo had a blood alcohol content of 0.24%, three times the legal limit. Tests also showed that Solo had THC in her system, according to a police report.
Solo was dismissed from the national team following the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics after calling the Swedish team “cowards” for taking a defensive stance against the defending gold medalists, ending a laudable playing career that was also marred by controversy.
She was suspended for 30 days in early 2015 after she and husband Jerramy Stevens were pulled over in a U.S. Soccer-owned van and Stevens was charged with DUI. She was also benched after publicly questioning coach Greg Ryan’s decision to start Briana Scurry against Brazil during the 2007 World Cup, comments many saw as a slight against Scurry.
Solo also was involved in an altercation with family members in 2014 that resulted in Solo’s arrest, although charges in that case were eventually dropped.
Solo made 202 appearances with the national team, with 153 wins and an international-record 102 shutouts. She won a World Cup title and two Olympic gold medals with the team.
During the 2015 World Cup championship run, she allowed just three goals in seven games with five shutouts.
She was elected to the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame in January. The induction ceremony was set for May 21, but the newspaper reported that Solo requested that the ceremony be delayed until next year.
Solo married Stevens, a former tight end for the Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in 2012. The couple’s twins, Vittorio Genghis and Lozen Orianna Judith Stevens, were born on March 4, 2020.
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WASHINGTON, July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers to immediately stop using SQM bicycle helmets because they can fail to protect riders in the event of a crash, posing a risk of head injury. The helmets do not comply with the positional stability and certification requirements of the mandatory federal safety standard for bicycle helmets.
The seller, SQM, of China, has not agreed to recall these helmets or offer a remedy to consumers.
The bicycle helmets were sold online at www.amazon.com from March 2022 through January 2023, for between $17 and $26. The helmets were sold in one size. The helmets are black with green accents, with a black and gray striped pattern, black and gray straps and a red buckle. A label with "SQM2326, L(56-61 cm), ca. 225g, Made in China" is inside the helmet.
CPSC tested these SQM bicycle helmets and determined the helmets failed to meet the federal safety standard. CPSC urges consumers to stop using, cut the straps, and dispose of these helmets immediately. Report any incidents involving product injuries or defects to CPSC at www.SaferProducts.gov.
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product-related incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products has contributed to a decline in the rate of injuries associated with consumer products over the past 50 years.
Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.
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TUCSON, Ariz. — A key highway through Arizona remains closed outside Tucson on Wednesday morning, a day after a deadly crash caused a hazardous material leak and forced evacuations nearby.
Residents within a half mile of the crash on Interstate 10 southeast of downtown Tucson were ordered to leave and those within a mile were told to shelter in place after liquid nitric acid was determined to be leaking from the truck tractor pulling a box trailer, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said.
The shelter-in-place order was lifted Tuesday night, but officials reinstated the order Wednesday morning, saying gassing occurred as crews tried to remove the load. Area residents were told to turn off heaters and air conditioning systems that bring in outside air.
The driver of the truck was killed, the department said, but few other details were released.
The agency warned motorists in the Tucson area should anticipate impacts on their Wednesday morning commute in and around I-10.
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In a boost, McConnell backs Senate bipartisan gun deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his support Tuesday for his chamber’s emerging bipartisan gun agreement, boosting momentum for modest but notable election-year action by Congress on an issue that’s deadlocked lawmakers for three decades.
The Kentucky Republican said he hoped an outline of the accord, released Sunday by 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans, would be translated into legislation and enacted. McConnell’s backing was the latest indication that last month’s gun massacres in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, had reconfigured the political calculations for some in the GOP after years of steadfastly opposing even incremental tightening of firearms curbs.
“If this framework becomes the actual piece of legislation, it’s a step forward, a step forward on a bipartisan basis,” McConnell told reporters. He said the proposal “further demonstrates to the American people” that lawmakers can work together on significant issues “to make progress for the country.”
McConnell’s comments were striking, coming five months before midterm elections in which Republicans hope to win control of the Senate and seem likely to win a majority in the House. For years, GOP candidates could risk their careers by defying the views of the party’s loyal gun-owning and rural voters, who oppose moves seen as threatening their ownership and use of firearms.
McConnell seemed to suggest that backing this gun measure wouldn’t doom some Republicans’ prospects in November. While he said senators should take a position “based upon the views of their states,” he said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a chief architect of the deal, presented GOP polling data at a closed-door senators’ lunch saying support among gun-owners for the agreement’s provisions is “off the charts, overwhelming.”
The plan would for the first time make the juvenile records of gun buyers under age 21 part of required background checks. Money would be sent to states for mental health and school security programs and for incentives to enforce local “red flag” laws that let authorities win court approval to temporarily removes guns from people considered dangerous.
Senators and aides hope to translate their broad agreement into legislation in days, in hopes that Congress could approve it before leaving for its July 4 recess. Both sides acknowledge that is a difficult process that could encounter disputes and delays.
Some Republicans expressed unhappiness with the plan Tuesday, with much of the criticism aimed at its encouragement of “red flag” laws. Nineteen states mostly dominated by Democrats and the District of Columbia have them, but Republicans have blocked efforts in Congress to pass federal legislation on the subject.
“If we’re not going to pass a federal red flag law, and we shouldn’t, why would we incentivize states to do something that we think is a bad idea?” said Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D.
A final agreement on overall legislation would be expected to receive solid support from Democrats. But it would need at least 10 GOP votes to reach the Senate’s usual 60 vote threshold, and McConnell’s praise raised hopes that Republican backing would grow even beyond that.
Approval seems likely by the Democratic-run House, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has praised the measure as a first step toward strong restrictions in the future.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he would schedule votes on the legislation as soon as it is ready. He contrasted recent days’ progress with Congress’ failure to act after a parade of mass shootings in recent decades.
“After Uvalde and Buffalo, perhaps this time could be different. To many senators on both sides, this debate certainly feels different,” Schumer said.
Congress’ last major gun measure was an assault weapons ban that took effect in 1994 but expired 10 years later.
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BURNABY, British Columbia (AP) — The only Canadian college with NCAA membership is shutting down its football program.
Simon Fraser President Joy Johnson announced the decision in a letter Tuesday, saying that uncertainties about the future for the program led to the decision to discontinue it.
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“The university has carefully considered all available options and as a leadership team we concluded that football is no longer a feasible sport for SFU,” Johnson wrote.
Simon Fraser became the only Canadian school to hold NCAA membership when it was approved to begin competing at the Division II level starting in 2010. The school has competed in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference since joining the NCAA, but having a league for football has been an ongoing issue for all Division II programs on the West Coast as several schools have stopped playing the sport.
Simon Fraser, Central Washington and Western Oregon became affiliate members last season of the Lone Star Conference, which consists primarily of football programs in Texas and New Mexico. But the conference announced earlier this year that Simon Fraser would no longer be invited to play in the conference beginning in 2024.
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“This is a difficult decision, and not one taken lightly,” Johnson wrote. “With the recent announcement that the team has not been invited to continue in the Lone Star Conference, we do not have a conference to play in beginning in 2024. The ongoing uncertainty creates an unacceptable experience for students.”
Simon Fraser went 1-9 last season and had to move two of its games south of the border. They were played on a high school field in Blaine, Washington, due to Canadian COVID-19 entry requirements at the time.
Simon Fraser also competed in football against American schools as an NAIA member from 1969 to 2001. The school competed in Canada West from 2002-09.
The school said it intends to continue competing at the NCAA Division II level and in the GNAC in the other sports that it offers.
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NEW YORK, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work® have named Teleperformance operations in the U.S. among one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2023. This is the first year that Teleperformance U.S. operations has been named to this prestigious list, which annually recognizes the best companies to work for in the country.
"We are honored to be recognized by Fortune as a dynamic and standout employer," said Mike Lytle, Chief Executive Officer, Teleperformance, U.S. operations. "Our leadership team has worked tirelessly to create a dynamic, inclusive and supportive work environment that acknowledges the unique strengths each of our associates has in delivering amazing experiences for our clients and their customers."
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Burglary suspects caught on camera breaking in through wall to enter restaurant
AHWATUKEE, Ariz. (3TV/CBS 5/Gray News) - The suspect who entered three Ahwatukee businesses by smashing holes in their walls remain on the loose.
“A little unorthodox, for sure,” said Patrick Larson, the owner of Caffe Boa, who bought the restaurant two years ago. The anniversary is next weekend.
Larson said this was the first break-in the restaurant has had since he took over.
“It’s was pretty wild, as far as seeing two grown men come through the wall,” he said.
Just after 4 a.m. Thursday, Larson’s surveillance cameras captured two subjects breaking a wall connecting Caffe Boa and Sakana Sushi. One person pops out, and the other follows. The pair scatter through Larson’s restaurant with their faces covered with bandana scarves.
Larson said his security system gave a warning beep when it detects motion. If a code isn’t put in, a loud alarm goes off, and law enforcement is alerted. That’s what happened when the thieves can be seen running away. One left through the back door, and the other went back through the hole.
“It’s a little upsetting because our heart and soul is truly in this, and a lot of people in the community love this place. And we have a large following of regulars, so it makes them feel kind of unsafe as well,” said Larson.
Before getting to his restaurant, Larson said the suspects used the back door of a vacant unit and made a hole in that wall to enter Smiley Nails.
The nail salon owner, who didn’t want to talk on camera, said they don’t keep money in the building. However, the suspects turned off their security cameras, trashed the place, collected equipment in baskets and even ate her cookie, she said.
The salon owner said they tried to smash through one of her walls to get into the Sakani Sushi bar, but a beam was in the way. So the pair made another hole in her wall to enter the sushi restaurant.
The owner of Sakana was not available, but the walls could be seen patched up.
“Luckily, nothing was taken and no one was hurt, which is all that matters because we can fix dry wall. If they came in through the window, we can fix a broken glass. It could’ve been a lot worse, so I feel good about it,” said Larson.
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Photos and video claiming to show an Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division training program have gone viral, with some claiming the images were taken recently.
One tweet posted Aug. 17 said the video showed a “new IRS training.” Another tweet posted that same day with the same video had more than 1 million views. This tweet has more than 46,000 views and says it’s an armed IRS training video, and this one says it’s “newly surfaced IRS training video.”
Recently, there have been a number of false claims circulating about the IRS in connection with funding it will receive from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. These purported training images started getting traction on social media after the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was signed into law.
THE QUESTION
Do the viral IRS video and photos show IRS agent training?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, the viral IRS video and photos do not show IRS agent training. They show a one-day program for college students that simulates a criminal IRS investigation recorded in 2017 at Stockton University.
WHAT WE FOUND
The video and images were taken in October 2017 as part of an IRS-sponsored college program, known as the Adrian Project, hosted for accounting students at Stockton University in New Jersey. The IRS conducts Adrian Project sessions for accounting students at universities across the country.
According to a press release from Stockton University, 24 accounting students participated in a day-long simulation of a mock criminal investigation that might be conducted by the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division.
The IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) division is a federal law enforcement agency that conducts criminal investigations on things like tax violations, money laundering, cyber crimes, and organized crime involving drugs and gangs. There are more than 2,000 sworn special agents in the division.
A spokesperson for the IRS told VERIFY the agents that work under the Criminal Investigation division are required to carry weapons as part of their everyday duties.
The 2017 event at Stockton University was created to give students exposure to a different type of career in accounting and to give the students “a glimpse of a career path they might not have thought of,” the release said.
In the 2017 simulation, the day ended when, armed with bright red or blue “handguns” and wearing protective vests, the students rushed to a room to make “arrests,” the release said.
The same people holding the same fake weapons seen in the viral video and images that were recently shared can also be seen in a YouTube video posted by Stockton University in October 2017.
Stockton University is based in Galloway, New Jersey. The IRS doesn’t conduct their training in New Jersey. The National Criminal Investigation Training Academy (NCITA), where IRS agents train, is at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia.
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As a growing number of overweight Americans clamor for Ozempic and Wegovy — drugs touted by celebrities and on TikTok to pare pounds — an even more powerful obesity medicine is poised to upend treatment.
Tirzepatide, an Eli Lilly and Co. drug approved to treat type 2 diabetes under the brand name Mounjaro, helped people with the disease who were overweight or had obesity lose up to 16% of their body weight, or more than 34 pounds, over nearly 17 months, the company said on Thursday.
The late-stage study of the drug for weight loss adds to earlier evidence that similar participants without diabetes lost up to 22% of their body weight over that period with weekly injections of the drug. For a typical patient on the highest dose, that meant shedding more than 50 pounds.
Having diabetes makes it notoriously difficult to lose weight, said Dr. Nadia Ahmad, Lilly’s medical director of obesity clinical development, which means the recent results are especially significant. “We have not seen this degree of weight reduction,” she said.
Based on the new results, which have not yet been published in full, company officials said they will finalize an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for fast-track approval to sell tirzepatide for chronic weight management. A decision could come later this year. A company spokeswoman would not confirm whether the drug would be marketed for weight loss in the U.S. under a different brand name.
If approved for weight loss, tirzepatide could become the most effective drug to date in an arsenal of medications that are transforming the treatment of obesity, which affects more than 4 in 10 American adults and is linked to dozens of diseases that can lead to disability or death.
“If everybody who had obesity in this country lost 20% of their body weight, we would be taking patients off all of these medications for reflux, for diabetes, for hypertension,” said Dr. Caroline Apovian, a director of the Center for Weight Management and Wellness at Brigham and Women's Hospital. “We would not be sending patients for stent replacement.”
U.S. & World
Industry analysts predict that tirzepatide could become one of the top-selling drugs ever, with annual sales topping $50 billion. It is expected to outpace Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic — a diabetes drug used so commonly to shed pounds that comedian Jimmy Kimmel joked about it at the Oscars — and Wegovy, a version of the drug also known as semaglutide approved for weight loss in 2021. Together, those drugs made nearly $10 billion in 2022, with prescriptions continuing to soar, company reports show.
In separate trials, tirzepatide has resulted in greater weight loss than semaglutide, whose users shed about 15% of their body weight over 16 months. A head-to-head trial comparing the two drugs is planned.
Mounjaro was first approved to treat diabetes last year. Since then, thousands of patients have obtained the drug from doctors and telehealth providers who prescribed it “off-label" to help them slim down.
In California, Matthew Barlow, a 48-year-old health technology executive, said he has lost more than 100 pounds since November by using Mounjaro and changing his diet.
“Psychologically, you don’t want to eat,” said Barlow. “Now I can eat two bites of a dessert and be satisfied.”
Rather than relying solely on diet, exercise and willpower to reduce weight, tirzepatide and other new drugs target the digestive and chemical pathways that underlie obesity, suppressing appetite and blunting cravings for food.
“They have entirely changed the landscape,” said Dr. Amy Rothberg, a University of Michigan endocrinologist who directs a virtual weight loss and diabetes program.
Research has shown that with diet and exercise alone, about a third of people will lose 5% or more of their body weight, said Dr. Louis Aronne, director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weill Cornell Medicine. In the latest tirzepatide trial, more than 86% of patients using the highest dose of the drug lost at least 5% of their body weight. More than half on that dose lost at least 15%, the company said.
The obesity medications help overcome a biological mechanism that kicks in when people diet, triggering a coordinated effort by the body to prevent weight loss.
“That is a real physical phenomenon,” Aronne said. “There are a number of hormones that respond to reduced calorie intake.”
Ozempic and Wegovy are two versions of semaglutide. That drug mimics a key gut hormone, known as GLP-1, that is activated after people eat, boosting the release of insulin and slowing release of sugar from the liver. It delays digestion and reduces appetite, making people feel full longer.
Tirzepatide is the first drug that uses the action of two hormones, GLP-1 and GIP, for greater effects. It also targets the chemical signals sent from the gut to the brain, curbing cravings and thoughts of food.
Though the drugs appear safe, they can cause side effects, some serious. Most common reactions include diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, constipation and stomach pain. Some users have developed pancreatitis or inflammation of the pancreas, others have had gallbladder problems. Mounjaro’s product description warns that it could cause thyroid tumors, including cancer.
There are other downsides: Versions of semaglutide have been on the market for several years, but the long-term effects of taking drugs that override human metabolism are not yet clear. Early evidence suggests that when people stop taking the medications, they gain the weight back.
Plus, the medications are expensive — and in recent months, hard to get because of intermittent shortages. Wegovy is priced at about $1,300 a month. Mounjaro used for diabetes starts at about $1,000 per month.
Apovian said that only about 20% to 30% of patients with private insurance in her practice find the medications are covered. Some insurers who previously paid for the drugs are enacting new rules, requiring six months of documented lifestyle changes or a certain amount of weight loss for continued coverage. Medicare is largely prohibited from paying for weight-loss drugs, though there have been efforts by drugmakers and advocates for Congress to change that.
Still, experts say that the striking effects of tirzepatide — along with Ozempic, Wegovy and other drugs — underscore that losing weight is not merely a matter of willpower. Like high blood pressure, which affects about half of U.S. adults and is managed with medication, obesity should be viewed as a chronic disease, not a character flaw, Aronne emphasized.
It remains to be seen what effect new drug treatments will have on pervasive bias against people with obesity, said Rebecca Puhl, a professor in the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health, who studies weight stigma. U.S. culture has “deep-rooted beliefs about body weight and physical appearance” that are hard to change, she said.
“Weight stigma could persist or worsen if taking medication is equated with ‘taking the easy way out’ or ‘not trying hard enough,’” she said.
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Man shoots 4 after food delivered to wrong house, prosecutors say
DETROIT (WDIV) - A Michigan man is facing charges after prosecutors say he shot two adults and two teenage boys over a dispute about food delivery.
Authorities say 32-year-old Deon Ray Thomas ordered food Thursday that was delivered to the wrong address on Detroit’s west side. He confronted the people in the nearby home where the food was accidentally taken around 8:50 p.m.
Authorities say during that confrontation, things escalated. Thomas is accused of pulling out a handgun and firing multiple shots, hitting a 31-year-old man, a 36-year-old woman and two 14-year-old boys.
Police say a “gun battle” broke out between the two homes, with more than 30 shots being fired. They say they confiscated at least four guns during their investigation.
The 31-year-old man and both teenagers were taken to a hospital for treatment. Thomas was also treated at a hospital.
Thomas was arraigned Monday on 24 felony charges, including four counts of assault with intent to murder. He is being held on $500,000 bond.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rhombus, a leader in cloud-managed physical security solutions, has announced the release of its latest product, the B10 Smart Button, at the Cota Connect summit in San Francisco, hosted by Rhombus investor Cota Capital. The B10 is a discreet and programmable button that comes with two modes: Panic and All-Purpose, making it a versatile solution for enhancing physical security in both emergency situations and on a day-to-day basis.
In Panic Mode, the B10 Smart Button can be used to quickly and discreetly call for help during an emergency. The B10 pairs seamlessly with Rhombus Alarm Monitoring, a service which provides real-time threat detection and 24/7/365 professional monitoring. With a single touch of the button, live video is instantly streamed to TMA Five Diamond Certified dispatchers who will securely share essential information with first responders to enhance and accelerate the response. The B10 is battery operated and easy to place in convenient locations, which streamlines emergency procedures and allows staff to focus on seeking shelter and safety first.
In All-Purpose Mode, the B10 Smart Button serves as the starting point of customizable security workflows that save time and simplify operations. The B10 can be programmed with rules, such as a single press, double press, and long-press, which will trigger a unique sequence of actions that can span across multiple devices. For instance, the B10 can easily trigger a siren to broadcast through Rhombus' A100 Audio Gateway, attracting attention or signaling for help in the event of a security breach. The B10 is also fully compatible with Rhombus Access Control, which enables organizations to centrally manage building access and credentials from anywhere. The B10 adds convenience and flexibility to access control, allowing users to lock or unlock doors with the simple press of a button.
As part of the unified Rhombus platform, the B10 Smart Button helps organizations create a full-featured security ecosystem on a single pane of glass. It communicates with Rhombus devices via Bluetooth, providing an extra layer of security and management to the suite of sensors and cameras. The B10 has a range of up to 100m, is weather-resistant with an IPX4 rating, and is NDAA Compliant and FCC Certified. It is powered by 2 replaceable 1.5V AAA lithium batteries with a battery life of 5 years with medium to heavy use.
"We are excited to launch the B10 Smart Button, which offers customers more flexibility and value from their existing security system," said Rickey Cox, Director of Product at Rhombus. "Our goal is to provide a versatile and customizable physical security solution that meets the unique needs of different industries and settings, and we believe the B10 Smart Button does just that."
The B10 is available for pre-order now; for sale inquiries or additional information, contact sales@rhombus.com.
Rhombus is a unified, cloud-based physical security platform that brings security cameras, access control, sensors, alarms, and integrations together under a single pane of glass. Backed by Cota Capital, Caden Capital, Tru Arrow Partners, Lemnos Labs, and Promus Ventures, Rhombus is on a mission to make the world safer with simple, smart, and powerful physical security solutions. To learn more, visit rhombus.com.
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Mary L. Churchill, Boston University
(THE CONVERSATION) College admission tests are becoming a thing of the past.
More than 80% of U.S. colleges and universities do not require applicants to take standardized tests – like the SAT or the ACT. That proportion of institutions with test-optional policies has more than doubled since the spring of 2020.
And for the fall of 2023, some 85 institutions won’t even consider standardized test scores when reviewing applications. That includes the entire University of California system.
Currently, only 4% of colleges that use the Common Application system require a standardized test such as the SAT or the ACT for admission.
Even before the pandemic, more than 1,000 colleges and universities had either test-optional or so-called “test-blind” policies. But as the pandemic unfolded, more than 600 additional institutions followed suit.
At the time, many college officials noted that health concerns and other logistics associated with test-taking made them want to reduce student stress and risk. Concerns about racial equity also factored into many decisions.
Other institutions are what some call “test-flexible,” allowing applicants to submit test scores from Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate exams in place of the SAT or ACT.
Tests under fire
For many years, advocates and scholars have fought against the use of standardized tests, in general, and for college admission.
One critique is simple: Standardized tests aren’t that useful at measuring a student’s potential. Research has repeatedly shown that a student’s high school GPA is a better predictor of college success than standardized test scores such as the SAT or ACT.
But there are deeper issues too, involving race and equity.
The development and use of standardized tests in higher education came out of the eugenics movement. That movement claimed – and then used misleading and manufactured evidence to support the idea – that people of different races had different innate abilities.
“Standardized tests have become the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black and Brown minds and legally exclude their bodies from prestigious schools,” according to Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Center for Anti-Racist Research at Boston University.
Kendi is not alone in highlighting the historic links between standardized tests and discrimination. Joseph A. Soares, editor of “The Scandal of Standardized Tests: Why We Need to Drop the SAT and ACT,” has documented “[t]he original ugly eugenic racist intention behind the SAT, aimed at excluding Jews from the Ivy League.” He says that goal has now “been realized by biased test-question selection algorithms that systemically discriminate against Blacks.” In his work, Soares draws attention to the practice of evaluating pilot questions and removing from the final test version questions on which Black students did better than white students.
My colleague Joshua Goodman has found that Black and Latino students who take the SAT or the ACT are less likely than white or Asian students to take it a second time. They perform less well, which contributes to disproportionately low representation of college students from low-income and racial minority backgrounds.
Those factors – as well as a lawsuit arguing discrimination based on test performance – were behind the May 2020 decision by the University of California’s Board of Regents to discontinue using SAT and ACT scores in admissions decisions.
Economics of higher education
Colleges and universities tend to seek applicants with good grades and other achievements. They are often seeking a diverse pool from which to build their classes. Colleges that did not require standardized tests in applications for students arriving in fall 2021 “generally received more applicants, better academically qualified applicants, and more diverse pools of applicants.” That’s according to Bob Schaeffer, executive director of FairTest, an advocacy group working to “end the misuses and flaws of testing practices” in higher education and in the K-12 sector.
In addition, birth rates are declining, and the number of 18-year-olds seeking to enter college is decreasing. Many institutions are seeking to make it easier for people to apply to college.
As a result of these factors, I expect to see high school students begin to choose where to apply based at least in part on whether colleges require standardized tests, consider them or ignore them entirely. According to U.S. News & World Report, most of the colleges in the U.S. that still require test scores are located in Southern states, with the highest count in the state of Florida.
The testing business
The test-taking business, including preparatory classes, tutoring and the costs of taking the tests themselves, is a multibillion-dollar industry.
As more institutions reduce their attention to tests, all those businesses feel pressure to reinvent themselves and make their services useful. The College Board, which produces the SAT and other tests, has recently tried to make its flagship test more “student-friendly,” as the organization put it. In January 2022 it released an online SAT that is supposed to be easier for test sites to administer and easier for students to take.
In recent conversations I have had in research into higher education policies, admission directors at selective universities tell me that standardized test scores have become an optional component of a portfolio of activities, awards and other material, that applicants have at their disposal when completing their college applications.
Institutions that have gone test-blind have already decided that the SAT is no longer part of the equation. Others may join them.
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If you needed proof that Harry Hall was a PGA Tour rookie, look no further than the beginning of his sit-down with the media Wednesday at the Shriners Children’s Open.
“Just want to say it's my first proper press conference,” Hall said right after being introduced. “That's pretty cool.”
It gets cooler.
After two straight missed cuts to begin his rookie season, Hall will tee it up amid familiar surroundings this week at TPC Summerlin, a course he’s played over 100 times being an alumnus of UNLV. He’ll be joined in the field, and in the same group for the first 36 holes, by fellow rookie and another recent Rebel, Taylor Montgomery, who played two seasons alongside Hall before graduating in 2017.
“I always knew Taylor would be out here one day, and playing together on Thursday and Friday this week is a special moment for me and a special moment for the community and UNLV golf,” Hall said. “Hopefully we can get some support and play good golf, too.”
The former college teammates have since remained close. Hall grew up in Cornwall, England, on a 5,500-yard public golf course, and Montgomery, a Las Vegas native, is the son of the general manager at ritzy Shadow Creek, where both he and Hall frequently practice and play.
“Ever since we shared a room at Stage 1 and Stage 2 of Q-school together back in 2019, we've played probably every week at Shadow Creek in a little game,” Hall said.
The competition, in fact, never ends between the two.
Hall remembers when he arrived at school, swinging the driver just 104 mph while Montgomery was close to 135 mph. Earlier this year, they had a long-drive contest and Hall, topping out at 126 mph, won.
“I feel like the guy gets 20 pounds heavier and grows five inches every year,” Montgomery said of Hall, who now looks like a hipster Bryson DeChambeau. “When he first came in as a freshman, he was just this scrawny dude, and now he's like a giant.”
As one can probably tell, Hall says, “He gives me way more stick than I give him.” But Hall also adds, “He's probably a bit scared of me now. I'm probably the only guy that's probably even with him as far as playing him on a regular basis.”
No home match has been more important – or hotly contested – than one that the two played at TPC Summerlin a little over a year ago. It was a couple of Fridays before the Shriners, and tournament director Patrick Lindsey was deciding which player to give his final sponsor exemption to.
So, Lindsey had Hall and Montgomery play off for it. Eighteen holes. Stroke play. Lowest score gets into the Shriners.
“He kicked my a--,” Montgomery admitted.
But as Hall tells it, the match was much closer.
“It was pretty mellow at the start,” Hall recalled. “We were joking around, and by about hole 4 we were pretty competitive.”
Hall said both players were tied around 3 under when he eagled the 13th hole and Montgomery made bogey. “I had a little three-shot cushion going into the last few holes, which was big,” added Hall, who went on to win by a single shot and then later tie for eighth in his Tour debut.
“I mean, I lost, so you kind of go home and watch him on TV, and it was really cool to see him do well,” Montgomery said. “I know that was a big paycheck for him.”
Added Hall: “We're still friends no matter what happens then, what happens this week. Taylor is like a brother to me, and with his dad, Monty, at Shadow Creek and all his friends and my friends, I'm very fortunate that they've treated me as part of the family over the last few years, and I don't think that will ever change, whether we're competing for this trophy this week or maybe the Ryder Cup next year.”
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US Supreme Court to hear Ohio’s challenge to a death row inmate’s request
A death row inmate who wants neurological testing is taking his case to the nation’s highest court.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - An Ohio death row inmate, who wants neurological testing done, takes his case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Tuesday, justices will hear arguments from lawyers representing Raymond Twyford and the State of Ohio. Twyford was convicted of murder in 1993, and his lawyers argue that there’s potential evidence left to be discovered.
Tywford was convicted of murdering a man who was accused of sexually assaulting two children whose mother Twyford lived with. Michael Benza, a Tywford attorney, said his client needs neurological testing.
Benza said, “When Ray was a teenager, he tried to kill himself by shooting himself in the head. And he has these 20 to 30 bullet fragments inside his brain.”
Benza wants to know whether those bullet fragments impact Tywford’s ability to process information or his competency. The testing can’t be done at the prison and would require the state transporting Tywford to a medical facility about an hour away. Lower courts gave the green light, but the State of Ohio is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn those decisions.
The state didn’t schedule an interview before our deadline, but we spoke with George Washington University law professor Paul Schiff Berman who analyzed the state’s argument, which is presented with Chillicothe Correctional Institute Warden Tim Shoop as the petitioner.
Schiff Berman said, “The warden is saying that he doesn’t have to do this because there’s no indication that the information that would be gained from the neurological exam will actually be admissible.”
Schiff Berman also notes that with the Supreme Court’s more conservative makeup, there’s a greater chance the court could overturn the lower court decisions.
Oral arguments are scheduled for Tuesday morning. Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers is listed as the counsel of record for the state.
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After years of legal battles, pontificating and theorizing, former President Donald Trump's tax returns from 2015 to 2020 are now part of the public record. Many critics and political opponents have theorized that Trump fought the public disclosure of his tax returns because they potentially provided evidence of illegal or politically damaging behavior.
It's not immediately clear that they do either.
However, Trump's tax returns raise numerous questions about the former president's finances, his business activities, foreign ties and his charitable donations, among other issues.
Why did Trump work so hard to keep all of this secret?
Trump broke with decades of tradition in becoming the first elected president since Nixon to refuse to disclose his tax returns to the public When Democratic lawmakers demanded them, Trump fought for years to keep them private, taking the battle to the Supreme Court -- a legal fight he ultimately lost.
He frequently claimed during his 2016 presidential candidacy that he couldn't release his taxes because they were being audited, a claim that was debunked last week when the House Ways and Means Committee disclosed that Trump's 2015 and 2016 taxes weren't audited until 2019.
For now, the thousands of pages of documents offer only more questions about what Trump's finances, and may offer potential avenues for new investigations.
What was Trump doing with a Chinese bank account?
Trump reported having foreign bank accounts, including a bank account in China between 2015 and 2017, his tax returns show.
The tax returns do not show what the bank account was used for or how much money passed through it or to whom. The New York Times first reported about Trump's Chinese account in 2020, and Trump Organization lawyer Alan Garten told the Times that the account was used to pay taxes on the Trump International Hotels Management's business push in the country.
Trump did not report the Chinese bank account in personal financial disclosures when he was president, likely because it was listed under his businesses. Yet he may have still been required to report accounts to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
What's the scope of Trump's foreign business operations, and who are his partners?
Trump's companies and business interests span the globe. On his tax return, Trump listed business income, taxes, expenses or other notable financial items from or in Azerbaijan, Panama, Canada, India, Qatar, South Korea, the United Kingdom, China, the Dominican Republic, United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, Grenada, US territory Puerto Rico, Georgia, Israel, Brazil, St. Maarten, Mexico, Indonesia, Ireland, Turkey and St. Vincent.
But the tax returns don't explain what business ties he had in those countries and with whom he might have been working while he was president.
Unlike previous presidents, Trump declined to divest his business interests while he was in office. Critics said his many foreign holdings compromised his ability to act independently as a politician.
His 2020 tax return showed zero charitable donations. Did Trump actually donate his presidential salary to charity, as he promised he would?
During his presidency, Trump pledged he would donate the entirety of his $400,000 salary to charity each year. He frequently boasted about donating parts of his quarterly paycheck to various government agencies.
If he donated his 2020 salary, he didn't claim it on his taxes. Among the six years of tax returns the House Ways and Means Committee released, 2020 was the sole year in which Trump listed no donations to charity.
That doesn't mean his salary wasn't donated, but it's unclear if he made good on his promise in 2020.
Why was Trump loaning money to his adult children? And did Trump claim gifts to his children as loans?
In each year of Trump's presidency, Trump claimed that he had loaned three of his adult children -- Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric -- undisclosed sums of money on which he collected interest.
The tax returns don't say how much he lent them or why he gave them loans in the first place.
Between 2017 and 2020, Trump claimed he received exactly $18,000 in interest on a loan he gave his daughter Ivanka Trump and $8,715 in interest from his son Donald Trump, Jr.. In 2017 to 2019, Trump said he received exactly $24,000 from his son Eric Trump, and Eric paid him $19,605 in interest in 2020.
The bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation said the loans and the amounts of claimed interest could indicate Trump was disguising gifts to his children. If the interest Trump claims to have charged his children was not at market rate, for example, it could be considered a gift for tax purposes, requiring him to pay a higher tax rate on the money.
How did Trump's business operations and income change when he was president?
Trump entered the US presidency with a vast web of business holdings, including hundreds of limited liability companies, corporations and partnerships with operations both domestically and overseas.
The massiveness and intricacy of his business operations -- including companies nested within each other like Matryoshka dolls -- brought a level of complexity not seen before in the US presidency and spurred concern about potential conflicts of interest, especially with foreign entities.
Friday's public release of Trump's 2015 to 2020 personal and business tax filings may shed some additional light as to how those operations evolved during and shortly after his time in office. But they don't spell out where money was going and to whom.
Why didn't the IRS do its job?
Since 1977, the Internal Revenue Service has had a policy of auditing every president's personal tax returns while they are in office. But the IRS didn't do any examination of Trump's tax returns until the Ways and Means Committee requested an audit in April of 2019.
When the committee asked Treasury Department representatives about the apparent lapse, they declined to provide information about the actual operations of the mandatory audit program, according to the committee's report.
It remains unclear whether Trump received special treatment or, as the committee noted, the IRS was hamstrung by an acute lack of resources.
The lack of an audit looks especially suspect after representatives for Trump's predecessor and successor said they had been subjected to annual audits by the IRS. A Biden White House spokesman told the AP that the IRS audited Biden in both 2020 and 2021. Representatives for former President Barack Obama told the New York Times that the IRS audited him each year he was in office.
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Friday's game features the Creighton Bluejays (23-12) and the Princeton Tigers (23-8) squaring off at KFC Yum! Center in what should be a lopsided matchup, with a projected 78-66 win for heavily favored Creighton according to our computer prediction. Game time is at 9:00 PM ET on March 24.
According to our computer prediction, Creighton is a good bet to cover the spread, which currently sits at 10. The two teams are projected to eclipse the 140 total.
Creighton vs. Princeton Game Info & Odds
- Date: Friday, March 24, 2023
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
- TV: TBS
- Where: Louisville, Kentucky
- Venue: KFC Yum! Center
- Line: Creighton -10
- Point Total: 140
- Moneyline (To Win): Creighton -524, Princeton +400
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Creighton vs. Princeton Score Prediction
- Prediction: Creighton 78, Princeton 66
Spread & Total Prediction for Creighton vs. Princeton
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Creighton (-10)
- Pick OU:
Over (140)
Creighton is 18-17-0 against the spread this season compared to Princeton's 17-12-0 ATS record. A total of 16 out of the Bluejays' games this season have hit the over, and 15 of the Tigers' games have gone over. The two teams score 152.2 points per game, 12.2 more points than this matchup's total. Over the last 10 games, Creighton is 6-4 against the spread and 6-4 overall while Princeton has gone 8-2 against the spread and 8-2 overall.
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Creighton Performance Insights
- The Bluejays average 76.7 points per game (59th in college basketball) while giving up 68.5 per contest (128th in college basketball). They have a +287 scoring differential overall and outscore opponents by 8.2 points per game.
- Creighton pulls down 34.6 rebounds per game (41st in college basketball) while conceding 30.8 per contest to its opponents. It outrebounds opponents by 3.8 boards per game.
- Creighton knocks down 2.5 more threes per game than the opposition, 8.8 (43rd in college basketball) compared to its opponents' 6.3.
- The Bluejays rank 33rd in college basketball with 99.8 points scored per 100 possessions, and 114th in college basketball defensively with 89.2 points conceded per 100 possessions.
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- Princeton has come up short in the turnover battle by 1.7 per game, committing 11.8 (173rd in college basketball) while forcing 10.1 (329th in college basketball).
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Recent studies show that consumers are more likely to use multiple channels of communication when looking to hire a vendor, with many opting for text or webchat. With Communication Center, customer information and past interactions are unified so that users can easily access their customers' most accurate and up-to-date contact information, all while using the customer's preferred means of communication. If the customer chooses to change the method of communication, the conversation can seamlessly continue. This strengthens and builds the provider-customer relationship and ensures positive and recurring communications, which leads to higher recurrent services.
Components of Communication Center include:
- Deep integration with service data and communication methods, putting actionable information at your fingertips
- Smart Suggestions that help agents instantly understand key insights about the customer and their situation
- Two-way SMS and chat communications
- Unified customer and service information to improve resolution time
Future capabilities launching later this year:
- Quick Actions to take payments and schedule services
- Email inbox integration
- Scripting to maintain consistency among CSRs
- Ability to receive and record all phone calls
Communication Center launches for PestPac on January 18, 2023.
As the field service software industry leader for over 40 years, WorkWave delivers technology and services to help field service companies to grow their business, service their customers and maximize their money. Its solutions empower service-oriented companies to reach their full potential through scalable, cloud-based software solutions that support every stage of a business life cycle, including marketing, sales, service delivery, customer interaction and financial transactions. WorkWave is a trusted partner for thousands of customers across a wide variety of industries, including pest control, lawn care, cleaning, HVAC, plumbing and electrical, and last-mile delivery. WorkWave's award-winning culture and solutions have been recognized in the SaaS Awards, the Cloud Awards, the American Business Awards, the NJBIZ Best Places to Work Awards, and the Stevie Awards for Great Employers. For more information, visit workwave.com.
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Man accused of supporting foiled plot to kidnap Michigan governor set to change plea
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A man accused of supporting a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor plans to change his not-guilty plea, records show.
Shawn Michael Fix, 40, of Belleville, is one of five men charged with providing material support for an act of terrorism in the scheme to abduct the Democratic governor in 2020 at her northern Michigan vacation home. Police broke up the plan and Whitmer was not physically harmed.
Fix is scheduled for a hearing Wednesday in Antrim County Circuit Court in Bellaire. He also is charged with possessing a firearm while committing a felony.
His lawyer and the state attorney general’s office, which is prosecuting the case, did not immediately respond to phone and email messages Tuesday.
Another man, Brian Higgins, pleaded guilty in March to the lesser charge of attempting to provide material support for terrorism. Three others — Eric Molitor and brothers Michael and William Null — await trial in August.
They were accused of providing key support but were not charged in the kidnapping case.
That case was handled in federal court, where four men were convicted in 2022, including ringleaders Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox. Two others were acquitted.
Three men in a separate but related trial were convicted in Jackson County in October and are serving long prison terms.
Prosecutors said the defendants were anti-government extremists who were angered by Whitmer’s policies at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. They planned to snatch the governor in the hope of triggering a civil war before the 2020 election, investigators said. But informants and undercover FBI agents were inside the group for months, leading to arrests before the scheme could be carried out.
Fix was second-in-command to Fox in a paramilitary group, prosecutors said in an October 2022 court filing. Fix participated in “field training exercises” that involved weapons handling and meetings that included talk of attacking Whitmer, storming the Michigan Capitol and taking hostages, the document said.
It said Fix claimed falsely to have been a Navy SEAL and to have a supply of weapons and a Black Hawk military helicopter that could be used in the kidnapping. Fix provided information about the location of Whitmer’s Antrim County house to Fox and others during a surveillance visit, prosecutors said.
After the plot was thwarted, Whitmer blamed then-President Donald Trump, saying he had given “comfort to those who spread fear and hatred and division.” Last August, after 19 months out of office, Trump called the kidnapping plan a “fake deal.”
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(NEXSTAR) – A scorching July set a record in the continental U.S. for overnight warmth, and such evenings are projected to be far more commonplace as new models show the emergence of an “extreme heat belt” by 2053.
The so-called belt will include Northern Texas and states bordering the Gulf, stretching north to Illinois, Indiana, and even up to Wisconsin.
In 2023, 8.1 million Americans living in 50 counties will experience temperatures of at least 125 degrees, the highest classification on the National Weather Service’s Heat Index – “Extreme Danger,” according to nonprofit First Street Foundation’s peer-reviewed model.
Three decades later, the same model shows that climate change will cause 1,023 counties – home to 107.6 million people – will see temperatures rise above 125 degrees.
“Increasing temperatures are broadly discussed as averages, but the focus should be on the extension of the extreme tail events expected in a given year,” said Matthew Eby, founder and CEO of First Street Foundation. “We need to be prepared for the inevitable, that a quarter of the country will soon fall inside the Extreme Heat Belt with temperatures exceeding 125°F and the results will be dire.”
The model takes into account a number of factors including land surface temperatures, tree and other canopy cover, the presence of concrete and other impervious surfaces and the proximity to water. Researchers built the model under an established warming scenario in which greenhouse gas emissions reach their peak around 2040 and then begin to decline.
Not all counties in the study are set to change at the same rate. Florida’s Miami-Dade County, for example, will see the most extreme temperature shift in the country, according to the study. The county’s 7 hottest days are currently at 103 degrees, according to the study, a number that will jump to 34 days by 2053. For the rest of the country, the current average temperature of the hottest seven days is expected to occur on 18 days. Plainly said, temperatures that are setting records in states like Texas in 2023 will become more of the norm in 30 years, the study found.
The study found that “dangerous” days with a heat index exceeding 100 degrees occur more often in the southern half of the contiguous U.S., but especially in Florida and Texas. Starr County, Texas, topped all others in 2022 with 109 days above the threshold.
The 20 counties expected to see the most days over 100 degrees annually are located in Texas, California, Arizona and Florida, the report found, with the top four behind Starr County all being in Texas and California.
On Tuesday, President Biden signed into law designed to fight climate change, along with lowering prescription drug costs and a new corporate minimum tax to make businesses pay their share.
Democrats are calling the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes almost $375 billion over 10 years to fight climate change, “the single biggest climate investment in U.S. history, by far.”
Republicans have criticized the bill, accusing Democrats of government overreach.
“It will make the U.S. a global clean energy powerhouse and very likely we will look back on this as the start of a clean energy economic revolution in the same way we look back at the early 1990s as the IT revolution,” Josh Freed, leader of the climate and energy program at centrist Democratic think tank Third Way told The Hill.
Among tax rebates for buying electric vehicles and other incentives for “going green,” Democrats hope the bill will lead to a 40% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
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Louisiana officer charged with killing of Alonzo Bagley has resigned from police department
By Ryan Young and Devon M. Sayers, CNN
The man charged in the shooting of an unarmed Black man last month has resigned from the Shreveport, Louisiana, police department.
Former Officer Alexander Tyler, 23, resigned from the force late last week, according to Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux.
Tyler had been on administrative leave since being charged with negligent homicide after the February 3 shooting death of Alonzo Bagley.
“This decision was solely made by Mr. Tyler and his attorney. The City has followed all policies and procedures during this process,” the mayor said in a statement issued Friday.
Bagley, 43, was shot after Tyler and another officer responded to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment complex, according to Louisiana State Police, which is investigating the fatal encounter.
When the officers arrived, Bagley is seen meeting them at the door then walking through the apartment saying he is going to put his dog up, accoridng to police body-worn camera video. He then heads out a back door and jumps down from a balcony and flees. After a short chase, Tyler shoots Bagley, who was unarmed, state police have said.
Investigators have released the video and a 911 call related to the shooting, which happened less than a month after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis officers during a traffic stop — a case that reignited a national conversation about police use of force against people of color, particularly Black Americans.
Tyler’s attorney, Dhu Thompson, told CNN last month that he hopes the video is reviewed “thoroughly and a decision is made based on facts and evidence.”
“Officers are always faced on a day-to-day basis with dangerous situations like that and at times where they have to make split-second decisions where they’re in a potential life-threatening situation,” Thompson said.
If convicted on the negligent homicide charge, Tyler faces up to five years in prison. He has been released on bail. Tyler’s arraignment is set for April.
Shreveport, in the northwestern part of Louisiana, is the state’s third most-populous city and 56% of its 184,000 residents are Black, according to the US Census Bureau.
Officer was twice suspended, documents show
The former officer had been twice suspended and faced several internal affairs investigations in 21 months of service with the department. His two suspensions occurred in November 2022 and December 2022, police personnel records show.
The November suspension was for conduct that is unbecoming during an incident that occurred in September 2022, according to the records. Tyler was suspended without pay for 15 days. The file did not elaborate further.
He was again suspended for 15 days in December, but the records did not indicate the reason.
In February 2022, a “personnel action notice” was issued and Tyler was transferred to a new area of patrol and shift. The documents don’t say what prompted the action.
He received a letter of commendation from the department in April 2022 for his work on a shots fired call that led to a drug bust, the documents show.
A performance review from June 2022 said Tyler “displays good judgment,” “has satisfactory contacts with the public,” and noted that he “tactically performs well under stress and has been actively taking steps to improve his communication skills under stress and has indeed improved in that area.”
After Tyler was charged last month, Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith said, “I would not say he has been a disciplinary issue, or at least not to the point where things would rise on our radar. We do have a procedure in place called an early warning system when an officer gets so many incidents, that’s brought to our attention. His history with our department had not reached the level where the early warning system would have picked it up and brought him in front of our radar.”
When asked by CNN whether Tyler had previously been cited for violence towards a suspect, the chief said, “To my knowledge only one, I believe, I wouldn’t hold me to closely, but only one comes to mind at this point.” It is unclear what incident the chief was referring to and he did not elaborate.
Bagley’s family has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against Tyler, seeking more than $10 million in damages. The lawsuit alleges that the officer violated Bagley’s rights under the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.”
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Ryan Gosling could be the newest addition to the upcoming 'Ocean's Eleven' prequal with Margot Robbie
Robbie and Gosling also worked together on the upcoming live action 'Barbie' movie
A new "Ocean's Eleven" movie with Margot Robbie was announced back in May and now it looks like Ryan Gosling might be joining the upcoming film.
Robbie and Gosling both star in the live action Barbie movie with a 2023 release and they could be joining forces once again for the new addition to the "Ocean's" franchise.
In May, it was announced that Robbie would star in and produce the movie with her husband Tom Ackerley and Michelle Graham.
CHRIS EVANS, RYAN GOSLING LAND NETFLIX ROLES IN $200M SPY THRILLER
According to a new report from Punk News, Gosling is in the running for a role in the Warner Bros. movie.
The movie, which is directed by "Bombshell" director Jay Roach and is set to begin production next spring, is "known to be an original ‘Ocean’s Eleven' that is set in Europe in the 1960s," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The original "Ocean's Eleven" movie came out in 1960 and starred Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Angie Dickinson.
‘THE SUICIDE SQUAD’ STAR MARGOT ROBBIE FEELS SHE ‘PEAKED’ IN HOLLYWOOD: ‘THIS KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT’
The movie about Danny Ocean and his accomplices robbing Las Vegas casinos was rebooted in 2001 with George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt in leading roles.
Since then, three additional "Ocean's" movies were released. "Ocean's Twelve" came out in 2004 and "Ocean's Thirteen" came out in 2007, both starring Clooney, Damon and Pitt.
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"Ocean's 8" then came out in 2018 with female stars Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway and Mindy Kaling.
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- Chicago Auto Show's EV Test Track features six electric vehicles for consumers to experience, with nearly 30 EVs displayed on the show floor
- Autel Energy, a leading provider of EV charging stations, announces it's the official EV charger of Chicago Drives Electric at the Chicago Auto Show
- How to charge your EV promises to be a major question at this year's show
CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Many consumers attending the Chicago Auto Show will be looking to purchase their first electric vehicle, and they'll be able to learn everything they need to know at McCormick Place.
This year's show, taking place Feb. 11-20, features nearly 30 electric vehicles. The Chicago Drives Electric indoor test track also returns to the auto show floor bigger and better than before covering 100,000 square feet of show floor space.
"With all the interest in EVs, what consumers want to know is how do I charge an EV if I buy one," says Autel Energy Chief Operating Officer John Thomas. "We're here at this year's show to answer your questions, and it's really not complicated. Eighty percent of charging is done at home. What worries people is the charging that they do away from home. We offer both solutions, at home charging and charging for your community.
"The great thing about EVs is you never have to go to a gas station. Your vehicle can always be full," Thomas says. "Most people charge their EVs like they charge their phones. You charge when you get home. That way, every morning when you leave you have a full charge. What can be complicated is selecting the kind of charger you want for your home or what kind of charger your township should install. For that, you must do your research. We're here to help and encourage you to visit the EV Test Track for a test drive and stop by our Autel Energy exhibit near the track to learn about charging."
Autel Energy has a 3,000-square-foot exhibit space adjacent to the track in the South Hall. The EV charging company is providing 15 chargers to keep all participating EVs on the track charged overnight.
Autel Energy's MaxiCharger family of products includes AC (Level 2) home and commercial chargers, DC bi-directional vehicle-to-everything (V2X) home charging, DC fast charging (Level 3) and digital energy management offerings, including mobile apps and Autel's ChargeCloud, the only all-in-one charging cloud solution available today. Autel's holistic approach to curating solutions that address the needs of the entire charging ecosystem helps balance the grid while enabling the organic expansion of power access.
Autel Energy has sold more than 10,000 residential and commercial EV chargers in only four months, with new customers signing on daily.
The 2023 Chicago Auto Show runs Feb. 11-20 at McCormick Place and is open to the public daily at 10 a.m. Tickets to the show are on sale at ChicagoAutoShow.com.
About Autel Energy
Autel Energy's vision is to create a seamless customer experience that enables the deployment of technology and smart infrastructure that accelerates the adoption of electric vehicles and energy management solutions worldwide. Autel Energy makes the most advanced products accessible and convenient for residential and commercial users offering hardware, software, apps, and cloud-based solutions to cover almost every use case and application. This includes world-class charging hardware for AC (Level 2) home and commercial, DC Bi-directional V2X power management, and DC (Level 3) fast charging from 40kW to 480kW with innovative configurability and modularity.
About the Chicago Auto Show
First staged in 1901, the Chicago Auto Show is the nation's longest running auto exposition in North America. The show is produced by the Chicagoland's new-car dealer association, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association, which has staged the show since 1935. The 2023 public show is Feb. 11-20 at McCormick Place. For more information and the latest updates, visit ChicagoAutoShow.com or Facebook.com/ChicagoAutoShow.com.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Juneteenth 2022 will be considered a State holiday and will be observed on Friday, June 17.
In Gov. Justice’s proclamation, it says it will be observed on Friday because Juneteenth falls on a Sunday, and the day after is already a State holiday, West Virginia Day.
Public employees will have June 17 off from work, saying they can, “spend an extended and enjoyable holiday weekend with their loved ones.”
In a press release, it says a Juneteenth celebration will be held on June 18 hosted by the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs.
It will take place from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the Kanawha Boulevard Lawns of the West Virginia State Capitol Complex.
They say it will feature headliners Hi-5, Ruff Endz and Surface, with comedian Crystal Powell emceeing the event and West Virginia local Big L. deejaying.
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WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, October 23, 2022
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FREEZE WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
309 AM PDT Sun Oct 23 2022
...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PDT THIS
MORNING...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Central Oregon. In Washington, Kittitas
Valley and Yakima Valley.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM PDT this morning.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other
sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor
plumbing.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent
freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should
be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have
in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above-
ground pipes to protect them from freezing.
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CHESAPEAKE, Va., Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- After 20+ years of successful operation, CDYNE has officially rebranded as Esendex US. This marks a critical moment in the history of our business as we become a part of a global family of communication providers, offering more products and features with international reach.
Esendex US is dedicated to providing businesses with reliable, fast, and effective communication solutions that can help companies streamline their operations efficiently. We can make your company's communication process smoother using industry-leading technology and the latest communication tools.
Our comprehensive communication services include a Programmable SMS API, Voice Broadcasting API, Phone Verification API, no programming needed SMS Broadcast Software, and an SMS White Label Reseller Program. No matter what type of business you operate or its size – we have something for everyone, from the mom-and-pop to the Fortune 10.
The Esendex rebrand allows us to leverage global capabilities and offer even more robust solutions while still providing the personalized customer service our customers have grown to know and love from CDYNE. We look forward to continuing this journey and providing an exceptional experience for all our customers - now on a global scale!
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